Abdrahamane Traoré stands near the wind/solar/battery microgrid he helped optimize at an apartment complex in Nigeria. The project was done in collaboration with a local energy company and was part of Traoré's dissertation for his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering.
For some people, going "off-grid" means taking a voluntary respite from phone and email. But for countless others around the world, off-grid means routinely having to go without electricity for days, weeks or longer.
The situation is particularly burdensome in Sub-Saharan Africa, where about two-thirds of the population – more than 600,000,000 people – don't have access to a reliable power source.
This used to be the case for Abdrahamane Traoré, who graduated from Oakland University in April with a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering.
Born in the West African nation of Mali, Traoré grew up in an off-grid community near the capital city of Bamako. In the evenings, he would study his lessons by the light of a kerosene lamp or walk several blocks into town, where street lights shined brightly enough for him to read his textbooks. He was fascinated by electricity and would tinker around at his house, rigging up lights and fashioning headlamps using disassembled flashlights, wires, batteries, cardboard and rubber bands.
Traoré is pictured with children in Madagascar, where he went to work on a project supplying solar and battery energy to 100 villages. The project is part of a government and industry collaboration to bring more sustainable energy to the country.
After graduating from high school, Traoré immigrated to the United States. Despite not knowing English when he first arrived, he enrolled at Mott Community College in Flint and went on to earn a bachelor's and master's degree from Kettering University. In the fall of 2012, he came to Oakland University to pursue a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering.
He said he was drawn to OU's program because it combined electrical, mechanical and computer engineering, and fostered strong relationships with industry.
The problem Traoré wanted to solve was a familiar one. He wanted to bring reliable power to more people in Africa. For his dissertation, he worked with a local energy company to help bring electricity to residents of an apartment complex in Nigeria.
Traoré is shown in front of a solar microgrid in Madagascar.
During the nine-month project, Traoré worked with engineers to optimally design a solar/wind/battery hybrid microgrid for the complex.
Traoré and the engineers conducted extensive research to estimate the complex's power needs at each hour of the day.
In addition, Traoré worked with his faculty adviser, Dr. Mohamed Zohdy, and then-Systems Engineering Ph.D. Candidate Hatem Elgothamy, to create an algorithm for determining the most efficient configuration of wind, solar and battery power – thus ensuring reliability while containing cost.
According to Zohdy, this was a prime example of how theory and practice can come together to achieve a social good.
Traoré and his faculty adviser, Dr. Mohamed Zohdy, are pictured at commencement.
The microgrid was fully operational by the end of 2017 and supplies power to 10 households. It's an energy system that is affordable, reliable and environmentally sound.
Traoré added that he knew education was the key to a better life for himself and his family. He credits his parents for imparting values that nurtured his desire to help others.
Three weeks before his graduation, Traoré went to Madagascar to work on a government and industry supported project supplying solar and battery energy to 100 villages. He plans to move back to Africa to be close to family and continue bringing power to the continent.


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Florence + The Machine – Light of Love | Lyrics Meaning & Song Review
Florence and The Machine releases a brand new track, adding to the latest list of artists supporting the healthcare workers in their efforts to battle COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic. The new release, titled "Light of Love," was previously set to release on Florence and The Machine's 'High As Hope' album. However, the song lyrics made into Vincent Haycock's 'Don't Go Blindly Into The Dark' book.
Florence Welch announced that the release of the song is in support of the Intensive Care Society; "Thank you for listening and please donate if you are able to." She also announced that all proceeds of the song will go for the same cause.
Light Of Love, in support of the Intensive Care Society. Thank you for listening and please donate if you are able to ❤ https://t.co/M9SNl83pF9@ICS_updates pic.twitter.com/2x0y17vYJW
— florence welch (@florencemachine) April 17, 2020
Listen to "Light of Love" by Florence + The Machine
"Light of Love" sings about pushing yourself towards the 'light' inside of all of us every day, no matter how the odds turn up to be. There is darkness inside of us as well. But you have a choice to make at each moment of your life. Always pick the path towards the light. The song provides encouragement for everyone to do this, especially in these grim and uncertain times during Coronavirus lockdown.
Florence Welch sings about substance abuse in this song. She talks about having done drugs at a party and the aftermath following; "So close and yet so far from death."
The singer also narrates a story surrounding her sister. She confesses to her sister that "I think I did too much." That must have been a horrible experience for both of them. However, Florence was too messed up in her head to even realize the gravity of that situation. However, looking back, now that she is clean, the singer admits that it was too much and he heart breaks for herself and for all the people she affected.
Let us hear what you think about this brand new song and if you are able to donate for this cause too.
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package ly.stealth.kafka.plugin.cassandra.listener.registry

import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock
import java.util.concurrent.{ScheduledExecutorService, ScheduledFuture, ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor, TimeUnit}

import ly.stealth.kafka.plugin.cassandra.util.{Utils, LogUtils, Config}
import org.apache.kafka.plugin.interface.{KeySetChangeListener, ValueChangeListener}

import scala.collection.mutable
import scala.collection.mutable.ListBuffer

/**
 * A key-value cache that lets registering on-change callbacks
 */
class CacheListenerRegistry(config: Config, executor: Option[ScheduledExecutorService]) extends LogUtils {

  private val lock = new ReentrantLock()

  private val valueChangeListenerMap = new mutable.HashMap[String, ListBuffer[ValueChangeListener]]
  private val keySetChangeListenerMap = new mutable.HashMap[String, ListBuffer[KeySetChangeListener]]

  private val ex = executor.getOrElse(new ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor(config.ListenerRegistryExecutorThreads))

  private val valueChangeFutures = new mutable.HashMap[String, ScheduledFuture[_]]()
  private val keySetChangeFutures = new mutable.HashMap[String, ScheduledFuture[_]]()

  class ValueWatcher(key: String, initValue: Option[String], fetcher: => Option[String]) extends Runnable {
    private var watchable = initValue

    override def run(): Unit = {
      val fetchedValue = fetcher

      if (watchable == fetchedValue) {
        // cache contains up-to-date value, do nothing
      } else {
        watchable = fetchedValue
        Utils.inLock(lock) {
          valueChangeListenerMap.get(key).foreach {
            listeners =>
              listeners.foreach(l => l.valueChanged(fetchedValue))
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }

  class KeySetWatcher(key: String, initValue: Set[String], fetcher: => Set[String]) extends Runnable {
    private var watchable = initValue

    override def run(): Unit = {
      val fetchedKeySet = fetcher

      if (watchable == fetchedKeySet) {
        // cache contains up-to-date value, do nothing
      } else {
        watchable = fetchedKeySet
        Utils.inLock(lock) {
          keySetChangeListenerMap.get(key).foreach {
            listeners =>
              listeners.foreach(l => l.keySetChanged(fetchedKeySet))
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }

  private def attachValueChangeListeners(key: String, fetcher: => Option[String]): Unit = {
    val scheduledFuture =
      ex.scheduleAtFixedRate(new ValueWatcher(key, fetcher, fetcher), 0, config.ListenerRegistryPullPeriod, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)

    valueChangeFutures synchronized {
      valueChangeFutures.put(key, scheduledFuture)
    }
  }

  private def attachKeySetChangeListeners(key: String, fetcher: => Set[String]): Unit = {
    val scheduledFuture =
      ex.scheduleAtFixedRate(new KeySetWatcher(key, fetcher, fetcher), 0, config.ListenerRegistryPullPeriod, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)

    keySetChangeFutures synchronized {
      keySetChangeFutures.put(key, scheduledFuture)
    }
  }

  private def detachValueChangeListeners(key: String): Unit = {
    valueChangeFutures synchronized {
      valueChangeFutures.get(key) match {
        case Some(scheduledFuture) =>
          if (scheduledFuture.cancel(true)) {
            valueChangeFutures.remove(key)
          } else {
            logger.warn(s"Failed to cancel value change observer for key $key")
          }
        case None =>

