•	To torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts.
•	A state of anxiety and uncertainty over actual or potential problems.
•	Give way to anxiety or unease; allow one's mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles.
•	A strong feeling of anxiety.
•	A troubled state of mind.
We are not alone. When we look at history, we see that mankind has always worried. We shouldn't feel guilty about worrying – cancer patients and survivors have valid reasons to worry.
•	Frustration over changes in our body.
•	Job insecurity or job loss.
•	Physical intimacy after treatment.
Yet, we can't let these worries take over our lives. Let's look at how other people have described worry.
Throughout history, people have worried. Yet it serves us no useful purpose. We're not suggesting that you toss caution to the wind and not follow your medical team's suggestions on diet and exercise. We're not saying that you shouldn't be concerned if a new symptom develops – but instead of worrying about it, talk to your doctor about it – and then move on.
So what do we do to find peace of mind?
•	Work during treatment, if you're able. They say that an idle mind is the Devil's workshop. That pretty much says it all. Our work provides structure and a sense of normalcy. It also provides much-need income. If you can't work fulltime, ask your employer about adjusting your work hours to accommodate your treatment schedule.
•	Stay busy. If you are unable to work during treatment, find an activity that you enjoy doing. Knitting, adult coloring books, learning to paint , wood carving, sewing or reading – whatever you enjoy, get up every morning and get busy doing something you enjoy. Avoid watching TV all day long – too much negative news that will bog you down.
•	Exercise. Walking and simple exercises at home help you maintain your strength and balance. But more importantly, exercise releases endorphins, those "feel good" hormones that fight depression, help you sleep better and reduce aches and pains.
•	Volunteer. Nothing helps heal our souls more than volunteering. We begin to realize that cancer is not the worst thing that can happen in our lives. Soup kitchens and nursing homes are great places to volunteer – we'll realize how fortunate we are.
•	Make future plans. Don't allow the fear of recurrence to prevent us from making future plans. Take a trip to the beach for your anniversary. Pick a state park to visit next month. Pick a date and stick to that date to go to the museum or aquarium you've always wanted to visit.
•	Learn something new. Engaging our brains in learning a new skill drives worry away. Many state colleges offer continuing education classes at reduced prices (some are even free). Craft stores like Hobby Lobby and Michaels offer classes – from learning to sew or watercolor to learning to knit or crochet. Take a photography class or upgrade your computer skills .
Scanxiety is the intense anxiety/worry when we have our regular scans after treatment. If we're not careful, we may allow our minds to go into some very dark places. I have been guilty of that myself and driven both me and my husband crazy.
Scanxiety is a special subset of worry. It happens just before a scan until the time we get your scan results. Sometimes, it is several days before we get our results. So what can we do?
Related Article: Scanxiety - Sound Familiar?
•	If you're on several message boards, don't read a post that starts off with, "I got bad news today." Don't even allow yourself to read the details.
•	Most recurrences occur within the first one to two years, so if you're past that time frame, relax. If you're within 1-2 year time frame, your medical team is there to help you knock a recurrence back – you've done it once, you can do it again.
•	Eat healthy and pamper yourself with a warm bubble bath or relaxing shower.
•	Ask your doctor for some anti-anxiety medicine, if your anxiety is debilitating.
•	Remember that every person's cancer is different. Even if an acquaintance has a recurrence, we don't know the complete details of their diagnosis. They may have other health problems, genetic mutations, have been allergic to the recommended chemotherapy or delayed treatment. If we've followed our doctor's recommendations to avoid recurrence, that is all that we can do.
•	Yoga really helps relieve this intense anxiety. There are lots of classes just for cancer patients.
•	Fill your days with things you enjoy doing – photography at the lake, watercolors, cooking a special cake – and last but not least, walk…walk…walk.
•	LAST BUT LEAST … I resorted to cleaning the grout in the master bathroom once when my Scanxiety overwhelmed me. It worked, and we sure did enjoy those gleaming tile floors.


