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I, Mona Lisa: A Novel by Jeanne Kalogridis: A Book Review
I, Mona Lisa: A Novel
Author: Jeanne Kalogridis
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Synopsis: "My name is Lisa di Antonio Gherardini Giocondo, though to acquaintances, I am known simply as Madonna Lisa. My story begins not with my birth but a murder, committed the year before I was born."
Florence, April 1478: The handsome Giuliano de' Medici is brutally assassinated in Florence's magnificent Duomo. The shock of the murder ripples throughout the great city, from the most renowned artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, to a wealthy wool merchant and his extraordinarily beautiful daughter, Madonna Lisa.
More than a decade later, Florence falls under the dark spell of the preacher Savonarola, a fanatic who burns paintings and books as easily as he sends men to their deaths. Lisa, now grown into an alluring woman, captures the heart of Giuliano's nephew and namesake. But when Guiliano, her love, meets a tragic end, Lisa must gather all her courage and cunning to untangle a sinister web of illicit love, treachery, and dangerous secrets that threatens her life.
Set against the drama of 15th Century Florence, I, Mona Lisa is painted in many layers of fact and fiction, with each intricately drawn twist told through the captivating voice of Mona Lisa herself.
My Review: Mona Lisa is one of Leonardo's da Vinci's most famous portraits. Her smile has captured the hearts of millions for centuries. Yet, it seems that the woman in the painting is more mysterious than her smile. It is because we do not know much about the life of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous model. We know that she was an aristocrat, and that she married a silk merchant. However, Jeanne Kalogridis re-imagines the life of the model of Mona Lisa, and her story into a tale of mystery, thrills, and suspense.
The story begins with the a murder of the brother of Lorenzo de Medici in Florence Duomo. This murder has a lasting stain on Florence, especially the Medici family and who vows vengeance on those against the murderers. The story then shifts to Lisa Gherardini's story, and it is she who narrates the story. She falls in love with the son of Lorenzo de' Medici and forms a friendship with Leonardo da Vinci, who is interested in painting her. It seems as if she is living in a fairytale. Her happiness is short-lived when she finds out that there is a plot to get rid of the Medici family.
The setting of Florence is very grim. It is a city that has violence, conspiracies, and murders. The most influential man in Florence, besides the Medici family, is the fanatic priest Savonarola. He is against the Renaissance movement, and views it as an abomination to God. In fact, most of his scenes occur at night which enhances the dark atmosphere of Florence.
Overall, this book is filled with danger, suspense, mystery, romance, friendship,and suspense. The plot is filled with twists and turns till the very end. It is a book that that cannot be put down until the very end. The characters are realistic, relatable, and well-developed. Lisa Gherardini is a smart, brave, and strong heroine. The friendship between Lisa and her painter, Leonardo da Vinci, is kind and sweet. He treats her as her mentor, and he is very knowledgable about the conspiracies in Florence. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in Leonardo and his Mona Lisa. I also recommend this to anyone who is looking for a good thriller and suspense novel.
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Since information marketing is what I do for a living, I always have my eyes open for things I can share with you. MANY times I've been driving in the car and heard something on the radio. I've said to myself: "I've got to share that idea with people." By the time I got to where I was going I could not, for the life of me, remember what it is that I promised myself I would remember.
All of our human hard drives are approaching capacity. There is very little drive space left to store information. No matter how hard to TRY to remember things, much of it will slip through the cracks in your mind. Sad but true.
I do NOT suggest you try taking notes while driving. I've tried it and it can make for some very interesting hand gestures when people SCREAM by you as you're writing. I was surprised as one guy recently went by me indicating that he felt I was NUMBER ONE. Or at least that's what his hand gesture SEEMED to indicate.
I do it two ways. If I'm at my computer, which is MOST of the time I'm at home. I have a note file open where I put every good idea I come up with. Selling info products demands that a good portion of every day is spent in front of the computer. I will dump EVERY idea that comes into my mind into a text file on my mac.
I do NO screening at that point. It doesn't matter whether or not it's a brilliant idea. I can sort that out later. For now, all I want to do is get the idea on paper so I have NO chance of forgetting it.
Selling information products has a lot of different facets. There is a LOT that I can use. So, I write everything down. YOU should as well. You can always discard anything you don't find useful later. For now, write it down.
What about in the car?
Get yourself a cheap digital recorder to always have handy. If you're an Iphone customer, there are now a number of apps which turn your phone into a simple digital recording device. That way you can capture those great ideas when driving without getting people really annoyed.
Don't let those great ideas get away. Capture them any way you can. On land, on sea and in the air.


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Антон Сергеевич Пономарёв () — российский хоккеист, защитник. Является воспитанником пермской хоккейной школы. 7 сезонов выступал в Суперлиге России за пермский Молот-Прикамье. В настоящее время работает тренером команды «Айсберг 2008-2009» (г. Когалым, Тюменская область)

Биография
Антон Сергеевич Пономарёв родился 23 октября 1984 года в городе Перми Пермской области, ныне город — административный центр Пермского края.

Является воспитанником пермской хоккейной школы. Первый свой матч сыграл за хоккейный клуб «Молот-Прикамье» (Пермь) где в итоге провёл 7 сезонов, вместе с командой играл и в Суперлиге и в Высшей. Впоследствии перешёл в хоккейный клуб «Нефтяник» (Лениногорск) в котором выходил на лёд в 13 играх. Играл за ХК «Энергия» (Кемерово) — 26 матчей. Помаленьку играл в ХК «Динамо-Энергия» (Екатеринбург), «Капитан» (Ступино) и в ХК «Дизель» (Пенза). Играл в Белоруссии за ХК «Металлург» (Жлобин). С 2010 по 2012 года является защитником хоккейного клуба «Зауралье» (Курган). Неполный сезон 2012/2013 повёл в казахском клубе «Алматы», перейдя в середине сезона в другой казахский клуб — «Астана».

До 20 октября 2014 года играл в команде Алтай.

Завершив игровую карьеру, в 2017 году стал тренером команды «Айсберг 2008» (город Когалым, Ханты-Мансийский автономный округ — Югра).

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Хоккеисты России
Игроки ХК «Молот-Прикамье»
Игроки ХК «Нефтяник» Лениногорск
Игроки ХК «Энергия» Кемерово
Игроки ХК «Динамо-Энергия»
Игроки ХК «Капитан»
Игроки ХК «Всетин»
Игроки ХК «Дизель»
Игроки ХК «Металлург» Жлобин
Игроки ХК «Зауралье»
Игроки ХК «Алматы»
Игроки ХК «Астана»
Игроки ХК «Ямальские стерхи»
Игроки ХК «Динамо-Алтай»
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The team at Kozmo Sound Innovations, led by CEO Kozmo has re-engineered its audio production department and retooled its sonic output for mass consumption.
Meet the latest sound design straight from the head scientists tasked with fusing cutting-edge bass production with forward-thinking, avant garde structure. Epiphany, slated for a release this month, is poised to quadruple earnings and please the stockholders at KSI. The lead offer, title track "Epiphany," will ramp up revenue and decrease overhead (mainly due to levitating listeners closer to the ceiling).
By integrating the artistry of one Jay Sween, the team at Kozmo Sound Innovations has ensured that productivity will increase 500% in the ogling over art department.
Bass a la Mode will be the delivery device for this new Kozmo-branded confection. Tracking the fashion-forward sounds and bass-influenced modernity quotients, KSI is splitting its stock and doubling down on this new venture.
Pre-order the EP, Epiphany, now, before Wall Street finds out.