      }
    }
  }

  private def detachKeySetChangeListeners(key: String): Unit = {
    keySetChangeFutures synchronized {
      keySetChangeFutures.get(key) match {
        case Some(scheduledFuture) =>
          if (scheduledFuture.cancel(true)) {
            keySetChangeFutures.remove(key)
          } else {
            logger.warn(s"Failed to cancel key-set change observer for key $key")
          }
        case None =>
      }
    }
  }

  def addValueChangeListener(key: String, fetcher: => Option[String], listener: ValueChangeListener): Unit = {
    Utils.inLock(lock) {
      val listeners = valueChangeListenerMap.getOrElseUpdate(key, new ListBuffer[ValueChangeListener])
      listeners.append(listener)
      // it is the first listener for this key
      if (listeners.size == 1)
        attachValueChangeListeners(key, fetcher)
    }
  }

  def removeValueChangeListener(key: String, listener: ValueChangeListener): Unit = {
    Utils.inLock(lock) {
      valueChangeListenerMap.get(key) match {
        case Some(listeners) =>
          listeners -= listener
          if (listeners.isEmpty)
            detachValueChangeListeners(key)
        case None =>
      }
    }
  }

  protected[this] def addKeySetChangeListener(namespace: String, fetcher: => Set[String], listener: KeySetChangeListener): Unit = {
    Utils.inLock(lock) {
      val listeners = keySetChangeListenerMap.getOrElseUpdate(namespace, new ListBuffer[KeySetChangeListener])
      listeners.append(listener)
      // it is the first listener for this key
      if (listeners.size == 1)
        attachKeySetChangeListeners(namespace, fetcher)
    }
  }

  def removeKeySetChangeListener(namespace: String, listener: KeySetChangeListener): Unit = {
    Utils.inLock(lock) {
      keySetChangeListenerMap.get(namespace) match {
        case Some(listeners) =>
          listeners -= listener
          if (listeners.isEmpty)
            detachKeySetChangeListeners(namespace)
        case None =>
      }
    }
  }
}

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Latest estimate of current rate of global sea level rise: 3.5 mm per year
September 1st, 2017 | Download as PDF
The rate of sea level rise is accelerating (photo: Go_greener_oz, www.flickr.com)
Global mean sea level rise results from the contribution of a number of components: an increase in the mass of the ocean, mainly as a result of changes in the mass of glaciers, Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets, and liquid water storage on land (reservoirs behind dams and groundwater), and an increase of the volume of ocean water because it warms up. An update of the rate of sea level rise, and the contribution of these components to this rate, was presented in a recent study.
Since late 1992, the global mean sea level is monitored by high-precision satellite altimetry. The update presents sea level rise over January 1993 to December 2015, including a correction for a drift in altimeter measurements in the first 5 years of this monitoring. Over this period sea level rise is close to 3.0 mm/yr. When split up in two periods 1993-2004 and 2004-2015, rates of sea level rise are 2.7 ± 0.2 mm/year and 3.5 ± 0.15 mm/year, respectively. The 0.8 mm/year increase between these two periods dominantly results from increased land ice loss from Greenland (+ 0.5 mm/year).
Current sea level rise of 3.5 mm per year agrees very well with the sum of all components mentioned above and reported in other scientific studies. Next to these components, the contributions of other components are still more or les blind spots in scientific literature: expansion of the ocean due to the warming of deep ocean water > 2 km, and water flowing into the ocean from permafrost melting, for instance. Apparently, the latter components still hardly contribute to current sea level rise.
Clearly, the rate of global mean sea level rise has increased over the last two decades.
Source: Dieng et al., 2017. Geophysical Research Letters 44: 3744 - 3751
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A lorry driver who always believed he would win finally did so after 21 years of playing. He won £1 million and a South African luxury vacation trip.
As soon as Simon Beach learned he had won, he quit his job. Now he is looking forward to hitting the golf greens more.
A lorry driver from Watford who won on the lottery quit his job the same day. As he is the primary carer for elderly parents, he opted cash in lieu of the vacation and took home a grand total of £1,054,720. He says he is happy to know he can now afford the best care for his parents.


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Hacker - Silhouette Set Against Binary Coded World Map
Artificial Intelligence: The Next Frontier of Cyber Warfare?
on April 6, 2018 Cybersecurity, Technology
Artificial intelligence. Machine learning. What once sounded like concepts fresh out of a sci-fi novel are now being integrated into everyday business functions. From assisting with compliance behind the scenes to improving the customer experience on the front end, bankers are finding tremendous value in these technologies.
One area where AI and machine learning can be applied is in the ongoing fight against cybercrime. AI provides a significant advantage over traditional systems, which rely on static rules to identify patterns and flag suspicious activities. AI, on the other hand, is always learning—using intelligent algorithms to detect and identify new attack patterns and incorporating that knowledge to flag cyberattacks more quickly and with much higher accuracy.
While AI is making media headlines almost daily, adoption of AI technology it is still in its nascent stages; a recent study by Accenture and Ponemon noted that in the financial services industry, just over a quarter of firms have deployed AI-based security solutions.
But there's a defensive case to be made for AI investment, too. A February 2018 report from the Center for a New American Security warned that cybercriminals may soon be leveraging AI and machine learning to increase the scope and efficiency of their attacks. "A natural effect would be to expand the set of actors who can carry out particular attacks, the rate at which they can carry out these attacks, and the set of potential targets," the report found.
Case study: Phishing
One of the older (but no less effective) fraud tactics commonly targeting financial institutions is phishing, where criminals typically use email to solicit sensitive information from their victims, such as passwords, social security numbers or financial information. Phishing emails often include a seemingly legitimate URL that directs victims to an external website where the information can be collected. According to the Accenture/Ponemon study, phishing and social engineering scams are the second most costly type of cyberattack facing the financial industry, costing an average of $196,610 per attack.
Phishing has been a tried-and-true fraud tactic for many years using traditional means, but what happens if attackers begin to enhance their methods using AI?
In a recent experiment, a team of researchers at Easy Solutions (which ABA endorses for its anti-phishing and digital threat protection services), attempted to answer that question. Analyzing several million phishing URLs, the team identified several individual threat actors targeting a single institution and analyzed their performance against the bank's phishing defense systems.
"The average attacker will have a success rate of about 0.3 percent, meaning that our systems are blocking 99.7 percent of their phishing URLs," says chief data scientist Alejandro Correa Bahnsen. He adds that the team observed higher success rates among some of the more sophisticated attackers—up to 5 percent in one case.
Researchers then assumed the role of hackers, creating an AI URL generator that could create unique phishing URLs. Using this technique, they found that their penetration attempts were significantly more successful; in one case, attack efficiency increased from 0.69 percent to 20.9 percent—a 3,000 percent increase. In another, AI boosted the success rate from 5 percent to 40 percent.
The potential of AI to enhance a cyberattack is boundless, but that doesn't mean that the fight against fraud is a lost cause. "The conclusion should not be that we are doomed as soon as attackers start using AI," Correa Bahnsen says. Rather, banks need to ensure that they're incorporating all of that knowledge into their own phishing detection systems.
While we're still on the cutting edge of defensive AI technology, Correa Bahnsen notes that it will soon be a must-have for banks. "Right now, if someone doesn't have AI, in most cases they have some set of rules put together in order to detect any traditional fraud. A very simple [AI-driven attack] is going to be able to bypass those."
Artificial intelligence Cybersecurity
Monica C. Meinert
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Hyphaenia rubra es una especie de insecto coleóptero de la familia Chrysomelidae.

