text
stringlengths 14
3.75M
| id
stringlengths 25
43
| dataset_id
stringclasses 1
value |
|---|---|---|
The SuperTurbo allows for additional flexibility in design of high efficiency turbine and compressor wheels, as inertia is not as important as for a normal turbocharger. The Supercharging capability of the SuperTurbo can overcome turbo-lag issues.
The SuperTurbo has direct engine efficiency benefits through Turbo-Compounding capabilities, as well as enabling engine down-speeding, down-sizing, and alternative engine cycles such as the Miller Cycle. Greater control over the charge entering the engine also decreases particulate and NOx emissions, and provides the ability for exhaust gas bypass directly to aftertreatment for cold start and thermal management.
The heart of the SuperTurbo is a high-speed traction drive, utilizing technology originally developed by NASA. The traction drive enables power transfer to and from the turbo shaft, as well as direct speed control over the turbocharger. The traction drive technology is well adapted for the highly dynamic operation of the SuperTurbo.
The team at SuperTurbo Technologies has completed the integration of the Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT), supplied by Dana, into the main housing of the SuperTurbo.
VanDyne SuperTurbo Inc. announced its corporate name change to SuperTurbo Technologies Inc. The Company has also named Dan Hancock, Frans Westenbrink and Andy Savarie to the board of directors.
SuperTurbo Technologies' vehicle demonstrator, a Peterbilt 389 with Cummins ISX15 engine, continues to provide great value for validating efficiency improvement and enhancing durability in real world operating conditions.
In October, Allison Transmission and VanDyne SuperTurbo announced their collaboration to develop a demonstration Class 8 truck combining Allison's TC10 transmission with VanDyne's mechanically driven turbocharger to maximize the benefits of engine downspeeding. | RedPajamaC4_-3829301266008999681 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
La bottiglieria–ristorante Aglietti si trovava a Firenze in piazza Vittorio Emanuele II (oggi piazza della Repubblica). Fu fondata sul finire del 1867 da Giuseppe Aglietti; la sua sede originaria fu in un negozio all'angolo di via dell'Arcivescovado, vicino all'antica piazza del Mercato Vecchio.
Giuseppe Aglietti seppe conquistarsi una notevole clientela, che comprendeva anche alcuni piemontesi, impiegati nei vari ministeri di Firenze, allora capitale d'Italia. L'Aglietti, fin da giovane, aveva fatto molti viaggi, anche in Austria e in Prussia ed era esperto di pratica commerciale; era stato volontario nella seconda guerra di indipendenza del 1859 e aveva combattuto a Vinzaglio, a Palestro, a San Martino e nel 1866 era tornato a combattere contro l'Austria.
Nel 1874 la bottiglieria-ristorante, a causa del suo successo, fu ingrandita e trasferita nei locali restaurati di via degli Speziali, ed ebbe tre sporti. La bottiglieria-ristorante non fece affari solo a Firenze, ma esportò il vino anche in Inghilterra.
Con il trasferimento del Mercato Vecchio nella zona di San Lorenzo e l'abbattimento delle caratteristiche baracche dei mercatini, avvenuto dopo il visto della commissione incaricata dal comune fin dal 1881 per il risanamento di Firenze, fu iniziata la costruzione di nuovi palazzi. Anche la bottiglieria-ristorante subì l'esproprio e, il 6 giugno 1891, trovò la nuova sede, che fu destinata alla mescita dei vini tipici e al buffet, che offriva una carne arrostita molto richiesta, il roast beef.
Questo nuovo locale ebbe molto successo e fu frequentato anche dalla Società Canottieri Libertas, che qui discuteva i programmi delle gare e dal giornalista tedesco Barth. Quest'ultimo, nella sua guida turistico-gastronomica dell'Italia, intitolata Est! Est! Est!, a proposito di Firenze, citò il ristorante, descrivendolo come: «Locale moderno centrale ed elegante – Vini fini e saporiti – Buona clientela». Anche Vamba (Luigi Bertelli) e il Novellino (Augusto Novelli) facevano riferimento all'Aglietti quando nei loro scritti e nei loro dialoghi dovevano far parlare il popolano fiorentino che alludeva al vino, dicendo: «Si va dall'Aglietti» (per dire che si va a bere vino).
Giuseppe Aglietti morì nel 1911 e lasciò erede suo figlio Omero, che si dedicò all'esportazione dei vini.
Note
Bibliografia
Giulio Gandi, Antiche e caratteristiche trattorie fiorentine (Con numerose illustrazioni), 2ª Edizione, Tipografia Enrico Rossi e C.o., Firenze 1929
Esercizi storici di Firenze | RedPajamaWikipedia_8913147750942299369 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
And now we bring you: The most streamed song in all of Spotify history
Spotify released the name of the popular streaming service's most stream song of all time today. And the winner might surprise you a little bit. It's not One Direction, and it's not Katy Perry (both snagged number one and two spots on Billboard's Top 100 in 2014). It's not Adele (whose video "Hello" was viewed 27.7 million times its first day). The winner is… *drum roll*
Major Lazer and DJ Snake's indie single, "Lean On."
The song, released in 2015, is No. 1 with 526M plays worldwide, according to The Guardian. While it wasn't a No. 1 hit on any charts in the U.S. or UK, it did climb near the top. Surprisingly, the song was turned down by both Rihanna and Nicki Minaj before Major Lazer recorded it themselves.
"We wrote this song with [Danish singer] MØ very early from an instrumental Jr Blender created in some sessions in Trinidad. It was a strong hook. Very big to me but the production was lacking an attitude we needed," Diplo told The Guardian in an interview earlier in 2015. "A year later I remixed the song at a completely different tempo and asked DJ Snake for a signature post chorus. After he did his thing me, MØ and Blender rewrote the song at the new tempo in Las Vegas and made something very unique that became our album's lead-off single. We're super proud of this song."
As well they should be! The track bested the former record holder, Ed Sheeran, and his single "Thinking Out Loud." Dance music wins over slow tracks…for now!
And if you haven't heard "Lean On" yet, what are you waiting for? Take a listen below and get ready to dance.
(Image via Shutterstock)
By Courtney Smith
Popular in Now Hear This
All the new streaming movies and shows Netflix is blessing us with in December
Spotify is now letting us know which tracks are going viral
The inspirational Black History Month hashtag we all need to be following
8 Most Useful Apps You Need to Download Now
Yup, Google's streaming free music now: Here's what you need to know
8 of the most killer duets in music history
It's official: Beyoncé made VMA HISTORY with the most VMAs ever!
These are the most popular shows people in the U.S. stream, by state
All the weird and wonderful '90s toys we BEGGED Santa to bring us
That gorgeous song from 'Mockingjay' is now a huge hit
The most important words we all learned from 'Clueless'
iPhone users can stream live video on Facebook now because why not?
And now, there are "Making A Murderer" songs, because of course
All the Christmas movies you can stream on Netflix RIGHT NOW
The "Ghostbusters" trailer has the most "dislikes" in history and some think sexism is to blame
Spotify knows exactly which "Game of Thrones" character you are
Netflix, a true hero, is bringing "The Little Prince" to streaming
The Importance of Credit Cards and Your Credit History (Mostly the Latter)
14 beauty products you should buy if you're into Pantone's color of the year
All Topics in Now Hear This | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_549399913354926653 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Buy wallpaper dubai greatest collection in dubai risalafurniture ae is just one of the many collections of pictures or photos that are on this website. Buy wallpaper dubai greatest collection in dubai risalafurniture ae is posted on the category Wallpaper Design For Home in the joswall.com website. This post of "buy wallpaper dubai greatest collection in dubai risalafurniture ae" was published on 01-08-2018 by admin and has been viewed 492,877 times.
We hope you can find what you need here. We always effort to show a picture with HD resolution or at least with perfect images. Buy wallpaper dubai greatest collection in dubai risalafurniture ae can be beneficial inspiration for those who seek an image according specific categories, you can find it in this site. Finally all pictures we have been displayed in this site will inspire you all. Thank you for visiting.
Buy wallpaper dubai greatest collection in dubai risalafurniture ae is posted in the category Wallpaper Home Decor and published on 01-08-2018 by dave. Image source: risalafurniture.ae. Click on the title to see more..
Buy wallpaper dubai greatest collection in dubai risalafurniture ae is posted in the category Wallpaper Design For Home and published on 01-08-2018 by paul. Image source: risalafurniture.ae. Click on the title to see more..
Buy wallpaper in dubai abu dhabi across uae dubaiinteriors ae is posted in the category Room Wallpaper Design and published on 14-08-2018 by martin. Image source: dubaiinteriors.ae. Click on the title to see more..
Where to buy wallpaper in store is posted in the category Where To Buy Wallpaper In Store and published on 11-03-2018 by paul. Image source: wallpapermad.com. Click on the title to see more..
Lovely where to buy wallpaper in store best wallpaper collection is posted in the category Where To Buy Wallpaper In Store and published on 29-08-2018 by martin. Image source: wallpapercollection.us. Click on the title to see more..
Buy wallpaper dubai greatest collection in dubai risalafurniture ae is posted in the category Wallpaper For House Interior and published on 24-08-2018 by jonshon. Image source: risalafurniture.ae. Click on the title to see more..
Buy wallpaper dubai greatest collection in dubai risalafurniture ae is posted in the category Best Place To Buy Wallpaper and published on 03-05-2018 by jonshon. Image source: risalafurniture.ae. Click on the title to see more..
Buy wallpaper dubai greatest collection in dubai risalafurniture ae is posted in the category Best Place To Buy Wallpaper and published on 30-04-2018 by paul. Image source: risalafurniture.ae. Click on the title to see more..
Buy wallpaper dubai greatest collection in dubai risalafurniture ae is posted in the category Best Place To Buy Wallpaper and published on 15-07-2018 by dave. Image source: risalafurniture.ae. Click on the title to see more.. | RedPajamaC4_5518816609177837021 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
James Corden wife: How did he meet his now wife Julia Carey?
JAMES CORDEN is known for playing the lovable character 'Smithy' on Gavin and Stacy but who is the star's wife, Julia Carey?
By Amber Peake
18:15, Sat, Apr 11, 2020 | UPDATED: 14:05, Fri, Feb 26, 2021
Saturday Night Takeaway: James Corden joins Ant and Dec
James Corden, 41 is best known for playing Gavin's right-hand man 'Smithy' on Gavin and Stacey. But since then, his career has reached a new high and James has since moved on from the role and the UK, now hosting The Late Late Show with James Corden in the USA, where he interviews a series of A-list celebs.
However, before the star moved onto bigger things in America, in 2009, he met his now-wife Julia Carey.
James is said to have met Julia at a Save the Children event in London when she worked for the charity.
Recalling the night events in an interview with People, James spoke of how his roommate at the time Dominic Cooper convinced him to go to the event.
On arrival, Dominic is then said to have introduced James and Julia and the couple hit it off straight away.
James Corden wife: How star's wife never saw Gavin and Stacey
James Corden wife: James and wife Julia. (Image: GETTY)
James Corden wife: James describes Julia as "the most beautiful woman in the world." (Image: GETTY)
'I feel very undeserved' James Corden poses with glamorous wife Julia
James told People: "I said 'Hi Jules. You might be the most beautiful woman in the world,'"
He added: "She said, 'Well, thank you very much. That sounds like something you say a lot.'
"And I said, 'I've never said it before in my life.' That was it. That was it, really. I was in. And by an absolute miracle, so was she,"
James later explains how he asked Julia out: "I remember saying to her, 'Well, what about on Friday we could do nothing together? You could come over, and we could just do nothing.
James Corden wife: James and Julia met in 2009. (Image: GETTY)
"And then maybe we could do nothing on Saturday, and we could do nothing on the Sunday.
"And if our evenings are enough of nothing, then maybe this would become something."
Julia started her career as an actress appearing in the shows: Wings, A Bunch of Fives and Enemy at the Door.
But Julia then went on to work behind the camera as a television producer.
'They're delighted' James Corden and wife Julia Carey expecting their [INSIGHT]
'I feel very undeserved' James Corden poses with glamorous wife Julia [EXPLAINER]
Stevie Wonder reduces James Corden to TEARS by serenading his wife [INSIGHT]
Back to work: James Corden returns to LA for Late Late Show after shor
James Corden's wife Julia Carey pregnant with their third child
Gavin and Stacey's Melanie Walters speaks candidly on late BBC co-star
After finding out the couple had a baby on the way, James proposed to Julia in December 2010.
Julia later gave birth to their eldest son Max, now nine, in 2011 and tied the knot a year later.
James and Julia have two more children together Carey, five and Charlotte, two.
When Charlotte was born, James had to take some time away from his presenting duties on The Late Late Show and had Harry Styles a close friend of the couple present the show in his place.
James Corden wife: James and Julia have three children together. (Image: GETTY)
Matthew Horne FEUD: The REAL reason behind fall out with James Corden
Royal shock: Ruth Jones reveals royal Gavin & Stacey characters
After returning to the show, James spoke of how he wanted to name Charlotte after Beyonće, but Julia didn't seem impressed.
James told his audience: "After the baby was born, I was crying my eyes out, the wife was crying, the baby was crying, and the doctor asked about a name, and I don't know why I said this, but I looked at the doctor and said, 'we're going to call her Beyoncé.'
"My wife did not think that was funny."
James Corden: What is Gavin and Stacey actor's net worth?
Gavin and Stacey's Larry Lamb speaks out on co-star James Corden
James Corden weight loss: Gavin & Stacey star lost 5st ditching this | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_-2618563052550652373 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
module StackMaster
module StackEvents
class Streamer
StackFailed = Class.new(StandardError)
def self.stream(stack_name, region, **args, &block)
new(stack_name, region, **args, &block).stream
end
def initialize(stack_name, region, from: Time.now, break_on_finish_state: true, sleep_between_fetches: 1, io: nil, &block)
@stack_name = stack_name
@region = region
@block = block
@seen_events = Set.new
@from = from
@break_on_finish_state = break_on_finish_state
@sleep_between_fetches = sleep_between_fetches
@io = io
end
def stream
catch(:halt) do
loop do
events = Fetcher.fetch(@stack_name, @region, from: @from)
unseen_events(events).each do |event|
@block.call(event) if @block
Presenter.print_event(@io, event) if @io
if @break_on_finish_state && finish_state?(event)
exit_with_error(event) if failure_state?(event)
throw :halt
end
end
sleep @sleep_between_fetches
end
end
rescue Interrupt
end
private
def unseen_events(events)
[].tap do |unseen_events|
events.each do |event|
next if @seen_events.include?(event.event_id)
@seen_events << event.event_id
unseen_events << event
end
end
end
def finish_state?(event)
StackStates.finish_state?(event.resource_status) &&
event.resource_type == 'AWS::CloudFormation::Stack' &&
event.logical_resource_id == @stack_name
end
def failure_state?(event)
StackStates.failure_state?(event.resource_status) &&
event.resource_type == 'AWS::CloudFormation::Stack' &&
event.logical_resource_id == @stack_name
end
def exit_with_error(event)
raise StackFailed, "#{event.logical_resource_id} did not succeed (last state was #{event.resource_status})"
end
end
end
end
| RedPajamaGithub_3550414062756430607 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Donation's were provided by over 100 local businesses & private individuals to raise money for this amazing little girl!!
Biker groups from the Tri-Cities got together for a good cause Sunday. The Wheels and Wings ride Saturday benefits a three-year-old girl, Bailey Castillo from Benton City who is fighting brain cancer.
The money raised will go to her family to pay for medical bills and travel. Bailey spent six months at Children's Hospital in Seattle and just moved to Texas for radiation treatment.
"They all get up on their Sunday. They take their afternoon. They put money in the pockets of others. We have the best biker community."
Around 300 riders took part in the ride. Organizers were hoping to raise some $6,000 for the Castillo family. | RedPajamaC4_-8183585679817253745 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Toddler Tuesday: The Goldfish Dilemma.
Can we talk about Goldfish crackers for a sec? This is a safe environment, right? While I'm wildly prepared for most circumstances, I have not gotten into the habit of having (specifically) Goldfish crackers in my diaper bag, car, house, purse, office etc. for "just in case" and this is something that I am regretting … Continue reading Toddler Tuesday: The Goldfish Dilemma.
Every now and then I see something when I'm travelling that makes me think, "Huh. That makes way more sense." Case in point, this awesome rest stop that is accessible to both the North and South bound travellers. One building, one set of utility bills, one set of staff...you catch my drift. Kudos to you, … Continue reading Highway Rest Stops.
Toddler Tuesday, Week One: The Chip Debacle.
Toddlers are the funniest people in the world, I'm sure of it. There are so many random things that come out of Henry's mouth, and watching him become autonomous has been so much fun, albeit extremely difficult in some circumstances as he opts for preferences that we just can't provide travelling abroad (I'm looking at … Continue reading Toddler Tuesday, Week One: The Chip Debacle.
Tuscan Nightmare (so far, so good).
I have to be honest you guys: hiding quietly in the back of my mind, but peeking out daily as a reminder that it is a possibility, is the scene from Under the Tuscan Sun where Diane Lane leaves her window open and a snake slithers into her house. That is what nightmares are made … Continue reading Tuscan Nightmare (so far, so good).
I am sitting in the beautiful and spacious apartment we have rented for the month in a small village in Tuscany. As I write this, I can hear Paolo Nutini from the piazza's only bar, I have a biscotti on the go, the boys are both asleep and the kitchen is (finally) cleaned. I remember … Continue reading Kitchen's closed. | RedPajamaC4_8627291894859717333 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
外语教育网 官网-于是不少国家向唐朝求援
马还提及,经过第三方判决处理争议难度很大,仍是应当以洽谈方法予以处理。当然京味斋满京城这么多门店,达到这个外卖量级的绝不仅仅劲松分店一家。8、蓝莓美国塔夫茨大学的研讨人员做了一项试验:他们长时间给小白鼠喂养蓝莓,成果发现时期小鼠的短期回忆力、平衡感和协调才能都有显着的提高。
您的位置:外语教育网 > 兴发国际娱乐城 > 老人与麻雀喜欢漫画 > 摩尔定律失效了吗 > 正文
2018年12月大学英语四级考试真题(第二套完整版)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the challenges of studying abroad. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.
Directions: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.
1.A) A rescue worker got trapped in the basement.
B) A deserted 100-year-old building caught fire.
C) A beam about ten feet long collapsed to the ground.
D) A man was pulled to safety after a building collapse.
2. A) He once served in a fire department.
B) He was collecting building materials.
C) He suffered a fatal injury in an accident.
D) He moved into his neighbor's old house.
3.A) Launch a campaign to promote maths teaching.
B) Help British people understand their paychecks.
C) Change British people,s negative view of maths.
D) Improve the maths skills of high school teachers.
4.A) Primary school teachers understand basic maths concepts.
B)British people know how to do elementary calculations.
C)The public sees the value of maths in their life.
D)Children take maths courses at an earlier age.
Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.
5. A) He is learning to be a pilot.
B) He owns a fleet of aircraft.
C) He regards his royal duties as a burden.
D) He held a part-time job for over 20 years.
6. A) He can change his focus of attention and relax.
B) He can demonstrate his superior piloting skills.
C) He can show his difference from other royalty.
D) He can come into closer contact with his people.
7. A) They enjoyed his company.
B) They rarely recognised him.
C) They were surprised to see him.
D) They liked him in his uniform.
Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet I with a single line through the centre.
Questions 8 to 11 are
based on the conversation you have just heard.
8. A) They saw a business opportunity there.
B) Wood supply was plentiful in Romania.
C) It didn't need much capital to start with.
D) They were skilled carpenters themselves.
9. A) Open some more branch companies in Germany.
B) Enlarge their company by hiring more workers.
C) Attract foreign investment to expand business.
D) Provide quality furniture at affordable prices.
10. A) They are from her hometown.
B) They all come from Romania.
C) They are imported from Germany.
D) They come from all over the continent.
11. A) Throughout the world.
B) Mostly in Bucharest.
C) All across Europe.
D) In Romania only.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
12. A) Attend the opening of a local restaurant.
B) Go with him to choose a pearl for Susan.
C) Try out a new restaurant together in town.
D) Go to a concert with him and his girlfriend.
13. A) It provides information on local events.
B) It is especially popular with the young.
C) It specializes in food advertising.
D) It is sponsored by local restaurants.
14. A) They participate in a variety of social events.
B) They go to eat at different stylish restaurants.
C) They treat themselves to various entertainments.
D) They design a special set of menus for themselves.
15. A) More types of food will be served this Restaurant Week
B) Bigger discounts will be offered this Restaurant Week
C) More restaurants will join Restaurant Week.
D) This year's Restaurant Week will start soon.
Directions: In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four —Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
A) Explaining the benefits of eating vegetables to them.
B) Exposing them to vegetables repeatedly.
C) Improving the taste of vegetable dishes for them
D) Rewarding them for eating vegetables.
17. A) They were considered most nutritious.
B) They were essential to children's health.
C) They were least used in Belgian cooking
D) They were disliked most by children.
18. A) Children's choices of food vary greatly.
B) Parents watch closely what children eat.
C) Children's eating habits can be changed.
D) Vegetables differ in their nutritional value.
19.A) A lot of garbage has been left on the moon.
B) There is quite a lot to learn about the moon.
C) India has many space exploration programs.
D) Space exploration has serious consequences.
20. A) It is risky to destroy.
B) It is of no use on Earth.
C) It is costly to bring back.
D)It is damaged by radiation.
21. A) Record details of space exploration,
B) Monitor the change of lunar weather.
C) Explore the possibility of human settlement on the moon.
D) Study the effect of radiation and vacuum on its materials.
22. A) It will have to be governed by specific rules.
B) It will gradually be replaced by social media.
C) It is likely to be a competitor of various messaging apps.
D) It is likely to remain a means of business communication.
23. A) Make a timely response.
B) Save the message in their file.
C) See if any action needs to be taken.
D) Examine the information carefully.
24. A) It is to be passed on.
B) It requires no reply.
C)It causes no concern.
D) It is mostly junk.
25. A) Make it as short as possible.
B) Use simple and clear language.
C) Avoid using capitals for emphasis.
D) Adopt an informal style of writing.
Have you ever used email to apologize to a colleague? Delivered a __26__ to a subordinate(下属)with a voice-mail message? Flown by plane across the country just to deliver important news in person? The various communication options at our fingertips to lay can be good for __27__ and productivity—and at the same time very troublesome. With so many ways to communicate, how should a manager choose the one that's best— __28__ when the message to be delivered is bad or unwelcome news for the recipient? We've __29__ business communication consultants and etiquette(礼仪)experts to come up with the following guidelines for__30__ using the alternative ways of delivering difficult messages.
First of all, choose how personal you want to be. A face-to-face communication is the most __31__. Other choices, in descending order of personalization, are: a real-time phone call, a voice-mail message, a handwritten note, a typewritten letter, and the most __3__ is email. Some of these may change order according to the __33__ situation or your own preferences; for example, a handwritten note might seem more personal than voice-mail. How do you decide on the best choice for the difficult Message you've got to deliver? "My __34__ concern is: How can I soften or civilize this message?" says etiquette expert Dana Casperson. " So when I apologize, I usually choose in-person first, or a phone conversation as my top alternative, and maybe a handwritten note next. Apologizing by email is something I now totally __35__."
A) avoid
B) convenience
C) effectively
D) escape
E) intimate
F) particularly
G) primary
H) prompt
I) reward
j) silent
K) specific
L) surveyed
M) unfriendly
N) warning
O) witnessed
How a Poor, Abandoned Parisian Boy Became a Top Chef
A)The busy streets in Paris were uneven and caked in thick mud, but there was always a breathtaking sight to see in the shop windows of Patisserie de la Rue de la Paix. By 1814, people crowded outside the bakery, straining for a glimpse of the latest sweet food created by the young chef who worked inside.
B) His name was Marie-Antoine Careme, and he had appeared, one day, almost out of nowhere. But in his short lifetime, which ended exactly 184 years ago today, he would forever revolutionize French gourmet food(美食), write best-selling cook books and think up magical dishes for royals and other important people.
C) Careme's childhood was one part tragedy, equal part mystery. Born the 16th child to poor parents in Paris in either 1783 or 1784, a young Careme was suddenly abandoned at the height of the French Revolution. At 8 years old, he worked as a kitchen boy for a restaurant in Paris in exchange for room and board. By age 15, he had become an apprentice(学徒)to Sylvain Bailly, a well-known dessert chef with a successful bakery in one of Paris' most fashionable neighborhoods.
D) Careme was quick at learning in the kitchen. Bailly encouraged his young apprentice to learn to read and write. Careme would often spend his free afternoons at the nearby National Library reading books on art and architecture. In the back room of the little bakery, his interest in design and his baking talent combined to work wonders—he shaped delicious masterpieces out of flour, butter and sugar.
E) In his teenage years, Careme fashioned eatable copies of the late 18th century's most famous buildings一cookies in the shape of ruins of ancient Athens and pies in the shape of ancient Chinese palaces and temples. Sylvain Bailly, his master, displayed these luxuriant creations一often as large as 4 feet tall—in his bakery windows.
F) Careme's creations soon captured the discriminating eye of a French diplomat, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-P6rigord. Around 1804, Talleyrand challenged Careme to produce a full menu for his personal castle, instructing the young baker to use local, seasonal fruits and vegetables and to avoid repeating main dishes over the course of an entire year. The experiment was a grand success and Talleyrand's association with French nobility would prove a profitable connection for Careme.
G) French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was known to be unimpressed by the declining taste of early 18th century cooking, but under pressure to entertain Paris' high society, he too called Careme to his kitchen at Tuileries Palace. In 1810, Careme designed the extraordinary cake for the wedding of Napoleon and his second bride, Marie-Louise of Austria. He became one of the first modem chefs to focus on the appearance of his table, not just the flavor of his dishes. "I want order and taste. A well-displayed meal is enhanced one hundred percent in my eyes," he later wrote in one of his cook books.
H) In 1816, Careme began a culinary(烹饪的)journey which would forever mark his place as history's first top chef. He voyaged to England to cook in the modem Great Kitchen of the prince regent(摄政王),George IV, and crossed continents to prepare grand banquets for the tables of Tsar Alexander I of Russia. Never afraid to talk up his own accomplishments, a boastful Careme made a fortune as wealthy families with social ambitions invited him to their kitchens. Later, in his cook books, he would often include a sketch of himself, so that people on the street would be able to recognize—and —admire—him.
I)Careme's cooking displays became the symbol of fine French dining; they were plentiful, beautiful and imposing. Guests would fall silent in wonder as servants carried Careme's fancy creations into the dining hall. For a banquet celebrating the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia's visit to George IV's Brighton Pavillion on Jan. 18, 1817, the menu featured 120 different dishes, highlighting eight different soups, 40 main courses, and 32 desserts.
J)As he traveled through the homes of early 19th century nobility, Careme forged the new art of French gourmet food. Locked in hot kitchens, Careme created his four "mother sauces." These sauces—bechamel, veloute, espagnole and allemande—formed the central building blocks for many French main courses. He also perfected the soufifle—a baked egg dish, and introduced the standard chefs uniform—the same double- breasted white coat and tall white hat still worn by many chefs today. The white clothing conveyed an image of cleanliness, according to Careme—and in his realm, appearance was everything.
K)Between meals, Careme wrote cook books that would be used in European kitchens for the next century. His manuals including The Royal Parisian Baker and the massive five-volume Art of French Cooking Series (1833-1847, completed after his death) first systematized many basic principles of cooking, complete with drawings and step-by-step directions. Long before television cooking shows, Careme walked readers through common kitchen tasks, instructing them to "try this for yourself, at home" as famous American Chef Julia Child might do, many years later.
L) In the end, however, it was the kitchen that did Careme in. Decades of working over coal fires in tight, closed spaces with little fresh air (to ensure his dishes would not get cold) had fatally damaged his lungs. On Jan. 12, 1833, Careme died just before he turned 50.
M) But in his lifetime, Careme, ever confident, could see beyond his short domination in the kitchen. He wanted to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cooking, and prove to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world," as he wrote in his papers.
N) Decades later, chef Auguste Escoffier would build upon Careme's concept of French cuisine (烹任).But in the very beginning, there was just Careme, the top chef who elevated dining into art.
36.Careme was among the first chefs who stressed both the appearance and flavor of dishes.
37. Careme wanted to show to later generations that French chefs of his time were most outstanding in the world.
38. Careme benefited greatly from serving a French diplomat and his connections.
39. Careme learned his trade from a famous desert chef in Paris.
40. Careme's creative works were exhibited in the shop windows by his master.
41.Careme's knowledge of art and architecture helped him create extraordinary desserts out of ordinary ingredients.
42. Many people in Paris were eager to have a look at the latest sweet food made by Careme.
43. Careme became extremely wealthy by cooking for rich and socially ambitious families.
44. Careme's writing dealt with the fundamental cooking principles in a systematic way.
45. Careme's contribution to French cooking was revolutionary.
Roughly the size of a soda can, sitting on a bookshelf, a relatively harmless gadget may be turning friends away from your home. The elephant in your living room is your Internet-connected security camera, a device people are increasingly using for peace of mind in their homes. But few stop to think about the effect these devices may have on house guests. Should you tell your friends, for instance, that they're being recorded while you all watch the big game together?
"It's certainly new territory, especially as home security cameras become easier to install," says Lizzie Post, president of the Emily Post Institute, America's foremost manners advisors. "I think it will be very interesting to see what etiquette (礼仪)emerges in terms of whether you tell people you have a camera or not, and whether guests have a right to ask that it be turned off, if it's not a security issue."
Post wants to make clear that she's not talking about legal rights, but rather personal preferences. She also wants to explain that there are no right or wrong answers regarding manners on this front yet, because the technology is just now becoming mainstream. Besides, the Emily Post Institute doesn't dictate manners.
When it comes to security cameras, Post says it's a host's responsibility to make sure guests feel comfortable within their home. "I'm always a fan of being open and honest." For instance, if the host casually acknowledges that there is a camera in the room by telling a story about it, that may be enough to provide an opening for a guest to say if they are uncomfortable.
However, if a contractor is working in your home, you don't need to tell them that there are cameras watching. Then again, the air of accountability that the camera generates can also work in contractors* favor. "If anything does go wrong while they're in the house, they don't want to be blamed for it," she says. "In fact, the camera could be the thing that proves that they didn't steal the $20, or knock the vase off the table."
46.For what reason may your friends feel reluctant to visit your home?
A) The security camera installed may intrude into their privacy.
B) They don't want their photos to be circulated on the Internet.
C) The security camera may turn out to be harmful to their health.
D) They may not be willing to interact with your family members.
47. What does Lizzie Post say is new territory?
A) The effect of manners advice on the public.
B) Cost of applying new technologies at home.
C) The increasing use of home security devices.
D) Etiquette around home security cameras.
48. What is Lizzie Post mainly discussing with regard to the use of home security cameras?
A) Legal rights.
B) Moral issues.
C) Likes and dislikes of individuals.
D) The possible impact on manners.
49. What is a host's responsibility regarding security cameras, according to Lizzie Post?
A) Making their guests feel at ease.
B) Indicating where they are.
C) Turning them off in time.
D) Ensuring their guests,privacy.
50.In what way can the home security camera benefit visitors to your home?
A) It can satisfy their curiosity.
B)It can prove their innocence.
C) It can help them learn new technology.
D) It can make their visit more enjoyable.
PepsiCo is to spend billions of dollars to develop drinks and snacks and reformulate existing ones with lower sugar, salt and fat, as consumers demand healthier options and regulatory pressure intensifies amid an obesity epidemic(流行病).
The maker of Mountain Dew and Gatorade has been one of the earlier movers in the industry to offer products with reduced levels of unhealthy ingredients—PepsiCo claims a packet of its chips now contains less salt than a slice of white bread. However, its new 10-year plan makes clear it believes it still has a long way to go.
Shifting eating habits, including a sharp drop in consumption of sparkling drinks, have forced radical change on the industry. But those shifts have yet to be reflected in record obesity levels, which stand at 36.5% overall in the US.
Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo chairman, said the plan to make its products healthier was important for the company's growth. But on the subject of obesity, she pointed out that consumers' lifestyles have changed significantly, with many people being more sedentary(久坐不动的)not least because more time is spent in front of computers. She said PepsiCo's contribution was to produce healthier snacks that still tasted good.
"Society has to change its habits," she added. "We can't do much to alter sedentary lifestyles, but we can provide consumers with great-tasting products, low in salt, sugar and fat. In the past we had to have a taste trade-off. But we're breaking that trade-off."
PepsiCo's plan for its foods and drinks is based on guidelines from the World Health Organisation, which last week backed using taxes on sparkling drinks to reduce sugar consumption. Initiatives also include efforts to reduce its environmental impact, water consumption and materials used in packaging by 2025.
PepsiCo did not say exactly how much it planned to invest to reach its goals. However, Dr Mehmood Khan, chief scientific officer, said the company had doubled research and development spending in the past five years and was "committed to sustaining investment",adding that companies cannot cost-cut their way to increasing sales. PepsiCo's research and development budget in 2015 was $754 million.
51.Why is PepsiCo making a policy change?
A) To win support from the federal government.
B) To be more competitive in the global market.
C) To satisfy the growing needs for healthy foods.
D) To invest more wisely in the soft drink industry.
52.What does PepsiCo think it will have to do in the future?
A) Invest more to develop new snacks.
B) Reduce levels of obesity in the US.
C) Change consumers' eating habits.
D)Keep on improving its products.
53.Why does PepsiCo plan to alter its products, according to Indra Nooyi?
A)To ensure the company's future development.
B) To adapt to its customers' changed taste.
C) To help improve its consumers' lifestyles.
D) To break the trade-off in its product design.
54. What does Indra Nooyi say about the obesity epidemic?
A) It is mainly caused by overconsumption of snacks.
B) It results from high sugar and salt consumption.
C) It is attributable to people's changed lifestyles.
D) It has a lot to do with longer working hours.
55.What has PepsiCo been doing to achieve its objective?
A)Studying WHO,s guidelines.
B)Increasing its research funding.
C)Expanding its market overseas.
D)Cutting its production costs.
越来越多的中国人现在的确离不开手机了。他们中的许多人,包括老年人,都使用丰机应用程序(apps)保持联系并拓宽朋友圈。他们也用手机购物、查找信息,因为手机便于携带。此外,使用手机应用程序通信比传统电话便宜。然而,这种新趋势导致人们在社交时过度依赖手机。事实上,一些年轻人己经变得十分上瘾,以至于忽视了与家人和朋友面对面的交流。
上一篇: 穿火圈、跨高板、扛圆木、匕首刺扮演
下一篇: 能够控制新闻、文本、短信、天气等
·能够控制新闻、文本、短信、天气等
·有团队协作精神
·郁玉再次被迫拉上船
·以备工业化规划
·如邯郸公交公司自主经营有些充电场站
·造成了极其恶劣的社会影响
·这些被曲解承继的传统文明
·空军各招飞选拔中心组织初选
·全体上掉包有了天翻地覆的何干改变
·同志对我很好 | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_-948752087879857346 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Tuần Châu é a uma ilha do sudoeste do Vietnã. Faz parte da província de Hạ Long.
Coberto por florestas de pinheiros, ocupando uma área de 2,2 km² e, a leste e a sul, duas praias artificiais dotadas de areia branca e fina.Atualmente é um dos mais importantes destinos turísticos de Hạ Long.
Ligações externas
Hệ thống Bất Động Sản
Ilhas do Vietname | RedPajamaWikipedia_8431025722898085425 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
RecommendSite | Tenso JAPAN - A service that ships Japanese goods overseas. Use for sites like Amazon, Rakuten, Yahoo! Shopping.
A natural organic makeup shipping site that sells our own Japanese-made brands - "naturaglace", "chant a charm" "WELEDA". The first to introduce natural cosmetics to Japan, we perform thorough quality control and deliver items of original quality to the customer.
honto is a general hybrid bookstore of stores such as Maruzen, Junkudo & Bunkyodo that sells books and e-books online. You can also collect honto points that can be used at bookstores. Free shipping in Japan and dispatch within 24 hours at the fastest.
"The official online shopping site of Ensky Co., Ltd.With lots of currently popular talent items and character goods! Introducing pre-order and limited edition specials! Characters from more than 100 titles! More than 2000 items!"
An online shopping store that delivers Suntory health foods, supplements & makeup. An online shopping store that delivers Suntory health foods, supplements & makeup. We introduce health foods, supplements & makeup items that, backed up by technical & scientific bases, take advantage of blessings of nature such as the popular ingredient sesamin, arachidonic acid (ARA), DHA, glucosamine, lactic acid bacteria, maca, FAGE, etc.
Beautiful humidifiers in a revolutionary tank-less design. To keep you healthy during the dry months. Clean and provides you with suitable humidity.
For photo developing, camera purchase/buy back, go to Camera no Kitamura. Please let the photo specialist shop Camera no Kitamura to develop, store and print your precious photos. Smartphones are also for sale at affordable prices.
Search and purchase from a database of more 10 million items including Japanese books, Western books, electric boos and DVDs/CDs. Buy more than 1,500 yen for free shipping!
Yahoo! Shopping is a shopping mall that has a vast lineup of items and brings you all the latest online bargain shopping information. You can also use T Points, for bigger savings!
A shopping site with the theme of "Japan". A lineup up of genre-boundary crossing items such as wallets, business card holders, bags, clothing foods etc., that are superb items chosen by first class connoisseurs.
Books, comics, magazines, CDs, DVDs, games etc – Seven-Eleven shop pick-up free shipping. Order over JPY 1,500 of food, drinks, makeup etc., and get free Japanese shipping even to your home. A convenient shopping site where you can also collect nanaco points. Got to 7 Net Shopping right away.
T-SITE SHOPPING is the online store of Daikanyama T-SITE.
An anime specialist shop that serves all your anime needs! Comics, characters goods, DVDs/CDs, games, books, TV anime DVDs & comics, anime sond CDs, anime voice actor DVDs/CDs and a lots of original items & special offers only available at our store!
The official mail order site EDION for home appliances and lifestyle items. With a wide variety of items for sale, from household items to daily necessities, food and miscellaneous goods. Also, we a home appliance network of more than 1,200 stores throughout Japan, after-sale service is provided for peace of mind after your purchase!
If your looking for miscellaneous goods online, then go to the fashionable, cute Afternoon Tea official site. The kitchen items, interior items, catalog gifts etc are popular as celebration gifts. As well as Afternoont Tea, we also bring you Cocoonist.
nojima online is a specialist online site for digital appliances. We run Nojima Corporation, a digital specialist shop mainly found in Kanagawa Prefecture.
Seiyu: SEIYU.com is the official internet supermarket of Sunny and an online shopping site. Purchases over a certain amount get free shipping. The internet supermarket service (regions limited) has next day delivery at the quickest.
Anime & tokusatsu videos monthly unlimited viewing for 1,080 yen. More than 750 works and 14,000 episodes of anime & tokusatsu videos update every week are available at a flat rate for your viewing pleasure. Everyday, we distribute more than 1,500 popular free anime videos from new ones to masterpieces.
At Daiei Net Shopping でyou can get free Japanese shipping on seasonal gifts! Also, there is a line up of items such as the foods on "Otoriyose Sanchoku Net" etc., which bring you specialities from all over Japan.
Tokyu Hands Net Store is an internet shopping site managed/run by Tokyu Hands Inc. By registering as a member, you can collect points that can also be used at Tokyu Hands stores, and there are handy features such as being able to check your store/online store purchase history.
LC Love Cosmetic is a sexual health care shop for proactive people. We deliver intriguing items such as Jamu, Nule Nule, Pueraria and Na-da-te.
Lawson Fresh is a delivery service managed by Lawson that has more than 15,000 items like food, medicine and daily items. There are items like 10 minutes cooking kits, fresh vegetables and many healthy & tasty items.
Delicious foods at affordable prices. Seijo Ishii.com has a line up of import items like wines, cheeses, jams, teas and sweets. Seijo Ishii will make your daily life more tasty. | RedPajamaC4_2386656184579857011 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Page created on JCR-UK: 2003
Latest revision (formatting): 10 January 2016
THE RISE OF PROVINCIAL JEWRY
by Cecil Roth
(published 1950)
The Early Communities - Section 4 - (Jersey to Nottingham)
Jersey and the Channel Islands
That there were Jews in the Channel Islands in Hanoverian times would have seemed less surprising to playgoers of a few generations ago than to students of to-day: for in a popular melodrama of the time, The Tragedy of Julia, there figures an honest, worthy local Jewish pedlar in the Cumberland style. He was not, it seems, a figment of the imagination, for in the Universal Magazine of 1787 (according to a contemporary newspaper cutting) reference is made to 'Levi the Jew,' who had travelled the Channel Islands for over twenty years--bringing back the date to about 1765. He was already dead by this time, for letters of administration over the property of Barnet Levy, of Guernsey, were issued in 1784.(i) He was not the only Jew in the Channel Islands at the period: in an old commercial account-book which for some reason or the other found its way into the muniments of the Great Synagogue in London reference is made to transactions with Joseph Lyon, of Guernsey, in 1800-1802. A Segar of Guernsey (not necessarily a Jew) figures among the subscribers to M. Sailman's Southampton publication of 1817 (below, p.100): while Alex. and David Solomon of the same place were licensed Navy Agents in 1814. About this time, Henry Ezekiel, of Exeter, was established in the island as a silversmith: while in the middle of the nineteenth century Moses Fink (father of the Hon. Theodore Fink, the Australian newspaper proprietor, born here in 1855) was one of the local Jewish residents, removing thence to Geelong, N.S.W., in 1861.
By now, the centre of interest had moved to Jersey, where David Lindo (subsequently of Jamaica) was born in 1833.(ii) The bulk of the community belonged of course to the Ashkenazi element, the leading spirit being a certain J. Wolffson. It was he, who, in a letter to The Voice of Jacob of 17th February 1843, intimated how 'for many years past Israelites have resided in this island, but however true to their faith they have not been enabled hitherto to erect a sanctuary wherein to perform religious service: those of our persuasion now living here, actuated by the desire to praise God in an appropriate manner, have resolved to build a Synagogue, and have to that purpose contributed, each to the utmost of his means.' To assist in the work, an appeal was made to the various Anglo-Jewish communities, and a number of contributions received--one of them being from Mark Levy, of Guernsey, perhaps Barnet's kinsman. The foundation stone of the Synagogue was laid, according to the Jersey and Guernsey
Post of the 20th May 1843, on the Tuesday before that date, at four o'clock in the afternoon; it was in Grove Place, St. Helier, and the ceremony was performed by the Wolffson or Woolfson referred to above, the founder, and Mr. Marks, the President. A benediction was invoked by the Rev. Mr. Franklin, presumably the congregational factotum, after which the congregation repaired to their new place of worship for the evening service. 'Afterwards, the whole society met at Mrs. Jewell's, in Hope Street, where they spent the remainder of the evening with becoming hilarity.' The community was sufficiently well organised to subscribe in 1844 to the Chief Rabbinate Fund and to have a vote at the election of Dr. Adler.
In 1847, the community comprised eleven full members and five additional seat-holders, representing a total population of 47 souls. It is on record that on June 1st of that year Maurice S. Mawson, of Pernambuco, was married at St. Helier to Rosa, daughter of Michael Phillips, of Jersey. Six years later there were seventeen seat-holders and the President was B. Levy. Among the local families was according to family tradition that of Crawcour, a dentist, said to have originated the amalgam filling of teeth. The last officiant to the Synagogue was the Rev. J. L. Hanau, who officiated at the funeral of a Jewish soldier who died there in January 1902, when the community had already been dissolved for some years; for the small Polish nucleus which had established itself there in 1892 found no ritual appurtenances and was unable to form a fresh community. The original settlement must therefore have died out about the year 1870. The cemetery at Almorah has occasionally been used up to recent times, but except for this the former Channel Islands community is not even a memory.
Of recent years, however, there has been a slight revival of local Jewish life. It is memorable that the Channel Islands were the only part of the European territories subject to the English Crown where the Nazi anti-Semitic system was enforced in the tragic years 1940-1945, with ghastly consequences to large numbers of persons who had taken refuge or had been deported there.
Notes to Jersey and the Channel Islands
(i) He was brother of Gershom (b. Judah) Levy, of Guernsey, who died at Exeter in 1822 aged 76.
(ii) Joshua Mauger of Jersey, who subsequently settled in Nova Scotia and was a member of the Canadian Parliament, is said to have been a Jew by birth, but I have no means of verifying this.
Channel Islands Jewish Community home page on JCR-UK
The King's Lynn community is, from the point of view of our present enquiry, particularly interesting. It is the solitary Anglo-Jewish community of which what may be termed the Articles of Foundation are preserved. Moreover, the unexpectedly early date of these - 1747 - makes it probable that in other places, of greater importance and within easier reach of London, Jews were established and synagogues organised at a yet earlier date, even though evidence is in no case available. Finally, it confirms the somewhat naive account in the series of Jewish Chronicle articles of 1842, which must be treated with greater respect than might normally be imagined.
The document referred to is a sheet pasted into the binding of a King's Lynn synagogue register of the nineteenth century, now preserved in the muniments of the United Synagogue. It is throughout in Yiddish, and the reading and interpretation are not always easy; there is a fair admixture of Hebrew, pointing to a far from negligible degree of Hebrew scholarship. The date is apparently the Thirty-Third Day of the Omer, 1747 - the Scholars' festival. It would appear that one member of the little group, Jacob Segal or Levi, referred to as being Haber (scholar), owned a Sepher Torah, which had been used previously in Divine worship. He now disposes of it to the community (Hebruta) consisting of himself, Selig or Solomon (ben Isaac) Segal, or Levi, and Abraham ben Isaiah: another signatory, not mentioned in the text, is Joseph ben Isaac Segal (Levi).
The conditions of purchase are carefully laid down. The scroll cost £5 10s.: but, as Jacob Levi subscribed only £1 10s. to the purchase fund, as against £2 paid by each of the others, they were to have the right to 10/- each from the congregational fund when it was available. It was laid down that no stranger might act as Segan to distribute congregational honours (§ii): that Jacob Levi was to be called up each New Year and Day of Atonement (§iii): and that everything that had been purchased for the Scroll should go with it (§iv). There were regulations for the congregational fund, or Charity Box: one person was to have it in his custody, another to look after the accounts, a third to possess the key: thus there could be no possibility of malversation. The Presiding Treasurer (Gabbay) was to be elected each year on Hosanna Rabba. No member owing the congregation any debt for the past half year should have any mitzvah (§v). Jacob Levi agreed that services should be held in his house, as hitherto so long as he had a suitable room available. Levi Hirsch Segal - presumably his son - was to continue to act as Hazan and would read the services on the Holy Days as previously (§vi). These were to be the fundamental regulations of the congregation as it was now formed; any person who infringed them would have to pay a fine of three guineas. On the other hand, those who left the town would lose all their rights.
The signatories to our document are not altogether strangers. Selig ben Isaac Levi is clearly to be identified with Salamon Levi, silversmith, of King's Lynn, who died in 1785 (Will: Ducarel 474): his estate was divided among his children Catherine (Kitty), Gertian, Emanuel and Isa. Abraham ben Isaiah is, I think, the synagogal equivalent to Abraham Jones, of King's Lynn (1729-1811), a native of Holland, whose father had been called Isaiah Groomsfelt. His descendants, among whom the name of Isaiah is common, are still active in the Anglo-Jewish community. He was at this time little more than a boy. Abraham Jones figures too in the Jewish Chronicle account of 1842 among the founders of the Congregation, which had by then existed 'for nearly a century.' His coadjutors were, according to this record, J. Solomon and L. and J. Goldsmid. It is possible that these last may have been later members of the community, towards the close of the century. It is however noteworthy that several members of the community were in fact gold (and silver)smiths, and that the form 'Goldsmid' seems to point (as do some other indications) to a Dutch origin for the founders.
The early King's Lynn synagogue was situated for many years in Tower Street. In 1811, the site was taken over for the new Methodist chapel, and for some time worship was carried on in an extemporised synagogue. 'There are same Jewish families resident here,' wrote William Richard, in his History of Lynn (Lynn, 1812), 'and we believe they have always had a synagogue in the town. It was for many years in Tower Street, but that has been lately pulled down, being part of the premises which the Methodists have purchased . . . At present they probably meet in some private apartment fitted up for the purpose, till a more suitable place can be obtained.'(i) It was, in fact, only in 1826 that proper accommodation was again found in a yard at the rear of 9 High Street - 'a pretty though small building,' as we are informed.
Of the officiants to the community we know very little. The reader in 1787 was one Jacob Hamburger; a frame containing the Penitential Prayers indited by him, and presented to the congregation in that year, was half a century ago in the Norwich synagogue. The only other traceable antiquarian relic of the Lynn community is a pair of silver bells, purchased at King's Lynn by Mr. Benjamin Lyons not long ago, and now at the Brixton synagogue.(ii)
A burial-ground was acquired in 1830, the community being represented by Hart Jones, silversmith: Daniel de Pass, clothier: Judah Hynes, optician: and Isaac Sampson, tobacconist. It is situated in Millfleet, and contains fourteen visible stones, some of which seem to go back to the period before the actual purchase of the ground, when it was presumably held on lease. They include those marking the graves of Solomon Levi (?1802--but this seems impossible): Isaac, son of Barnett and Elizabeth Emanuel, aet. 35 (1838): Brendel, wife of Issachar b. Nahum (=Mrs. Elizabeth Emanuel?), 1828; Abraham Moses Jones (1811) and his wife Dinah b. Aaron: and Rachel Miriam b. Abraham, wife of Levi b. Moses (probably Mrs. Hart Jones)(iii). Grenville Jones (1804-1844) of Shrewsbury (see above, p. 19), surgeon dentist, and his brother Horatio (b. 1819), surgeon dentist, of Shrewsbury, were grandsons of Moses Abraham Groomsfelt of King's Lynn.
In 1842, the community comprised seven families, though there were a few Jews resident also in some neighbouring centres who were attached to it. The Minister was J. Nuremberg and the officers Hart Jones and B. Kisch: the income was £21 10s. 9d.; the landlord of the Synagogue was C. Ames, and the rent £6 per annum; and there was attached to the community a ladies' charitable society for clothing poor Jewish orphans. It is said that the minister eked out his living by acting as interpreter to foreign sailors who frequented the port. The minutes of the congregation from 1830 onwards to 1843 (apparently deposited by Messrs. Joseph, of George Street, Minories) are preserved among the muniments of the Great Synagogue. From them and the account book (which extends to 1845) it is possible to reconstruct something of the local life at this period, from the 7s. 6d. paid for the expense of meetings at the Duke's Head tavern to the gratuities to 'a poor man with a bad leg' and the assistance given to a 'poor man taking up for licensed pedlar.' The surnames of seat-holders in 1843 comprise the following: Emanuel, Price, Lazarus (N. and L), Scott, Joel, Blomfield, Balica, Ploochgy, Tobias, Solomons, Harris, Marks (senior and junior), Hillison, and Morris. They were later reinforced by C. Cohnstaidt, furrier, of 36 High Street, who seems to have become the mainstay of the community in the end. In addition, there was a certain Kisch and an Emanuel at Wisbech. The De Pass family, it will be noticed, no longer figured: their most active members, Aaron de Pass (born at Lynn in 1815) and his brother Elias, were shortly afterwards to take a part in the history of the economic development of South Africa: they were followed by their nephews, Daniel Benjamin and Henry Kisch, of whom the first named was a member of President Kruger's government in the Transvaal and organised the first Jewish services in Pretoria. Thus from this little congregation there issued persons who played a role of importance in the Jewish world and in general life.
The last entry in the extant congregational records is dated February 28th 1846. The Community must have entered upon its final decay shortly after this date, as it does not figure in the Census returns and Jewish enumerations from 1847 onwards.
Notes to King's Lynn
(i) Elsewhere in this volume, the author records the brutal murder in 1783 of a Jewish lad of about sixteen years, Isaac Levi, between Lynn and Westwich; he was perhaps the son of Solomon Levi the silversmith.
(ii) An apocryphal 'Jews' Font', found on or near the synagogue site in Tower Street, is to be seen in the local museum, but it has no possible Jewish application except perhaps for washing the hands before worship.
(iii) I am indebted for the transcripts to Miss Hilda Goldstein.
King's Lynn Jewish Community home page on JCR-UK
The traditional date for the foundation of the Leeds community is 1840. Jews were, however, resident here before that date. Lazarus Levi 'a Jew well known in Leeds' died in 1799, in his 105th year (G.M.); and, if he settled there in the prime of life, he should have arrived no later than 1750. He was father, perhaps, of Moses Levi, who was recorded in the press to have been baptised in 1772 on his marriage to a certain Mrs. Gordon. He had been in business in Briggate as a silversmith since at the latest 1758.
In the eighteen-twenties two Jewish families were living here, and they used to obtain their supply of Kosher meat from Sheffield (J.C. 24.viii.1900). Later on Solomon Hirschell licensed several successive Shochetim to practise here - Nahman Levi (1823), whose credentials were apparently sent to S. Newman (unless this was the licensee's English name): Abraham ben Shraga (1824): Solomon Platura ('with Mr. Davis': 1833) and Nathan ben Joseph Cohen ('Blitz': i.e. beLeeds?), Shochet to Mr. Mayer (1840). The 'Mr. Davis' mentioned in this list is presumably Gabriel Davis, optician, of Leeds (uncle of Arthur Davis, the translator of the liturgy), who was in Leeds by 1822. Another local figure was lsaac Abrahams, subsequently proprietor of the Polytechnic Music Hall in Leeds, whose son Joseph Abrahams (d. 1901) was born there in 1839. The Directory of 1822 shows a number of Jewish names.
From these data, it would appear probable that some sort of organised Jewish life developed in Leeds in the course of the eighteen-twenties. Up to 1846, services were held in a room in Bridge Street, and thereafter in Back Rockingham Street, where there was accommodation for 70 persons; while a plot of land in Geldard Road was granted on May 12th, 1840 by the Earl of Cardigan for use as cemetery, at a nominal price of £2. It was not, however, for another generation that this community, now the third in size in the entire country, began to play a part of any importance in Anglo-Jewish life.*
Note to Leeds
* The 1851 Census ascribed a second synagogue to Leeds, but it was in fact of the sect of 'Israelites.'
Leeds Jewish Community home page on JCR-UK
The community of Liverpool is the only important one in the whole of England, outside London, the history of which has been comprehensively written. I may be permitted to question the Hispanicity of the hypothetical congregation of 1750 (Margoliouth attempts to antedate it to the beginning of the century), but it is certain that a community was in existence not long after that date. Indeed, in 1755, John Wesley had spoken of the friendly behaviour of the inhabitants 'to the Jews and Papists who live among them.' Further evidence is provided by a curious work, by one J. Willme: 'Sepherah Shelosh. Three letters, sent to some dispersed, but well-advised Jews, now resident at Liverpool' (London 1756). It would seem thus that there is corroboration for the report that a community existed in Liverpool for some thirty years before what is now the Old Hebrew Congregation was organised in 1780 in Turton Court. Among the early members may be mentioned 'Pheis Liverpool,' and his son Nathan, whose wives were buried in London under the auspices of the Hambro' Synagogue in 1795 and 1792 respectively. The communal regulations (Takkanoth) were drawn up in 1799 and the cemetery acquired at the same period.
Liverpool Jewish Community home page on JCR-UK
The compilation of the history of a community so important as that of Manchester is a task which it is impossible to take in one's stride, and here I can do no more than recapitulate. It was founded apparently in the seventeen-eighties, the leading spirits being two brothers from Liverpool, Lemon and Jacob Nathan: another early member was Isaac Franks, who married a Miss Nash, a Quakeress who became a Jewess (information of their great-great-grandson, Mr. B. Franks, of Hull). An Isaac Mosse or Moss was Treasurer of the Literary and Philosophical Society in 1789, but there is no indication other than the slightly equivocal name that he was a Jew. The synagogue was situated in 1804 in Garden Street, Withy Grove, being removed two years later to Ainsworth Court. The original cemetery was opened in Pendleton in 1794 (another version says 1773), the purchasers being Isaac Isaac, Philip Isaac Cowan and Jacob Franks.