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1947 Sep Léa Nys became a Bahá'í in Belgium, the first Belgian to accept the Faith after World War Two.
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1948 Ridván The first local spiritual assembly in Belgium was established in Brussels. [BW11p727] Brussels; Belgium LSA
1949 5 – 7 Aug The second European Teaching Conference was held in Brussels. [BW11:52] Brussels; Belgium; Europe Conferences, Teaching; Conferences, Bahai; Conferences, International; Conferences
1957 Ridván The Regional Spiritual Assembly of the Benelux Countries was formed with its seat in Brussels, Belgium. [BW13:274]
Its area of jurisdiction was Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Brussels; Belgium; Netherlands; Luxembourg; Benelux NSA
1962 Ridván The National Spiritual Assembly of Belgium was formed. [BW13:283]<
For picture see BW13:275. Belgium NSA
1971 Apr The International Bahá'í Youth Conference took places at Oteppe-Namur, Belgium, launching a two-year youth campaign for Europe. [BW15:333–4]
For picture see BW15:334. Oteppe-Namur; Belgium; Europe Conferences, Bahai; Conferences, Youth; Youth
1985 6 – 9 Jul The European Bahá'í Youth Conference was held in Antwerp, Belgium, in July 1985, and was attended by some 1,450 youth from 45 nations. The youth addressed the European Parliament and the Council of Europe in letters which told of their resolve to put into action the International Youth Year themes of 'Participation, Development and Peace'. The youth spoke of programs in which Bahá'ís were supporting the themes, including human rights education and social and economic development projects. [BW19:301]
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Poison in their veins
Researchers at the New Delhi based Centre for Science and Environment have found alarmingly high levels of pesticides in blood samples of villagers in Punjab, the showpiece state of India's green revolution. India needs to urgently take a tough look at the indiscriminate and careless use of pesticides, writes Ramesh Menon.
27 June 2005 -
Utter the word Punjab in India and one image that comes to mind is of green fields, turbaned farmers driving tractors, farm machines whirring and the chug of water pumps irrigating large fields. This was where the green revolution blossomed. This is the land Indian agricultural scientists boasted about for decades.
In April 2006, Ramesh Menon won the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism award for Environmental Reporting, for his articles on pesticide poisoning in Punjab. Click here to see more.
The picture in Punjab today is different. There is grief and tragedy marking numerous villages in the heart of the state. Villagers are reporting a high incidence of cancer and other illnesses like skin rashes, which was until recently almost unknown in the rich state. The country does not have a disease registry at the rural level, a major problem in itself. Both the print and television media in Punjab have started focusing on the increasing number of cancer cases in districts like Bhatinda where pesticide use is rampant in cotton farming.
Unsafe pesticide levels in blood samples
The New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) did a study of randomly selected blood samples from four Punjab villages -- Mahi Nangal, Jajjal and Balloh in Bhatinda district and Dher in Ropar district. The investigators in the study were Professor H. B. Mathur, Professor H. C. Agarwal, Dr.Sapna Johnson and Dr.Nirmali Saikia. The study found six to thirteen pesticides in virtually all the blood samples. Some of the pesticides were: HCH, Aldrin, DDT, Monocrotophos, Endosulfan, Phosphamidon, Chlorpyrifos and Malathion. Past studies in Punjab have shown pesticide residues in breast milk, milk from cattle, fruits and vegetables.
The CSE was recently awarded the prestigious 2005 Stockholm Water Prize. Sunita Narain, CSE's director recently won the Padma Shri award and the Chameli Devi Jain media award.
• Fighting for a better, cleaner world
The levels of certain persistent organochlorine pesticides in the samples were astounding: 15-605 times higher than those found in blood samples of people in the United States, tested by the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in 2003. Levels of Lindane, a restricted pesticide in India, were 605 times higher than those found in the US population. Similarly, the levels of DDT were 188 times higher. The CSE study detected exachlorocyclohexane in all the blood samples and DDT in 95 per cent of the samples. The complete findings are at: www.cseindia.org.
CSE was receiving anecdotal reports cancer coming from particular pockets in Punjab for the last few years and it was well known that pesticide use was rampant. Earlier, the Post Graduate Institute, Chandigarh had asked the Pollution Control Board to undertake a study in Bhatinda to see the link between increasing cancer cases and pesticides. The study vaguely reported that pesticides might be responsible but did not disclose its findings on the blood samples. Second, Kheti Virasat, a Punjab based NGO trying to create awareness among farmers about the harmful uses of pesticide was also talking about how it suspected that pesticides were wreaking havoc with the health of the villagers. CSE researchers decided to find out things for themselves.
"Initial investigations revealed that the National Cancer Centre in nearby Bikaner of Rajasthan district where most of the cancer patients of Bhatinda were treated, had shown an increase of cancer cases by seven times in the last ten years", says Chandra Bhushan, Associate Director, CSE. Bhushan adds that CSE intentionally did not differentiate between those who had cancer and those who did not. There was a mix of cancer and non-cancer samples. "Having pesticide in the body may end up in cancer or may not. However, a significant number of cancer patients had high levels of pesticide in their blood", says Bhushan.
The CSE study is also one of the first in India to test for organophosphorous pesticides in human blood. Studies on animals have shown that even a single, low-level exposure to certain organophosphates, during particular times of early brain development, can cause permanent changes in brain chemistry. For example, Chlorpyrifos decreases the synthesis of DNA in the developing brain, leading to a drop in the number of brain cells. If these findings are extrapolated to humans, it may mean that early childhood exposure to Chlorpyrifos may lead to lasting effects on learning, attention and behaviour. Biomonitoring research has also shown that chemical cocktails in our bodies could be linked to numerous health problems like developmental disorders, fertility problems, neurological disorders and cancer.
A pesticide sprayer in Punjab without any protection. Pic: Ramesh Menon.
The study found organophosphorous pesticides in 75 per cent of the blood samples, while chlorpyrifos was present in 85 per cent samples. Seventy per cent of the samples also contained Phosphamidon and Malathion. The average levels of Monocrotophos in the blood samples (0.095 parts per million) were found to be four times higher than the short-term exposure limit for humans set by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agricultural Organization.
If we consider the long-term exposure limits, the results are more shocking: the average amount of Monocrotophos in the blood of those tested was 158 times higher than the long-term exposure limit for humans! The analysis has also shown that apart from older organophosphorous pesticides, new strains of pesticides had also come in.
Another New York study done in 2003 found that Chlorpyrifos and its toxic metabolite Chlorphyrifos oxon could cross the placenta barrier. The study found that if pregnant women are exposed to this pesticide even at very low levels, it could affect their unborn child.
With the green revolution came the use of chemical pesticides and fertilisers. Pesticides were used in high doses and it was often the dealer who would advise farmers on which pesticide to use. In the course of time, insects developed immunity to pesticides and excessive amounts of pesticide were pumped in contaminating both the atmosphere and the soil. Pesticides that do not easily degrade leeched into the soil poisoning it and also entered the water table. The air, the soil and water were poisoned. Pesticides like endosulfan that were banned in most parts of the world for their harmful effects, were liberally used. Likewise, with Monocrotopos, Lindane and DDT.
Pesticide use in India has jumped hundred folds from 154 million tones in 1954 to 88,000 million tones in 200l. Punjab is one of the largest users of pesticides: 6,972 million tones a year.
• Putting away the pesticide spray
• The slow poisoning of Punjab
Also to address to insect immunity to pesticides, farmers, at the advise of pesticide dealers, started making deadly cocktails. It is these traces of cocktail that CSE study found in the blood samples. In the race to produce more and earn more, farmers who grew paddy and wheat switched to cotton. The returns were good. But cotton called for use of pesticides with the American bollworm was spreading all over. There was no counseling by government agencies on the harmful effects of these pesticides as they were indiscriminately sprayed.
Numerous villagers both in Punjab, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh said that they oversprayed with the hope that it would kill pests. But most of the pesticides were adulterated, helping the worm to easily develop immunity. Adulteration is not consigned just to Punjab; it is a problem all over the country. There have been numerous raids by government agencies in Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh for instance that have detected adulterated pesticides.
Cotton farmers would spray as many as twenty to thirty times in one crop cycle. There may be perhaps be no parallel to this anywhere in the world. Little surprise then that after India's Green Revolution started, pesticide use jumped hundred folds from 154 million tones in 1954 to 88,000 million tones in 200l. Punjab is one of the largest users of pesticides: 6,972 million tones a year.
Nearly 54% of the total pesticides used in India are on cotton crops alone. And cotton accounts only for five per cent of the total cultivated area. Bhatinda district in Punjab, which largely grows cotton, is known for excessive use of pesticides. Though the Punjab Agricultural University at Ludhiana recommends only seven sprays on cotton in six months, Bhatinda farmers have been known to spray as many as 32 times.
With higher costs from excess pesticide inputs, rich farmers soon ran into debt, as the cotton crop would fail year after year even though the farmers took loans to buy expensive pesticides. Many families, who were once rich due to the bounty in their fields, were caught in the spiral of poverty. Many committed suicide. Punjabis belong to a proud race; they were never known for suicides but many agricultural pockets started to increasingly witness them. Farmers killed themselves because they were too ashamed to swallow their pride and face the moneylender knocking on their door.
Umendra Dutt who heads Kheti Virasat says that one indication of the damage by pesticides is the increasing number of cancer cases in villages where there were high levels of pesticide use. He has been looking for a sponsor to aid research the link of pesticide use and disease, but has not been able to find any. Lack of research is often cited by the pesticide industry to insist that there is no scientific backing to fears that pesticide can cause cancer or harm human health.
Water bodies in Punjab have also been polluted by pesticide run off. Pic: Ramesh Menon.
Sunita Narain, Director, CSE says that the fact that chemicals can suppress the immune system and in turn trigger disease is known. "But since no doctor will give you a death certificate that says the cause is an unknown trigger, the pesticide industry is safe. In this world of industry, the onus is on us to prove our death. But we must understand more so that the truth cannot remain denied", she adds.
Farmers now see the dangers of chemical farming. But there is rarely any help available either over the proper use of pesticides or with alternatives like the intricacies of organic farming. Rarely will you see a farmer wearing gloves or masks while spraying. Scientists and even government officials feel that pesticide companies must take on the corporate responsibility of educating the farmer on proper pesticide use. Pesticide companies do put usage instructions on their containers but most of the time it is so badly printed and in such small sizes that it is not legible.
In reality, extension workers of the government are supposed to educate farmers, but they are rarely available on the field and do not bother. In Warangal district, Andhra Pradesh, extension workers were often young boys who were straight out of information technology courses. Some were least interested in doing a field job of advising farmers. They were also intellectually unequipped to do so inspite of having gone through some training.