Fue descrita científicamente en 2001 por Medvedev.

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POSSIBILITY OF DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS
Milano, 20 luglio 2016 - 18:47
Doctors Advising Against Vaccines Risk Disciplinary Action
Document of Italian Medical Association (FNOMCEO) warns that "in cases of infringements of the code, we are ready to intervene." Regarding rulings against use of vaccines, it states that there is a need to "Bridge the gap between science and law. Courts need to look at the scientific evidence".
di Laura Cuppini
Doctors who advise their patients not to use vaccines will be guilty of infringing the code of ethics and will be subject to disciplinary proceedings which may end in them being struck off the register. The warning comes from the Italian Medical Association (FNOMCEO), which has published a statement regarding the issue. "We are ready to do our part," explained the association secretary Luigi Conte. "Disciplinary procedures for doctors who advise against vaccines are underway, and have some have already been completed." In the most serious cases, offenders may be struck off the register."
The herd effect
The statement says that "Doctors should remember that according to the Italian Constitution, an individual's health is a collective interest. This constitutional requirement applies perfectly to vaccines, which by protecting the individual from possibly contracting serious diseases, protect the community through the so-called "herd effect". This occurs when a variable percentage of the population is vaccinated, between 85% and 96%, according to the contagiousness of the disease, and its potential to infect is reduced to the point that its pathogens cease to be in circulation. These concepts of modern medicine, which have saved hundreds of millions of human lives, cannot be ignored."
"Infringement of professional ethics"
The task of monitoring lies with the provincial medical associations, which also have the task of deciding any penalties. "There are already disciplinary actions in progress," said the FNOMCEO president Roberta Chersevani. "We are aware that these colleagues need to be heard, so that we can understand the reason for certain attitudes and establish what penalty to apply, where necessary." The concept is reiterated in the document, which reads: "Only in specific cases, such as for example certain conditions of immune deficiency, may a doctor advise against the use of vaccines. Advising a patient not to vaccinate in any other situation, particularly if vaccines are provided to the public, constitutes an infringement of the code of professional ethics."
Requirement of vaccination for nursery school children
The possibility of penalties for doctors advising against the use of vaccines emerged in October, when the new vaccination programme seemed ready to be issued, but was not expressed by the Ministry of Health, which is in fact working on the document for national application. At the same time, there was political debate on the possibility of not admitting to nursery school those children who had not completed their cycle of vaccinations. To date, in Italy, only the regional council of Emilia Romagna has introduced the requirement that children must be vaccinated before they can start nursery school. Experts have for some time been expressing concern about the decline in vaccination coverage in Italy, and the consequent return of diseases that were thought eradicated, such as measles and whooping cough, which can cause serious damage and in some cases lead to death, apart from the possible risk of epidemics. In February, the World Health Organization had criticised Italy because national averages had reached their lowest level for ten years.
Regional and national regulations
The vaccination requirement for access to nursery schools is also mentioned in the FNOMCEO document, which requests "the utmost effort to ensure vaccination in the first months of life to prevent potentially serious diseases and provide an efficient system for notifying patients for vaccination and boosters in order to reduce the cases of incomplete vaccination." It is necessary "to support all regional and national regulations aimed at reaffirming the need for vaccination, through measures that validly ascertain parental dissent, accountability with respect to the risks of the children, the prohibition for children to attend school during periods of epidemics, the requirement of vaccination for entering nursery school and possibly insurance against damage caused by the failure to vaccinate." The medical association also suggests "calling unvaccinated persons when they reach the age of 18 to inform them about their state of immunity."
The most effective interventions
The document, approved on 8 July and presented today in Rome, aims to promote an all-encompassing "culture of vaccination", involving not only doctors, but also policy makers, institutions, legislators, judges, researchers , communicators and, above all, patients and the public. "In the history of medicine, vaccines are the most effective interventions ever made available to man," added Chersevani. "And perhaps it is the fact that we no longer see on a daily basis the fatal or disabling effects of many diseases, due to the discovery of vaccines and antibiotic therapies, which led the public to think that we had won the battle against infectious diseases."
Anti-vaccine movements
According to Maurizio Grossi, the association's head of professional ethics, "the false perception that vaccines are unnecessary is becoming dangerously widespread. This is why we were convinced of the need for this document. So that when people ask us 'what side is FNOMCEO on?', we can answer without hesitation 'we are on the side of vaccines'." The text is a "statement of intent, an important step," added Luigi Conte, "because it is the first time we have felt the urgency and the need to issue a specific document, in an attempt to counter the pervasive activities of the anti-vaccine movement [the so-called 'antivax people', highly active on the internet, Ed.] and bridge the gap between science and society, between citizens and institutions, and thus foster the relationship of care."
Rulings against vaccination
One of the controversial points concerns the rulings against vaccination issued by various Italian courts. In this regard, FNOMCEO seeks to "bridge the apparent gap between science and law" and hopes that "in their judgments, the courts will intervene in the area of public health by acknowledging evidence obtained using scientific methods." The judiciary, it says, must not adopt attitudes which "foment conduct incompatible with the needs of society." It also proposes to "encourage, when faced with the possible recurrence of judgments that establish on the basis of case law the correlation between vaccines and autism based on individual medical claims, the Ministry of Health and the competent authorities to participate in the proceedings in cooperation with the Public Prosecutor and to appeal against such rulings immediately, already in the courts of first instance."
Re-emerging diseases
FNOMCEO notes that "statistics collected in the US show that vaccinations have reduced by more than 99% many serious diseases: 100% of cases of paralytic polio, diphtheria and smallpox; 99% of those of rubella, congenital rubella and measles; 95% of mumps; and 92% of tetanus and whooping cough. Taking into consideration solely 7 of the 12 recommended vaccines, health authorities have prevented 33,000 deaths and 14 million cases of diseases for each birth cohort [i.e. the group of children born in a given year, Ed.], with enormous savings in economic terms. We should also remember," he continued, "the diphtheria epidemics in Russia, in the former Soviet republics, in Belgium and Germany, of polio in Syria and the Netherlands in religious communities who refuse vaccinations, measles cases in California, and the many countries where endemic diseases have disappeared following sufficiently extensive vaccination campaigns. Due to these episodes, we have not been able to achieve the goal of globally eradicating serious diseases that have actually re-emerged and brought new deaths."
Among the safest drugs
"Vaccines," concludes FNOMCEO, "are among the most strictly controlled drugs, with safety guarantees, because they are prepared for mass administration to healthy or potentially vulnerable individuals, such as infants and the elderly. Vaccines have achieved a reassuring degree of safety, certified by means of a lengthy authorization process, in line with the most stringent international regulations. They are produced according to the most rigorous methods, with experimental and randomized controlled trials, often on the basis of double-blind tests with placebos and subjected to cross-checks by experts. Finally, the consolidated production technologies applied to vaccines make administration completely safe."
English translation by Simon Tanner
www.simontanner.com
Article in Italian
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Collieston Family Members
Collieston Boys
Our boys are just for fun, not stud dogs, as they're too closely related to our girls,
although certainly of show quality in looks and breeding, and their paws & genes have been sought after on several occasions, but they don't have what it takes any more and live as our beloved pets... not 'just' pets as pets are the most loved and valued members of canine society, but pets nonetheless : their only responsibilities are to be themselves, and thus bring us joy ( with occasional competition success being appreciated too of course) and that they do with charm and generosity.
Collieston Spring Bonus CD ADX ADO JD GD SD SPD ET
'Bonus' is a joy ... often a frustrating joy, but a joy nonetheless ..
and he wasn't meant to be here at all ....
He suffered major injuries at the age of 8 weeks, just as the pups were about
to go to their new homes, but as his prognosis was very poor, he stayed with us here for the rest of what was expected to be his short life; but it was not to be !...
I had no expectations of him as a result, and entered him in the Collie National Obedience trial here in 2003 just to make up numbers, as he's never been trialled up till then .. and he won with 183/200 !.. and proceeded thereafter to his CD title without a fail, the only dog I've ever worked to achieve that ... I believe he has no imagination, so he just does the set exercises, unlike his Mum & sister who more often than not apparently considered it their duty to spice up their performances by improvising 'variations on a theme' ....
Given 'Bo's limitations, he's done extremely well, and has proven a delightful big
brother to puppies, and a wonderful 'teddy' bear' of a companion dog
Collieston Angus Dundee CD AD JD GD SPD
'Angus' is 'Magic's singleton son sired by Sharyn Ely's Ch. Joshwyn One More Nite
in late 2004. He lives a great life with an Adelaide suburban family, but with a side-
line in performance sports when he's allowed out to play with his canine family.
He too has done remarkably well given the part-time nature of our relationship & training opportunities : in the one year during which he's strutted his stuff in Obedience & Agility rings, he breezed through his CCD & CD titles with high scores, winning both the Novice Obedience and Novice Agility classes at Adelaide's Royal Show in 2007, and moving with good humour & poise between his 'real' home' and the slightly crazy world of doggy competition he inhabits during his visits here. I'm very proud of this boy on several fronts & hope he can continue his winning ways in his his chosen fields for years to come.
Many thanks to the Brehmer family for 'lending' him back to me for these events.
Julie & 'Angus'with the Novice Agility
award, Royal Adelaide Show, 2007