The earliest known officiant to the community was apparently that curious peripatetic scholar and pamphleteer Joseph Crool, whose activity is commemorated in the earliest local Jewish publication, which seems to reveal a healthy communal life: Service performed in the Synagogue of the Jews, Manchester, on the nineteenth of October, 1803; being the day appointed for a general fast: consisting of prayers, a sermon, and psalms, and hymns. Delivered in Hebrew, by Rabbi Joseph Crool; and translated, by him, into English.
His incumbency did not last for long, for we shortly after find in office one Barnett (1806), who was in turn succeeded by Aaron Jacobs. In the Manchester and Salford Directory of 1828 there figures the name of Abraham Abrahams, Jewish Rabbi, Riderfield, 15 Holdgate Street. Nevertheless, when the new Synagogue in Halliwell Street was consecrated on September 2, 1825, Mr. Oppenheim, Hazan of Liverpool, was brought over to perform the ceremony.
The earliest local Jewish charity, the Manchester Jewish Philanthropic Society, was organised in 1804.
The following unmistakeably Jewish names are to be found in the Manchester Directory of 1790:--
Jacob Nathan, slop-shop.
Abraham Isaac.
-- Israel and -- lemon, dealers in watch-materials.
Henry Isaac, pen-cutter and sealing-wax manufacturer.
Joseph Barnett, oval-turner.
Samuel Barnett, tailor.
Aaron Jacob, slop-seller.
Benjamin Joel, brush-maker.
Abraham Levi, book-keeper.
Abraham Levi, optician.
An important name is added in the Manchester and Salford Directory of 1804 (Deans & Co.):
Rothschild, N. M. Merchant and Manufacturer, Brown Street. House, Downing Street, Ardwick.
Manchester Jewish Community home page on JCR-UK
Newcastle-on-Tyne*
The first Newcastle Jew on record is David Henriques, who died in 1775 (Will: Alexander 472). By 1831, there was a rudimentary community, as is shown by the following publication (Newcastle on Tyne, 1831): Discourse delivered at a Jewish meeting held at Mr. D. Cohen's, Westgate Street, on the 8th September, being the Coronation Day of . . . King William the fourth, to whom the Supreme King of the Universe has imparted a portion of his glory, and commencing our New Year 5592 since the creation of the world by Martain Valintine from Poland. Already, in the previous year, the community had been sufficiently numerous to purchase a burial-ground, and it must be presumed that some congregational organisation existed even earlier. The founder was according to report a certain Trytle Joel, who perhaps had settled in the town in the eighteenth century, the David Cohen mentioned above being the first President. In 1838, a new Synagogue was erected in Temple Street, through the instrumentality of I. A. Jacques. The cemetery acquired in 1830 was in Westgate Road, on the site of what is now the Newcastle Brewery, where tombstones are still in evidence.
Note to Newcastle-on-Tyne
* There is an article on the early history of the Newcastle community, by the Rev. M. Rosenbaum, in The Jewish World for January 1900.
Newcastle upon Tyne Jewish Community home page on JCR-UK
There is a somewhat absurd story (fostered, one is sorry to see, by the most distinguished local Jewish family) that a Jewish colony continued to exist in Norwich throughout the Middle Period of Anglo-Jewish history. It is needless to waste time on this. There is, however, some evidence that the community is among the oldest in England; for A. A. Levy, writing in The Jewish Chronicle of April, 1842, speaks of a disused cemetery in Mariner's Lane, acquired by a certain Solomon Levy from the Corporation about a century and a half before. This ground, he says, was long used by all the Jews of the Eastern counties (he estimates the number of interments in it as some 800--an obviously exaggerated figure). The last was that of a certain Lion Levy, about 1826, a member of the purchaser's family: thereafter, the ground fell into disuse and was occupied by a market gardener. That this ground should have gone back to the seventeenth century is clearly impossible, and it was probably opened in the middle of the eighteenth. Another plot, at the rear of 34 Horns Lane, Ber Street, was reported to Sir Hermann Gollancz when he visited Norwich in the eighteen-nineties, but all traces of it had already disappeared by then.*
It is in any case certain that by the beginning of the second half of the eighteenth century Jews were not only resident in, but had even begun to branch out from, the city. Among the early members of the Portsmouth community were the brothers Moses and Akiba ben Samuel, both described as being 'of Norwich' (unless some unidentified German city is really in question here), whose names figure shortly after the year 1766: while a certain 'Solomon Norwich' was buried in London under the auspices of the Hambro' Synagogue in 1789. The persons mentioned above perhaps belonged to the family of the first Lord Mancroft, whose grandfather, Michael Samuel, is recorded to have left Norwich for Canada in 1816. Another ancestor of his was his great-grandfather, David Soman, who founded the family shoe-business in the same place in 1800. David Moses, who landed in England in 1759, stated in his Alien's Return in 1798 that he was resident at Norwich for 34 years before settling in Plymouth. The continuous record of the Norwich community dates, however, only from the year 1813, when a fresh burial-ground--the third - was acquired in the names of Barnett Crawcour, dentist; Henry Carr, merchant; Israel Jacobs, optician; and Colman Michael, of Wymondham, merchant. The first-named was regarded as the father of the community, having been responsible for the establishment of the synagogue, then situated near St. George's Tombland church. The 'Minister' in the early part of the nineteenth century was Lyon Mordecai (1784-1844), described on his tombstone as 'a sincere friend to the needy and a well-wisher to all mankind,' who received the munificent salary of 6/- weekly; he is obviously identical with Judah Leib ben Mordecai, whom Rabbi Hirschell licensed in the summer of 1823 to act as Shochet in Norwich. That he was in office continuously during the next twenty-one years is not quite certain, for it is tempting to identify him with R. Leib of Norwich, who conducted a Heder in Drury Lane, London, about the year 1826. The cemetery's vicissitudes apparently reflect the precarious life of the congregation. In 1837, it was deemed prudent to deposit the title-deeds with the Great Synagogue in London. Four years later, after a narrow escape from total loss, it was recovered for the community by the payment of the arrears of rent, and in 1853, after further vicissitudes, was regained by the President, Joel Fox (a member of the Town Council), on a 75-year lease. In the next year, however, the Burials Act forbade intramural interment, and a fresh ground had to be acquired. The Jewish World (?) for July 18, 1884, contains an article on this cemetery, which has been periodically rediscovered since then; among those buried here were Barnett or Bernard Crawcour, the father of the community, who died in 1835, and Lyon Mordecai, its Minister. A new synagogue in what was then called St. Faith Lane was dedicated in 1848, when Joel Fox was Warden and S. Cato Minister; like others of the oldest Jewish places of worship in this country, it was destroyed by enemy action in the war of 1939-45.
Note to Norwich
* The late Lord Mancroft wrote to me on April 26, 1936: 'There are two ancient disused burial grounds in Norwich which are not in the care of the Jewish community. One is in the Gildencroft, near St. Augustine's Gate, and the other in Horns Lane, Ber Street, on the site of which now stands an elementary school.'
The former was presumably that acquired by Solomon Levy.
Norwich Jewish Community home page on JCR-UK
My earliest record of a Jew in Nottingham in modern times dates back to 1763-4, when Moses ben Jacob Ballin, of Nottingham, was admitted a member of the Great Synagogue in London; while a Sephardi artist, named Abraham Osorio, was resident there in 1788. There is evidence that some sort of community was in existence as early as 1805, for in that year Joseph Crool, one of the first Anglo-Jewish preachers and writers, (who may have been its minister and factotum) published there a discursive work entitled The Importance and Necessity of a more general Knowledge of the Hebrew language.
In the course of the next few years, the Jewish population grew. The founder of the community, according to local report, was a certain David Solomon(s), a Russian Jew who settled in Nottingham in the eighteen-twenties. In 1822 his name figures in an application made for a piece of ground to be used as a Jewish cemetery.(i) The following names are affixed to this document:- Solomon Selek, Tobias Lyon, Lemuel Lyon, Barnett Simpson, Lemen Simon, Jacob Wolfson, Nathan Joseph, Moses Levi, Benjamin Herts, Nathan Moses, Joseph Joseph, Jacob Elias, David Solomon, and Solomon Solomon. The grant was apparently made (according to the investigations of A. Lassman) in 1828, when a piece of ground was rented. In the lease, descriptions follow each name. Moses Levi now appears as the 'priest,' presumably the Minister; Solomon Selek is of the City of London, Chairmaker; Tobias Lyon is a Twill Manufacturer; while Jacob Wolfson, Lemuel Lyon and the two Josephs were of Bedford, which community presumably intended to make use of the new House of Life. The signatories, other than those mentioned above, are described as Watchmakers, or Lace and Silk Merchants. This cemetery, which was situated in Sherwood Street, remained in use until 1869.
In 1825, Chief Rabbi Solomon Hirschell authorised Jacob Kisch to act as shochet in Nottingham, sending his licence to the Parnas David ben Joshua, who must be identified, in default of any other David, with the David Solomon mentioned above.
In 1839, the community comprised seven families, who worshipped in a private house, one Mordecai Marshall being the Minister.(ii) Eventually, it is said, services were held in the house of Joel Davis, in Park Street, who had succeeded Solomons as head of the community. A famous local notable was Michael Zalman Polack, better known as Solomon Alexander, who received a synagogue appointment in Plymouth in 1823 and subsequently became the first Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem.
A little later in the nineteenth century there was a small influx of German Jews, as to the other industrial cities of the Midlands, who did a good deal for local prosperity but drifted away from the Jewish community entirely: a typical instance was Lewis Heymann (1803-1866), from Hamburg, of the firm of Heymann & Alexander, who founded the Nottingham lace curtain industry in the middle of the century and was Mayor of Birmingham in 1857.
Notes to Nottingham
(i) Cf. the series of articles on the community which appeared in the Nottingham Guardian in the Autumn of 1929.
(ii) He was of course also Shochet: he is said to have had a card hanging in the local poultry store bearing the words 'Rev. M. Marshall, Killer of the Jews.'
Nottingham Jewish Community home page on JCR-UK
Previous Section (Section 3)
Next Section (Section 5)
"The Rise of Provincial Jewry" Table of Contents
"The Rise of Provincial Jewry" Appendix
Susser Archive Table of Contents
Susser Archives Home page
About JCR-UK | JCR-UK home page | Contact JCR-UK Webmaster
Terms and Conditions, Licenses and Restrictions for the use of this website:
This website is owned by JewishGen and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain. All material found herein is owned by or licensed to us. You may view, download, and print material from this site only for your own personal use. You may not post material from this site on another website without our consent. You may not transmit or distribute material from this website to others. You may not use this website or information found at this site for any commercial purpose.
Copyright © 2002 - 2019 JCR-UK. All Rights Reserved | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_1571577630850521779 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Tag Archives: Horror
D. C. Lozar . Audiobook, Book Reviews, Published Short Stories . Cyberpunk, Dystopia, Future, Giveaways, Horror, New fiction, Reviews, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Steampunk, Transhumanism, Winners . Leave a comment
Congratulations to the 10 winners of Goodreads giveaway who will receive the first 10 signed and dated copies of the limited one hundred I plan to distribute. The giveaway was amazing and having 555 readers request a copy of CyberWeird Stories was inspiring. Thank you for your interest and support. I am running similar giveaways for e-book and unsigned copies of both my short stories and the complete collection on Amazon – Search for Giveaways and D.C. Lozar.
In other news, I want to thank Book Review Village and William Bitner, Jr. for the fantastic five star review they gave CyberWeird Stories. His site and reviews are an amazing resource for enthusiastic readers and well worth a visit.
I finished reading "Cyberweird Stories: A Contagious Collection of Short Stories and Poems" by D.C. Lozar yesterday, but needed a day to travel back to reality before I sat down and wrote a review. I want to first say thank you to D.C. Lozar for gifting me an e-copy of this book. Thank you Dave, it was quite an experience. This is a collection of 23 short stories and a few poems. While the cyberpunk theme is pretty apparent in most of the stories, there are many layers to some of the other stories, where no emotion is safe or left untouched. D.C. touches on every emotion and beyond, especially in the poems in this book. Some of the stories were on the edge of Lovecraftian. Surrealism played a big part in many of the stories…so much so that I had to take a break after reading one story before starting another. The perspective and imagery in the stories were unique and multi-layered. I think the thing I like the most about this read is that is did not follow the rules of the genre, at least that's my take on it. We would go from the most surreal story to a poem about 9/11 with such emotion and introspection. I also noticed that, and I'm not sure if it was intentional, that the color green played a big part in many of the stories. From taste, touch and smell there were greens, emeralds, jades and mints in eye color, landscapes and aromas. There is much to take from this read if you just allow yourself to let go, and be there for the mind blast journey that D.C will take you on. I look forward to reading more of D.C. Lozar and highly recommend this read to anyone who wants an intelligent, mindful and well throughout piece of wordsmithing. It's fun to imagine where D.C. live in him imagination, it must be so much fun there!
Synopsis (from back cover): A collection of weird short stories that vivisect the concepts of transhumanism, steampunk, and cyberpunk in worlds that have evolved from our quest for immortality and innovation. From robots with contagious diseases to space explorers who stumble upon the birthplace of the Cthulhu, these stories twist preconceptions around the twin spindles of horror and science fiction to weave plots that will make you feel like you've just picked up a pulp fiction magazine from the 1920's published in the 21st century.
The audiobook is being reordered by Alexander Daddy, and I've heard his narration of the first story and was amazed. We're all in for a treat. His characterization and timing are impeccable. I'll let you know as soon as I release it which should be in early August.
I'm working finishing the format and copyediting for a hardcover version and this will be available through Barnes & Noble in the coming weeks. I'm also releasing a 2nd edition copy of the print book on Ingram spark, but the first edition is still available through Amazon.
Once again, thanks to everyone for your support and enthusiasm.
Keep it weird,
Human Harvest – Immortal Race
D. C. Lozar . Published Short Stories . Dystopia, Futurism, Horror, Odd, Robot Revolution, SciFi, Sexy, Short Stories, Sick Robot, Technology, Weird . Leave a comment
What if we learned how to live forever by transferring our minds into new bodies? There are limited resources. Not everyone contributes to society in a meaningful way. How do you decide who deserves this new immortality?
You test your children.
Emma is determined be one of the first twenty of her fifty siblings to cross the finish line in a race designed to weed out the chaff so she can earn citizenship in Amaca. How much is she willing to sacrifice to get what she wants?
Where do the new bodies come from?
Violet's bare feet slapped the snow-white metal floor, a rhythmic tap-tap-tapping sound, which rang shamefully down the long corridor. She had slept in, woken alone, and nearly vomited on seeing the time. Missing class was one thing; missing Chaff Day, well, that was a nightmare come to life.
This was her fault. Not two days ago, she had had a full-on conniption when Naomi woke her before morning bells. Everyone had seen it, had stood back as it happened, and so, as penance for being a total slice to wake up, they had let her sleep – thanks guys.
She tore off her clothes, wadded them into a ball, and tossed the mass into a wall pit as she veered to the right. The hallway narrowed and dipped. She heard the applause, the enthusiasm of the crowd, and felt her heartbeat double in her chest.
"Outfit 1910A," she yelled.
A gear-and-piston wall panel opened, and Violet snatched up the folded race clothes of a novice. Changing mid-run, her legs and arms flailing ridiculously, she cursed as her shorts tore along one side. Fine. Perfect. Now, it would be a real show.
There was no way to put on her shoes, a pair of green mag-levs, while running, so she tucked them under an arm and poured on the speed.
The corridor snaked to the left, widened, and spat Violet out into the open air of the stadium. Blinding sunlight and the familiar oven-heat of the metal track slid like puzzle pieces into her mind, and her worries evaporated – This was Chaff Day!
The stands were filled with Amacan citizens and their robots. News cameras zipped like angry flies around the track, regurgitating their sticky images onto the floating projection vids above the arena.
On screen, Violet's desperate run down the corridor – a bed-headed demon-blur of naked flesh – replayed in slow motion for all of Amaca to see.
They knew she was late!
Did they know she missed sessions?
A cold sweat formed on the back of Violet's neck as she jogged to where her family, a pod of forty-nine, waited.
"You blew it," snickered Steve. At seventeen, muscular and dim-witted, he was the class tough. "They're going to disqualify you for skipping class."
"I was there." Violet pushed charcoal-black hair out of her face and stuck her tongue out at him. It was a childish move, but the fly-cameras loved it. "Check your band."
Bell, her best friend, and sister, looked up from the digital visiband they all wore. Her soft gray eyes widened with amazement. "But, I didn't see you there."
"I was in the back," said Violet, bending to pull on her shoes. She loved mag-levs. They made her feel like she was flying. "Just came in late."
Steve's narrow mouth tightened with confusion as he scrolled through the morning roster. His green eyes burned. "This is wrong."
Violet shrugged and moved to tighten Bell's shoes; the smaller girl never locked them properly. Looking up, she smiled reassuringly. "You're going to do great."
Blinking back nervous tears, Bell nodded. She was blond, tan, and wiry. "You to."
"You hacked it," said Steve, awestruck. "You hacked your band!"
Violet sprang at him, her fist descending. "Did not!"
Dr. Stranger – When Ghosts Get Stuck
D. C. Lozar . Published Short Stories . comedy, Disturbing, Erotic, Ghost Story, Horror, NC17, New, Sexy, Short Stories, Supernatural, Weird . Leave a comment
The first short story in the Fringe Series – Dr. Evelyn Stranger treats creatures most would consider monsters. Werewolves, ghouls, and witches living in New York City need a particular sort of physician, one skilled at treating the worst horrors the supernatural world can shovel out. She's paid a high price for her training and so takes it personally when her latest client, a horny poltergeist, tries to get out of paying her fee. NC-17. | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_-8532723984843730230 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
/**
*
*/
package org.olat.lms.notifications;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Map;
import org.olat.data.basesecurity.Identity;
import org.olat.data.commons.database.DBFactory;
import org.olat.data.properties.PropertyManager;
import org.olat.lms.commons.LmsSpringBeanTypes;
import org.olat.lms.commons.i18n.I18nManager;
import org.olat.lms.commons.mail.MailTemplateHelper;
import org.olat.system.mail.MailTemplate;
import org.olat.system.mail.MailerResult;
import org.olat.system.mail.MailerWithTemplate;
import org.olat.system.security.OLATPrincipal;
import org.olat.system.spring.CoreSpringFactory;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
/**
* This is the place where all the static class accesses (I18nManacher.getInstance(), PropertyManager.getInstance(), etc.)
* from the classes in the notification package is isolated.
* The main reason is the testability of these classes and hence, i.e. make those getInstance calls mockable.
*
* @author patrick
*
*/
@Component
class DefaultStaticDependenciesDelegator implements NotificationServiceStaticDependenciesWrapper {
@Override
public String getFormatedName(Identity ident) {
return NotificationHelper.getFormatedName(ident);
}
@Override
public String getMailFooter(Identity recipient, Identity sender) {
return MailTemplateHelper.getMailFooter(recipient, sender);
}
@Override
public MailerResult sendMail(OLATPrincipal recipientTO, List<? extends OLATPrincipal> recipientsCC, List<? extends OLATPrincipal> recipientsBCC, MailTemplate template, OLATPrincipal sender) {
return MailerWithTemplate.getInstance().sendMail(recipientTO, recipientsCC, recipientsBCC, template, sender);
}
@Override
public void intermediateCommit() {
DBFactory.getInstance().intermediateCommit();
}
@Override
public Locale getLocaleFor(String language) {
return I18nManager.getInstance().getLocaleOrDefault(language);
}
@Override
public PropertyManager getPropertyManager() {
return PropertyManager.getInstance();
}
@Override
public Map<String, Object> getNotificationHandlers() {
return CoreSpringFactory.getBeansOfType(LmsSpringBeanTypes.notificationsHandler);
}
}
| RedPajamaGithub_-5634543098938380332 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
"""aiohttp request argument parsing module.
Example: ::
import asyncio
from aiohttp import web
from webargs import fields
from webargs.aiohttpparser import use_args
hello_args = {
'name': fields.Str(required=True)
}
@asyncio.coroutine
@use_args(hello_args)
def index(request, args):
return web.Response(
body='Hello {}'.format(args['name']).encode('utf-8')
)
app = web.Application()
app.router.add_route('GET', '/', index)
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import typing
from aiohttp import web
from aiohttp import web_exceptions
from marshmallow import Schema, ValidationError, RAISE
from webargs import core
from webargs.core import json
from webargs.asyncparser import AsyncParser
from webargs.multidictproxy import MultiDictProxy
def is_json_request(req) -> bool:
content_type = req.content_type
return core.is_json(content_type)
class HTTPUnprocessableEntity(web.HTTPClientError):
status_code = 422
# Mapping of status codes to exception classes
# Adapted from werkzeug
exception_map = {422: HTTPUnprocessableEntity}
def _find_exceptions() -> None:
for name in web_exceptions.__all__:
obj = getattr(web_exceptions, name)
try:
is_http_exception = issubclass(obj, web_exceptions.HTTPException)
except TypeError:
is_http_exception = False
if not is_http_exception or obj.status_code is None:
continue
old_obj = exception_map.get(obj.status_code, None)
if old_obj is not None and issubclass(obj, old_obj):
continue
exception_map[obj.status_code] = obj
# Collect all exceptions from aiohttp.web_exceptions
_find_exceptions()
del _find_exceptions
class AIOHTTPParser(AsyncParser):
"""aiohttp request argument parser."""
DEFAULT_UNKNOWN_BY_LOCATION: dict[str, str | None] = {
"match_info": RAISE,
"path": RAISE,
**core.Parser.DEFAULT_UNKNOWN_BY_LOCATION,
}
__location_map__ = dict(
match_info="load_match_info",
path="load_match_info",
**core.Parser.__location_map__,
)
def load_querystring(self, req, schema: Schema) -> MultiDictProxy:
"""Return query params from the request as a MultiDictProxy."""
return self._makeproxy(req.query, schema)
async def load_form(self, req, schema: Schema) -> MultiDictProxy:
"""Return form values from the request as a MultiDictProxy."""
post_data = await req.post()
return self._makeproxy(post_data, schema)
async def load_json_or_form(self, req, schema: Schema) -> dict | MultiDictProxy:
data = await self.load_json(req, schema)
if data is not core.missing:
return data
return await self.load_form(req, schema)
async def load_json(self, req, schema: Schema):
"""Return a parsed json payload from the request."""
if not (req.body_exists and is_json_request(req)):
return core.missing
try:
return await req.json(loads=json.loads)
except json.JSONDecodeError as exc:
if exc.doc == "":
return core.missing
return self._handle_invalid_json_error(exc, req)
except UnicodeDecodeError as exc:
return self._handle_invalid_json_error(exc, req)
def load_headers(self, req, schema: Schema) -> MultiDictProxy:
"""Return headers from the request as a MultiDictProxy."""
return self._makeproxy(req.headers, schema)
def load_cookies(self, req, schema: Schema) -> MultiDictProxy:
"""Return cookies from the request as a MultiDictProxy."""
return self._makeproxy(req.cookies, schema)
def load_files(self, req, schema: Schema) -> typing.NoReturn:
raise NotImplementedError(
"load_files is not implemented. You may be able to use load_form for "
"parsing upload data."
)
def load_match_info(self, req, schema: Schema) -> typing.Mapping:
"""Load the request's ``match_info``."""
return req.match_info
def get_request_from_view_args(
self, view: typing.Callable, args: typing.Iterable, kwargs: typing.Mapping
):
"""Get request object from a handler function or method. Used internally by
``use_args`` and ``use_kwargs``.
"""
req = None
for arg in args:
if isinstance(arg, web.Request):
req = arg
break
if isinstance(arg, web.View):
req = arg.request
break
if not isinstance(req, web.Request):
raise ValueError("Request argument not found for handler")
return req
def handle_error(
self,
error: ValidationError,
req,
schema: Schema,
*,
error_status_code: int | None,
error_headers: typing.Mapping[str, str] | None,
) -> typing.NoReturn:
"""Handle ValidationErrors and return a JSON response of error messages
to the client.
"""
error_class = exception_map.get(
error_status_code or self.DEFAULT_VALIDATION_STATUS
)
if not error_class:
raise LookupError(f"No exception for {error_status_code}")
headers = error_headers
raise error_class(
body=json.dumps(error.messages).encode("utf-8"),
headers=headers,
content_type="application/json",
)
def _handle_invalid_json_error(
self, error: json.JSONDecodeError | UnicodeDecodeError, req, *args, **kwargs
) -> typing.NoReturn:
error_class = exception_map[400]
messages = {"json": ["Invalid JSON body."]}
raise error_class(
body=json.dumps(messages).encode("utf-8"), content_type="application/json"
)
parser = AIOHTTPParser()
use_args = parser.use_args # type: typing.Callable
use_kwargs = parser.use_kwargs # type: typing.Callable
| RedPajamaGithub_6737119110955984413 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Small Business Virtual Summit
17th July 2020, 10 am
Giveaway alert: Register & Stand a chance to get exciting gifts!
Rukna Mana Hai
We are living in unprecedented times and small businesses around the world are feeling the impact. The need of the hour is to adapt, be agile, productive and future-ready. From connectivity and security, to network management and server controls, IT as we know it, is changing, and to ride the wave, you need technology that can propel your transformation.
Cisco Designed is a curated portfolio of offerings for small businesses that lets you focus on your business while leaving the IT to us. We invite you to join us for insights and brainstorming on future technologies and solutions that will help you disrupt the industry while navigating the new rules of the game, because when it comes to business, stopping is not an option! #RuknaManaHai.
Who should attend & why attend
Who should attend: Leaders, CEOs, CIOs & IT decision makers from small businesses that are looking to ride the technology transformation wave. If you have the vision, our technology can help you realize it. Understand how you can overcome today's unique challenges and tap tomorrow's opportunities.
Why attend: Business resiliency is top of mind for all businesses today. And for small businesses, this is critical. The right investments, in the right technology can help you operate effectively, while helping you stay profitable in challenging times. This event will give you solutions, technology, tips, and resources on keeping your business running, and preparing for the future.
Big opportunities for
Curated offerings for
Special Address
Hon'ble Minister Nitin Gadkari, MSME, Gov of India
Opening Keynote -Small in the Current Scenario
Sameer Garde, President, Cisco India and SAARC
Panel Discussion : Talking Transformation (20min+10min Q&A)
Mahanthesha Kestur Adaviswamy, Managing Director, Teleindia Networks Pvt Ltd
Panish P K, MD Small Business, Cisco, India & SAARC
Divya Sethi, Head of Emerging Business, Airtel Business
Gopal Pillai, Vice President, Seller Services, Amazon India
11.00am – 11:30am
Cisco Solutions for Small Business
Anand Patil, Dir. Systems Engineering - Cisco India
11.30am – 12:00pm
Remote Working for SB + demo
Pankaj Agrawal - Dir. Collab - India & SAARC
Vaibhav Pant, Systems Engineering Manager, Sales, Collaboration, Cisco India
12.00pm – 12.30pm
Secure & Connected for Tomorrow + demo
Madavane K, GM IT Operations, Lumina Datamatics Ltd
Vishak Raman, Director, Security Bus., CISCO India & SAARC
Raghunandan Koushik - Lead, Security, Small Bus., India
Mohammad Ashraf Ali, Lead - Architech, Soln. Engineering, Cyber Security Cisco, India
Managing Small & Medium Businesses during Crisis
Atul Bansal, Founder & CEO, Velocis moderated by Udit Goyal
12.50pm – 1.05pm
Panish PK - MD, Small Business
Minister of Road Transport & Highways, and Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Government of India
One of the senior most members of the Narendra Modi government, Nitin Gadkari is a visionary thinker and social reformer. As a minister for the MSME sector, he is helping bring alive the Prime Minister's dream to make India a super economic power by increasing the sector's contribution to the economy.
He is among the strongest proponents of Aatmanirbhar Bharat and passionate about working towards supporting, as well as, encouraging Make in India. The MSME Ministry under his guidance has implemented various schemes and programmes in a bid to boost the capabilities of MSMEs and small businesses.
Sameer Garde
President, Cisco India and SAARC
Sameer Garde is President of Cisco's India and SAARC theatre
As President, Sameer is responsible for sales, operations, growth initiatives and investments in strategic alliances in the theatre.
Over a career spanning 28 years, Sameer has led several top-performing organizations with an enduring track record across multiple roles and regions. His keen understanding of technology and market opportunities enables him to drive transformation and capture critical market transitions. A proven leader, Sameer has built and managed global and regional businesses in India, Europe, USA and Asia. Sameer is a highly respected leader who maintains a commitment to professional development, and inclusion and diversity in the workplace.
He holds an engineering degree from IIT Delhi and an MBA from IIM Kolkata. Sameer is a long-distance runner, amateur photographer, and drivingholiday enthusiast.
Divya Sethi
Head of Emerging Business, Airtel Business
Divya has more than 22 years of experience in the telecom industry spanning across Product, Product Sales, Business Operations, Marketing, Strategy, Digital functions across Direct, SMB and Government verticals.
He has also worked in Data, Mobility, Fixed Line, Security, MOVAS and M2M products. Before joining Airtel, he was previously working with Tata Telecom, Hughes and Polycom.
Mr. Mahanthesha Kestur Adaviswamy
Managing Director for Teleindia Networks Pvt. Ltd
Mahanthesh KA has been instrumental in building and scaling many of Teleindia's businesses successfully.
With over 19+ years of diversified and global experience, he has showcased his passion for customer centricity, executional excellence with rigor, and also as a transformational leader in the Telecom and IT businesses.
He was instrumental to grow the business for Teleindia Network as a telecom 'Service Provider' business unit with proven expertise, quality standards and efficient delivery processes, making it a reliable partner for a new digital age in areas of Optical, IP, Network Integration, Consulting and OEM equipment reselling.
He was most effective in expanded the business by establishing international offices in UAE – for Middle East & Africa regions & in Singapore – for APJC regions.
His improvisations in procedures & processes – Quality of Services, Innovation, Agility, Cost Effectiveness & Customer Centricity offerings, quickly stepped - up Teleindia's name in the industry.
He is now leading the team to build a new campus, closer to the Bangalore's International airport, additionally integrating within this campus, facilities & newer features – ODC & Testing Lab facility, Training Center, Mentoring for the new Start-ups, GNOC, Data Center (Datasamudra) - One stop solution!!
Director, Systems Engineering Sales – Cisco India
Anand is the Director, Systems Engineering, for Cisco Systems India. In this role, he leads the Pre-Sales teams responsible for solution and architecture design across the country. This is his second stint in Cisco, having worked here previously for 11+ years in various capacities.
Anand's prior experience includes leadership roles with global technology companies Microsoft and VMware.
Anand is an avid runner and fitness enthusiast and likes to play squash and tennis in his spare time. He also likes rock music and reading books.
Mohamed Asraf Ali
Lead – Architect, Solutions Engineering, Cyber Security Cisco, India
Ashraf is a Solutions Engineering Leader responsible for driving Cyber Security Business in the India & SAARC region for Cisco. Before Cisco, he had worked in engineering leadership roles for Service Providers and MSSPs in the region which includes Tata Communications and Sify technologies.
Ashraf is Industry veteran in the field of IT and Cyber Security for almost 2 decades, which includes over 10+ years (and counting) of specialization in Cyber Security.
He started his career as a Engineer and has taken up various technical management and lead roles in service operations, engineering, strategic planning and design in the service provider industry across Telecom, Cloud and Managed Security business domains.
Atul Bansal
Managing Director - Velocis Systems Pvt. Ltd.
As the co-founder and Managing Director of Velocis Systems, Atul Bansal leads the effort to scale Velocis into the Top IT Solutions and Services provider in India. Under his leadership, Velocis is transitioning into a business solution provider from being a technology solution provider. With an experience of more than 27 years in IT Services sector, Atul strongly believes in consistently enhancing customer and employee satisfaction goals at Velocis.
Atul graduated in electrical engineering from Delhi College of Engineering (DCE), India and completed his Master of Business Administration in Marketing and Finance from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi.
With CAGR in excess of 30% in the last 7 years, Velocis has emerged as a key IT player in India. The 'mantra' is to help customers derive more value out of their IT investments and enhance their Digital Transformation journey. With holistic offerings in SDx, Applications, Cloud, and Managed services, Velocis is positioned very well to address the rapidly growing demand for innovative IT solutions and services in the new software defined, multi-platform, multi-cloud world.
Madavane
General Manager – IT Operations Lumina Datamatics Ltd.
Seasoned IT Infrastructure and Information Security Professional with around 28 years of extensive experience.
Instrumental in the design, conceptualization, procurement, implementation and management of complex and large scale IT Infra Projects across diverse verticals on a global scale.
Rich managerial and technocrat experience in the areas of IT Infrastructure Management, Business applications, Governance-Risk Compliance, Information Security, Project Management, Technical Operations Support, IS/Security Audits, Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning.
Pankaj Agrawal
Director, Collaboration, India & SAARC
Pankaj heads the Collaboration Business at Cisco for India & SAARC. He works with organizations in this region helping them transform their workplaces and achieve their vision of aligning with the Future of Work.
Pankaj is an MBA from IIM Calcutta and has over 22 years of prior experience with leading technology companies like Microsoft, IBM and Sun Microsystems.
Raghunandan Koushik
Lead – Security, Small Business, India Cisco
Raghu is the Sales Leader responsible for driving Small Business Security in the India region for Cisco Security. Before Cisco, he had donned various Leadership roles for leading organizations which includes Micro Focus, HPE Security, Oracle, Symantec, IBM and Mcafee
Raghu is Industry veteran in the field of IT Sales for the past 2 decades, which includes over 18+ years (and counting) of specialization in Information Security.
He has accumulated a variety of functional experiences through diversified roles including managing Business Units, Larger Regions, Enterprise Accounts, Channels, Alliances and Business Development.
Udit Goyal
Director, Strategy & Planning, Cisco India & SAARC
Udit is responsible strategy, Planning and Sales Operations for Cisco India and SAARC. In his current role, Udit is responsible for developing strategy for Cisco India and managing sales operations across different segments.
A senior business professional, with more than 19 years of experience, he has built and managed high-growth businesses for large multinationals, as well as startups, primarily across the Healthcare, Telecom, and IT sectors.
Udit spent the initial decade of his career in technology, primarily working on VoIP technologies, IP-PBX, and wireless soft switches with companies such as 3Com and Huawei. Udit also holds a US patent related to feature-based services in SIP IP-PBX services.
Vishak Raman
Director, Security Business, Cisco India & SAARC
He brings with him over 20 years of experience in the Information Security Services space with stints in product management, sales, marketing and business development.
Prior to joining Cisco , He was the Sr. Regional Director – India & SAARC at FireEye .Vishak was also the Global Head of Content Delivery Network (CDN) & Managed Security Services (MSS) business at Tata communications for 3 years. Prior to joining Tata Communications, Vishak was the Sr. Regional Director for Fortinet (India/SAARC region) and is credited with having built Fortinet's Unified Threat Management success story in India/SAARC. He was also instrumental in setting up the first-of-its-kind Global Technical Assistance Center at Bangalore for providing support to Fortinet's customers worldwide. Prior to Fortinet, Vishak has worked at WatchGuard, Sify and HCL Technologies.
Vishak holds an engineering degree in Computer Science and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business management (PGDBM) from IIM Ahmedabad
Vishal Shah
Regional Manager – Collaboration Sales – Commercial and SB. Cisco India & SAARC
Vishal leads Cisco's Collaboration Business for Commercial and SB.
He believes that Collaboration is at the center piece of any Organizations business strategy and customers are using it as a differentiator to deliver new services and innovate faster.
In his role, Vishal helps Cisco's customers innovate in this globalized world and get diverse people from different backgrounds to collaborate effectively and solve complex business problems.
In his Professional Career spanning 19 years in IT/ITES & Service Provider organizations he has held various positions and managed some Large Programs and Key Accounts across companies like Cisco, France Telecom and SITEL.
He holds a Bachelor in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and an Exec MBA from IIM Calcutta.
Panish PK
Managing Director - Small Business
Panish heads the Small Business segment for Cisco India & SAARC.
Over the last 20+ years Panish has worked with Bosch, Dell, Asian Paints and HSBC in the areas of Sales, Operations and Strategy. In his last assignment at Bosch, he was the Regional Business Director in the Consumer Goods vertical (Power Tools) for India and SAARC overseeing the entire business operations across multiple GTM routes (Channel, Direct and E-Com) and Customer verticals (Retail & Key Accounts).
At Dell, Panish held roles in Operations & Strategy, and Sales. He was the Sales Director in the Mid-Market, Small Business and Consumer verticals with regional and national responsibilities across India.
Panish has an Engineering Degree from Bangalore University and a Management Diploma from IIM Calcutta. He is a music lover, an avid reader, and plays cricket and chess in his spare time.
Vaibhav Pant
Systems Engineering Manager, Sales, Collaboration, Cisco India
Vaibhav Pant manages the Systems Engineering team for Collaboration technology at Cisco . An engineering graduate and MBA in IT Mgmt, Vaibhav has been associated with Collaboration industry for the past 20 years working with companies like TANDBERG and BPL Telecom.
Gopal Pillai
Vice President, Seller Services, Amazon India
Gopal Pillai is the Vice President of Seller Services at Amazon India. He has been an Amazonian for over a decade and is a driven leader who works backwards from the needs of consumers and sellers to deliver results and drive impact at scale.
Gopal leads the India seller services team and is committed to transforming the way the country buys and sells; empowering local sellers to grow their businesses by listing their products online and even exporting their products globally through the Amazon platform. Under Gopal's leadership, the seller services business in India has enabled 600,000+ sellers to use the Amazon India marketplace to reach out to their customers all across India. Gopal's team has launched flagship programs like "Amazon Karigar" and "Amazon Saheli", which have enabled more than 1M artisans, weavers and women entrepreneurs to benefit from the global digital economy. In addition, today over 60,000+ Indian exporters are offering over 140 million made-in-India products to Amazon's 15 global marketplaces.
During his time with Amazon, Gopal has worked across verticals and divisions serving as the Head of Amazon Wireless; GM, Mobile Electronics and CE Trade-In Business; Director and General Manager, Consumer Electronics, and Director and General Manager, Seller Services at Amazon India. An alumnus of Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and University of Madras, Gopal started his career at Tata Consultancy Services, and has worked with several reputed organisations in the past decade.
© 2020 Moneycontrol. All Rights Reserved.
Small Business Virtual Summit17th July 2020
*Email ID
We have received your registration.
Please check your email for further details on the webinar. | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_4640982079938106599 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
< Back to Entertainment
Bobby Chin's Detox!
2 X 1 HR | HD | Co-Produced with CICC and Chemical Media for TLC
What exactly does China know about a healthy mind, body and spirit that the rest of the world seems to be missing out on?
After decades in the high-stakes, high-stress restaurant business, celebrity chef Bobby Chinn is seeking to recharge his batteries and detox his mind, body and spirit. In the remote Chinese provinces of Xinjiang and Yunan locals have spent thousands of years mastering the art of well-being. Bobby risks life and limb when he's doused in alcohol and set on fire, is buried in salt and cured like a ham and walks the tightrope with a troupe of daredevil high-wire acrobats.
Immersed in a world of traditional and alternative therapies, Bobby roadtests everything from superfoods to adrenalin rushes as he sets out on a journey to find the ultimate detox.
Beach House Pictures | A Blue Ant Media Company | Singapore
contact@beachhousepictures.com | (+65) 6921 7878 | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_7063176019700627109 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
- Any -DirectoratePartner InvestigatorChief InvestigatorResearch FellowAssociate InvestigatorPhD StudentMasters Student (research)Masters Student (coursework)Honours StudentProfessional staffGovernance Advisory BoardScientific Advisory CommitteeEquity and Diversity CommitteeAffiliate Member
- Any -The University of MelbourneQueensland University of TechnologyThe University of AdelaideThe University of QueenslandMonash UniversityUNSW SydneyUniversity of Technology SydneyOther
- Any -ACEMS Research BriefsCase StudiesResearch Theme: Challenging dataResearch Theme: Enabling AlgorithmsResearch Theme: Informed DecisionsResearch Theme: Multiscale Models
Professor Peter Taylor
ACEMS Director, Chief Investigator
Peter Taylor received a BSc(Hons) and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Adelaide in 1980 and 1987 respectively.
Professor Nigel Bean
ACEMS Deputy Director, Chief Investigator
Professor Nigel Bean is internationally known for his research in stochastic modelling. He completed his B.Sc.
Professor Kerrie Mengersen
My focus is on using and developing new statistical and computational methods that can help to solve complex problems in the real world.
Professor Scott Sisson
UNSW Sydney
Scott is Professor and Head of Statistics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at UNSW.
Professor Kevin Burrage
Chief Investigator, Professor
My research focuses on the use of innovative modelling and simulation methodologies for solving important problems in biology and physio
Professor Jan de Gier
I am interested in solvable lattice models, an area of maths which offers exciting research possibilities in pure as well as applied mat
Professor Aurore Delaigle
Aurore Delaigle is a Professor and ARC Future Fellow at The University of Melbourne.
Professor Peter Forrester
Peter Forrester received his Doctorate from the Australian National University in 1985, and held a postdoctoral position at Stony Brook
Assoc. Professor Tim Garoni
Tim received his Doctorate from the University of Melbourne in 2003, and then held postdoctoral positions at the University of Minnesota
Professor Rob Hyndman
Rob J Hyndman is Professor of Statistics and Head of the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University.
Professor Robert Kohn
Professor Dirk Kroese
Chief Investigator
Dirk Kroese is a professor of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Dr Wang Jin
My work focuses on developing and implementing mathematical and computational models to simulate experiments and phenomena in cell biolo
Dr Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi
Sevvandi did her PhD in Geometric Analysis, which is a branch of Pure Mathematics at Monash in 2011.
Dr Paul Keeler
Associate Investigator
I am a researcher with interests in mathematical models involving randomness.
Dr Bonsoo Koo
Bonsoo Koo is an Associate Professor at the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University.
Dr Ursula Laa
Dr Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux
Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux (Lafaye de Micheaux is the surname) is a Canadian/French/Swiss statistician, born in France in 1973.
Dr Brodie Lawson
Associate Investigator, Research Fellow
I am a postgraduate researcher with a very keen interest in mathematical modelling and simulation, especially of biological and physiolo
Dr Catherine Leigh
Lecturer, Associate Investigator
Cath is a quantitative community ecologist, scientific communicator and teacher, with a research focus on river ecosystems.
Professor Zhiyong Li
Professor Li is a professor and ARC Future Fellow at QUT.
Dr Jaslene Lin
Anita Vecchies
Anita is the Centre's Chief Operating Officer (until 30 June 2021 whilst Emily Duane is on maternity leave).
Mrs Helena Beck
Acting Project Officer
I have been working with ACEMS since March 2020.
Ms Angela Dahlke
Stakeholder Engagement Officer, Lecturer
Dr Emily Duane
Emily is the Centre's Chief Operating Officer (currently on maternity leave, 22/6/20--20/6/21 inclusive). She holds a Bachelor of Comme
Mr Ben Hess
ACEMS Administrator
Ben is the Centre's Administrator.
Mrs Sarah Keany
Administration Officer
I am the node administrator at the University of Adelaide.
Ms Tracy Kelly
Tracy works part time as Project Officer for ACEMS. Tracy will be supporting the Equity and Diversity, Support Schemes and the Mentorin
Ms Luna Liu
Node Administrator
Luna is the Node administrator for the University of Melbourne node. She is very excited to join ACEMS.
Mr Tim Macuga
Media and Communications Officer
Tim has been the Media and Communications Officer for ACEMS since the start of 2015.
Ms Kris Mann
Kris has a background in HR and research administration having worked at QUT for 15 years.
Ms Farzana Jahan
Passionate about Statistics research and teaching. I am developing Bayesian statistical models for analysing spatial data.
Miss Sarah James
I am a research student at the University of Adelaide.
Miss Harshanie Jayetileke
Harshanie is a Phd research candidate at School of Mathematical Sciences,QUT.
Ms Jun Ju
I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Queensland. I have completed the Master of Data Science in July 2020 from UQ.
Ms Nehleh Kargarfard
I am a Ph.D.
Mrs Wathsala Karunarathne
I am a PhD candidate from the School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne under the supervision of Professor Peter
Mr Xiongwen Ke
I am a PhD student in statistics.
Mrs Shamika Prasadini Kekulthotuwage Don
My PhD research project investigates the benefits of increasing ecosystem model complexity and the link with an ecological understanding
Mr Ryan Kelly
Masters Student (research)
I am a Masters student at Queensland University of Technology.
Ms Fiona Kim
Fiona Kim is a PhD candidate in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at UNSW.
Dr Ron Sandland
Former Deputy Chief Executive of the CSIRO
Professor Robert Calderbank
Director, Information Futures Initiative
Professor Anthony Dooley
Head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Anthony Dooley took up the position of Head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at UTS in January 2016, following a peri
Professor Martin Grötschel
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Professor Anthony Guttmann
Associate Investigator, Professor
My research interests are in equilibrium statistical mechanics in general, and more particularly in discrete models of phase transitions
Ms Sybille McKeown
Reconciliation Champion and Program Manager, Partner Organisation representative
Mr Daniel Owens
Executive Director (Research)
Professor Liz Sonenberg
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Infrastructure & Systems), Pro Vice-Chancellor (Digital & Data)
Liz Sonenberg holds the Chancellery roles of Pro Vice Chancellor Research Systems and Pro Vice Chancellor Digital & Data, and is a P
Professor Louis Chen
Emeritus Professor
Louis Chen received his BSc (Hons) from the University of Singapore in 1964 and his PhD from Stanford University in 1971.
Professor Iain Johnstone
Professor of Statistics and Health Research and Policy (Biostatistics)
Iain M.
Professor Xihong Lin
Professor of Biostatistics
Xihong Lin is Chair and Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Department of Biostatistics and Coordinating Director of the Program of Qua
Professor Michel Mandjes
Faculty of Science Professor
Professor Herbert Spohn
TU München
Professor Terence Tao
Professor of Mathematics
Terence Tao was born in Adelaide, Australia in 1975.
Professor Ruth Williams
Distinguished Professor
Ruth Williams holds the Charles Lee Powell Chair in Mathematics I at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_6498423069755311403 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
About MIMAMSA
MIMAMSA is a national level inter-collegiate science competition for UG (1st, 2nd and 3rd Year) students, organized by IISER PUNE. It aims at creating a unique set of questions that focus on concepts and their interdependence. Mimamsa strives to convey the implicit beauty of science. Over the years the means of implementing this philosophy have been honed to give rise to one of India's toughest science quizzes. The fact that Mimamsa has gained national acclaim and renown is substantiated by the results of the quiz over the years. It has expanded to encompass all major regions of the country.
History
Mimamsa was started in the year 2009. It was the brainchild of Dr. Sutirth Dey, along with several students who felt that science should be explored beyond the classroom. The philosophy of Mimamsa is embodied in the name itself, which means critical inquiry and investigation. The team wanted to break the mould of trivia-based quizzes and encourage participants to question their understanding along with their knowledge. Mimamsa is an undergraduate level quiz, for students studying in 1st to 3rd years of any undergraduate course in the sciences, engineering or medicine.
Latest Announcements Corner (2023)
> MIMAMSA 2023 prelims results: FINALISTS (not in any order)
IISc Bangalore, IIT Madras, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay
Statistics Over The Years
2009
The idea for Mimamsa was conceptualised in September 2008. The first edition, which took place in January and February 2009 included only colleges from Pune, though a college from Hyderabad also participated. The prelims had no online registration process and included only on the spot entries. The Mains were planned to have 4 finalists, a tradition that has been continued till date. Five colleges participated, out of which the finalists were: Fergusson College, Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology (IBB), Garware College, and Wadia College. Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Pune emerged as the runner-up in Mimamsa 2009 and Fergusson College, Pune emerged as the winner.
2010
Mimamsa 2010 followed the same pattern as that of the previous year. It was expanded to the cities of Mumbai, Nasik and Hyderabad, in addition to Pune. The prelims witnessed a dozen teams competing for the top 4 positions, and 50 participants in the individual category for the top 5 spots. Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Pune emerged as the winner in Mimamsa 2010. The individual winner was Yashoda Chandorkar from Fergusson College, Pune.
2011
Mimamsa 2011 was the first time the individual entries were scrapped. The centres were the same as 2010, i.e. Mumbai, Nasik Hyderabad and Pune. Out of 84 teams in the prelims, BITS Pilani Hyderabad, Osmania Medical College, Fergusson College and University of Hyderabad made it to the top four finalists and were selected for the Mimamsa mains. Osmania Medical College of Hyderabad emerged as the winner in Mimamsa 2011.
2012
Mimamsa 2012 was expanded to cover nine cities all over India. The centres were Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Nagpur, Kolkata and Hyderabad, in addition to the host city, Pune. 142 teams participated in the prelims. The team comprising students of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, emerged as the winners of Mimamsa 2012.
2013
Mimamsa 2013 covered seven cities across the country, Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai. IISc Bengaluru emerged as the winner.
CENTRE TOPPERS:
2014
Mimamsa 2014 covered seven cities and IISc Bengaluru emerged as the winner.
2015
Mimamsa 2015 prelims saw a participation of 250 teams in 9 centres across India – Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Thiruvananthapuram. IISc Bengaluru emerged as the winner.
2021
Prelims was held via online version of centres on 14th March 2021 at 20 zones all over the country.
2023
Mimamsa 2023: Prelims was held on 29th January 2023. The top 4 qualifying teams will participate in the finals or mains which is tentatively scheduled in the month of April'23 at the IISER Pune campus.
General overview
The prelims generally take place during the second week of January and cover all the four subjects: mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology.
The mains are generally held during the second week of March and spread over two consecutive days, comprising questions in all the four subjects. The questions designed in the mains, scrutinise every possible aspect of scientific reasoning and thus are divided into different categories.
General rules
The brief thought questions consist of four minutes of thinking time, one minute of presentation time and are marked out of ten points. The deep thought questions have seven minutes of thinking time and three minutes of presentation time. Each deep thought is worth 20 points. The 'oculomotor' round is a buzzer round wherein all questions are based on audio-visual cues with a negative marking scheme. The rapid fire round tests the speed and logical flow involved in arriving at an answer. The poster presentation, introduced in 2018, consists of all the teams presenting a poster on a topic of their choosing. The specific rules of each round may vary from year to year.
Philosophy of Mimamsa
According to Darshan Joshi (BS MS 2007 batch), during its first few editions, Mimamsa was just an activity of Science Club of IISER Pune (another brainchild of students of the 2007 batch). The philosophy of Mimamsa is encrypted in the name itself which literally means investigation, inquiry and in-depth analysis. The idea was to come up with a science competition based on these principles rather than the usual quizzing philosophy which does not require participants to think. This is why Mimamsa is conducted over 2 days. The goal of the questions is to test the understanding of science rather than scientific information. This is why questions in Mimamsa are so different. The idea that through the process of solving the question one must develop a better understanding of science is also part of the core philosophy. Mimamsa prioritizes discussion and investigation over just a right or wrong answer.
See also
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
IIT Madras
IISER
IISc
IIT Bombay
References
External links
Mimamsa 2016 page: http://mimamsa.iiserpune.ac.in/
Mimamsa 2013 google site: https://sites.google.com/a/acads.iiserpune.ac.in/mimamsa2013/aboutMimamsa
2012 google site: https://sites.google.com/site/mimamsaiiserpune/
Facebook page of Mimamsa: https://www.facebook.com/iiserpune.mimamsa.quiz/
Mimamsa as a science outreach program: http://fliphtml5.com/gqpk/uswo/basic
Pune, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
Quiz games | RedPajamaWikipedia_7393449716631510997 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Q: How to get file size in Dynamics AX / X++? Does exists some Axapta method to get the size of a file ?
Thanks
A: You can use WinAPI function GetFileSize;
client public static int getFileSize(int hFile)
Example usage code is here;
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa609747(v=ax.50).aspx
References;
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa586314(v=ax.10).aspx
A: You can use the System.IO namespace too. For whatever reason, I don't have the getFileSize() in my AX instance available.
server static void main(Args args)
{
System.IO.FileInfo fi;
int64 length;
;
fi = new System.IO.FileInfo(@'C:\temp.csv');
length = fi.get_Length();
info(strfmt("%1", int642str(fi.get_Length())));
}
| RedPajamaStackExchange_1997954534462302954 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Dan O'Shaughnessy guides spacecraft to Mercury.
Engineer Dan O'Shaughnessy's leadership in developing the solar sailing technique helped earn him the first Heinlein Award. Photo courtesy Dan O'Shaughnessy.
Most of us are lucky to drive a car without incident. Dan O'Shaughnessy, on the other hand, has guided a spacecraft to Mercury. O'Shaughnessy, BS ME '96, ME '00, is the mission systems engineer for the "MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging," or MESSENGER, mission. He is also the first recipient of the Heinlein Award for working out ways to use solar radiation pressure to control a spacecraft. The award recognizes individuals who demonstrate the use of new technologies in space that can benefit commercial activities.
The MESSENGER team is conducting the first orbital study of our solar system's innermost planet. The project is a cooperative effort among NASA, the Carnegie Institution for Science and O'Shaughnessy's employer, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). The spacecraft launched in 2004 and has completed nearly 4,000 turns around Mercury.
During O'Shaughnessy's graduate studies at MU, he joined a fellowship program at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. That turned out to be a favorable orbit. While in Huntsville, O'Shaughnessy pitched in on various projects and continued the NASA research he had started at MU with Craig Kluever, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. Kluever had worked on space shuttle guidance, navigation and control for Rockwell International before joining MU. As luck would have it, the father of O'Shaughnessy's fellowship adviser worked at APL, so O'Shaughnessy sent him a résumé. APL liked Kluever's work and O'Shaughnessy's connection to it. He was in.
At APL, O'Shaughnessy joined the nascent MESSENGER mission in 2000. Eventually, he led a team that developed a way to use pressure from sunlight on its solar panels to help guide the craft to Mercury. In their solar sailing technique, the team varied the amount of solar pressure by changing the angle of the solar panels to adjust the spacecraft trajectory more delicately than they could by firing thrusters. Using radiation pressure to make very small corrections also saved propellant and extended the mission.
"It's really nice to see the fruits of your labor operating and making it work," he says. | RedPajamaC4_4697630785286933153 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Posted inCity & Government, Newport, News
Sen. DiPalma, Rep. Cortvriend honored for legislation protecting families with disabled parents
The awards were presented to Representative Cortvriend (D-Dist. 72, Portsmouth, Middletown) and Senator DiPalma (D-Dist. 12, Middletown, Little Compton, Newport, Tiverton) virtually Dec. 8 at the coalition's annual meeting.
by Ryan Belmore December 13, 2021 December 13, 2021
In first photo, Rep. Terri Cortvriend, left, with R.I. Coalition for Children and Families Executive Director Tanja Kubas-Meyer. Second photo, Sen. Louis DiPalma with Kubas-Meyer.
Rep. Terri Cortvriend and Sen. Louis DiPalma have been named 2021 Legislative Champions by the Rhode Island Coalition for Children and Families for their sponsorship of the Preservation of Families with Disabled Parents Act, which became law this year.
The new law (2021-S 0056, 2021-H 5394) protects children who have parents with disabilities by establishing procedural safeguards that require adherence to the Americans with Disabilities Act. Specifically, it precludes the disability of a parent from serving as a basis for denial or restriction in matters involving a child's welfare, foster care, family law, guardianship, and adoption.
"This law protects children and the rights of the parents to parent. After much work by the sponsors and advocates with the Rhode Island Family Court and Department of Children, Youth, and Families, we are so pleased this legislation has successfully become law and to have the opportunity to recognize the sponsors," said RICCF Executive Director Tanja Kubas-Meyer in a press release.