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The talk will have two parts. In the first, we will give a bird eye's overview of some of Google's latest accomplishments in Machine Perception. Then, we will focus on the Israeli group, and discuss the relation between audio and video.
Professor Avinatan Hassidim is a Talpiot Alumni, with over 15 years of research experience. After graduating from the Hebrew university and a postdoc at MIT he joined the faculty of Bar Ilan University, where his works were used to design the Israeli medical internship lottery, and the Israeli matching system for admittance to psychology. He now leads Google Research in Israel.
Avinatan received numerous prizes, including the Israeli chief of staff award for excellent officer, winner of MIT 100K mobile track, runner up for best paper award in INFOCOM 2012 and 2013, and best paper award in SIGMETRICS 2011.


On our transfer day, going from Bologna to Parma, we stopped in to visit Giuseppe and Luisa, his wife of 41 years, making their daily batches of Parmesan Cheese. The milk had just been delivered, so as it heated to the right temperature Ben translated the description of how they make the cheese. They use an enzyme collected from the day before to start the process, and eventually the curds form. They are removed by using cheese cloth and put into molds. After two weeks in a brine solution they are put on shelves to age for two to four years. Real Parmesan cheese can only be made in this region of Parma, Italy.
Below is a short video I made of the process.


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By Niffer September 27, 2014 May 17, 2018 Japanese History, Visiting Japan
If you are a bit of a Japanese history fan there are a LOT of places in Japan you should go visit. Some of these might be obvious ones, and others probably not so much.
The following list is based on the most popular tourist destinations: Tokyo and Kyoto. I wish I could list all the amazing places in Japan based on historic events and people but I don't know them all. These are just the locations myself and friends visited on our last trip. If you know of any others please leave a comment so that other people might learn from your wisdom.
Sengakuji (Temple) – This is a small temple right next to Sengakuji Station. This is where the 47 Ronin were buried.
Zojoji (Temple) – Just down the road from Sengakuji and near Tokyo Tower, Zojoji is where 6 out of the 15 Tokugawa shoguns were buried. It's also famous for its large amount of Jizo statues, which people go to to pray for the souls of dead children.
Yasakuni Shrine – Famous for being controversial, this shrine is a really interesting to see because of it's history enshrining the souls of people who have died in battle. Some of these souls may have been convicted of war crimes (hence the controversy), but most people go to pray for their own ancestors who died in battle. It also has a war museum.
Meiji Jingu – This is a really interesting shrine, not only because of it's giant tori, interesting architecture, and giant sacred trees, but because it's the shrine of Emporer Meiji and Empress Shoken. They were enshrined here before WWII when, in Japan, the emperors of were still considered to be descendants of the goddess Amaterasu. After WWII the royal family denounced their god-hood and no more shrines were erected to worship them.
Edo Tokyo Museum – Great for a general history of Japan and Japanese life in the Edo period (1603-1868) and after into the Meiji and Showa (modern day) times.
Honno-ji – Honnō-ji is most famous for the Honno-ji Incident. Oda Nobunaga lodged there before his invasion of the west, but on the morning of June 21, 1582, Akechi Mitsuhide betrayed him, surrounded the temple and set it on fire. Knowing there was no way out for him, Nobunaga committed seppuku along with his attendant Mori Ranmaru.
Nijo Castle – A 20min walk from Honno-ji, Nijo Castle is the palace the Tokugawa shoguns lived in during their rule when Kyoto was the capital. It's the most beautiful castle I've seen in Japan with wonderful wall art and a nightingale floor that dates back to 1601 when Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered it be built.
Mibu-dera – Just south of Nijo Castle (another 20-30min walk) is Mibudera where some of the Shinsengumi are buried.
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1.1. Verification of 2012 reference year local component products and enrichment of Urban Atlas. The primary purpose of this task is to verify the 2012 reference year local component set of products, namely, Urban Atlas, Riparian Zones and Natura 2000.
The purpose of this task is to produce CLC for the 2018 reference year.
The purpose of this task is to undertake the task of post-production verification of the High Resolution Layers (HRL's) for the 2015 reference year.


When accessing El Campello through the N-332 road from Alicante, you find the first roundabout with a big gush of water which rises over nine meters. The water column, which gives its name to the roundabout, is surrounded by a four meters dome with more drives. Here we see the corporate logo and the name of the municipality of El Campello.
It is located in San Ramon Street at the junction with Pius XII Street. Sculpture by José Manuel García Cerveró (Jere) representing one of the most traditional and ancient fishing systems from our coastline, called rall. In the early twentieth century, people who lacked the means and / or boat to go fishing earned a living by the beach riversides with the rall in their hands. Jere wanted to pay in this sculpture homage to the rall fishermen of El Campello.
It is located on the N-332, at the junction with the road to Aigües (CV-775). It is a work by Toni Marí Sart. According to the author, this sculpture aims to show the sense of unity between the people and the sea. The man is mixed with marine life, represented through a snapper, a frigate tuna and a dolphinfish, all three of them characteristic fish of this sea area. It is a metaphor of life, where the sun, the iron from the earth and the seabed join together to demonstrate their coexistence in harmony and tradition.
Rotondas de la calle San Ramón.


In this project, we will show how you can display any character that is capable of being displayed on a 7 segment LED display.
All numeral characters can be displayed on a 7 segment display. In fact, in the article, How to Drive a 7 Segment LED Display with an Arduino, we programmed the circuit so that it displayed numerals 0-9 a second apart from each other.
In this project, we simply go over (again) how you can display any character (which can be displayed) on a 7 segment LED display.
To do this, let us first go over the internal makeup of a 7 segment LED display. The display is a device that is made up of 8 individual LEDs, including the decimal point at the bottom. Depending on which LED is lit decides what type of character will be shown.
As an example, look at the numbers shown below.
You can easily see which LEDs are lit decides the different numerals shown.
Using this device, we can display all numerals and many alphabetical characters and many more types of symbols. The 7 segment LED is really a versatile display device.
For this project, we will show how to create all the alphabetical characters which can be shown at a 7 segment LED dsiplay. This includes alphabet characters, A, b, C, c, d, E, F, H, h, L, l, O, o, P, S. These are pretty much the only characters of the alphabet which can be produced.
The output is produced by turning on combinations of segments that represent these various alphabetical characters.
The 270Ω resistors attach to the 8 digital output pins connected to the 8 segments of the LED display. They limit current going to the individual LEDs, so that they don't get burnt out from too much power.
To understand how this program works, let's first look at the schematic makeup of a 7 segment LED display.
The LED display, again, is made up of 8 individual LEDs, as shown above. The LEDs go in order of the alphabetical characters which you see. From first to last, the LEDs from 1-8 are a, b, c, d, e, f, g.
The decimal point would be the last pin.
To create an A, we would have to light LEDs, a,b,c,e,f,g. Thus to create it in code, it would be represented by B11101110.
The full list of all the alphabetical characters with their corresponding code we can display on the segment display is shown in the table below.
So now that you know how each numeral can be shown by deciding which LEDs to turn on, let's see how we will wire the 7 segment LED display to the arduino.
Before we can do that, we must know the pinout of the 7 segment LED display. In our circuit, we will use a common cathode LED display. This is a 7 segment LED display in which all grounds of the LEDs are tied together.
The pinout of the common cathode LED display is shown below.
These are the 2 pinout diagrams of the common cathode 7 segment LED display. Some have the pins on the sides (laterally). Others have the pins on the top and bottom. Thus, we show both pinout diagrams.
You will need this to know how to hook up the display to the arduino board.
Note- Even though many different types of 7 segment LED displays follow the above schematics, it is not guaranteed. The best way to know the connections is to obtain the datasheet for the LED display in use or to buzz it out by connecting power to each of the pins to see which lights up. If you don't get the connections right, the circuit will not produce the output of showing numerals 0-9. So it is very important to know which pins are which.
The schematic for the 7 segment LED display connected to the arduino is shown below.
The connections are fairly simple. We utilize 8 digital pins of the arduino and the ground terminal.
The written form of the above schematic is shown below for the pin connections.
Note that the common cathode terminals connect to the ground terminal of the arduino.
The first block of code creates a byte named alphabet which store all the code needed to create the numbers 0-9 on the LED with a blank at the end. The 11 characters are 0-9 and a blank.
The second block of code creates a constant integer called segmentPins which assigns the pins on the arduino that the 7 segment display is hooked up to.
The third block of code declares all pins on the arduino that the 7 segment LED display is hooked up to as output.
The fourth block of code calls a function called showDigit() which is defined in the next block of code. This function shows the alphabetical characters on the 7 segment LED display. In between each numeral, there is a 1 second delay, as shown in the line delay(1000). At the end of the loop when all characters have been shown, there is a 2-second delay (delay(2000)).
The fifth block of code defines the function showDigit(). This displays the numbers defined in the constant byte alphabet.
To see this circuit in action, watch the following video below.