There are so many ways you can donate to the British Hen Welfare Trust, from sponsoring a hen to leaving a gift in your will. You can find out more information about the various ways of giving below. Thank you so much for your support - without you we simply couldn't do what we do.
The British Hen Welfare Trust is looking to raise £250,000 to build the UK's first Welfare and Education centre for hens!
Gift Aid means every £1 you give can be worth £1.25 to us.
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This fall, Fleet Feet Sports is highlighting the positive effects of running. One of the ways we are doing this is by giving back to our community. We're looking to make a big impact and we want to hear your suggestions on where you think we can make a difference.
For nine weeks starting in August, we will donate proceeds from the sale of certain products as part of our Power of Running For Good initiative and and we'd like YOUR help selecting a local non-profit organization to support.
Simply submit your suggestion below. We'll accept nominations for deserving groups from now until July 15th. After narrowing it down to the top three, we'll ask you to vote for your favorite!
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PNAS Plus
Herpesviral replication compartments move and coalesce at nuclear speckles to enhance export of viral late mRNA
Lynne Chang, William J. Godinez, Il-Han Kim, Marco Tektonidis, Primal de Lanerolle, Roland Eils, Karl Rohr, and David M. Knipe
PNAS May 24, 2011 108 (21) 8539-8540;
Lynne Chang
William J. Godinez
Il-Han Kim
Marco Tektonidis
Primal de Lanerolle
Roland Eils
Karl Rohr
David M. Knipe
For correspondence: david_knipe@hms.harvard.edu
Figures & SI
Movement of a specific gene to different locations within the nucleus is emerging as an important component of gene regulation. Changes in transcriptional activity have been correlated with radial movement of chromosomal loci away from and to the nuclear periphery as well as with relative movement to clusters of highly active or inactive genes and/or regulatory sequences (1). Researchers also believe that actively transcribed genes come into close contact with nuclear bodies such as speckles, sites often regarded as hubs of RNA metabolism. Although these results show a link between gene movement and changes in transcriptional activity, it is unclear whether movement is the cause or result of changes in transcriptional activity. The mechanisms underlying gene movement also remain unresolved. Nuclear forms of actin and myosin have been implicated in mediating long-range directed movement, but exactly how this putative nucleoskeletal system operates is unknown. In addition to their possible mechanical roles in mediating intranuclear movement, there is increasing evidence for the roles of nuclear actin and myosin in cellular transcription, chromatin remodeling, and mRNA export. How and whether their roles in movement are connected to regulation of gene activity are unclear. Using herpes simplex virus (HSV) as a model system for studying gene movement, we found that HSV chromosomes move by directed motion in a process that involves nuclear actin, myosin, and ongoing transcription. We also observed that movement leads to coalescence of replication compartments (RCs) at nuclear speckles and that this coalescence is required for the export of a viral late gene transcript.
Viruses are simple genetic entities that have often served as precise probes of cellular molecular mechanisms. HSV chromosomes are replicated and undergo late gene transcription in intranuclear structures called RCs (2), which are known to move and coalesce in nuclei of infected cells during the course of infection (3, 4). However, the function and mechanism of RC movement are unknown. To better understand the mechanism and function of their intranuclear movement, we carried out 4D imaging of cells infected with a recombinant HSV strain. RCs were visualized by a viral-encoded ssDNA binding protein, infected cell protein (ICP) 8, fused to GFP. Quantitative shape and kinetic analyses of the 3D RC trajectories show that the majority of RCs move by directed motion. Our results also show that RCs move at rates (∼0.24 μm/min) and distances (up to 5.65 μm) that are comparable with values reported for long-range movement of cellular chromosomal loci.
To determine if nuclear actin and myosin are involved in the directed movement, we treated cells with an actin polymerization inhibitor, latrunculin A (lat A), or a putative myosin inhibitor, butanedione-monoxime (BDM). Cells were treated with the drugs at 3 h postinfection to allow for unobstructed viral entry and minimize potential effects on cytoplasmic trafficking of incoming virions, which could, in turn, affect RC growth and dynamics. Our results show that treatment of cells with either drug leads to a significant reduction in the numbers of RCs undergoing directed motion. This decrease is accompanied by an increase in the number of RCs displaying subdiffusive motions. Expression of dominant negative mutant forms of nuclear actin and myosin similarly inhibits directed movement, supporting a role for these nucleoskeletal factors in the directed movement of RCs. Because changes in transcriptional activity have also been linked to gene movement, we analyzed the movement of RCs in the presence of α-amanitin, an RNA polymerase II inhibitor. Indeed, treatment of cells with this transcription inhibitor leads to decreased numbers of RCs undergoing directed motion. Treatment of cells with a translation inhibitor does not have an effect, confirming that the effect of α-amanitin on RC movement is a result of inhibiting the process of transcription and not because of secondary effects on protein production.
Previous studies have suggested that coactivated genes tend to cluster at nuclear speckles. To determine if RC movement mediates association with these nuclear bodies, we carried out dual-spectral live cell imaging of RCs and speckles. Speckles were visualized by the expression of SC35, a major component of speckles, fused to mCherry, a red fluorescent protein. mCherry-SC35–expressing cells were infected with the ICP8-GFP virus to visualize RCs as described above. Our results show that the majority of RC movement leads to coalescence of two or more RCs in association with nuclear speckles (Fig. 1). Coalescence seems to be mediated by two main types of RC-speckle dynamics: movement of RCs between speckles and movement of RCs on what appears to be the surface of speckles. In rare cases, RCs also appear to move with speckles. The frequency of the major types of movement and coalescence decreases when cells are treated with actin, myosin, or transcription inhibitors. These results suggest that directed movement involving nuclear actin, myosin, and transcription is required for movement of RCs between speckles and on speckles for RCs to coalesce on these RNA processing bodies (Fig. 1).
Actively transcribing RCs move to and coalesce at speckles to form RNA export/processing structures. (A and B) Progeny DNA (black) in a stationary RC undergoes actin (blue) and RNA pol II (white) -mediated transcription (yellow) of true late genes such as gC. (C and D) Myosin (pink) is recruited to the transcribing RC and triggers movement of the RC away from the associated speckle. (E) The mobile RC moves to another RC-associated speckle and moves on the surface of the speckle to merge with the other RC. (F) Coalescence of RCs on the speckle surface leads to a reorganization of RCs, allowing for efficient incorporation of RNA processing factors and the processing of true late transcripts in the speckle, which ultimately create an RNA export/processing hub.
Based on the association of RCs with speckles and the inhibitory effects of α-amanitin on RC movement, we were interested in examining the potential role(s) for movement in the regulation of viral gene expression. To address this possibility, we analyzed viral mRNA and protein levels in the presence of movement inhibitors. Interestingly, inhibition of directed movement by lat A leads to a general decrease in viral gene transcript levels, whereas movement inhibition by BDM does not lead to decrease. Instead, BDM treatment results in a defect in viral mRNA export. Of the four kinetic classes of viral genes tested, the defect in nuclear export by BDM seems to be specific for transcripts of the true late class. Lat A treatment, however, has no significant effect on the nuclear export of viral transcripts. The differing effects of lat A and BDM treatments on viral gene expression combined with the observed inhibitory effect of α-amanitin on RC movement argue that movement is not required for transcription but rather, that transcription is required for movement (Fig. 1). Furthermore, our results showing that BDM inhibits movement without reducing transcript levels raise the possibility that transcription alone does not induce movement; rather, the recruitment of posttranscriptional processing factors (that are dependent on transcription) may be the trigger for movement. Mechanisms underlying the specific regulation of true late transcript export by RC movement remain to be determined. Understanding this specificity should provide deeper insights into how gene movement and association with speckles regulate export/processing of select mRNAs.
Based on our combined results, we hypothesize that the fusion of RCs at speckles would effectively couple viral transcription with nuclear export, leading to the formation of a hub that is optimized for the export of true late mRNAs (Fig. 1). Because HSV inhibits host RNA splicing mechanisms, this reorganization may allow for efficient export of the abundant true late mRNAs in the absence of splicing (5). These highly dynamic HSV RCs provide a useful tool for investigating the mechanism and function of intranuclear movement and interchromosomal interactions in living cells. Our results support the idea that the dynamic nature and positioning of genetic material within the complex nuclear architecture play an essential role in the expression of eukaryotic genes. The movement of actively transcribed genes to RNA processing and export sites may be a general mechanism that eukaryotic cells and viruses use to optimize coupling of transcription to RNA processing and nuclear export.
↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: david_knipe{at}hms.harvard.edu.
Author contributions: L.C., W.J.G., R.E., K.R., and D.M.K. designed research; L.C., W.J.G., I.-H.K., and M.T. performed research; L.C., W.J.G., P.d.L., R.E., K.R., and D.M.K. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; L.C., W.J.G., K.R., and D.M.K. analyzed data; and L.C., W.J.G., P.d.L., K.R., and D.M.K. wrote the paper.
*This Direct Submission article had a prearranged editor.
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18:3 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long [are] ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?
18:4 Give out from among you three men for [each] tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come [again] to me.
18:6 Ye shall therefore describe the land [into] seven parts, and bring [the description] hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.
18:7 But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD [is] their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.
18:9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came [again] to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
18:12 And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Bethaven.
18:13 And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which [is] Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that [lieth] on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.
18:14 And the border was drawn [thence], and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that [lieth] before Bethhoron southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which [is] Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: this [was] the west quarter.
18:19 And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this [was] the south coast.
18:20 And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This [was] the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.
18:28 And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which [is] Jerusalem, Gibeath, [and] Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This [is] the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.