More from WUN
"The time is always right to do what is right."
by Ken Abrams 20 hours ago January 16, 2022
Jan. 17-21 just happens to be: National No Name-Calling Week.
by Gerry Goldstein January 14, 2022 January 15, 2022
by Ken Abrams January 14, 2022 January 15, 2022
On the market for a new home? Check out these open houses in Newport County this weekend
Sponsored By Tyler Bernadyn, The Fitzpatrick Team at RE/MAX Professionals of Newport January 14, 2022 January 14, 2022
Brewery of the Month – We visit the Providence Brewing Company
Grand opening at Farm Fresh RI hub on Sims Ave.
by Ken Abrams and Rick Farrell January 13, 2022 January 14, 2022
Tagged: Newport County
Ryan Belmore
Ryan Belmore is the Owner and Publisher of What's Up Newp. He was born and raised in Rhode Island and graduated from Coventry High School. He serves as Vice President of Fort Adams Trust and serves on the Board of Directors for Potter League for Animals. Ryan also is currently the Senior Editor - North America for Mountain News, publisher of OnTheSnow. Ryan is a member of Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers and North American Snowsports Journalists Association (NASJA).
More by Ryan Belmore | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_-5820763564558729995 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
To see families' lives transformed breaking the cycle of poverty and homelessness.
To demonstrate the healing power of Christ's love to families through relationships and resources.
Grace Like Rain Ministries is a 501c3 organization who serves families with children in Denton County who are currently homeless or are in danger of becoming homeless. We offer a variety of programs to meet the needs of families and assist them in achieving long term financial and personal stability. Our approach is holistic, and our goal is to break the cycle of generational poverty. For more details on our programs, see our programs here.
We partner with Giving Hope Inc. Denton to collaborate referrals and street outreach. Giving Hope serves primarily individuals experiencing homelessness, while we serve families. To learn more about how we partner with Giving Hope, go here.
Love God and love people based upon the life of Jesus
Equip families with tools to break the cycle of poverty
Family Case Managers set individualized goals focused on the whole person: body, mind and spirit.
Relational approach utilizing volunteer coaches who equip and encourage the family each step of the way
Address the physical needs of affordable housing, transportation and childcare
Connect the families to established resources within the community
Through the healing and restoration our families experience, it is our goal for them to gain the confidence to pour back into families entering GLR
When our family moved from MD to TX in 2014, we knew that we were going to have to build new relationships within a new community. What we didn't know is that God was going to stretch us in ways we couldn't imagine.
As we began volunteering with an organization that provided temporary and voluntary care for children while their parents were in crises, we saw that so many of these families were lacking the support of family and community. During my battle with Stage 3 Ovarian Cancer and my time as a single mom, the support of my family and community is one of the things that kept us going. They listened, equipped, supported, and encouraged us through every step of our trials and struggle.
So in 2016, our family and a few other friends set out with a big dream and some crazy love and decided to start Grace Like Rain. Our heart was to provide a helping hand to moms and dads facing crises and homelessness.
We started by equipping coaches to build relationships with families that were struggling, to step out of their comfort zones and love families that were facing or had faced indescribable setbacks and pain. We listened to the families that needed our help and began to see some of the major areas of need in their lives. We encourage both families and volunteers to continue to build relationships with each other and God.
Over time, we saw the extreme need for affordable housing, reliable transportation and quality and affordable childcare. Grace Like Rain established strategies and plans to address these 3 areas.
Grace Like Rain has also built strong relationships with churches and partnering non profits within the community to ensure that our families have access to the best possible resources.
Grace Like Rain desires to see families lives' transformed by breaking the cycle of poverty and homelessness. We want to demonstrate the healing power of Christ's love through relationships and resources. We simply seek to love god and love people the way that Jesus loves us!
We currently do that through our Case Management services, a 1 to 2 year program where the families meet with a case manager and coach on a consistent basis establishing and working towards holistic goals. The families attend life skills classes, community groups, and most of all build strong supportive relationships with their coaches and each other.
The Love First Community is the future of Grace Like Rain. This year, 2019, we were gifted 16 acres of land off of McKinney in Denton, TX. The plan is to build around 50-2 to 4 bedroom homes. It will be a place where families that are struggling and in crises can come and find rest, peace, relationships, resources, and community.
We believe that by providing not only affordable housing but the combination of our Case Management Services and a strong supportive community with childcare and other resources, the families will be given every opportunity to break the cycle the of poverty and homelessness.
My family and I are grateful for the relationships and the community that has formed and most of all we are thankful for the way God has stretched and grown our faith through Grace Like Rain.
Poverty rate is at 19.5% (1 in 5.1) residents in Denton County.
Denton County Unemployment Rate is 3.1%.
85.7% of unsheltered families are experiencing serious mental health concerns.
Transportation to work is an average of 28.8 minutes.
On a monthly average, it costs $568 to help support a family.
As of March 2020, 2,436 homeless students were reported in school districts in Denton County.
Transparency is one of our core values, and we are happy to answer any questions you have about our organization. Please email mconner@glrtx.org for inquiries regarding our detailed financial statements or information, and visit our GuideStar profile. | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_3583400501420465515 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Eugene Garcia Villarreal was his Christian name, but to his family and friends, and there are many on both sides, he was simply Poncho. Poncho was born in Elgin, Texas, on March 20, 1936 to Alvino and Beatrice Villarreal.
Cancer robbed him of his health, but it never weakened his resolve and determination. He died at home Monday, May 4, 2015, surrounded by his family.
His survivors include his wife of 28 years, Sharon Roberts Villarreal; four daughters, Connie (Donnie), Ramona (Jack), Naomi and Victoria (Rob); three sons, Arthur (Ben) and Eugene (Shay) and Joey Roberts (Amanda); sisters, Connie, Isabel, Kate, Margaret, Janie, Lollie, Lupe; grandchildren, David, Patricia, Keith, Rebecca, James, Steven, Beebee, Tyler, and Christina, Brandon, Jessica, Jonathan, Amanda, Courtney, Cole, Josh and Abby Jo; and numerous great-grandchildren, nieces and nephew. His daughter, Becky preceded him in death. He loved his family but his grandchildren could make the sun shine in his life, no matter the weather.
Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until noon Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at Kilpatrick Funeral Home in Ruston. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Interment will be in Mineral Springs Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be, Chris Davis, Brian Davis, Matt Davis, David Audirsch, Brandon and Jonathan Kervin.
Honorary pallbearers will be John C. Roberts, Billy R. Davis, Richard Lunsford, Rick Roberts, David Audirsch Sr, Rob Ferrington, Donnie Franks, and Jack Burns.
If heaven had an opening for a "jack-of-all-trades," that position was filled Monday night.
Any planned memorials may be made to St. Joseph Hospice, 1890 Hudson Circle, Suite 3, Monroe, LA or a charity of the donor's choice. | RedPajamaC4_-8736724847769850849 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
The Men's V-Lite Wild-Life Low I Waterproof Shoe from Hi-Tec is a comfortable and durable walking shoe that offers excellent wet weather protection. They boast an XLR8 midsole that keeps weight to a minimum while ensuring greater rebound and energy absorption than other standard EVA midsoles for fantastic on-the-hill performance.
The Dri-Tec is waterproof and breathable to keep your feet dry at all times, this works particularly well with the i-Shield durable water repellent finish while the MDT outsole is durable and grippy on a huge variety of terrains. | RedPajamaC4_6850698611710281319 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
With Support From Apple, One Teacher Is Preparing For A Year Like No Other
David Saunders 31 August 2020
As with many educators, Portrice Warren will be teaching remotely this year. Warren, who is part of Apple's Community Education Initiative, says she plans to use Apple tools and resources to enhance her students' virtual experience.
As Birmingham City Schools fourth grade science and social studies teacher Portrice Warren gets ready to start her classes remotely, she is keenly aware of the challenges this year brings."Planning is going to be a key factor for me as an educator, but I know Apple resources are helping give me the roadmap I can take moving forward with my students," says Warren.
"I also know I have to keep myself balanced, because I'm going to have 64 students and 100-plus parents that I'm going to have to be a source of encouragement for."Warren is one of nearly 500 educators who participated in a massive virtual coding academy this summer as part of Apple's Community Education Initiative (CEI), designed to bring coding, creativity, and workforce development opportunities to learners of all ages and to communities that are traditionally underrepresented in technology.
Apple facilitates and supports CEI programming in 24 cities and regions across the US, 21 of which predominately serve majority Black and Brown students. As part of CEI, Apple also recently announced an expansion of its partnership with Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
As a part of Apple's Community Education Initiative, Birmingham City Schools teacher Portrice Warren has access to ongoing professional learning opportunities and a community of educators to share best practices on remote learning.
The purpose of this year's coding academy was not only to help educators learn the tools to code and teach coding, but to do so in an environment in which remote learning is considered the new norm.
It's just one of the many ways that Apple is using its CEI program to help teachers prepare for a school year unlike any other — hosting opportunities for them to see what learning remotely will be like for their students, and troubleshooting issues before classes begin.
Throughout the weeklong virtual coding academy, Warren and the other educators took on the role of student and worked together remotely using Apple tools, including the Everyone Can Code and Develop in Swift curricula, to design apps that solve real-world problems, an approach called challenge-based learning.Warren believes challenge-based learning and the other Apple tools she used at the coding academy will be a game changer for her students and help her navigate the move to remote instruction.
"Especially now that we are transitioning to remote learning and students won't be in the same physical classroom with their friends, challenge-based learning is going to be one of the tools that will take my students' learning to the next level," says Warren, who already incorporates Apple apps like Clips into her teaching.
"I see this method as a motivational tool. I can use Keynote throughout my curriculum to give students the freedom to take what they know and to use their own giftedness, their own learning style, to recreate knowledge in their own way."
Ten years from now, I want my students to look back and see the powerful impact remote learning had on them, and that it was a positive transition.
Birmingham in Alabama has been part of the CEI program for the past year and serves as a model for what is possible when a community comes together with a shared mission.
Apple worked with the Birmingham City School System, the City of Birmingham, and other community and corporate partners to launch Ed Farm, a groundbreaking education initiative focused on bringing innovative learning strategies and coding opportunities to underserved communities across the city.
It's through Ed Farm that teachers like Warren have had the opportunity to dive deeper into Apple's coding and creativity tools, and collaborate with other teachers to integrate those resources into their lesson plans.Last year, Warren joined Ed Farm's first cohort of Teacher Fellows — educators singled out because of their passion for creative learning techniques.
"The partnership with Ed Farm has given me that extra boost, that extra energy, to ignite my students' learning in the classroom," says Warren. "Since the pandemic started, they have been there every step of the way to help. I can reach back at any time and say, 'Hey, I tried this and I learned this, but it's not working. Can you give me some additional support?'
And I know they are alongside me."Tapping into the technology and resources supported by CEI and Ed Farm, Warren and her Teacher Fellow peer Karita Sullen partnered with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute to start a program called Cultivate Change, which helps students navigate racial tensions and communicate their feelings in a world where they are facing both a public health pandemic and systemic racial injustice.
"We wanted to give students a safe space because you don't just learn about history in textbooks," says Warren. "If in the midst of face-to-face confrontation they can apply some of the strategies they're learning through these courses to problem-solve and survive some challenging things in their communities, then I think it's all been worthwhile."
This summer, Portrice Warren and another Birmingham City Schools teacher created an interactive curriculum to give their students the opportunity to talk about race and justice.
Throughout the summer, the teachers hosted weekly remote meetings where students could voice their feelings and find support. Warren saw a change in one student, who had struggled academically during the school year, almost immediately.
"He felt a sense of success and a sense of responsibility — he didn't miss a single meeting — and I thought, technology played a huge part in that," says Warren, who plans to restart Cultivate Change once the fall semester begins.
"Because in person, he's a little bit more reluctant, but I think this remote learning helped build his confidence to the point that he wanted to be a part of it."In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Apple also launched the CEI Learning Series, whereby hundreds of teachers from around the country can meet virtually to share best practices on remote learning.
Warren is already applying the tools and strategies she's learned through Ed Farm and the CEI Coding Academy, and is looking forward to attending CEI Learning Series events scheduled for later this autumn.
After more than 30 years of teaching, she recognises the importance of this moment, and her mission."Ten years from now, I want my students to look back and see the powerful impact remote learning had on them, and that it was a positive transition," says Warren. "There are going to be a lot of challenges, but I won't let my students fall through the cracks.
I know there is going to be a lot of hard work involved, but in the long run it will pay off. And that investment in their future is my purpose."
Tagged Apple, Health News and Tips, Health Tech, Working From Home
Collectible Trainer Fuse's Streetwise Swagger With A Touch Of Lagerfeld's Classic Sophistication
ByLorraine Kelly
Retiring Hammers Legend Mark Noble To Play Final Game At The London Stadium For England For Soccer Aid 2022 For Unicef This June
Low-Intensity Vs High-Intensity Training – Which Is Right For You?
NFL Returns To London With Two Games In 2021 | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_410114575192629879 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Pistons Win; Whatevs Wins Bet - Bovs!
tien mao
Last night, the Nets lost the 7th and deciding game to the Pistons in the Eastern Conference semifinals. Why did we all know this would happen? Maybe because the Nets were blown out in their first two games and had to return to the scene of the crime? Or was it the fact that Jason Kidd was held scoreless in the playoffs for the first time in his career because of his back and knee ailments? Or was it just that the Pistons were the better team? Whatever it was, the Nets lost the game 90-69 (box score) and will not return to the NBA Finals this year. Chauncey Billups scored a game-high 22 points, with his teammates Richard Hamilton and Ben Wallace adding 21 and 18 points respectively. The Pistons now move on to play the Indiana Pacers to see who goes to the NBA Finals.
The Nets loss also means that Gothamist lost our bet with Whatevs in the Gothamist/Whatevs Smackdown. We here at Gothamist thought the series was well over after the first two games, but at least the Nets gave the 'Stons a run for their money. Uncle Grambo, what size T was that?
Jason Kidd
Kerry Kittles
The Pistons | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_-5149111563494752980 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Cryonics 101
A deep dive into deep freeze
Since this is a 101, let's start with the basics. What is cryonics? Speaking from a consumer's point of view, I view cryonics as life insurance. Not the usual euphemism for a payout to one's loved ones after his death, but a method to maximize one's own survival. Or a way to hedge against catastrophic depreciation of your most valuable asset — your life.
From a technological point of view, cryonics is a method of putting an organism on pause (into a state of suspended animation), in order for it to be restored back to life in the future. To achieve this pause, cryonics employs cooling of the organism to very low temperatures. Note that cryonics is not the only possible method, just one of them. Maybe in the future science will discover ways of inducing long-term suspended animation without the need to cool the body. But it hasn't yet, and cryonics is presently the only viable (or commercially available) method.
Why do we need cryonics? The answer is simple. Because our bodies have one unpleasant feature. They die. Nobody likes it, but most people prefer to gloss over the unpleasantness by coming up with various excuses why they need to accept it. A brave few, however, refuse to do so. Instead, they acknowledge the problem and attempt to use science and technology to eradicate it or at least mitigate it. Cryonics is one of the tools such brave people have invented for the benefit of Humanity. Other tools you may be more familiar with — defibrillators, heart-lung machines, pacemakers, organ transplants, vaccines and antibiotics. They all stem from the same motivation — increase every human's odds of survival.
Of course, at the present level of scientific and technological advancement, there is no guarantee that anyone cryopreserved today will be restored back to life (or reanimated, as per cryonics parlance) in the future. To claim that cryonics guarantees anything would be intellectually dishonest. But what cryonics does provide, unlike any other technology, is a chance of revival. A nonzero chance. Varying, according to most scientific proponents of cryonics, between 1 and 70 percent.
By the way, cryonics can be viewed not only as life insurance, but also as an "ambulance to the future". That characterization might not be of relevance for most of us today, as we are still in decent health, but for some people the question of life and death is a much more urgent issue — people who only have weeks or months to live. They already know that modern medical technology will not be able to save them, so their only hope for survival is medicine of far future, and cryonics is their only chance to get it.
I am sure no reasonable person doubts that in 50 or 100 years medicine will be extraordinarily more advanced than today. After all, science has been tirelessly pushing death back farther and farther for centuries: terminal diseases of 100 years ago have largely been eliminated or tamed. Moreover, I am certain that one day Humanity will slay the dragon tyrant once and for all.
But enough purple prose, let's dive deeper into the science behind cryonics. What evidence is out there that cryonics can work? Broadly, it can be subdivided into two categories: what we see in nature, and what we see in experiments.
A great number of our planet's inhabitants can survive subzero temperatures for months. The most numerous are, of course plants, most of which can safely tolerate temperatures from -4°C to -12°C.
Many animals too have evolved the ability to periodically endure exposure to subzero temperatures. I won't list them all, just mention a few survival champions. The most notable is the Siberian salamander (Salamandrella keyserlingii) who regularly encounters temperatures as low as -50°C and some claim is even able to be revived after 90 years in the permafrost (source1, source2). Here he is:
The second place in Colder Games goes to another frost-resistant amphibian, wood frog (Rana Sylvatica), which can spend many months in a half-frozen state. Here's a cool video of it thawing:
Another remarkable animal capable of surviving for months at -20°C as pupae is Cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia). It is a large insect, with a wingspan of up to 16 cm. To achieve this feat, Cecropia has developed its own mixture of cryoprotectants, namely a combination of glycerol and sorbitol.
Of course, let's not forget about our much closer warm-blooded mammal relative, arctic squirrel (Spermophilus parryii), which can spend weeks in torpor while its body temperature fluctuates between -2 to 5°C. It was shown that it completely shuts off its electric brainwave activity (as do humans who are cooled below 18°C). By the way, this supports the hypothesis that long-term memory, which is the basis of our identity, is encoded in the structure of the brain — neurons, synapses, etc., rather than in its electrical activity.
Humans, by the way, although lacking in cold-resistance ability when compared to the above champion cryonauts, can also successfully survive deep hypothermia. Here are a few well-known examples:
Two-year-old Michelle Funk spent more than an hour under ice-cold water. When rescuers found her, her body temperature was 19°C and she showed no signs of life. However, doctors were able to quickly revive her, and were surprised to find that her brain did not show any signs of damage.
1-year-old Erika Nordby spent several hours in the snow at a temperature of -24°C. Her body temperature dropped to 16°C. After 6 weeks in the hospital, she fully recovered and was discharged.
American Justin Smith spent 12 hours in the snow at a temperature of -5°C. Paramedics who found him declared him dead, but the ER doctor did not agree and began to carry out resuscitation. After half an hour, Jusin's heart resumed beating. Doctors believed that Smith's brain is severely damaged, but that proved not to be the case, as Justin fully recovered and returned to normal life.
Canadian Tayab Jafar spent several hours at a temperature of -11°C. His body temperature fell to 21°C. After 10 weeks in the hospital, he was discharged in good health.
Swedish skier Anna Bagenholm spent half an hour under the ice, cooled to a record 13,7°C. After several weeks in the hospital, Anna fully recovered.
Jean Hiliard was found in the snow at a temperature of -30°C, where she spent more than 6 hours. After several weeks in the hospital, she fully recovered.
Russian tractor driver Vladimir Kharin was successfully revived in 1960 after being found frozen in the steppe where he had spent several hours in subzero temperatures.
Japanese ice cream truck driver Masaru Saito got locked inside his refrigerator and was found frozen several hours later. He fully recovered.
One of the earliest described cases in the medical literature occurred in 1951, when a 23-year-old American from Chicago spent 12 hours at temperatures from -18°C to -24°C. At the same time her body temperature dropped to 16°C. Although doctors had to amputate her fingers and legs below the knees, the rest of her organs were not injured.
The earliest documented case of recovery after deep hypothermia occurred with a Swedish farmer in 1756 and has been described in the publication of the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1757: NAUCLER, S. Berichte van einem Mannes welcher dem Anschein nach efroren war denn aber wie der zum Leben verhollen war . K. Schwed. Akad. Wiss. 18: 107.
There are 6 cases of successful survival after several hours of being in the cargo hold of the aircraft at temperatures below -40°C:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33222405
Probably the most famous, although not the most applicable example is that of Beck Weathers, who in 1996 fell asleep on top of Mount Everest, and then woke up and came down to camp.
As we see above, nature has many examples of organisms able to withstand deep subzero temperatures. Therefore, it is only reasonable to try to unravel the biological mechanisms that enable this, and try to adapt them to humans with the goal of pausing our biological processes.
First, let's very briefly go through the main cooling problems of living organisms. The main problem is certainly the formation of ice crystals that can damage cells, as crystals (a) are prickly and (b) take up more space than the original water. But this is not as scary as some opponents of cryonics make it out to be, painting pictures of exploding cells and other anti-scientific nonsense.
First, as tissue cools, water from cells exits into the extracellular space, so the cooling cells actually shrink rather than explode. Secondly, ice has only 9% more volume than the source water, while cells have a much greater margin of elasticity, due to which they can safely tolerate the increase or decrease in volume, as well as the presence of a certain amount of ice in the intracellular space. Thirdly, cryobiology has learned to saturate cells, tissues, and whole bodies with cryoprotectants — substances that minimize the formation of ice crystals during freezing. Coupled with optimal protocols of controlled temperature reduction, this enabled scientists many decades ago to successfully master the technology of freezing (or vitrifying, to be precise) and thawing back embryos and whole organs.
Here is a table of organs or tissues that as far back as 1980 scientists already knew how to freeze to -79°C and thaw back to viability (source):
Among other cooling problems I should also point out denaturation (unfolding) of proteins, but, fortunately, denaturation from lowered temperature is often reversible. In contrast to denaturation from increased temperatures — a boiled egg can not be unboiled. Also, since as temperature lowers, all chemical reactions (and hence biological processes) are slowed down and ultimately stop at all, damage from such denaturation for quickly frozen organisms is minimal.
Finally, among problems arising form deep low temperatures, I should mention thermal macro-cracks, in particular those that happen below -140°C. Just how dangerous they are remains an open question, but there are opinions that their danger is low to moderate. Also on the horizon there might be some new technology with which these cracks may be avoided — such as not allowing the temperature of the patient to fall below -140°C:
Systems for Intermediate Temperature Storage for Fracture Reduction and Avoidance
Cryonics, 3rd Quarter 2011 See also the Chronology of Developments Related to Fracturing and Intermediate Temperature…
www.alcor.org
Patent US7278278 — Cryogenic storage system
The present invention provides devices and methods for the cryogenic storage of biological material. Devices of the…
Patent US7299641 — Cryogenic storage system with improved temperature control
A cryogenic storage system for cryogenic storage using liquid refrigerant is provided. The cryogenic storage system…
Let's move on already from theory to practice and look at the experimental data — when scientists were trying to freeze organisms that do not normally enjoy being frozen. Humans, for example. But first, let's take a look at animals.
A variety of insects were successfully being frozen and thawed as far back as 100 years ago, so insects no longer surprise anybody. Therefore, I will mention only a couple of insect examples.
Many have heard about the indestructibility of tardigrades (Tardigrada) — they were sent into space, and frozen to -196°C without any cryoprotectants. And -196°C was no problem for these guys, as they were thawed and lived on.
Nematode worms are a favorite model organism of biologists. They were used to perfect vitrification technology, achieving a 100% survival rate. Moreover, it was also shown that their long-term memory is retained after many days of being frozen at -80°C! That was a very important result providing evidence that cryogenic freezing is able to preserve the personality of the patients.
In other experiments, Alaskan beetle (Upis ceramboides) was successfully thawed after cooling to -75°C, and this is a much larger insect than nematodes or tardigrades:
Some of the first but highly important experiments on freezing mammals were carried out as early as 1951 (the very first was performed in 1912 by Porphyry Bakhmetyev when he induced anabiosis in a bat, here is his original 1912 (!) article). In these studies, rats were cooled without any cryoprotectants, and it was found that even as the temperature is lowered to 0°C (but not below), it is possible to achieve almost 100% survival. Moreover, some rats were frozen and thawed repeatedly — some as many as 10 times (poor bastards). The researchers also found that during rapid freezing (supercooling), when the water has no time to turn into ice, some rats can survive even after cooling to -3°C:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1365903/pdf/jphysiol01396-0138.pdf
In the same 1950, other researchers were frozen hamsters, bringing them to a temperature of -1°C, and ranged freeze time to establish how much of the ice of the body can tolerate. In these experiments, it was shown that as much as 60% of water in the brain can be transformed into ice with no visible effects on animal behavior after thawing (source1, source2).
Incidentally, in some 1954–6 studies the hamsters survived even after cooling below -3°C. Some of them were cooled to body temperature between -3°C and -5.5°C, at which they were held for 16 to 38 minutes, and then rapidly heated back up and revived, after which those hamsters lived for many months without any apparent health issues:
Experiments on primates (Galago crassicaudatus) in the same 1950 studies were less successful. After freezing below 0°C (without cryoprotectants!) the primates initially recovered, but none survived for more than a day, dying either from pulmonary edema, or from intraperitoneal bleeding (seemingly caused by the gastric juice that diffused during freezing from the biliary glands or stomach into abdominal tissues). But their cooling graphs are still quite impressive:
Twenty-first century, too, has something to boast about. For a long time cryopreserving a kidney remained an unattainable goal — upon defrosting, both its structural integrity and function were critically impaired. But in the early 2000s, the star of cryobiology, Gregory Fahy, was able to finally achieve it. By the way, it is quite symbolic that this was done under the auspices of a company called 21st Century Medicine.
In his experiments, Fahy would remove a kidney from a rabbit, vitrify it and cool to a certain temperature, then thaw it and transplant back to the donor, while also removing the second, healthy kidney. In 2003, Fahy was able to find a successful combination of cryoprotectants and a rather complex vitrification protocol, which allowed him to successfully cool the kidney to -22°C or -45°C, and for two rabbits, he was able to achieve cooling to as low as -130°C. Notably, while 30 rabbits survived various cooling protocols to between -22°C or -45°C, only 2 rabbits had their kidneys cooled to -130°C. Of those one died nine days after backward transplantation, but the second lived for 48 days after which it was sacrificed for histological analysis.
By the way, this famous photo, that demonstrates a striking difference between a frozen and vitrified kidney originates from a 1984 (!) work by Fahy et al.:
In 2008, a group of Israeli scientists reported of successful preservation of murine and porcine livers, as well as rat hearts, but their method of verifying viability was quite limited and did not include transplantation back into living animals to verify actual organ function.
Compared to the kidney, the brain is considered by cryobiologists to be more friendly to cryopreservation. Many studied showed its full or partial freezing or vitrificaton without subsequent structural damage. Moreover, several studies have even demonstrated preservation of some of its functions.
The most intriguing such studies were done by a Japanese cryobiologist Isamu Suda. In 1966, Suda published a paper in which he claimed that he was able to detect electrical activity in cat brains after they have been frozen at -20°C for several months. Here is an excerpt of EEG graphs from his work:
And here is how his perfusion apparatus looked like:
In 1974, Suda published another, more detailed paper. It it, he showed that even after 7 years of being frozen at -20°C cat brains exhibited synchronized electrical activity for a few hours after thawing, although of lower quality than that of control brains not subjected to freezing. He also compared EEG of "fresh" brains and brains after 5 days of storage at -20°C; their results were virtually identical.
Here I must mention that to date no one has managed to reproduce Suda's results. At the same time, no one has really attempted an identical step-by-step reproduction. Before his retirement, Suda sent a copy of all his experimental notes and data to Gregory Fahy, who did not see in them any signs of falsification.
Fahy, too, has done a lot of research in pursuit of an optimal protocol for cryopreservation of the brain. In 2016, along with Robert McIntyre and other colleagues from 21st Century Medicine, he was awarded the Small Mammal Brain Preservation Prize for technology that enabled perfect preservation of a rabbit brain's histological structure. Unfortunately, that technology involved certain irreversible processing of such brain (or fixation) with aldehyde, rendering impossible any biological brain function upon thawing, but this does not negate the importance of this achievement for cryobiology.
Long before that, in 2006, Fahy along with Yuri Pichugin et al. demonstrated that with a certain combination of cryoprotectant and vitrification protocol, slices of rat brains could be perfectly preserved even after cooling to -130°C: more than 90% of their samples retained their structure and even the potential for electrical activity (as measured by the proportion of sodium and potassium ions as compared to the control).
Moreover, in 2007, 21st Century Medicine announced that it was able to directly confirm the preservation of basic electrical "learning ability" (long-term potentiation, LTP) in rabbit brain slices after vitrification, and later elaborated on those results in a 2012 book chapter Cryopreservation of Precision Cut Tissue Slices:
Figure 6B. Lack of effect of vitrification on the long term potentiation (LTP) response, a form of neurophysiological "memory" which consists of a permanent increase in the magnitude of the response to a given CA3 cell stimulation (recorded in this case as the amplitude of the excitatory post-synaptic field potentials at the Schaffer collateral-CA1 dendrite junction) as a result of prior "training" (intensive stimulation) of the involved synapses. Control brain slices increased their field EPSP response to about 30% above the baseline response amplitude (LTP ratio of about 1.3) in response to prior "training". The same basic result was also seen after loading and unloading of VM3 (LU); after loading of VM3, vitrification, rewarming, and unloading of VM3 (VIT); and after storage of vitrified slices for days to months below the glass transition temperature (STR; storage time had no effect on the results obtained). n values represent the number of independent experiments represented by each bar. Previously unpublished data of 21st Century Medicine.
Fahy and Pichugin's research helped establish an optimal cryoprotectant composition and perfusion protocol for cryonics patients. Today, anyone can look at the perfused brains of some of these cryonics patients thanks to the miracles of computer tomography and Youtube:
In the frame below, we see that the patient's brain contains almost no ice (blue), and is well-saturated with cryoprotectant (green, purple and orange):
Here are two other patients:
In 2016, Suda's cat brain experiments got upstaged by an even stranger paper when several Canadian scientists from Sudbury published significantly more incredible (or actually, less credible, in the view of many) results. They claimed that they were able to detect electrical activity in human brains that have been stored in formalin for over 20 years:
When Is the Brain Dead? Living-Like Electrophysiological Responses and Photon Emissions from…
The structure of the post-mortem human brain can be preserved by immersing the organ within a fixative solution. Once…
journals.plos.org
Formalin — is a well-known tissue fixative that is widely used in the storage of various biological samples precisely because it irreversibly arrests the state of the tissues at the cellular level. Roughly speaking, it "glues" cells shut, turning them into jelly. Thus, no one expected aldehyde-fixed tissues to maintain any biological function — if only because fixation perforates cell membranes making them unable to pump protons, which is a prerequisite for transmission of electrical impulses. That is why virtually everyone is highly skeptical of the Canadians' claims. At the same time, there are no grounds to suspect outright falsification, so it would be very helpful if some seasoned cryobiologists, especially those with experience in studying viability of brain tissue, tried to reproduce that work.
What is the importance of experiments demonstrating the brain's ability to restore its function after an interruption in its functioning (even a short one, and even without freezing)? Because they show that cryonics can work: after all, almost all neuroscientists agree that long-term memory, and therefore our personality, is encoded in physical structures of the brain, and not in its electrical activity. Moreover, the electrical activity of the brain naturally ceases below +18°C, but with proper recovery that does not have long-term negative consequences. We see evidence of that claim in humans undergoing profound hypothermia or brain surgery (source1, source2), as well as in experimental animals — from nematodes and hamsters to primates.
In fact, various medical procedures that involve stopping brain activity with subsequent full recovery have been repeatedly validated in dozens of experiments on animals, and are even presently undergoing clinical trials in humans in the United States — see the EPR CAT trial of suspended animation, which is evaluating cooling gunshot victims to 10°C. Here is a scientific paper describing the study:
Emergency preservation and resuscitation for cardiac arrest from trauma. — PubMed — NCBI
Int J Surg. 2016 Sep;33(Pt B):209–212. doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2015.10.014. Epub 2015 Oct 20. Review
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
And here is a popular article in New Yorker:
Can Hypothermia Save Gunshot Victims?
Brandon Littlejohn was shot just after 11 P.M. on Saturday, April 23, 2011. The day had started out cold and rainy, but…
Finally, here's another ER doctor who uses cooling to assist in the recovery of heart attack victims. By the way, he believes that within 20 years medicine will be able to restore patients 12 or even 24 hours after the onset of "clinical death":
Back from the Dead: Resuscitation Expert Says End Is Reversible — SPIEGEL ONLINE — International
At some point, everyone's heart will stop. For most, this is when they begin to die. Doctors succeed in very few cases…
www.spiegel.de
Prior to use in humans, the above suspended animation technology has been tested in our very close relatives — pigs. Just as in human EPR CAT patients, those pigs had all their blood drained and replaced by a cooling saline solution while bringing their body temperature to 10°C. In total, more than 200 pigs have undergone this procedure with successful recovery:
Before pigs, a similar protocol was tested in dogs:
Survival without brain damage after clinical death of 60–120 mins in dogs using suspended animation…
Crit Care Med. 2003 May;31(5):1523–31. Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Moreover, Mike Darwin, a cryonics star and former Alcor CEO, was even able to prolong the duration of bloodless anabiosis to 5 hours. That means a dog spent 5 hours completely without blood, and then was fully restored, including its long-term memory — recognizing familiar people and responding to commands. And it was not an isolated experiment. Together with Jerry Leaf, Mike had performed a whole series of "total body washouts":
Alcor's Pioneering Total Body Washout Experiments
In 1984, Alcor and Cryovita laboratoraties began a pioneering series of experiments to demonstrate that large animals…
Also, I want to give honorable mention to a cat that in 1980s managed to recover after an hour of heart stoppage — and that was without any cooling:
Recovery of integrative central nervous function after one hour global cerebro-circulatory arrest…
J Neurol Sci. 1987 Feb;77(2–3):305–20.
All these data allow us to hypothesize that, even with a delay of several hours between the onset of clinical death and the beginning of perfusion of the cryonics patient, the latter still retains reasonable chances of future restoration of his brain functions. First, because even without cooling, irreversible brain changes begin to occur only after 1–2 hours, and neuronal necrosis begins only after 4–6. And secondly, because the brain is a highly plastic organ that is able to recover from serious injuries.
Let me mention just a couple of cases of such recovery.
Here is US Senator Gabrielle Giffords, who in 2011 was shot right through the brain, and six months later returned to work in the Senate. The left photo is of her in the hospital, and on the right one she is skydiving a few years later.
Here's another case of a successful recovery from a bullet wound to the brain, Rachel Barezinski. The bullet passed through the brain, but Rachel survived and recovered:
Moreover, some people undergo removal of an entire hemisphere:
Hemispherectomy — Wikipedia
Hemispherectomy is a very rare surgical procedure in which one cerebral hemisphere (half of the brain) is removed…
And some people survive even worse brain injuries:
7 People Who Lost Half of Their Brain but Survive
Your brain is one of the most important organs in your body; it is a wonder as some scientists say. It regulates almost…
www.booboone.com
And even if all other bodyparts of the cryonics patient will not be suitable for recovery, as long as the brain remains viable, there remains a chance to restore the patient's identity. After all, several head transplantation experiments have been successfully performed by the fathers of transplantology, Vladimir Demikhov and Sergei Brukhonenko, as far back as the 1930s. The photo below shows a living dog's head separated from its body:
There is even archive video footage of several two-headed dogs, some from Demikhov, some from Brukhonenko (in Russian):
Here's a longer, English-language original clip from 1940:
By the way, it was Demikhov's pioneering work that paved the way to successful human kidney and heart transplants, as was confirmed by Christiaan Barnard himself — the first surgeon to successfully transplant the human heart in 1967. Demikhov also inspired Robert J. White to perform his head transplant research that culminated in a successful monkey head transplant. In his research, White also found that the brain is not rejected by the recipient, unlike other organs.
All of the above supports the idea that the main task of cryonics is to ensure maximum viability of the brain for future revival.
About that revival
Proponents of cryonics like to joke that there already are thousands of revived cryonics patients among us. The only caveat is that they were frozen and revived while they were still embryos. Still, that is quite a successful achievement of cryobiology. Especially considering that some of these cryonauts were frozen for decades:
Baby born from embryo frozen 20 years ago
Preserving embryos by freezing has become commonplace in fertility treatment to allow women to attempt multiple cycles…
www.telegraph.co.uk
Embryos are great, but they are only 4 or 8 cells large. However, there are more significant examples. For example, some women with cancer undergo removal of their ovaries, to protect them from chemotherapy, have them frozen and then transplanted back. And these ovaries resume their function: women who have undergone these procedures have given birth to more than 70 children:
Ovarian tissue cryopreservation and transplantation: scientific implications
After fresh or frozen ovary transplantation, FSH levels return to normal, and menstrual cycles resume by 150 days…
Unfortunately, cryobiology can not yet boast of something more significant — for example, of recovering a mammal after cooling it to temperatures below 0°C. It is rumored that someone was trying to do something similar with pigs, but public confirmation of this has yet to surface.
no need to turn cryonics into a cult, all problems and issues must be recognized and not swept under the rug
many areas of improvement still remain
but we are already reasonably good at brain preservation
Sources (other than those linked to throughout):
Cryonics: Reaching for Tomorrow by Brian Wowk and Michael Darwin
Scientific Justification of Cryonics Practice by Ben Best:
Low Temperature Biology of Insects by D.L. Denlinger
Igor Artukhov's lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f5KNsXSeFQ
Cryopreservation of Precision Cut Tissue Slices by Gregory M. Fahy, Na Guan, Inge A.M. de Graaf, Yuanshen Tan, Lenetta Griffin, Geny M. M. Groothuis. Xenobiotica (2012).
Ben Best's Cryonics website: http://www.benbest.com/cryonics/cryonics.html
More from Yuri Deigin
Preventing death is my life's mission. I am a drug developer currently working on a rejuvenating gene therapy using the approach of partial reprogramming. | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_-7956290114032422106 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Q: show description when clicked i will need some help with some coding if possible. I would like to have when clicked Learn More to show description above the button and when clicked back to hide it. Any help would be higly appreciated! Code listed below. Thank you for your time!
One more thing, as you can see the top border is not shown, how can i make it to show? Thank you very much for the time spent!
<style>
/* RELATE PRODUCTS BEGIN */
.cardd {
box-shadow: 0 4px 8px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
max-width: 600px;
margin: auto;
text-align: center;
font-family: arial;
}
.cardd p {
font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif;
font-size: 24px;
font-weight: bold;
margin-top: 6px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
margin-left: 0px;
text-align: left;
padding-top: 6px;
}
.price {
color: grey;
font-size: 22px;
}
.cardd button {
border: none;
outline: 0;
padding: 12px;
color: white;
background-color: #c41735;
text-align: center;
cursor: pointer;
width: 100%;
font-size: 18px;
}
.cardd button:hover {
opacity: 0.7;
}
hr {
display: block;
height: 1px;
border: 0;
border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
padding: 0;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
</style>
<div class="container">
<!-- <div class="row no-margin">
<div class="col-lg-12 text-center">
<h1 class="section-heading">Harnesses</h1>
</div>
</div> -->
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-12 scrollReveal sr-bottom sr-ease-in-out-quad sr-delay-1">
<br><br><br>
<h1 class="section-heading page-heading">Engines</h1>
<p></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="height-60"> </div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-3 col-md-6 mb-5 col-sm-12">
<div class="scrollReveal sr-bottom sr-ease-in-out-quad sr-delay-1 ">
<div class="cardd">
<img src="g" alt="" style="width:100%">
<h2 class="page-heading">Vittorazi<br> Moster185 Plus MY20</h1>
<span class="price">£1729.99</span>
<p></p>
<p><button>Learn more</button></p>
<p></p>
</div>
</div>
</div> <br>
<div class="col-lg-3 col-md-6 mb-5 col-sm-12">
<div class="scrollReveal sr-bottom sr-ease-in-out-quad sr-delay-1">
<div class="cardd">
<img src="g" alt="" style="width:100%">
<h2 class="page-heading"><br> </h1>
<span class="price">£1729.99</span>
<p></p>
<p><button>Learn more</button></p>
</div>
</div>
</div> <br>
<div class="col-lg-3 col-md-6 mb-5 col-sm-12">
<div class="scrollReveal sr-bottom sr-ease-in-out-quad sr-delay-1">
<div class="cardd">
<img src="" alt="" style="width:100%">
<h2 class="page-heading"><br> </h1>
<span class="price">£1729.99</span>
<p></p>
<p><button>Learn more</button></p>
</div>
</div>
</div> <br>
<div class="col-lg-3 col-md-6 mb-5 col-sm-12">
<div class="scrollReveal sr-bottom sr-ease-in-out-quad sr-delay-1">
<div class="cardd">
<img src="" alt="Atom 80 Vitorazzi" style="width:100%">
<h2 class="page-heading"><br></h1>
<span class="price">£1729.99</span>
<p></p>
<p><button>Learn more</button></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
A: What you're looking for is a collapsible! All you need is a little JavaScript, and you can expand/collapse text using a button.
Expand Above
If you want to make the hidden text appear above the button, try this:
var collapse = document.getElementsByClassName("collapsible");
var i;
for (i = 0; i < collapse.length; i++) {
collapse[i].addEventListener("click", function() {
this.classList.toggle("active");
var expand = this.previousElementSibling;
if (expand.style.display === "block") {
expand.style.display = "none";
} else {
expand.style.display = "block";
}
});
}
.collapsible {
border: none;
outline: 0;
padding: 12px;
color: white;
background-color: #c41735;
text-align: center;
cursor: pointer;
width: 100%;
font-size: 18px;
}
.expand {
padding: 0 18px;
display: none;
overflow: hidden;
background-color: #eee;
}
<div class="expand">
<p>
Hidden text.
</p>
</div>
<button type="button" class="collapsible">Learn more</button>
Expand Below
If you want to make it appear below the button, however, just flip the order in which the <div> and <button> element appear, and switch out previousElementSibling with nextElementSibling:
var collapse = document.getElementsByClassName("collapsible");
var i;
for (i = 0; i < collapse.length; i++) {
collapse[i].addEventListener("click", function() {
this.classList.toggle("active");
var expand = this.nextElementSibling;
if (expand.style.display === "block") {
expand.style.display = "none";
} else {
expand.style.display = "block";
}
});
}
.collapsible {
border: none;
outline: 0;
padding: 12px;
color: white;
background-color: #c41735;
text-align: center;
cursor: pointer;
width: 100%;
font-size: 18px;
}
.expand {
padding: 0 18px;
display: none;
overflow: hidden;
background-color: #eee;
}
<button type="button" class="collapsible">Learn more</button>
<div class="expand">
<p>
Hidden text.
</p>
</div>
A: To make the text hide and appear above the Button you must make use of toggle() event as
$("document").ready(function(){
$(".collapsible").toggle(
function(){
$(".expand").css({"display" : "block"});},
function(){
$(".expand").css({"display" : "none"});});
});
.collapsible {
border: none;
outline: 0;
padding: 12px;
color: white;
background-color: #c41735;
text-align: center;
cursor: pointer;
width: 100%;
font-size: 18px;
}
.expand {
padding: 0 18px;
display: none;
overflow: hidden;
background-color: #eee;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="expand">
<p>
Hidden text.
</p>
</div>
<button type="button" class="collapsible">Learn more</button>
Note: Add the Jquery CDN to use the jquery code.
(<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8/jquery.min.js">
</script>)
| RedPajamaStackExchange_-5028876301396080845 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Jura Journey is the entry level expression in the new range from the Island distiller. The new range of single malts aims to combine both the Island and Highland styles of whisky in one delicious dram. The new style focuses on using ex-bourbon barrels and a limited amount of peat to produce fruity malts with subtle smoke.
This no age statement whisky gives spiced fruit and soft vanilla on the nose whilst delivering pear, pecan and delicious cinnamon on the palate. The finish is satisfying with toffee and fudge. A great entry level whisky. | RedPajamaC4_-1280799968252333771 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Home > 2018 > JIO: The Case of Pre-Born Eminence
Mainstream, VOL LVI No 33 New Delhi August 4, 2018
JIO: The Case of Pre-Born Eminence
Tuesday 7 August 2018
by Navneet Sharma and Showkat Ahmad Mir
For the child (male!) to be pre-eminent there should beGarbhadhan samskara. For this is the time of Kali and everyone is sudra. For an 'abhijatya' garbhadhana is unavoidable.
— Srimad Bhagvatam-4:31:10 purport
(IoE tag) This will facilitate them to grow more rapidly and at the same time they will get more opportunity to scale up their operations with more skills and quality improvement so that they become world class Institutes.
— Prakash Javdekar, Minister, HRD, GoI
The vedic Government of India, which was perturbed with the anti-national character of higher education heralded by the likes of the JNUs and AMUs, has done garbhadhan to embark upon a new journey to envision a nationalist higher education for the Jio-institute/university/foundation (!). The mighty government has gifted one thousand crore rupees as 'shagun' in the garbhadhansamskara. This was done in the garb of selecting an institute of eminence amongst the higher education institutions. This pre-born samskara for the Jio institute could be expected from only that government which hails and shouts the loudest about the nation's welfare (RashitrahitSarvopari). As the adage goes, patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. In this commentary, we will not attempt to comprehend the un-comprehensible that how a government thumping a fifty-six inch chest on nationalism and Hindu nationalism could so brazenly succumb to such a level of moral corruption and pressures of poll funding for 2019. In this commentary we will only highlight the apathy of the government, which promised to create two crore jobs (annually) and workers through Skill India, has taken what Amartya Sen says, 'a quantum jump in the wrong direction'. In this country there are Central universities which are unable to get land for the last ten years since their inception and here is a university/institute on paper which not only gets the tag of eminence but one thousand crores in the next five years.
Jio Institute: Yet to be Born
Is the idea of comparing an existing institution with a record of achievements to a non-existent institute rational? What is the idea of existence for the government? Are non-existing institutions more important than existing institutions? Is education in India used for promoting hegemony and hierarchy? These are some chicken-egg questions which open up different perspectives to understand the current decision of the Indian Government about granting the status of eminence to a non-existent Jio institution. The Government of India granted the "Institution of Eminence" status to three public and three private educational institutions. The plan for selecting Institutions of Eminence was first announced by the Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, in his Budget speech in 2016. Then, the plan was to 'pick' twenty public and private institutions and make them administratively autonomous. The government institutions
with the tag of eminence would get special funding of One Thousand Crore over the next five years, and the private organisations will simultaneously get academic and administrative autonomy.
Among the six institutions, the Jio Institute has been selected under the "Greenfield Category" of new institutions and beats ten other competitors. How did the Ministry/experts arrive at this categorisation? Was a category created to benefit a peculiar institution? There is a 'Brownfield' category also. Only the committee knows what it means. We are not commenting on the constituent members and their academic profiles. They are like what Gajendra Chauhan is to the FTII or Rajat Sharma is to cricket in regard to the selection of institutions. The HRD Ministry said that theexpert committee had adopted four parameters for judging them: the availability of land, a core team with "very high qualification and wide experience", available funding and a strategic vision plan with clear annual milestones and action plan. The Ministry said the committee found that only the Jio Institute had fulfilled all the parameters out of the eleven applicants. It is left to us to wonder whether Nita Ambani as the Chancellor of this proposed institution can be bracketed as one with very high qualification and with wide experience in academic administration.
In this regard former Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswami, who was the chairperson of the expert committee to select institutions, argued that we were asked to select ten public and ten private institutes to bag the tag of the 'institutions of eminence' but we could not find twenty. Javedekar further went on to the next level by stating: "The selection of Institutions of Eminence will not only improve the quality of education but will also propel competition in the entire education sector." Granting the status of eminence can/might be considered fruitful in promoting quality; yet the eminence tag to the Jio Institute is quite surprising because the Jio Institute gets unparalleled freedom from the government's higher education regulations from its very birth.
In the government's view, an Institution of Eminence should offer interdisciplinary courses and conduct research in "areas of emerging technology". It must have a mix of foreign and Indian students and faculty, with "student facilities comparable with that of globally reputed institutions". But how would you expect such things from the institution which has not yet born? The Jio Institute has none of these features as it does not even exist. Yet, it has been declared an "Institution of Eminence", at par with the Indian Institutes of Technology at Delhi and Bombay, the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, the Birla Institute of Technology at Pilani, Rajasthan, which was set up in 1964, and the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, which began with the Kasturba Medical College in 1953.
Gopalaswami also argued: "We considered the eligibility criteria carefully and we could not find 20 institutes that we felt would be able to find a place among top 500 global rankings in ten years." So how you could suppose that a rank in top class world institutions will be fetched by a non-existing institute? You cannot claim that you could not pick 20 institutions because they had an unimpressive track record and then pick one that does not has any. The inclusion of Reliance makes the whole thing look crooked. It is standing out like a sore thumb. There are other Greenfield universities in the nation with their 'existence'. The government either wishes to play to the tunes of their behind-the-curtain bosses or wants to strengthen the haves of the society.
Higher Education in India: The Sorry Affair
Before commenting on the nexus between capitalism and religious nationalism let us appreciate the status and spate of higher education in India. The GoI, which claims to be running a welfare state of India, has shown how neglected education and higher education in particular are in contemporary times.
|Universities|Total number|
Central Universities 47
State Universities 384
Private Universities 296
Deemed to be Universities 123
Source: https://www.ugc.ac.in/stats.asp
India has the second largest education system in the world which includes 47 Central universities, 384 State universities, 296 private universities and 123 deemed to be universities. With one non-existent institution, in totality India has 851 universities and 40,000 higher education institutions which together cater to 3.3 crore students, over 70 per cent of whom are studying either in private universities or opting for unaided courses offered by the State universities largely due to the skewed number of seats in public institutions. So, instead of promoting a non-existent institute, the Government of India needs to invest more in State-funded institutions to make higher education affordable and accessible to the middle and lower class population.
Source: https://www.ugc.ac.in/stats.aspx
India, besides having such large educational structure, lacks strategies to promote education for the down-trodden and to compete on global level. The amount of money India spent on education is not sufficient. The truth lies bare in history. The Kothari Commission had recommended 6 per cent of GDP for education in1966, yet it still seems a dream. Spending on education as share from the Central Government in the total Budget has been falling for the past three years compared to 2013-14. In the last year of the UPA-II Government, education got 4.57 per cent of the GDP for expenditure. The above bar diagram clearly reflects that in comparison to 2013-2014, there has been steady decline in expenditure in 2016-2017 to 3.65 per cent. So, India has decreased its spending on education from 4.4 per cent of the GDP in 1999 and 4.57 per cent in 2013-2014 to around 3.71 per cent as per last year's Budget estimate, undermining the work done in getting more children into school and its prospects for improving its poor quality of education.
According to one report, 35 per cent of faculty posts are vacant in IITs and 53 per cent in Central universities. The government needs to show the same enthusiasm in filling these positions as it showed for granting thousand crores to the Jio Institute. The report also highlighted that most of the Centrally funded institutions including the IITs, NITs and Central universities, are conducting classes with over one-third vacant faculty positions, the vacancy status for old IITs has been recorded at 39 per cent, new ones are only marginally better at 36 per cent. The NITs are worst affected with 47 per cent vacancies. In fact 14-20 old NITs have 40 per cent and more vacancies, while four of eight old IITs have the same vacancy levels. Even IIMs have 26.01 per cent vacancies in faculty recruitment. Among them IIM Indore has 51 per cent vacant positions, followed by Kolkata with 41 per cent.
Among the Central universities, the Central University of Haryana according to HRD records is reeling under 75.11 per cent vacancies as in April 2017, while in the same period Delhi University, notorious for adhoc faculty appointments, recorded a total of 54 per cent vacancies against permanent positions. The University of Hyderabad too has over 64 per cent vacancies to be filled. The report also claims in totality around 5997 faculty positions are vacant in Central universities across the country. The proportion of vacant seats has been increasing as some of the existing faculty members are superannuating. In 40 Central universities across the country, 4807 (46 per cent) associate professor positions and 2421 (55 per cent) professor positions are vacant. Further some Central universities have land disputes, infrastructure problems etc. creating havoc for the teachers, scholars and students. But the Government of India without paying any heed to fill the void of educational infrastructure tilts towards a non-existent institute.
Hinduisation via Privatisation of Education
Mukesh Ambani iss not a newly discovered pedagogue and expert on education. The NDA Government in its earlier avtar has sought guidance from this eminent education expert. The PM's Council on Trade and Industry, led by the then PM A.B. Vajpayee, constituted 'a special group on policy framework for private investment in education....' Mukesh Ambani as convener and Kumarmangalam Birla as member constituted this special subject group. The report as expected suggests 'operational freedom' from government regulations in higher education. The Jio institute in offing has been provided that through the 'Institute of Eminence' tag. Obviously these institutions will produce what is hailed as 'weightless goods with high knowledge content rather than material content like entertainment'. (Ambani-Birla Report, 2000) The problem lies with the so-called nationalist government and the cultural organisation at Nagpur lamenting on 'Macaulay-isation' of education; how could they allow and digest 'Sunny Leonne-isation' of education, where knowledge remains exterior to the knower and is produced, consumed and exchanged as commodity; what will happen to the brave Hindu men?!
The catch lies in another aspect which Justice Punnaya committee and Swaminathan panel have affirmed that privatisation of education will lead to what is inevitable—the fee hike. The fees for access to higher education will be so high that only a select few will be able to cross that barrier for empowerment. Obviously Muslims, Dalits and women will get further marginalised and they are the only bottle-neck in the making of Akhand Hindu Rashtra.
We in this commentary have stopped a little before commenting on the nexus of capitalism, regionalism and fundamentalism. Religion and majoritarianism with it is a suitable dote of capitalism. The government has a dogmatic idea of what 'knowledge' is, follows the indoctrinating pedagogy and wants an outcome for colonial measurement of success and research and world ranking. But whatever may be the confusion, it is for sure that a 'product' of Jio (private) Institute will not be either a 'Aryaputraramzada' or 'sanatanirashtrabhakta' but something with 'survival anxiety' that will be confused as to whether not to buy a Diwali Chinese lamp or not to take up a job in Bank of China.
Pathak, V. (2018), Six Universities including Jio institute to be institutions of Eminence. Retrieved from: https://www.thehindu.com/education/six-universities-including-jio-institute-to-be-institutions-of-eminence/article24371429.ece
Ravi, S. (2015), 'Impact of Privatisation of Education in Indian Society', Journal of Culture, Society and Development, an international peer-reviewed journal.
Sanyal, A. (2018), 'Government defends top billing for jio institute, yet to be born', https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/institutions-of-eminence-planned-jio-institute-named-in-government-elite-list-sparks-controversy-1880592
Scroll. In, (2018), Reliance University gets status of eminence but yet to be set up. Retrieved from: https://scroll.in/article/885897/reliances-jio-university-gets-governments-institute-of-eminence-status-but-its-yet-to-be-set-up
The Right to Education Initiative (RTE), (2018), Privatisation of Education and Right to Education. Retrieved from: http://www.right-to-education.org/resource/pravitization-education-and-right—education
UGC-Expenditure on Higher Education, Retrieved from: https://Www.Ugc.Ac.In/Stats.Aspx
Varma, S. (2017), Share of spend in government expenditure GDP on education. Retrieved from:https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/share-of-spend-ingovernment expendituregdponeducationfallingfor3years/articleshow/56991039.cms?
Navneet Sharma, PhD, is an Assistant Professor, Dept of Teacher Education, School of Education, Central University of Himchal Pradesh, Dharamshala and Showkat Ahmad Mir is a research scholar at the Dept of Teacher Education, School of Education, Central University of Himchal Pradesh, Dharamshala | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_-9011861841104395405 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Q: Find maximum occurrence of an year in Hive Here are some credit card records, I need to find the year having the maximum number of card expiry dates.
As the dates are not in YYYY/MM/DD format so in the schema I have defined the dates as of 'string' type
Card Type Full Name,Card Holder's Name,Issue Date,Expiry Date,Card PIN
Discover,Brenda D Peterson,01/2017,01/2022,1998
Diners Club International,Dawn U Reese,12/2015,12/2013,3915
Diners Club International,Helen P Perry,02/2007,02/2020,2319
American Express,Christine E Kim,08/2011,08/2013,9017
A: This query will give you the year with highest number of records.
select
substr(expiry_date, instr(expiry_date, '/')+1) as expiry_year,
count(*) as cnt
from customers
group by substr(expiry_date, instr(expiry_date, '/')+1)
order by cnt desc
limit 1;
There are chances that more than 1 year has same number of cards expiring that year in such cases you can use below query
select
substr(expiry_date, instr(expiry_date, '/')+1) as expiry_year
from customers
having count(*) = (
select max(cnt) from (
select
substr(expiry_date, instr(expiry_date, '/')+1) as expiry_year,
count(*) as cnt
from customers
group by substr(expiry_date, instr(expiry_date, '/')+1)
)t
);
| RedPajamaStackExchange_5975649798179387689 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Join in the fun when you grab yourself one of these limited subscription boxes. It will come to you full of lots of goodies! We might reveal an item or two, but want to keep most of it top secret so you can enjoy the surprise! What we can share is that it will have one apparel item that will be a one size, a piece of jewelry and an accessory. The rest of the goodies, you'll just have to wait and see!