NEW YORK, N.Y., December 7, 2015 — MCW, a New York-based non-profit organization dedicated to empowering youth to become positive agents of change in their communities, has awarded two fourth-year dental students, Don Chiwaya and Fatema Alimohamed, scholarships for their excellent performance at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences School of Dentistry. The scholarship, which goes towards tuition costs, is awarded annually to the top fourth-year male and female dental students entering their fifth and final year of dental school.
To learn more about MCW's Oral Health projects in Tanzania visit the website at www.mcwglobal.org/ohc.


It might seem like a simple task for some people, but it is not always easy to know which wine to order in a restaurant. The choice should depend on the type of company that you are in and the type of wine that you want. We offer you some tips below to make it easier to choose the right wine.
The first and easiest rule is to heed the advice from the sommelier if the restaurant has one. The sommelier is the one who understands the wines and has the perfect knowledge of what will pair well depending on the occasion, the dish and our tastes. So, there is no need to worry; if you are in doubt, ask the sommelier who will guide you well in making your choice.
We will usually base our choice of wine depending on the dish. As a basic guideline white wines go well with rice and fish and red wines are great with meat. But it is not always that simple. You should also consider the type of meat and whether the wine is young or not. One of the important basic rules of pairing is that it is best to serve the lighter wines before the more full-bodied wines. The world of pairing is very extensive and there are flavours that pair better with a white wine while others will pair fantastically well with a rosé.
You can also choose the wines for your long lunch or dinner according to the order. The basic norm is to first have the sparkling wines which usually pair well with the appetisers. The whites will go well with lighter first courses. The rosés, the young red wines and fuller red wines pair well with meat, game or something heartier.
It is safe to choose a well-known wine, such as Rioja or Toro, if you are having a business lunch and want to treat your guests. These wines pose little to no risk of anyone not liking it. But if you are on a date you can experiment a bit more and take your partners tastes into consideration as well.
Porta 6 2017 is the product of the fertile vineyards from Alenquero and Cadaval, in the mountains in the North of Lisbon.
Terras de Alleu 2016 is an uncomplicated wine from Douro. Easy to drink and enjoy.
We all know vodka as a drink, so it serves to combine with many other ingredients to get the best cocktails. But surely you did not know the different uses of vodka beyond drinking. Let's know what vodka is for in the most everyday uses.
Surely we have already used several tricks when washing clothes and colour continues to vanish. To avoid this, we will mix a part of vodka and another part of water, and sprinkle the mixture on the garments before washing them. In this way the colour will take longer to leave.
There are many products to clean the windows. But maybe we will get better results if we apply this drink on the cloth to get rid, in a simple way, of the grease that usually accumulates in the kitchen windows.
In summer, insect bites can cause several problems. On the one hand, the "tiger" mosquito damages our skin and produces really important bites, some of which end up in the emergency room. To avoid being bitten by bugs in general we can apply a mixture of vodka and water on our legs and arms. They surely will think it twice before biting us again.
If your feet tend to smell more than normal, there are some products to mitigate it, but you can always make a home-made mix and soak the feet in this drink and thus eliminate the smell of feet.
We already know that when we cut flowers to decorate our living room they tend to last rather little. Well, apparently if we add a few drops of vodka to the vase then we can make them last a little longer.
If you usually have rather rough and dry hair, conditioner and mask are just fine, but another use of vodka is brightening hair. Just wash it with a little vodka, that you can apply with the shampoo.
Not only the hair will be brighter. Vodka can also be an excellent remedy to polish the pieces of old silver that we have and seem spoiled when they are really not.
The Smirnoff Red Label Vodka is one of the world's smoothest vodkas.
Purity Vodka is the finest and purest Ultra Premium Vodka in the world. It illustrates the perfect combination of tradition and innovation.
As every year, on March 17 we celebrate a date which is very special to the Irish and over the years, has made its way to one of the most celebrated days of the year all around the world.Saint Patrick's Day is charged with traditions, feasts, lots of green coloured stuff and beer. Here are 10 things you should absolutely know about this day.
Lots of beer. During this day, people augment the beer consumption. It even excels the famous German beer festival. According to established dates, people around the globe consume more than 13 Million litres of beer on Saint Patrick's Day.
Green and more green. Irish people all around the world, and also lots of symathisers, dress in green. The colour is associated to the green island. If you want to celebrate this day authentically, we recommend you buy yourself a green t-shirt. Fun fact, the historic national colour of Ireland is actually blue.
Friends reunion in a pub. Irish people love pubs. One more reason to visit your next Irish pub and celebrate with natives. There is one in every bigger city, go find yours.
Who is Saint Patrick? Saint Patrick was born in the 15th century and was abducted by attackers of Ireland. During this time he had been studying to become a priest and established a religious doctrine based on the cloverleaf with four leaves. He died on the 17th of March in 1461.
What to eat? Typical Irish dishes are roast chicken, a Guinness stew.
Parades. Parades are typical although not every city has one. Have a look at your city's agenda to see if a Saint Patrick's Parade is organised and participate with your friends. Try to make Irish friends.
When was the first Saint Patrick's Day? The annual celebration started in 1917.
Several days. In some places in Ireland, the festival lasts for several days although the actual feast is on the 17th of March.
Who's the goblin? The goblin is a must-have on this day. People say that the lucky goblin and an elf appear each year on this date.
Celtic rhymes. You should dive into the rich culture of Ireland and read Celtic poetry, listen to native songs and learn more about the country's artistic side. You will not get disappointed.
Last but not least, don't forget about the great beer and whiskey, Ireland provides us with.
Tullamore Dew 1L: The Irish whiskey is known all over the world for its smooth and gentle complexity and its citrus and spicy notes.
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They say that two who live together end up having the same tastes, even in drinks. In a study, published in the behavioural science journal Appetite, researchers from the University of Wrocław in Poland and the University of Dresden in Germany tested the aroma and flavour preferences of 100 heterosexual couples whose relationships ranged from three months to 45 years . They discovered that the longer the couples had been together, the more similar their preferences were.
The study was based on each participant smelling 38 aroma samples, which included fragrances such as eucalyptus, butanol, orange, smoked meat and caramel. The researchers also dissolved samples of each of the five basic flavours: sweetness (10 grams of D-sucrose), sourness (5 grams of citric acid), saltiness (7.5 grams of NaCl), bitterness (0.05 grams of quinine hydrochloride) and umami (10 g of sodium glutamate). The participants were asked to rate each aroma and flavour sample from 1 ("I like it a lot") to 5 ("I do not like it at all").
The study examined not only how preferences might be affected by the longevity of a relationship, but also how they might be influenced by how happy the couple was. Happy couples did not have more similar preferences compared to those that were less satisfied. However, greater satisfaction in the relationships had a slightly negative correlation with similar smell preferences.
It is logical that the more years (and bottles of wine) a couple has shared, the preferences end up adapting to each other. The study concluded that even in an unhappy relationship, especially if the couple lives together, it is likely that the couples still smell and eat the same things out of habit, need or convenience.
But there is more, because a new study from the University of Michigan states that couples who drink together are happier. Researchers have interviewed 2,700 married couples and analysed how much and how they drink. The conclusions were that the 2 members were more likely to consider themselves happy in their relationship when they shared these habits than those who remained sober while the other consumed alcohol, and vice-versa.
There are still many studies to be conducted to fully understand why the tastes of couples are aligned, but for now, why not use it as another great reason to spend time with our partner and our favourite bottle of wine?
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Wine has many flavours and the esters are responsible for them by being substances that are formed by the combination of an organic acid and an alcohol. Therefore, they give pleasant smells and flavours to wine. Let's learn a little more about esters.
What are the esters of wine and how do they form?
Such flavours and aromas are associated with fruity and delicate flavours, such as banana, raspberry and pineapple, for example, among many others, and they are detected in fruity wines. In total, more than 160 esters have been identified in wine, and many of them are produced in concentrations below our sensory threshold. When they are together, some esters can create a totally different aroma than the one they possess individually, while the presence of one can greatly affect the intensity of another.
It should be noted that a large majority of esters produced in wine are created during fermentation. Esters tend to be much less stable than these other aromas and reach their intensity at the end of the fermentation, when they dominate the character of a wine, but they degrade almost completely during the first year of the wine's life and do not leave a long term mark.
Esters, in addition, tend to be more aromatic than alcohols, acids and aldehydes. During fermentation, yeasts produce fruity esters or short-chain esters, and heavier esters, which are the long-chain esters. The first ones are produced in low temperature fermentations and some examples are the Riesling and Chardonnay wines.
Formation of esters is quite complex because it depends on numerous reactions between multiple compounds. In general, esters are formed from reactions between alcohols (mainly superior alcohols) created by yeasts and components (usually fatty or organic acids) from grapes.
In addition to using aromatic yeasts, winemakers can also use carbonic maceration to achieve high levels of esters during fermentation. In addition to the yeast, the fermentation temperature is another important factor in the amount and type of esters produced, as well as the degree of retention in the wine.
For example, a winemaker who wants to create wines with high ester content will usually use an aromatic yeast, clear the must and then ferment the wine at a temperature as cold as the yeast can tolerate. It is not surprising that wine professionals discuss the impact of wild and commercial strains on fermentation.
A company from Cerdedo-Cotobade, in the province of Pontevedra, has developed a water that tastes like wine. It can be amazing and almost miraculous (like when Jesus turned the jars of water into wine), but it is a matter of biology. Let's learn more about the water that tastes like wine.
This company, called Líquido Gallaecia, has counted, to elaborate this water, with the collaboration of Misión Biológica de Salcedo, and the result is an enriched water, with a wine flavour, that doesn't get you drunk (it doesn't carry alcohol) and doesn't get you fat (it almost don't have calories because it is water). Its name is Vida Gallaecia.
This product is a novelty that will be talked about a lot and that marks a before and after in this kind of beverages. In addition, it has been presented together with the State Agency of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), because this drink has been made thanks to years of study, commitment and research.
The basis of this study, which began in 2016, was to find ways to enrich the water with the flavonols present in the grape, and also with waste from the wine making of the Godello variety. Although they have specified that later they want to expand this water with other varieties of grapes, their commercial formula has not been revealed. The water, as if it were wine, comes in both white and red varieties, and can be made with or without gas. Its creators have given hints of its development: totally natural and without the intervention of chemical solvents. And this is because its base comes from Galician springs.
We can say that it is a healthy water because flavonols provide a diversity of properties, such as antioxidants, the protection of the heart, the improvement of the skin… and it prevents some diseases such as diabetes. And it is also a pioneer beverage since it is the first wine flavoured water.