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Nannonotus is een geslacht van rechtvleugeligen uit de familie sabelsprinkhanen (Tettigoniidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van dit geslacht is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1960 door Beier.

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Ever since I attended the New York Times Higher Ed Leaders Forum a few years ago where I listened to a fascinating panel on career services, I've appreciated the benefits of students visiting their career services office all four years of their college days—not the final semester of their senior year.
As in so many things, it pays to start early.
But here's an excerpt from an article that discusses the need to support your career search by making good use of the other centers on your campus, such as the wellness center, financial aid or money education center, even your campus gym or recreation center.
How do all those centers support your job search? Read and find out.
First, a word to any current graduate students reading this: visit your campus career center and sit down to chat with your career adviser. Do not wait until the month before you graduate. Do not wait until your résumé is "ready" or "good enough" for another human being to see. Do not wait until you know exactly what you want to do with your life. Go now.
Good. Now that that's out of the way, I'd like to promote other campus services and resources you should use to enhance your career search. The career center promotes other offices on campus? Yes! Because believe it or not, visiting those other offices before or in tandem with your visit to career services can enhance your career exploration experience and make your job search more productive.
Counseling center. I work with many students at the career center who bring in their résumés or seek advice for the job search process, and it becomes apparent very quickly that their résumé or interview skills are not the roadblock. After delving a bit deeper, I may suspect that a student may be sabotaging their interviews because they're scared of graduating and leaving the security of their program and identity as a graduate student. Or perhaps they are worried that they will choose the "wrong" career path and be unhappy, so they waffle around and delay making any kinds of career decisions at all. My ability to assist all these students is limited, so I refer them to the outstanding counselors at our student counseling services.
I recommend that all students, at every stage of their career exploration and job search, visit the counseling center on their campus. Building a relationship with a counselor can assist you in managing stress and expectations as well as tackling any unexplored issues that may be stalling or sabotaging your search.
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package com.google.devtools.build.lib.util;

import static com.google.devtools.build.lib.util.subjects.DetailedExitCodeSubjectFactory.assertThatDetailedExitCode;

import com.google.devtools.build.lib.server.FailureDetails.FailureDetail;
import com.google.devtools.build.lib.server.FailureDetails.Interrupted;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;

/** Tests for {@link DetailedExitCode}. */
@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
public class DetailedExitCodeTest {

  @Test
  public void testGetInterruptedExitCode() {
    assertThatDetailedExitCode(
            DetailedExitCode.of(
                FailureDetail.newBuilder()
                    .setMessage("interrupted")
                    .setInterrupted(
                        Interrupted.newBuilder().setCode(Interrupted.Code.INTERRUPTED_UNKNOWN))
                    .build()))
        .hasExitCode(ExitCode.INTERRUPTED);
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Company Representatives - Your local boat show may very well host the representatives from boating manufacturers, equipment and environmental agencies. It's always interesting to speak face to face with people who work directly for the companies we buy from.
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The Lint Collector: The Bachelor Goes To Utah
By Nora Zelevansky / January 24th, 2012
Here we are in Utah, a state that's quite familiar with multiple women dating one single man! Woo hoo. Well, it's Sundance right now in real time in Park City, so I have to imagine they timed it that way for some reason? Or maybe it's a weird coincidence?
Anyhoo, the Bachelor episode opens and sister wife Kacie B. is freaking out. She says she needs another date with Ben this week or she's going to lose it. Um. Kacie B. It's gonna be a while before you have a second one-on-one. There are still like 700 other girls.
Still, her panic reminds me of JP on Ashley's season and starts to make me think that maybe she actually really clicked with Ben and that they might end up together.
Anyway, it's Rachel's one-on-one date. And she's gone mute. She's crazy shy maybe? She keeps talking about all the pressure of first dates. They're on a row boat and it's so dull that the massive amount of mosquitoes are pulling focus.
Back at the house, the girls hate Courtney – newsflash! She says she blossoms around Ben and shuts down around the girls. If that's how you want to describe it, el psycho! Anyway, she's all prepped for her first group date and PhD Emily says hopefully Ben will see the truth about her.
Back on the date, Rachel gets a rose, probably because she has a cool voice, she's pretty and she admitted that she has trouble "opening up." By that I guess she means talking? They swap marshmallows. That's not a euphemism for anything. He describes their potential relationship as a "slow burn."
Ben shows up on the group date on a horse. That's soooo Lindzi. It is beautiful there, I have to say. One of the girls says, "How attractive does he look right now?" A few comment on how nature doesn't get more beautiful AND it's only better because they're with Ben … and a bunch of other hoochie chicks.
Courtney says the date isn't about catching trout. It's about catching Ben. She says the other girls aren't on their game, but Ben is paying attention to Kacie B. Courtney says she's going to turn the date into a one-on-one. But Lindzi isn't having it. Don't matter though because Courtney catches a fish and apparently that's exciting.
At drinks, Ben chats with Kacie S., who I thought was Samantha. Whatever. They're both blond. Blakely is wearing a terrible hat. Nicki connects with him over losing loved ones and we find out that a friend of Ben's died right before he started the show. Just then, Samantha shows up and acts like an idiot. Such bad timing! She's clearly dumb as dirt and tries to challenge him, asking why she hasn't gotten a one-on-one. He gets pissed and pushes back. Don't test him, mofo. He has a temper. We saw it when Ashley dumped him. I kinda like it. He don't take crap.
He tells her that he's observed that she's overly emotional on group dates. He sends her straight home, saying that she doesn't take the whole thing seriously enough. She was absurd, but — wow — that was harsh. He thought she was being a bitch, but she was actually just being a moron. Sorry, Samantha. Bye bye.
Courtney, always eloquent and kind, says, "It's nice to see Ben sending girls home. Another one bites the dust."
Ben gives Kacie B. one-on-one time during the date. He likes her, for reals. He always gives her extra time. He likes her a lot and he says that he's "in trouble." They still have to go through this whole process! He says, "I might end up with her. She's wonderful."
Then he's with Courtney and he is so whipped by her model ass. She manipulates him into giving her the rose by saying that her feelings are wavering. But she's so hot that he panics. (BTW — his hair is wet and away from his face and he looks SO much better.)