Every item in this box will make its first appearance in this box. You'll be the first to see them and you might be the only one to own them! Some items we bought all the manufacturer made so the only way to grab one is through the holiday box.
Because the box will be filled and sold at a discounted rate, the items inside will not be eligible to send back for store credit. But every item in the box is hand selected by Nancy personally and she is taking great measures that everyone LOVES the box! | RedPajamaC4_-2098484466155821451 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Deviance: Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries draws on up-to-date scholarship across a wide spectrum of deviance categories, providing a symbolic interactionist analysis of the deviance process. The book addresses positivistic theories of deviant behavior within a description of the deviance process that encompasses the work of deviance claims-makers, rule-breakers, and social control agents.
Overall, students gain an understanding of the sociology of deviance through cross-cultural comparisons, historical overview of deviance in the U.S., and up-close analysis of the lived experience of those who are labeled deviant as well as responses to them in the U.S. today.
Instructor Resources are available to easily help with lecture and exam preparation.
Blurred Boundaries II: How Close is too Close?
Blurred Boundaries I: Why is Mike in Jail?
Blurred Boundaries II: Is Assisted Suicide Murder?
Blurred Boundaries II: What is Too Drunk to Say Yes?
Blurred Boundaries II: A College Education for Prisoners?
Blurred Boundaries II: Should Michael Milken Get a Presidential Pardon?
Blurred Boundaries II: Is It Time to Legalize Drugs?
Blurred Boundaries II: "Gay" or "Straight"? | RedPajamaC4_-1758746282883503461 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
'Hi-Fi Rush' Lands One Of This Generation's All-Time Highest User Scores
Here's When 'The Lord Of The Rings' Trilogy Is Coming To Netflix
Today's Wordle #587 Hint, Clues And Answer For Friday, January 27th
Shinichiro Watanabe On Making 'Cowboy Bebop' And What He Thinks Of The Live-Action Adaptation
All The Games Amazon Is Adding To Luna+ And The Prime Gaming Channel In February
'Breaking Bad' Super Bowl Ad Features One Of The Show's Best Villains: Here's A Teaser
ForbesInnovationGames
Red Dead Online's Biggest Problem Is Not That It Costs $600 To Buy Everything
Paul Tassi
News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet.
Red Dead Online is attached to a $60 game, saves your progression and is now selling microtransactions, but sure, we can keep calling it a "beta," I guess. The in-game store going live is the latest in Rockstar testing the waters, trying to see how they can make this into another GTA Online cash cow, though it seems unlikely they'll be able to reach that level.
You should expect a fair amount of complaining about prices, because that's usually how these things always go. Doing the math, we already have calculated that it takes 2,134 gold bars, the now-buyable premium currency, to purchase every item in Red Dead Online right now. At about two hours per gold bar if you're playing RDO at max efficiency (down from 8 hours, which only changed recently), that's 4,268 hours to earn enough gold to pay for everything.
Don't want to spend that much time grinding for gold and cash? Well, that's where the microtransactions come in. There are various levels of gold bundles, almost all of which is going to be selling you more than you need to buy any one item. There's a one-time "deal" of $5 for 25 gold, but that will usually cost $10, and the bundles go all the way up to a $99, 350 gold package.
If you were buying those $99 bundles, it would cost you just under $600 to get 2,000+ gold to buy everything in Red Dead Online currently. Which reveals that if you were earning the gold in-game, you'd be making about 14 cents an hour.
Is this pricing system "unfair"? Honestly, not really. At least not right now, but fans are wary that prices will get worse and worse over time like they did with GTA Online.
Rather, I think Rockstar's problem is not in the prices themselves, but in the entire model and the current stock of what you can buy.
The problem with the idea of selling gold is that it's letting you skip not only a grind for currency, but also an XP grind, because if you buy an item with gold you can circumvent the level requirement that would otherwise take a whole lot of gameplay to reach. So if you sell one currency that lets you skip both A) amassing cash and B) leveling up, what…is the point of actually playing, since every activity is done in the service of getting cash and XP?
Past this, however, and I've mentioned this before, there simply is not all that much stuff many players will care about buying in the game right now, and there may not be in the future either because of the nature of the game itself. Once you have a favorite gun or two, a favorite horse and a favorite outfit, there's very little reason to get anything else, whether that's through grinding yourself or opening your wallet, which I would imagine would be even more unsatisfying.
While Red Dead will no doubt add more content in time, unlike GTA there are no fighter jets or supercars or attack choppers on deck. I'm trying to imagine other things this game is going to sell in the future that would inspire more grinding or microtransaction purchases, but I can't, really. Buying your own saloon I guess? Your own wagon with a mounted turret maybe? I don't know.
So even though it costs $600 to buy everything in the game with microtransactions, with the current state of RDO you could probably spend like $30 and get pretty much everything you want. Which would then sort of erase the reason for playing the game in the first place. It's a weird system.
Granted, some of these issues are things GTA Online got past to become this huge revenue generator, but I do think RDO faces a unique set of challenges. While these prices aren't terribly controversial, giving people a reason to buy/play is going to be something Rockstar needs to work on going forward.
Follow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Read my new sci-fi thriller novel Herokiller, available now in print and online. I also wrote The Earthborn Trilogy. | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_-2283718869063131453 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
<h1><a>JME 3 Tutorial (3) - Hello Assets</a></h1>
<div>
<p>
Previous: <a href="/com/jme3/gde/core/docs/jme3/beginner/hello_node.html">Hello Node</a>,
Next: <a href="/com/jme3/gde/core/docs/jme3/beginner/hello_main_event_loop.html">Hello Update Loop</a>
</p>
<p>
In this tutorial we will learn to load 3-D models and text into the scene graph, using the jME asset manager. You also learn how to arrive at the correct paths, and which file formats to use.
</p>
<p>
<img src="nbdocs:/com/jme3/gde/core/docs/jme3/beginner/beginner-assets-models.png">
</p>
<p>
<p><div>To use the example assets in a new jMonkeyPlatform project, right-click your project, select "Properties", go to "Libraries", press "Add Library" and add the "jme3-test-data" library.
</div></p>
</p>
</div>
<h2><a>Code Sample</a></h2>
<div>
<pre>package jme3test.helloworld;
import com.jme3.app.SimpleApplication;
import com.jme3.font.BitmapText;
import com.jme3.light.DirectionalLight;
import com.jme3.material.Material;
import com.jme3.math.Vector3f;
import com.jme3.scene.Geometry;
import com.jme3.scene.Spatial;
import com.jme3.scene.shape.Box;
<span>/** Sample 3 - how to load an OBJ model, and OgreXML model,
* a material/texture, or text. */</span>
public class HelloAssets extends SimpleApplication {
public static void main(String[] args) {
HelloAssets app = new HelloAssets();
app.start();
}
@Override
public void simpleInitApp() {
Spatial teapot = assetManager.loadModel("Models/Teapot/Teapot.obj");
Material mat_default = new Material(
assetManager, "Common/MatDefs/Misc/ShowNormals.j3md");
teapot.setMaterial(mat_default);
rootNode.attachChild(teapot);
// Create a wall with a simple texture from test_data
Box(Vector3f.ZERO, 2.5f,2.5f,1.0f);
Spatial wall = new Geometry("Box", box );
Material mat_brick = new Material(
assetManager, "Common/MatDefs/Misc/Unshaded.j3md");
mat_brick.setTexture("ColorMap",
assetManager.loadTexture("Textures/Terrain/BrickWall/BrickWall.jpg"));
wall.setMaterial(mat_brick);
wall.setLocalTranslation(2.0f,-2.5f,0.0f);
rootNode.attachChild(wall);
// Display a line of text with a default font
guiNode.detachAllChildren();
guiFont = assetManager.loadFont("Interface/Fonts/Default.fnt");
BitmapText helloText = new BitmapText(guiFont, false);
helloText.setSize(guiFont.getCharSet().getRenderedSize());
helloText.setText("Hello World");
helloText.setLocalTranslation(300, helloText.getLineHeight(), 0);
guiNode.attachChild(helloText);
// Load a model from test_data (OgreXML + material + texture)
Spatial ninja = assetManager.loadModel("Models/Ninja/Ninja.mesh.xml");
ninja.scale(0.05f, 0.05f, 0.05f);
ninja.rotate(0.0f, -3.0f, 0.0f);
ninja.setLocalTranslation(0.0f, -5.0f, -2.0f);
rootNode.attachChild(ninja);
// You must add a light to make the model visible
DirectionalLight sun = new DirectionalLight();
sun.setDirection(new Vector3f(-0.1f, -0.7f, -1.0f));
rootNode.addLight(sun);
}
}</pre>
<p>
Build and run the code sample. You should see a green Ninja with a colorful teapot standing behind a wall. The text on the screen should say "Hello World".
</p>
</div>
<h2><a>The Asset Manager</a></h2>
<div>
<p>
JME3 comes with a handy asset manager that helps you keep your assets organized. Project assets are media files such as models, materials, textures, scenes, shaders, sounds, and fonts.
The Asset manager can load files from:
</p>
<ul>
<li><div> the current classpath (the top level of your project directory), </div>
</li>
<li><div> the <code>assets</code> directory of your project, and</div>
</li>
<li><div> optionally, custom paths.</div>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
This is our recommended directory structure for storing assets:
</p>
<pre>MyGame/assets/Interface/
MyGame/assets/MatDefs/
MyGame/assets/Materials/
MyGame/assets/Models/
MyGame/assets/Scenes/
MyGame/assets/Shaders/
MyGame/assets/Sounds/
MyGame/assets/Textures/
MyGame/build.xml
MyGame/src/...
MyGame/...</pre>
<p>
This is just a suggested best practice, you can name the directories in the assets directory what ever you like.
</p>
</div>
<h3><a>Loading Textures</a></h3>
<div>
<p>
Place your textures in a subdirectory of <code>assets/Textures/</code>. Load the texture into the material before you set the Material. The following code sample is from the <code>simpleInitApp()</code> method and loads a simple wall model:
</p>
<pre>// Create a wall with a simple texture from test_data
Box(Vector3f.ZERO, 2.5f,2.5f,1.0f);
Spatial wall = new Geometry("Box", box );
Material mat_brick = new Material(
assetManager, "Common/MatDefs/Misc/Unshaded.j3md");
mat_brick.setTexture("ColorMap",
assetManager.loadTexture("Textures/Terrain/BrickWall/BrickWall.jpg"));
wall.setMaterial(mat_brick);
wall.setLocalTranslation(2.0f,-2.5f,0.0f);
rootNode.attachChild(wall);</pre>
<p>
In this case, you <a href="/com/jme3/gde/core/docs/jme3/beginner/hello_material.html">create your own Material</a> and apply it to a Geometry. You base Materials on default material descriptions (such as "Unshaded.j3md"), as shown in this example.
</p>
</div>
<h3><a>Loading Text and Fonts</a></h3>
<div>
<p>
This example displays the text "Hello World" in the default font at the bottom edge of the window. You attach text to the <code>guiNode</code> – this is a special node for flat (orthogonal) display elements. You display text to show the game score, player health, etc.
The following code sample goes into the <code>simpleInitApp()</code> method.
</p>
<pre>// Display a line of text with a default font
guiNode.detachAllChildren();
guiFont = assetManager.loadFont("Interface/Fonts/Default.fnt");
BitmapText helloText = new BitmapText(guiFont, false);
helloText.setSize(guiFont.getCharSet().getRenderedSize());
helloText.setText("Hello World");
helloText.setLocalTranslation(300, helloText.getLineHeight(), 0);
guiNode.attachChild(helloText);</pre>
<p>
<strong>Tip:</strong> Clear existing text in the guiNode by detaching all its children.
</p>
</div>
<h3><a>Loading a Model</a></h3>
<div>
<p>
Export your 3D model in OgreXML format (.mesh.xml, .scene, .material, .skeleton.xml) and place it in a subdirectory of <code>assets/Models/</code>. The following code sample goes into the <code>simpleInitApp()</code> method.
</p>
<pre>// Load a model from test_data (OgreXML + material + texture)
Spatial ninja = assetManager.loadModel("Models/Ninja/Ninja.mesh.xml");
ninja.scale(0.05f, 0.05f, 0.05f);
ninja.rotate(0.0f, -3.0f, 0.0f);
ninja.setLocalTranslation(0.0f, -5.0f, -2.0f);
rootNode.attachChild(ninja);
// You must add a directional light to make the model visible!
DirectionalLight sun = new DirectionalLight();
sun.setDirection(new Vector3f(-0.1f, -0.7f, -1.0f).normalizeLocal());
rootNode.addLight(sun);</pre>
<p>
Note that you do no need to create a Material if you exported the model with a material. Remember to add a light source, as shown, otherwise the material (and the whole model) is not visible!
</p>
</div>
<h3><a>Loading Assets From Custom Paths</a></h3>
<div>
<p>
What if your game relies on user supplied model files, that are not included in the distribution? If a file is not located in the default location (e.g. assets directory), you can register a custom Locator and load it from any path.
</p>
<p>
Here is a usage example of a ZipLocator that is registered to a file <code>town.zip</code> in the top level of your project directory:
</p>
<pre> assetManager.registerLocator("town.zip", ZipLocator.class.getName());
Spatial scene = assetManager.loadModel("main.scene");
rootNode.attachChild(scene);</pre>
<p>
Here is a HttpZipLocator that can download zipped models and load them:
</p>
<pre> assetManager.registerLocator(
"http://jmonkeyengine.googlecode.com/files/wildhouse.zip",
HttpZipLocator.class.getName());
Spatial scene = assetManager.loadModel("main.scene");
rootNode.attachChild(scene);</pre>
<p>
JME3 offers ClasspathLocator, ZipLocator, FileLocator, HttpZipLocator, and UrlLocator (see <code>com.jme3.asset.plugins</code>).
</p>
</div>
<h2><a>Creating Models and Scenes</a></h2>
<div>
<p>
To create 3D models and scenes, you need a 3D Mesh Editor with an OgreXML Exporter plugin. For example, you can <object classid="java:org.netbeans.modules.javahelp.BrowserDisplayer"><param name="content" value="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/UV_Map_Basics"><param name="text" value="<html><u>create fully textured models with Blender</u></html>"><param name="textColor" value="blue"></object>.
You use the <a href="/com/jme3/gde/core/docs/sdk.html">jMonkeyPlatform</a> to <a href="/com/jme3/gde/core/docs/sdk/model_loader_and_viewer.html">load models</a>, <a href="/com/jme3/gde/core/docs/sdk/blender.html">convert models</a> and <a href="/com/jme3/gde/core/docs/sdk/scene_composer.html">create scenes</a> from them.
</p>
<p>
If you use Blender, export your models as Ogre <acronym title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</acronym> meshes with materials as follows:
</p>
<ol>
<li><div> Open the menu File > Export > OgreXML Exporter to open the exporter dialog.</div>
</li>
<li><div> In the Export Materials field: Give the material the same name as the model. For example, the model <code>something.mesh.xml</code> goes with <code>something.material</code>, plus (optionally) <code>something.skeleton.xml</code> and some <acronym title="Joint Photographics Experts Group">JPG</acronym> texture files.</div>
</li>
<li><div> In the Export Meshes field: Select a subdirectory of your <code>assets/Models/</code> directory. E.g. <code>assets/Models/something/</code>.</div>
</li>
<li><div> Activate the following exporter settings: </div>
<ul>
<li><div> Copy Textures: YES</div>
</li>
<li><div> Rendering Materials: YES</div>
</li>
<li><div> Flip Axis: YES</div>
</li>
<li><div> Require Materials: YES</div>
</li>
<li><div> Skeleton name follows mesh: YES</div>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><div> Click export.</div>
</li>
</ol>
</div>
<h3><a>Model File Formats</a></h3>
<div>
<p>
JME3 can load Ogre <acronym title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</acronym> models + materials, Ogre DotScenes, as well as Wavefront OBJ+MTL models. The loadModel() code works with these files when you run the code directly from the jMonkeyPlatform.
</p>
<p>
If you build the executables using the default build script, then <strong>the original model files (<acronym title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</acronym>, OBJ, etc) are not included.</strong> When you run the executable, you get an error message if you try to load any models directly:
</p>
<pre>com.jme3.asset.DesktopAssetManager loadAsset
WARNING: Cannot locate resource: Models/Ninja/Ninja.mesh.xml
com.jme3.app.Application handleError
SEVERE: Uncaught exception thrown in Thread[LWJGL Renderer Thread,5,main]
java.lang.NullPointerException</pre>
<p>
Loading the <acronym title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</acronym>/OBJ files directly is only acceptable during the development phase. If your graphic designer pushes updated files to the asset directory, you can quickly review the latest version in your development environment.
</p>
<p>
For testing and for the final release build, you use .j3o files exclusively. J3o is an optimized binary format for jME3 applications, and .j3o files are automatically included in the distributable JAR file by the build script. When you do QA test builds or are ready to release, use the <a href="/com/jme3/gde/core/docs/sdk.html">jMonkeyPlatform</a> to <a href="/com/jme3/gde/core/docs/sdk/model_loader_and_viewer.html">convert</a> all .obj/.scene/.xml/.blend files to .j3o files, and only load the .j3o versions.
</p>
<p>
Open your JME3 Project in the jMonkeyplatform.
</p>
<ol>
<li><div> Right-click a .Blend, .OBJ, or .mesh.xml file in the Projects window, and choose "convert to JME3 binary". </div>
</li>
<li><div> The .j3o file appears next to the .mesh.xml file and has the same name. </div>
</li>
<li><div> Change all your loadModel() lines accordingly. For example: <pre>Spatial ninja = assetManager.loadModel("Models/Ninja/Ninja.j3o");</pre>
</div>
</li>
</ol>
<p>
If your executable gets a runtime exception, make sure you have converted all models to .j3o!
</p>
</div>
<h3><a>Loading Models and Scenes</a></h3>
<div>
<div><table>
<tr>
<th> Task? </th><th> Solution! </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Load a model with materials </td><td> Use the asset manager's <code>loadModel()</code> method and attach the Spatial to the rootNode. <pre>Spatial elephant = assetManager.loadModel("Models/Elephant/Elephant.mesh.xml");
rootNode.attachChild(elephant);</pre>
<pre>Spatial elephant = assetManager.loadModel("Models/Elephant/Elephant.j3o");
rootNode.attachChild(elephant);</pre>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Load a model without materials </td><td> If you have a model without materials, you have to give it a material to make it visible. <pre>Spatial teapot = assetManager.loadModel("Models/Teapot/Teapot.j3o");
Material mat = new Material(assetManager, "Common/MatDefs/Misc/ShowNormals.j3md"); // default material
teapot.setMaterial(mat);
rootNode.attachChild(teapot);</pre>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Load a scene </td><td> You load scenes just like you load models: <pre>Spatial scene = assetManager.loadModel("Scenes/town/main.scene");
rootNode.attachChild(scene);</pre>
<pre>Spatial scene = assetManager.loadModel("Scenes/town/main.j3o");
rootNode.attachChild(scene);</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</table></div>
<!-- EDIT1 TABLE [10854-11908] -->
</div>
<h2><a>Excercise - How to Load Assets</a></h2>
<div>
<p>
As an exercise, let's try different ways of loading a scene. You will learn how to load the scene directly, or from a zip file.
</p>
<ol>
<li><div> <object classid="java:org.netbeans.modules.javahelp.BrowserDisplayer"><param name="content" value="http://jmonkeyengine.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/engine/town.zip"><param name="text" value="<html><u>Download the town.zip</u></html>"><param name="textColor" value="blue"></object> sample scene. </div>
</li>
<li><div> (Optional:) Unzip the town.zip to see the structure of the contained Ogre dotScene: You'll get a directory named <code>town</code>. It contains <acronym title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</acronym> and texture files, and file called main.scene. (This is just for your information, you do not need to do anything with it.)</div>
</li>
<li><div> Place the town.zip file in the top level directory of your JME3 project, like so: <pre>jMonkeyProjects/MyGameProject/assets/
jMonkeyProjects/MyGameProject/build.xml
jMonkeyProjects/MyGameProject/src/
jMonkeyProjects/MyGameProject/town.zip
...</pre>
</div>
</li>
</ol>
<p>
Use the following method to load models from a zip file:
</p>
<ol>
<li><div> Verify <code>town.zip</code> is in the project directory.</div>
</li>
<li><div> Register a zip file locator to the project directory: Add the following code under <code>simpleInitApp() {</code><pre> assetManager.registerLocator("town.zip", ZipLocator.class.getName());
Spatial gameLevel = assetManager.loadModel("main.scene");
gameLevel.setLocalTranslation(0, -5.2f, 0);
gameLevel.setLocalScale(2);
rootNode.attachChild(gameLevel);</pre>
<p>
The loadModel() method now searches this zip directly for the files to load. <br/>
(This means, do not write <code>loadModel(town.zip/main.scene)</code> or similar!)
</p>
</div>
</li>
<li><div> Clean, build and run the project. <br/>
You should now see the Ninja+wall+teapot standing in a town. </div>
</li>
</ol>
<p>
<strong>Tip:</strong> If you register new locators, make sure you do not get any file name conflicts: Don't name all scenes <code>main.scene</code> but give each scene a unique name.
</p>
<p>
Earlier in this tutorial, you loaded scenes and models from the asset directory. This is the most common way you will be loading scenes and models. Here is the typical procedure:
</p>
<ol>
<li><div> Remove the code that you added for the previous exercise.</div>
</li>
<li><div> Move the unzipped <code>town/</code> directory into the <code>assets/Scenes/</code> directory of your project.</div>
</li>
<li><div> Add the following code under <code>simpleInitApp() {</code> <pre> Spatial gameLevel = assetManager.loadModel("Scenes/town/main.scene");
gameLevel.setLocalTranslation(0, -5.2f, 0);
gameLevel.setLocalScale(2);
rootNode.attachChild(gameLevel);</pre>
<p>
Note that the path is relative to the <code>assets/…</code> directory.
</p>
</div>
</li>
<li><div> Clean, build and run the project. Again, you should see the Ninja+wall+teapot standing in a town. </div>
</li>
</ol>
<p>
Here is a third method you must know, loading a scene/model from a .j3o file:
</p>
<ol>
<li><div> Remove the code from the previous exercise.</div>
</li>
<li><div> If you haven't already, open the <a href="/com/jme3/gde/core/docs/sdk.html">jMonkeyPlatform</a> and open the project that contains the HelloAsset class.</div>
</li>
<li><div> In the projects window, browse to the <code>assets/Scenes/town</code> directory. </div>
</li>
<li><div> Right-click the <code>main.scene</code> and convert the scene to binary: The jMoneyPlatform generates a main.j3o file.</div>
</li>
<li><div> Add the following code under <code>simpleInitApp() {</code><pre> Spatial gameLevel = assetManager.loadModel("Scenes/town/main.j3o");
gameLevel.setLocalTranslation(0, -5.2f, 0);
gameLevel.setLocalScale(2);
rootNode.attachChild(gameLevel);</pre>
<p>
Again, note that the path is relative to the <code>assets/…</code> directory.
</p>
</div>
</li>
<li><div> Clean, Build and run the project. <br/>
Again, you should see the Ninja+wall+teapot standing in a town. </div>
</li>
</ol>
</div>
<h2><a>Conclusion</a></h2>
<div>
<p>
Now you know how to populate the scenegraph with static shapes and models, and how to build scenes. You have learned how to load assets using the <code>assetManager</code> and you have seen that the paths start relative to your project directory. Another important thing you have learned is to convert models to .j3o format for the executable JARs etc.
</p>
<p>
Let's add some action to the scene and continue with the <a href="/com/jme3/gde/core/docs/jme3/beginner/hello_main_event_loop.html">Update Loop</a>!
</p>
<hr />
<p>
<strong>See also:</strong>
</p>
<ul>
<li><div> <object classid="java:org.netbeans.modules.javahelp.BrowserDisplayer"><param name="content" value="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9hhZie2D-fENDBlZDU5MzgtNzlkYi00YmQzLTliNTQtNzZhYTJhYjEzNWNk&hl=en"><param name="text" value="<html><u>Exporting OgreXML scenes from Blender to jME</u></html>"><param name="textColor" value="blue"></object> </div>
</li>
<li><div> <object classid="java:org.netbeans.modules.javahelp.BrowserDisplayer"><param name="content" value="http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/forum/index.php?topic=14418.0"><param name="text" value="<html><u>Screenshots of a great loaded model</u></html>"><param name="textColor" value="blue"></object></div>
</li>
<li><div> <object classid="java:org.netbeans.modules.javahelp.BrowserDisplayer"><param name="content" value="http://www.youtube.com/user/aramakara"><param name="text" value="<html><u>Video tutorials for getting OgreXML out of 3DS Max using OgreMax</u></html>"><param name="textColor" value="blue"></object></div>
</li>
<li><div> If you want to learn how to load sounds, see <a href="/com/jme3/gde/core/docs/jme3/beginner/hello_audio.html">Hello Audio</a></div>
</li>
<li><div> If you want to learn more about loading textures and materials, see <a href="/com/jme3/gde/core/docs/jme3/beginner/hello_material.html">Hello Material</a></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div><span>
<a href="/wiki/doku.php/tag:beginner?do=showtag&tag=tag%3Abeginner">beginner</a>,
<a href="/wiki/doku.php/tag:intro?do=showtag&tag=tag%3Aintro">intro</a>,
<a href="/wiki/doku.php/tag:documentation?do=showtag&tag=tag%3Adocumentation">documentation</a>,
<a href="/wiki/doku.php/tag:lightnode?do=showtag&tag=tag%3Alightnode">lightnode</a>,
<a href="/wiki/doku.php/tag:material?do=showtag&tag=tag%3Amaterial">material</a>,
<a href="/wiki/doku.php/tag:model?do=showtag&tag=tag%3Amodel">model</a>,
<a href="/wiki/doku.php/tag:node?do=showtag&tag=tag%3Anode">node</a>,
<a href="/wiki/doku.php/tag:gui?do=showtag&tag=tag%3Agui">gui</a>,
<a href="/wiki/doku.php/tag:hud?do=showtag&tag=tag%3Ahud">hud</a>,
<a href="/wiki/doku.php/tag:texture?do=showtag&tag=tag%3Atexture">texture</a>
</span></div>
</div>
<p><em><a href="http://direct.jmonkeyengine.org/wiki/doku.php/jme3:beginner:hello_asset?do=export_xhtmlbody">view online version</a></em></p> | RedPajamaGithub_8913794549405195937 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Лёгле́ () — коммуна во Франции, находится в регионе Бургундия. Департамент коммуны — Кот-д'Ор. Входит в состав кантона Ресе-сюр-Урс. Округ коммуны — Монбар.
Код INSEE коммуны — 21346.
Население
Население коммуны на 2010 год составляло 337 человек.
Экономика
В 2010 году среди 216 человек трудоспособного возраста (15—64 лет) 158 были экономически активными, 58 — неактивными (показатель активности — 73,1 %, в 1999 году было 74,0 %). Из 158 активных жителей работали 140 человек (92 мужчины и 48 женщин), безработных было 18 (9 мужчин и 9 женщин). Среди 58 неактивных 9 человек были учениками или студентами, 24 — пенсионерами, 25 были неактивными по другим причинам.
История
Наиболее известен картезианский монастырь, основанный в 1172 году. Большая часть его зданий сохранилась, однако сначала во времена Реформации, а потом — во время Французской революции 1789—1794 годов монастырь практически опустошался. Так, освящённый в 1203 году храм долгое время служил амбаром.
Здания монастыря стали национальным достоянием в 1791 году, в настоящее время — частная собственность.
См. также
Список округов Франции
Примечания
Ссылки
Национальный институт статистики — Лёгле
Коммуны департамента Кот-д'Ор | RedPajamaWikipedia_1191401331380777160 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
The Wings Club Foundation Announces Heather Penney As 2017 Outstanding Aviator Award Recipient
Wings Club Foundation, Inc
This year, The Wings Club Foundation, Inc. and IAWA (International Aviation Womens Association), will honor Heather Penney with the 2017 annual Outstanding Aviator Award. The presentation of this year's Award will take place during The Wings Club Foundation's Annual Meeting, to be held on the evening of Wednesday, March 29, 2017, at The Yale Club in New York City.
Most widely recognized for her extraordinary service and bravery on September 11, 2001, Heather Penney was one of two pilots who swiftly took action to protect the airspace over Washington, D.C. as the hijacked airliner, United Flight 93, was heading for the nation's capital. Their mission was simple – to take down the hijacked airplane by any means necessary. However, as there wasn't time to arm the F-16's, it clearly was a suicide mission to fly into the airliner.
Penney was part of the first wave of women who went directly into fighters from pilot training. She grew up around aviation and warbirds, and applied to the Air National Guard to fly F-16s as soon as she learned that Congress had opened combat aviation to women.
The first and only woman in the 121st Fighter Squadron, Penney deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom for initial combat operations as a night-time SCUD Hunter in the western deserts of Iraq, also supporting Special Operations Forces.
Penney currently works for Lockheed Martin as the Director of Air Force Aviation Training Systems, specializing in capture management, government relations, and strategic business development. There, her portfolio includes the F-22, F-16 and F-35 training. She is currently focused on the Air Force's Advanced Pilot Training competition.
Since its inception in 2010, the annual Outstanding Aviator Award has been presented to iconic recipients such as: the Tuskegee Airmen, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), the Doolittle Raiders, Patty Wagstaff, Robert A. "Bob" Hoover, Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann and Colonel Edward T. Rock (USAF Ret.).
The Wings Club Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Its mission is to focus on initiatives aimed at supporting scholarships for students pursuing a career in aviation or aerospace; providing programs to educate in the field of aviation and supporting charitable organizations that use aviation to help those in need. The Wings Club Foundation serves over 1,300 members including industry leaders, pilots, professionals in related service organizations and students of aviation.
The International Aviation Womens Association (IAWA) is an international organization for women who hold positions of impact in the aviation and aerospace industry. Founded in 1988, IAWA brings together women of achievement and promotes their advancement throughout the world.
If you are interested in attending this year's presentation of the award to Heather Penney and would also like to attend the Annual Meeting, please RSVP to Lea MacDougall at (212) 867-1770 or email wingsclub@aol.com. For more information on The Wings Club visit www.wingsclub.org. Members and guests are invited. | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_8095805763580832990 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
(, "forested sites") is a term which has been used since the early thirteenth century to refer to the (singular: , "sites"), or later Ort (plural: , "place") or (plural: , "estate") of the early confederate allies of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden in today's Central Switzerland.
From the 13th to 19th centuries, the term also synoptically referred to the nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden; later, the term was gradually replaced by the term .
The term ("forest; woods") is to be understood in contrast to , the former in Middle High German terminology referring to cultivated land of alternating pastures, fields and woods, while the latter referred to deep, uncultivated forests ().
History
The Middle High German terms or (in the sense of "forested site/settlement") is also used alongside (modern , or "town, city", in the sense of a powerful, possibly protected settlement with special rights) and (modern , in the sense of rural countrysides) in reference to the individual confederate allies into the first half of 15th century and became gradually replaced by the term ("point; lieu") or ("state"), which stayed prominent in German-speaking Switzerland until the Helvetic Republic; the term canton (in German: ), in origin a Romance translation of German , was unknown for the German-speaking allies until around 1650.
The first recorded use of the term specifically as referring to the wooded valleys of Central Switzerland is in a document dated 1289, mentioning (i.e. "in Schwyz, in the wooded site").
In 1323, Glarus is named a alongside Schwyz. The application to the allies of the early Swiss Confederacy dates to 1309. In 1310, Duke Frederick the Fair complains about the king impeding his rights to the .
With the establishment of the Confederacy in the 1310s, the term is adopted as an exonym, and in the pacts which expanded the Confederacy, with Lucerne in 1332 and with Berne in 1353.
The inclusion of Lucerne as a "fourth" is first mentioned in an addition dated to the 1450s in the Silver Book of Egloff Etterlin.
In the protocols of the Swiss Diet in the second half of the 15th century, under the presidency of Lucerne, the term vier waltstette sees frequent use. Albrecht von Bonstetten in his (1479) suggests that the term (latinized ) was in common use.
Lake Lucerne is given the new name of (aka Lake of Four Forested Sites) in the 16th century.
See also
Formation of the Old Swiss Confederacy
Federal Charter of 1291
Canton of Waldstätten
References
Old Swiss Confederacy | RedPajamaWikipedia_6789439508524029352 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Prodigious anchor bracket concrete metal wood pics wood pics post fence post fence stylesand metal post anchor bracket concrete metal. Remarkable extenda bracket concrete patio pergola pergola cover options pergola post supports add roof to pergola pergola braces wood pergola kits concrete post brackets garden postfix slotted concrete fence post brackets. Horrible hanging baskets 6x6 post concrete brackets fence post fence post brackets concrete.. | RedPajamaC4_-2772217004644627935 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Delta Study: Covid-19 transmission rate in aircraft is extremely low!
By Cristina Last updated 10 Sept 2021
The risk of exposure to Covid-19 while traveling - after all passengers have been tested negative up to 72 hours before the flight - is less than 0.1%. A unique study that examined real-world customer data on the tested flight corridors of Delta Air Lines between New York-JFK, Atlanta and Rome Fiumicino International Airport in Italy.
The study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings showed that a single molecular test, performed within 72 hours of departure, could reduce the rate of infected people aboard a commercial aircraft to a level that is significantly below active infection rates in different communities. .
For example, when the average community infection rate was 1.1% - about 1 in 100 people - infection rates on Covid-19 tested flights were 0.05% - 5 out of 10.000 passengers.
The Georgia Department of Health and the Mayo Clinic conducted the study with Delta Air Lines.
"These real-world data - not simulation models - are what governments around the world can use as a plan to request vaccinations and tests instead of quarantine to reopen borders for international travel.", explained Henry Ting, head of Delta health.
Ting added that real experience and testing protocol demonstrate that there is a very low risk of infection transmission, confirming previous models of viral transmission simulation. The study began in December with the Covid-19 transatlantic testing program that allowed trips without quarantine to Italy and allowed teams to review and model various feasibility testing strategies, false positive rates and case detection rates.
Now, the results of this study are available - providing unique information on the risk of exposure to SARS-CoV-2, on-board infection rates and showing the feasibility of implementing a test protocol with significant impact. These figures will continue to improve as vaccination rates rise and cases fall worldwide.
AtlantaDelta Air LinesNew YorkRome
easyJet rejects Wizz Air's takeover bid
The Greek authorities are introducing rapid testing for access to public transport | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_-886268880676439240 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
11.18.18 06:41 Account Receive +1.5 Received Payment 1.5 USD from account U16486972 to account U14220***. Batch: 236374207. Memo: API Payment. Withdraw to HyipsInvestcom from BTC PRO.
11.08.18 19:58 Account Receive +1.5 Received Payment 1.5 USD from account U16486972 to account U14220***. Batch: 235298962. Memo: API Payment. Withdraw to HyipsInvestcom from BTC PRO.
10.31.18 19:51 Account Receive +1.5 Received Payment 1.5 USD from account U16486972 to account U14220***. Batch: 234043124. Memo: API Payment. Withdraw to HyipsInvestcom from BTC PRO. | RedPajamaC4_1724821286683110803 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
How will No Fault PIP insurance work for Uber users?
What No Fault protections do you have if you're in an Uber car and do not have your own auto insurance?
Yesterday, I wrote about some of the problems I see with Uber's new "insurance gap" coverage from the tort (or bodily injury side). That is, how this new insurance coverage will affect someone who is hit by an Uber driver looking for a ride.
I also wrote about someone who is injured in an Uber-operated vehicle when the Uber driver is involved or causes a car accident. And I explained why Uber's blog post that "most personal auto insurance will provide coverage…[d]uring the time that a ridesharing partner is available but between trips" just isn't going to be true here in Michigan (and I have a strong hunch in most other states as well).
Today I'll be focusing on the first-party or No Fault insurance side of the law as it applies to Uber. As Michigan is a No Fault state, the first-party case covers what No Fault insurance benefits you will receive if you're hurt in a car accident. It's very different from the tort or third-party side that I covered yesterday. The No Fault PIP benefits under Michigan law include medical bills and medical care, wage loss, replacement services, medical mileage, and depending on the severity of the injury, attendant care nursing services. Most attorneys and insurance claims adjusters refer to these first-party benefits as your PIP (personal injury protection) benefits or just as No Fault benefits.
Although one might presume Uber's statement about No Fault coverage applies to its "insurance gap" coverage, the ride-sharing service did not specifically say so in either of its blogs describing the extent of its "insurance gap" coverage. Hopefully, Uber will clarify its position on this important point.
If Uber's "insurance gap" coverage doesn't include Michigan No Fault coverage, then Uber drivers, as well as pedestrians, bicyclists and uninsured passengers in other vehicles will be put at substantial risk.
Without "insurance gap" coverage that includes No Fault protection, Uber drivers who are injured in a car accident while "on duty" (in between fares and looking for Uber riders) could be disqualified from collecting No Fault benefits if their personal No Fault auto insurance policy includes a "commercial use" exclusion.
Significantly, a "commercial use" exclusion in the Uber driver's personal auto insurance policy could also leave injured pedestrians, bicyclists and uninsured passengers in other vehicles without immediate access to No Fault benefits.
Generally, auto accident victims in that position (assuming they're not covered by their own No Fault policy or the policy of a spouse or resident relative) would seek No Fault benefits from the owner of the car – in this case, the owner of the Uber driver's vehicle.
Tomorrow, I'll discuss the different aspects of Uber's commercial liability coverage for on-duty Uber drivers when they're transporting a ride/fare/passenger. | RedPajamaC4_-423462759237053735 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
For in vitro diagnostic use. The RIDASCREEN® Entamoeba histolytica IgG test is an enzyme immunoassay for the qualitative determination of IgG antibodies against Entamoeba histolytica in human serum. The test should be used for confirmation purposes when there is a suspected case of amoebiasis.
Infection with E. histolytica occurs orally with the intake of cysts. The vegetative form of the parasite develops from these cysts in the small intestine. This trophozoite multiplies and differentiates mostly in the colon. The clinical symptoms of an amebiasis are triggered by the invasion of parasites from the intestinal lumen into the mucous membrane of the colon. Diarrhea, dysentery or even ameboma are results of the invasion into the intestinal mucosa. If dissemination occurs, further complications can be liver abscesses, lung abscesses or in rare cases even brain abscesses, which can be fatal if left untreated. If an extraintestinal amebiasis was suspected, sonography should be the method of the choice. Since this method cannot always differentiate an abscess caused by E. histolytica from other abscesses or carcinoma, an antibody detection should be made to support other clinical findings. Antibodies are usually detectable with the beginning of the clinical symptoms. Due to the often negative results in case of an abscess, the antigen detection in stool is not sufficient. Direct detection of Entameba in the punctate is not of importance, because ameba are rarely detectable in abscess material. | RedPajamaC4_7030074882863120425 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
'The Transfiguration of Benjamin Banneker' at La MaMa
Alexandra Silber heads Back to The West End, BroadwayCon 2020 and a love of theatre
Under the Radar Festival: THE UNKNOWN DANCER IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) Presents 'Timon of Athens'
New Ohio Theatre for Young Minds presents UP CLOSE FESTIVAL
Stage Biz
Welcome to Stage Biz!
NOTHING HERE IS REAL – Interview with Gary Ferrar
by Jacquelyn Claire - June 26, 2019 1
Gary Ferrar.
For a single night each month, you can join Gary Ferrar, one of New York's most sought-after entertainers, for a mind-bending evening of magic and mentalism. You gather around an antique pool table in an underground parlor to become part of an intimate experience that will leave you questioning what, if anything, is actually real. Mentalist and magician Gary Ferrar's world premiere of NOTHING HERE IS REAL, directed by Harrison Kramer, has begun its residency and open-ended run at The Cocktail Lounge Below Tom Valenti's Oxbow Tavern (240 Columbus Ave. at West 71 St.). Performances take place every last Tuesday of the month.
The Huffington Post raves, "This guy's show is absolutely insane!" and Forbes Magazine describes Ferrar's act as "a nuanced parlor show with intimate mentalism."
We were fortunate enough to ask Gary a few questions about his source of inspiration, his collaborators his legendary wild animal tamer grandfather, the Brotherhood of Magicians and much more…
Almost everything! There's a lot I don't understand in the world, so I'm always trying to learn what I can. I do a lot of driving between gigs, and I listen to an assortment of podcasts that are extremely eclectic. You never know how inspiration is going to strike, so I like to get new points of view and operate outside my comfort zone.
How did you discover The Cocktail Lounge Below Tom Valenti's Oxbow Tavern? Why is this the perfect venue for your latest show Nothing Here is Real?
I was hired by a private client for an event that was held in the space and instantly fell in love with it. The exposed brick walls, the red velvet curtains, the couches, the private bar in the back. I instantly knew it was the perfect space for this kind of show. It's classy without being pretentious, and with such an intimate performance, the environment is critical. The presence of the pool table meant that I literally built the show around the room. I wanted all the material in the show to feel very natural happening there, and I think we achieved that.
What is the difference, for you, between being a magician and a mentalist?
A mentalist charges more… In all seriousness, there's not much difference! Traditionally, a magician works with objects and a mentalist works with minds, but even that dividing line gets quite blurry. So I embrace that, and tend to mix both styles and present them as a common experience.
Where did you get your inspiration for your new production?
Most of the effects in this show have been in my head for a while. I'd be working and suddenly think, "wouldn't it be cool if…" but because of the impracticality of the ideas, they couldn't fit into my working repertoire at gigs. Eventually, I put them all into a rough draft for a script and realized that it all worked well together.
How did you meet the director of your show, Harrison Kramer, and how does he elevate your craft?
Harrison reached out to me several years ago, because he wanted to learn magic and he quickly developed a great act. I regularly send clients his way if I'm already booked, so we have a very trusting relationship. He was the natural choice to help shape this project because he knows my performance style better than anyone. He'll question me about every single decision I make in the show, which makes my work very precise.
How do you prepare for your shows?
The show appears very simple on the outside, but there's a surprising amount of props involved. So I typically focus on checking prop placements before the audience arrives. It's almost become a meditative process, with some jazz playing in the background and the whole room to myself. I treasure that moment as much as I do the show.
What personality traits do you think you require to be a successful magician/mentalist?
I think an outgoing/open personality is key. As a mentalist, you're quite literally reading people and taking performance cues from them. There needs to be a tremendous amount of trust, and if they see that you're really putting your true self out there for the world to see, then they will be much more likely to do the same. And those are the moments that end up feeling really special.
What led you to becoming an all-in-one performer, improviser, magician, mentalist and magic consultant?
Theater was my first love. I liked being on stage but also wanted an understanding for how lights and sound worked. Magic was an opportunity to have my own little show. Since at most gigs, I'm the audio controller, the performer, the stage crew, the creative consultant, etc… it leads to production meetings that are quite lonely. But it also allows me to be very efficient. If I can tell that a crowd wants something more serious or something sillier, I can make all the necessary adjustments on the fly.
You belong to the International Brotherhood of Magicians – that sounds really cool. What do you most love about being part of this illustrious order?
I shouldn't say too much.
Entertainment is in your DNA. Your grandfather was wild animal tamer – Ed Ferrar. What did you learn from him that still impacts your daily life?
My grandfather had a tremendous amount of confidence. At my first paid magic show, for a small hotel owned by a friend of his, he introduced me as "an up and coming magician direct from New York City!" I was eleven and knew a couple card tricks. It taught me that perception matters, and you need to give the audience permission to respect you as a performer. That's a skill that I'm still developing.
Who are your modern-day mentors?
I'm not extremely involved in the magic community. Most of my inspiration comes from outside magic. But Mac King has a show in Vegas that I saw as a child. If there was ever a moment that made me want to do this for a living, it was that show.
What is your favorite thing about being an entertainer?
The audiences! In my working repertoire, I have effects that I've been doing for over 10 years. Like all jobs, there are moments that can feel repetitive. But by always interacting with different people, I'm constantly on my toes. I would hate to do the same exact set every night, so I'm very thankful that people are, in general, so odd and unpredictable.
You offer Magic camps? Where can we sign up?
This summer I'm not personally working many camps because my performance schedule is so hectic. But for any kids looking to get a start, I'm in close contact with all the instructors at Future Stars Camps, and I usually pop in for a day or two to talk with the kids. They have a great program with several locations over the summer.
What is your most beloved magic trick?
I think it depends on my mood. Right now, it's an effect in Nothing Here Is Real that combines a true story about my grandparents with some props that were used earlier in the show. As I approach that moment in the show, I feel everything coming full circle just before the audience does, and I get really excited.
What big adventure/s would you still like to tackle in your life time?
Right now, my wife and I have a four year old and a one year old. Raising them is the biggest and greatest adventure I've tackled, and it doesn't leave much room for others! But eventually, I'd like to bring my show to other parts of the world.
Gary Ferrar (Creator, Performer) draws on his love for theater and improvisation in more than 300 performances each year, from live national TV appearances on Fox News, to performing for Howard Stern, Sharon Osbourne, and Howie Mandel on Season 7 of "America's Got Talent." Clients like Google, Facebook, and Spotify have all called on Gary to produce entertainment that is both theatrical and mind-blowing for corporate events, product launches, and digital marketing campaigns, such as Buzzfeed's "Drunk Magic" video, which has been viewed over one million times. Gary has served as a magic consultant for television commercials for Samsung and as a publicity consultant for Lionsgate's Now You See Me franchise. In addition to performing, Gary has lectured for the oldest magic society in the U.S. and provides private lessons on magic theory for celebrities and influencers such as Ivanka Trump and Ralph Lauren.
For more information, visit www.garyferrar.com, Like him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ahrealmagic, and follow him on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/garyferrarmagic.
Tagged DARR Publicity Gary Ferrar Harrison Kramer Nothing Here is Real The Cocktail Lounge Below Tom Valenti's Oxbow Tavern
Jacquelyn Claire
Final Performances of Megan Monaghan Rivas's 'Three Musketeers: 1941' This Weekend!
"Dog Man the Musical" at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
One thought on "NOTHING HERE IS REAL – Interview with Gary Ferrar"
David Gibbs says:
Such a lovely interview!
Sandy Hackett on The Rat Pack Is Back and Rudy Fusco Leads The Charge As Joey Bishop
DB Frick on The Rat Pack Is Back and Rudy Fusco Leads The Charge As Joey Bishop
NYC's Dance Music Comedy Art Show: Live on Sat. Dec. 14 – Ten-Foot Rat Cabaret on Guilty Pleasures Cabaret: Christmas Show at The Duplex
Ralston van der Schyff on Emma Van Heyn at The Bitter End
Jeff Myhre © 2020 Jeff Myhre | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_5196441860533383626 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
My name is Miroslav and I am one of the most wanted PowerPoint presentation designers on LinkedIN. As result of this and after more than 5 years active marketing , I managed to...Read moreMy name is Miroslav and I am one of the most wanted PowerPoint presentation designers on LinkedIN. As result of this and after more than 5 years active marketing , I managed to gather and create one of kind database with contact details of London's TOP decision makers on LinkedIn.
This is pure gold! Right after the purchase I checked a dozen random contacts and I found them all on LinkedIn. And they all were executives of serious companies. Thank you! | RedPajamaC4_7489724675400178331 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
On the tenth anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, a reinterpretation of what happened — and a warning of the dangers that might lie just ahead.
Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctum of a new gilded age.
The American Beverage Association basically extorted California's government into preempting the authority of cities and counties to impose soda taxes over the next 12 years. Unfortunately other large corporate interests are also using similar tactics to get what they want.
Temp Work: The Waste Product of the Service Economy?
Cornell professor Louis Hyman explains the history of the unmaking of American work, how temporary work took over the economy, and why the gig economy may yet have a silver lining.
A look at how the next generation of Republicans is doing in the Trump era.
Want to understand the consequences of pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal? What it means for the US, Iran, and rest of the world? Listen to this conversation with Iran scholar and former Iranian ambassador and government official Seyed Hossein Mousavian.
How the journey of the most-listened-to national radio talk show host in America may have changed US politics forever.
Bill Browder talks about being on the top of Russian President Vladimir Putin's most wanted list, his personal safety, and his shock at President Donald Trump's reaction to Putin's Helsinki proposal.
What Connects FIFA, the World Cup, Trump, Mueller, Comey, Putin, and Christopher Steele?
How the largest sports corruption scandal of all time was uncovered and prosecuted in the US — the country that cares the least about soccer.
The next global pandemic is not going to be stopped by a wall, trade barriers, or a travel ban. A look at what has worked and what hasn't as we face a new Ebola outbreak in Africa.
Prosecutors get away with just about anything, including falsifying evidence, coercing witnesses, and ruining lives — but that may change. | RedPajamaC4_-3868634535003277987 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Home World News UK News UK records highest single-day death toll since start of pandemic, hospitals under pressure
The UK on January 8 recorded nearly 1,325 deaths within 28 days of a positive COVID test - the highest single-day record since the pandemic began. The figures bring Britain's official death toll from coronavirus to 79,833, while the country also recorded another 68,053 new cases. London Mayor Sadiq Khan declared a "major incident" and the Public Health England (PHE) said that the number of deaths would "continue to rise" until the country stops the spread.
The news of the highest death toll comes as the government launched a new campaign in England urging people to "act like you've got" the virus. According to BBC, the campaign, including an advert fronted by England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, is intended to remind the public COVID-19 is spreading fast, with a large number of people showing no symptoms. Whitty said that amid the rapid spread of the virus, many people are at risk of serious disease and it is also placing a lot of pressure on the NHS.
READ: Iran's Top Leader Bans Corona Vaccines From US, Britain
READ: UK Approves Third COVID-19 Vaccine As Moderna's Jab Gets Green Light
UK approves third COVID vaccine
The grim news also came just hours after the UK regulator authorised the third vaccine for emergency use. The UK government had ordered an additional 10 million doses of Moderna's vaccine which has shown 94% efficacy against the highly-infectious disease in the final phase of clinical trials. Prior to this, UK Prime minister Boris Johnson's government had already ordered seven million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine.
Even though additional 10 million doses of the jab are likely to follow, reportedly, it won't be available until March because the doses are being manufactured firstly in the US. Further, it would also take a few months before the European manufacturing facilities will be ready to distribute the vaccines.
Meanwhile, before Moderna's COVID-19 jab, UK became the first nation in the world to approve Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine and has already begun its roll out along with the ones developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca. On January 7, Johnson had informed that nearly 1.26 million doses have been administered in England, 113,000 in Scotland, 49,000 in Wales, along with at least 46,000 in Northern Ireland as the new COVID-19 strain pushes the nation into the toughest lockdown since the pandemic began last year.
READ: WHO: UK Virus Variant Raises Alarm For Healthcare
READ: UK PM: Trump Cast Doubt On Free And Fair Election | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_-4101699083025382922 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Chrissy Teigen Pays for Woman's Beauty School Tuition
Chrissy Teigen has paid for a woman to attend beauty school. The 31-year-old model and TV presenter casually donated $5,500 to Mercedes Edney, who had been trying to raise the ...
Chrissy Teigen Escapes Uninjured After Hit and Run Accident
Chrissy Teigen escaped injury when she was involved in a minor car crash on Tuesday night. The 31-year-old model wife of singer John Legend was the passenger in the vehicle ...
Teen Performs Epic Lip Sync and His Mom Could Not Care Less
Move over Melissa McCarthy, this teen just beat you for the most epic lip sync of all time. Meet Motoki Maxted, a teenager from Los Angeles who has just taken over ...
Melissa McCarthy Slays Lip Sync Battle With 'Colors of the Wind'
It's official: Melissa McCarthy has won the gold medal in Lip Sync Battles. While promoting her new film, The Boss, McCarthy joined Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show Monday night ...
LL Cool J Announces New Album After Retiring
Rapper LL Cool J fooled fans by declaring his retirement from music – hours before announcing a new album. The "Hey Lover" star told fans on Twitter that he was ...
Best Lip Sync Battles So Far
Lip syncing has becoming the newest trend, but watching our favorite celebrities lip syncing is pure entertainment. Hosted by LL Cool J and Chrissy Teigen, Lip Sync Battle has become ...
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Masterfully Tackles Janet Jackson On 'Lip Sync Battle'
Joseph Gordon-Levitt nailed an impersonation of Janet Jackson during an appearance on Lip Sync Battle. In a festive episode of the series, hosted by LL Cool J and Chrissy Teigen, Gordon-Levitt battled ... | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_-5118863599064720808 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
The Silmfilm Project
Across the Series
Episode Questions
Session 5-19: The Differing Perspectives of Men and Elves
Thread starter MithLuin
MithLuin
Session 5-19 will be held on Thursday December 3rd at 10 PM Eastern Time. We will be discussing the differing world views of Men and Elves, and how to incorporate these differences into the Season 5 material on our show.
What do you think are some of the most important differences in perspective that would result from the differences in lifespans between Men and Elves? How would these differences affect their cultures in ways that a member of the other culture would notice?
What other cultural differences are likely to have resulted from the very different histories of the Noldor and the Men who come to Beleriand?
This will be a brainstorming session, so the more suggestions, the better!
Session 5-20 will be held on Thursday December 17th at 10 PM, and will be discussing Episode 2. Discussion for that Episode can be found on the thread in the script forum. That will be our final session for 2020.
Reactions: Ange1e4e5 and Nicholas Palazzo
Ange1e4e5
How are the Elves going to decide that Men are going to be more useful than cannon fodder?
Also, maybe get into something regarding Andreth and Aegnor; is Aegnor a coward for not going further with Andreth?
amysrevenge
Birthdays and anniversaries. Men: Yes please! Elves: I don't understand what you mean.
Strictly defined rules of succession of power: Men: how would our civilization survive without this? Elves: let's wing it!
amysrevenge said:
"Smokey, this isn't 'Nam; this is bowling, there are rules."
I think Elves have pretty definite rules of succession, that of eldest-male preference. Luthien was never stated to be Thingol's heir while her son Dior was. Idril was never stated to be Turgon's heir either, and was subsequently passed over in favor of her younger cousin Gil-galad. Men, at least the House of Beor in our adaptation, are a bit less defined.
No matter where you stick Gil-galad genealogically, there are some interesting twists and turns, and some definite improvisations, in Finwe -> Fingolfin -> Fingon (the only father to eldest son transition) -> Turgon -> Gil-galad.
And you could posit that the notion of an "heir", or at least the relative importance of having or being one, was in the background when Luthien came around, but was now in the front of people's brains by the time of Dior's arrival. If you asked a random Sindar pre-Noldor "Hey, who is Thingol's heir?", the answer would probably be a puzzled look, followed by "Luthien, I suppose.". Ask the same question after Beren has come and gone, and, well, Dior has got Thingol's Heir in his name.
Reactions: Nicholas Palazzo
Well in our case we used the Gil-galad as Orodreth's son, so Fingon had no kids, so the line passed to Turgon, Idril gets shunted aside, and it goes to Gil-Galad. That's pretty well-defined (not least because most everybody else is dead).
Nicholas Palazzo
Ange1e4e5 said:
Wouldn't it pass to Maedhros before Fingon by that definition?
Nicholas Palazzo said:
Hadn't Maedhros forfeited to Fingolfin and for the House of Fëanor in general had forfeited by their actions, that they would become the lowest of the Noldor?
Maedhros established that Fingolfin should be king because he was eldest of the descendants of Finwë available. Once Fingolfin dies, that should pass to Maedhros. It doesn't happen, so the rule isn't a firm policy.
Maedhros is Feanor's heir. Maedhros pulls an interesting sleight-of-hand where he decides the High King should be Finwe's heir, and oh look, with Feanor dead, that's Fingolfin. The High Kingship then passes to Fingolfin's heir Fingon.