Dutt has managed to get some farmers to move into organic farming in Bhatinda, but he knows he has a long way to go. Farmers are hesitant to opt for organic methods because in the initial years the yields are low and in Punjab, there is a clear aggressiveness to produce more and earn as much as one can. They are also not ready to give up cotton and opt for crops they used to produce a few decades ago.
Farmers must be educated on the importance of precautions like wearing masks, avoiding alcohol on days when spraying is to be done, and not using pesticide containers for other household use like storing cereals.
But the CSE study is an eye opener for the Indian government to come up with controls and also look at regions in addition to those in Punjab. Farmers in Warangal and Guntur in Andhra Pradesh and Nasik in Maharashtra also use large quantities of pesticides. In Warangal, it is for cotton, in Guntur for chillies and in Nasik for grapes and pomegranates.
How can we stop this chemical invasion? First, farmers must be trained in proper and scientific use of pesticides. They must be educated on precautions like wearing masks, avoiding alcohol on days when spraying is to be done, and not using pesticide containers other household use like storing cereals and so on. Second, organic farming needs wider support, just the way pesticides are subsidised and their use encouraged to raise crop productivity and resist pest attacks. (See: Transitioning to organic.)
The sooner the poisoning of India's fields is stopped, the better. There is little time to debate as the price that victims will pay will be very high.
Ramesh Menon
Ramesh Menon is a journalist and documentary film maker. One of his films, "The Slow Poisoning of India," features the dangers of pesticide use in Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Kerala. In April 2006, Menon won the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism award for Environmental Reporting, for his articles on pesticide poisoning in Punjab. Click here to see more.
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Why is metal powder used?
July 31, 2022 by Wes Rose
Metal powders are used in many manufacturing techniques in order to produce metal parts. Use of metal powders eliminates waste in comparison with traditional machining and is versatile in creating a variety of metal and alloy components.
1. What are the main characteristics of a metal powder?
1.1. What is the characteristic of powder?
1.2. What are the characteristics of powder metallurgy give a detailed description?
1.3. Which of the following method is used to make powder for brittle metals?
1.4. What should be general properties of powders for additive manufacturing?
1.5. Can copper be sintered?
2. Where are metal powders used?
3. How metal powder is manufactured?
4. What is in iron powder?
5. Can metals be pulverized?
6. How do you grind metal powder?
7. Is powdered metal strong?
8. What is powdered metal made of?
9. What are the advantages and disadvantages of powder metallurgy?
10. What are the applications of powder metallurgy?
11. What is powder processing?
12. What do you use iron powder for?
13. What is the scope of powder metallurgy?
14. What are types of powder metallurgy process?
What are the main characteristics of a metal powder?
Most important characteristics of metal powders are powder particle size, size distribution, particle shape, purity, chemical composition, flow characteristics and particle microstructure.
What is the characteristic of powder?
Powders are a dense assembly of discrete particles in a gas. It is obvious, therefore, that a description of powders should start with the characteristics of the individual particles such as diameter, shape, density and surface condition.
What are the characteristics of powder metallurgy give a detailed description?
A basic attribute of powder metallurgy is the ability to combine materials in powder form that are otherwise immiscible. This unique advantage allows the production of friction materials in which copper and other metal powders are combined with solid lubricants, oxides and other compounds.
Which of the following method is used to make powder for brittle metals?
In powder metallurgy, how is the powder for brittle materials prepared? Explanation: Pulverization is a process of preparation of powders for metallurgical operations. It can be done using a variety of machines like hammering, counter-rotating plates, or ball milling.
What should be general properties of powders for additive manufacturing?
Key bulk properties are packing density and flowability. Powders that pack consistently well to give a high density are associated with the production of components with fewer flaws and consistent quality. Flowability, on the other hand, is arguably more closely associated with process efficiency.
Can copper be sintered?
Abstract: Die-attach by copper-powder sintering has the potential to be lower cost than that by silver-powder sintering. In this study, we evaluated a low-cost copper paste consisting of a micron-size copper powder for die-bonding on substrates with bare copper surface.
Where are metal powders used?
Metal powder applications – This process is widely used in aerospace, automotive, and medical industries to make prototypes, lightweight components, and complex parts [6]. Metal powders like bismuth, nickel, and manganese are used as an alloying additive to create stronger and corrosion-free steel.
How metal powder is manufactured?
The metal ore is crushed and then mixed with another material, usually carbon. Once the mix is complete, it's put through a furnace to create a reaction that lowers the oxygen and carbon levels in the powder. The reduction in carbon and oxygen leaves the metal mix resembling a less-delicious sponge cake.
What is in iron powder?
Iron powder is formed as a whole from several other iron particles. The particle sizes vary anywhere from 20-200 μm. The iron properties differ depending on the production method and history of a specific iron powder.
Can metals be pulverized?
Pulverization – as you would expect a simple method of creating metal powders is to crush or pulverize solid metal pieces. But remember we are not talking about a solid piece of salt but metals hence this method requires the application of a lot of force and is only suitable for brittle materials such as Antimony.
How do you grind metal powder?
Put the lid on the grinder and start grinding the aluminum foil. Shake the grinder a bit while grinding to make sure the foil doesn't get stuck below the blades. If you feel the grinder getting hot, stop for a few minutes to let it cool down.
Is powdered metal strong?
Powdered Metal Parts – Can produce parts from materials capable of high-temperature service and extreme durability at lower cost and at reduced difficulty. Think of stainless steels that are subject to high temperatures in exhaust systems, etc.
What is powdered metal made of?
Powdered metals are alloys processed into a fine, grain-like powder through one of several processes. Primarily made from stainless steel, brass, copper, iron, or bronze, these metals can be blended with other alloys to achieve the desired material properties and characteristics for a particular application.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of powder metallurgy?
Tooling cost is generally and can only be justified in mass production.
Raw material cost is very high.
Mechanical properties of the parts are of low quality as compared to cast or machined parts.
In some cases, density of different parts of final product can very due to uneven compression.
What are the applications of powder metallurgy?
Powder Metallurgy Application: – To produce a porous product and. Babbitt bearing for automobiles. To produce oil pump gears for automobiles. Used for production of cutting tools, wire drawing dies and deep drawing dies.
What is powder processing?
Dry powder processing involves direct compaction of either raw fine particles or granular powders in a rigid die.
What do you use iron powder for?
Iron powder is commonly placed into brake pads, drum brake lining and other applications to create the necessary amount of friction. The iron powder used as a filler can help increase the performance and durability of these products by dissipating the generated heat.
What is the scope of powder metallurgy?
Powder Metallurgy and Metal Ceramics covers topics of the theory, manufacturing technology, and properties of powder; technology of forming processes; the technology of sintering, heat treatment, and thermo-chemical treatment; properties of sintered materials; and testing methods.
What are types of powder metallurgy process?
Process of the Powder Metallurgy – The different methods and techniques have grown from the development of technological advances and engineering specifications. Four of the variations are conventional, injection molding, isostatic pressing, and metal additive manufacturing, which is the newest advancement.
Aluminum Powder Metal Technology
Conventional Press-and-Sinter Powder Metallurgy
Powdered Metal Parts
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IRRI recognized that success in this venture would require the expertise of a diverse range of scientists and it formed a consortium for C4 rice. The remit of the consortium is to contribute to the development of C4 rice, under the leadership of IRRI, by providing appropriate levels of expertise and, where suitable, personnel and resources. Each consortium member brings a particular expertise and is located in a well-established laboratory in a leading academic institution.
In the C4 Consortium, various approaches are already being taken to the problem of identifying the genetic factors controlling the C4 syndrome. A U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)–funded collaborative project between Yale and Cornell universities is using laser micro-dissection technologies to capture specific cell types in sorghum, maize, and rice leaves for further analysis of proteins and gene transcripts. A quantitative inventory of these molecules in each cell type will provide information regarding the regulation of gene expression and will explain how sorghum, maize, and rice plants differ in photosynthesis and in other cellular functions. We intend to integrate information from the NSF and this project using bioinformatics and systems modeling. At Washington State University and the University of Toronto, extensive research is being conducted on the structural and biochemical diversity among the 19 families of plants found to have C4 species, and on the progressive evolution from C3 to C3-C4 intermediates, and to C4 photosynthesis. Julian Hibberd (Cambridge) and Peter Westhoff (Dusseldorf) have been developing molecular tools to enable cell-specific genes to be introduced into rice via transformation. Click title tabs to view images.
· An, Gynheung Kyung Hee University , Republic of Korea
· Brutnell, Thomas Danforth Institute, USA
· Burnell, James James Cook University, Australia
· Cousins, Asaph Washington State University, USA
· Edwards, Gerry Washington State University, USA
· Furbank, Robert ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis / CSIRO , Australia
· Hibberd, Julian University of Cambridge, UK
· Hsing, Caroline Academia Sinica, Taiwan
· Kelly, Steven University of Oxford, UK
· Langdale , Jane University of Oxford, UK
· Leegood, Richard University of Sheffield, UK
· Murchie, Erik University of Nottingham, UK
· Myers, Chris Cornell University, USA
· Quick, William Paul International Rice Research Institute, Philippines
· Sage, Rowan University of Toronto, Canada
· Sage, Tammy University of Toronto, Canada
· Sheehy, John International Rice Research Institute, Philippines
· von Caemmerer, Susanne The Australian National University, Canberra Australia
· Voytas, Dan University of Minnesota, USA
· Westhoff, Peter Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany
· Yu, Su May National Taiwan University, Taiwan
· Zhu, Xinguang PICB, Shanghai China
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Government College of Engineering (GCE) is spread over a sprawling campus with calm surroundings, creating a fitting atmosphere for study. GCE Bargur provides a clean and invigorating environment conducive for higher education.
Government College of Engineering, Bargur is one of the educational institutions developed by Government of TamilNadu, which was started in the year 1994 to cater to the needs of the nation in the development of technocrats and to provide facilities for educating and training men and women to meet the entrepreneurial and management needs. The TamilNadu Government has created adequate infrastructural facilities and sufficient funds and is keen on developing the institute for higher education.The college has been approved by the AICTE and the college intake is purely based on merit.