The other women are all upset. But what else is new?
The next one-on-one is with "good kisser" Jennifer, who I think he might keep around for making out purposes, but not for real. I don't even know why I feel that way. They're going to climb down/rappel into a crater. Meanwhile, all I can think is that I want to re-color her way too red hair.
They lower into the water. It's a metaphor for a relationship, unknown waters blah blah blah. It rains etc. blah blah blah.
Back at the house, Blakely is doing Emily's highlights. Obviously, she's not so hated anymore. They all hate Courtney and — wait! — that girl Jamie who took care of her siblings when her parents died is still around. I didn't even realize! We haven't even seen them talk.
Back on the date, there's a country music concert and OMG thank goodness — it's not an awkward personal show. Phew. But just when I think we're safe, they go right up to the stage and sway. Eek.
Anyway, on to the cocktail party, where Emily tries to warn Ben about Courtney and instead ends up looking bad. Courtney is evil, saying Emily is on her "shit list." She's such a psychopath and I can only imagine that Ben is blind to it because she's so hot (as evidenced by "scenes from next week," when she strips down completely and goes skinny dipping with him).
Monica — who appeared to possibly be into Blakely on the first episode — is sent home and is upset, but it's confusing because her goodbye with Ben makes it seem like they've barely talked.
I'm worried about next episode, when Emily seems to try to warn Ben AGAIN for some stupid reason and Courtney just gets naked to get her way. I guess we'll have to wait and see. Ben can't rightly go skinny dipping with her and make out naked in the water and then send her home, so I'm guessing she'll be sticking around.
Still, my favorite moment in the entire episode? When Ben announces that they're going to "Vieques, Puerto Rico!" at the end and — amidst the other girls' shrieks of happiness — Courtney pouts, "I was just there two months ago."
Really, Ben? Really? I'm not even going to talk about the accent he used when he said "Puerto Rico."
xo – N.
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I have an addiction that I feel I have no control over.
No, it's not marijuana, cocaine, meth, sniffing rubber cement or even licking toads...it's running. Lame huh?
Running, for most people, is the hardest thing to get started. Not jogging...running. I reckon there are gateway drugs like cycling or swimming that could draw people in, but most people see running on a regular basis, especially hard running, as extremely difficult to want to do. Who could blame them? I don't enjoy beating myself senseless with a hammer either.
Running, unlike normal drugs, is something you have to put in an effort into actually becoming addicted to it. I started when I was 12 and running two miles basically shot me to crap for the rest of the day. For some odd reason, I kept coming back for more. Maybe it was those tiny victories that kept bringing me back. Like running a 5k without walking, doing it in a "blistering" 28:28. Moving up in my goals and making top 5 on my middle school team and winning a mile race or two in eighth grade. Then in high school it was probably breaking 5 minutes in the mile for the first time freshman year, being on the varsity team in cross country sophomore year and helping the team win state, and continuing to come back the following two years to accomplish (successfully) the same goal. Then making the top seven for my college team, breaking 16 minutes for a 5k for the first time right after running the 1500. Most importantly, trying to help the team compete for Sun Belt conference titles.
These little victories didn't come without a price. My summers were built around training. I sacrificed sleeping in to get up at 5:30 or 6am to run before the heat. I spent countless weekends away from friends and family to go way off somewhere to race. I couldn't do as many risky activities as often like skiing or even playing basketball on certain days because I was afraid of becoming injured and ruining a season. I also had to watch what I ate and refrain from junk food on the night before and the day of races. I did this for ten straight years, with little to no off season.
Running did give me a lot of great things. I was able to be part of four state titles (3 cross country, 1 indoor track) at Daviess County High School. I got to see my name in the sports section every Sunday and was able to become a Division I athlete at Western Kentucky University. At WKU, I was a member of four Sun Belt Conference championship teams in cross country and track and got to travel and run at a lot of different places. Through high school and road racing, I came across a lot of trophies and medals and championship rings. My high school coach wrote a book about our team and so I got to read about my high school friends and I in an actual publication. I gained several of my closest friends through running and had the ability to eat however much I wanted to since I was just going to "run it off later."
Running also gave me a lot of headaches. I suffered through several injuries as a result of running. Heat exhaustion became an annual summertime event for me. I broke my wrist trying to get in the team photo at regionals my senior year of high school. From this I had to have pins put in my arm and run half the summer with a full arm cast. I suffered through several bouts of achilles tendonitis and plantar faciitis through late high school and college. My junior year of college, what was leading up to be my best season yet, I suffered a concussion running the steeplechase due to weather conditions at Vanderbilt. It had been raining prior to the race making the track slick and, from what I've been told, my foot slipped and slammed headfirst into a barrier, knocking me unconscious (kinda like the above picture). This not only messed up the rest of that track season but also knocked me out hard enough to make it hard to even think straight enough to finish school projects. I couldn't walk in a straight line or drive for a week and couldn't run more than a mile without getting sick for a week or two after that incident.
College is over. After a frustrating senior year at Western, I shed no tears after my last race. I felt that after all that I could finally kick this running addiction and just "run for fun." Which meant running if I felt like it, not because I had to. I'm no longer on a team and theoretically shouldn't care what kind of shape I'm in. As long as I'm not rapidly gaining weight, I shouldn't really care.
Why do I still feel guilty when I miss a day? That feeling of slacking still hasn't gone away if I don't run on a designated day. Or, when I do run, feeling guilty that I don't run hard enough. After vowing to not race the whole summer and probably not for at least a year, I am more than likely doing a 5k this Thursday night in Lincoln Park. I reindulged in my addiction last week running a workout with Fleet Feet's racing team and then doing an additional workout with a friend afterward.
Doing two track workouts back to back did hurt. I hadn't touched a track since my last race at MTSU. However, in a weird, slightly masochistic way, I enjoyed it. Racing a 5k this Thursday will probably bring back a lot of painful memories and I'll think during the race like "Why did I choose this sport?" Afterwards, like a guy who drank way too much the night before and thinking "I'm never drinking again," I'll be thinking "I'm never racing again." I have no time goals going into Thursday and tell myself I'll be happy with whatever. One little race won't hurt. The end result is inevitable. I won't be satisfied. I'll just want to run more and get faster for the next race. I'll never be completely satisfied with my conditioning.


