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Reliefband is an innovative band which promises drug-free relief from nausea and vomiting. It is basically a wrist worn Neurowave wearable can be used for any kind of motion sickness: be it from amusement park rides or VR.
This is clinically proven, FDA approved device which has an innovative way of working. It uses pulses and highly specific waveforms with set frequencies and intensity. This is passed to the median nerve which is found at the underside of our wrist.This technique called 'neuromodulation' uses natural neural pathways to stop the retching produced by signals from the stomach.
This is the second edition of the company's Neurowave. There has been obvious tweaks in it too. Rather than five, there are 10 settings which can be controlled by two physical buttons. A display is added and the new hypoallergenic 316 surgical steel contact improves the transmission of the neuromodulation.
This is a great add-on to all those who want to enjoy VR sickness-free. New innovations like these always have a place, and its use while enjoying VR is maybe unusual but fruitful. The idea of popping a pill while watching your favorite match's live VR streaming is bad. So get on your headset, wear this wristband. And enjoy the VR experience like never before. The Neurowave is going to be available to buy for $150, and is set to release on 2017 Q2. This isn't a pricey investment, so get ready to grab your Neurowave band as soon as possible!


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Doing History in the Adirondacks: Interpreting the Park, the People, and the Landscape
Maria F. Reynolds, Loyola University Chicago
Occupying a large portion of Northern New York State, the Adirondack Park includes six million acres of public and private land that compromise over 85 % of all wilderness lands east of the Mississippi. Unique in many ways, the Adirondack Park remains a model for sustainable living and wilderness land management. This dissertation explores the way history is used to both complicate and enrich the relationship between humans and nature in the Adirondack Park. By analyzing historic preservation, cultural landscape management, material culture, and museums this project examines the way that Park history has been told through exhibits, public programs, tours, and commemorations. Chapters explore great camp preservation, the retention of cultural artifacts on state owned wilderness lands, the connection of the Adirondack rustic style to the land, and the increasing environmental focus of regional museums. Together these chapters provide an assessment of public history sites and exhibits in the park that reveals the close yet tenuous relationship between the people and the land. By looking at the presentation and history of interpretation of history in the Adirondack Park, I argue for the importance of an interpretation that incorporates natural and cultural elements. The future of the wilderness character of the park depends on the support of residents and tourists and, therefore, it is especially important for more individuals to understand the Park's history through both a natural and a human lens.
Reynolds, Maria F., "Doing History in the Adirondacks: Interpreting the Park, the People, and the Landscape" (2011). Dissertations. 76.
https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/76
Copyright © 2011 Maria F. Reynolds
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CBS and Viacom are merging to become ViacomCBS
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CBS is merging with Viacom after months of negotiations, reuniting the two companies for the first time since they split in 2005. The deal will increase CBS's content offering to customers — a growing importance as the streaming wars heat up.
The company will be rebranded to ViacomCBS, according to a press release, with Bob Bakish, the current CEO of Viacom, becoming CEO of both companies under the merger. It will take months for the actual deal to close, with Joe Ianniello, acting CEO of CBS, set to report to Bakish into 2021, according to Bloomberg. The merger was approved in a unanimous vote by both boards. The move means the company is sitting at a value of roughly $30 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Mike Alexander provides effective coaching tools to help defensive coaches teach their athletes how to effectively tackle to eliminate explosive plays. He uses practice and game video to demonstrate the proper techniques in each of the five types of tackles executed in a game: Hawk, Compression, Profile, Tracking and Strike Zone. He preaches focus on tackling skill over defensive scheme. This allows athletes to deliver on the field once they commit to the scheme.
Leverage on the ball is the key to tackling, and the Hawk tackle taught by the Seattle Seahawks is shown first. The Hawk shoulder leverage tackle keeps a player's head out of the play, resulting in fewer concussions and making the game safer for the players. Coach Alexander breaks down the specifics for putting the near side shoulder on the near side thigh board of the offensive player to bring them down to the ground. The Hawk Roll tackle allows a smaller defender to bring down a big running back without the fear of contact and injury.
Improve tackling inside the box and reduce blows to the head using this shoulder leverage tackling method. The profile tackle helps defenders to be more physical and aggressive when taking down offensive players. The objective of profile tackling is to get the near side shoulder into the armpit of the ball carrier, then stand them up, wrap and squeeze and run their feet.