Controversial counsellor Reverend George Lutterodt says gospel musician, Brother Sammy should have slapped musician Cecilia Marfo back during her deliverance session at a praise concert in Kumasi.
Renowned gospel musician who doubles as a Prophetess of God, Cecilia Marfo, held a praise concert last year at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi.
In the course of the event, Cecilia Marfo called her fellow gospel musician, Brother Sammy onto the stage, took off his necklace and warned him to desist from acts that are ungodly so that God can use him greatly.
Cecilia Marfo also held a powerful deliverance session for the gospel musician but Brother Sammy allegedly received slaps during the deliverance from the Prophetess of Osorifie Prayer Centre.
Reacting to this on Adom FM's Entertainment Hall with host Mike 2, Counsellor Lutterodt said he cannot fathom why some gospel musicians would carry themselves as men of God to to give prophecies.
Mr. Lutterodt says gospel musicians should stay in their lane of writing and producing songs and not hijacking the duty of pastors.


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Q: Keyboard backlight keeps going on in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS I have just installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on my Dell Latitude E6540 and my keyboard backlight is keeps going on after some time even after I switch them off using the shortcut keys (Fn+->).
Thanks in advance for any help.

A: I found fix in one of comments on launchpad bugtracker
Step 1: change system option
Edit file
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.UPower.conf
change:
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.UPower"
       send_interface="org.freedesktop.UPower.KbdBacklight"/>

to:
<deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.UPower"
       send_interface="org.freedesktop.UPower.KbdBacklight"/>

Step 2: execute command with system startup
add folowing lines to the file /etc/rc.local
#!/bin/sh -e
# Mask kernel module
sudo systemctl mask systemd-backlight@leds\:dell\:\:kbd_backlight.service
exit 0

It is really works.
Keyboard backligt works too, but not automatically, by pressing Fn-keys only.

A: Another thing on Dell laptops (including my XPS 15, 9550) is that the backlight dims and goes off after 10 seconds idling.
There is a command that worked for me (Linux Mint 18 on a 9550, kernel 4.8) that allowed me choose the timeout :
sudo bash -c 'echo "60s" > /sys/class/leds/dell\:\:kbd_backlight/stop_timeout'

This is for a 60s timeout, which is sufficiant in my case.
Of course, you can put anything here, like 3600s for an entire hour, which can comfortably relate to « stay on ».

A: echo 2 | sudo tee /sys/devices/platform/dell-laptop/leds/dell\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness

Worked for me I have a new 2in1 Inspiron 7568.

A: Just purchased a 2016 Dell XPS13-9350. Wiped off Windows 10, with immense joy by the way, and installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and the Cinnamon desktop. This is a sweet laptop combo.
The default setting is to dim the keyboard back light after 10 seconds of no key press. This was driving me absolutely crazy because I fly a lot and want the back light to stay on longer.
The file /sys/devices/platform/dell-laptop/leds/dell\:\:kbd_backlight/stop_timeout contains the back light timeout value.
Answer 3 (above) did not work for me because the echo command did not work, even as root. Instead I did the following:
sudo nano /sys/devices/platform/dell-laptop/leds/dell\:\:kbd_backlight/stop_timeout

change the 10s on line-1 to 300s (Without quotes). This will change the timeout to 5 minutes. Change it to whatever you wish.
Save the file (Ctrl-O, Enter, Ctrl-X).
Hope this helps someone as frustrated with this as I was.

A: I used to have my Dell Vostro 3560 keyboard-backlight constantly turned on after reboot, even if I had it turned off.
The fix was in /etc/UPower/UPower.conf. I changed IgnoreLid=false to IgnoreLid=true.
That helped.

A: I have run into this problem on Ubuntu 22.04.1 with Mate.

*

*Pressing <Fn>+<Space> is not permanent because Mate overrides the backlight setting when the screen is unlocked.

*Tweaking systemd does not help.