Janaun Jidon, and Nancy Julius Siambun, and N N Safie, (2016) Synthesis and characterization of supported sugar catalyst by dip coating method. In: IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science.
Sugar catalyst is a novel solid acid catalyst with reactivity comparable to that of sulphuric acid in biodiesel production. However, the fine powder form of sugar catalyst with the non-porous structure might cause large pressure drop in a packed bed reactor due to low bed porosity, affecting the reaction conversion especially in gas phase reaction. Furthermore, higher pressure drop requires higher electrical energy to drive the fluid through. Increasing the particle size is anticipated to be able to overcome the pressure drop matter. Hence, a deposition of sugar catalyst on larger particle materials was studied. Three types of materials were used for this investigation namely aluminum, silica and clay. The deposition was done via dip-coating method. The materials were characterized for their total acidity, thermal stability, functional groups, surface area, and element composition. The total acidity for SCDCAl, SCDCSi, and SCDCCl were 0.9 mmol/g, 0.2 mmol/g, and 0.4 mmol/g, respectively. The ratio of char deposited on SCDCAl, SCDCSi and SCDCCl were 0.9 g of support/g of carbon, 0.040 g of support/g of carbon, and 0.014 g of support/g of carbon respectively. FTIR and EDX analyses were carried out to determine the presence of active sites of the catalysis by identifying the functional groups such as –COOH, -OH, -SO3H. The results showed that –SO3H was detected on the surface of synthesized catalysts, except for SCDCC1.The pore size of SCDCAl, SCDCSi and SCDCCl were classified as macropores because the average diameter were greater than 50nm.. The catalysts were stable up to 400 °C. The results showed that the dip- coating method could deposit sugar catalyst on aluminum, silica, and clay at low total acidity concentration.