However, in Silm Film, we decided that the Noldor are choosing a High King each time the need arises, and it's mostly a case of recognizing the best person for the job with seniority. There is not a strict 'male primogeniture' rule in place. Fingolfin rules as High King for 450 years, so...the question does not arise often.
For Season 5, we can definitely have observations about Men lead Fingolfin to pay more attention to the need to train Fingon as his heir. 'Passing the torch' to the next generation is a necessary part of preserving human culture. While elves likely do some of the same things, they would have nowhere near the urgency about this. They plan to be around for awhile, and so the assumption is that you can always consult a living memory and things will not be lost to time.
Even the notion of using writing to record history.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Men learn writing from Elves here, right? What if it's almost accidental - the Elves have so much to teach, and writing is just this cute little artistic thing in a long list of other cute little artistic things. But the first of the Men to see writing and have it explained might immediately see the path to long term memory that the Elves have overlooked.
Reactions: Haakon, Nicholas Palazzo and MithLuin
Professor Olsen brought up this very point not incredibly long ago.
I'm behind on listening to sessions haha
To be fair, the sessions available for listening have been relatively behind as well.
To Men, nature is something that provides stuff you can use, often by destroying it to some degree. Elves collaborate with nature, or brings out hidden qualities. This makes Men prone to struggle, while Elves play with things and love them.
Finrodismyboi
I think the conversation between Turin and Beleg is very relevant here. In that Turin regards the valar as maybe existent but not in the slightest bit effective in his life because of how short it is and therefore places his trust in his own deeds and himself as master over his own doom. Whereas beleg placed his trust in the valar and sees their providence unfolding all of the time, and has the lifespan to one day witness that the promise of the valar to redeem middle earth actually comes about. I think the elves should also hold men by and large of little account because of their short days and fragile natures in comparison to their own. However they should then be equally awed that someone with such a short life should dedicate it to the vanquishing of evil no matter how futile that quest seems to be and how outmatched they are by their opponent.
Finrodismyboi said:
I thought that conversation was with Gwindor.
I think also that elves at the beginning should be fascinated by men though and men should be captivated by the beauty and wisdom of the elves as was shown when my boi finrod first encountered the men of Beor
It may have been doesn't really matter to the point
Yes, the Men entering Beleriand have an oral tradition. The House of Bëor living in Nargothrond is going to become fully literate quickly, and no doubt will consider the usefulness of preserving the wisdom of earlier generations in the written word, whereas Elves were just being artistic, treating written records as a variation on a song - you could compose a lay to tell a story, but you wouldn't need to do that to make sure you remember the details. | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_4086424989288913189 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
This video is a tribute to two giants of Badminton- the legendary 7-times All England winner Datuk Eddy Choong, and the 1974 Commonwealth Games Gold Medal winner as well as an BWF official and head coach of the Malaysia's 92 Thomas Cup team Datuk Punch Gunalan.
Knowledge and information is used and invoked for the accomplishment and revival of the good life. The prospects of the success and triumph are custom essays uk accomplished and implemented. The aspects of the social and moral life are covered and used perfectly.
Join in and write your own page! It's easy to do. How? Simply click here to return to Everything Else . | RedPajamaC4_8851636521387272874 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Looking after your teeth is so important, not just to keep your smile looking great, but also to maintain great oral hygiene, which keeps gum disease (and other bodily diseases) at bay.
Below is a selection of our services from general examinations to implants. In order to ensure that everyone can benefit from our services, our prices are competitive and encompass the labour and materials involved.
Examinations for children under 4 and those in the 'Kids' Club' are free!
Regular check-ups are paramount to nipping dental troubles in the bud. Keep your teeth looking and feeling great before problems like gum disease, decay or cavities arise. Help us to help you look after your teeth and gums. | RedPajamaC4_6907493709007723662 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
ActiveRecord::Schema.define(:version => 20100823060835) do
create_table "products", :force => true do |t|
t.string "name"
t.decimal "price"
t.datetime "released_at"
t.datetime "created_at"
t.datetime "updated_at"
end
end
| RedPajamaGithub_2965125324060735952 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Denver ABC now accepts Bitcoin donations!
Greetings all, this is a brief post to let everyone know that the Denver Anarchist Black Cross has finally joined the 21st century, and we now accept Bitcoin donations!
We will now feature our Bitcoin address under the donate section to the right of this post.
Wednesday Dec 4th: Annual Political Prisoner Holiday Card Making Party!
Join Denver ABC for our annual letter writing and card making party for U.S. held political prisoners and prisoners of war.
For over 100 members of our social movements who have been kidnapped from their communities and families, the holidays can be a particularly trying time. A card or short note from someone on the outside can make all the difference for those who have been taken away from everyone they love. All the materials that you need will be provided: paper, art supplies, prisoner addresses, etc. We just need YOU!
This is a family friendly event, so bring the kids, your friends, or anyone else you can. If you can bring any extra art supplies, especially markers or colored pencils (but NO crayons, glue, glitter or anything else that violates prison regulations) that would also be amazingly helpful.
An assortment of vegan and non-vegan treats and baked goods will be provided as well as other refreshments.
We hope you'll take a couple hours out of your time to show your support and love for our comrades and join us on December 4th.
Coyote will be released on November 8th! Donations and gifts are very much appreciated as Coyote, after sixteen years in prison, needs support in adjusting to life on the outside. On the registry there is a list of some of the things that Coyote expects to need upon release.
Coyote is a self-defined anarchist who holds down his own prison chapter of Anarchist Black Cross in the confines of Nevada's maximum security prison, Ely State Prison.
In addition to starting a prison chapter of the Anarchist Black Cross, Coyote has organized anarchist reading and discussion groups amongst inmates, as well as exercise groups. He has written for radical and anarchist publications. | RedPajamaC4_-7115596320475883199 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
I am the Associate Director of the All My Relations Indigenous Wellness Research Centre at Thompson Rivers University. The research centre is dedicated to building the capacity and capability of Indigenous peoples to engage in Indigenous Wellness research at a global, national and local level. The centre includes the Ombaashi network (international Indigenous health mentoring program), Knowledge Makers (an Indigenous undergraduate and graduate research network) and Tsexmin (role of traditional ceremony in wellness). | RedPajamaC4_574417250982817338 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
"Show, don't tell" is a mantra of narrative writers everywhere, but even the most useful adage can lose meaning with repetition. Before a lunchtime audience of writers at the Second Annual Compleat Biographer Conference on Saturday, legendary biographer Robert Caro reinvigorated the concept.
How did he do it? With a vivid evocation of the way that place can reveal motivation and illuminate character – making direct explanation completely unnecessary.
A 1966 Nieman Fellow, Caro won the Pulitzer Prize twice, first in 1975 for his biography of Robert Moses and again in 2003 for the third installment of his four-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson (the final installment is still in process). To illustrate his point about the power of setting, Caro talked about his research on two key places in Lyndon Johnson's life.
Johnson had grown up outside Johnson City, Texas, and when Caro first started mining his subject's life, he knew there was something he was missing about the place. To get a better understanding, he decided to move there. He took a sleeping bag into the hills to spend an entire day alone, to sleep alone and wake up alone. What he came to realize over time was how empty and inhuman the landscape was.
Caro contrasted the place Johnson grew up with Capitol Hill, where Johnson came into his own and made his career. As with the Texas hill country, Caro felt that something was missing from his understanding of the place. He talked with an early co-worker of Johnson's, who had been an administrative aide on Capitol Hill with him when he was new to Washington. She described watching Johnson come across the length of the Capitol on his way to work in the morning, and mentioned that he always seemed to be running. At first she had thought it was because he didn't have a warm winter coat, but she later noticed that he did it even in summer weather.
Caro wondered about the draw of the place for Johnson and spent time on the Capitol grounds, taking the walk that Johnson took on his way to work again and again, still looking for something. Then he recalled that Johnson and his co-worker were from farm country and headed to work early in the morning. So he tried again at a much earlier hour and found that just after dawn, the east side of the Capitol building was lit up and glowing.
"When Lyndon Johnson first came to Washington, he lived in the basement of a shabby little hotel, in a tiny cubicle across whose ceiling ran bare steam pipes. Its slit of a window stared out across a narrow alley at the weather-stained red brick wall of another hotel. Leaving his room early in the morning, Lyndon would turn left down the alley, walking between the red brick walls of other shabby hotels, but when he turned the corner at the end of that alley, suddenly before him at the top of a long gentle hill would be not brick but marble, a great shadowy mass of marble. Marble columns and marble arches and marble parapets, and a long marble balustrade high against the sky. Veering along a path to the left, he would come up Capitol Hill and around the corner of the Capitol, and the marble of the eastern façade, already caught by the early morning sun, would be a gleaming, brilliant, almost dazzling white. | RedPajamaC4_-3978530061212360467 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
We're thrilled that readers of Travel & Leisure magazine have again named NIZUC Resort & Spa one of the top ten resort hotels in Mexico. These sophisticated travellers tell us we're one of the magazine's "World's Best" winners because of NIZUC's unforgettable mix of locale, design, décor, cuisine, family-friendliness and luxurious amenities. But we know the real award belongs with our guests – who come from all over the world, create the true sparkle of NIZUC, and take beautiful memories back home with them. We hope to see you at NIZUC soon! | RedPajamaC4_2803214705566301514 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
There are few things more relaxing than a pedicure. For a small portion of your day, you get to leave all of your stress and problems at the door and treat yourself to rest and relaxation. Whether it's to bump up your beauty routine or to give yourself a little extra tender love and care, a pedicure will do wonders for you and your toes.
If you're looking for a relaxing treat that helps your feet feel better and look more stylish, our pedicure is what we would prescribe! Soak away all the running around you and your feet have been doing lately. Let our staff treat you to a foot massage that will leave your paws feeling fresh and rejuvenated. It is truly amazing what a soak, a rub, and a little polish can do! | RedPajamaC4_1349568669777543392 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Built in WWII, Camp Crowder, Missouri was once a booming U.S. Army post
by Jeremy P. Amick [email protected] | March 3, 2018 at 6:05 a.m. | Updated March 3, 2018 at 6:05 a.m.
<p>Camp Crowder Archives</p><p>Construction crews raise the walls for barracks on Camp Crowder. The first troops began arriving Dec. 2, 1941, at the Neosho area post.</p>
Fort Leonard Wood has for decades been recognized as Missouri's U.S. Army base. Carved from the wilderness of the rugged Ozarks, groundbreaking for the fort occurred Dec. 3, 1940 — a year prior to the United States' entry into World War II. The 61,000-acre site was completed in June 1941 with "nearly 1,600 buildings (constructed), comprising five million feet of floor space," wrote Dr. Larry Roberts in the summer 2008 issue of the Manuever Support Magazine.
At the same point Fort Leonard Wood neared completion, a group of officers from the Seventh Corps Area actively investigated sites in Missouri for another Army base where additional troops could be trained for the country's anticipated involvement in World War II.
"The desirability of the site depended upon such things as water supply, railroad facilities, topography, location of transcontinental highways and other military needs," wrote Don Mayes in a souvenir booklet of Camp Crowder's construction published in 1942. He added, "Neosho was recommended and thus was the beginning of Camp Crowder."
Burns and McDonnell Engineering Company of Kansas City was awarded the contract to oversee construction of the camp and on May 28, 1941, moved into a building in nearby Neosho to begin their work. For the next few months, the firm was busy with surveying, mapping and drawing up site plans for the proposed camp.
"The War Department has designated a tentative camp site in the Neosho area but actual construction will not be started unless the army is expanded to about 2-1/2 million men," the Moberly Monitor-Index reported June 20, 1941. The paper also noted no land acquisitions had yet been made for the proposed camp.
Approval for the site was soon granted, the necessary land acquired and the official groundbreaking ceremony held on the site Aug. 30, 1941. The site was officially named Camp Crowder on Sept. 24, 1941, in honor of the late Maj. Gen. Enoch H. Crowder, a Missourian best known for drafting the Selective Service Act of 1917.
Initially, it was anticipated the camp would sprawl across an impressive 66,500 acres; however, the Moberly Monitor-Index reported Nov. 7, 1941, that the War Department disclosed plans to reduce the size of Camp Crowder "by about 11,000 acres on the eastern boundary" due to the proximity of artillery practice areas to homes and school.
The reduction in acreage did not diminish the tempo of construction and the first troops began to arrive at the camp on Dec. 2, 1941. Less than three weeks later, a peak employment of 20,534 was reached at the site. One month later, as the calendar transitioned to Jan. 2, 1942, a total of 81 building were ready for occupancy. By Jan. 29, this number rose to 352 usable buildings.
Dedication ceremonies were held April 12, 1942, and attended by a crowd of thousands. While speaking at the ceremony, Gov. Forrest Donnell recognized not only the role the camp would serve in training soldiers for combat, but also acknowledged those who toiled in its construction.
"Patriotism is not confined to those who wear the uniform," Donnell said. "I take this opportunity to pay a word of tribute to all those who have engaged in the construction of this camp."
In February 1942, Camp Crowder became the second replacement training center for the Signal Corps — the branch of the Army that manages communications. In June 1942, the Midwestern Signal Corps School opened and the camp became "(t)he largest concentration of Signal Corps recruits … although it had been in operation less than four months," as is noted in the book "The Signal Corps: The Test."
Kansas City native Mort Walker was stationed at Camp Crowder for several weeks during World War II, where he received the inspiration for "Camp Swampy" in what years later became his popular "Beetle Bailey" comic strip. Actor and comedian Dick Van Dyke also spent time at the camp during his wartime service.
In addition to the military training provided at the camp, it housed approximately 2,000 prisoners of war during WWII. When the war came to an end in late summer 1945, operations at the camp began to wind down and the site was eventually closed.
Camp Crowder experienced a mild resurgence during the Korean War and a portion of the property was used by the Air Force in the Cold War to test rocket engines; however, much of the original property has since been deemed excess and sold off to private interests including Crowder College and the Missouri Department of Conservation.
The Missouri National Guard retained 4,358 acres of Camp Crowder for use as a training site. Now a fraction of its WWII size, the camp currently has a full-time staff of 11 employees — a sharp contrast to the 40,000 uniformed men and women it was home to in the height of World War II. Despite these changes, the camp provides a training home to the next generation of soldiers who can still hear echoes of its storied past.
"Personally, I grew up in the area and I at no point in time heard what a significant role that (Camp) Crowder played during World War II," Capt. Jason Snyder, a member of the Missouri National Guard and base operations supervisor for the site, said.
"The building foundation and some of the walls from an old German school from World War II are still standing on the south side of the camp and have kind of been hidden by time," he said, adding, "and there is even German writing still visible on some of the walls."
He concluded, "The German prisoners once held here is only a part of the site's rich legacy, and it is certainly a privilege to be associated with something that has played such an important role in our state's military history."
Jeremy P. Amick writes on behalf of the Silver Star Families of America.
Print Headline: Built in WWII, Camp Crowder, Missouri was once a booming U.S. Army post
Iowa court: Parents have preference in child custody cases | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_6967455444905733924 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Philippines has a lot of beauty to showcase for the world, which makes it unique compare to other countries around the world. In fact, four of the eye captivating places in the Philippines are nominated in one of the most prestigious list of beautiful places around the world, the new 7 wonders of nature. The Mayon Volacano in albay, Chocolate Hills in Bohol, Subterranean River National Park and Tubbataha Reef which are found in Palawan are competing to be included in the list of New 7 Wonders of Nature. but how are we gonna help the Philppines?The answer is simple, you must visit the website of new 7 wonders of Nature to sign up and vote (Click here to Vote) for the nominies, so!please, everyone!we must Vote, and support the Philppines by voting!.Let's unite as one for the gold!
sa pinas lang ba ito? or isasali nila sa 7 wonders of the world? or iba pa yon?
oh yeahhh nakita ko yan sa PBB date. I wish manalo tayo!
yep!! i heard about this!!! naka-vote na yata ako dati pa eh..
oh yay! i voted! go philippines! haha. | RedPajamaC4_-2501726250472813632 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Kai Nielsen | Danish, 1882-1924
Kai Nielsen was born in 1882 in Svendborg. At 15 he became an apprentice painter but was artistically inclined and began to paint landscapes and portraits. At the same time he studied at the technical school in Svendborg where he was taught modelling by Edvard Eriksen, later famous for creating The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen. In 1901 he moved to Copenhagen and took drawing classes to prepare for the Art Academy. When he applied, they rejected his drawings but accepted him into the Sculpture School in view of a portrait bust he had made in Svendborg and he became a student of Carl Aarsleff. At the Academy he began a life-long friendship with Einar Utzon-Frank who also studied sculpture. Together they explored the modern collections at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek where Nielsen was particularly impressed by the works of Auguste Rodin and Constantin Meunier.
Nielsen developed a socially conscious style (The Blind Girl, 1907, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek). He had his breakthrough with Naked (1908) which was acquired by the Danish National Gallery. The Marble Girl attracted attention for its redefinition of the relationship between subject and material with its equal emphasis of the sculpture as woman figure and as stone block. It also introduced the rounded female forms which continued to be a dominant subject throughout his production. One of Nielsen's first public sculptures, the Ymir Well from 1913 for a square in Faaborg, was controversial in its own day for the nudity of the jötunn Ymir.
Around the same time he collaborated with the architect Iver Bentson on a redevelopment of Blågårds Plads, a public square in one of the poorest working-class neighbourhoods in Copenhagen. His work, executed from 1912 to 1916, consists of 22 granite sculptures integrated in a low wall which encloses a central, rectangular section of the square. The sculptures all portray a person plying a trade—a tailor, a cooper, a baker—accompanied by an abundance of choppy toddlers. The intention was to celebrate the workers and the children of the surrounding community and their everyday lives. It provoked hefty debate and criticism when it was inaugurated but was innovative in its integration of the sculptures in a piece of street furniture and a functional context. The wall was intended for sitting and climbing on and the central space for children's play.
Kai Nielsen died while working on a draft for a Maritime Monument (1924, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek) after several lengthy spells of illness.
Dancing Nude Girl | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_-6441668511684698873 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
The 5m high stainless steel sculpture was required to spring out of the ground without any interference from base details.
To this effect the sculpture is sat on a steel baseplate buried in the ground. Although the sculpture itself tapers inwards at the base, outrigger corners have been used to give stability to the baseplate to prevent overturning. The weight of earth placed over the plate is designed to create the required kentledge.
Commissioned by Radley College, Oxford. | RedPajamaC4_-5407482558403087300 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
cask "opencpn" do
version "5.2.4,1.6b314e6"
sha256 "05152e347480519bc010bb334b27601520671ae32953d8e915131ed54da738ca"
url "https://download-opencpn.netdna-ssl.com/#{version.before_comma}/OpenCPN_#{version.before_comma}+#{version.after_comma}.pkg",
verified: "download-opencpn.netdna-ssl.com/"
appcast "https://github.com/OpenCPN/OpenCPN/releases.atom"
name "OpenCPN"
desc "Full-featured and concise ChartPlotter/Navigator"
homepage "https://www.opencpn.org/"
pkg "OpenCPN_#{version.before_comma} #{version.after_comma}.pkg"
uninstall pkgutil: [
"org.opencpn.pkg.OpenCPN",
"org.opencpn",
]
end
| RedPajamaGithub_1291893706932375505 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Triangle Theater Companies and Presenters
Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh, home to North Carolina Theatre and Theatre Raleigh
With over 60 theater companies in our area producing work, it's hard to keep track. That's why RDU on Stage is keeping a comprehensive list of theater companies and presenters along with links on our website. Below you will find links to Triangle theater companies and presenters in Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. These lists do not include high school theater programs or companies producing work exclusively for children. Each organization is a separate entity with an announced season, although some use the same venues or emanate from the same institution but are wholly separate.
Chapel Hill & Hillsborough Areas Theater Companies
Durham Area Theater Companies
Raleigh Area Theater Companies
Special thanks to Roy C. Dicks for his contributions and support.
Do you have a listing to add to our list of Triangle theater companies? E-mail rduonstage [at] gmail.com. | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_3863112125166628458 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Swipp was a privately held company based in Mountain View, California that provided a social intelligence platform that captures, aggregates, and reports real time sentiment data via consumer and commercial applications built on their platform.
Swipp referred to the aggregated data as the "Swipp Index" as it aggregated multiple social data points in near real-time, and gave a global view of the data source (location, gender, age), trending information, over-time reporting, and other data points when available.
Swipp took a crowd-informed view on a topic and displayed it in conjunction with topic based reference data from Freebase. The resulting assemblage Swipp referred to as "Social Intelligence" – "Social" because it extracts data from Swipp-based social expression touch-points embedded across the internet and connected applications, and "Intelligent" because it merges that social expression data with factual data from sources such as Freebase.
History
The company was founded by Don Thorson (CEO), and Charlie Costantini (CSO) in 2011; Ramani Narayan (CTO) joined in 2012.
The company received $500K seed funding in early 2011 and a subsequent $3 million in a later institutional round in May 2012, both from Old Willow Partners. Swipp came to market on January 23, 2013, globally launching their platform, consumer and commercial applications. Swipp received an additional $2 million in institutional investment from its original investors in April 2013.
The company's last Tweet was sent in late 2013 and the company went defunct shortly thereafter.
See also
Silicon Valley
Sentiment analysis
Big data
References
Companies based in Mountain View, California
Companies established in 2011
Privately held companies based in California | RedPajamaWikipedia_-3222572875567118529 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
I fell in love with this sweater, with its crazy triangles. But I don't knit sweaters. I like short rows these days and this one in particular is huge, but I do love those triangles.
I also found this one which looks like it may be modular. That would suit my needs... although the actually sweater would not. | RedPajamaC4_7009611973310584229 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Chapter 1832: Final Decision
When the grand elders and elders saw how their Chief kneeled before Huang Xiaolong, they felt shocked. Especially the grand elder, who had ordered to throw out Huang Xiaolong, was more shocked. It was as though all the blood had drained from his body.
"I heard about the events that happened at the gates. This subordinate is at fault, and I will accept Lord's punishment!" Gao Changran cupped his fists and said.
He lowered his head, and he didn't dare to breathe loudly before Huang Xiaolong.
With a wave of his hand, Huang Xiaolong pardoned all of them. "It's fine. Let all of them leave."
Huang Xiaolong didn't blame Gao Changran for not publicizing his identity to the Six Nether Gate's disciples. He knew what Gao Changran was thinking, and he didn't place the previous encounter in his heart.
"Yes, Lord!" Gao Changran acknowledged before turning around to address the Six Nether Gate's members. "Take your leave."
Of course, no one dared to go against his order, and all of them left the hall.
Gao Changran swept his gaze past his son, Gao Fang, and daughter, Gao Mengyao, requesting them to leave as well.
When everyone had left the hall, Gao Changran kneeled before Huang Xiaolong once again and kowtowed. "Gao Changran greets Your Majesty, the King of Hell! Your Majesty is invincible throughout the lands!"
In fact, he had informed his children about Huang Xiaolong's background. Both of them knew that he was from the Netherworld King's Organization, but they didn't know his exact position.
Without Huang Xiaolong's order, no one dared to leak his position in the organization carelessly.
After allowing Gao Changran to stand, Huang Xiaolong started to ask him about the matters regarding the Frigid North City and the Eternal Devil Lands.
Gao Changran didn't dare to hide anything and replied with whatever knowledge he had. He told Huang Xiaolong everything he knew, down to the smallest detail. Before long, Huang Xiaolong gained a better picture of the situation.
After hearing Gao Changran's report, Huang Xiaolong frowned. It seemed as though things were much more complicated than he had thought. Along with the news of the birth of the Myriad Curses Devil Stele and the Glaze Devil Stele, tons of hidden masters had emerged. The Frigid North City was filled with experts and beasts overnight.
It seemed as though all the experts from the thirty-six cities had gathered in Frigid North City.
Right now, Frigid North City was experiencing an unprecedented boom.
Typically, one wouldn't be able to see existences who had surpassed the Emperor Realm even if they waited for a billion years. However, based on the Six Nether Gate's report, five of those existences had gathered in the Frigid North City!
It was unimaginable that five overlords had gathered in the same city at the same time.
However, reality proved otherwise. They were currently gathered in the Frigid North City.
"Did the ancestor of the Massacring Gods Gate, Chi Han, come as well?" Huang Xiaolong felt that it was a little inconvincible.
"Indeed. Your Majesty, we received news that Chu Han is currently residing in the Silver Devil Sect's headquarters!"
"Silver Devil Sect…" A light flickered in Huang Xiaolong's eyes.
The Silver Devil Sect was the third-ranked superpower in the Frigid North City. It was also ranked in the top twenty of the entire Devil World. Even though their position was still far from the Devil Ape Cult, they were way stronger than the Six Nether Gate.
The Six Nether Gate considered the Silver Devil Sect as an insurmountable existence.
Since Chu Han could reside in their headquarters, it seemed as though his relationship with them was something out of the ordinary.
Suddenly, one of the grand elders of the Six Nether Gate entered the hall and reported to Gao Changran, "Chief, the young master of the Devil Ape Cult, sent a transmission symbol to us. He said…" Halfway through the report, the grand elder's words ground to a halt.
"What did he say?" Gao Changran asked. "Where's the transmission symbol?"
The grand elder hastily retrieved a transmission symbol and passed it over to Gao Changran. The moment Gao Changran read it, his face dropped.
He ordered the grand elder to leave the hall.
"Your Majesty, please take a look." As soon as the grand elder had left, Gao Changran passed the transmission symbol to Huang Xiaolong.
Accepting it, Huang Xiaolong swept his gaze over it and saw that the young master of the Devil Ape Cult had commanded Gao Changran to rush over to the Heavenly Punishment Pavilion in the Six Nether City. If he failed to do so, there would be severe consequences.
It was a clear threat.
Of course, it was clear as day that the young master of the Devil Ape Cult was saying that the Devil Ape Cult would move against the Six Nether Gate if they failed to comply.
There was no doubt that the young master of the Devil Ape Cult was able to openly threaten Gao Changran due to the overwhelming strength of the faction behind him.
Huang Xiaolong chuckled, "There's no need to care about him. It's just the Devil Ape Cult…"
"Yes!" Since the King of Hell commanded him to ignore the message, Gao Changran felt like a hundred-ton boulder was lifted off his chest.
"Have we prepared everything we need to enter the Eternal Devil Lands?"
As the name suggested, the Frigid North City experienced extreme winter. Since the Eternal Devil Lands was located deep past that, they couldn't avoid the bone-piercing chill. The coldness would seep deep into one's soul, and there was definitely a need to be well prepared. Armor and divine pills to ward away the cold were a must.
"Your Majesty, please rest assured that I have already prepared everything we need. I sent someone to purchase a batch of Fire Phoenix Divine Armor. We also bought a batch of Fire Dragon Scorched Heavenly Pills. Everything should be ready in a few days. I have also ordered for someone to buy an Icy Dragon Phoenix Spirit Ship."
Huang Xiaolong nodded his head. "That's great. Make some preparations. As soon as things are ready, we'll leave for the Eternal Devil Lands."
Gao Changran bowed in acknowledgment, and Huang Xiaolong allowed him to take his leave.
When Gao Changran returned to his palace, he saw both his son and daughter waiting for him in the main hall.
He knew that they were curious about the events that had happened with regards to Huang Xiaolong.
"Father, what is the Lord's identity? Why would you need to kowtow to him? Could he be the personal disciple of one of the Great Commanders of the Netherworld King's Organization?" Gao Mengyao couldn't hold back her curiosity.
Of course, Gao Changran shook his head. He said in a solemn tone, "The Lord's identity isn't something you can casually ask about. Enough. The news about him being from the Netherworld King's Organization cannot be leaked! Otherwise, we won't be able to clean our names even if we were to die a hundred deaths! Ensure none of the elders and grand elders speak a word about today's matter. If they do, they will be charged with treason!"
Both Gao Fan and Gao Mengyao felt their hearts shaking as they replied, "Yes, father!"
"Father, are we really going to the Eternal Devil Lands?" Gao Fan asked all of a sudden. "The Eternal Devil Lands are filled with restrictions, and many superpowers have their sights set on it as well. With the power of our Six Nether Gate, even if we really locate the two Devil Steles, we won't be able to keep them. We might even invite a sect destroying disaster!"
Gao Changran chuckled, "You do not need to worry about this. The Lord has his arrangements. If we really find the two Devil Steles, the Lord will reward us handsomely. The rewards he will be giving are something you can't even begin to imagine."
He knew that the current King of Hell was extremely generous when it came to rewards.
By the time an hour had passed, the young master of the Devil Ape Cult, Wu Jingnan, sat in the Heavenly Punishment Pavilion as he boiled with rage. How dare Gao Changran refuse to turn up?! Didn't I give him an invitation?!
Is Gao Changran disrespecting my Devil Ape Cult?! | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_-5855937552786140287 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
TID begins painful budget process
The Turlock Irrigation District Board of Directors kicked off the 2012 budget process on Tuesday with an overview of what the budget might look like, as the district attempts to keep costs flat and mulls an electric rate increase.
The preliminary budget sees the district reduce seven unfilled positions year-over-year, dropping from 479 positions to 472.
The employee allocation also drastically shifts from a year ago, with the General Manager's office and Financial Services absorbing the 50 employees in Consumer Services. That department was shuttered in March as part of an internal reorganization.
The proposed budget sees operations and maintenance costs remain flat from 2011, save for additional costs of pension, legal fees related to ongoing labor negotiations, and a nearly $2 million increase in Electrical Engineering/Operations costs.
That surge is related to a smaller capital projects budget, TID staff explained, which previously absorbed part of some employees' salaries as they worked on major projects like the Hughson-Grayson transmission line. With a smaller capital budget projected following those projects' completion, some labor costs returned to the operations and maintenance budget.
Without those major projects, Director Charles Fernandes asked if the employees should still be kept on.
"If the capitol projects are done, do we need those people?" Fernandes asked.
But the employees are still necessary, according to TID General Manager Casey Hashimoto
"We are squeezing down," Hashimoto said. "Each year we've been shrinking down allocations. But we've got to maintain what we've built."
This year, Hashimoto continued, some maintenance was deferred to begin work on the Hughson-Grayson electrical transmission line, and a new Grayson Substation. That deferred maintenance must be completed in the coming year to keep the district on track, he said.
Possible rate increases were not discussed in depth Tuesday, but are expected to be on the table during the budget process.
In August, the district held a series of public meetings to discuss a potential rate increase of between 4 and 7 percent annually for the next two years – between $4 and $15 per month for most consumers. The exact structure of the rate increase was not identified during those meetings, but was deemed necessary to make up anticipated shortfalls in electric revenues due to costs related to constructing the Tuolumne Wind Project in Oregon, and the new Almond Power Plant expansion near Crows Landing.
The District Board of Directors will begin to review the budget proposal in depth at 9 a.m. on Oct. 18. The board will continue to discuss specific departments each Tuesday at 9 a.m. through Dec. 12 – save for an off week of Nov. 15 – at which point directors are expected to accept a final budget and any associated rate changes.
"It's a process all the way up until the final budget," Hashimoto said.
To contact Alex Cantatore, e-mail acantatore@turlockjournal.com or call 634-9141 ext. 2005.
Turlock's Valley Milk announces expansion project | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_4234301176553954061 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Home | Commentaries | East Asia Beat
Tibetan Protest Movement Spreads
The unprecedented self-immolations in Tibet's capital Lhasa highlight Beijing's difficulty in getting a handle on the Tibetan situation.
An analysis by Parameswaran Ponnudurai
Monks pray in a temple in Tibet's capital Lhasa, Dec. 16, 2011.
The weekend self-immolations by two young Tibetan men in Lhasa suggest that the protest movement to restore Tibetan rights is gaining momentum internally, much to the chagrin of the Chinese authorities who have portrayed the burnings as isolated incidents fueled by exile groups, according to experts.
The first self-immolation protests in Lhasa appear to be a major setback for the Chinese security forces, who have been on red alert since anti-government riots rocked the Tibet Autonomous Region capital four years ago.
Nearly all the 35 previous self-immolations by Tibetans pushing for an end to Beijing's rule and the return of the exiled Dalai Lama have been in Tibetan-populated provinces in China, especially in Sichuan, the epicenter of the burnings which have intensified since March 2011.
"The latest self-immolations show that the protests are now widespread and have covered all of the Tibetan region, from the Tibet Autonomous Region to the parts of Tibet that were merged with the Chinese provinces of Qinghai, Sichuan, and Gansu," said Mohan Malik, professor of Asian security at the Hawaii-based Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies.
"It goes to show that the Chinese are unable to control the situation," he told RFA. "The self-immolations give them bad publicity, are bad for China's image as a rising power, and undermine attempts to project China as a great benign power."
But Malik said he is not optimistic that the spreading self-immolations, triggered by allegedly repressive and discriminatory Chinese policies towards Tibetans, would boost the Tibetan cause.
"This is because the Chinese have dealt with the situation pretty ruthlessly so far and every protest is dealt with by adopting harsher measures," he said.
Beijing is also unlikely to soften its stance against protesting Tibetans ahead of the once-in-a-decade leadership succession in the ruling Chinese Community Party at the end of the year, Malik said.
"No leader will want to be seen as weak during this transition."
In fact, Tibetan exile and advocacy groups say Tibetans are already paying the price for the self-immolations that took place on Sunday in front of the Jokhang Temple in central Lhasa--reputedly the ultimate pilgrimage destination for Tibetan pilgrims.
The London-based Free Tibet group said it has received reports that Tibetan residents of Lhasa have been arbitrarily detained, and that those from Ngaba (in Chinese, Aba) prefecture, where one of the self-immolators came from and where the restive Kirti monastery is situated, have been especially targeted.
The owner and staff from the restaurant where the other self -mmolator worked were also arrested on Sunday, Free Tibet said amid reports that Lhasa city has come under even tighter security than usual, with police and paramilitary officers out in full force.
The Chinese authorities have been trying their best to prevent the self-immolations from reaching Lhasa and other major Chinese cities to avoid international embarrassment, said Robbie Barnett, a Tibet expert at Columbia University in New York.
"The self-immolations in Lhasa are a very serious development," he told RFA.
The self-immolations in Lhasa are a very serious development
They signify a growing political movement inside the Tibetan areas and dispel the notion created by the Chinese authorities that Tibetan exile groups are behind the deadly protests, Barnett said.
The wave of self-immolations in the Tibetan-populated Chinese provinces over the last year have been mostly viewed as protests against specific events, such as excessive security operations, particularly crackdowns on Buddhist monasteries, he said.
"Now it looks like many of the immolations, probably the latest ones in Lhasa, hundreds of miles away from other self-immolations, are not prompted by a particular incident but are a general social or political movement that is spreading," he said.
Barnett said the Chinese authorities probably are also concerned by the memories of previous self-immolation protests by five people in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 2001. The authorities said then the self-immolators belonged to Falun Gong, a banned spiritual group.
"They probably fear that these things would take place in major cities which are embarrassing to China and of course generate more adverse publicity internationally," he said.
China has ruled Tibet since 1950, and the Chinese government has repeatedly accused exiled Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama, of stoking dissent against its rule. The spiritual leader fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising.
The latest self-immolations came as the Tibetan government-in-exile in India waged an international campaign to expose what it called human rights abuses against Tibetans and their eroding freedom.
It cited in a statement at least seven reasons why, it said, Beijing is responsible for the self-immolations in Tibet: its continuing "occupation" of Tibet, political repression, patriotic re-education and demonization of the Dalai Lama, shooting and killing of peaceful Tibetan protesters, economic marginalization and turning Tibetans into "second-class" citizens in their own homeland, cultural assimilation and rejection of the Tibetan language as a medium of instruction, and environmental destruction.
"No matter how the Chinese government attempts to present the cycle of self-immolations to the international community, such explanation will be met with deep skepticism so long as access to Tibetan areas, particularly where self-immolations took place, is denied to impartial observers such as members of the press, and representatives of international bodies such as the United Nations," said Kalon Dicki Chhoyang, spokesperson for the Central Tibetan Administration.
Last week, the U.S. State Department in its annual report on the global human rights situation linked the Tibetan self-immolations to "repressive measures" by the Chinese authorities.
It cited as an example the occupation of monasteries by security forces, which "provoked acts of resistance among the Tibetan population, who saw it as a threat to the foundations of Tibet's distinct religious, linguistic, and cultural identity."
"These acts of resistance, in turn, led to enhanced attempts by [Chinese] authorities to maintain control, thus creating cycles of repression that resulted in increasingly desperate acts by Tibetans, such as a series of self-immolations by Tibetans."
New Self-Immolations, Protest Reported in Sichuan's Ngaba
Bill to Support Tibet Moves Forward in the US Congress
Three Tibetans Detained in China's Gansu Ahead of 'Sensitive' Anniversary
Tibetan Self-Immolator's Family Are Held by Police For Questioning
Himalayan Buddhists Reject Beijing's Claim of Control Over Tibet's Dalai Lama
Tibetan Man Detained After Praying to Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama's Successor Will be Chosen by Tibetans, not by China: US Envoy
China Makes Tibetan College Graduates Denounce Dalai Lama to Get State Jobs
US Secretary of State Pompeo Raps China on Abuse of Uyghurs at Vatican Conference
Thousands Gather Worldwide to Protest Beijing's Rights Record as Communist China Turns 70
from fayetteville
reflects some other political..economic arrangement?
Anonymous Reader
If Tibet had oil the US would already have been there in 1960. Such hyprocisy!
Temujin
from San Diego
It's time for the world especially United States to denounce china core interests, Tibet is a sovereignty nation has its own distinct culture and religion, Tibet is undeniable belong to Tibetans and Chinese must return to rightful owners. China core interests represent a serious threat to mankind. The world must stand up against these han barbarians adventures. | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_789738393079517996 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
GEICO Motorcycle Presents Hot Bike Tour 2015 // Day Five Preview
Ed Subias posted Jun 2nd, 2015 at 5:58pm
Day 5 of the GEICO Motorcycle Hot Bike Tour 2015 roars into Billings, Montana on Sunday September 13
Fun Facts about Billings, Montana:
●Billings is known as Montana's Trailhead. Billings is the largest city in Montana with approx. 104,000 population. Billings is the regional hub for healthcare, education, energy, agriculture, shopping and more. It's also surrounded by incredible scenery and history. Billings is the perfect place to establish your home base and set off to explore the adventures our area has to offer, but still be home in time for dinner.
●Billings is surround by sandstone bluffs known to locals as the Rimrocks. They stand 500 feet high and run along the northern edge of town. They offer stunning vistas (on a clear day, five mountain ranges can be seen from them!), exceptional trails, and heritage/historic icons.
●Billings is a gateway to Yellowstone National Park via the Beartooth Highway. Open for just four-five months each year due to snowfall, the Beartooth Highway is legendary for its incredible landscapes, high peaks, and unforgettable scenery.
●Billings offers the only walkable brewery district in Montana with 6 breweries and 2 distilleries within 1.5 miles of each other.
●Billings sits at 3,567 feet above sea level.
●$150 million in livestock is sold annually at Billings' Public Auction Yards, "The Wall Street of the West."
●Traveling from one corner of Montana to the other is about 800 miles, or the same distance from Washington D.C., to Chicago, IL. It takes about 12 hours to drive from Alzada to Yaak.
The average square mile of land in Montana contains 1.4 elk, 1.4 pronghorn antelope, and 3.3 deer.
●Billings is home to semi-pro baseball (the Mustangs) and football (the Wolves).
Historic Fun Facts:
●Calamity Jane earned a living driving a stagecoach and selling baked goods near Billings. She was notorious for smoking cigars, drinking, and wearing men's' clothing.
●Ernest Hemmingway spent time in Billings when he broke his arm in a car accident and was cared for at St. Vincent Hospital.
●Luther Sage "Yellowstone" Kelly, a veteran, trapper and hunter of significant fame, is buried in Billings atop the Rimrocks.
●Captain William Clark (of the Lewis and Clark Expedition) carved his name in to the rock at Pompeys Pillar National Monument on July 25, 1806, leaving some of the Expedition's only physical evidence viewable today.
Also at the Billings stop of the Hot Bike Tour along with the other 4 stops will be the Hot Bike and Baggers Invitational Build-Offs. Featuring over 30 builders building one-of-a-kind motorcycles AND riding them each day of the Tour! Here's your chance to chat with some of the world class bike builders you have seen on television and see their rolling works of art firsthand! If that's not enough there will also be live stunt shows by the Unknown Industries Riders along with ride in bike shows, giveaways, vendors, music and more!!
All brands and styles of motorcycles are welcome to join our invited builders, industry VIPs, and the staffs of Hot Bike and Baggers magazines for the rides, shows, parties, and more as part of the 2015 GEICO Motorcycle Hot Bike Tour Powered by Victory.
Participation is easy. Become a LongRider and take part in all five days. Don't have that sort of time? Join us for a day or two, or just stop by the evening most convenient for you. As a registered participant you will receive a custom goodie bag, exclusive parking, special activities, product giveaways, and daily navigational materials.
Learn more and join the GEICO Motorcycle Hot Bike Tour 2015 by going to www.hotbikeweb.com/tour. Or call (877) 413-6515 to sign up.
tour tuesday
GEICO hot bike tour | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_6182466863480128353 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
The VACANCES Pants tie in the front and are slightly high-waisted. The relaxed style and elastic waistband will make you feel super comfortable. Match this year's must-have polka dot print with our VACANCES Tie Top.
Wear your VACANCES Pants with our VACANCES Top for the full polka dot look. | RedPajamaC4_-2768654038757648715 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
layout: blog
title: Blog
---
{% for post in paginator.posts %}
<article class="post">
<h2 class="post-title">
<a href="{{ post.url }}">
{{ post.title }}
</a>
</h2>
<p class="post-date"><a href="{{ baseurl }}">{{ site.author }}</a> · {{ post.date | date_to_string }}</p>
{{ post.excerpt }}
<p class="post-continue"><a href="{{ post.url }}">Continue reading...</a></p>
</article>
<hr />
{% endfor %}
{% if paginator.total_pages > 1 %}
<p class="posts-pagination">
{% if paginator.previous_page %}
<a class="page-newer" href="{{ paginator.previous_page_path | prepend: site.baseurl | replace: '//', '/' }}">« Newer</a>
{% endif %}
{% if paginator.next_page %}
<a class="page-older" href="{{ paginator.next_page_path | prepend: site.baseurl | replace: '//', '/' }}">Older »</a>
{% endif %}
</p>
{% endif %} | RedPajamaGithub_-2579686608609285857 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Maxidix Wifi Suite is a professional application designed to enable you to monitor your Wi-Fi connections. Maxidix Wifi Suite automatically detects the connections and allows you to easily manage them. Allows you to customize profiles.
Easily set up automatic connections to ad hoc networks or Wireless Access Points (WAP) that would automatically connect every time when the needed network or WAP appears nearby to your location.
Speed up the process of connection to Wi-Fi networks up to 6 times. Wifi Suite uses optimized connection algorithm that decreases connection time, especially on connecting to new networks.
Detect your current location using the information provided by the surrounding Wi-Fi networks. Wifi Suite gathers the information from the nearby networks and detects your location using Google Geolocation sevice.
Export your Wi-Fi profiles and save them for further use. For example, you can backup and then restore access to known networks after the OS have been reinstalled.
Get all the information available about Wi-Fi interface, networks and network profiles. Network signal quality with percentage accuracy and over 80 characteristics of Wi-Fi connections. | RedPajamaC4_8225065813962488887 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Add the dark chocolate chips to a medium-sized mixing bowl.
In a small bowl, stir together 1/4 cup of the coconut milk and the tapioca starch until smooth and all the lumps are out.
Place the remaining coconut milk in a blender with the beets and cinnamon and blend until completely smooth.
Transfer the coconut milk/beet mixture to a saucepan and heat over medium, just until the mixture begins to steam and become slightly frothy (don't let it come to a boil). Add in the tapioca starch mixture and salt and whisk constantly until mixture is thick, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and pour into the bowl with the chocolate chips. Stir until well combined and all of the chocolate chips have melted.
Divide chocolate beet mixture among four or five 5-ounce ramekins, and allow them to cool slightly before placing them in the refrigerator. Chill for at least 2 hours before serving. | RedPajamaC4_8709095899234065266 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
HomeNewsGirl, 7, five others injured by suspected drive by shooting outside a...
Girl, 7, five others injured by suspected drive by shooting outside a central London church
A seven-year-old girl has suffered life-threatening injuries in a suspected drive-by shooting outside a central London church.
A remembrance service was being held at St Aloysius Church in Euston when shots were reportedly fired from a moving vehicle on Saturday afternoon.
The Met Police said a 12-year-old girl and four women – aged 21, 41, 48 and 54 – were also injured.
The 48-year-old may have life-changing injuries, police said.
The three other women's injuries are not life-threatening and the 12-year-old girl has been treated for a minor leg injury, said the force.
The seven-year-old, who was taken to a central London hospital at about 14:05 GMT, "remains in hospital in a life-threatening condition".
In a statement, the Met said an urgent investigation was under way and details of the incident were still emerging.
"At this early stage, there have been no arrests," it said.
Supt Ed Wells said any shooting incident was "unacceptable, but for multiple people, including two children, to be injured in a shooting in the middle of a Saturday afternoon is shocking".
"Our thoughts are with all the victims, but in particular with the seven-year-old girl. An investigation into this dreadful attack is already well under way," he said.
"I can assure the communities of Camden and beyond that we will do everything we possibly can to identify and bring to justice those who were responsible."
He added that there would be "an increased visible police presence in the area through the weekend and into the days ahead".
Detectives have urged anyone with video footage or CCTV to contact the force.
SourceBBC, SUN UK
Previous articleNigerian Celebrity designer, Yomi Casual rains curses on himself and people who stirred speculations about him being gay
Next articleEbuka was ill while hosting BBTitans premiere – Wife | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_4077899147577905508 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
L'Épitrachelion (du , autour du cou), est une vêtement de la paramentique orientale porté dans les Églises d'Orient porté par les prêtres et évêques comme symbole de leur prêtrise. Il correspond à l'étole du rite romain.
Il s'agit d'un orarion adapté à l'usage des prêtres et des évêques. L'épitrachelion est porté autour du cou ; deux pans pendent sur la poitrine (à peu près jusqu'aux hanches) et sont cousus ou boutonnés sur l'avant en laissant la place pour passer la tête. Les pans avant ne sont jamais séparés et forment le plus souvent une seule pièce de tissu. L'épitrachelion est fait de brocart où sont appliquées ou brodées sept croix : une sur l'arrière du cou et trois sur chacun des deux pans.
Le prêtre porte l'épitrachelion lorsqu'il célèbre l'office. Pour certains services, (par exemple aux Vêpres et à l'Orthros), il porte seulement l'épitrachelion. Pour célébrer la Divine Liturgie, il porte l'épitrachelion au-dessus du sticharion et au-dessous
du cordon et du phélonion. Si le prêtre assiste simplement à l'office sans le célébrer, il ne porte aucun vêtement sacerdotal particulier ; toutefois, il peut revêtir l'épitrachelion et, souvent, les épimanikia avant de recevoir la communion.
L'évêque totalement vêtu porte l'épitrachelion sur le sticharion et sous le cordon, le sakkos et l'omophore.
Le hamniko (littéralement : « collier ») de l'Église syriaque orthodoxe et l'urār de l'Église apostolique arménienne sont identiques à l'épitrachelion.
Notes et références
Voir aussi
Articles liés
Étole
Liturgie orthodoxe | RedPajamaWikipedia_-8431849175571290361 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
In 2015, LA-based Wolf & Shepherd stepped into the world of menswear with a dress shoe they claimed would be every bit as comfortable as a sneaker without sacrificing any style. That meant the heel wouldn't look like a clog, the leather would be as supple and shiny as a Ferragamo and — like most new entrants in the age of we-can-make-it-better-and-cheaper — the internet would be their storefront.
Athletes like Steve Nash and Rashad Jennings started wearing them, as did Jeremy Renner and Luke Hemsworth. Syracuse runner Juris Silenieks laced up a pair for the Hotlanta Half Marathon in 2016, setting a Guinness World Record when he ran 13 miles in 1:17:05.
The numbers don't lie. W&S were profitable in year one, and have since sold 20,000 units and grossed $10 million in revenue, with prices ranging from $195-$550 per pair. Their offerings are simple: wingtips, monk straps, loafers and Chelsea boots, all handcrafted in Porto, Portugal, with fine Italian leathers and Parisian waxes.
And now they have an actual storefront at the newly remodeled Westfield Century City, on the west side of Bloomingdales. I recently swung by to see what was what and trotted out in a pair of driving loafers. It felt like walking on a cloud. I also had a chance to test out some jet-black lace-up boots, which came with a handy card that detailed in simple illustrations how to soften (massage joint points), clean (Saphir Renovator Cream) and repair them (send 'em back to W&S).
In the days since, I've worn both pairs often. My feet and ankles felt completely secure while running three miles along the Marvin Braude path that snakes along the PCH, hiking the steep side of the Temescal Canyon loop and spending countless hours typing away at a stand-up desk.
Verdict? They are indeed, very, very comfortable. They're light and flexible like a sneaker, which means they also pack well in transit. Would I opt for them in lieu of a trainer for legitimate athletic activities? Hell no. But they're not made for that. You will feel completely confident running to catch a flight in them, and you'll also look handsome doing so.
More interesting than the notion of running Pamplona's bulls in a pair of Wolf & Shepherds (which has been done) is that they have truly revolutionized how men's dress shoes are manufactured. The technological advances are fascinating, and when founder Justin Schneider rattles them off, he sounds like an engineer talking about the new bells and whistles on a hot rod.
Schneider ran at Notre Dame, stands well over six feet and wears a suit like he just exited CAA. After graduating college, he designed shoes for New Balance and Adidas before leaving the industry for a stint to work for National Geographic.
As the story goes, he came back from working in Madagascar and a banker friend asked how come his $695 English shoes were so damn uncomfortable. That got Justin thinking. He took apart the traditional welt dress shoe and realized he could do it better.
"After that's been compacted (because it needs to have some rigidity and adhere to the upper and the bottom), we shave off as much as we can by fiddling, a traditional method of shaving away weight on the inside, under the arch," says Schneider. "Then we replace that with carbon." It all adds up to a silhouette that is about half an inch more narrow on each side than a traditional welted shoe.
"Having worked in athletic shoes and memory foams and EVAs for two of the largest sportswear brands in the world, trust me when I say that cork is antiquated." W&S replaces it with a proprietary memory foam that retains 95% of its elasticity and cushioning. While most foams start to lose their compression after about two weeks, Schneider says his will last for closer to two years.
W&S has a provisional patent allows them to resole the shoe in the forefoot and heel. If you buy a shoe from a traditional shoemaker for more than $300 and get it resoled, you're looking at around $145 with a six- to eight-week turnaround. "We have a three- to five-day turnaround and it's $75 for a full resoling with the original manufactured parts," says Schneider.
That's one small step for shoemakers — but a giant leap for those of us who wear them. | RedPajamaC4_-7112046316417309040 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
UPDATED: Symantec CEO on reorganisation: "Our system is just broken"
Under the helm of new CEO Steve Bennett, Symantec has outlined a reorganisation intended to lead to a leaner company and a new range of security and backup services and products, built primarily on internal research and development not acquisitions, within the next six to nine months.
In a presentation before Wall Street investment firm analysts, Bennett, who became head of Symantec last July, was candid in saying sales and marketing teams had been "high cost but didn't provide quality outcomes" and said lay-offs were coming there in a transition beginning right away that would primarily impact middle management.
"Our system is just broken," he admitted later, saying it was time to fix it through a total reorganisation of how Symantec sells and licenses products and services.
There would be a new emphasis on e-commerce capabilities and telesales in the future. There would be more effort to have Symantec security and backup products and services integrated into what telcos and ISPs do, and a focus on vertical markets with more customised offerings for small businesses and verticals markets.
And Bennett said while Symantec continues to have an endpoint security business, there isn't going to be a big dividing line in terms of consumer and business anymore.
"We don't have a consumer business anymore," he declared, noting Janice Chaffin, head of Symantec's consumer unit, had effectively stepped down.
In other changes, Symantec has created a new "Office of the CEO" in which a small team of executives will make collective operational and functional decisions with Bennett.
And Bennett, joined by some members of that team that included Francis deSouza as president of products and services, and Steve Gillett, COO, said Symantec envisions the creation of new lines of products and services in which it would be investing heavily there through research and development.
Symantec has great products, many of them gained through acquisitions, but could be doing a better job on integrating them and simplifying the way they're licensed, said Bennett. He promised a "revolution" in which Symantec will be re-designing products with an eye toward finding a way that customers can simply turn on functionality rather than acquiring another product.
In addition, Symantec will be focusing on offerings in 10 core areas: Mobile Workforce Productivity, Norton Protection, Norton Cloud, Information Security Services, Identity/Content-Aware Security Gateway, Data Center Security, Business Continuity, Integrated Backup, Cloud-based Information Management, and Object Storage Platform.
Symantec is emphasising that cloud-based services and mobile smartphone and tablet security and backup will be front and center. Bennett, who said he didn't envision additional inroads into "network security," said he and his team met with over 50 enterprise and government customers, and asked for specific advice from analysts, among others, before reaching the decision to do what was announced yesterday.
"Before, it was all about the PC," said deSouza, the top director for how these ideas will be technically implemented. "Now it's mobile devices, BYOD, web platforms."
The old enterprise network is not being replaced by cloud and mobile but expanded by it, he noted, saying it means there are simply more "control points" to be protected.
DeSouza acknowledged that Symantec's share of the security market has been falling over the last six years or so. Not only do traditional competitors such as McAfee remain a force to be reckoned with, but start-ups are also gaining a foothold in newer areas.
DeSouza also said Symantec faces competition in various ways from the operating-system "stack providers" such as Microsoft with Windows, Apple with its iOS platform or VMware with its virtualization platform.
But he said Symantec's advantage in meeting these challenges is through a "cross-platform, "heterogeneous" approach that will "scale" in terms of security and backup services and products. Symantec also emphasised the consumerisation of IT is blurring the old demarcations between the role of enterprise network and the role of the individual.
Internal innovation will be key to what Symantec does, deSouza said. In about six to 10 months, Symantec expects to introduce new Information Security Services related to aggregating information related to both Symantec and third-party products, combined with threat intelligence feeds, to determine where network assets need remediation and the security-compliance status.
For Business Continuity, Symantec anticipates continuity offerings for business-critical applications such as SAP, as well as physical and virtualized server platforms. There could be as many as 10 new products and services aimed at mobile and cloud backup and security in particular.
Symantec promised the Wall Street investors that this strategy will lead to "more than 5% organic growth" and "non-GAAP operating margins better than 30%" over the next two or three years.
Still, some expressed skepticism combined with optimism, with JP Morgan, for instance, saying in its analysis it thinks Symantec has "a tremendous amount of untapped potential," but "it remains unclear whether than potential will be realised or simply remain that unrealised potential."
But JP Morgan also noted while Symantec "has been plagued by execution issues and secular concerns for years," the company has more value than is being recognised in the stock today.
The moment that Bennett's webcast meeting with the Wall Street investment firm crowd ended, rival McAfee, now owned by Intel, blasted out a mocking critique of it all.
"We see Symantec is embracing the McAfee Security Connected strategy but they are four years behind us," said Mike Fey, CTO at McAfee, claiming McAfee a decade ago made the decision to integrate products into the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator.
He mockingly added that because McAfee has Intel behind it, Symantec's hardware and software security "is in no position to match" McAfee, which he said outguns Symantec in "network security" used by the enterprise.
Symantec today, however, is the much larger rival in the head-to-head security match that has gone on for well over a decade with McAfee.
McAfee also wants to spur growth through new products and services, but will apparently take a different course than Symantec, which is looking to in-house research and development. Instead, McAfee seems more focused on acquisitions.
McAfee on Feb. 25 plans to announce another acquisition during the RSA Conference, and is hinting it could be a company it's worked closely with under the McAfee Security Connected program.
UPDATE: When ARN reached out to Symantec A/NZ for a local angle on the reorganisation, a spokesperson said, "Symantec ANZ isn't yet in a position to comment on the strategy and what it means for the organisation locally. We expect more information will be made available in coming weeks." | RedPajamaC4_2003382475072381219 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Wooden Boomerang – Omigod, Dibs!