Solution
I have solved the problem by doing the following:

*

*Run gsettings list-recursively | grep --color kbd to find relevant settings. In the output, you will find these rows:

org.mate.power-manager kbd-backlight-battery-reduce true
org.mate.power-manager kbd-brightness-dim-by-on-battery 50
org.mate.power-manager kbd-brightness-dim-by-on-idle 75
org.mate.power-manager kbd-brightness-on-ac 100

*Change kbd-brightness-on-ac to 0 and kbd-backlight-battery-reduce to false by running:

gsettings set org.mate.power-manager kbd-brightness-on-ac 0
gsettings set org.mate.power-manager kbd-backlight-battery-reduce false

Now the keyboard backlight will stay off when you unlock the screen.

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French fishermen threaten to block Channel Tunnel over European fish rights
French fishermen have threatened to block access to the Channel Tunnel and popular ports if the European Union allows more non-EU vessels to fish in French waters.
"If we don't get our fishing rights, there will be a blockade," said collective representative Alain Cailleur at the weekend protest, reported the Telegraph. "We are preparing the ports of Calais, Dunkirk and Nice in case we do have to block the access."
French President François Hollande has agreed to discuss the fishermen's fears over the exclusion of European vessels from French waters, reported the Wall Street Journal.
Efforts to regulate the EU's common fishing zone along its frontier between Europe and North Africa, which stretch from the Horn of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea, have been the source of many tension between fishing and farming communities.
In March, France agreed to allow 28 European vessels to fish in its waters. Twelve of the vessels from Greenland and Iceland – which do not have fish quotas – were allowed to fish up to 40 miles from the coast of France. The rest were banned from fishing in French waters, but were allowed access to foreign waters adjacent to the coast.
Since then, the fishermen have launched a series of protests in Brittany, Hauts-de-France and Cherbourg demanding that EU fishing vessels be banned from their waters entirely, reported AP.
Manuel Valls, France's premier, said last month that last year's migration crisis had "woken up this country" and that greater control was needed over fishing around the French coast.
The union president of Dungeness Fish Market near Folkestone, in Kent, said it is already difficult to source European fish, reported the Local.
"It is a challenge to ensure our customers have access to the type of fish they want and need, because all the European markets are very selective," Greg Anderson told the paper.
"We are having to go to Asia and the Far East, which are very insular when it comes to buying fish, to supply our customers. That's the challenge that we face, because otherwise we would be inundated with European fish."
Anger has also been directed at the EU for allowing people to travel from one country to another without checks.
Last week, France and Belgium blocked 17 migrants on a yacht from reaching the French coast after they overstayed their visas. The boat's crew was intercepted by the coast guard after its signal was heard, with two young Bangladeshi migrants from an earlier vessel found on board.
Seafood industries across Europe say they are suffering after more than 40,000 migrants have landed in northern France in the past year.
In the most prominent example, 10 migrants died after clinging to a passing boat off the coast of northern France in October 2015.
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It's the big one on Sunday, the bitter clash with Manchester United, the perch thieves. This game needs no introduction really but I'm going to give you one anyway in this match preview. Sunday's fixture is made even more special as the great Bill Shankly would have been 100 years old this Monday. It's said too often but they seriously don't make managers like him anymore or even men for that matter, he truly was and always will be a legend at Liverpool Football Club and here's hoping the Reds can pull a massive win out the bag for his memory this weekend.
Injuries for Liverpool mean they are without Coates, Allen and new signing Cissokho. There is also a massive doubt hanging over Kolo Toure though being the machine he is don't be surprised if he starts! Suarez again is obviously also missing. For United they are unable to call upon Rafael, Hernandez and Nani, some key names especially for a fixture like this.


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Q: Is it possible to ping/check if website exists and works? Well i guess title says pretty much everything, i want to generate random website adress, but i need to check if that website exists as well. So is there a way on android/java?

A: You can check the response code like this:
URL url = new URL("Your URL");
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
connection.connect();
int responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();

if (responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
// if Website is ok this wil be called
}

A: Look at InetAddress package, there are plenty different ways to achieve this.
private boolean exists(String host){
   try{

    InetAddress.getByName(host);
    return true;
   }catch(UnknowHostException e){
     return false;
   }
}


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In Defense of Disappointment: Gomez's A New Tide isn't all bad
by Ted Scheinman April 9th, 2009 October 14th, 2020
I recently came under fire for being too cruel to the new Gomez record. Specifically, I came under fire from City Lights editor Mike Riggs, who called me a "harsh motherfucker" and who really, really enjoys the song "Little Pieces," which (he tells me) ran as intro/outro music to yet another episode of Grey's Anatomy two weeks ago.
While I can't explicitly tool on Riggs for watching Grey's Anatomy, I can at least clarify my review. What made past albums from the Southport, U.K.-based indie-rollers special was the very personal glee that came through in even their higher-fi tunes. It always sounded as though they were gathered in some Big Pink-like hideaway, strumming mismatched patterns on a beat-up acoustic, allowing their dealer to sit in on bongos, &c. Their more produced material maintained that glee, got occasionally ethereal in a way that sideswiped Coldplay, and, for all its jangling and twangling, never lapsed into vapid Americana. Take a track from the first record—"Get Myself Arrested," a little ditty about rock stardom and fast cardom:
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As album piled on top of album, experimentation subbed in more and more for real innovation, but the bells and whistles were never really an issue as long as the songs were there. That and the wisdom not to take themselves too seriously.
Yet here we are with the overweening A New Tide, a record that suffers not mainly from lame songwriting but from hollow emotionality, a sense of self-importance, and a lack of fun. All of which is, you know, their prerogative, and the music's intermittent posturing doesn't keep more than half of the tracks from being totally listenable. I'd rather listen to latter-day Gomez than to the average indie-pop record, and when in doubt, I tune out the lyrics and just dig the layers. (Overproduction has its perks.)
Whatever. On A New Tide, stick to the choice cuts: "Other Plans" (CSN parrotry), "If You Ask Nicely" (elegant pop-shimmy), "Airstream Driver" (diaphanous chug-a-lug), and def. "Sunset Gates" (general yearning). Good tracks, all.


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Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle ( - ) est un neurophysiologiste américain et professeur émérite de neurosciences à l'Université Johns-Hopkins. Il découvre et caractérise l'organisation en colonnes du cortex cérébral dans les années 1950. Cette découverte est un tournant dans les recherches sur le cortex cérébral, car presque toutes les études corticales de la fonction sensorielle après l'article de Mountcastle de 1957 sur le cortex somatosensoriel, utilisent l'organisation en colonnes comme base.