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The Maine have always been about being the truest version of yourself. From exiting from their major label contract with Fearless Records to organising a free tour across the US, The Maine have personified their manifesto while satisfying fans both old and new.
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DNM: Hey Garrett! We love your band's latest album, "American Candy". We understand that it's meant to be a commentary on popular culture and how it shapes the minds and opinions of people today. What's the most insane thing that you can't believe people are keeping up with?
Garrett: "Iron Man" movies? Haha. I enjoyed the first one but I don't think i need to see another one of these films for about 30 years. Give me something new. The thought of [an] "Iron Man Five" bores the shit out of me. How about a movie about a dog and an alien becoming friends? That sounds fun.
Brilliant idea for a movie, really. The Maine's new video for "Am I Pretty?" isn't too shabby either. It was very moving to see the people featured in the video tell their stories. What was it like producing that video and how did you decide on the concept?
Our singer, John [O'Callaghan], had the idea floating around for a few months before we completely decided to move forward with that concept. It's probably the most "on the nose" video we have for one of our songs. The message of the song and the visuals really come together to tell the same story.
It was incredible to have such great people willing to express those feelings out into the world for lots of people to see. It shows great courage and I think in a way that's what the song is about. Being ok with yourself even in the face of judgement. We couldn't have been happier with the finished product.
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The first antennas were built in by German physicist Heinrich Hertz in his pioneering experiments to prove the existence of electromagnetic waves predicted by the theory of James Clerk Maxwell. Such interactions can greatly affect the performance of a group of antennas.
On the other hand, log-periodic antennas are not resonant at any frequency but can be built to attain similar characteristics including feedpoint impedance over any frequency range. Such a structure is normally connected to the return connection of an unbalanced transmission line such as the shield of a coaxial cable. Two special cases are linear polarization the ellipse collapses into a line as discussed above, and circular polarization in which the two axes of the ellipse are equal.
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It is simply in the same plane as the elements of the antenna. These elements are often identical. He published his work in Annalen der Physik und Chemie vol. Matching networks will have losses, and power restrictions when used for transmitting. Dot crawl Ghosting Hanover bars Sparklies.
The parabolic reflector is perhaps the best known example of a reflector-based antenna, which has an effective area far greater than the active element alone. Antennas with horizontal elements are horizontally polarized. The matching network may also limit the usable bandwidth of the antenna system. Greater directionality can be obtained using beam-forming techniques such as a parabolic reflector or a horn. Therefore, the above relationship between gain and effective area still holds.
Space-division Frequency-division Time-division Polarization-division Orbital angular-momentum Code-division. Linear polarization is by far the most widely used for most radio communications applications as the antennas are generally simpler and more straightforward.
The loss resistance and efficiency of an antenna can be calculated. Since monopole antennas rely on a conductive surface, they may be mounted with a ground plane to replicate the effect of being mounted on the Earth's surface. It can, for instance, bring the wave to a focus or alter the wave front in other ways, generally in order to maximize the directivity of the antenna system. The dictionary definition of antenna at Wiktionary. With a particular geometry, it is possible for the mutual impedance between nearby antennas to be zero.
Especially at microwave frequencies, handbook of pharmaceutical manufacturing formulations pdf a receiving antenna may include not only the actual electrical antenna but an integrated preamplifier or mixer. Reflections generally affect polarization.
But if the ground has irregularities not small compared to the wavelength, reflections will not be coherent but shifted by random phases. At the resonant frequency, the standing wave has a current peak and voltage node minimum at the feed. For receivers near the ground, horizontally polarized transmissions suffer cancellation. The current in the element thus adds to the current being created from the source at that instant.
American Radio Relay League. In this form of polarisation the vector rotates in a right handed fashion. The directive gain of an antenna can be computed from the published gain divided by the antenna's efficiency. This causes a phase reversal for waves emitted by a horizontally polarized antenna left but not a vertically polarized antenna center.
In this way the antenna is horizontally polarised. These tend to be more easily erected using two poles leaving he wire antenna to be suspended between the two.
These regions are useful to identify the field structure in each, although there are no precise boundaries. This is a consequence of the reciprocity theorem of electromagnetics.
Until then wireless radiating transmitting and receiving elements were known simply as terminals. As the antenna height is increased, the number of lobes increases as well. This relies on the behaviour of moving electrons, which reflect off surfaces where the dielectric constant changes, in a fashion similar to the way light reflects when optical properties change. The vertical plane radiation patterns are shown in the image at right. The phase of reflection of electromagnetic waves depends on the polarization of the incident wave.
Another extreme case of impedance matching occurs when using a small loop antenna usually, but not always, for receiving at a relatively low frequency where it appears almost as a pure inductor. For horizontal polarization, there is cancellation at that angle. This is the ideal situation, because it produces the maximum output for the minimum input, producing the highest possible efficiency. Reciprocal or bilateral means that the material has the same response to an electric current or magnetic field in one direction, as it has to the field or current in the opposite direction. Even when the antenna system has a vertical orientation, such as an array of horizontal dipole antennas, the polarization is in the horizontal direction corresponding to the current flow.
Because of his prominence, Marconi's use of the word antenna spread among wireless researchers, and later to the general public. This is a form of antenna polarisation that is at an angle to the horizontal or vertical planes. Returning to the basic concept of current flows in a conductor, consider what happens if a half-wave dipole is not connected to a feed point, but instead shorted out. Antennas for use over much broader frequency ranges are achieved using further techniques. Antennas consisting of a single vertical element are widely used.
The currents in an antenna appear as an image in opposite phase when reflected at grazing angles. The end closer to the source is referred to as the front.
It is best for the receiving antenna to match the polarization of the transmitted wave for optimum reception. This is usually through loss resistance in the antenna's conductors, or loss between the reflector and feed horn of a parabolic antenna.
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Is the size of the Death Star depicted inconsistently in Rogue One?
Near the end of Rogue One, when the Death Star
attacks Scarif
it can be seen from the planet's surface, like a big moon. Even given that it's in orbit and much nearer than a moon, this gives the impression that it's very huge (as in all the other movies).
But in another scene, I think we see an Imperial shuttle leaving a hangar in the trench of the Death Star (possibly carrying Director Krennic). When the camera zooms out, the laser dish and the curvature of the Death Star comes into view and compared to the trench and the shuttle it seems much much smaller than it is normally depicted.
I can not rewatch this shuttle scene currently without going to the cinema. Did anybody else notice this?
(I assumed the whole Death Star is a CGI 3D model and any part can be rendered as needed. So how could this error have happened? Is a new 3D model created for every scene?)
To clarify what I think I saw I add this artistically challenged image. The small square is the hangar door which is perhaps double the height of the shuttle that left it. That would give a diameter of the death star in the range of a star destroyer or something like that:
I have to wait until I am able to rewatch the scene I think. But I found out that the trench at the equator is not the same as the trench in the trench run as I always thought. The equator trench seems indeed be much wider as I expected (roughly one km in my inferences from the pictures). So it could be that this fooled me and the size relations are all right. If anybody has a link to pictures or videos of the scene please post it.
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Didn't see this, but could it be you're just underestimating the supposed acceleration and thus speed of the shuttle, and it is actually supposed to be much further away when the mentioned features come into sight? – I'm with Monica Jan 6 '17 at 12:22
Are you taking into account that it might just be really really close to the planet? – Valorum Jan 6 '17 at 12:25
As I remember you see the shuttle flying out of the hangar in the trench. The comparison between shuttle, hangar and trench gives an impression of its size. When zoming out you see the dish and the curvature near the trench, while the trench (and even the hangar doors in it) is still good visible. At least this is what I remember. – Hothie Jan 6 '17 at 13:02
"When the camera zooms out, the laser dish and the curvature of the Death Star comes into view and compared to the trench and the shuttle it seems much much smaller than it is normally depicted." — Lenses bend light. It's difficult to judge size, especially in space where there's not much other stuff around for comparison. – Paul D. Waite Jan 6 '17 at 13:09
has there been a study on how big the original death star was supposed to be? i feel like with such a huge battle in ANH taking place on the surface, someone would have done the math. Second, if we had screenshots of this scene you're referring to, we could then make comparisons. I doubt it was a mistake on the filmmakers part, rather an illusion like others have said. (ie is it not actually THE trench and dish? but other parts of the DS itself?) – dasMetzger Jan 6 '17 at 14:33
Perspective is everything.
These two photographs both show the same body, of course - Earth's moon. But one seems so much larger than the other, because of the way the pictures were taken. One is zoomed in, cropped, and shown near objects that we are familiar with for perspective. The other is zoomed well out, showing a large landscape around the moon.
The same is true of the shots of the Death Star in Rogue One. I suspect that the 'huge' shot of the Death Star you're referring to is this one:
It was also seen in the trailer. In this case, it was very likely deliberately framed to be remeniscent of pictures like the first one of Earth's moon.
The size is consistent; it's our perspective that's shifting
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Yes, I know this effect. The problem I had was that in the scene of the movie I reference in my question it seems to me that the diameter of the dish was just perhaps 10 or 20 time the width of the trench. Normaly on pictures where you can see a big portion of the death star (with dish, curvature etc.) the trench (much less the hangar) is not even visible. – Hothie Jan 6 '17 at 14:20
unfortunately, until we get screenshots of the scene in question, we might have to put this on hold :-/ – dasMetzger Jan 6 '17 at 14:30
Images like the fist one of the earth moon are often photo-shopped for Super Moon memes and such. The earth's moon and sun have very small variation in angular diameter (and are very similar to each other) so the picture of the moon or sun filling an image frame have to be done with telescopic optics, trees and such are hard to get into the same image in focus. For the Death Star to have such a large size compared to a planet means very low orbit and telephoto optics, planet curvature means image taken from space/high altitude. Poetic licence may apply. – KalleMP Jan 6 '17 at 22:27
If we take the last picture and assume a normal camera field of view of roughly 40° so the Death Star would be roughly 20° wide in the sky. The Death Star is 160km in diameter and 20° is 1/18th of a full circle. The circumfence of a circle is 2*r*PI. So the distance of the death star to the surface at that point would be 18/6.28 (or roughly 3) times the Death Star diameter - or it would be roughly 400km away from the view point. If the field of view is less than 40°, it would be further away. – Adwaenyth Jan 13 '17 at 9:35
It's definitely the same trench (trench run) in the shuttle scene at 55:53. You can see it as well as the same shuttle bays clearly around 23:37 after Tarkin tells the Krennic to commence a test on Jedha (with Tarkin's reflection in the window).
Judging from 23:37 and knowing that those are bays of some kind, the larger bays look big enough to allow star destroyers inside. Also in the shuttle scene at 55:53, if you look closely enough you can see hundreds if not thousands of tiny lights to the right of those 4 large bays indicating that the tiny lights are windows, the big ones could be spotlights or small bays. As others pointed out, it's all about perspective and the shuttle is very far from the bays at the opening of the scene, even though it appears it came out of one of the four larger ones (bottom right one). Just my two cents.
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Ꟁꟁ – inaczej "o rogate" lub "o wąsate" – litera alfabetu łacińskiego używana w pisowni języka staropolskiego.