Boomerangs are the new frisbee for the summer. Once a throwing tool used by indigenous Australians is now the ultimate throwing toy for kids of all ages! Who needs a throwing partner when the boomerang can come back to you! Makes a great gift for kids and the perfect recreational toy for parks and camping trips! | RedPajamaC4_-169606519005217541 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
(ă-loo -mă-nÿz-ing) A process whereby a very thin but perfectly uniform coating of aluminum is deposited by evaporation on a suitable base. It is used in astronomy to produce the reflective layer of a mirror. The aluminizing is done in an evacuated chamber. The aluminum layer is usually protected by a transparent coating of silica or magnesium fluoride. The surface is harder and more stable than silver and is also able to reflect shorter wavelengths than silver. The process was introduced into telescope manufacture in 1931 by the US instrument-maker John Strong. See silvering.
7a) and the original Fe sample after a single aluminizing treatment.
where d is the aluminized layer thickness, t is the aluminizing duration, [D.
Although SMAT can significantly reduce the aluminizing temperature, the aluminized layer formed by a single aluminizing treatment at a low temperature is still not uniform enough from place to place by a large-scale observation (Fig.
Considering the negative effect caused by the high temperature treatment and the fact that the activator is still not active enough at 400[degrees]C, a successive aluminizing process at 500[degrees]C for 120 min and then at 700[degrees]C for 60 min is employed to aluminize the SMAT Fe sample.
Figures 9a and 9b show the cross-sectional SEM morphologies of the SMAT sample after a successive aluminizing process (sample D).
Relative to the corrosion potential of the samples without the aluminizing treatment, it is decreased after the aluminizing treatment, e.
Figure 11 shows the SEM images of corroded surfaces of the original SMAT sample (sample B), and the SMAT sample treated by a single lower temperature aluminizing (sample C) and by a successive aluminizing process (sample D), respectively. | RedPajamaC4_6577167971209295037 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
At Michaels Energy, our employees focus on information sharing to foster growth and success. From regular internal trainings on core business topics, to frequent technical trainings taught by colleagues, to opportunities to attend external conferences and workshops – Michaels promotes educational growth for all our employees. We also offer a tuition reimbursement program for those employees looking to continue learning outside of the work environment. | RedPajamaC4_-2579743787169455005 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Q: Why can't I change screens on click? I am trying to make a game using Kivy. I have created just a start screen and game screen. The app won't run and I get error "TypeError: bind() takes exactly 0 positional arguments (1 given)". So it sounds like there is some problem when I try to bind a screen action to the "press to start" image.
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.widget import Widget
from kivy.uix.image import Image
from kivy.core.window import Window
from kivy.uix.screenmanager import ScreenManager, Screen
from kivy.uix.label import Label
from kivy.uix.behaviors import ButtonBehavior
#beginning of screen manager code
class MenuScreen(Screen):
pass
class Game(Screen):
pass
sm = ScreenManager()
sm.add_widget(MenuScreen(name = "menu"))
sm.add_widget(Game(name = "game"))
#end of screen manager code
class IconButton(ButtonBehavior, Image):
pass
class MoveableImage(Image):
def __init__(self, **kwargs):
super(MoveableImage, self).__init__(**kwargs)
self._keyboard = Window.request_keyboard(None, self)
if not self._keyboard:
return
self._keyboard.bind(on_key_down=self.on_keyboard_down)
self._keyboard.bind(on_key_up=self.on_keyboard_up)
def on_keyboard_down(self, keyboard, keycode, text, modifiers):
if keycode[1] == 'left':
self.x -= 6
self.source = 'selectionscreen/jeezyleft.zip'
elif keycode[1] == 'right':
self.x += 6
self.source ='selectionscreen/jeezyright.zip'
elif keycode[1] == 'down':
self.y -= 6
self.source ='selectionscreen/jeezyright.zip'
elif keycode[1] == 'up':
self.y += 6
self.source = 'selectionscreen/jeezyback.zip'
else:
return False
return True
def on_keyboard_up(self, keyboard, keycode):
if keycode[1] == 'left':
self.source = 'selectionscreen/jeezyleft1.png'
elif keycode[1] == 'right':
self.source ='selectionscreen/jeezyright1.png'
elif keycode[1] == 'down':
self.source ='selectionscreen/jeezyright1.png'
elif keycode[1] == 'up':
self.source ='selectionscreen/jeezyback2.png'
else:
return False
return True
class gameApp(App):
def build(self):
#instantiate menuscreen class
p = MenuScreen()
clickme = IconButton(source='selectionscreen/presstostart.png')
#clickme = Label(text='Press to Start [ref=Start]Start[/ref]', markup=True)
clickme.bind(sm.switch_to(Game(), direction='right'))
p.add_widget(clickme)
return p
#instantiate gamescreen class
m = Game()
wimg = MoveableImage(source='selectionscreen/jeezyright1.png', anim_available=True, anim_delay=.15)
m.add_widget(wimg)
if __name__ == '__main__':
gameApp().run()
A: I answered this on irc when you asked, but I guess you got disconnected:
03:51 < inclement> On line 12 you create the Game class, but do you intend this to be called GameScreen? Your code as pasted will probably crash, as
you refer to GameScreen but don't declare it
03:52 < inclement> On line 70 you switch to a Game, but this is an empty screen since it has no behaviour
03:53 < inclement> If you want to switch to the one created on line 73, set its 'current' property to 'game', don't use switch_to
Also, your syntax for bind is wrong, you are calling switch_to when you should pass it. Use functools.partial to give it arguments at this stage (returning a new function that automatically gets those arguments).
I'm just pasting this quickly because I only have a couple of minutes, I'll write more later if it isn't clear.
| RedPajamaStackExchange_-982183638222645328 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Ultimate Spider-Man: Power & Responsibility Marvel Select
Save an additional 15%. Learn How
Collects Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) #1-7.
Continuing the series of graphic novels handpicked by Marvel Editorial to showcase pivotal storylines written and drawn by some of Marvel's most acclaimed creators! "With great power, there must also come great responsibility." In 1963, these prophetic words launched one of the 20th century's most successful and recognizable characters: Spider-Man! The powers granted to bookish Peter Parker by a radioactive spider have fueled the imaginations of fans worldwide for decades. With the dawning of a new age, however, comes a hero for a new millennium — a Spider-Man for a new generation! With Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley reinventing Peter Parker for the 21st century and breathing new life into this legendary mythos, Spider-Man has reasserted himself as one of the world's most popular characters! Witness the rebirth of a legend as young Peter Parker learns the hard way that with great power, there must also come great responsibility!
Print Release Date
Digital Release Date
12+ Only
Cover by:
Collects Thanos Rising #1-5. The first in a series of graphic novels handpicked by Marvel Editorial to showcase pivotal storylines written and drawn by some of Marvel's most acclaimed creators! Thanos, scourge of the cosmos, rises to dominance as the unrivaled rogue of wretchedness in this gripping tale of tragedy, deceit and destiny! Witness the Mad Titan's dark origin, and discover the hidden
Captain Marvel: The Many Lives Of Carol Danvers
Collects Marvel Super-Heroes (1967) #13; Ms. Marvel (1977) #1, 19; Avengers (1963) #183-184; Uncanny X-Men (1963) #164; Logan: Shadow Society (1996) #1; Avengers (1998) #4; Iron Man (1998) #85; Ms. Marvel (2006) #32-33; Captain Marvel (2012) #1. She has one of comics' most richly varied careers — both in and out of costume! Carol Danvers has been a U.S. Air Force pilot, an undercover agent
X-Men: Reload
Collects Uncanny X-Men (1981) #437-443, New X-Men (2001) #155-156, X-Men (1991) #157-164. Out of the blockbuster NEW X-MEN finale, the X-Men reload for an astonishing new era! With Jean Grey dead and the school in ruins, how will the X-Men move on? Professor X departs for Genosha as Cyclops and Emma Frost find themselves at a crossroads. Should the Xavier Institute be rebuilt? And what will bec
Acts Of Evil
Collects Deadpool Annual (2019) #1, Ghost-Spider Annual (2019) #1, Moon Knight Annual (2019) #1, Ms. Marvel Annual (2019) #1, Punisher Annual (2019) #1, She-Hulk Annual (2019) #1, Venom Annual (2019) #1, Wolverine Annual (2019) #1. Marvel's heroes face villains they've never fought before! The Punisher takes on an alien Brood Queen! Eddie Brock and Venom are targeted by monster hunter Lady
New Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis: The Complete Collection
Collects Avengers (1998) #500-503 and #500 Director's Cut, Avengers Finale, New Avengers (2004) #1-10 and #1 Director's Cut, and New Avengers: Most Wanted Files. Award-winning writer Brian Michael Bendis transforms Earth's Mightiest Heroes! But before he can build his New Avengers, he must disassemble the old ones! In the team's darkest day, one of their own tears them apart - seemingly forever | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_-8363050421495835438 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Vehicle from December 2009 - 145,000km.
Hybrid(Petrol) engine of 3450cc - Automatic gear box.
Serviced by Lexus Mauritius - Equipped with electric seats adjustment - reverse cam - rear and front parking sensors - sport mode - Bluetooth and others. | RedPajamaC4_-4685147878129249038 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Vocalise No 20
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Fauré's life took an easier turn in 1896 when he succeeded Massenet as a professor of composition at the Paris Conservatoire and even easier, from some points of view when he was appointed Director in 1905. But he took his duties in both posts very seriously and as Director took an especial interest in the teaching of singing. Between 1906 and 1916 he wrote at least 29 vocalises for the sight-singing examinations. These exercises, recently unearthed by Roy Howat and Emily Kilpatrick and edited by them for publication by Peters in 2014, range from the relatively simple to the decidedly taxing and, as the editors point out 'With no phrasing marked in most of the manuscripts, sight-singing students had to use their wits and read ahead to judge and shape phrase lengths, particularly when Fauré prolongs a melody or suddenly transfers it up an octave just as it seems about to relax into a cadence.' No 20, written for the women's final examination on 12 June 1912, is an example of the simpler style, reminiscent of 'Lydia'.
from notes by Roger Nichols © 2016
Fauré: The Complete Songs, Vol. 1
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
FLAC 24-bit 96 kHz £12.00
ALAC 24-bit 96 kHz £12.00
Malcolm Martineau brings together some of the UK's finest singers for the first release in a new series charting the complete songs of French composer Gabriel Fauré.» More
Lorna Anderson (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Lorna Anderson (soprano)
All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London, United Kingdom
Andrew Mellor & John H West
Andrew Mellor
Fauré: The Complete Songs, Vol. 1 (SIGCD427) | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_-6416733733779295140 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Lunch provided. Please RSVP if you plan to attend.
Abstract: We build on Lissoni et al. (2013a) and examine the allocation of scientific credit within research teams in a dynamic setting, with reference to "double disclosure" instances (the same research result is both published and patented). Senior and junior scientists collaborate over a 2-period horizon and, in the first period, bargain over the allocation of attribution rights (first authorship and inventorship). Seniors make take-it-or-leave-offers, which juniors can accept, litigate, or sanction by exiting the team in the second period. We find that juniors are the most likely to trade inventorship for first authorship the higher the litigation and/or exit costs. We test our theoretical predictions by means of an original dataset of "patent-publication papers" produced by academics in seven European countries from 1997 to 2007. Junior and female authors are found to be more likely than male and senior ones not to appear on patents, with significant country and sector effects. The latter are compatible with differences in litigation and/or exit costs.
Francesco Lissoni is Professor of Economics at GREThA, the Group of Theoretical and Applied Research in Economics of the University of Bordeaux, where he has been granted the Chaire d'Accueil of the Regional Council of Aquitaine, for research in the Economics of Innovation. Francesco is also a long-standing Affiliate of CRIOS, Bocconi University (Milano, Italy). He is a member of the EPIP scientific committee and Associate Editor of Industry & Innovation.
Lissoni's main research interests relate to knowledge creation and diffusion. In the past he has done research on innovation adoption and the geography of knowledge spillovers. More recently, he contributed to research the role played by IPRs in academic science and the economics of academic science itself. His current projects include studies on the relationship between migration and innovation, in both home and destination countries of migrants.
This event is sponsored by Innovating Communication in Scholarship (ICIS) and the Center for Science and Innovation Studies (CSIS). | RedPajamaC4_-711698893335513046 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Attention Low-Carb Dieters: You're Missing Out on Health Benefits of Grains
Karen Asp
Karen Asp Published: October 29, 2020
When it comes to whole grains, there's not a lot of middle ground. You either love them or hate them–and stay away because you're following a low-carb diet–even though nutrition experts and the US Dietary Guidelines agree that whole grains are part of a healthy diet and encourage individuals to eat more.
Naysayers believe that grains (of any kind) promote inflammation, which can lead to numerous chronic diseases, and cause weight gain. Yet nothing could be further from the truth, since whole grains aren't only recommended for health, they're also critical for it, containing vital nutrients like fiber, protein, vitamin E, vitamin B6, potassium, and magnesium.
Busting the myths about whole grains and health problems
One reason people avoid grains is that they believe that modern-day wheat has a lower nutritional profile than it once did. While wheat has been bred to increase yields, "numerous studies emphasize that these changes have not greatly impacted its nutritional profile (aside from slightly higher fiber counts and lower minerals) and that modern wheats do not have higher levels of gluten," says Kelly Toups, M.L.A., R.D., L.D.N., director of nutrition at Oldways, noting that a study in Nutrition Bulletin supports these statements.
There's also concern that today's wheat may be connected with health issues, but studies have found no evidence of this. "There's no evidence that whole wheat is linked to any health risks," says Sharon Palmer, M.S.F.S., R.D.N., plant-powered dietitian in Los Angeles who offers free resources at sharonpalmer.com, adding that you should avoid certain grains if you have celiac disease or gluten intolerance, but otherwise, gluten doesn't pose any health risk to the majority of the population. "In fact, whole grains, including whole wheat, are linked with multiple health benefits, including lower risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and cancer."
Whole grains lead to a healthy gut microbiome and improved metabolism
Take, for instance, a 2017 report from the American Institute of Cancer Research and the World Cancer Fund, which found that three servings of whole-grain foods per day reduced the risk of colorectal cancer by 17 percent. The evidence for eating more whole grains was even stronger than the evidence for fiber alone, Toups says. Although fiber is a known nutrition powerhouse, whole grains have a number of other bioactive compounds, many of which are thought to have anti-carcinogenic properties. These include vitamin E, selenium, copper, zinc, lignans, phytoestrogens, and phenolic compounds.
The health powers of whole grains extend to the gut microbiome as well. As Toups notes, in a randomized clinical trial of 81 adults published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the group eating whole grains had significantly higher concentrations of "good" gut microbes which significantly improved their metabolisms over the six-week study compared with the group eating refined grains (and all other foods were kept the same between the two groups).
The question of whole grains and weight gain, explored
And the idea that grains might cause weight gain, as many people following low-carb diets believe? Once again, science doesn't support this. Using national health survey data from 9,341 adults in Australia, researchers found that people avoiding core grain foods were significantly more likely to be overweight or obese than those who ate grains, despite consuming fewer calories than grain eaters, per a study published in the journal Nutrients. "Part of this could be attributed to whole grains' beneficial effect on metabolism and gut microbiome," Toups says.
Here's the real irony: Because grain avoiders eat fewer fruits and vegetables, weight problems may be just one consequence of this low-carb approach to skipping all the nutrients and antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals in these whole plant-based foods. Avoiding any single good group is a bad idea, Toups explains. "People who avoid grains are putting themselves at risk not only of nutrient deficiencies but possibly chronic disease as well," Toups says.
Whole versus refined grains: Knowing the difference is key
When you're looking to add whole grains to your diet, know this: Not all grains are created equal. "To get the biggest nutritional bang for your buck, choose whole-grain foods," Toups says.
The List of Whole Grains Includes:
Corn or Maize
Whole grains are those that contain all of their original bran, germ, and endosperm. "Most of the grain's nutrients – and flavor – are in the bran and germ, which are routinely stripped out when grains are refined," Toups says.
Refining whole wheat flour to make white flour greatly decreases its nutrients, including fiber, protein, vitamin E, vitamin B6, potassium, and magnesium. Refined grains are actually processed down to such a small size in flour particles that they're rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream, producing a sharp increase in blood glucose levels followed by a sharp decline, driving up hunger just as sugar does, Palmer says. These refined grains also don't provide as much satiety as whole grains and tend to be higher in calories, which means you'll eat more without feeling full.
In the end, these refined grains don't provide the same benefits as whole grains. "Refined grains are linked with weight gain and cardiovascular disease risk," Palmer says. That's one reason the Scientific Report of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee emphasized a need to shift toward a higher proportion of total grains coming from whole grains and reducing refined grains.
How to get the most from grains
When choosing whole grains, look for the Whole Grain Stamp, a yellow and black packaging symbol found on more than 13,000 products around the world that displays how many grams of whole grains are in one serving of the product, Toups says. No stamp? Look for other clues like the word "whole" in the ingredient list and the grams of fiber in each serving, since the higher the better. Bread, for instance, should have at least 3 and optimally 4 grams of fiber.
Then shoot for a variety of grains in your diet, to increase the diversity of nutrients you get, Palmer says. She advises starting with brown rice and then adding quinoa and farro to your meals, as they're easier to find and more familiar to most people. You can also substitute whole grain flour for white flour in your recipes, starting with 50 percent of the recipe and then moving forward.
Going against the grains might be trendy, but as with other diet fads, it's a recipe for poor health. Instead, eat those whole grains with confidence and get healthier as a result. As Palmer says, "It's not about low-carb but healthy carbs."
Categories: Health & Nutrition | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_3274613443387738418 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Q: How to Check if a File Path is Valid I have a string that is in the registry that can either point to an .exe, .txt along with certain command line arguments like:
C:\\PAthtoTheExe\program1.exe -arg1 -arg2
How do I determine if the "program1.exe" is a valid executable, IE that it points to an existing file? (this could be removed if the user uninstalls the application for eg:)
I don't like the idea of parsing out the arguments, because right now, the path can either point to an .exe or .txt or a .url. I would have to put in a long if else to do that.
A: There's a
File.Exists( path );
method that will return true if the filename exists. It won't tell you if the file contains a valid executable, though.
You can separate the path from the other arguments using
string tokens[] = registry_value.Split( ' ' );
then passing the first token to File.Exists()
| RedPajamaStackExchange_872339269488675414 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
In Phoenix, industrial park, KwaZulu – Natal and employ staff of 60 people.
Collectivity, our staff have many, many years of experience in the Granite industry, this gives us the edge over many of our competitors.
With this expertise we have recently undertaken major commercial projects working in association with various construction companies, architects, quantity surveyors, shopfitters etc.
Granite innovations is a dynamic company driven by our success and the desire to aspire to greater heights. We have the necessary resources to expand further in our area of expertise, and provide quality products to our clients.
We have dedicated staff at our factor , who produce high quality workmanship that is subjected to stringent quality tests prior to the products being dispatched from our factory. We have a young and dynamic management team that strives on professionalism and 100% customer satisfaction.
Granite Innovations have a business association with majority of the kitchen manufactures throughout KwaZulu Natal. In addition to the above. We also manufacture and install granite and marble staircases and solid granite balustrades and hand rails etc.
We also specialize in the manufacture of tombstones and have outlets and agents throughout KwaZulu Natal. Our high quality workmanship and commitment to our customers has contributed to our success in this industry. We have over 300 designs to select.
Granite innovations is a 100% black owned entity and the management is from a previously disadvantaged position. More than 80% of our employees are from the black community.
We implemented a proper training and development programme to provide employment opportunities. More than 50 of our employees have successfully completed our in- house skills training programme and hold permant positions as operators, polisher's, fitters and supervisor's.
Granite innovations has the necessary resource in place to undertake projects. Of any magnitude, nationality, which gives us an advantage over our competitors.
We currently have several specialized installation teams which undertake and exclude our projects.
The empowerment and upliftment of our employees forms an integral part of our operations and will continue to upgrade our employees in order to improve the quality of their lifestyles.
To this end, we seek the support of developers, contractors, architects and would like them to consider our company when tenders are called for and reviewed for the supply of granite products. | RedPajamaC4_8201926164229328677 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Current Search: Research Repository (x) » English literature (x) » Physics (x)
21F Higher Spin Structures in ²⁵Na and ²¹F.
Vonmoss, Justin Matthew, Tabor, Samuel Lynn, Plewa, Tomasz, Bonesteel, N. E., Riley, Mark A., Volya, Alexander, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences,...
Show moreVonmoss, Justin Matthew, Tabor, Samuel Lynn, Plewa, Tomasz, Bonesteel, N. E., Riley, Mark A., Volya, Alexander, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Physics
Two experiments have been performed at Florida State University using the FSU Compton- Suppressed HPGe Array and associated particle telescope. The first experiment used the 9Be(18O, pnγ) reaction at 35 MeV to study the nuclear structure of 25Na. The second experiment used the 9Be(14C, pnγ) reaction at 30, 35, and 45 MeV to study the nuclear structure of 21F. Particle-γ and particle-γ-γ coincidence data were analyzed resulting in the discovery of several new gamma rays and states for both...
Show moreTwo experiments have been performed at Florida State University using the FSU Compton- Suppressed HPGe Array and associated particle telescope. The first experiment used the 9Be(18O, pnγ) reaction at 35 MeV to study the nuclear structure of 25Na. The second experiment used the 9Be(14C, pnγ) reaction at 30, 35, and 45 MeV to study the nuclear structure of 21F. Particle-γ and particle-γ-γ coincidence data were analyzed resulting in the discovery of several new gamma rays and states for both nuclei; this includes resolving a doublet in 25Na which has caused significant confusion in previous works. Angular distributions, lifetimes, and transition strengths have been measured for both nuclei. Shell model calculations have been performed using the USDA and WBP interactions; in addition to 0-particle-0-hole states, 1p1h states have been calculated for both nuclei and, in 21F, 2p2h states have been calculated as well.
Adaptation of Ultra-Precise Atomic Mass Measurement Techniques to Microwave Spectroscopy on a Single Molecular Ion by Detecting Polarizability Shifts in a Penning Trap.
Zarrella, Andrew, Physics
Using the FSU Ion Penning trap it is possible to measure the ratio of the cyclotron frequencies of two molecular ions to a precision of 0.1 ppb. These cyclotron frequencies can be shifted due to large electric polarizabilities in some molecular ions. Because the polarizability of the molecular ion is dependent on the quantized rotational levels of the molecule, is possible to use the cyclotron frequency shifts detected in our lab to detect transitions between rotational levels. This allows us...
Show moreUsing the FSU Ion Penning trap it is possible to measure the ratio of the cyclotron frequencies of two molecular ions to a precision of 0.1 ppb. These cyclotron frequencies can be shifted due to large electric polarizabilities in some molecular ions. Because the polarizability of the molecular ion is dependent on the quantized rotational levels of the molecule, is possible to use the cyclotron frequency shifts detected in our lab to detect transitions between rotational levels. This allows us to do microwave spectroscopy on single molecular ions. The main goal of this project will be to implement this new method of microwave spectroscopy, by measuring the lambda-type doubling splitting of the diatomic molecular ion, NH+, in its vibrational and rotational ground state.
Alkaline Earth Metal Fluxes for the Growth of Single Crystal Oxides.
Ramirez, Daniel, Siegrist, Theo M., Hellstrom, Eric, Liang, Zhiyong Richard, Florida State University, Graduate School, Program in Materials Science
Oxide ceramics are materials with a wide range of properties. Insulators are most common, however semiconductors, strongly correlated electron materials, and even superconductors are all relevant oxide materials. Here we seek to synthesize novel oxide single crystal phases and study their properties using an alkaline earth metal flux technique. The specific flux techniques are new, and we will seek to understand the capabilities of these fluxes as a novel synthesis tool. The use of a barium...
Show moreOxide ceramics are materials with a wide range of properties. Insulators are most common, however semiconductors, strongly correlated electron materials, and even superconductors are all relevant oxide materials. Here we seek to synthesize novel oxide single crystal phases and study their properties using an alkaline earth metal flux technique. The specific flux techniques are new, and we will seek to understand the capabilities of these fluxes as a novel synthesis tool. The use of a barium metal flux to grow single crystal oxides is rather counterintuitive, but is exemplified further with the growth of europium monoxide (Fm3 #225, Z = 4). Eu₁₋xBaxO single crystals (x = 0.01 – 0.25) are grown and studied for their ferromagnetic properties. A new oxide phase Ba₂Eu₂P₂O (P4/mbm #127, Z = 2) has also been synthesized from the same method, and may potentially be studied as a ferromagnetic semiconductor based on preliminary observations. Other examples of single crystal oxide phases grown from barium metal flux includes Ba₂TeO (P4/nmm #129, Z = 2), BaLn₂O₄(Ln = La – Lu) (Pnma #62, Z = 4), and Ba₃Yb₂O₅Te (P4/mmm #123 Z = 1). The new crystal phases Ba₃Ln₂O₅Cl₂ (Ln = Sm – Lu, Y) are synthesized using a reactive barium metal flux. Single crystal x-ray diffraction is used to determine their structures with space group (I4/mmm #139, Z = 2) related to the Ruddlesden-Popper structure type. The unit cell dimensions range from a = 4.46(6) Å and c = 24.87(6) Å for Ba₃Gd₂O₅Cl₂ to a = 4.35(6) Å and c = 24.57(6) Å for Ba₃Lu₂O₅Cl₂ with the dimensions following the expected lanthanide contraction trends. The magnetic properties of these materials are studied and related to their structures. The use of alkaline earth fluxes such as magnesium or calcium based fluxes are also briefly considered for their capabilities to produce novel mixed anion phases. A calcium flux is shown to produce the novel semimetals Ca₄TeOH₄ and Ca₃Ca₁₋xEuxTeOH₄ (I4/mmm #139, Z = 2), and highly reducing magnesium fluxes are shown to produce the divalent samarium Zintl phases SmMg₂Bi₂ and SmMg₂Sb₂ (P3m1 #163, Z = 1).
FSU_2016SU_Ramirez_fsu_0071N_13312
Alternating Current Loss Characteristics in (Bi,Pb)₂Sr₂Ca₂Cu₃O₁₀ and YBa₂Cu₃O[subscript 7-δ] Superconducting Tapes.
Nguyen, Hau T. B., Schwartz, Justin, Boebinger, Gregory, Logan, Timothy M., Hirst, Linda, Vafek, Oskar, Department of Physics, Florida State University
Alternating current (AC) loss and current carrying capacity are two of the most crucial considerations in large-scale power applications of high temperature superconducting (HTS) conductors. AC losses result in an increased thermal load for cooling machines, and thus increased operating costs. Furthermore, AC losses can stimulate quenching phenomena or at least decrease the stability margin for superconducting devices. Thus, understanding AC losses is essential for the development of HTS AC...
Show moreAlternating current (AC) loss and current carrying capacity are two of the most crucial considerations in large-scale power applications of high temperature superconducting (HTS) conductors. AC losses result in an increased thermal load for cooling machines, and thus increased operating costs. Furthermore, AC losses can stimulate quenching phenomena or at least decrease the stability margin for superconducting devices. Thus, understanding AC losses is essential for the development of HTS AC applications. The main focus of this dissertation is to make reliable total AC loss measurements and interpret the experimental results in a theoretical framework. With a specially designed magnet, advanced total AC loss measurement system in liquid nitrogen (77 K) has been successfully built. Both calorimetric and electromagnetic methods were employed to confirm the validity of the measured results and to have a more thorough understanding of AC loss in HTS conductors. The measurement is capable of measuring total AC loss in HTS tapes over a wide range of frequency and amplitude of transport current and magnetic field. An accurate phase control technique allows measurement of total AC loss with any phase difference between the transport current and magnetic field by calorimetric method. In addition, a novel total AC loss measurement system with variable temperatures from 30 K to 100 K was successfully built and tested. Understanding the dependence of AC losses on temperature will enable optimization of the operating temperature and design of HTS devices. As a part of the dissertation, numerical calculations using Brandt's model were developed to study electrodynamics and total AC loss in HTS conductors. In the calculations, the superconducting electrical behavior is assumed to follow a power-law model. In general, the practical properties of conductors, including field-dependence of critical current density Jc, n-value and non-uniform distribution of Jc, can be accounted for in the numerical calculations. The numerical calculations are also capable of investigating eddy current loss in the stabilizer and ferromagnetic loss in the substrate of YBa2Cu3O7 (YBCO) coated conductor. AC loss characteristics and electrodynamics in several (Bi,Pb)2Sr2Ca2Cu3Ox (Bi-2223) and YBCO tapes were studied experimentally and numerically. It was found that AC loss behavior in HTS tapes is strongly affected by the sample parameters such as cross-section, structure, dimensions, critical current distribution as well as by operation parameters including temperature, frequency, the phase difference between transport current and magnetic field, the orientation of magnetic field. The Ni-5%W substrate in YBCO conductors generates some ferromagnetic loss but this loss component is significantly reduced by a small parallel DC magnetic field. At a given AC magnetic field B0, there is a temperature Tmax at which the magnetization loss is maximum. The design of HTS devices needs to be optimized to avoid operating at that temperature. In general, the total AC loss in HTS tapes is still high for many power device applications, especially for those that present a rather high AC applied magnetic field. The development of low loss conductors is therefore crucial for HTS large-scale applications.
Analysis of Radicals in Gas-Liquid Electrical Discharges.
Hsieh, Kevin, Locke, Bruce R., Alabugin, Igor V., Chella, Ravindran, Alamo, Rufina G., Florida State University, College of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biomedical...
Show moreHsieh, Kevin, Locke, Bruce R., Alabugin, Igor V., Chella, Ravindran, Alamo, Rufina G., Florida State University, College of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Electrical discharge is a commonly used method to produce ions and radicals that can be used for degrading compounds as well as for chemical synthesis. Previously, the application of electrical discharges has been studied in liquids such as water and alcohols to produce hydrogen peroxide and hydrogen and to destroy organic compounds in the water and gas phases. Recently low power gas-liquid electric discharges have been employed to increase efficiency for hydrogen peroxide and oxidized...
Show moreElectrical discharge is a commonly used method to produce ions and radicals that can be used for degrading compounds as well as for chemical synthesis. Previously, the application of electrical discharges has been studied in liquids such as water and alcohols to produce hydrogen peroxide and hydrogen and to destroy organic compounds in the water and gas phases. Recently low power gas-liquid electric discharges have been employed to increase efficiency for hydrogen peroxide and oxidized products for synthesis or degradation. Determination and analysis of the intermediate radicals produced in the plasma has not been studied intensively for discharges at the gas-liquid interface such as aerosol sprays and thin liquid films. According to theoretical models based on reaction kinetics in plasma these radicals such as hydroxyl radicals play an important role in formation of hydrogen peroxide. However, there may be excess hydroxyl radicals formed and not involved in the formation of hydrogen peroxide. The main goal of this work is to characterize and identify key intermediate radicals and their reaction pathways in the liquid phase, gas phase, and at the interface of these aerosol droplets and thin film surfaces using various gases and liquid feeds.
Analyzing Powers for the 12C(7Li, t/d/p) Reactions.
Weintraub, William D., Kemper, Kirby W., Robson, Donald, Cottle, Paul, Schlottmann, Pedro, Safron, Sanford A., Department of Physics, Florida State University
The first, second, and third rank analyzing powers tT10, tT20, tT30, and tT20 as well as cross section angular distributions for 12C(7Li, t/d/p) at 34 MeV were measured. The experimental results gave nonzero values for tT10 and tT30 which is indicative of a non-statistical compound nucleus reaction mechanism according to Hauser-Feshbach predictions. The experimental results were compared to finite-range distorted wave Born approximation calculations are discussed along with previous results....
Show moreThe first, second, and third rank analyzing powers tT10, tT20, tT30, and tT20 as well as cross section angular distributions for 12C(7Li, t/d/p) at 34 MeV were measured. The experimental results gave nonzero values for tT10 and tT30 which is indicative of a non-statistical compound nucleus reaction mechanism according to Hauser-Feshbach predictions. The experimental results were compared to finite-range distorted wave Born approximation calculations are discussed along with previous results. The main goal of this work is to determine the reaction mechanism; do these reactions proceed via direct transfer or statistical compound nucleus formation, and if direct, did it occur in one step or multiple steps? The results indicate that all the reactions studied are direct to some degree. There is evidence for direct transfer of a 4,5 He cluster but not a 6He cluster.
Angular Momentum Induced Shape Changes in the Rare-Earth Nuclei ¹⁵²,¹⁵³Gd and ¹⁵⁹,¹⁶⁰Yb.
Campbell, David B., Riley, Mark A., Steinbock, Oliver, Weidenhover, Ingo, Coa, Jianming, Piekarewicz, Jorge, Department of Physics, Florida State University
The technique of studying nuclear structure under the rigors of high angular momentum through the examination of γ-ray cascades has recently undergone an explosion in productivity. These advances have been brought on primarily by the development of new detection systems, such as GAMMASPHERE, which are comprised of numerous individual elements. When these Compton-suppressed Ge detectors are operated in unison, a remarkable ability to distinguish weak and exotic changes in structure emerges....
Show moreThe technique of studying nuclear structure under the rigors of high angular momentum through the examination of γ-ray cascades has recently undergone an explosion in productivity. These advances have been brought on primarily by the development of new detection systems, such as GAMMASPHERE, which are comprised of numerous individual elements. When these Compton-suppressed Ge detectors are operated in unison, a remarkable ability to distinguish weak and exotic changes in structure emerges. The current generation of spectrometers have allowed dramatic insight into the nucleus and are eclipsed only by the promises of arrays currently on the horizon. The fundamentals of employing γ-ray spectroscopic techniques to examine the fascinating behavior of rapidly rotating nuclei using these arrays will be discussed. The rare earth region of the nuclear landscape is a significant expanse of heavy nuclei with varying degrees of shell occupation. The region has proven to be a rich environment for studying nuclear structure at high spin. For example, superdeformation, identical bands, and backbending were all discovered in this region. This work explores the advances made on four nuclei from this region: 152,153Gd and 159,160Yb. Extensive additions to the previously known structure were made for each nucleus, exposing an unexpected similarity between 152Gd and 154Dy. Long sought after evidence of an angular momentum induced change in nuclear shape was found for each of the nuclei. This shift, from prolate collective rotation at low spin to oblate single particle behavior at high spin, represents a dramatic change in the method employed by the nucleus to generate angular momentum.
Anomalous Metallic Behavior in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems with Disorder.
Tanaskovic, Darko, Dobrosavljevic, Vladimir, Dalal, Naresh, Manousakis, Efstratios, Capstick, Simon, Xiong, Peng, Department of Physics, Florida State University
We study several aspects of the behavior of strongly correlated electron systems with disorder. First we examine the influence of strong electron-electron interactions on the impurity dominated resistivity. In the weak-coupling limit, the resistivity is reduced by the screening effect which is determined by the charge compressibility, which is proportional to the inverse screening length. We show that when strong correlations are present, although the compressibility is reduced, the screening...
Show moreWe study several aspects of the behavior of strongly correlated electron systems with disorder. First we examine the influence of strong electron-electron interactions on the impurity dominated resistivity. In the weak-coupling limit, the resistivity is reduced by the screening effect which is determined by the charge compressibility, which is proportional to the inverse screening length. We show that when strong correlations are present, although the compressibility is reduced, the screening effect is nevertheless strongly enhanced. This phenomenon is traced to the non-perturbative Kondo-like processes captured by dynamical mean field theory, but which are absent in weak coupling approaches. We discuss a possible relevance of our results for the physics of high mobility MOSFETs. In the second part of the thesis we study possible mechanisms of disorder-driven non-Fermi liquid behavior in heavy fermion systems. We present simple analytical arguments explaining the universal emergence of electronic Griffiths phases as precursors of disorder-driven metal-insulator transitions in correlated electronic systems. Then we examine the interplay of the Kondo effect and the RKKY interactions in electronic Griffiths phases using extended dynamical mean-field theory methods. We find that sub-Ohmic dissipation is generated for sufficiently strong disorder, leading to suppression of Kondo screening on a finite fraction of spins, and giving rise to universal spin-liquid behavior.
Applications of Effective Field Theories to the Many-Body Nuclear Problem and Frustrated Spin Chains.
Felline, Cosimo, Piekarewicz, Jorge, Krishnamurti, Ruby, Capstick, Simon, Tabor, Samuel, Schlottmann, Pedro, Department of Physics, Florida State University
Modern effective-theory techniques are applied to the many-body nuclear problem and frustrated quantum spin chains. A novel approach is proposed for the renormalization of nucleon-nucleon operators in a manner consistent with the construction of the effective potential. To test this approach a one-dimesional, yet realistic, nucleon-nucleon potential is introduced. An effective potential is then constructed by tuning its parameters to reproduce the exact effective range expansion and a variety...
Show moreModern effective-theory techniques are applied to the many-body nuclear problem and frustrated quantum spin chains. A novel approach is proposed for the renormalization of nucleon-nucleon operators in a manner consistent with the construction of the effective potential. To test this approach a one-dimesional, yet realistic, nucleon-nucleon potential is introduced. An effective potential is then constructed by tuning its parameters to reproduce the exact effective range expansion and a variety of bare operators are renormalized in a fashion compatible with this construction. Predictions for the expectation values of these operators in the ground state reproduce the results of the exact theory with remarkable accuracy (at the 0.5% level). We illustrate the main ideas of this work using the elastic form factor of the deuteron as an example. We also apply th COntractor REnormalizator technique to the study of frustrated anti-ferromagnetic zig-zag spin chains with arbitrary half-integer spin. A basis is employed in which three neighboring spins are coupled to a well-defined value of the total angular momentum. The basis is then truncated to retain only the lowest lying energy states, and the Hamiltonian renormalized to reproduce the low-lying spectrum of the original system. We prove the necessity of retaining two, rather than one, lowest energy eigenstates as frustration is increased. A finite size scaling approach is used to extract ground state energy densities in good agreement with DMRG calculations and spin gaps in qualitative agreement with the disappearance of the Haldane phase around a=0.3. Moreover, we are able to develop a renormalization group equation that predicts accurately the ground state energy density of the chain in the thermodynamic limit.
Automated One-Loop QCD and Electroweak Calculations with NLOX.
Honeywell, Steven Joseph, Reina, Laura, Aluffi, Paolo, Owens, Joseph F., Roberts, Winston, Yohay, Rachel, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of...
Show moreHoneywell, Steven Joseph, Reina, Laura, Aluffi, Paolo, Owens, Joseph F., Roberts, Winston, Yohay, Rachel, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Physics
We introduce a new framework, NLOX, in which one-loop QCD and electroweak corrections to Standard Model processes can be automatically calculated. Within this framework, we calculate the first order of electroweak corrections to the hadronic production of Z + 1b-jet and discuss some of the most relevant theoretical issues related to this process.
FSU_2017SP_Honeywell_fsu_0071E_13868
Baroclinic Geostrophic Turbulence and Jets in the Laboratory.
Smith, Carlowen Andrew, Speer, Kevin G., Landing, William M., Dewar, William K., Sura, Philip, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Program in Geophysical...
Show moreSmith, Carlowen Andrew, Speer, Kevin G., Landing, William M., Dewar, William K., Sura, Philip, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Baroclinic, geostrophic turbulence is random, chaotic flow characterized by significant vertical gradients in density (Bu << 1) in which rotation plays a major role (Ro << 1). In the presence of a large-scale background gradient of potential vorticity (a β-effect ), a symmetry-breaking occurs which admits anisotropy in the system. These conditions form the fundamental dynamical basis of many natural geophysical flows on a planetary scale (Rh << 1), and even fairly simple models of these...
Show moreBaroclinic, geostrophic turbulence is random, chaotic flow characterized by significant vertical gradients in density (Bu << 1) in which rotation plays a major role (Ro << 1). In the presence of a large-scale background gradient of potential vorticity (a β-effect ), a symmetry-breaking occurs which admits anisotropy in the system. These conditions form the fundamental dynamical basis of many natural geophysical flows on a planetary scale (Rh << 1), and even fairly simple models of these phenomena can exhibit quite complex behavior. One such aspect that is common to these flows is that of multiple, zonal jets. These are spontaneous flow structures characterized by fast East-West (azimuthal) motion. This thesis describes the creation of multiple jets in the laboratory within a fully-stratified, baroclinically-forced fluid subject to rotation and a β-effect. By carefully controlling the forcing parameters, we observe the transition between a single "classical" baroclinic wave and regimes that closely resemble conditions of natural planetary flows. Observing this transition in the laboratory shows that the proposed scaling arguments are valid and have predictive power in the case of multiple zonal jets in a baroclinic fluid. Spontaneous eddy forcing of the mean flow is shown to be the ultimate driving force of the jets, whose evolution is observed in time. A long-duration drift in the jet structure is observed and quantified to be an order of magnitude less than the Rossby wave phase speed. A detailed quantitative analysis of the structure the flow field sheds further light. This is done through both a standpoint of the Eulerian flow fields, and the raw data associated with the (Lagrangian) tracks of neutrally buoyant particles within the flow. There is a significant transition of the power law scaling of Fourier spectra between dynamically significant scales. As the flow changes between experiments, the power law of the Eulerian spectra can change over particular scale ranges, which is direct evidence of a regime change. Access to raw Lagrangian tracks of the fluid allow a direct characterization of the flow field that is independent of the Eulerian. The structure function technique is introduced and shows a fundamental change in behavior between dynamic scales, and between experiments, in a way consistent with theory. A preliminary analysis is carried out of an experiment studying the competing mechanisms of buoyancy and wind forcing present on a single zonal jet. This is simulated in a rotating annulus of fluid by imposing a radial temperature gradient across the annulus gap, while applying mechanical forcing at the surface through the differential rotation of a rigid lid in contact with a surface layer of oil. A radially-sloping bottom creates a fluid depth gradient and simple topography in the form of five regularly spaced meridional ridges creates azimuthally varying f/h contours that steer the first-order flow. By varying the strength of wind and thermal forcing on the fluid, several regimes of flow are produced. Analysis of the Eulerian field shows the response of zonal transport and eddy kinetic energy to these different forcing regimes. The thesis concludes with a description of the development of an apparatus to push the observations into a more turbulent dynamical range. This includes information about the spin-up and maintenance of a large-scale sloping thermal gradient in the apparatus, as well as some preliminary results.
2018_Sp_Smith_fsu_0071E_14453_comp
Bayesian Neural Networks for Classification.
Saucedo, Skyler Richard, Prosper, Harrison B., Adams, Todd, Hagopian, Vasken, Department of Physics, Florida State University
We study a model for classification based upon Bayesian statistics. The model, called Bayesian Neural Networks (BNN), is based on a function that is a weighted sum of hyperbolic tangent functions. To illustrate this method, we apply it to the task of separating Supersymmetric (SUSY) events from Standard Model proton-proton events at the LHC. Unlike conventional Neural Networks, the BNN model is an average over networks, which is done by integrating over a high dimensional parameter space....
Show moreWe study a model for classification based upon Bayesian statistics. The model, called Bayesian Neural Networks (BNN), is based on a function that is a weighted sum of hyperbolic tangent functions. To illustrate this method, we apply it to the task of separating Supersymmetric (SUSY) events from Standard Model proton-proton events at the LHC. Unlike conventional Neural Networks, the BNN model is an average over networks, which is done by integrating over a high dimensional parameter space. Since integrating over the parameter space is analytically impossible, the BNN method uses Hybrid Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques to sample the desired probability densities while preserving a high acceptance rate. In this thesis we study the correlation properties of a sequence of Neural Networks. The results of this study are of great importance because validate the strategy currently used by the D0 collaboration, in the search for single top quarks at Fermilab.
Beta Decay Studies of Neutron-Rich ³⁰,³¹Al and in-Beam Studies of Neutron-Rich ³⁰Al.
Hinners, Trisha, Tabor, Samuel L., Aldrovandi, Ettore, Blessing, Susan, Riley, Mark, Piekarewicz, Jorge, Department of Physics, Florida State University
Low-spin states were studied in 30Al following the β decay of 30Mg produced in the fragmentation of 140 MeV/AMU 48Ca. Analysis of the β-γ and β-γ-γ coincidences revealed a new 1+ state at 2413 keV, confirmation of the level scheme, and a more accurate half life measurement of 315(6)ms for the 30Mg ground state. Higher-spin states were investigated in the reaction of 14C on 18O at 22 MeV. Protons and deuterons were detected in a segmented E-Δ E Si telescope in coincidence with one or two gamma...
Show moreLow-spin states were studied in 30Al following the β decay of 30Mg produced in the fragmentation of 140 MeV/AMU 48Ca. Analysis of the β-γ and β-γ-γ coincidences revealed a new 1+ state at 2413 keV, confirmation of the level scheme, and a more accurate half life measurement of 315(6)ms for the 30Mg ground state. Higher-spin states were investigated in the reaction of 14C on 18O at 22 MeV. Protons and deuterons were detected in a segmented E-Δ E Si telescope in coincidence with one or two gamma rays in the FSU Ge detector array. A comparison of the resulting level and decay scheme with predictions of the sd shell model shows good agreement with all but 6 of the states in both excitation energy and γ decay branching ratios. The RMS deviations in energy of these states using the older USD and newer USDA and USDB interactions were 265, 176, and 173 keV respectively. The remaining 6 states are well described as 4-to 7- states, similar in relative energy to those in 28Al but shifted down by about 1200 keV. These states also agree well with the predictions of shell model calculations using the WBP interaction. A comparison of the lowest 4- states in even A Na, Al, and P isotopes shows a systematic decrease in energy with increasing N and with decreasing Z. The energies of the 4- states are almost identical in nuclei with the same N - Z values. In addition to the study of 30Al, 31Al was also produced following the β decay of 31Mg in the fragmentation of 140 MeV/AMU 48Ca. The β-γ and β-γ-γ coincidences were able to show all previously known work. However, no new transitions were observed.
Braiding and Berry's Phases in Non-Abelian Quantum Hall States.
Zikos, Georgios, Bonesteel, Nicholas, Aldrovandi, Ettore, Schlottmann, Pedro, Reina, Laura, Chiorescu, Irinel, Department of Physics, Florida State University
If one could be built, a quantum computer would be capable of storing and manipulating quantum states with sufficient accuracy to carry out computations that no classical computer can do (most notably factoring integers in polynomial time). The greatest obstacle to building such a device is the problem of error and decoherence. Classical computers can exploit the physical robustness of ordered states to protect classical information (as in, for example, the magnetically ordered state of a...
Show moreIf one could be built, a quantum computer would be capable of storing and manipulating quantum states with sufficient accuracy to carry out computations that no classical computer can do (most notably factoring integers in polynomial time). The greatest obstacle to building such a device is the problem of error and decoherence. Classical computers can exploit the physical robustness of ordered states to protect classical information (as in, for example, the magnetically ordered state of a hard drive). Remarkably, a type of quantum order known as topological order can, in principle, play the same role for quantum information. The best studied topologically ordered states are quantum Hall states. These states arise when a two-dimensional electron gas is placed in a strong magnetic field and cooled to low temperatures. Under the right conditions, the electrons condense into an incompressible quantum liquid whose excitations are particle-like objects with fractional charge (quasiparticles). Certain quantum Hall states are thought to be non Abelian. This means that when a finite number of quasiparticles are present and fixed in space there is a low energy Hilbert space with finite dimension, rather than a unique state. Unitary operations can then be carried out on this Hilbert space by adiabatically dragging quasiparticles around one another so that their world-lines sweep out braids in 2+1 dimensional space time. A quantum computer which stores quantum information in this Hilbert space and computes by braiding is known as a topological quantum computer. In this thesis I review our work on determining precisely how one would carry out a computation on a topological quantum computer. I focus on the so-called Fibonacci anyons--quasiparticles which may exist in the experimentally observed quantum Hall state at Landau level filling fraction ν = 12/5. I give explicit prescriptions for encoding qubits (quantum bits) using Fibonacci anyons, and show how one would carry out a universal set of quantum gates (the quantum analogs of Boolean logic gates) by braiding them. I then focus in particular on my work developing algorithms for performing brute force searches over the space of braids to find braids which produce unitary operations close to any desired operation. These brute force searches are a crucial part of our quantum gate construction, and I show that by using a so-called "load balanced" bidirectional search I can find braids which approximate any desired operation to an accuracy of 1 part in 10 5 . I then turn to my work calculating the Berry's phase obtained when quasiparticles are moved around one another in the Moore-Read state, a non Abelian state generally believed to describe the ν = 5/2 quantum Hall effect. This work is done using variational Monte Carlo, a method which allows one to numerically evaluate the Berry's phase for finite size systems. By exploiting certain properties of the Moore-Read state I have been able to study systems consisting of as many as 150 electrons. In so doing I have verified the conjectured connection between the Berry's phase produced by physically moving quasiparticles around one another and the mathematical phase one obtains by simply analytically continuing the quasiparticle coordinates. An added benefit of these calculations is that we can deduce the length scale which determines the size of the quasiparticles. This length scale dictates how far apart the quasiparticles must be in order to prevent errors when they are used for topological quantum computation.
The Changing Geomagnetic Field from the Ionosphere to the Core-Mantle Boundary.
Mozzoni, David T. (David Theodore), Van Winkle, David, Cunningham, Philip, Berg, Bernd, Cain, Joseph, Riley, Mark, Department of Physics, Florida State University
In this study two aspects of the geomagnetic field have been investigated. The first part focuses on perturbations of the external field, as seen by the CHAMP satellite and predicted by the Thermosphere-Ionosphere Electrodynamic General Circulation Model, for the purpose of helping to separate out ionospheric sources from the ambient geomagnetic field using a physics based approach. Part two looks at variations of the internal field through an examination of the South Atlantic Anomaly. The...
Show moreIn this study two aspects of the geomagnetic field have been investigated. The first part focuses on perturbations of the external field, as seen by the CHAMP satellite and predicted by the Thermosphere-Ionosphere Electrodynamic General Circulation Model, for the purpose of helping to separate out ionospheric sources from the ambient geomagnetic field using a physics based approach. Part two looks at variations of the internal field through an examination of the South Atlantic Anomaly. The NCAR Thermosphere-Ionosphere Electrodynamic General Circulation Model (TIE-GCM) is a self-consistent, global, atmospheric model that can be used to estimate magnetic perturbations at satellite altitude. These computed perturbations can then be compared with the magnetic vector data provided by low-earth orbiting satellites. Analogous CHAMP magnetic vector residuals were computed for these intervals using the CHAOS model to remove the core and crustal geomagnetic contributions. Under various input parameters, the TIE-GCM predictions were compared with the CHAMP residuals on an orbit by orbit basis demonstrating a reasonable agreement between the TIE-GCM estimates and the CHAMP residuals in non-polar, dayside regions (±50° magnetic latitude). Although no clear component or temporal correlation was discerned, evidence showing overall residual decrease in the comparisons presents the possibility of using the TIE-GCM to preprocess geomagnetic data for main field modeling purposes. A group of spherical harmonic field test models, developed utilizing this correction, verify the feasibility of this application. Variations of the internal field are investigated through study of the South Atlantic Anomaly, a region of low geomagnetic field measured at the Earth's surface. The time evolution of this feature is tracked at the surface over the last 400 years. Subsequently, its associations with the axial dipole moment and radial geomagnetic flux are examined at the core-mantle boundary, revealing in the process, a possible link between total unsigned flux and geomagnetic jerks.
Characterization, Fabrication, and Application of Molecularly Modified Semiconductor Nano-Devices.
Chen, Kan-Sheng, Xiong, Peng, Stiegman, Albert, Bonesteel, Nicholas, Chiorescu, Irinel, Crede, Volker, Department of Physics, Florida State University
The integration of soft (organic, biological) and hard (semiconducting, metallic) materials is of central importance in a host of emerging areas in materials research and nanoscience. Micro- and nano-scale hybrid soft/hard condensed matter structures are necessary components for such diverse applications as molecular electronics, biological and chemical sensing, directed assembly of functional nanostructures, and controlled solution-chemistry synthesis of nanomaterials. Organic molecules have...
Show moreThe integration of soft (organic, biological) and hard (semiconducting, metallic) materials is of central importance in a host of emerging areas in materials research and nanoscience. Micro- and nano-scale hybrid soft/hard condensed matter structures are necessary components for such diverse applications as molecular electronics, biological and chemical sensing, directed assembly of functional nanostructures, and controlled solution-chemistry synthesis of nanomaterials. Organic molecules have been employed not only as pathways for molecular recognition (e.g., in biosensing and directed assembly), but also as means to produce novel electronic functionality and even as active electronic components (e.g., in molecular junctions and single molecule transistors). In recent years, the scientific and engineering community has expended unprecedented effort on fundamental research in this area of nanotechnology, in hope of finding new paradigms of nanoelectronics and biomedical sensors. Inspired by this concept, this dissertation research explores the fabrication and characterization of several diverse types of solid-state/molecular hybrid nanostructures. The objectives of the research are two-fold: 1) to investigate directed self-assembly of semiconductor nano devices using molecular templates and examine molecular modification of the electronic characteristics of such devices, and 2) to study molecular functionalization of semiconductor micro/nano devices and the utilization of the functionalized devices for biomolecular sensing. Carbon nanotubes are a class of quasi-one-dimensional nanomaterials which have received extensive interest. Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) exhibit excellent electrical properties suitable for high performance nanoelectronics. Individual SWNT field-effect transistors (FETs) have been shown to outperform state-of-the-art silicon counterparts. However, the integration of the SWNT devices into high-density architectures remains a challenge. Through the bottom-up approach, utilizing directed assembly of solvent suspended SWNTs onto a molecular template, we demonstrated the fabrication of high performance SWNT-FETs. Furthermore, selective functionalization of the metal electrodes with various polar molecules patterned by dip-pen nanolithography (DPN) gave rise to molecularly modified SWNT-FETs comprising of s-SWNT/molecule/Au heterojunction and resulted in pronounced modification to the key electrical characteristics of the SWNT-FETs, including subthreshold swing, ON/OFF ratio, and threshold voltage. By replacing the semiconducting SWNT to a metallic one, the same strategy produced m-SWNT/molecule/Au heterojunction, where the m-SWNT serves a metallic nanoprobe to study the tunneling properties of electrical current through the molecular SAM. The extraordinary precision and high spatial registry of DPN were also used to selectively functionalize active regions of micro-Hall magnetometers fabricated from an InAs quantum well heterostructures, as a necessary step towards using the μ-Hall devices for biomolecular sensing. To demonstrate detection of protein binding, the submicron molecular SAM functionalized region was subsequently attached with biotin molecules. The streptavidin coated superparamagnetic nanobeads were specifically assembled onto the biotinylated region of μ-Hall device through the biotin-streptavidin linkage and detected by the ac-phase sensitive Hall magnetometry at room temperature. The same sensing scheme was employed for label-free discrimination of a 35 base pair (bp) single strand (ss) DNA target, as a demonstration for point of care (POC) pathogenic DNA detection. An independent study of fluorescence microscopy based on arrays of mimic μ-Hall crosses showed that the platform is feasible for discriminating target DNA at a concentration of 36 pM and < 10 ppm in the presence of extraneous DNA. Binary oxide nanobelts, synthesized through a catalyst-free physical vapor deposition growth method, have emerged as a class of useful quasi-one-dimensional nanomaterials with unique "belt" like morphology. We have fabricated high-performance channel-limited SnO2 nanobelt FETs and utilized them as high sensitivity electrochemical transducers to detect various biomolecules by molecularly modifying the surface of the nanobelt with specific molecular receptors. We first demonstrated the efficacy of the sensing scheme and platform via detection of streptavidin protein using biotinylated SnO2 nanobelt FETs. The same platform was then modified to detect cardiac troponin I (cTnI) antigen, a biomedically significant marker that has been widely considered to be an effective indicator of cardiac damage upon trauma to the heart. A systematic effort was placed on optimizing and extending the capabilities of the platform. The procedures for functionalizing the oxide surface of nanobelts were modified to improve the contact transparency between the molecularly functionalized nanobelt channel and the metal electrodes to increase the yield in obtaining channel-limited SnO2 FETs for sensing applications. The versatility of the sensing scheme was finally extended by the successful attachment of DNA aptamer to the surface of the oxide nanobelts, which provides a potential general pathway to the binding of a broad variety of biomolecules, such as small molecules, proteins, nucleic acids, and even cells, tissues, and organisms. With the DNA aptamer functionalized SnO2 nanobelt FET devices, we successfully demonstrated the detection of thrombin molecules.