Jeunesse et éducation
Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle est né le 15 juillet 1918 à Shelbyville, dans le Kentucky, troisième des cinq enfants d'une famille « d'agriculteurs, d'entrepreneurs industriels ou de constructeurs de chemins de fer ». En 1921, sa famille déménage à Roanoke, en Virginie où il va à l'école primaire et secondaire et est « un Boy Scout enthousiaste ». Parce que sa mère, une ancienne enseignante, lui a appris à lire et à écrire quand il avait 4 ans, il avance immédiatement de deux classes lors de son entrée dans le système scolaire public et obtient son diplôme d'études secondaires à l'âge de 16 ans. Il entre au Roanoke College de Salem, en Virginie en 1935, au milieu de la Grande Dépression, où il se spécialise en chimie et termine en trois ans. Pendant son séjour à Roanoke, il joue au tennis et est membre de la Fraternité Sigma Chi. En 1938, il commence l'école de médecine à l'Université Johns-Hopkins où ses professeurs sont William Mansfield Clark, Philip Bard, Adolf Meyer, , Maxwell Wintrobe et Warfield Longcope. Au cours de ses études, Mountcastle prévoit de devenir chirurgien et n'a jamais effectué d'expériences avant son retour de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il rejoint le Programme de formation V-12 Navy College pour les étudiants en médecine en janvier 1942, ce qui lui permet de terminer ses études de médecine et son stage et reçoit finalement l'ordre de se présenter à la base d'opérations navales de Norfolk, en Virginie en juin 1943. Tout au long de l'automne 1943 et la majeure partie de 1944, il est stationné en Afrique et en Europe et sert sur quatre LST lors des débarquements d'Anzio et de Normandie . Comme il n'a pas reçu suffisamment de points pour être renvoyé de la marine à la fin de la guerre, il doit servir pendant un an de plus, qu'il passe à l'hôpital naval de Norfolk et sert brièvement sur l'USS Cadmus. Il est démobilisé de la Marine juste avant le départ du Cadmus pour un service océanique prolongé.

Recherches et carrière
L'intérêt de Mountcastle pour la cognition, en particulier la perception, l'amène à guider son laboratoire vers des études qui relient la perception et les réponses neuronales dans les années 1960. Bien qu'il y ait plusieurs travaux notables de son laboratoire, le premier article le plus médiatisé parait en 1968, une étude expliquant la base neurale du Flutter et de la vibration par l'action des mécanorécepteurs périphériques.

En 1978, Mountcastle expose que toutes les parties du néocortex fonctionnent selon un principe commun, la colonne corticale étant l'unité de calcul.

La participation de Mountcastle aux études sur le codage neuronal unitaire évolue grâce à sa direction dans les Bard Laboratories of Neurophysiology de la Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, qui pendant de nombreuses années, est le seul institut au monde consacré à ce sous-domaine. Son travail se poursuit au Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. Mountcastle est décédé à Baltimore à l'âge de 96 ans en janvier 2015.

Mountcastle est élu à l'Académie nationale des sciences en 1966. En 1978, il reçoit le Prix Louisa-Gross-Horwitz de l'Université Columbia avec David Hunter Hubel et Torsten Wiesel, qui reçoivent tous deux le prix Nobel de médecine en 1981. En 1980, il reçoit le prix Ralph W. Gerard en neurosciences. En 1981, Mountcastle devient membre fondateur du Conseil culturel mondial. En 1983, il reçoit le Prix Albert-Lasker pour la recherche médicale fondamentale. En 1984, Mountcastle reçoit le Golden Plate Award de l'American Academy of Achievement. Il reçoit également la National Medal of Science des États-Unis en 1986. En 1998, Mountcastle reçoit le prix NAS en neurosciences de l'Académie nationale des sciences.

David Hunter Hubel, dans son discours d'acceptation du prix Nobel, déclare que « la découverte par Mountcastle des colonnes dans le cortex somatosensoriel est sûrement la contribution la plus importante à la compréhension du cortex cérébral depuis Ramón y Cajal ».

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Alabama issues a disturbing PSA
A state's Homeland Security releases a short film on how to survive a mass shooting -- with a dramatic reenactment
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2013/01/04/alabama_issues_a_disturbing_psa/
January 5, 2013 12:53AM (UTC)
It's the strangest low-budget action movie in ages. Ominous music cues that it's not "just another day at the office" -- and then a sunglassed, well-armed psycho/Dwayne Johnson look-alike bursts in and starts shooting. The short film, titled "Run Hide Fight," a product of the Alabama Department of Homeland Security, is an instructional tool for how to cope in an "active shooter" situation. It's as awkward and stilted as any piece of industrial filmmaking or any workplace training video you've ever endured. Yet the subject matter – and the mere need for its existence at all – makes it a gut punch nonetheless.
To its credit, "Run Hide Fight" -- a $200,000 production made with public funds -- is a relatively common-sense how-to primer. It's not easy to make a movie about a scenario no one wants to envision. But in the aftermath of the December mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, it's been hard to think about much else. Since that December day, a number of theories on how to avoid future tragedies – or at best curtail the damage – have emerged. Many of them have been full-on bananas – from the NRA's suggestion we arm our schools to the National Review's roundtable that featured the brilliant hope of relying on "huskier 12-year-old boys."
In contrast, "Run Hide Fight," which specifically addresses violence in a workplace, takes the far more obviously logical tacks like "Always try and escape and evacuate" because "getting out of harm's way needs to be your number one priority." If that's not possible, it says, hide and "Do your best to remain quiet and calm" -- a strategy that very likely saved teacher Kaitlin Roig and her 15 students during the Sandy Hook massacre. Only if no other resource is available does the DHS advise "physical aggression."
Despite the horrific glut of recent tragedies, the odds of you or me ever being caught in the midst of a mass shooting are still, in the words of criminologist and mass murder expert Grant Duwe, "probably no greater than being struck by lightning." Yet, just as slender odds still don't mean you go standing under a tree holding a metal rod in a storm, they likewise don't mean it isn't useful to know some basic safety strategies. And if you need evidence that the DHS video is chillingly timely, note that the video has been quietly up on YouTube since November – weeks before the Newtown tragedy. Even more strikingly, "Run Hide Fight" was originally created for the city of Houston earlier last year. It was made before Aurora. It was made before Oak Creek.
In the aftermath of Sandy Hook, however, the Alabama DHS has decided to push its campaign harder, sharing the video and timing it to Gov. Robert Bentley's request for the state's DHS with an "incident response" plan for dealing with mass violence. State officials will meet next week with "legislators, law enforcement and education officials" to discuss safety strategies. The state is certainly no stranger to mass shootings -- in 2009, Michael Kenneth McLendon killed 10 people in a sprawling murder spree across Geneva County. And last summer, three people were shot to death in an incident outside a Houston County strip club.
The simplistic message of "Run Hide Fight" -- and its stilted, let's-beat-the-shooter-with-a-chair plot -- is that "sometimes bad people do bad things." It's self-evident and corny. But it's also accurate. Aurora and Oak Creek and Sandy Hook were the most recent examples of that truth, and they won't be the last. So here's your instructional guide to what to do the next time a maniac opens fire. Welcome to America's new normal.
Mary Elizabeth Williams is a staff writer for Salon and the author of "A Series of Catastrophes & Miracles."
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Q: Memory leak with Web Worker / Canvas Fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/eimmot/065wxa9o/9/
Using Chrome, launch Task Manager (Shift+ESC), click the worker invert button a few times, each time it goes up ~10 MB. Anytime I receive a message back from the worker the memory goes up, it's not from modifying or accessing the canvas, it happens when the worker sends the message back to the main thread. It gets worse the larger the message is.
Adding the ImageData buffer to the optional transferables list on postMessage doesn't make a difference, same result, I'm wondering if there's another way I should approach this.
  imageData = ctx.getImageData(0, 0, 800, 600);
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Still doesn't matter if the main thread and/or worker thread is transferring ownership. I can see in the console that the imageData object actually transfers ownership, but the memory still increases! I've tried memory profiling with chrome dev tools but I can't see where the increase is at.
Forcing GC in dev tools clears the memory. Sometimes GC runs automatically, sometimes it doesn't, when it does, it only releases like 10% of what's been allocated.
I've read a lot of pages last night but they all say the same thing and I feel like I am overlooking something simple.
Transferable objects: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers_API/Using_web_workers#Passing_data_by_transferring_ownership_(transferable_objects)
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Chrome Version 48.0.2564.116 beta-m (64-bit)
Fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/eimmot/065wxa9o/13/
Added a loop option, seems like the only way to release the memory is to terminate the thread, I wanted to avoid creating new threads each time though and just keep one open because there is a noticeable delay when creating a new one each time