Historia

Litera "ꟁ", oznaczająca samogłoskę nosową, występowała w rękopisach od XII wieku po wiek XV, np. prawdꟁ 'prawdę', nademnꟁ 'nade mną'. Graficznie przybierała różną postać, najczęściej pomiędzy znakiem ϕ a ѻ. W konsekwencji bywa ona używana w druku do dzisiaj do edycji dawnych tekstów polskich.

Kodowanie

Przed wprowadzeniem do unikodu w wersji 14.0 znak ten był często zastępowany literami Ø i φ.

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 Podobne znaki: ,  (phi),  (zbiór pusty, morfem zerowy),  (symbol średnicy)
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Bibliografia

Litery alfabetu łacińskiego


Arthur Rosenblatt, who served 19 years with New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, took over Tuesday as the first director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, to be constructed near the Mall in the shadow of the Washington Monument.
''It's very hard to leave a place after 19 years,'' said the 54-year-old native New Yorker, who was vice president for architecture and planning at the Metropolitan Museum.
Mr. Rosenblatt, who supervised a major renovation and building program at the Metropolitan, will oversee the design, construction and development of the Holocaust Museum and its exhibits. Site preparation is under way, and the project will cost an estimated $100 million.
The museum, authorized by Congress but being built with private funds, is expected to open in late 1988, said a spokesman for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Campaign. It is to honor the memory of the six million Jews and other victims of the Nazis.


So I moved out of the spreadsheet world in to some real business software, but now I'm feeling like my computer has way too much running all the time. Is the Outlook+Quickbooks combo the only viable option for managing a business? I've looked in to some open source options, and for the most part it all seems underdeveloped. It seems a little ridiculous that if I want to sync contacts across my gmail, iphone, and quickbooks, outlook has to be involved for some reason. And to send out e-mail invoices, quickbooks uses a client-side e-mail client, which again points to Outlook or something similar. Why can't Intuit include a little e-mail relaying part of their software? It all seems kind of ridiculously convoluted to make all these things work together. In the meantime my computer is getting slower and slower dealing with this business software while I'm trying to work. Perhaps manually doing everything in google spreadsheets wasn't so bad after all?
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According to https://winscp.net/eng/docs/ui_progress, The minimize button should be a drop down list.
However mine looks like in the attached picture. I'm using 5.7.3 portable. This will be really useful for Synchronizing so any ideas?
Indeed a transfer that is part of synchronization cannot be moved to queue.
WinSCP does not support synchronization on the background.
But why can't the transfers be put on the queue initially?
Sorry, not sure what you mean by "put on the queue initially".