Compression tackling is the nuts and bolts for the majority of the game. The compression tackle teaches two or more defenders how to work together to properly converge on the ball carrier to quickly get them to the ground. You'll also see how leverage is the key in defending an elusive ball carrier.
Tracking will enhance your team's ability to pursue the ball carrier quickly as players run horizontal to the sideline, not allowing the cutback, all while maintaining their leverage.
Implementing the techniques Coach Alexander teaches will help propel your team's defensive play ability by improving their tackling skills. Teaching your athletes how to become great tacklers will help you build your squad into a defensive force.


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Virgin Voyages announces free bevies offer for all new bookings
Date: Dec 22 2022
By: Travelweek
MIAMI — Virgin Voyages is making a toast to an epic year in 2022 with a brand new offer that includes up to US$600 in free beverages and handcrafted cocktails for all new bookings.
Starting now through Jan. 31, 2023, all travellers will be treated to a complimentary bar tab – $300 for voyages of six nights or fewer, and $600 for voyages seven nights or more. In addition, travellers can purchase a voyage for one 'Sailor' and get the second 'Sailor' 60% off.
All four Virgin Voyages vessels are eligible over the following dates:
Scarlet: December 18, 2022 – December 27, 2023
Valiant: December 17, 2022 – December 30, 2023
Resilient: May 14, 2023 – March 15, 2024
Brilliant: December 24, 2023 – December 30, 2023
"2022 was a red-letter year, and 2023 promises to be even better as we launch Resilient Lady, expand globally to more than 100 stunning ports across four continents, and introduce new entertainment and well-being events. To help our Sailors have a fantastic new year, we are giving them early access to our most inclusive offer ever," said Isis Ruiz, Chief Growth Officer. "We wanted to give travellers something to look forward to and have a chance to plan a getaway with loved ones during the holidays. This offer has everything travellers need to make it a memorable vacation they will love and cherish for years to come."
In 2022 alone, Virgin Voyages launched two premium, award-winning ships – Scarlet and Valiant Lady. In May 2023, the cruise line will welcome into its fleet its third ship, Resilient Lady, which was delivered earlier this month.
Starting January and running through March 2023, every voyage will also feature an onboard experience rooted in wellness, ranging from curated spa treatments like the signature quartz massage, to high-energy HIIT workouts, freshly pressed juices, bungee sessions and slow-flowing yoga.
In addition, given Virgin Group's founder Richard Branson's early days as a music executive, Virgin Voyages also has plans to introduce new entertainment, including new productions and limited-time shows. Quickly becoming a must-see production on Valiant Lady, 'It's a Ship Show' will soon be installed on Scarlet Lady in 2023. Up and coming musical artists will also be showcasing their talents as part of an extensive lineup of entertainment.
For more information go to www.VirginVoyages.com.
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FRAGMENTS OF ISABELLA: A Memoir of Auschwitz
Auschwitz, Birnbaumel, Bergen-Belsen: a survivor's chilling reminiscences of an unerasable legacy. Hungarian Isabella Katz, her mother, sisters, and brother were transported to Auschwitz one Monday in May, 1944. By Wednesday, her mother and one sister were dead, her brother forever separated; the four remaining sisters survived for six months, avoiding the camp's Dr. Mengele who ""with a flick of his thumb and a whistle"" determined the daily selection of victims. At Birnbaumel, still together, they endured more maddening games: when prisoners were missing, the Germans would boil potatoes, and the aroma would flush them out. A few months later, the sisters, en route to Bergen-Belsen, suffered a baffling episode. For months, the four had acted as one; why, in their momentary (and successful) break for freedom, didn't sister Cipi follow the other three? Isabella offers these harsh memories--much like other survivors' accounts--in a series of spare vignettes. She was twenty-ish at the time, but this hasn't the keen literary vision of, say, Borowski. Yet it is an undeniably urgent summons of what Elie Wiesel (in A Jew Today, p. 872) has called ""the cursed and spellbound universe survivors carry within themselves.