A: You dont have a memory leak. This is just normal GC behaviour and there is not much you can do to stop the seemingly excessive memory use.
I had a play with your fiddle changing the code so that the worker.onmessage function immediately called startWork, effectively putting it in a loop, send the data, receive the inverted data set, put it on the canvas, then call startWork again and let it go while I had a coffee. It ran just fine.
Watching processes on chrome  49.0.2623.47 beta-m the memory useage peeked at about 110mb but never runs out of memory. Both Heap allocations and Timeline show normal behaviour and no leaks. Chrome has made some changes to GC so that it defers its actions in favour of the DOM and Javascript which may, if you are not used to it, look like memory usage has gone up, It is nothing to worry about. All that matters is that when you need memory it is available. GC will clean up if critical low memory, and it is better to have some dead memory rather than block the DOM or Javascript when they are busy, just to dump some unneeded memory.

A: I've found a solution that works for me in Chrome. I made two major modifications to the looping version of your fiddle:

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*pass around the typed array, imageData.data, instead of the entire imageData object

Here's the modified fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/065wxa9o/14/
Note that just adding the buffer to the worker's transfer list doesn't work (https://jsfiddle.net/065wxa9o/15/) I have to transfer just the typed array.
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One day, the Dog tells the Boy, apparently out of nowhere, that dragons love tacos. At this point, the two of them are in the Boy's room where you can see that the only toys are dragon toys. Then nothing happens for about seven pages. The Boy is told that dragons don't love spicy salsa. They love tacos, they love parties but no spicy tacos or spicy salsa. The Boy is advised to bury the hot salsa in the backyard before he invites the dragons for a party. And we see that he does just that. But as the dragons arrive the dog and the boy discover that they didn't read the fine print on one can of salsa. It says that it has spicy jalapeno peppers. But now is too late. The dragons are already eating it. You cannot imagine the disaster that followed. Because they ate spicy salsa, every single dragon was blowing huge flames all over the room and, before long, the whole house burned to ashes, and all you could see were few walls still standing surrounding the dragons and the boy. A total catastrophe. But, all is not lost. The dragons, in spite of the maltreatment, help the boy rebuild his house. Even so, on the back cover we are reminded that "the way to a dragon's heart is always through his stomach".
So, in the last two pages, things are starting to make sense. OK, I say this book is about paying attention to details before something terrible happens. This story is a great way to explain your kid why they should be careful when they let dragons eat salsa. Somebody may be allergic to jalapeno pepper!
Illustration: Clean lines and mild colors, along with caricature drawing style makes the illustration easy to follow and understand. The big, bold faces are distinct and often time surprising. The characters have huge faces and bodies, small and skinny limbs, bulbous eyes, sometimes bulging out of the drawing, other times the eyes aren't even attached to their faces. Tacos are pouring out of every page, making me want to have one right now. Artwork was made with watercolor gouache and colored pencil.
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Jesper Levi Hemmingsen joined NNE in 2015 as process automation engineer, but quickly advanced to senior engineer. Coming from a job in a waste management company, the pharma engineering industry was a whole new world for Jesper. But he hasn't regretted for a second that he made the switch. Read on to find out why.
What is it like to be a process automation engineer within pharma?
In the world of pharma, you spend a lot of time documenting what you do. Thus, if you are to thrive in this industry, you have to enjoy structure and that things are controlled. Coming from an industry with little or no control that was a huge change for me – but a welcome one. In pharma, everything is documented and all changes are registered which means that there is much less uncertainty. You don't have to start over when you need to update a piece of equipment, for instance, because you have documentation for how it works and why.
I really enjoy working in a project-driven environment. It offers a lot of variety and while the projects might be fundamentally the same, the details in each project can be widely different. Having a deadline really motivates me to perform better. It is hard work in those peak periods with short deadlines, but as long as you can see the finish line, it's also the most exciting periods.
The most challenging part of my job – and also the most fun part – is that you have to work out complex solutions that require insight into all disciplines. It's not enough that I know a lot about automation. I need to understand mechanical, process and electrical as well in order to solve the issue and reach a holistic solution.
I have taken some of the internal courses that NNE offers in order to build knowledge within for instance closed processes and API production and get that cross-disciplinary understanding.
As a lead engineer, you are involved in planning the different phases of the project in terms of time and resources. In connection with shutdown projects, for instance, which typically have a short deadline, I am responsible for planning how we solve the different challenges and ultimately meet the deadline. It requires a lot of coordination skills and insight into the different disciplines. You are kind of a "light version" of a project manager, you can say.
As such, it's a great stepping stone for becoming a project manager. But I could also choose to become a specialist and take more of a consultative role. Right now, I am really happy about the lead role, where I am close to where the action is. I think it's really fun and interesting to find out how a specific piece of equipment works – and if it doesn't, figuring out why that is.
I was part of a project that included installing a new utensil washer. When we tested it, it didn't work optimally. So, we initiated a cross-disciplinary troubleshooting process, investigating potential issues from an automation perspective, a mechanical perspective and so on. When we finally found and solved the problem, it was a fantastic moment.
One of the great things about working at NNE, is that everyone who works, does so because it's fun and NOT just to put food on the table. It's clear that everyone thrives in this sometimes hectic environment.
As Automation Specialist, Søren Bredkjær Fransen works with a multitude of disciplines to deliver plant-wide process automation solutions.


Coordinate the effective assessment, documentation, escalation and completion of all medical device complaints registered by the customer support call center. This position requires technical capability and the ability to effectively communicate the results of an investigative analysis through written reports in the designated complaint management system.
Review entries created in the customer relationship management software for medical device complaints.
Investigate potential issues via interviews and document review.
Operate in a regulated medical device environment in accordance with 21 CFR 820 and ISO 13485.
Review Device History Files, Device Master Records and Device History Records for released products.
Contribute to formal change control process.
Assist with all CAPA activities.
Assist with ISO 14971 compliant risk activities including Risk Management File documentation.
Minimum Associates Degree in technical field. Bachelor's Degree in related technical field preferred or equivalent.
2-4 years of experience in medical device industry preferred.
Ability to interfaces with all departments in the organization in matters related to quality system compliance and functional performance of product.
Takes direction from departmental management.
Effective and professional communication skills; Internal (engineering, operations, management) and external (customers, auditors and suppliers) required.
Ability to multi-task, perform job function with minimal supervision and demonstrate resiliency and high productivity in a fast-paced environment.
Familiarity with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) or Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software a plus.