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The conference room on the fourth floor of the Chandralok building on Delhi's Janpath road was filled to capacity on February 10. The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission was holding a public hearing to finalize tariffs for solar projects under the national solar mission. Everyone in the solar business who counts was present.
The commission had to hear 52 submissions, oral and written, before deciding whether to revise its tariffs set last year for the two commercially used solar technologies—Rs 18.40 per unit for solar-photovoltaic (PV) and Rs 13.50 per unit for projects using the nascent solar-thermal technology. This tariff assumed capital cost to be Rs 17 crore per MW for solar-PV and Rs 13 crore per MW for solar-thermal. The solar-thermal group at the meeting wanted costs revised sharply upwards.
Solar thermal: costs uncertain
In case of solar-thermal, companies presented a range of estimates. Coal giant ntpc, which plans to generate 250 MW of solar-thermal power, pegged the cost at Rs 25 crore per MW. Acme, SunBorne Energy and Entegra proposed between Rs 16 crore (without energy storage) and Rs 17.70 crore per MW (with energy storage). Tata Power estimated the capital cost at Rs 20-22 crore per MW, while Spanish thermal major Abengoa wanted Rs 28 crore.
India's first and only solar thermal developer with a power purchase agreement, Dhruv Batra of Cargo Power and Infrastructure, explained that costs are unclear because this technology is still developing in India. Vijay Lakhanpal, chief operating officer of the Forum for Advancement of Solar Thermal, said the cost of the thermal system will also differ with technologies used in building solar-thermal.
Tower and Dish-Sterling systems can give better efficiency at a lower cost but they are yet to be commercially proven. Parabolic troughs may be more expensive but they also have more commercial success, he said.
The three-member commission noted that roughly half the cost of setting up a solar-thermal unit is for the solar field. Equipment needed for the solar field—like concentrating mirrors and receiving tubes—are not made in India. But there are options for indigenization and cost efficiency in building the power block.
After considering the estimates the commission decided to benchmark capital costs of solar-thermal at Rs 15.30 crore per MW for projects signed on or before March 31, 2011, and commissioned by March 31, 2013.
Solar-PV: cost is more and less
The solar PV lobby is more experienced in cost estimates. Its aim was to explain the components. Land was the most contentious of all projected costs. The requirement of land is roughly five acre (2.2 ha) per MW of power generated. The commission had estimated land at Rs 1 lakh per acre. Developers said this was too low because projects have to be close to grid substations where land is expensive. The commission agreed to revise rates to Rs 3 lakh per acre.
PV modules, consisting of solar cells, constitute roughly 60 per cent of the total cost. The commission had fixed their cost at US $2 per Watt-peak (Wp), that is under ideal conditions. At current exchange rate this translates to Rs 9.15 crore. Tata-BP Solar said the cost of solar modules, backed by a 25-year warranty and with 86 per cent power availability at the end of the 25th year, would be US $2.2 per Wp. Now, modules can be crystalline or thin film. The commission observed the cost of crystalline-PV modules varies considerably. Thin-film PV modules are cheaper but also have lower efficiency. It fixed the cost of a PV module at US $2.2 per Wp. The commission then considered other costs—like that of mounting structures and the power conditioning unit—to arrive at the final capital cost of Rs 16.90 crore per MW for projects cleared in 2010-11.
In end-April, the commission revised tariffs. It reduced the solar-PV tariff to Rs 17.91 per unit and increased the solar-thermal to Rs 15.31 per unit. Solar experts say the PV group now faces the challenge of cutting costs, while improving efficiency. They also caution that the capital cost and tariff for the next big thing, solar-thermal, is much lower than costs abroad. Clearly, much more is needed to learn the cost-technology equation in the solar market.
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Christina McKelvie seeks assurances for workers' rights
Protection for workers' rights in a post-Brexit Scotland was raised in The Scottish Parliament by Christina McKelvie during a Ministerial statement from Government minister for Scotland's place in Europe, Mike Russell MSP.
Christina McKelvie, MSP for Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, questioned the Minister as it was revealed that before the end of 2017, The Scottish Government will publish its plans to protect Scotland's interests in Europe.
The Scottish Government announcement comes after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon revealed that Monday's [24th October] talks with the UK Government on their plans for Brexit were "hugely frustrating".
Commenting during the statement, Christina said:
"Following suggestions that hard-right Tory MPs are planning, in a bid to scrap red tape, to insert into Theresa May's Brexit bill a sunset clause that would mean that all EU laws automatically expired after five years, does the Minister agree with Antonia Bance, the Trades Union Congress's head of campaigns, who said yesterday that, as we all know, this is how workers' rights come under threat"?
In reply, Mr. Russell stated:
"Christina McKelvie is absolutely right to say that guaranteeing social protection—not just the continuation of the existing social protections but the continuing improvement of social protection, to which the EU is committed—will be vital to Scotland's national interests. The issue is also tied up with the single market; if the single market is undermined and removed, social protections, too, are undermined and removed. The idea of a sunset clause, as proposed by a very right-wing ex-Tory chairman, is, in fact, an attempt to undermine that and should be resisted with vigour.
Commenting after the statement, Christina added:
"I'm glad that the Minster agreed with me that this 'sunset clause' presents a real threat to the social protections and protections for workers' rights that European Union membership offers.
"Whilst the UK Government are no further forward in informing Scotland - who didn't vote for Brexit - what their own plans for Brexit include, The Scottish Government has signaled its intent to protect Scotland's interest.
"This includes retaining access to the single market, seeking inclusion over any future trade deals, whilst having greater powers over industry, fishing and farming devolved to The Scottish Parliament.
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Apple: The Core of Every Portfolio?
Even without Steve Jobs, the earnings outlook is terrific for at least two more years, and the stock looks cheap.
By Anne Kates Smith, Executive Editor
Editor's Note: On August 24, 2011, Apple's chief executive Steve Jobs announced his resignation, and chief operating officer Tim Cook took the reins. Jobs will remain with the company as chairman of the board. Following the announcement, Apple's stock experienced a rapid, after-hours sell-off. We're featuring this article again to help you re-evaluate the company's prospects in the wake of Jobs' departure.
Everybody knows at least one Apple nut -- the devotee who proselytizes PC users about the Mac, has already owned four iPhones, or stalks the local electronics store for clues about the launch of the next iPad. Call it the cult of Apple (symbol AAPL).
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The investment world has a parallel: fanatically devoted shareowners who are only too happy to let their winnings ride in a stock that traded for as low as $83 in March 2009 and in nearly two years has more than quadrupled, to $351.88. At that price, Apple is worth $324.2 billion, making it the world's second-most-valuable company, behind ExxonMobil (all share prices and related data are as of February 7).