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Leading Kiwi Trainer on The Marsh
Stephen Marsh has his bases covered this weekend as the only trainer in New Zealand to have runners at all three galloping meetings. According to NZ Racing Desk, the Cambridge-based trainer has two maidens engaged at Wanganui on Friday, six in action at Riccarton on Saturday and four runners accepted for the return to racing at Ellerslie on Saturday, placing him in a unique position among the country's conditioners. "Hopefully that's not the only prize we get this weekend," Marsh quipped. Currently second on the national trainers' premiership with 73 wins this season, he is pleased with the way his team is shaping after the lockdown break. Marsh produced Osaka for a good win at Te Rapa last Saturday and had Finn McCool and Loose Cannon place on the same programme. While the stable's attention will be spread around the country, Marsh was excited to return to racing at Ellerslie, where Karaka Million-placed Appellant, Darci Palmer, Ritani and Ludus have been slated to start. "I can't wait to get back racing at Ellerslie again and we've got a nice team heading there," he said. Marsh had nine horses trial at Te Aroha on Thursday but was ramping up his winter team with 38 earmarked to trial at Ellerslie next Tuesday.
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NIH's Certificates of Confidentiality Policy Enhances Confidentiality of Participants Enrolled in Clinical Research Studies
By Mike Lauer
A few months ago we blogged about our plan to release an updated Certificate of Confidentiality (CoC) policy. Today, we are pleased to announce that we have published the new policy (NOT-OD-17-109), which will go into effect on October 1, 2017. The new policy both enhances the privacy protections of individuals participating in NIH funded research studies and eliminates the need for NIH funded investigators to apply for a CoC.
To help protect the privacy of research participants, NIH has for many years issued CoCs, upon request, to researchers collecting sensitive information about research participants. The CoCs protect researchers and institutions from being compelled to disclose information in response to legal demands that would identify their research subjects. Section 2012 of the 21st Century Cures Act authorized new provisions governing the authority of HHS to protect the privacy of research subjects. The new policy implements the new CoC statutory requirements.
Under the new policy, as of October 1, 2017, NIH funded researchers will no longer have to request a CoC, nor will they receive an actual certificate. The CoC will be issued automatically to NIH funded grants, cooperative agreements, contracts and intramural research projects research funded wholly or in part by the NIH that collects or uses identifiable, sensitive information. Compliance with the requirements of the law will become a term and condition of award. All research that was commenced or ongoing on or after December 13, 2016 and is within the scope of this policy is issued a Certificate through this policy.
The CoC protects the privacy of subjects by limiting the disclosure of identifiable, sensitive information. Under the new policy, disclosure is not up to the discretion of the investigator. Disclosure is only permitted in the following circumstances:
if required by other Federal, State, or local laws, such as for reporting of communicable diseases
if the subject consents; or
for the purposes of scientific research that is compliant with human subjects regulations.
The restrictions on disclosures apply to all researchers or research institutions previously issued a CoC who are engaged in research.
A point that is important to understand is that if your research is covered by a CoC, you are required to ensure that any investigator or institution with whom you share a copy of the identifiable sensitive information that is protected by the policy understands that they are they are also subject to the disclosure restrictions, even if they are not funded by NIH.
If you have non-Federal funding, NIH will continue to consider applications for CoCs for applicable non-federally funded research submitted to our institutes and centers through our existing online CoC application system.
We have noted the changing policy on our CoC website and will be overhauling the page to align with the new policy for the October 1, 2017 policy implementation date.
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James Brody Biography
James Brody (b.1941) studied composition at Indiana University with Iannis Xenakis and Franz Kamin and was a Teaching Assistant in the electronic studio during its first years at IU. Brody wrote the liner notes for the original Nonesuch LP of 'Iannis Xenakis - Electroacoustic Music'. He was co-founder of the FIASCO group in Bloomington, CAPASA in San Antonio and the Baltimore Composers Forum. In 1970, he taught composition, theory and electronic music at East Texas State University. He has written many electroacoustic and instrumental works. The following works have been presented at the annual International Computer Music Conference(s) (ICMC): Barzakh for tape (1983), 7-1-7…for tape (1996), Background Count, percussion and tape (1998), Syllepsis - Hommage à Iannis Xenakis (2002), Transport (2006) ZAZON (2008). Traces for solo woodwinds and brass, piano, harp, percussion and strings was commissioned and performed by the Harrisburg Symphony in 1994. Theta Ticker was performed at the IV Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, August 1997 and the Beckonings series at Stanford University, June 1999. A Glance into the Garden for flute and tape was played at SEAMUS 2000 and ZAZON at SEAMUS 2009. Brody was a guest composer at the Electronic and Computer Music Studio of The Peabody Institute and is an active member and past president of the Baltimore Composers Forum. Background Count was performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC as part of a concert of the SONIC CIRCUITS International Electronic Music Festival. Syllepsis was played on a concert at MAXIS, a Festival of Sound and Experimental Music, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, England, Spring 2002. DRD4 for flute, clarinet, contrabass and piano, based on the genetic code, was performed by Washington Musica Viva in 2003. Techqua Ikachi!, for four channel electroacoustics, four instrumental groups, chorus, singers and actors with a text by Frederick Schreiner based on the Hopi story of creation, was premiered at York College of Pennsylvania in 2004 where he was a member of the adjunct faculty of York College of Pennsylvania. Brody currently resides in northern New Mexico near Santa Fe where he is helping to design a music program for the Santa Fe Complex (www.santafecomplex.org). His current compositional project, which has resulted in 2 finished works, is called the Archipelago Project, in which Brody seeks to use various powerful MIDI algorithmic generators, Artwonk and NODAL so far, to drive a sampler (Kontakt3) richly set up with hundreds of sounds (the makeup of the sounds changes from work to work).The results have included reatime performances and 'frozen' works and there are plans to expand into the areas of lighting, visual events and audience interaction employing sensors of some kind.