Charge and Spin Processes in Anisotropic Materials.
Jobiliong, Eric, Brooks, James S., Dalal, Naresh, Dobrosavljevic, Vladimir, Xiong, Peng, Piekarewicz, Jorge, Department of Physics, Florida State University
Several materials have been investigated in order to study charge and spin processes in anisotropic materials, particularly in high magnetic fields. The behavior of charge carriers in graphite based material, such as bulk graphite, mesoscopic graphite and graphite intercalated compound is studied. In novel spin systems, a dense Kondo system, CeAgSb2 which has ferro- and antiferro-magnetic ordering depending on the direction of the magnetic field has been selected, in order to study the...
Show moreSeveral materials have been investigated in order to study charge and spin processes in anisotropic materials, particularly in high magnetic fields. The behavior of charge carriers in graphite based material, such as bulk graphite, mesoscopic graphite and graphite intercalated compound is studied. In novel spin systems, a dense Kondo system, CeAgSb2 which has ferro- and antiferro-magnetic ordering depending on the direction of the magnetic field has been selected, in order to study the behavior of the spin in this system. Here, I present briefly an explanation of each part of this work. The nature of the magnetic field dependent metal-insulator behavior has been investigated in bulk highly oriented pyrolytic graphite at low temperatures by electronic transport. The metal-insulator behavior has been examined by applying uniaxial stress to our sample up to 8 kbar and found that the temperature dependence of the resistivity for different magnetic fields is the same as that in ambient pressure. The temperature dependence of the resistivity in mesoscopic graphite (called as few layer graphene or FLG) has a strong dependence on the thickness of the sample. The effect of electric field in FLG has been studied in both magnetic fields and zero field. The Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations frequency increases with absolute value of the gate voltage. I do not observe the field induced charge density wave transition, which is observed in bulk graphite. The intercalated graphite superconductor CaC6 with Tc ~ 11.5 K has been synthesized and characterized with magnetoresistance measurements. By using the McMillan formula, the electron-phonon coupling constant is estimated to be ʎ = 0.85 which places this material in the intermediate-coupling regime. The angular dependence of the upper critical field parallel and perpendicular to the superconducting planes suggests that this material is a quasi-2D superconductor. Of the dense Kondo materials in the class CeTSb2 (where T = Au, Ag, Ni, Cu, or Pd), CeAgSb2 is special due to its complex magnetic ground state, which exhibits both ferro- and anti-ferromagnetic character below an ordering temperature TO ~ 9.8 K. To further elucidate a description this magnetic ground state, I have carried out a systematic study of single crystalline CeAgSb2 by magnetic, electrical magneto-transport, and SdH studies. At zero field the temperature dependent resistivity below TO is most consistent with antiferromagnetic order, based on transport theory which includes magnon scattering.
Charge Glassiness and Magnetotransport in Lightly Doped Cuprates.
Raičević, Ivana, Popović, Dragana, Dobrosavljević, Vladimir, Dalal, Naresh, Brooks, James, Wahl, Horst, Department of Physics, Florida State University
Magnetotransport and resistance noise have been studied in high quality singlecrystals of La2Cu1−xLixO4 and La2−xSrxCuO4 with x=0.03. The detailed measurements are performed at temperatures ranging from 0.03 to 190K and in magnetic fields of up to 18T parallel and perpendicular to the c axis of the crystals. Two specific problems have been addressed: the emergence of both the charge glassiness and positive magnetoresistance at very low temperatures in both materials, and the formation of...
Show moreMagnetotransport and resistance noise have been studied in high quality singlecrystals of La2Cu1−xLixO4 and La2−xSrxCuO4 with x=0.03. The detailed measurements are performed at temperatures ranging from 0.03 to 190K and in magnetic fields of up to 18T parallel and perpendicular to the c axis of the crystals. Two specific problems have been addressed: the emergence of both the charge glassiness and positive magnetoresistance at very low temperatures in both materials, and the formation of skyrmions at moderate temperatures in Li doped La2CuO4. The signatures of charge glassiness have been observed for the first time in lightly doped cuprates in this study. It is shown that the magnetoresistance exhibits features of glassy systems such as hysteresis, history dependence and memory effects at temperatures far below the spin-glass transition temperature. The resistance noise spectroscopy has also revealed that the charge dynamics becomes increasingly slow and correlated, i.e. glassy, as temperature goes to 0. All our results support the picture of the spatial segregation of holes into the hole-rich regions in the presence of the hole-poor antiferromagnetic (AF) domains in CuO2 planes, as inferred from other studies and different experimental techniques. However, for the first time, we have disclosed that these hole-rich regions are dynamic at such low temperatures. Furthermore, in the same temperature regime, we have observed that the magnetoresistance becomes positive. Our data strongly indicate that the onset of this positive sign strongly correlates to the emergence of the charge glass dynamics. The complicated behavior of the cuprates, as strongly correlated electron systems, is once again manifested through our observation of the emergence of the skyrmion texture in La2Cu0.97Li0.03O4. Our work, described in Chapter 5, presents the first experimental evidence for quantum (T = 0) skyrmions in the ground state of a doped antiferromagnet. The skyrmions are topologically nontrivial magnetic excitations that can be detected using the magnetoresistance measurements. In particular, we demonstrate that the skyrmions make a clear signature in the magnetotransport, since their formation is responsible for the change in the monotonic increase of the magnetoresistance step size with decreasing temperature.
The Cluster Structure of Oxygen Isotopes.
Johnson, Eric D., Rogachev, Grigory V., Humayun, Munir, Blessing, Susan K., Tabor, Samuel L., Volya, Alexander S., Department of Physics, Florida State University
The alpha-cluster structure of two oxygen isotopes, 17O and 18O, was studied using two experimental techniques. The first technique measured resonance elastic scattering of alpha particles and the second used the direct alpha-transfer reactions (6Li,d) and (7Li,t) to determine resonance properties. Motivation for this study was two-fold. First, the alpha-cluster structure of N not equal Z nuclei is poorly known and is a subject of intense theoretical discussion . Historically, the alpha...
Show moreThe alpha-cluster structure of two oxygen isotopes, 17O and 18O, was studied using two experimental techniques. The first technique measured resonance elastic scattering of alpha particles and the second used the direct alpha-transfer reactions (6Li,d) and (7Li,t) to determine resonance properties. Motivation for this study was two-fold. First, the alpha-cluster structure of N not equal Z nuclei is poorly known and is a subject of intense theoretical discussion . Historically, the alpha-particle model of the atomic nucleus was the leading model of nuclear structure. As it became clear that nuclei consist of protons and neutrons this model was replaced. The Pauli principle forbids nucleons from different alpha particles to be in the same state since the total wave function of an atomic nucleus must be antisymmetric. However, alpha clusters have been used to explain various nuclear effects including quasi-rotational bands of states with large alpha-particle widths which were observed in light 4N nuclei, 8Be, 12C, 16O and so on. Included here is a report on the observation of the alpha-cluster structure in the N not equal Z nucleus 18O. We measured the alpha-cluster structure of 18O using the Thick Target Inverse Kinematics (TTIK) technique . We found that 18O has a very elaborate alpha-cluster structure, including two unusual states with alpha widths larger than the single particle limit (the Wigner limit ). A comparison of the observed 18O alpha-cluster structure with the predictions of modern theoretical approaches is given. The peculiar nature of the two very broad states is discussed. Second, the alpha-cluster structure of near alpha-threshold excited states in 17O and 18O plays a crucial role in the field of nuclear astrophysics as it determines the rates of the 13C(alpha,n) and 14C(alpha,gamma) reactions. These reactions are thought to play important roles in stellar evolution of Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars. Unfortunately, direct measurement of these reactions is currently impractical. This has led to the development of indirect methods to determine reaction rates. One such method is the Asymptotic Normalization Coefficient (ANC) technique. We determined the alpha-cluster structure of several near alpha-threshold states in 17O and 18O using this ANC technique. Using this alpha-cluster information we were able to determine the 13C(alpha,n) reaction rate and reduce its uncertainty from approximately 300% to 25%. Also we were able to calculate the 14C(alpha,gamma) reaction rate. Accurately knowing the 13C(alpha,n) reaction rate is crucial to the modeling of AGB stars, and a reliable determination of the 14C(alpha,gamma) reaction rate is needed in order to help understand the unexplained abundance of 19F in the universe.
Clustering in ¹⁸O and ANC Measurements Using (⁶Li,D) Reactions.
Avila, Melina, Rogachev, Grigory, Humayun, Munir, Hoeflich, Peter, Volya, Alexander, Wiedenhover, Ingo, Department of Physics, Florida State University
Clustering in atomic nuclei is an interesting phenomenon that has been studied extensively in the past. However, most studies were related to clustering in α-like 4N nuclei. This work is focused on clustering in N≠Z non-self-conjugate nuclei. Two experimental approaches are applied. Properties of resonances above the α-decay threshold in 18O are studied using resonance elastic scattering of α-particles on 14C. Asymptotic Normalization Coefficients (ANCs) of near-threshold resonances in 16O,...
Show moreClustering in atomic nuclei is an interesting phenomenon that has been studied extensively in the past. However, most studies were related to clustering in α-like 4N nuclei. This work is focused on clustering in N≠Z non-self-conjugate nuclei. Two experimental approaches are applied. Properties of resonances above the α-decay threshold in 18O are studied using resonance elastic scattering of α-particles on 14C. Asymptotic Normalization Coefficients (ANCs) of near-threshold resonances in 16O, 17O and 20Ne are measured using sub-Coulomb α-transfer (6Li,d) reaction. To investigate the α-cluster states of 18O the α+14C elastic scattering reaction was studied using the Thick Target Inverse Kinematics (TTIK) technique. An exhaustive analysis of the 14C+α excitation functions using multi-channel, multi-level R-matrix approach has been performed. This analysis led to a more complete picture of α-cluster states in 18O. The excitation function was studied in an excitation energy range of 8 MeV-15 MeV. The most remarkable feature found in this analysis is the presence of states with high degree of clustering throughout the whole excitation energy range, including two states with pure α-cluster configuration. To provide a more detailed description of these two broad states, potential model calculations were preformed. These calculations reproduced rather well the excitation energy and width of these states. The Asymptotic Normalization Coefficient (ANC) technique can be used as an effective method to determine the astrophysical S-factor. Combination of the sub-Coulomb α-transfer reaction and application of the ANC technique in the analysis of the experimental data practically eliminates dependence of the result on model parameters, making this approach a very valuable tool for studies of astrophysically important reaction rates. In this study we report the ANC measurements of near threshold states for the reactions: 16O(6Li,d20Ne, 13C(6Li,d)17O and 12C(6Li,d)16O. Two astrophysically important reactions, 13C(α,n) and 12C(α,γ) were studied. The 13C(α,n) reaction is considered to be the main source of neutrons for the s-process in Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars and the 12C(α,γ) reaction is often regarded as the "holy grail"of nuclear astrophysics, because it enters as a crucial parameter for so many stellar processes. The ANCs of the near α-threshold states were used to calculate astrophysical S-factors and corresponding reaction rates.
Clustering Phenomena in the a = 10 T = 1 Isobaric Multiplet.
Kuchera, Anthony N., Rogachev, Grigory, Tabor, Samuel, Aldrovandi, Ettore, Prosper, Harrison, Volya, Alexander, Department of Physics, Florida State University
Clustering of α particles plays an important role in light atomic nuclei. For example, multicenter structures built on the well-known low-lying states of 8Be can be formed. The addition of nucleons to the system may result in covalent-like bonding between the two α-cores. These structures have been called ''nuclear molecules" because of their analog to atomic molecules. Investigation of these exotic nuclear structures is the main subject of this experimental work. Much of the experimental and...
Show moreClustering of α particles plays an important role in light atomic nuclei. For example, multicenter structures built on the well-known low-lying states of 8Be can be formed. The addition of nucleons to the system may result in covalent-like bonding between the two α-cores. These structures have been called ''nuclear molecules" because of their analog to atomic molecules. Investigation of these exotic nuclear structures is the main subject of this experimental work. Much of the experimental and theoretical work for molecular-like states has been done within the Be isotopes, however, despite of significant effort, our knowledge and understanding of molecular-like structures is still deficient. This is due to limited experimental information on the states of interest. The main goal of this work is to provide this information for the unbound T=1 states in A=10 systems and look for signatures of the exotic α:2N:α configurations. The T=1 states in 10B between Ex = 8.7- 12.1 MeV were studied using the 1H(9Be,α)6Li*(T=1, 0+, 3.56 MeV) reaction. An R-matrix analysis was used to extract parameters for the five resonances observed. The widths of the known 2+ resonance at 8.9 MeV have been measured and support the theoretical predictions that it is a highly clustered state and can be identified as a member of the α-np-α rotational band. The 4+ member was not observed in this reaction channel. In a second experiment, 6He+4He elastic scattering was used to probe resonances in 10Be in search of α-2n-α structures. Using the active target detector system, ANASEN, the excitation function was measured from Ex = 9.6 - 15.4 MeV. This was the first experiment in which the new active target detector, ANASEN, was used in filled (active target) mode. The excitation function shows a strong resonance at 10.2 MeV which was identified as 4+ and assigned to the extremely stretched α:2n:α configuration. A broad structure centered at 13.5 MeV was also observed and it may possibly be the 6+ member of this rotational band.
Cold Nuclear Matter Effects on J/ψ → e+e̅ and ψ́ → e+e̅ Production in d + Au Collisions at 200 GeV.
McGlinchey, D. (Darren), Frawley, Anthony, Eugenio, Paul, Humayun, Munir, Capstick, Simon, Adams, Todd, Department of Physics, Florida State University
Mesons composed of heavy quark-antiquark pairs, known as quarkonia, provide the only direct probe of the screening length in the deconfined state of quarks and gluons, known as the quark gluon plasma (QGP), which is believed to be produced in high energy heavy ion collisions. However, the observation of suppression of quarkonia production in heavy ion collisions at high energies is complicated by the modification of quarkonia production in normal nuclear matter. Measuring the modification of...
Show moreMesons composed of heavy quark-antiquark pairs, known as quarkonia, provide the only direct probe of the screening length in the deconfined state of quarks and gluons, known as the quark gluon plasma (QGP), which is believed to be produced in high energy heavy ion collisions. However, the observation of suppression of quarkonia production in heavy ion collisions at high energies is complicated by the modification of quarkonia production in normal nuclear matter. Measuring the modification of quarkonia production due to the effects of normal nuclear matter, often termed cold nuclear matter (CNM) effects, provide a critical baseline for understanding the properties of the QGP. Measurements of CNM effects on quarkonia production are also interesting in their own right, and can be measured independently in proton-nucleus (p+A) collisions. The modification of quarkonia production in p+A collisions provides insight into quarkonia production mechanisms unavailable through the study of proton-proton collisions alone. The study of quarkonia production in p+A collisions over a wide range of kinematic variables can also provide constraints on the modification of parton distribution functions in nuclei. In order to quantify the CNM effects present at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the PHENIX experiment has recorded data on d+Au collisions at \sqsn=200 GeV. The analysis of J/psi→e+e-and psi'→e+e-production from that data set is presented here. Both J/psi and psi' production are found to be suppressed in d+Au relative to p+p collisions, with the suppression increasing for collisions with small impact parameters. The psi' production is found to be much more suppressed than J/psi production, a result which is unexpected based on measurements at lower collision energy and present theoretical pictures. A parametrization of the J/psi modification measured by PHENIX in terms of two CNM effects is also presented. One is the nuclear breakup of the forming quarkonium state through collisions with nucleons during the d+Au collision. The other is the modification of the gluon distribution in the Au nucleus. It is found that the two effects can be separated due to the very different impact parameter dependencies. A strongly non-linear geometric dependence on the modification of the gluon distribution function is observed, with the modification found to be concentrated near the center of the Au nucleus. This parametrization is also used to estimate the modification of J/psi production in Au+Au collisions due to CNM effects. This modification is compared to PHENIX measurements of J/psi production in Au+Au collisions. Suppression of J/psi production in Au+Au collisions beyond CNM effects is observed. This excess suppression is interpreted as suppression of J/psi production due to the formation of a QGP.
Comparing the Poisson-Boltzmann Equation to Alternative Electrostatic Theories and Improving Stochastic Techniques for Implicit Solvent Models.
Harris, Robert C., Fenley, Marcia O., Blaber, Michael, Berg, Bernd A., Van Winkle, David, Dobrosavljevic, Vladimir, Department of Physics, Florida State University
The Poisson-Boltzmann equation, PBE, the linearized PBE, LPBE, and generalized Born, GB, model are implicit solvent methods that accelerate biophysical calculations by eliminating the need to integrate across the solvent's degrees of freedom. This thesis compares the predictions of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation, PBE, to those of another electrostatic theory, the counterion condensation theory, CCT. It demonstrates that the CCT's predictions of the salt dependence of the electrostatic binding...
Show moreThe Poisson-Boltzmann equation, PBE, the linearized PBE, LPBE, and generalized Born, GB, model are implicit solvent methods that accelerate biophysical calculations by eliminating the need to integrate across the solvent's degrees of freedom. This thesis compares the predictions of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation, PBE, to those of another electrostatic theory, the counterion condensation theory, CCT. It demonstrates that the CCT's predictions of the salt dependence of the electrostatic binding free energy agree with those of the PBE, but its predictions of the electrostatic binding free energy itself do not. This observation is explained by deriving a simple analytical expression for the salt dependence of the electrostatic binding free energy from the GB model. This expression indicates that essentially any electrostatic theory with the same long-distance predictions will predict the same salt dependence, it explains the observed correlations between this salt dependence and various empirical quantities, and it provides a rapid method for predicting its change upon mutation of the charged residues of the binding partners. Implicit solvent models do include several approximations whose validity should be evaluated to determine the reliability of their estimates of experimental quantities. In this thesis the effect of finite ion sizes upon PBE solutions is examined with the size-modified PBE, SMPBE. These findings show that the SMPBE predicts different dependences of electrostatic energies upon ion size than the PBE, but whether these changes lead to different predictions for observable quantities is not clear. Additionally, the ion-exclusion layer does not match the dependences on ion size given by the SMPBE, and combined with the superior physical basis of the SMPBE, the use of the ion-exclusion layer is called into question. Additionally, this thesis improves stochastic solvers of the LPBE and presents a new stochastic solver of the GB model. By optimizing the bias-generating parameters in a walk-on-spheres, WOS, LPBE solver, dividing the variance evenly across the atoms of the molecule, and using an approximate nearest-neighbor solver, WOS solvers can solve the LPBE in times comparable to deterministic solvers. The stochastic GB solver has the advantage over traditional analytical solvers of the GB in that analytical solutions to the GB model must approximate a set of parameters called the Born radii, and the error due to this approximation cannot usually be evaluated. The stochastic solver, on the other hand quantifies this error and converges to the exact GB model with additional computation time. This behavior allows the validity of the Born approximation itself to be evaluated, and the results presented here indicate that the GB model gives different estimates of the electrostatic binding free energy than the LPBE. More research will be required to refine the GB approximation to better compute the electrostatic binding free energy, and that the radii in the stochastic method are arbitrarily precise indicates that the stochastic solver will be useful in this endeavor.
Computational and Analytical Studies of Magnetization Switching in Iron Nanopillars.
Thompson, Sam Hill, Rikvold, Per Arne, Ye, Ming, Brown, Gregory, Van Moln´ar, Stephan, Berg, Bernd, Department of Physics, Florida State University
In this dissertation we study the behavior of several computational models of a magnetic nanopillar. We first compare the effect that coarse-graining the computational lattice has on the magnetization switching for three degrees of discretization. Bimodal switching-time distributions are found for all three models, however the underlying mechanism is different for each one. In the lowest-resolution, single-spin model, a bimodal distribution is the result of spin precession which sometimes...
Show moreIn this dissertation we study the behavior of several computational models of a magnetic nanopillar. We first compare the effect that coarse-graining the computational lattice has on the magnetization switching for three degrees of discretization. Bimodal switching-time distributions are found for all three models, however the underlying mechanism is different for each one. In the lowest-resolution, single-spin model, a bimodal distribution is the result of spin precession which sometimes crosses the threshold defining a switching event early or in the next precession period, depending on thermal fluctuations. For the medium-resolution, stack-of-spins model, the presence of either one or two propagating domain walls during the switching event determines the total switching time, leading to the observed bimodal distribution. The most realistic model, which employs a high-resolution computational lattice, permits multiple switching paths, some of which are characterized by their visitation to a metastable free-energy well and consequently longer lifetimes. It is also notable that the medium-resolution model exhibits reentrant behavior for reversal fields that are applied close to the easy axis. The highest-resolution model is studied in detail, due to its complexity, which precludes a simple description of the mechanism resulting in bimodal switching-time behavior. Phase-space portraits of components of the total energy indicate that the metastable free-energy basin is circumvented for short-lived trials. Sufficient statistics are gathered to allow Markov matrices describing the average behavior of each mode to be investigated. Eigenvectors of these matrices provide estimates of the probability distribution of the largest transient for each mode in the energy space, while the projective dynamics technique identifies the location of the free-energy saddle point. The hypothesis that the visitation of the metastable well underlies the bimodal behavior is further reinforced by comparing the long-lived trials to simulations that are constrained to start in the metastable state. Finally, exploratory results for thermally-assisted magnetization reversal of the highest-resolution model are provided to test the assumption that it is only necessary to increase the temperature at the endcaps of the pillar, since this the site of nucleation. By introducing additional thermal energy to the pillar, the coercive field might be lowered, relaxing the required field of the write head of a hard disk drive. We find that varying the maximum temperature of a narrow pulse, centered at the top of the pillar, results in a very modest change in the coercivity when the maximum temperature is kept close to, or below, the Curie temperature. This effect is largely limited by the added heat diffusing quickly to the constant-temperature substrate. Switching fields were significantly reduced for pulse widths that were large enough to elevate the temperature of the entire pillar. However, using such large pulses stretch the approximations of the model. Another approach is attempted, tuning the parameter that controls energy exchange between the temperature bath and the spins. This also results in only a minimal reduction of the coercive field. Some suggestions are given for future computational studies of thermally-assisted magnetization reversal.
Computational Studies of Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Phase Diagrams and Critical Properties of Two Physical and Chemical Model Systems with Both Short-Range and Long-Range Interactions or Reactivities.
Chan, Chor-Hoi, Rikvold, Per Arne, Shanbhag, Sachin, Brown, Gregory, Capstick, Simon, Xiong, Peng, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Physics
In this dissertation, we introduce long-range interactions into one equilibrium model (Ising model) and one non-equilibrium system (Ziff-Gulari-Barshad model), and study their phase diagrams and critical properties. A new approach to do Wang-Landau simulation: macroscopically constrained Wang-Landau, is proposed in connection with the former system. Our macroscopically constrained Wang-Landau method breaks a multidimensional random walk process in phase space into many separate, one...
Show moreIn this dissertation, we introduce long-range interactions into one equilibrium model (Ising model) and one non-equilibrium system (Ziff-Gulari-Barshad model), and study their phase diagrams and critical properties. A new approach to do Wang-Landau simulation: macroscopically constrained Wang-Landau, is proposed in connection with the former system. Our macroscopically constrained Wang-Landau method breaks a multidimensional random walk process in phase space into many separate, one-dimensional random walk processes in the energy space. Each of these random walks is constrained to a different value of the macroscopic order parameters. By knowing the distribution of these constrained variables, we can deduce the multi-variable density of states. When the multi-variable density of states for one set of external parameters is obtained, the density of states at any point in the phase diagram can be obtained by simple transformations. After that, all thermodynamic quantities can be obtained. We apply this method to an antiferromagnetic Ising model with a ferromagnetic long-range interaction. The addition of the long-range interaction induces metastable regions in the phase diagram, and a mean-field class critical point emerges for sufficiently strong long-range interaction. We demonstrate how to use the multi-variable density of states obtained to sketch out the complicated phase diagrams for different values of the long-range interaction. We also give free-energy plots, and plots of the distributions of the order parameters of the system for different special points in these phase diagrams. The Ziff-Gulari-Barshad (ZGB) model, a simplified description of the oxidation of carbon monoxide (CO) on a catalyst surface, is widely used to study properties of nonequilibrium phase transitions. Instead of restricting the CO and atomic oxygen (O) to react to form carbon dioxide (CO₂) only when they are adsorbed in close proximity, we consider a modified model that includes an adjustable probability for adsorbed CO and O atoms located far apart on the lattice to react. We employ large-scale Monte Carlo simulations to study the critical properties of this system. We find that the nonequilibrium critical point changes from the two-dimensional Ising universality class to the mean-field universality class upon introducing even a weak long-range reactivity mechanism.
FSU_FA2016_Chan_fsu_0071E_13552
Computational Studies of Lattice Gas Models.
Juwono, Tjipto, Rikvold, Per Arne, Steinbock, Oliver, Capstick, Simon, Van Winkle, David, Brown, Gregory, Department of Physics, Florida State University
We have studied the effect of diffusion on the dynamics of desorption on a lattice-gas model The chemical potential during the adsorption phase was varied in order to vary the initial size distribution for the desorption phase. The effect of diffusion on the size distribution dynamics during the desorption process was observed by turning the diffusion on and off while keeping the chemical potential during desorption constant. We study the effect of diffusion on correlation length during the...
Show moreWe have studied the effect of diffusion on the dynamics of desorption on a lattice-gas model The chemical potential during the adsorption phase was varied in order to vary the initial size distribution for the desorption phase. The effect of diffusion on the size distribution dynamics during the desorption process was observed by turning the diffusion on and off while keeping the chemical potential during desorption constant. We study the effect of diffusion on correlation length during the desorption process. We also compare size distribution dynamics without and with the application of diffusion and study the effect of diffusion on the size distributions at given coverages. During the desorption process, the correlation length increased up to a maximum and then decreased. We found that diffusion tends to increase correlation length at any given coverage. However diffusion increase correlation length by very small percentage in the regime where correlation length is decreasing, and increase it more significantly when the correlation length is increasing. When the correlation length of the initial configuration is large, the correlation length during the desorption only increase slightly at initial coverages and decrease for the most part. As a result, diffusion only increase correlation length insignificantly during the whole process. When the correlation length of the initial configuration is small, the correlation length increase during a significant part of the process. As a result, diffusion increase correlation length significantly during the process. By studying the size distributions at some coverages during the process -before and after diffusion- we found that diffusion tends to shrink large clusters and grow or create small clusters. When the clusters growth or creating of new clusters by diffusion is small, the increase of correlation length by diffusion is small and large otherwise. We also study Bromine and Chlorine chemisorption on a Ag(100) surface, using a lattice-gas model and the quantum-mechanical Density Functional Theory (DFT) method. In this model the Br and Cl ions adsorb at the fourfold hollow sites of the Ag(100) surface, which can be represented by a square lattice of adsorption sites. Five different coverages were used for each kind of adsorbate. For each adsorbate and coverage, we obtained the minimum-energy configuration, its energy, and its charge distribution. From these data we calculated dipole moments, lateral interaction energies, and binding energies. Our results show that for Br the lateral interactions obtained by fitting to the adsorption energies obtained from the DFT calculation are consistent with long-range dipole-dipole lateral interactions obtained using the dipole moments calculated from the DFT charge distribution. For Cl we found that, while the long-range dipole-dipole lateral interactions are important, short-range attractive interactions are also present. Our results are overall consistent with parameter estimates previously obtained by fitting room-temperature Monte Carlo simulations to electrochemical adsorption isotherms [I. Abou Hamad et al., J. Electroanal. Chem. 554 (2003), 211; Electrochim. Acta 50 (2005), 5518].
Computational Studies of Magnetically Doped Semiconductor Nanoclusters.
Gutsev, Lavrenty Gennady, Dalal, Naresh S., Chiorescu, Irinel, Strouse, Geoffrey F., Yang, Wei, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Chemistry &...
Show moreGutsev, Lavrenty Gennady, Dalal, Naresh S., Chiorescu, Irinel, Strouse, Geoffrey F., Yang, Wei, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Spin-polarized unrestricted density functional theory is used to calculate the molecular properties of magnetic semiconductor quantum dots doped with 3d-metal atoms. We calculate total energies of the low spin antiferromagnetically coupled states using a spin-flipping algorithm leading to the broken-symmetry states. Given the novel nature of the materials studied, we simulate experimental observables such as hyperfine couplings, ionization/ energies, electron affinities, first and second...
Show moreSpin-polarized unrestricted density functional theory is used to calculate the molecular properties of magnetic semiconductor quantum dots doped with 3d-metal atoms. We calculate total energies of the low spin antiferromagnetically coupled states using a spin-flipping algorithm leading to the broken-symmetry states. Given the novel nature of the materials studied, we simulate experimental observables such as hyperfine couplings, ionization/ energies, electron affinities, first and second order polarizabilities, band gaps and exchange coupling constants. Specifically, we begin our investigation with pure clusters of (CdSe)_16 and demonstrate the dependence of molecular observables on geometrical structures. We also show that the many isomers of this cluster are energetically quite closely spaced, and thus it would be necessary to employ a battery of tests to experimentally distinguish them. Next, we discuss Mn-doping into the cage (CdSe)_9 cluster as well as the zinc-blende stacking type cluster (CdSe)_36. We show that the local exchange coupling mechanism is ligand-mediated superexchange and simulate the isotropic hyperfine constants. Finally, we discuss a novel study where (CdSe)_9 is doped with Mn or Fe up to a full replacement of all the Cd's and discuss the transition points for the magnetic behavior and specifically the greatly differing band-gap shifts. We also outline an unexpected pattern in the polarizability of the material as metals are added and compare our results with the results from theoretical studies of the bulk material.
FSU_2017SP_Gutsev_fsu_0071E_13781
A Configuration Space Monte Carlo Algorithm for Solving the Nuclear Pairing Problem.
Lingle, Mark, Volya, Alexander, Kopriva, David A., Capstick, Simon, Wiedenhöver, Ingo, Manousakis, Efstratios, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department...
Show moreLingle, Mark, Volya, Alexander, Kopriva, David A., Capstick, Simon, Wiedenhöver, Ingo, Manousakis, Efstratios, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Physics
Nuclear pairing correlations using Quantum Monte Carlo are studied in this dissertation. We start by defining the nuclear pairing problem and discussing several historical methods developed to solve this problem, paying special attention to the applicability of such methods. A numerical example discussing pairing correlations in several calcium isotopes using the BCS and Exact Pairing solutions are presented. The ground state energies, correlation energies, and occupation numbers are compared...
Show moreNuclear pairing correlations using Quantum Monte Carlo are studied in this dissertation. We start by defining the nuclear pairing problem and discussing several historical methods developed to solve this problem, paying special attention to the applicability of such methods. A numerical example discussing pairing correlations in several calcium isotopes using the BCS and Exact Pairing solutions are presented. The ground state energies, correlation energies, and occupation numbers are compared to determine the applicability of each approach to realistic cases. Next we discuss some generalities related to the theory of Markov Chains and Quantum Monte Carlo in regards to nuclear structure. Finally we present our configuration space Monte Carlo algorithm starting from a discussion of a path integral approach by the authors [2, 3]. Some general features of the Pairing Hamiltonian that boost the effectiveness of a configuration space Monte Carlo approach are mentioned. The full details of our method are presented and special attention is paid to convergence and error control. We present a series of examples illustrating the effectiveness of our approach. These include situations with non-constant pairing strengths, limits when pairing correlations are weak, the computation of excited states, and problems when the relevant configuration space is large. We conclude with a chapter examining some of the effects of continuum states in 24O.
Constraining Type Ia Supernovae Progenitor Parameters via Light Curves.
Sadler, Benjamin, H¨oflich, Peter, Chicken, Eric, Gerardy, Chris, Piekarewicz, Jorge, Prosper, Harrison, Department of Physics, Florida State University
I study thermonuclear explosions of White Dwarf (WD) stars, or so-called Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). A WD is the final stage of stellar evolution of a star with an initial mass of less than 8 Solar masses, and the thermonuclear explosion occurs either when the WD is in a close binary system where mass overflows from a companion star in a red-giant or asymptotic-branch giant phase, or when two WDs merge. SNe Ia are as bright as their entire host galaxy, which allows their use as long-range...
Show moreI study thermonuclear explosions of White Dwarf (WD) stars, or so-called Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). A WD is the final stage of stellar evolution of a star with an initial mass of less than 8 Solar masses, and the thermonuclear explosion occurs either when the WD is in a close binary system where mass overflows from a companion star in a red-giant or asymptotic-branch giant phase, or when two WDs merge. SNe Ia are as bright as their entire host galaxy, which allows their use as long-range cosmic beacons. Although their maximum brightness may vary by a factor of 20, an empirical correlation between their primary parameters of light curve (LC) shape and their intrinsic brightness allows us to account for the majority of this dispersion, with a residual uncertainty of roughly 20%. This calibration has led to their use as standardizable candles, which led to the discovery of the dark energy. Higher precision is needed to determine the nature of the dark energy, however, and to accomplish this we turn to secondary parameters of LC variation. I have devised a general scheme and developed a code to analyze large sets of LC data for these secondary parameter variations which is based on a combination of theoretical model template fitting and Principal Component Analysis. Novel methods for finding statistical trends in sparsely-sampled and non-coincidental light curve data are explored and utilized. In practice, data sets for different supernovae are inhomogeneous in time, time coverage and accuracy, but I have developed a method to remap these inhomogeneous data sets of large numbers of individual objects to a homogeneous data set centered in time and magnitude space from which we can obtain the external, primary, and secondary LC parameters of individual objects. The set of external parameters of a given SN include the time of its maximum light in various bands, its distance modulus, the extinction along the light path, and redshift corrections (K-corrections) due to cosmic expansion. I investigate the intrinsic primary parameter variation of SNe Ia via template fitting, and then probe the secondary LC variations using monochromatic differential analysis in the (UBV) bands. We use photometry from 25 SNe Ia which were recently and precisely observed by the Carnegie Supernova Project to analyze the presence of theoretical model-based differential LC signatures of Main-Sequence mass variation of the progenitor stars when they formed, central density variation of the WD at the time of the explosion, and metallicity Z variation the in the progenitors. The light curves in the V band are found to provide the highest accuracy in determining the distance modulus, K-corrections, extinction, main-sequence mass and central density of the WD progenitor, and also the V-band LCs are insensitive to metallicity. Moreover, the V-band appears to be the band which is most stable for differential creation due to the stability of the differentials with respect to uncertainties in the SNe pairs' primary parameters. The B-band's larger K-correction uncertainties and dependence on progenitor metallicity and primary parameter uncertainties discourages its use in secondary parameter differential analysis. As with B, the U-band also suffers large uncertainties in extinction and K-corrections, but this band is a good indicator of metallicity, because the effects of metallicity variation on differential LCs are larger by an order of magnitude than the Main-Sequence mass and central density effects combined. Our sample includes three SN1991T-like objects, but we find no evidence of secondary parameter variation among them, and conclude that this class of object may be identified by its primary LC parameter as well as its lack of secondary parameter features. Accounting for these secondary parameters reduces the residuals in the fiducial LC fits from 0.2 magnitude to approximately 0.02 magnitude, a requirement for high-precision cosmology based on SNe Ia. I also reconstruct the distributions of Main-Sequence mass, central density, and metallicity for the progenitors of the 25 SNe in our sample. I find that most SNe in our sample originate from stars close to the upper limit of the range of possible Main-Sequence masses, indicating that most SNe Ia explode relatively soon after the progenitor star's formation. However, the reconstructed progenitor mass distribution displays a long tail down to lower-mass objects of about 1.5 Solar masses. The central density secondary parameter distribution is much flatter, and shows SNe originate from WD progenitors of a wide range of central densities, from as low as 1.5E9 grams per cubic centimeter, and up to the limit of accretion-induced collapse, suggesting that some potential SNe Ia progenitors become neutron stars instead. Although our sample size is small, all SN1991bg-like objects in it come from progenitors with low reconstructed central density and metallicity secondary parameters. Because SN1991bg-like objects are only found in local samples and not in high-redshift searches, our findings suggest that these progenitor systems are formed at high redshifts but exhibit long delay times before the explosion.
Controlled Growth of Ultrathin Molecular Films of the P-Phenylene Oligomers on Alkali Halide Substrates.
Kintzel, Edward J., Safron, Sanford A., Van Winkle, David H., Bonesteel, Nicholas E., Lind, David M., Department of Physics, Florida State University
Controlled growth of the aromatic p-phenylene oligomer molecules of p-4P, p-5P, and p-6P adsorbed onto individual KBr(001), KCl(001), NaCl(001), and NaF(001) substrates, has been investigated primarily by x-ray diffraction (XRD) and to a lesser degree by atomic force microscopy (AFM). XRD analysis provides evidence that the temperature of the alkali halide substrate during deposition, substrate lattice constant, and molecular length affects the molecular orientations within these adsorbed...
Show moreControlled growth of the aromatic p-phenylene oligomer molecules of p-4P, p-5P, and p-6P adsorbed onto individual KBr(001), KCl(001), NaCl(001), and NaF(001) substrates, has been investigated primarily by x-ray diffraction (XRD) and to a lesser degree by atomic force microscopy (AFM). XRD analysis provides evidence that the temperature of the alkali halide substrate during deposition, substrate lattice constant, and molecular length affects the molecular orientations within these adsorbed ultrathin films. AFM images contribute independent evidence for a surface microstructure evolution that is consistent with the XRD results. An initial in-plane x-ray study suggests a possible explanation for the preferential orientation of p-6P crystallites, as observed in AFM images. This alignment is approximately along the [110] direction of the KCl(001) substrate. From this work, oriented films of the above mentioned p-phenylene oligomer molecules can therefore be grown with desired molecular orientations by careful selection of an appropriate combination of the above deposition parameters.
Coulomb Liquids: from Electron to Biology Systems.
Pramudya, Yohanes H. R., Dobrosavljevic, Vladimir, Dalal, Naresh, Manousakis, Efstratios, Berg, Bernd A., Engel, Lloyd, Department of Physics, Florida State University
We study the unusual transport behavior driven mostly by the correlations between the charge carriers in lattice and continuum systems. The strongly correlated systems are studied in the classical limit where the Coulomb interaction dominates the systems and brings the systems into the nearly frozen state that we call Coulomb Liquids. Theoretical description of the materials with the strongly interacting electron systems in the lattice or solid state physics and ions in biological systems or...
Show moreWe study the unusual transport behavior driven mostly by the correlations between the charge carriers in lattice and continuum systems. The strongly correlated systems are studied in the classical limit where the Coulomb interaction dominates the systems and brings the systems into the nearly frozen state that we call Coulomb Liquids. Theoretical description of the materials with the strongly interacting electron systems in the lattice or solid state physics and ions in biological systems or solutions are constantly challenging problems in condensed matter physics and biophysics. First we investigate the non-activated behavior of transport that observed near Wigner crystallization in two dimensions electron gas (2DEG) that is observed experimentally. The effect of Coulomb interaction in the system is studied with Monte Carlo (MC) simulation and extended dynamical mean field theory (EDMFT) in hypercubic lattice and pseudogap phase is found as a robust feature driven by long-range interaction. In the second part of the thesis we study the effect of geometrical frustration in pyrochlore lattice which competes with the interaction-driven frustration. The MC and EDMFT methods give pseudo-gap phase as found in cubic lattice that has no geometrical frustration and agree with the unusual transport property of ancient magnet/magnetite above the Verwey transition. The third part discusses the effect of strongly-correlated liquid (SCL) model by Shklovskii and the mean-field approach of Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE) describing the screening of macro-ions in solution or biological system. We compare those approximations with MC simulation and explain which approximation is good at different limit of temperature or ion density. And the last part describes the visualization for different type of interactions and the effect of filling, disordered, etc. from the study of Coulomb liquids.
Coulomb Pseudogaps and Their Role at Metal-Insulator Transitions.
Mahmoudian, Samiyeh, Dobrosavljević, Vladimir, Dalal, Naresh S., Balicas, Luis, Manousakis, Efstratios, Capstick, Simon, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences,...
Show moreMahmoudian, Samiyeh, Dobrosavljević, Vladimir, Dalal, Naresh S., Balicas, Luis, Manousakis, Efstratios, Capstick, Simon, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Physics
We investigate various fundamental aspects of the metal insulator transition (MIT) by employing several theoretical approaches. Describing the novel features of interacting electronic systems remains one of the principle challenges to theoretical condensed matter physics. Therefore, any effort to provide a deep insight into understanding the nature of MITs opens a new avenue for development of modern technology. First, we present a complete analytical and numerical solution of the Typical...
Show moreWe investigate various fundamental aspects of the metal insulator transition (MIT) by employing several theoretical approaches. Describing the novel features of interacting electronic systems remains one of the principle challenges to theoretical condensed matter physics. Therefore, any effort to provide a deep insight into understanding the nature of MITs opens a new avenue for development of modern technology. First, we present a complete analytical and numerical solution of the Typical Medium Theory (TMT) for the metal-insulator transition. In this theory, we self-consistently calculate the typical amplitude of the electron wave-functions, representing the conceptually simplest order-parameter for the Anderson transition. We classify all possible universality classes for the critical behavior, that can be found within such a mean-field approach. This provides insights into how interaction-induced renormalizations of the disorder potential may produce qualitative modifications of critical behavior. We also formulate a simple description of the leading critical behavior of varies quantities, and then obtain an effective Landau theory for Anderson localization. We also develop an efficient numerical algorithm, "Cluster Typical Medium Theory" (CTMT) to capture both non-local effects and localization in disordered electronic systems. Our formalism utilizes the momentum-resolved typical density of states to characterize the localization transition. We apply this approach to the Anderson model of localization in one and two-dimensions. In one dimension, we find that the critical disorder strength scales inversely with the linear cluster size with a power-law, W[subscript c] ∼ (1/L[subscript c])[superscript 1/v]; whereas in two dimensions, the critical disorder strength decreases logarithmically with the linear cluster size. Our results are in agreement with the one-parameter scaling theory. Furthermore, we show how spatial correlations can also be captured analytically within such a self-consistent theory, by utilizing the standard Landau method of allowing for (slow) spatial fluctuations of the order parameter, and performing an appropriate gradient expansion. Our theoretical results provide insight into recent STM experiments, which were used to visualize the spatially fluctuating electronic wave functions near the metal insulator transition in Ga[subscript 1-x]Mn[subscript x]As.$ We show that, within our theory, all features of the experiment can be accounted for by considering a model of disorder renormalized by long-range Coulomb interactions. This includes the pseudogap formation, the C(R) ∼ 1/R form of the LDOS autocorrelations function, and the ζ ∼ 1/E energy dependence of the correlation length at criticality. In the second part of my Thesis, we show that introducing long-range Coulomb interactions immediately lifts the massive ground state degeneracy induced by geometric frustration for electrons on quarter-filled triangular lattices in the classical limit. Important consequences include the stabilization of a stripe-ordered crystalline (global) ground state, but also the emergence of very many low-lying metastable states with amorphous "stripe-glass" spatial structures. Melting of the stripe order thus leads to a frustrated Coulomb liquid at intermediate temperatures, showing remarkably slow (viscous) dynamics, with very long relaxation times growing in Arrhenius fashion upon cooling, as typical of strong glass formers. On shorter time scales, the system falls out of equilibrium and displays the aging phenomena characteristic of supercooled liquids above the glass transition. Our results show remarkable similarity with the recent observations of charge-glass behavior in ultra-clean triangular organic materials of the θ-(BEDT-TTF)₂ family.
FSU_2015fall_Mahmoudian_fsu_0071E_12817
A Dalitz Plot Analysis and Extraction of Spin Density Matrix Elements for the Ω → 3Π Decay.
Zeoli, Christopher Paul, Crede, Volker, Sura, Philip, Eugenio, Paul Michael, Roberts, Winston, Adams, Todd, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of...
Show moreZeoli, Christopher Paul, Crede, Volker, Sura, Philip, Eugenio, Paul Michael, Roberts, Winston, Adams, Todd, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Physics
At the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at Jefferson National Laboratory (JLab), $\omega$ vector-mesons were photo-produced off a fixed, liquid-hydrogen target during the 2009 run-period via the reaction $\gamma p \rightarrow p \omega$. The charged final-state particles from the $\omega$~resonance decays were detected by the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS). With a combination of measurements which involved the use of time and energy-deposit counters as well as...
Show moreAt the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at Jefferson National Laboratory (JLab), $\omega$ vector-mesons were photo-produced off a fixed, liquid-hydrogen target during the 2009 run-period via the reaction $\gamma p \rightarrow p \omega$. The charged final-state particles from the $\omega$~resonance decays were detected by the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS). With a combination of measurements which involved the use of time and energy-deposit counters as well as reconstructed drift chamber (DC) tracks, the 4-momenta and vertices of the initial- and charged final-state particles were determined. Subsequent to reconstruction, event selection, kinematic fitting, signal and background separation, and detector efficiency simulation of the data for the three-pion final-state, i.e. $\omega \rightarrow \pi^+~\pi^-~(\pi^0)$, the Florida State University (FSU) Experimental Hadronic Nuclear Group has extracted the differential production cross section.\\ \indent With such data and the measured differential cross section in hand, I have conducted a Dalitz plot analysis of the $\omega \rightarrow 3\pi$ decay in close cooperation with the Joint Physics Analysis Center (JPAC) at JLab. The decay probability density separates into angle-dependent and -independent factors: the Spin Density Distribution (SDD) which is proportional to the differential cross section, and the reduced decay distribution (RDD) which is proportional to the decay width, respectively. The Spin Density Matrix Elements (SDMEs) for an unpolarized beam were obtained from fitting the SDD. In addition, fits for two different RDDs, i.e. a Dalitz plot distribution and a JPAC distribution, have been underway. The former is a truncated polynomial expansion of Lorentz Invariant Dalitz plot variables. The latter was based on the isobar model of the $\omega$ decay. Having made use of sub-energy unitarity, this model accounts for both elastic and inelastic 3-body re-scattering effects. Plus, fitting this model to measured data is a first. A comparison through fit parameters of each reduced distribution is intended. Lastly, my results and as well as a discussion of future extensions to this study and the prospects for similar light-meson-decay analyses are concluded at the end of this thesis.\\
FSU_FA2016_Zeoli_fsu_0071E_13456
Dark Matter Detection in Supersymmetric Models with Non-Universal Gaugino Masses.
Park, Eun-Kyung, Baer, Howard, Aldrovandi, Ettore, Reina, Laura, Prosper, Harrison, Volya, Alexander, Department of Physics, Florida State University
SUSY is one of the most promising new physics ideas, and will soon be tested at high energy accelerators like the CERN LHC. Moreover SUSY provides a good candidate for cold dark matter (CDM). In this dissertation, we investigated phenomenology of SUSY models with non-universal gaugino masses (NUGM) at colliding experiments using event generators such as ISAJET and examined direct and indirect detection rates of relic neutralino CDM in the universe. The motivation of these models is that in...
Show moreSUSY is one of the most promising new physics ideas, and will soon be tested at high energy accelerators like the CERN LHC. Moreover SUSY provides a good candidate for cold dark matter (CDM). In this dissertation, we investigated phenomenology of SUSY models with non-universal gaugino masses (NUGM) at colliding experiments using event generators such as ISAJET and examined direct and indirect detection rates of relic neutralino CDM in the universe. The motivation of these models is that in most of mSUGRA parameter space, the relic density $Omega_{ z_1}h^2$ is considerably larger than the WMAP measurement, and it is well known that if non-universal gaugino masses are allowed, then qualitatively new possibilities arise that are not realized in the mSUGRA model. Our first NUGM attempt is to allow a mixed wino-bino lightest SUSY particle (LSP) by lowering $SU(2)$ gaugino mass $M_2$ at the weak scale from its mSUGRA value while keeping the hypercharge gaugino mass $M_1$ fixed ({it Mixed Wino Dark Matter}). In this model, wino-like $ ilde{Z_1}$ with sufficiently low $M_2$ compared to $M_1$ enhances $ ilde{Z_1} ilde{Z_1} ightarrow W_{1}^{+} W_{1}^{-}$ annihilations to reach the WMAP measured relic density. The second attempt is study on the NUGM model with different signs of $M_1$ and $M_2$ ({it Bino-Wino Co-Annihilation Scenario}). In this case, there is little mixing, so that $ ilde{Z_1}$ remains nearly a pure bino or a pure wino. By increasing $M_1 simeq M_2$, enhanced bino-wino co-annihilation can achieve the relic neutralino abundance. The final attempt of NUGM models is lowering the $SU(3)$ gaugino mass to diminish the effect of the large top quark Yukawa coupling in the running of the higgs mass, so that the value of superpotential $mu$ parameter gets efficiently low to give rise to mixed higgsino dark matter ({it Mixed Higgsino Dark Matter}). Consequences of these NUGM model studies show us that relaxing universality of gaugino masses in SUSY models leads to enhanced direct and indirect dark matter detection rates and reduced $m_{ ilde{Z_2}}-m_{ ilde{Z_1}}$ mass gap so that the LHC and ILC can distinguish each NUGM model from others. Finally, we found that models with well-tempered neutralinos, where the composition of the neutralino is adjusted to give observed relic density, yield target cross sections which are detectable at proposed experiments.
Deconfinement Transition in Equilibrium Lattice Gauge Theory with Realistic Boundary Conditions.
Wu, Hao, Berg, Bernd A., Brüschweiler, Rafael, Adams, Todd, Piekarewicz, Jorge, Reina, Laura, Department of Physics, Florida State University
Heavy-ion collision experiments carried out at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, or BNL, and at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, provide evidence that matter can be driven from a confined, low-temperature phase into a deconfined high temperature phase of liberated quarks and gluons. Understanding of the deconfinement transition can bring our knowledge of strongly-interacting matter to a deeper level. Ab initio equilibrium studies of the thermodynamic equation of...
Show moreHeavy-ion collision experiments carried out at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, or BNL, and at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, provide evidence that matter can be driven from a confined, low-temperature phase into a deconfined high temperature phase of liberated quarks and gluons. Understanding of the deconfinement transition can bring our knowledge of strongly-interacting matter to a deeper level. Ab initio equilibrium studies of the thermodynamic equation of state in the deconfined phase are possible in the framework of lattice gauge theory. It is often desired in such studies to approach the infinite volume thermodynamic limit. To accomplish it quickly, most studies have implemented lattices with periodic boundary conditions. However, the physical volumes created at the Brookhaven National Laboratory are small and exploratory work for pure SU(3) lattice gauge theory suggests that boundary effects cannot be neglected. In this work we study the SU(3) deconfined equilibrium phase in small volumes with inside and outside temperatures in the SU(3) scaling region, using a lattice geometry of the double-layered torus. Our results show substantial finite size effects on the deconfining transition temperature under realistic boundary conditions.
The Deconfining Phase Transition in and out of Equilibrium.
Bazavov, Oleksiy, Berg, Bernd A., Mascagni, Michael, Capstick, Simon, Frawley, Anthony, Reina, Laura, Department of Physics, Florida State University
Recent experiments carried out at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory provide strong evidence that a matter can be driven from a confined, low-temperature phase, observed in our every day world into a deconfined high-temperature phase of liberated quarks and gluons. The equilibrium and dynamical properties of the deconfining phase transition are thus of great theoretical interest, since they also provide an information about the first femtoseconds of the...
Show moreRecent experiments carried out at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory provide strong evidence that a matter can be driven from a confined, low-temperature phase, observed in our every day world into a deconfined high-temperature phase of liberated quarks and gluons. The equilibrium and dynamical properties of the deconfining phase transition are thus of great theoretical interest, since they also provide an information about the first femtoseconds of the evolution of our Universe, when the hot primordial soup while cooling has undergone a chain of phase transitions. The aspects of the deconfining phase transition studied in this work include: the dynamics of the SU(3) gauge theory after the heating quench (which models rapid heating in the heavy-ion collisions), equilibrium properties of the phase transition in the SU(3) gauge theory with boundaries at low temperature (small volumes at RHIC suggest that boundary effects cannot be neglected and periodic boundary conditions normally used in lattice simulations do not correspond to the experimental situation), and a study of the order of the transition in U(1) gauge theory.
Determining Spin Polarization of Ferromagnets Using Superconducting Spectroscopy.
Braden, Jazcek Guy, Xiong, Peng, Chase, P. Byrant, Van Molnar, Stephan, Schlottmann, Pedro, Wiedenhover, Ingo, Department of Physics, Florida State University
The tremendous interest in using the spin degree of freedom in electronic devices has led to an extensive endeavor to investigate the intrinsic spin polarization of various magnetic materials. The work done here expands upon existing methods to develop a more general technique of precise electrical determination of spin polarization using superconducting spectroscopy with or without the presence of a magnetic field. As part of this effort, the use of Andreev reflection in planar junction...
Show moreThe tremendous interest in using the spin degree of freedom in electronic devices has led to an extensive endeavor to investigate the intrinsic spin polarization of various magnetic materials. The work done here expands upon existing methods to develop a more general technique of precise electrical determination of spin polarization using superconducting spectroscopy with or without the presence of a magnetic field. As part of this effort, the use of Andreev reflection in planar junction configuration was explored on several ferromagnetic materials including the dilute magnetic semiconductor (DMS) Ga1−xMnxAs and the concentrated magnetic semiconductor EuS. This work also led to the exploration of the effects of barrier strength on the measured spin polarization. Traditionally, using superconducting spectroscopy to measure spin polarization (P) was limited to the case of a tunnel junction in a magnetic field or Andreev reflection measurements in point contact structures in zero-field. This project aimed to develop a method that bridged these two regimes to allow for determination of spin polarization in more practical device structures, such as planar junctions, with arbitrary barrier strength. This work led to the first direct electrical determination of P on the representative DMS Ga1−xMnxAs by measuring GaMnAs/Ga structures using Andreev reflection in planar configuration. The analysis of the conductance spectra on highly transparent junctions consistently yielded P values of at least 85%. These experiments also revealed an extreme sensitivity of P to the interfacial properties. Another major part of this work was the measurement of the P of doped EuS using zerofield and Zeeman-split Andreev reflection spectroscopy (ARS) on EuS/Al planar junctions are reported. The zero-field ARS spectra can be fit straightforwardly to a spin-polarized BTK model, which consistently yield P on the order of 80% regardless of the barrier strength. Moreover, we performed ARS in the presence of a Zeeman-splitting of the quasiparticle density of states in Al. The Zeeman-split ARS spectra are well described theoretically by combining the solution to the Maki-Fulde equations with the spin-polarized BTK analysis. The results have provided an independent verification of the validity of the zero-field ARS, and helped demonstrate the utility of field-split superconducting spectroscopy on Andreev junctions of arbitrary barrier strengths. Additionally the effect of barrier thickness on the measured spin polarization was explored in Al/Al2O3/Ni79Fe21 tunnel junctions. Planar tunnel junction structures were formed by natural oxidation of Al; by varying the oxidation time the barrier thickness could be controlled. The measured spin polarization increased with increasing barrier thickness which is attributed to the interplay of both the sp and d electronic states of the NiFe.
Development and Characterization of a Novel Continuously Flowing Liquid Film Plasma Reactor for Chemical Synthesis.
Wandell, Robert J. (Robert Jay), Locke, Bruce R., Alabugin, Igor V., Chella, Ravindran, Hallinan, Daniel T., Florida State University, College of Engineering, Department of...
Show moreWandell, Robert J. (Robert Jay), Locke, Bruce R., Alabugin, Igor V., Chella, Ravindran, Hallinan, Daniel T., Florida State University, College of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
The aim of this work is to develop a deeper understanding of the nuances involved in designing and optimizing the performance of gas/liquid plasma reactors for chemical synthesis. The design of such reactors requires integrating knowledge from a number of scientific disciplines including mechanical engineering (reactor construction), electrical engineering (power network design and electrical diagnostics), physics (plasma formation and diagnostics), chemical engineering, (reactor design,...