If you possess an iota of contrarian instinct, the unanimity of bullish sentiment has to be a bit unnerving. Just about every brokerage analyst who covers Apple loves the stock. The most recent valentine came on February 8, when Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley raised his target price on AAPL shares from $432 to $460, after indications of strong sales for the new Verizon version of the iPhone. And analysts remained bullish even after Apple announced in January that Steve Jobs, its visionary CEO and founder, has taken medical leave again. "One thing we like about Tim Cook," says Standard & Poor's analyst Clyde Montevirgen, referring to the company's acting chief, "is that he has taken Apple's innovation and turned it into a profitable business model."
And how. Following a boffo earnings report for the quarter ended December 25, most analysts raised the bar for Apple, bumping up earnings expectations for the company, reiterating "buy" recommendations and raising their price targets. "Apple remains the best technology company on the planet," wrote Brian Marshall, of Gleacher & Co.
Professional money managers are on board, too. Apple accounts for 9% of the assets of T. Rowe Price Global Technology Fund. "The fact is, there simply is no competitor," says manager David Eiswert. Indeed, the company is a favorite among a wide variety of mutual funds (which means that you might be a member of the Apple cult without realizing it). Few short sellers, who bet on stocks to decline, are betting against Apple.
Is Apple truly the juggernaut that fans claim it is? Well ... yes. At least for this year and probably next, as products and strategies already in the pipeline play out. First came the iPhone's February debut on Verizon Wireless (previously, the phone was available only through AT&T). Two important product revisions are due later this year: a second version of the iPad tablet computer and the fifth iteration of the iPhone.
Phenomenal growth. For now, the bullish case is compelling. It starts with Apple's iconic products and the way they seamlessly integrate all aspects of our digital lives. Despite phenomenal growth in many of its product lines, Apple still has a surprisingly low share of several rapidly expanding markets. Consider the iPhone, sales of which account for 39% of company revenues. For the one-year period that ended December 25, iPhone shipments grew 86%, far outstripping the 60%-to-70% growth in smart-phone sales overall. Yet Apple claims just 16% of the world's smart-phone market -- about equal to that of Research in Motion (RIMM) and far less than that of Nokia (NOK) -- and just 4% of the broader wireless-phone market.
Apple's computer sales, including Macs and especially its portable MacBooks, are outpacing market growth rates, yet Apple claims less than 5% of the global personal computer market.
Apple is beginning to face competition in the tablet market, which essentially didn't exist prior to the introduction of the iPad in April 2010. Apple should still claim half the market this year, delivering 30 million iPads in the fiscal year that ends in September, up from just 7.5 million in fiscal 2010. There was concern that the iPad would harm Apple's computer sales, but so far that doesn't appear to be happening. Instead, the iPad is stealing sales from rivals' lower-end products. "Apple is winning on both ends," says S&P's Montevirgen, "cannibalizing competitors' products but not its own."
An expanding -- make that exploding -- global reach is a crucial part of Apple's growth story. In the quarter that ended December 25, revenues in Asia grew by 147% over the same period the previous year; sales from China were up 300%. Asia sales are now 25% of total revenues.
After the matter of Jobs's health, the biggest elephant in the room is Apple's enormous cash hoard. At last report, cash and investments stood at nearly $60 billion, or about $64 a share. (Debt? There is none.) Having a huge cache of cash has obvious pluses. But, surprisingly, it has also angered many investors, who consider it a woefully underutilized asset, earning next to nothing. They urge the company to buy back shares, make a strategic acquisition or declare a dividend -- maybe all three.
With Jobs on leave, a major acquisition might not be the likeliest scenario now. But a foray into social networking or cloud computing -- the technology of facilitating Web-based applications accessed from anywhere, on any Internet-capable device -- is a possibility, says Eiswert, the Price fund manager. As is the purchase of a media company to supplement Apple's content library -- Netflix (NFLX), with a current market value of $11.5 billion, has been a rumored candidate.
A dividend would open up Apple to a new class of yield-seeking investors. Paying about $3.50 a share, or enough to give the stock a 1% yield, would cost Apple a bit more than $3 billion a year -- chump change.
The remarkable trajectory of Apple's stock notwithstanding, analysts trumpet the shares as a bargain. They trade at 15 times average estimated earnings of $22.91 a share for the year that ends September 25. That price-earnings ratio is close to the five-year low of 14 and well below the five-year average of 25. Many analysts adjust for Apple's plump cash cushion by subtracting cash per share from the share price in figuring the P/E -- in which case Apple trades at just 12 times fiscal 2011 earnings. For context, big tech companies overall sell at 23 times estimated 2011 earnings, and Standard & Poor's 500-stock index trades at 14 times estimated '11 earnings.
Among the biggest uncertainties surrounding Apple is whether the company will be able to continue to innovate so spectacularly if Jobs does not return to the helm. And continued competition from Google's Android operating system, which has been gaining traction in both smart phones and tablets, could take a bite out of Apple.
Another risk is the potential for declining profit margins as Apple strives to gain and maintain market share, especially if wireless-service providers begin to pay less for each iPhone activation. Gleacher's Marshall estimates that Apple receives about $450 from AT&T Wireless for the activation of an iPhone and about $300 from its international carriers -- well above what other vendors collect.
For now, we side with the bulls. But no one needs to bet all or nothing on Apple. If you're a new convert, try to buy on dips. If you've owned the stock forever, why not reap some profits -- if for no other reason than to humor your inner contrarian?
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Birmingham St Mary's Hospice officially opened their latest shop in Northfield today (Thursday 4 April) with the help from their longest serving volunteer.
The fabulous new shop, which will help raise vital funds for the Hospice, is based at 734 Bristol Road South and is the charity's 17th across Birmingham, Sandwell and Solihull.
Cutting the ribbon, was the inspirational Nancy Byrne from Moseley. Nancy has been volunteering at the Hospice for an amazing 40 years, ever since it opened its doors and cared for its first patient in March 1979.
The big-hearted volunteer will be a familiar face to many patients, family members and loved ones who have visited Birmingham St Mary's over the years, as she is best known for welcoming people on reception.
Before the Hospice opened, Nancy was part of the original 'Friends of St Mary's Fundraising Group' that helped raised the £358k needed to open the Hospice. She then decided to volunteer because she's a "people's person who enjoys helping others".
Over the past four decades, Nancy has supported with general admin work, driven patients to-and-from the Day Hospice and volunteered on reception – roles that she has enjoyed doing because "it's a privilege to help people at a time when they need it most".
To recognise her outstanding commitment to the Hospice – and to celebrate the first Birmingham St Mary's shop to open during its 40th anniversary year – Nancy was invited to officially cut the ribbon at the Northfield store.
Birmingham St Mary's Hospice was founded by former NHS matron Monica Pearce, whose mission was to "enable anyone with a life-limiting illness to live their life to the full" – a statement that the Hospice's staff and volunteers still stand by today.
Tina Swani, chief executive at Birmingham St Mary's Hospice, was also present at the Northfield opening. She said: "Thank you so much to Nancy for coming down today to officially launch our Northfield shop. Volunteering for 40 years is an outstanding commitment and we are so grateful for all her support over the years.
Birmingham St Mary's new shop will be open Monday to Saturday, 9am to 5pm and Sundays, 10am to 4pm.