Program Notes of Selected Works
Syllepsis -- Hommage a Iannis Xenakis (2000) is built out of experiments with varied repetition. Two shareware programs on the PC, Granny by Rasmus Ekman and Crusher by Joerg Stelkens, both granular processing programs, assisted me in creating much of the raw material of the work, sounds derived from single woodwind and piano notes. Many of the percussion sounds were recorded in sessions with percussionist Barry Dove. Syllepsis is (a figure of in which a single word appears to be in the same relationship to two others, but must be understood in a different sense with each of its pair..." (from the Web site of Dr. Ken Barker at the University of Ottawa). The title came after the piece but I found that the phenomenon of syllepsis occurred many times during the work, even on a larger scale. The dedication to Xenakis came after hearing of his passing. Besides working (with difficulty) through his mathematics classes, I was deeply influenced by his conception of worlds and masses of sound. This influence has gratefully found its way into my music.
Theta Ticker is the result of an ongoing (naive) sound experiment to see if there might be some direct correlation between musical rhythm and brain waves. The obvious repeated sound is at a frequency of 5.2 Hz right in the middle of the theta brain wave band. A penetrating quality to this sound seems to have some kind of hypnotic effect. If some listeners find the sound environment unendurable, they should feel free to leave for a minute. Structurally the other sounds in the piece are organized in the proportions of the Fibonacci series, 1-1-2-3-5-8-13. The transformations of a small number of 'real-world' sound sources were accomplished using the Sound Forge and Cool Edit programs on a Pentium 150 computer in the composer's home studio.
Background Count is the result of fascination, serendipity and painstaking editing. I have been fascinated with the sound of the geiger counter ever since I was a child and given a Gilbert Atomic Energy Kit as a present. It contained a cloud chamber (which I couldn't get to work), a geiger counter and a collection of radioactive samples (which, I am sure, would be considered very dangerous today). I remember listening for long periods of time to the random clicks of the geiger counter, speeding up and slowing down. One day as I was surfing the World Wide Web several years ago, I did a search for 'geiger counter' and discovered a site in Switzerland which said that one could listen, in real time, to the discharge of a counter picking up the background count of cosmic rays. I recorded a sample of the sound, transferred it to the computer and painstakingly 'edited in' a different sound at every discharge point, keeping attention to form and movement. The percussion part is compiled, using the magic of the computer, from a visual representation of the points.
Entrainments, completed in October of 1995 was composed on a PC with a Pentium 75 Processor using the Cool Editor. Sounds were gathered and recorded from many sources. Entrainments is a representative of the musique concrete genre. The object in this work is to present a 'standalone' sonic environment, one which has life and inner workings of its own. The music is developed in small cells which are joined, juxtaposed and overlaid, with the aim of inner coherence and sometimes surprising variety. Sounds have an intrinsic temporal logic. The experiment comes from discovering this logic and finding appropriate antecedents and consequents to the sounds. This kind of sound work is an ongoing preoccupation of the composer.