Show moreThe aim of this work is to develop a deeper understanding of the nuances involved in designing and optimizing the performance of gas/liquid plasma reactors for chemical synthesis. The design of such reactors requires integrating knowledge from a number of scientific disciplines including mechanical engineering (reactor construction), electrical engineering (power network design and electrical diagnostics), physics (plasma formation and diagnostics), chemical engineering, (reactor design, transport phenomena / modeling), and chemistry (chemical analysis). Due to the complicated nature of such a multidisciplinary study, complete analysis of a single reactor system is difficult and rarely performed with accuracy, especially for a variety of operating conditions. In this work, a novel continuously flowing liquid film plasma reactor was developed and fully characterized under the above criteria for a range of operating conditions in order to better understand which variables most significantly impact the generation of hydrogen peroxide from pure water and argon gas. This work shows that increases in the energy yield for hydrogen peroxide with pulsed plasma discharge is possible by variation of the plasma properties to reduce the amount of "wasted" energy which does not contribute to desired chemical reactions. In addition, increases in the production rate of hydrogen peroxide without a loss in energy yield is shown to be possible by increasing the pulse frequency while simultaneously decreasing the gas phase residence time. The high concentration of hydroxyl radicals produced by this system was also used to partially oxidize simple organic compounds into higher value products.
FSU_FA2016_Wandell_fsu_0071E_13556
The Development of Femtosecond Electron Diffraction for Direct Measurements of Ultrafast Atomic Motions.
Park, Hyuk, Cao, Jianming, Safron, Sanford A., Bonesteel, Nicholas, Piekarewicz, Jorge, Xiong, Peng, Department of Physics, Florida State University
The evolution of material structures is governed by the making and breaking of chemical bonds and the rearrangement of atoms, which occurs on the time scale of an atomic vibrational period, hundreds of femtoseconds. Atomic motion on this time scale ultimately determines the course of phase transitions in solids, the kinetic pathways of chemical reactions, and even the function of biological processes. Direct observation and understanding these ultrafast structural dynamics at the time and...
Show moreThe evolution of material structures is governed by the making and breaking of chemical bonds and the rearrangement of atoms, which occurs on the time scale of an atomic vibrational period, hundreds of femtoseconds. Atomic motion on this time scale ultimately determines the course of phase transitions in solids, the kinetic pathways of chemical reactions, and even the function of biological processes. Direct observation and understanding these ultrafast structural dynamics at the time and length scales of atomic motions represent an important frontier in scientific research and applications. We have developed a femtosecond electron diffraction system (FED) capable of directly measuring the atomic motions in sub-picosecond temporal resolution and sub-milli-angstrom spatial resolution. In the path of the development of FED various technical challenges have been overcome and an unprecedented capability has been achieved. These advancements allow us to study a range of ultrafast structural dynamics directly on the fundamental level of atomic motions for the first time. With FED we measured laser-induced ultrafast structural dynamics in a 20-nm Al film by taking real-time snapshots of transmission electron patterns. The damped single-mode breathing motion of the Al film along the surface normal was recorded as coherent and in-phase oscillations of all the Bragg peak positions. The concurrent lattice heating was measured by tracking the associated Bragg peak intensity attenuation. This acoustic phonon can be well fitted with a classical harmonic oscillator model using a driving force which includes both electronic and lattice contribution. The pressure of the free electrons contributes significantly in driving the coherent acoustic phonons under nonequilibrium conditions when electrons and phonons are not thermalized. In addition, by using a pair of optical excitation pulses and varying their time delay and relative pulse intensities, we demonstrated successful control of coherent lattice motions.
Dielectric and Conducting Properties of the Spinel Structures FeV₂O₂, MnV₂O₂ and CoV₂O₂ in High Magnetic Field and under Very High Pressure.
Kismarahardja, Ade Wijaya, Brooks, James S., Zhang, Mei, Dobrosavljevic, Vladimir, Xiong, Peng, Credé, Volker, Department of Physics, Florida State University
It is always very nice when a new discovery found in an old material. The spinel vanadate has become one of the hot topics in the condensed matter physics both experimentally and theoretically. It shows many interesting behaviors due to the interaction among spin, orbital and lattice degrees of freedom. The AV2O4 structure with A is a transition metal ion (Fe2+, Mn2+ and Co2+) exhibits several structural transitions and a magnetic ordering from paramagnetic to ferrimagnetic. Some theoretical...
Show moreIt is always very nice when a new discovery found in an old material. The spinel vanadate has become one of the hot topics in the condensed matter physics both experimentally and theoretically. It shows many interesting behaviors due to the interaction among spin, orbital and lattice degrees of freedom. The AV2O4 structure with A is a transition metal ion (Fe2+, Mn2+ and Co2+) exhibits several structural transitions and a magnetic ordering from paramagnetic to ferrimagnetic. Some theoretical approaches have been made in order to explain the physics of spinels. There are four main factors that contribute to the complexity of spinel system, e.g, spin, orbital, crystal structure and charge. Kugel and Khomskii first proposed a physical model combining spin and orbit degrees of freedom followed by Tsunetsugu and Motome who combined the super exchange and Jahn-Teller effect[2,3]. On the other hand, Tchernyshyov proposed a physical model based on the interplay of spin, orbital and Jahn-Teller effect[4]. Many discoveries from the experiments were also found in this type of material; memory effect in the polycrystal FeV2O4[5], the magnetic switching of the crystal structure in MnV2O4[7] and the magnetic structure of MnV2O4 using neutron study[7]. The modern techniques of x-ray and neutron scattering have brought important knowledge of the crystal and its magnetic structure. However, these techniques require a very good apparatus and a very high accuracy. I used much simpler technique to examine the physical properties of single crystals FeV2O4, MnV2O4 and CoV2O4. Firstly, I did the capacitance and dissipation measurements in high magnetic field on single crystals FeV2O4, MnV2O4 and CoV2O4 in our laboratory (NHMFL) at Tallahassee, Florida and secondly, I did the electrical transport measurements under very high pressure on single crystals FeV2O4 and CoV2O4 in Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP), the University of Tokyo, Japan. Single crystals MnV2O4 and FeV2O4 are insulators and their resistivity can be higher than 200 Ω cm at room temperature but single crystal CoV2O4 is a semiconductor with the resistivity is around 60 x 10-3 Ω cm at room temperature. However, these single crystals become more insulating at low temperatures so the capacitance measurement is a good tool to investigate their electrical properties. It turned out that the capacitance and dissipation measurements in high magnetic field were very interesting measurements in order to study the interaction between the spin, orbital and lattice in these spinels. The capacitance of a material is related to the dielectric constant and also the geometrical factors of the material, i.e, the distance between the electrodes and the area of the electrodes. In addition, the magnetic field creates magnetostriction effect that changes the dimension of crystal. This situation can be very interesting in order to investigate dielectric properties of these compounds in high magnetic field. FeV2O4, MnV2O4 and CoV2O4 have a magnetic ordering from paramagnetic to ferrimagnetic at 110 K, 56 K and 152 K respectively. Furthermore, the interaction between the tetrahedral site and the octahedral site in the spinel structure also creates structural distortions. I observed the changes of the crystal structure in single crystal FeV2O4 by measuring the capacitance and dissipation under high magnetic field. I discovered that there was a significant amount of heat released at low temperature as the magnetic moment changes its orientation. This effect was observed from a sharp peak in the temperature, the capacitance and the dissipation versus magnetic field data at the field where the magnetic moment changes its orientation. This was not observed in the previous measurements on polycrystal FeV2O4 done by Takei, et al.[5] and in the field dependence of capacitance of the other spinels, MnV2O4 and CoV2O4. Moreover, from the magnetization and capacitance measurements on single crystal FeV2O4, a small plateau at low temperature was observed in the vicinity of 0 Tesla. This is the evidence that there are two magnetic moments exist in single crystal FeV2O4. In single crystal MnV2O4, I also observed the changes of the crystal structure and the magnetic ordering. I applied the magnetic field at different temperatures and measured the capacitance and dissipation of single crystal MnV2O4. From the field dependence of the capacitance and dissipation of single crystal MnV2O4, I confirmed that there is a structural transition at 52 K and a magnetic ordering at 56 K. However, at low temperature, the field dependence of the capacitance of single crystal MnV2O4 behaves differently compared to FeV2O4. This is most likely due to the ratio between lattice constant c in tetragonal phase and lattice constant a in cubic phase, ct/ac . For single crystal FeV2O4 ct/ac, > 1, but ct/ac < 1 for single crystal MnV2O4. The third one, single crystal CoV2O4, is the most conducting among three spinels and I could not measure the capacitance from room temperature down to 30 K. However, below 30 K this crystal becomes more insulating and I could measure its capacitance. As I swept the field below 10 K, the field dependence of the dielectric constant showed a time dependent behavior. Moreover, I observed a dipole like behavior in single crystal CoV2O4 although it was not very pronounced. Another good tool to probe the electrical properties of spinels is the resistivity measurement under very high pressure. I did resistivity measurements on single crystals CoV2O4 and FeV2O4 under very high pressure up to 8 GPa using cubic anvil system in ISSP. In general, the resistivity of these compounds decreased with increasing pressure. I could not observe the magnetic ordering of FeV2O4 under ambient pressure because it was very insulating. The magnetic ordering could be observed above 2 GPa and the magnetic ordering temperature increased linearly with increasing pressure. The effect was similar with CoV2O4. More interestingly, CoV2O4 showed a metallic behavior and a metal to insulator transition under high pressure. This is a new observation in this type of material. The interesting aspect of spinel vanadate is that the system approaches the itinerant electron limit with decreasing distance between vanadium ions. J.B Goodenough predicted a critical distance between vanadium ions in the spinel vanadate system, 2.94 Å. If the distance between vanadium ions (V-V distance) is smaller than this critical distance, the system becomes metallic. The V-V distance of single crystal CoV2O4 is close to this critical value. The resistivity data of single crystal CoV2O4 under very high pressure confirmed that CoV2O4 is sitting at the boundary between the insulator and the metal regime. Finally, Variable Range Hopping (VRH) model and Arrhenius model were used to fit the resistivity data of single crystals FeV2O4 and CoV2O4. I found that the energy barrier parameter T0 and the activation energy Ea decreased with increasing pressure.
Digitally Controlled Four Harmonic Buncher for FSU LINAC.
Moerland, Daniel, Physics
Florida State University's John D. Fox Superconducting Accelerator Laboratory is operating a Tandem-LINAC system for heavy ion beams at energies of 5-10 MeV/u. Recently, the accelerator has been used as the driver for the radioactive beam facility RESOLUT, which poses new demands on its high-intensity performance and time-resolution. These demands motivated us to optimize the RF bunching system and to switch the bunch frequency from 48.5 to 12.125MHz. We installed a four-harmonic resonant...
Show moreFlorida State University's John D. Fox Superconducting Accelerator Laboratory is operating a Tandem-LINAC system for heavy ion beams at energies of 5-10 MeV/u. Recently, the accelerator has been used as the driver for the radioactive beam facility RESOLUT, which poses new demands on its high-intensity performance and time-resolution. These demands motivated us to optimize the RF bunching system and to switch the bunch frequency from 48.5 to 12.125MHz. We installed a four-harmonic resonant transformer to create 3-4 kV potential oscillations across a pair of wire-mesh grids. This setup is modulating the energy of the beam injected into the tandem accelerator, with the aim to create short bunches of beam particles. A sawtooth-like wave-form is created using the Fourier series method, by combining the basis sinusoidal wave of 12.125MHz and its 3 higher order harmonics, in a manner similar to the systems used at ATLAS [1] and other RF-accelerators. A new aspect of our setup is the use of a digital 1GHz function generator, which allows us to optimize and stabilize the synthesized waveform. The control system was realized using Labview [2] and integrated into the recently updated controls of the accelerator. We characterize the bunching quality achieved and discuss the optimization of the bunching wave-form. The bunching system has been successfully used in a number of LINAC-experiments performed during 2011 and 2012.
Direct and Indirect Detection of Neutralino Dark Matter.
O'Farrill, Jorge A., Baer, Howard, Aldrovandi, Ettore, Prosper, Harrison, Hagopian, Vasken, Kemper, Kirby, Department of Physics, Florida State University
This dissertation examines the observability of neutralino dark matter in the context of supersymmetric models constrained constrained by the recent WMAP data on the relic density of cold dark matter. The neutralino-nucleon scattering cross-section is calculated and used to derive the rate of interaction for neutralinos scattering from nuclei as well as different modes of indirect detection. Indirect detection of neutralinos is made possible through the annihilation of neutralino pairs into...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the observability of neutralino dark matter in the context of supersymmetric models constrained constrained by the recent WMAP data on the relic density of cold dark matter. The neutralino-nucleon scattering cross-section is calculated and used to derive the rate of interaction for neutralinos scattering from nuclei as well as different modes of indirect detection. Indirect detection of neutralinos is made possible through the annihilation of neutralino pairs into Standard Model (SM) particles. Four different avenues of indirect detection will be covered, including: neutralino annihilation to positrons in the galactic halo, antiprotons from neutralino annihilation in the halo, gamma rays from neutralino annihilation near the core of the galaxy and neutrinos from neutralino annihilation in the core of the sun and the earth. The reaches of various proposed collider experiments will also be calculated. There are many viable supersymmetric models and this dissertation will cover only a few. Most of the rates will be calculated for the mSUGRA model. Results for direct detection will also be given for Yukawa unified SO(10) models with non-universal scalar masses, and 5-dimensional gauge mediated SUSY GUTS. Results for indirect detection will be given for mSUGRA as well as mSUGRA with non-universal gaugino masses. These results will be compared to the sensitivities of ongoing as well as proposed dark matter experiments. Given the precision of the WMAP data, it will be shown that nearly all of the mSUGRA parameter space satisfying the WMAP constraints can be covered by a combination of direct, indirect and collider searches for neutralinos.
Direct Observation of Structural Defects in Pyrochlore Yb₂Ti₂O₇ by Atomic Resolution Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy.
Shafieizadeh, Zahra, Xin, Yan, Chiorescu, Irinel, Andrei, Petru, Reina, Laura, Van Winkle, David H., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Physics
In transition metal oxides, such as A2B2O7, the B-site cations typically govern many of the fundamentally and technologically interesting properties. The cubic pyrochlore oxides, A2B2O7, have attracted much attention over the past 20 years. However, even after years of theoretical and experimental study of pyrochlore compounds many fundamental questions still remain about the nature of the magnetic ground states in this series. In the pyrochlore structure, both the rare earth and the...
Show moreIn transition metal oxides, such as A2B2O7, the B-site cations typically govern many of the fundamentally and technologically interesting properties. The cubic pyrochlore oxides, A2B2O7, have attracted much attention over the past 20 years. However, even after years of theoretical and experimental study of pyrochlore compounds many fundamental questions still remain about the nature of the magnetic ground states in this series. In the pyrochlore structure, both the rare earth and the transition metal sublattices have a topology consisting of corner-sharing tetrahedra and are, thus, geometrically frustrated. Yb2Ti2O7 is part of a series of compounds called the rare-earth titanates. It's been noticed that its magnetic ground states are sample dependent and shows broad specific heat peak in colored single crystals. It could have long-range ordered collinear ferromagnetic state, or non-collinear ferromagnetic fluctuations, or short ranged fluctuations. Atomic resolution high-angle-annular-dark-field STEM (HAADF-STEM) imaging is a powerful tool to observe and obtain information on defect structures. The primary aim of this thesis is, therefore, to study defects in Yb2Ti2O7 samples by quantitative scanning transmission electron microscopy at atomic resolution. We study three types of samples, polycrystalline sample and yellowish single crystal grown by conventional floating zone (FZ) method and high quality colorless single crystal grown by the traveling solvent floating zone (TSFZ) technique. We compared the atomic structure of them using STEM and found different types of defects: Yb atoms "stuffing" into Ti sites, extended defects such as anti-phase boundaries (APB) and dissociated superdislocations and grain boundary defects were discovered for the first time and found to be prevalent in the yellowish single crystal grown by FZ, contrary to the few found in high quality colorless transparent single crystals or stoichiometric white polycrystalline samples. These results are discussed along with the results from simulation. Also, EELS results showed that the Ti valence was not decreased in defected areas and its value is 4+. These results explain the varied magnetic properties and broad specific heat peak of yellowish Yb2Ti2O7 single crystals grown by conventional FZ method and provide new insights into understanding the roles of defects on physical properties of the geometrically frustrated pyrochlore compounds.
2018_Su_Shafieizadeh_fsu_0071E_14721
Direct Photon Production in Association with a Heavy Quark.
Stavreva, Tzvetalina P., Owens, Joseph F., Dewar, William, Reina, Laura, Wahl, Horst, Fenley, Marcia, Department of Physics, Florida State University
In this Thesis we present the Next-To-Leading-Order calculation, O(ααs2), of the inclusive cross section for a photon and a heavy quark (charm or bottom), p bar p / pp γ + Q +X, (Q=c,b) at hadron colliders. We include fragmentation effects through the Next-To-Leading-Order. This calculation is performed with the use of a phase space slicing technique so that the effects of experimental cuts can be easily included. We study in detail the characteristics of this process at both the Tevatron and...
Show moreIn this Thesis we present the Next-To-Leading-Order calculation, O(ααs2), of the inclusive cross section for a photon and a heavy quark (charm or bottom), p bar p / pp γ + Q +X, (Q=c,b) at hadron colliders. We include fragmentation effects through the Next-To-Leading-Order. This calculation is performed with the use of a phase space slicing technique so that the effects of experimental cuts can be easily included. We study in detail the characteristics of this process at both the Tevatron and the LHC. Results for the ratios of the charm and bottom cross sections are presented and the systematics of the various subprocesses are compared and contrasted. The theory predictions are compared to experimental measurements from the DO collaboration at Fermilab. A brief overview of the LO massive calculation is also presented, and compared to the NLO massless case. We predict that the investigation of this process and our results will be relevant in the study of heavy quark PDFs at the LHC.
Direct Reactions with Exotic Beams and Polarized Lithium Beams.
Roeder, Brian T., Kemper, Kirby, Keel, Brooks, Wiedenhoever, Ingo, Piekarewicz, Jorge, Myers, Edmund, Department of Physics, Florida State University
In the first two chapters of this dissertation, the total cross sections for 38 different reaction products produced in the interaction of 48Ca, 40S and 42S beams at energies around 100 MeV/nucleon with a liquid deuterium target are reported. The cross sections for the 48Ca+d products are compared to those with 48Ca incident on the commonly used fragmentation targets 9Be and 181Ta, and also to global calculations for fragmentation reaction cross sections based on the EPAX parameterization...
Show moreIn the first two chapters of this dissertation, the total cross sections for 38 different reaction products produced in the interaction of 48Ca, 40S and 42S beams at energies around 100 MeV/nucleon with a liquid deuterium target are reported. The cross sections for the 48Ca+d products are compared to those with 48Ca incident on the commonly used fragmentation targets 9Be and 181Ta, and also to global calculations for fragmentation reaction cross sections based on the EPAX parameterization performed with the program LISE. The sizes of the measured reaction cross sections for the deuterium target were comparable to the cross sections measured on the heavier targets indicating that both nucleon addition and removal from a deuterium target can be carried out for comparative "stripping" and "pickup" reaction studies. It was also found that the charge exchange cross sections were large enough so that it should be possible to obtain nuclear structure information from these reactions. Calculations using the Johnson-Soper adiabatic model and Eikonal nucleon knockout theory were performed to study the reaction mechanisms for the "stripping" and "pickup" reactions studied in the experiment. It was found that the magnitude of the cross sections for both the single nucleon "stripping" and single nucleon "pickup" reactions were consistent with the assumption that they proceeded as direct, single step reactions. In the third chapter of this dissertation, the recent upgrade to the Florida State University Optically Pumped Polarized Lithium Ion Source (OPPLIS) is summarized. A new laser system was installed, and the laser optics were modified to increase the laser power available for optically pumping the lithium atomic beam from about 40 mW to nearly 200 mW. This improvement, along with proper alignment of the laser beam divergence to the atomic beam divergence, increased the vector polarization t10 of the beam on-target from about 40% to about 60%.
Disordered Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems.
Javan Mard, Hossein, Dobrosavljević, Vladimir, Salters, Vincent J. M., Von Molnar, S. (Stephan), Yang, Kun, Piekarewicz, Jorge, Florida State University, College of Arts and...
Show moreJavan Mard, Hossein, Dobrosavljević, Vladimir, Salters, Vincent J. M., Von Molnar, S. (Stephan), Yang, Kun, Piekarewicz, Jorge, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Physics
Disorder can have a vast variety of consequences for the physics of phase transitions. Some transitions remain unchanged in the presence of disorder while others are completely destroyed. In this dissertation we study the effects of quenched disorder on electronic systmens at zero temperature. First, we perform variational studies of the interaction-localization problem to describe the interaction-induced renormalizations of the effective (screened) random potential seen by quasiparticles....
Show moreDisorder can have a vast variety of consequences for the physics of phase transitions. Some transitions remain unchanged in the presence of disorder while others are completely destroyed. In this dissertation we study the effects of quenched disorder on electronic systmens at zero temperature. First, we perform variational studies of the interaction-localization problem to describe the interaction-induced renormalizations of the effective (screened) random potential seen by quasiparticles. Here we present results of careful finite-size scaling studies for the conductance of disordered Hubbard chains at half-filling and zero temperature. While our results indicate that quasiparticle wave functions remain exponentially localized even in the presence of moderate to strong repulsive interactions, we show that interactions produce a strong decrease of the characteristic conductance scale g* signaling the crossover to strong localization. This effect, which cannot be captured by a simple renormalization of the disorder strength, instead reflects a peculiar non-Gaussian form of the spatial correlations of the screened disordered potential, a hitherto neglected mechanism to dramatically reduce the impact of Anderson localization (interference) effects. Second, we formulate a strong-disorder renormalization-group (SDRG) approach to study the beta function of the tight-binding model in one dimension with both diagonal and off-diagonal disorder for states at the band center. We show that the SDRG method, when used to compute transport properties, yields exact results since it is identical to the transfer matrix method. The beta function is shown to be universal when only off-diagonal disorder is present even though single-parameter scaling is known to be violated. A different single-parameter scaling theory is formulated for this particular (particle-hole symmetric) case. Upon breaking particle-hole symmetry (by adding diagonal disorder), the beta function is shown to crossover from the universal behavior of the particle-hole symmetric case to the conventional nonuniversal one in agreement with the two-parameter scaling theory. We finally draw an analogy with the random transverse-field Ising chain in the paramagnetic phase. The particle-hole symmetric case corresponds to the critical point of the quantum Ising model, while the generic case corresponds to the Griffiths paramagnetic phase. Finally, we implement an efficient strong-disorder renormalization-group (SDRG) procedure to study disordered tight-binding models in any dimension and on the Erdos- Renyi random graphs, which represent an appropriate infinite dimensional limit. Our SDRG algorithm is based on a judicious elimination of most (irrelevant) new bonds generated under RG. It yields excellent agreement with exact numerical results for universal properties at the critical point without significant increase of computer time, and confirm that, for Anderson localization, the upper critical dimension duc = infinite. We find excellent convergence of the relevant 1/d expansion down to d = 2, in contrast to the conventional 2 + ε expansion, which has little to say about what happens in any d [greater than] 3. We show that the mysterious mirror symmetry of the conductance scaling function is a genuine strong-coupling effect, as speculated in early work. This opens an efficient avenue to explore the critical properties of Anderson transition in the strong-coupling limit in high dimensions.
FSU_2015fall_JavanMard_fsu_0071E_12907
DNA Electrophoresis in Agarose Gels: A New Mobility vs. DNA Length Dependence.
Beheshti, Afshin, Van Winkle, David H., Rill, Randolph L., Cao, Jianming, Bonesteel, Nicholas E., Riley, Mark A., Department of Physics, Florida State University
Separations were performed on double stranded DNA (dsDNA) using electrophoresis. Electrophoresis is the steady transport of particles under the influence of an external electric field. Double stranded DNA fragments ranging in length from 200 base pairs (bp) to 194,000 bp (0.34 nm = 1 bp) were electrophoresed at agarose gel concentrations T = 0:4%¡1:5%. The electric field was varied from 0.62 V/cm to 6.21 V/cm. A wide range of electric fields and gel concentrations were used to study the...
Show moreSeparations were performed on double stranded DNA (dsDNA) using electrophoresis. Electrophoresis is the steady transport of particles under the influence of an external electric field. Double stranded DNA fragments ranging in length from 200 base pairs (bp) to 194,000 bp (0.34 nm = 1 bp) were electrophoresed at agarose gel concentrations T = 0:4%¡1:5%. The electric field was varied from 0.62 V/cm to 6.21 V/cm. A wide range of electric fields and gel concentrations were used to study the usefulness of a new interpolation equation, 1¹(L) =1¹L¡(1¹L¡1¹s)e¡L=°, where ¹L, ¹s, and ° are independent free fitting parameters. The long length mobility limit is interpreted as ¹L, the short length mobility limit is ¹s, and ° is the crossover between the long length limit and the short length limit. This exponential relation fit very well (Â2 ¸ 0:999) when there are two smooth transitions observed in the "reptation plots" (plotting 3¹L=¹± vs. L) (J. Rousseau, G. Drouin, and G. W. Slater, Phys Rev Lett. 1997, 79, 1945-1948). Fits deviate from the data when three different slopes were observed in the reptation plots. Reptation plots were used to determine a phase diagram for dsDNA migration regimes. The phase diagrams define different regions where mechanisms for molecular transport affect the migration of dsDNA in agarose gels during electrophoresis. The parameters from the equation have also been interpreted to provide a physical description of the structure of the agarose gel by calculating the pore sizes. The relations between the values for the pore sizes and the phase diagrams are interpreted to better understand the migration of the DNA through agarose gels.
Domain Coarsening in the Hyperbolic Plane.
Raffield, Jesse, Department of Physics
Since the simplest case was solved exactly by Onsager in 1944, the two-dimensional Ising model has become one of the most studied models in statistical physics. Despite its simplicity, it has found applications in research ranging from condensed matter physics to biology. Our research focused on an interesting variant of this model that lives within an area of negative Gaussian curvature instead of traditional Euclidean space. Specifically, a series of Monte-Carlo simulations were conducted...
Show moreSince the simplest case was solved exactly by Onsager in 1944, the two-dimensional Ising model has become one of the most studied models in statistical physics. Despite its simplicity, it has found applications in research ranging from condensed matter physics to biology. Our research focused on an interesting variant of this model that lives within an area of negative Gaussian curvature instead of traditional Euclidean space. Specifically, a series of Monte-Carlo simulations were conducted to analyze how domains within the model coarsen as a function of time. In the Euclidean model, the feature size goes as t1/3<\sup>, which is close to our results on two of the Euclidean lattices, but for our model on a hyperbolic lattice the characteristic growth exponent was found to be much lower, approximately 0.13.
Doping Effects on the Kondo Lattice Materials: FeSi, CeCoin5, and YbInCu4.
Yeo, Sunmog, Fisk, Zachary, Dalal, Naresh, Molnar, Stephan von, Bonesteel, Nicholas, Piekarewicz, Jorge, Department of Physics, Florida State University
Three doping studies on Kondo lattices are investigated in this thesis: FeSi1-xGex, Ce1-xLaxCoIn5, and Yb1-xYxInCu4. For FeSi1-xGex, we constructed the phase diagram through the analysis of magnetic, thermal and transport measurements on single crystals. The phase diagram shows a first-order transition from a Kondo insulator (exponentially activated properties) to a ferromagnetic metal at a critical concentration, xc ~ 0:25. The field dependence of the magnetization (M(H)) shows that the...
Show moreThree doping studies on Kondo lattices are investigated in this thesis: FeSi1-xGex, Ce1-xLaxCoIn5, and Yb1-xYxInCu4. For FeSi1-xGex, we constructed the phase diagram through the analysis of magnetic, thermal and transport measurements on single crystals. The phase diagram shows a first-order transition from a Kondo insulator (exponentially activated properties) to a ferromagnetic metal at a critical concentration, xc ~ 0:25. The field dependence of the magnetization (M(H)) shows that the saturation moment of x = 0:27 is 10 times larger than that of x = 0:24. The spin gap of x = 0:24, 167K, is quite close to the transition temperature of x = 0:27, 150K, indicating that the characteristic energies of the two competing phases, i.e. the Curie temperature and the spin gap of the Kondo insulator, are essentially equal at the critical concentration. For x c, spin gap, transport gap and resistivity minimum systematically decrease with increasing x. Saturation moments and specific heat coefficients are almost zero for x c. The temperature dependence of magnetic susceptibility (X(T)) for x = 0:2 shows a broad maximum around 200K, indicating that the broad maximum temperature decreases with x for x c. The variable range hopping analysis suggests the existence of the localized state for this region. For x > x xc, the data break into two distinct regimes: xc» 0:5 and » 0:5 · 1. For xc 0:5, X(T) does not displays a sharp transition at Tc and M(H) increases with increasing fields. The temperature dependence of the resistivity (ρ(T)) shows metallic behavior. However, it does not have any kink at Tc. In contrast, for ~ 0:5 · 1, X(T) displays a sharp transition at Tc and M(H) saturates at H ~ 0:3T. ρ (T) has a kink at Tc. Based on the Kondo insulator picture, we can explain the specific heat coefficient y evolution with x. The transition from a Kondo insulator to a ferromagnetic metal can be explained as the consequence of the changes in hybridization between Fe 3d electrons and Si/Ge p conduction electrons in conjunction with disorder on the Si/Ge ligand site. For Ce1-xLaxCoIn5, we studied antiferromagnetic intersite correlations for the Kondo lattice by comparison with data on the single Kondo impurity. All the magnetic susceptibility per mole Ce for H || ab plane and H || c axis collapse onto one curve above 100K in Ce1-xLaxCoIn5, indicating the same high T Kondo temperature (~ 35K) for all concentrations. Further, the magnetic part of the resistivity shows the same -logT dependence above 50K for all concentrations, again indicating that the high T Kondo temperature is essentially independent of Ce concentration. The magnetic part of the heat capacity for Ce1-xLaxCoIn5 alloys has a peak around 70K, suggesting the same crystalline field splittings occurs the alloy series Ce1-xLaxCoIn5. Based on these experimental findings, the scaling laws for the susceptibility and the heat capacity reveal that the screening of the magnetic moments in this Kondo lattice involves antiferromagnetic intersite correlations and this intersite correlation has a larger energy scale compared to the Kondo impurity case. In addition, a Fermi liquid ground state appears in the La rich region while the specific heat and inelastic part of ρm show non-Fermi liquid behavior for Ce rich region. For Yb1-xYxInCu4, measurements using cantilever torque magnetometry discover the new phase above Hv for x = 0 and x = 0:1. With proper scaling of the critical fields and temperatures, data for all alloys collapse onto the same curve, representing a common phase above Hv. The magneto-resistance does not change at the new phase boundary. Due to the crystalline electric field, there is anisotropy of the valence transition in applied magnetic field in different directions. For x = 0:2, the specific heat and the resistance indicate the appearance of a spin glass state below 4K for H > 5T. Since Ytterbium occupies the corners of a tetrahedron in the F43m structure, the spin glass state is not unexpected.
Dynamical Studies of Antiferromagnetic Exchange Interactions in Low Dimensional Quantum Spin Systems.
De Lia, Anthony F., Dagotto, Elbio, Heil, Wolfgang, Moreo, Adriana, Piekarewicz, Jorge, Riley, Mark, Department of Physics, Florida State University
Various forms of antiferromagnetic exchange interaction among quantized spins in one-dimensional and quasi-one-dimensional lattices are examined. Primary results are reported in two real compounds, the sodium vanadate NaV2O5 and the copper germanate CuGeO3, and in a class of compounds of real materials modeled as dimerized antiferromagnetically coupled spin-1/2 chains susceptible to spin-1 impurity doping and that include such examples as the strontium cuprate Sr14Cu24O41 and vanadium...
Show moreVarious forms of antiferromagnetic exchange interaction among quantized spins in one-dimensional and quasi-one-dimensional lattices are examined. Primary results are reported in two real compounds, the sodium vanadate NaV2O5 and the copper germanate CuGeO3, and in a class of compounds of real materials modeled as dimerized antiferromagnetically coupled spin-1/2 chains susceptible to spin-1 impurity doping and that include such examples as the strontium cuprate Sr14Cu24O41 and vanadium pyrophosphate (VO)2P2O7. Sodium vanadate, NaV2O5, a quarter-filled two-leg ladder compound that was originally thought to be composed of magnetic legs and nonmagnetic legs was subsequently shown to be a charge ordered system below room temperature. Initial models of the material as isolated antiferromagnetically coupled spin-1/2 chains can be mapped to the subsequently resolved magnetic system of the charge ordered state with the spins on molecular orbitals of V-O-V rungs antiferromagentically coupled between neighboring rungs either on the same ladder or on neighboring ladders. Comparing the model's dynamic structure factor to inelastic neutron scattering data could distinguish between the proposed spin coupling schemes and consequently reveal the details of the interaction between the lattice and the "zig-zag" charge density as well as the magnetic stabilization of the low temperature phase. Copper germanate, the first and only known inorganic spin-Peierls compound, exhibits a strong temperature dependent exchange coupling pattern among the spin-1/2 Cu2+ chains. Above the spin-Peierls transition temperature an unmodulated antiferromagnetic nearest neighbor exchange interaction J1 competes with an antiferromagnetic next nearest neighbor interaction J2. The next nearest neighbor exchange represents an effective coupling equivalent to the net effect of all longer range exchange interactions. This frustration to the nearest neighbor spin exchange produces a distinctive magnetic susceptibility χ (T) much different from the Bonner-Fisher susceptibility of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain with nearest neighbor antiferromagnetic exchange only. The ratio of the second to first nearest neighbor couplings α = J2/J1 ≈ 0.36 is sufficient to open a spontaneous gap in the spin-wave excitation spectrum at low temperatures. Below TSP = 14K, the dynamical structure factor is used to fit the dimerization δ and the exchange interactions J1 and J2 to the inelastic neutron scattering data of CuGeO3 at T = 10K. It is found that both δ and α increase significantly at lower temperatures, relative to the values obtained in the high temperature phase and at the onset of dimeration at 14 K. Static structure factor calculations how Scattering inconsistent with the δ−J1−J2 model and can be attributed primarily to the phonon degrees of freedom but possibly also to the couplings between chains in the b and a directions of the crystal lattice. Structurally dimerized compounds of antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 chains possess dynamic structure factor and magnetic susceptibility features that are very sensitive to doping with magnetic and nonmagnetic impurities. It is shown that the effects of spin-1 impurities are very similar to those of nonmagnetic (S = 0) impurities if the coupling between impurity and native spin is about the same magnitude as or larger than between native S = 1/2 spins. The microscopic origins of the similarity can be appreciated with the consideration that neighboring spins to the impurity find it more energetically favorable to couple to the impurity than the other spins of the lattice. Thus the spin-1 impurity and its neighboring S = 1/2 spins decouple from the lattice, creating a nonmagnetic break in the chain. The spins that now observe a nonmagnetic cluster on one side can couple to the S = 1/2 spins on the other side with a higher AF correlation than in the pure compound since they do not have to have a fluctuating dimer resonating between two neighbors. Such enhancements to the local correlations can stabilize the global AF order in one dimensional compounds as shown in theoretical and experimental studies of CuGeO3. ED calculations of the dynamic structure factor show that S(q, ω) developes states with ω = 0 in the gap at q = π. Magnetic susceptibilites in the presense of spin-1 impurities were obtained for 80 site chains by QMC simulations and for 16 site chains by ED calculations. An impurity concentration-dependent second peak in the low temperature region reveals an increasing second maximum with T as observed in doped copper germanates and suggests that the results of the study are applicable even to phonon mediated dimerization. This is not immediately apparent because spin-phonon coupling could distort the dimerization patterns. However, experimental and theoretical results show that elastic coupling between chains can stabilize the dimerization pattern due to the impurities and the results will still apply.
Undergraduate Honors Theses (23) + -
Historical Undergraduate Honors Theses (5) + -
Condensed matter (15) + -
Nuclear physics (12) + -
Materials science (6) + -
Astrophysics (5) + -
Optics (5) + -
Mathematics (4) + -
Particles (Nuclear physics) (4) + -
Plasma (Ionized gases) (4) + -
Quantum theory (4) + -
Astronomy (3) + -
Biophysics (2) + -
Chemical engineering (2) + -
Chemistry, Organic (2) + -
Low temperatures (2) + -
Microphysics (2) + -
Physical sciences (2) + -
Applied mathematics (1) + -
Atmospheric sciences (1) + -
Chemistry, Physical and theoretical (1) + -
Climatic changes (1) + -
Cosmology (1) + -
Differential equations (1) + -
Dynamics (1) + -
Galaxies (1) + -
Gravity (1) + -
Interstellar matter (1) + -
Materials (1) + -
doctoral thesis (16) + -
Piekarewicz, Jorge (72) + -
Xiong, Peng (50) + -
Reina, Laura (41) + -
Capstick, Simon (37) + -
Volya, Alexander (27) + -
Schlottmann, Pedro (26) + -
Dalal, Naresh (24) + -
Adams, Todd (23) + -
Bonesteel, Nicholas (22) + -
Aldrovandi, Ettore (21) + -
Chiorescu, Irinel (21) + -
Rogachev, Grigory (21) + -
Crede, Volker (20) + -
Riley, Mark A. (18) + -
Manousakis, Efstratios (17) + -
Rikvold, Per Arne (17) + -
Eugenio, Paul (16) + -
Bonesteel, Nicholas E. (15) + -
Dobrosavljevic, Vladimir (15) + -
Brooks, James (14) + -
Prosper, Harrison B. (14) + -
Bonesteel, N. E. (13) + -
Prosper, Harrison (13) + -
Riley, Mark (13) + -
Brooks, James S. (12) + -
Van Winkle, David (12) + -
Dalal, Naresh S. (11) + -
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (1) + - | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_6155211303695148025 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
The Dental Quality Alliance invites you to their 2019 conference, "Pathway to Improvement," May 17-18 at the ADA headquarters in Chicago.
Copyright © 2019 Lane County Dental Society. Reproduction or republication strictly prohibited without prior written permission. | RedPajamaC4_-3087813432364794101 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
The Academy is unique in the diversity and quality of performance opportunities. From one to 3 day camps and workshops, summer intensives, auditioning to become cast member with Spindle City Ballet, or our SCB Jr Company to our outstanding Academy Ensemble Competitive Team there are many choices of genres and styles to suit you/your child's commitment level and goals. Other than our annual Student Performance all other performance opportunities are a choice not a requirement.
Early June our First Steps Program and Steps in Motion Program, participate in a performance at the Margaret L. Jackson Arts Center on the campus of Bristol Community College. The majority of the school year is dedicated to training. All performance pieces are learned in a few short months and in the case of the Ensemble and or Vocational Classical Division students sometimes 1-2 weeks is all that is need to learn their choreography. The Academy's philosophy is that well trained and prepared students of any age are able to learn choreography in a short amount of time.
Each summer the Academy offers a our half day Princess Camp for ages 3-7 year. Dance class, crafts, games and more are part of this ever popular fun filled program.
Bring your inner princess and costume for the full treatment!
Summer Starz Musical Theatre Camp is fun engaging and helps to bring out the actor in everyone. Learn songs and dances from popular musicals and perform them for family and friends at the end in the Academy Studio Theatre. For those who love to act, sing and dance, it is a triple threat dream!
Our Young Dancers Workshop and Coaching Intensive is designed for the more serious student looking improve their skill with concentrated study. Both programs feature guest well known guest teachers from all styles to enrich and expand understanding of he diverse world of dance.
Academy Ensemble Competition Team provides educational, professional and performance opportunities for young student dancers. Students ages 7 years and older that are studying at an Ensemble or Vocational Track who show aptitude, commitment and desire are chosen by audition to compete and or participate in workshops and master classes as part of the Academy Ensemble Competition Team. Team members have the opportunity to compete in classical and or contemporary styles as part of ensemble groups or individual variations and solos broadening the scope of their training and potentially acting as a stepping stone to a professional dance career.
The SCB is the South Coast's only non-profit professional ballet company. It was established in 1995 by Lisa Bibeau who is also the founder of the Academy. The mission of the SCB is to offer professional dance performances to the community and is a separate organization from the Academy. While the SCB is a non-profit professional ballet company, the Academy is a for-profit school and its mission is to train dancers. Both organizations not only share Ms. Bibeau as its director but also the Academy space. Each fall the SCB holds open auditions for children and adult roles for its annual production of The Nutcracker. Dancers chosen to be cast members have the unique experience to work along with professional dancers gaining valuable insight to profession dance. | RedPajamaC4_-8331242192645006836 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
i LOVE when he kisses the Madrid badge on his jersey everytime he scores!! epic! i love him kuz he loves madrid and also plays amazing!
King Callejon at again. Does the guy ever stops scoring ffs? That second was just pure class, successfully fooled a defender and was superclinical at that point, after scoring the 2nd goal, he was inch away from having a hattrick.
This guy just can't stop scoring atm.
This guy is too good not to be given more regular starts. I don't think I've seen anyone in the last few years use his chances so well (being a non blockbuster transfer).
I especially like him 'cause he's our player, from castilla.
Can someone post his shot efficiency stats ?
El Pipita wrote: Can someone post his shot efficiency stats ?
In this match, according to Marca, he had 5 shots and 2 goals.
In La Liga it was 8 shots and 2 goals.
Well, folks, we have a problem. Di Maria, Ronaldo, and Callejon are all on smokin form, what the hell do we do? 4-4-2?
Our best line up atm. Di Maria can pretty much help the defense and provide creativity at the same time in this position.
honestly im starting to think he deserves it. regardless of the opponent he has put in the work to deserve a couple starts against some bigger teams.
you cannot argue the fact that he has been fantastic, as far as form goes prob the best out of anyone imo.
omarish wrote: Callejon, es un crack!
Do you always get this mad when someone says something about penaldo?
at least he can score a penalty...the little midget cant even do that!!!
Callejon has more motivation than most of the national team players. Torres is more motivated about bleaching the hair on his lazy head than playing for La Roja.
It's already embarrassing enough that Soldado hasn't been called up but to leave King Callejon out? That's madness. | RedPajamaC4_3516558348291453871 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
In this paper, we attempt to redesign the 4:2 compressors. Since its inception by Weinberger in 1981, this concept of compressor has been used in most digital multiplications and multi operand operation scheme. The original of 4:2 compressor has been build using the full adder unit. Hence this compressor is no improvement compare using Wallace tree or other tree structure. Early 90's some designer has modified the 4:2 compressor in order to reduce the critical path. As a result, a worse case to cross a level of 4:2 compressor is 3 XOR . While in this paper, we have redesign 4:2 compressor based on modification of 4:2 compressor [2, 3, 4]. This design has been simulated using Quartus II software to verify the circuit. As a result, total transistor used in our compressor is less 4 than the modified 4:2 compressor and less 2 transistor than the original 4:2 compressor. In term of speed, the critical path of Carry Out signal is same as the original 4:2 compressor. Our compressor is 0.05% faster than modified 4:2 compressor. | RedPajamaC4_-4835475572911694436 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
1 Jain A, et al. Autism occurrence by MMR vaccine status among US children with older siblings with and without autism. Jama 2015; 313(15): 1534-40.
Jain A, et al. Autism occurrence by MMR vaccine status among US children with older siblings with and without autism. Jama 2015; 313(15): 1534-40. | RedPajamaC4_-5537461800446376861 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
The Northridge Board of Education met in regular session Sept. 20 to conduct ordinary business and continue its planning for the fall income tax renewal vote.
Superintendent John Shepard said the administration was providing the board and the finance committee with alternative operating scenarios based on the passage or defeat of the Nov. 2 issue.
"When we do have a levy that impacts the revenue fund and funding for our district, we have a list of potential cuts," Shepard said. "They would occur for the 2011-12 school year. Some of the items would be increasing class sizes and reducing the school day to a minimum hour requirement. Then we have a list of reductions or possible reductions, elimination of programming."
Most of the district's budget goes to salary and benefits, Shepard said.
"Our operating cost as a district are people," Shepard said. "Any budget of a school district, between 85 percent and 90 percent of expenditures are on people.
"We want to make sure the levy committee and the board has before them the list of potential cuts that would make up the lost revenue if the levy did not pass in November. We all have a sick feeling in our stomach when we have to make these lists."
Board president Lee Hatfield said the board had changed its position from last spring's effort to pass a permanent income tax levy instead of one that had to be renewed by voters.
"Please try to come out, push your neighbors to come out, to some of the levy committee meetings, so we can get accurate information out to the community."
In other business, the board approved flex credit policies and welcomed its new Chinese language teacher.
Shepard said the flex credit option was required under the recent school funding reform and would allow students to obtain high school credit outside the school itself.
"Our students do have those options and have been taking those options, whether it be an online course or an internship," Shepard said. "We have been active in that pursuit of credit flex. It's new. It's something every high school has to have in place. It outlines how students could go about getting credit without taking the traditional (classroom work)."
Shepard also introduced Tao Zhang, whose salary is being paid by grants.
"Some of you are thinking, 'Chinese at Northridge. Why?'" Shepard said. "He's here through the Ohio Department of Education, and the College Board. If you've taken the ACT you know what the College Board is. They are the folks who write and score the ACT."
Shepard said no one doubted the importance of Chinese-American trade.
"A third of the world speaks Chinese," Shepard said. "You look at our gross national product, most of what we do today intertwines with Chinese language culture."
The program is unique in the area, Shepard said.
"We wanted to think outside the box, how can we save some money and get a new program started here at Northridge that no one else has, in a school this size. We're the only school district in central Ohio this size that has a Chinese program with a full-time teacher."
Shepard said the grant funding that pays for the program was likely to continue.
"I'm sure we'll be able to keep him for a few years under this program, as long as he's happy here at Northridge." | RedPajamaC4_-5213088805007463335 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Malaysia – Status Of Divisional Applications Clarified
April 26, 2012 January 31, 2018 by mirandah
For many years, the courts have raised objections to the non-unity of the patent applications and divisional applications. This matter and the provisions of Section 26B of the Patents Act 1983 in Malaysia were addressed in the above case.
The case of B Braun Melsungen AG & Anor v. Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha & Anor centered upon B Braun's Malaysia patent, a safety intravenous catheter which the plaintiffs alleged was being infringed by the defendant's product (Terumo Surshield Surflo II). In their defence, the defendants called into question the validity of the patent.
B Braun's patent was a divisional patent divided out of an earlier patent and was given its filing date. The defendants sought to show that the content of the divisional patent extended beyond the original disclosure of its parent patent and attacked the novelty of the divisional.
The key point of the defendant's case rested on the fact that the original disclosure of the invention by the plaintiffs' own European patent publication, would be considered prior art with the divisional patent by anticipating all claims of the patent, rendering it not novel.
In this regard, it was submitted by the defendants that in view of Section 26B of the Patent Act, the application should not have been entitled a divisional status and in light of the cited prior art it would defeat the novelty of the divisional.
Judge Dato' Azahar Mohamed in the High Court disagreed with this approach; stating "it is an incorrect approach to compare Claim 1 of the Braun Patent to Claim 1 of the Parent Patent."
He went on to explain that the claims of the divisional may be directed to the subject matter disclosed in any part of the specification of the parent patent, including the general description, as well as the disclosure relating to the specific, preferred embodiments set out in the parent patent specification.
In so doing, he decided that the parent patent supports the needle guard feature in B Braun's divisional patent and upheld the divisional status of the application while dismissing the lack-of-novelty claim by the defendants.
This clearly affirms the interpretation of Section 26B of the Patent Act 1983, which allows an application to be divided into two or more applications (divisional applications) provided that each does not go beyond the disclosure of the initial application.
Malaysia – Court Of Appeal Addresses Passing Off
ASEAN – Twenty-five Children for Twenty-five Years in IP | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_-2509254407452253038 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Located 25 km to the east of Santiago, the spectacular unspoilt beaches of Maio and terrain is similar to that found on Boa Vista and Sal although parts of the island have been heavily re-forested.
Vila do Maio is a mix of Portuguese and British colonial style buildings that spread up a small steep hill to a huge Baroque church. To the north of Maio you will find a magnificent 5km lagoon surrounded by lush vegetation.
With a population of just 4,000 and untouched by tourism, the small island of Maio is a great place to escape, relax and take in the scenic landscapes, lonely beaches and mature forests that only Maio can offer.
Summer visitors may see some turtles on Maio's beaches and there are some interesting birds on the island, in particular rare sea birds in the north of the island. Despite its isolation Maio is a beautiful island to visit and the perfect place to enjoy long uninterrupted walks along the deserted beaches and salt pans. | RedPajamaC4_-4529399501700456131 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Archives|THE SCREEN; A Nobel Prize Novel.
THE SCREEN; A Nobel Prize Novel.
Samuel Goldwyn, that pioneer picture producer who has quite often shown a desire to lead the public rather than follow it, is responsible for the intelligent and forceful film version of Sinclair Lewis's Nobel Prize novel, "Arrowsmith," which was presented for the first time yesterday afternoon at the Gaiety.This highly praiseworthy translation of the career of Martin Arrowsmith, M. D., may seem a trifle episodic here and there, and a little too much footage is given over to one or two harrowing happenings, but it shines in its characterizations and in the sane fashion in which the story, as a whole, has been handled. There as nothing intrusive, and, while there is much in the book that does not appear on the screen, that was to be expected in a film that runs for less than two hours.No pains or expense has been spared in bringing this narrative to the screen. Sidney Howard, the playwright, was employed to write the adaptation, which he has accomplished in a knowledgeful fashion with a full appreciation of the limitations of a film. John Ford was entrusted with the direction, and he, too, has done his task with a good understanding of the author's writing. It is an impressively staged production, and the very few opportunities offered for something in a lighter vein are taken advantage of in a sane, subdued manner.Ronald Colman and Helen Hayes head a cast of twenty. Mr. Colman, of course, impersonates Martin Arrowsmith, the zealous young doctor and hopeful scientist, and Miss Hayes plays the loyal and loving wife, Leora. Both of them are thorough and believable. There was no slipshod casting in the matter of the other rôles, which can be realized when it is said that Richard Bennett gives a splendid portrayal as the Swede, Sondelius; A. E. Anson does effective acting as Professor Max Gottlieb, and Claude King handles expertly the rôle of the irritating Dr. Tubbs.After a few introductory glimpses there is the meeting of Leora and Arrowsmith. It starts with a scolding from the young M. D. and ends with his inviting her to dinner. No time is wasted before they are married, and soon comes the scene out in the Middle Western place, with Leora's bigoted and narrow-minded father and mother and her forbidding brother.It is especially interesting when Arrowsmith hangs out his shingle in a small town of 366 persons, where he is the only doctor. It is quite moving to observe in the picture the cheery disposition of Arrowsmith and the unselfish devotion of his wife. It brings to mind the hardships of physicians and also the responsibility of a young doctor. Soon the kitchen of' the Arrowsmiths' humble domicle is transformed into a laboratory, for Martin is eager to find out whether he can concoct a serum that will save the cattle that are dying. His efforts are resented by the State Veterinarian, and after realizing his success Arrowsmith sends his discovery to Washington.Arrowsmith eventually comes to New York, and there is his worry over not having accomplished anything after two years. This sequence is beautifully pictured, stressing the idea that Arrowsmith is so wrapped up in his laboratory work that he neglects Leora. There is his germ-killing mixture and subsequently the disappointment on learning that a French scientist has found out the same thing ahead of him and in time to write a paper on it in a medical journal.The latter stages of the film are concerned with Arrowsmith's combating the bubonic plague in the West Indies. Leora is with him in the place referred to as Black Water, but when he goes to another island, after a heated argument with the Governor General, he implores his wife to stay where she is, believing that it is for the best. One perceives the telltale cigarette on which is spilled some of the virus, and later the sad scenes where Leora is dying and alone.Now and again Mr. Ford carries the spectator forward and then makes the error of taking him back, or is it poor timing? This, however, does not cause any real confusion, but nevertheless it is noticeable. Life and death and Arrowsmith's devotion to science are emphasized toward the end, the last scene being depicted in a most dignified way. | RedPajamaC4_-3334886505157528431 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |
Nirvana at Chameleon
It's no secret that Wellington is the culinary capital of New Zealand, from Island Bay to Otaki and across to Mount Bruce, casual cheap eats to high end treats and everything in between.
And this year the Cuisine Good Food Awards shone brightly on Wellington establishments, with over twenty of our finest restaurants being awarded Hats for excellence in what they do.
We're going behind the scenes to find out more about what drives these restaurants to keep serving up the best, starting this blog series by sitting down with Cuisine de Chef Paul Limacher of Chameleon to talk changes to New Zealand food, and what's on the menu this summer.
You've recently been awarded One Hat in the Cuisine Good Food Awards and looking back on your career you've picked up quite a few trophies. What do awards mean for you?
Awards mean a lot, particularly for the team as its recognition for their hard work. They're proud of what they do. And it's great for our restaurant, people like to know they're having an award-winning dish.
What brought you to food and being a chef?
I have a love for food. I left school not really knowing what I wanted to do but fell into a kitchen and that was it, here we are!
Cuisine de Chef Paul Limacher of Chameleon
What's so great about NZ produce?
It's the seasonal and fresh ingredients, and seafood - it's one of my main loves.
We're very blessed in New Zealand with the produce we have available. We source from all over but try to buy locally. Sometimes it's the closest things to you that get missed, for example we get produce from local growers in Otaki you can't get anywhere else.
Last year we were getting King Crab caught in Cook Straight, 20kms from here which is quite amazing, otherwise it would have to come from the Bering Sea.
I think we're lucky in the Wellington region and its nirvana for me as a chef, I've got all this amazing produce to play with.
How is New Zealand food changing?
How we eat is absolutely changing. When you think of New Zealand 15 or twenty years ago it was whitebait, paua, crayfish and summer barbecues, but this is changing because New Zealanders are changing. People eat out on Christmas day which never used to be a tradition.
I think our culture is changing so what we identify as New Zealand cuisine is also going through a process of finding its feet.
I come back to our ingredients, what is made and produced here is done exceptionally well. We've seen incredible changes in wine, cheese, dairy but also sheep, goat and deer industries.
We're now seeing the results of the diversification in our farming away from sheep and cows. We're growing truffles, producing the best cheese in world, and of course the best wine in world.
Twenty years ago you'd only put French cheese on the menu because it was that good and way above anything we could produce. Now I only put New Zealand cheese on the menu because I'm proud to showcase it. We have some amazing cheeses that are so good and yummy!
What's inspiring for you in food at the moment?
The new big thing is deer milking industry.
On my menu right now we have a deer milk aged gouda, and we're the first in the world to have this. Sourced from the South Island it's clean, flavoursome, rich and creamy. It hits the spot for me and it's a pleasure to be able to serve.
I use this on cheeseboard and in a venison dish. That dish uses deer cheeks which is also first, I've never seen venison cheeks on a menu in New Zealand. I love finding and using new products like this which doesn't happen often in your career.
It's exciting times for New Zealand produce and makes me proud as a Kiwi to be part of it all, right from the start.
How would you describe the food at Chameleon?
There's a lot of integrity about what we make. The menu description is what you see on your plate. Its honest tucker using fresh ingredients, fresh produce and products. We treat it with respect and don't overdo it. It's uncomplicated food.
Chameleon is based at Intercontinental Wellington and serves refined and inspired cuisine 365 days a year. For bookings and enquiries click here.
2017 & 2018 – One Hat Cuisine Good Food Awards
2017 & 2018 – Cuisine Top 100 restaurants
2017 & 2018 – NZ's Best Beef Dish Silver Fern Farms
2018 - New Zealand's Emerging Chef of the Year
2017 - Premiere Chef de Cuisine Silver Fern Farm Awards.
Follow Chameleon on Instagram and Facebook. | RedPajamaCommonCrawl_3420704181779349762 | Slimpajama627bTrain/chunk1 |