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Gamma exposure rates due to neutron activation of soil [electronic resource] : site of Hood detonation, Operation Plumbbob
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1980.
Pages: 15 : digital, PDF file
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
This paper is the result of some recent discussions of exposure rates within the first few hours of the Hood detonation of the Plumbbob series due to neutron activation of soil. We estimated the exposure rates from 1/2 to 3 h after the detonation from ground zero to 1000 yards from ground zero. The area was assumed to be uncontaminated by fallout. Soil samples from the area of the Nevada Test Site at which the Hood device was detonated were sent to ORNL by Dr. John Malik of Los Alamos and by Mr. Gordon Jacks of the Nevada Test Site. These samples were irradiated at the DOSAR facility and the resulting activity analyzed. Calculations of exposure rates were then made based on the analyzed activity and the measured thermal neutron fluences at DOSAR and at the Hood Site.
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Heart failure is a condition in which the heart is no longer able to pump oxygen-rich blood to the rest of the body efficiently. This causes symptoms to occur throughout the body. Watching out for the warning signs that your heart failure is getting worse will help you catch problems before they become too serious.
When watching out for warning signs, you can catch problems before they get too serious. Sometimes these simple checks will remind you that you forgot to take a pill, or that you have been drinking too much fluid or eating too much salt.
Be sure to write down the results of your home self-checks so that you can share them with your health care provider. Your doctor's office may have a "telemonitor," a device you can use to send your information automatically. A nurse will go over your self-check results with you in a regular (sometimes weekly) phone call.
Is my energy level normal?
Am I getting more short of breath when I am doing my everyday activities?
Are my clothes or shoes feeling tight?
Are my ankles or legs swelling?
Am I coughing more often? Does my cough sound wet?
Do I get short of breath at night?
These are signs that there is too much fluid building up in your body. You will need to learn how to limit your fluids and salt intake to prevent these things from happening.
You will get to know what weight is right for you. Weighing yourself will help you know if there is too much fluid in your body. You might also find that your clothes and shoes are feeling tighter than normal when there is too much fluid in your body.
Weigh yourself every morning on the same scale when you get up -- before you eat and after you use the bathroom. Make sure you are wearing similar clothing each time you weigh yourself. Write down your weight every day on a chart so that you can keep track of it.
Call your provider if your weight goes up by more than 3 pounds (about 1.5 kilograms) in a day or 5 pounds (2 kilograms) in a week. Also call your provider if you lose a lot of weight.
Know what your normal pulse rate is. Your provider will tell you what yours should be.
You can take your pulse in the wrist area below the base of your thumb. Use your index and third fingers of your other hand to find your pulse. Use a second hand and count the number of beats for 30 seconds. Then double that number. That is your pulse.
Your provider may give you special equipment to check your heart rate.
Your provider may ask you to keep track of your blood pressure at home. Make sure you get a good quality, well-fitting home device. Show it to your doctor or nurse. It will probably have a cuff with a stethoscope or a digital readout.
Practice with your provider to make sure you are taking your blood pressure correctly.
You are tired or weak.
You feel short of breath when you are active or when you are at rest.
You have shortness of breath when you lie down, or an hour or two after falling asleep.
You are wheezing and having trouble breathing.
You have a cough that does not go away. It may be dry and hacking, or it may sound wet and bring up pink, foamy spit.
You have swelling in your feet, ankles, or legs.
You have to urinate a lot, particularly at night.
You have gained or lost weight.
You have pain and tenderness in your belly.
You have symptoms you think might be from your medicines.
Your pulse or heartbeat gets very slow or very fast, or it is not regular.
Your blood pressure is lower or higher than is normal for you.
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Mann DL. Management of heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction. In: Zipes DP, Libby P, Bonow RO, Mann DL, Tomaselli GF, Braunwald E, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 11th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2019:chap 25.
Yancy CW, Jessup M, Bozkurt B, et al. 2017 ACC/AHA/HFSA Focused Update of the 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Failure Society of America. Circulation. 2017;136(6):e137-e161. PMID: 28455343 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28455343.
Zile MR, Litwin SE. Heart failure with a preserved ejection fraction. In: Zipes DP, Libby P, Bonow RO, Mann DL, Tomaselli GF, Braunwald E, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 11th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2019:chap 26.


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