Turning (1999) was inspired by a Macintosh software program called 'Metasynth'. The program allows the composer to work in the graphics domain on the computer screen and, for example, interpret a complex on-screen drawing by assigning a sound, say a single percussion tap to the picture. The pitch of the sound is transposed according to its position in the y-axis of the picture, and unfolds in time along the x-axis. Many Different sounds were subjected to the same kind of treatment. Actually, the sound elements were created on the Macintosh, then brought over to a Pentium II PC and composed using Cool Edit Pro.
7-1-7...is a work of musique concrète completed in February of 1995. It was composed and constructed using the Cool Editor 1.34 by David Johnston on an IBM clone 486-25. The title and the music are based on the rhythm of an ancient breathing practice taught to the composer by Reshad Feild and having a history that dates back, at least, to egyptian heiroglyphics. In the practice, one inhales for a count of 7, holds for a count of 1, exhales for a count of 7, holds for a count of 1, etc. The inbreath is perceived as entering through the soft fleshy area under the sternum; the outbreath exits at the sternum. The music roughly parallels the in and out breaths, but there is a hidden turnaround in the middle, like the Persian carpet that must have an imperfection in it. One may do the breath while listening to this music, or any music, or no music at all; or one may simply listen.
Salat (for the memory of my mother) was composed in 1970 at the electronic studio of East Texas State University. The university chorus gathered for a recording session and provided most of the raw sounds for the work, the others coming from several sets of oriental bells and a few tones produced on a Buchla synthesizer. Several of the words sung by the chorus are wasifas or mantras from the Sufi tradition. Some sections of the work would have been much easier to produce using modern samplers, but such things were not available, tape loops, a voltage controlled gate and a tape player with a continuously variable speed control were used.
Barzakh (1983). The word barzakh means 'connection or threshold between different levels (of existence or consciousness)'. The piece is a contemplation after the death of the composer's father and was realized at the University of Texas Electronic Music Studio on a Fairlight. There are both concrete and generated sounds in the work.
Miralia (1967), an early work, used the original Moog synthesizer to create all of its sounds. Some sounds are routed through a huge EMT reverberation device, a popular feature of studios of that time. The challenge of this work was to use only electronic sounds to produce an environment which sounds 'alive'. The work was substantially edited and revised in 1997.
A Glance into the Garden (1998) is a commission from the Baltimore Composers Forum. The composer was asked to choose a painting from an exhibit at the Gomez Gallery in Baltimore of the works of 3 artists and write a work based on the chosen painting. The work chosen was The Secret Garden by Nancy Scheineman. The music was then performed at a concert in the gallery with the chosen painting, a large triptych, as a backdrop to the performers., Rather than being a literal programmatic work, the piece is based on certain of the work's images which seemed to suggest audible events. In the absence of any image, however, the work may be approached from a purely musical perspective. Software used: Metasynth and Cool Edit Pro. Flutist Leslie Marrs gave the premiere and plays on the recording. Marcia Odden, a flutist in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, has performed the work at numerous venues in the Twin Cities region. The work has also been performed at the Taos Chamber Music Festival and the 2000 SEAMUS conference in Baton Rouge
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Every Israeli knows the object-collage creations of artist Hanoch Piven, who picked out some tunes for this episode of Journeys.
In 1975, an eleven year-old Ernesto Piven arrived in Israel with his family from Montevideo, Uruguay, and quickly became Hanoch Piven. Initially feeling like something of an outsider, he came to use his external perspective in his caricatures and illustrations. After being rejected by the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem, Piven went New York, where his art took off.
But something was missing. Ten years later Hanoch returned to Israel, where he found he could finally be himself.
His career as an illustrator, caricaturist, and educator has won him international success. Today, he divides his life between Barcelona and Israel - just the right balance.


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The California Superbloom 2017 comes to Joshua Tree National Park in California. See desert lilies, daisies, sunflowers, lupine and all sorts of other flowers that I don't know the name of!
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The California Wildflower Superbloom 2017 has begun! Here are some photos taken today at Diamond Valley lake, which include poppies, daisies and sunflowers.
Sycamore Canyon Park in Riverside, a favorite place for hikin and offroad biking, turns green after the winter rains.
More than 82,000 evacuated. Let's hope for the best possible outcome for these mountain communities.
We accessed the beach via Broken Hill Trail at Torrey Pines State Park.
Your blogger, Karin Jeske, finds a stretch of California beach she has never seen before - a rare thing!
A bit of wilderness close to the city, Franklin Canyon Lake in Franklin Canyon Park, Beverly Hills, CA.