Visiting colleges you are considering is a very important part of the college search process. For most of your life, what school you attended was not a big decision. Most students attended the closest public school. Other students went to private school, but even then, there were not many choices. However, college is different. There are thousands of possibilities, and for many, the first time they will be paying for their education.
The best way to make sure if a college is a good fit is to visit the campus. The pictures and descriptions in viewbooks and websites are beautiful, but they cannot tell you how you will feel on campus. The people of the campus also play a role in the personality of the college and this does not always come through in printed material. Therefore, it is important to visit to get the full feeling of a college.
Drive by or drive through visits. When in the neighborhood or on vacation in the area, many student choose to drive in or through the campus. Driving through campus will allow visitors to see the campus, buildings, and the surrounding area. Visitors may even been able to see some of the students. However, the drive through visit is somewhat similar to seeing the pictures in the viewbooks. They are only pictures and do not tell the whole story about the college. If possible, students should try some of the more thought out visits like the ones described below. If the visit is unexpected and unplanned, try to at least get out of the car, walk around campus, and possibly talk to the students. It may even be worth visiting the admissions office where they may be able to share some information and possibly add you to a guided tour of campus.
"Individual" college visit. This is the type of visit students can schedule during the week and sometimes on weekends. This visit typically includes an information session about the institution and the admissions process, as well as a guided tour of campus. The number of visitors who participate in these events will vary depending on the college. Well-known colleges may have large groups, while smaller colleges could offer truly "individual" visits. While the information session and tour is somewhat scripted, everything else students see and experience on campus will be a real portrayal of the institution. A downside of individual visits is that students may not be able to see or meet everyone they want while on campus. For example, if a student want to meet a specific professor, it may not be possible because it is a regular day on campus and the professor may be teaching all day. Luckily, when students give admissions offices a lot of notice (at least two weeks, but preferably much more), they may be able to organize everything the student is looking to do while on campus.
Open houses. Many colleges open their campuses to prospective students and their families every year. These events are usually huge orchestrated events that roll out the red carpet for perspective students. The goal behind these events is to impress students and encourage them to apply and/or enroll at the institution. Usually the entire campus is involved in these types of events, so students typically can meet anyone or see anything they want while on campus. Students may not be able to sit in on regular classes, but there will probably be multiple information sessions available to learn about many different aspects of the college, such as clubs, housing, and study abroad. A great thing about open houses is that many of the institutions incorporate current students into the event. Current students are very important for prospective students when researching colleges. Current students can give great information about what it is like to be a student on campus. In addition, open houses allow participants to meet other prospective students and potential future classmates.
Overnight visit. Spending the night on campus usually happens in conjunction with one of the other visits. Students just add on a night in the residence halls so that they can live the life of a student. College is more than just about the classroom. It is also about everything that happens outside the classroom, including at night when classes are not in session. Spending the night on campus gives students extra time on campus to attend campus events, attend a club meeting, or spend more time with current students who can share about their experiences. Plus, spending the night in the residence hall will show students what it is like to live away from home.
Virtual tours. This type of tour lets students see and experience the campus without leaving home. Virtual tours are in the same category as all of the fliers and pamphlets you will receive from the college. They are marketing pieces and the goal is to attract prospective students to the college. They will typically only show off the best of the institution. If the student cannot physically visit the campus before applying, the virtual tour will give students a good idea about the institution. In addition to showing moving pictures of the campus, they typically also introduce the audience to individuals associated with the campus. While everything in the virtual tour is scripted, it will show the audience some of the personality of the college and what the college values.
No matter how you visit, it is important that you do some sort of visit before making the final decision. College is at least four years of your life and will help you get to the next stage in life, such as a job or graduate school. With so many options, it is important to make sure the college feels right so that you enjoy your experience while getting a great education.


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Aug. 3 COVID-19 cases per county; search by ZIP code
Updated 8/3/2020 5:19 PM
Suburbs' portion Since the outbreak began, there have been 89,802 cases in the suburbs as of Monday. That's 49% of the state's total, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.
There have been 3,809 deaths in the suburbs, representing 50.6% of all deaths in Illinois.
Cook County• As of Monday, suburban Cook County had 45,305 cases and 2,108 deaths, according to the state. In Chicago: 61,942 cases and 2,789 fatalities.
• Top suburb counts from the county health department and medical examiner's office: 1,957 cases and 103 deaths in Des Plaines, 929 cases and 63 deaths in Wheeling, 896 cases and 19 deaths in Palatine, 766 cases and 23 deaths in Streamwood, 763 cases and 10 deaths in Mount Prospect, 745 cases and 19 deaths in Schaumburg, 706 cases and 34 deaths in Arlington Heights, 724 cases and 50 deaths in Glenview, 567 cases and 10 deaths in Hanover Park (Cook County portion), 606 cases and 29 deaths in Hoffman Estates, 426 cases and 13 deaths in Rolling Meadows, 419 cases and 42 deaths in Northbrook, 414 cases and 39 deaths in Elk Grove Village, 301 cases and 8 deaths in Prospect Heights, and 147 cases and 19 deaths in Buffalo Grove (Cook County portion).
DuPage County• The county reported 11,514 cases and 510 deaths as of Monday.
• Top counts: 938 cases and 9 deaths in Addison, 883 cases and 12 deaths in West Chicago, 766 cases and 12 deaths in Glendale Heights, 711 cases and 36 deaths in Naperville (DuPage County portion), 641 cases and 29 deaths in Carol Stream, 600 cases and 12 deaths in Bensenville, 554 cases and 26 deaths in Lombard, 528 cases and 41 deaths in Elmhurst, 461 cases and 11 deaths in Aurora (DuPage County portion), 414 cases and 22 deaths in Wheaton, 314 cases and 3 deaths in Glen Ellyn, 313 cases and 5 deaths in Villa Park, 297 cases and 3 deaths in Hanover Park (DuPage County portion).
Lake County • The county listed 12,101 cases and 427 deaths on its website Monday.
• Top counts as of Friday: 3,035 to 3,039 in Waukegan, 700 to 704 in Round Lake Beach, 450 to 454 in Mundelein, 380 to 384 in Gurnee, 310 to 314 in Round Lake, 225 to 229 in Buffalo Grove (Lake County portion), 240 to 244 in Lake Zurich, 215 to 219 in Vernon Hills, 185 to 189 in Wauconda, 180 to 184 in Libertyville, 155 to 159 in Grayslake.
Kane County• The county confirmed 9,330 cases with 299 deaths on its website Monday.
• Top counts: 3,782 cases in Aurora (Kane County portion), 2,183 in Elgin (Kane County portion), 862 in Carpentersville, 495 in St. Charles, 405 in South Elgin, 268 in Geneva, 260 in North Aurora, 213 in Batavia, and 73 in Algonquin (Kane County portion).
McHenry County• 2,968 cases and 113 deaths, according to the health department Monday.
Will County• 8,650 cases and 339 deaths, as of Monday.
• Cases per town include 592 in Naperville (Will County portion) and 107 in Aurora (Will County portion).
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