A flag is placed on each of the 228,000 graves at Riverside National Cemetery for Verteran's Day 2015. Amazing!
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Dell XPS 15 9650 - good for video editing?
Right now I am using 2017 MBP 15". I am kinda not happy with the device (keyboard, lots of fan noise, touch bar area getting hot etc.,.
Dell XPS 15 9650 model with 32GB RAM and 4k Screen looks awesome with the specs. I use my laptop for editing videos for my YouTube channel but the software I use is available for Windows as well - Filmora Wondsrshare. I will probablyove to Adobe Premiere Pro in few months.
So, anybody here use the model and what do you think? How do you like it? Can anyone comment on how it performs with video editing/rendering?


Hi, I'm Lindsay. I am the owner of Transitions Sport Horses, based in Lexington, Kentucky. I have a slight obsession for all things that bark or whinny.
Years ago, I fell in love with the heart of the Thoroughbred and made it my mission to start and retrain these amazing animals so that they can succeed in life after the track.
I was honored, and slightly in disbelief, to have been selected to compete in the 2016 Retired Racehorse Project. And what a ride it has been! This year I will be competing in my 3rd Makeover and during the journey I have started training full-time!
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Temporary Water Hardness & Alkalinity For Your System
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What is Temporary Water Hardness?
First of all, it is important to realize that temporary hardness has little to do with metal ions such as calcium. Strictly speaking, hardness refers to the concentration of calcium and magnesium ions in water. We have traditionally thought only of total and calcium hardness, but there two other ways to consider water hardness. Permanent hardness is that which cannot be removed by boiling.
The Concentration of Ions
Temporary hardness is that which can be removed by boiling. When temporary hardness precipitates, most is attributable to calcium carbonate. Boiling such water causes the bicarbonate ion to become a carbonate ion, which then binds with calcium. Calcium carbonate is almost insoluble, so it precipitates, thus removing both calcium and carbonate from the water. Because carbonate is alkaline in character, the alkalinity of the water decreases at the same time.
Determining the concentration of temporary hardness is complicated because its concentration is a function of the concentration of alkaline ions in relation to their reaction with calcium.
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What is Alkalinity?
How Does Alkalinity Fit Into the Equation?
Alkalinity exists in three forms, carbonate (CO32-), bicarbonate (HCO3-) and hydroxide (OH-). We rarely encounter hydroxide alkalinity in cooling tower applications since it exists only when added or when pH exceeds 10. Carbonate and bicarbonate alkalinity freely change from one form to the other depending on the pH of the water. Carbonate ions are scarce in low pH water. Raise the pH of that water and some of the bicarbonate ions become carbonate ions.
Bicarbonate & Calcium Ions
One important difference is that bicarbonate ions are considerably more soluble than carbonates. Calcium has only limited solubility with carbonate, but it is considerably more soluble with bicarbonate. If the pH is less than 10, it is safe to assume that the hydroxide alkalinity is zero. Under this condition, the concentration of carbonate alkalinity equals two times the phenolphthalein alkalinity, or C = 2P. Additionally, the concentration of bicarbonate alkalinity equals the total alkalinity minus two times the phenolphthalein alkalinity, or B = M – 2P. It also is helpful to understand that total alkalinity equals bicarbonate alkalinity plus carbonate alkalinity, or M = B + C.
What Did That Mean?
The concentration of temporary hardness depends on the ratio of bicarbonate to carbonate alkalinity. As cooling tower water cycles up, the alkalinity and pH both increase. As this happens, the ratio of carbonate to bicarbonate increases. This causes the solubility of calcium to decrease accordingly. For every number of cycles of concentration, a specific ratio of carbonate to bicarbonate ions exists. This ratio depends on pH and alkalinity, not hardness. The concentration of temporary hardness can be defined as the concentration in parts per million of carbonate alkalinity that precipitates in order to return the water to the equilibrium at which no more calcium precipitates.
We Don't Boil Tower Water, So How Does it Apply to Us?
Boiling is not the only action that can remove temporary hardness. Boiling simply converts very soluble bicarbonate ions to less soluble carbonates ions that then precipitate as calcium carbonate. Chardon's PowerPure technology removes temporary hardness in its reaction chamber by precipitating calcium as calcium carbonate. Removing the carbonate in the form of calcium carbonate leaves bicarbonate ions which are quite soluble.
This permits a significantly higher concentration of calcium to exist in solution because the carbonates are removed. Remember that the ratio of temporary to permanent hardness depends entirely on the ratio of carbonate to bicarbonate alkalinity. In other words, temporary hardness is removed when calcium carbonate forms in the reaction chamber. The removal of temporary hardness as calcium carbonate shifts the Saturation Index to a point where the remaining, or permanent hardness remains soluble.


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With over 200 members, we are among the largest Rotary clubs in California's Central Valley. Rotary International is a global organization of business and professional leaders who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. In more than 160 countries worldwide, approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 30,000 Rotary clubs.
We're a membership organization of local business, professional and community leaders. We meet regularly, get to know each other, from friendships, & through that, we're able to get things done in our community, and across the globe.
Modesto Rotary Club members reflects the diversity of today's world. It's the new face of service.
That face might surprise you. We are ethnically diverse. Our members range in age from the mid-twenties to over 90. We are men and women. We are individuals representing large and small businesses in the Central Valley. We care about our local and global community and wish to make a difference through Rotary.


A department of Computer Science named Artificial Intelligence pursues creating the computers or machines as clever as human beings. The main disadvantage for supervised machine studying is that you simply want the labeled examples: you probably have too few labels or the labels aren't consultant of all the information set, then the accuracy is low or limited to a specific domain. Banks use synthetic intelligence programs to attain help for numerous actions based on observed patterns. Because of Artificial Intelligence, we do not always want anyone to play against.
As well as, Amazon, Overstock, Goal, CVS, Expedia, Subway, Zappos, Wholefoods, WordPress, Virgin Galactic, Paypal, eBay, Reddit, Tesla, Etsy, and numerous other corporations (both publicly and privately owned) are now accepting bitcoin. The article identified that American firms will seemingly continue manufacturing in China to serve their Asia Pacific markets but it surely's increasingly making financial sense to deliver jobs back dwelling. This movie makes you suppose deeply about our relationship with synthetic intelligence, our obsession with gadgets and the definitions of love, lust and logic. A quite totally different approach measures machine intelligence via exams that are developed from mathematical definitions of intelligence. Which means even jobs that present a cushioning impact to human beings will not be immune from Synthetic Intelligence. IBM's Watson is a major example of this approach: the pc is taught methods to improve itself and repair errors it makes.
Examples of those kinds of exams begin in the late nineties devising intelligence assessments utilizing notions from Kolmogorov complexity and information compression 198 Two major advantages of mathematical definitions are their applicability to nonhuman intelligences and their absence of a requirement for human testers.
In his ebook Superintelligence , Nick Bostrom supplies an argument that synthetic intelligence will pose a menace to mankind. A Motion Detection Camera – This can be a robotic because it mechanically takes photos, with out user input. Educational Robots – Robots used in faculties, these are really just easy robotic kits that are designed to teach youngsters about digital sensors. In different words, a robot is an autonomous machine that has been programmed to do something. We could take trendy farming for instance where automation has eliminated the majority of the workforce. The robot takes the order, provides it to kitchen, and then comes back with the order.
While the people scurried in confusion, the Synthetic Intelligence (AI) created by MIT/Bell Labs linked itself into the community of high-speed, twentieth generation computer systems placed at its disposal by a Red Alert Priority, evaluated knowledge thoughtfully for a minute and a half and then proceeded to get in touch with its reverse number in the Russian Republics.


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Q: Timeline for SharePoint 2010 Workflows Engine Retirement? Microsoft Announced Workflow 2010 retirement in November 2020.
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Posted a user voice suggestion to pospone the retirement date. Please vote if you are or your clients are in the same boat with us.
Our question is: do you have any documented evidence that MS gave us a clear timeline for Workflow 2010 engine retirement in SharePoint Online?
I am invovled in a large SharePoint-2010-to-SharePoint-Online migration project. We literary have thouthands workflows that are actively used.
Rewriting all of these workflows to SP 2013 engine is not an option. Using Power Automate is not an option either since it's not allowed at our Client's organization.
Any comments and links to the previous MS announcements will be very appreciated!

A: This announcement was the first announcement about the retiring of SharePoint 2010 workflows.
If you/your client has a TAM, I would escalate with your objections. Otherwise, search or create a new entry on sharepoint.uservoice.com.