Drug and alcohol addiction is one of the toughest things to watch someone struggle with. Whether it's a spouse, friend or child, watching them repeat the same cycles of abuse is trying. In many situations, especially with children, they will think they are hiding it well and that you have no idea what's going on. When it comes down to it, you need to have a conversation with your addicted child, that or if it's too hard, it's time to have a crisis intervention for your child. In this post we'll show you how to talk to your addicted child.
This closes the door the having a dialogue with them about the topic. However, putting in the work to open that door and have a conversation with your addicted child may be exactly what they need to start the arduous road to recovery.
It's quite likely that your child's drug addiction has caused you and your family some problems. You might even be angry with them. However, in order to create a productive dialogue, it's important to put aside how the drug addiction has impacted you and focus on how it has impacted them.
Keep that quote in mind as you start planning how to create a conversation with an individual with substance abuse issues. Understand that it's not about the problems they've caused you – it's about the problems they're causing for themselves. Even if you might be angry, approaching the topic with this frame of mine will elicit a much healthier reaction in most situations. While an intervention is a more direct approach that leads to treatment, if you do not want your child to go through treatment, continue the conversation and don't stop until it's over.
It's much easier said than done, but it's important to try to reach the root cause of why your addicted child is using drugs to best help them. In most situations, addicts are using because they feel it helps them with a certain problem. It might be a real problem at school, with friends or even with family. It might also be a perceived problem that isn't even there.
Your child will likely not know the problem they're trying to solve with drug use. At some level, however, they will believe that taking their drug of choice is what's helping them solve it.
It is part of human behavior to rationalize behaviors that we know are destructive, and this is especially true with drug addicts. At some level, your child truly believes that their usage is helping solve a problem.
The first step to finding the source of the problem is to create a conversation with your child. Choose a right time where they seem in a positive or neutral mood, and don't have anywhere to be. Sit them down and let them know you're aware they're using.
What are your dreams and aspirations in life? Do you believe you can accomplish those and use drugs at the same time?
How do you feel when you're sober? What prompts you to start using? What are your thoughts before each usage?
Do you believe that your usage is a problem in your life? How would you feel about help?
These questions, along with any others that are more specific to your child, puts them in control and will hopefully help them open up. It's advisable to have a proposed treatment plan, such as counseling or rehab, if they would like help ending their drug abuse.


Doug Schnitzspahn » Blog Archive » An Offsetting Truth?
I understand the worry over carbon offsets. There is a real danger that those who buy offsets will forget about the root problems that are causing global warming. It's a legitimate concern. If you can simply offset the carbon your car emits, why bother to adjust the tire pressure for better mileage? If you can create "carbon neutral" products, why bother to get a blower door test to make your company headquarters more energy efficient?
But I think the anti-offseters are throttling a straw man. No one is saying that you can go ahead and pollute, that you can ignore the deeper causes of global warming, if you purchase offsets. Offsetting is just one part of the multi-faceted process of reducing your personal or corporate carbon footprint. It is an important one, but it must be done in conjunction with a whole range of other steps that reduce waste and consumption. Still, even if all you do is buy carbon offsets you are at least making some small difference. And it is extremely important for people to feel as if they can make a difference, even if it is by doing something very small.
Never mind how comparing carbon offsetting to indulgences ignores the complexities of Catholic theology (remember Carbon Trade Watch is based in the Netherlands, the Protestant flashpoint of the Reformation), when you look at the analogy it just doesn't make much sense. That's because it is meant to deceive, to subvert the dialog. Sins are intangible. Offsetting? When you buy carbon offsets you actually reduce the amount of carbon being pumped into the earth's atmosphere. Yes, it may not affect you directly, may not make a difference in the smoggy sky above your head in LA, but it still represents a net reduction in the amount of carbon being used. It also encourages investment in wind (or other alternative power). And on an extremely basic level, the more demand for wind power the less demand for fossil fuels.
Equally obtuse is the idea that those individuals who buy carbon offsets do it out of guilt. Offsetting is done by choice. (A legitimate concern would be companies that simply offset as a marketing ploy without making any effort to reduce carbon emissions or consumption.) I would even posit that it is the offset protestors who are making those who buy offsets feel guilty for making an effort to affect climate change but not buying completely into the offset-protestor's world-view.
Simply put, the indulgences analogy is a smear campaign. It is just the kind of political sloganism that George Orwell warns against in "Politics and the English Language". It is not meant to encourage debate or even to battle global warming. It is meant to demonize those selling offset credits. I first read the indulgences analogy in a piece about carbon offset protesters in Treehugger (the protestors were targeting the Carbon Neutral Company in London and concerned about the role of offsetting in international treaties as well as the trading of carbon offset futures). A few days later Treehugger blogger Mark Ontkush picked up the phrase instead of attributing it to The Carbon Neutral Myth—or thinking for himself—in a post on computer companies offsetting the carbon used to produce chips (at least I think that is what he was trying to write about). Treehugger is an extremely well linked and popular site, considered the authority on green/environmental issues (although I'm not exactly sure why since it seems more concerned about churning out posts that boost its Technorati ratings than it is with Mother Jones-style journalism), so suddenly everyone with a blog is posting the news that carbon offsetting "is similar to the indulgences of the 15th and 16th centuries, where the Dutch literally paid for their sins." This, to me is not just wrong it is irresponsible journalism. Mr. Ontkush should have attributed his quote to Carbon Neutral from the get go instead of vapidly assimilating it into his own language. Look, I'm sure Ontkush is a thoughtful writer who is legitimately concerned about these issues and the planet, but he did a disservice to the green/sustainable movement because he, as Orwell would say, used a prepackaged political analogy that stops writers from thinking.
I think there is a deeper debate here that may be the root of all the impassioned anti-offset rhetoric, and it too deserves careful though instead of instant abhorrence. Many "greenies" don't like the idea that people are making money off fighting global warming (Ontkush bashes Terrapass a green-thinking company that sells carbon offsets). Now, this is a matter of personal political preference, but I am of the mind that a capitalistic society offers more freedom than a state-run society. I'm also of the mind that the best way for anti-global warming initiatives to work is if they are profitable. Human nature. We like money. Nothing wrong with that. The evil is in what you do with the power you achieve with that money. But instead of being resistant to the idea that individuals and corporations can profit from green initiatives, I'm encouraged by it. The more people who save money or even make money by saving the planet, the better chance we have of actually doing something about global warming. I personally don't like the state-controlled alternatives to capitalism and I suggest reading Czeslaw Milosz's The Captive Mind if you have delusions of left-wing (or right-wing) utopias.
In the end, all I really ask is that, if we are going to engage in a debate on carbon offsets, both sides come to the table with realistic answers to the problem. I hope that the carbon offset and global warming debate can be based on how we can realistically make things better instead of being dragged into gut-reactions that dilute the movement and in the end derail a truly noble cause.
doug is right. the indulgence argument is vapid. we must do the right thing as a species. our survival depends on shifting our energy production from carbon to renewables. simple as that. how we get there…we'll find the best way. but get there we must or we're hot on the heels of dinosaurs on the way to extinction.
Thanks for the post, Mark from Treehugger here. Obviously I have a much different view of offsets and their purpose. You can covered some good points here, consider these as well.
Offsets are sold usually by juxtapositioning them with another product. My sense is vendors do this to evoke a feeling. I think that feeling is 'guilt', although it could be something more rosy, such as 'hope'. This is not unlike the sale of other products, such as diamonds or bottled water, which couple love and health respectively to a product that has nothing to do with it.
The reason for doing this is because, much like indulgences, there is no reason to buy offsets. None. No one is under any obligation to purchase them and a fake market must be created. Again, bottled water, diamonds. The way to make a market is to link them with feelings.
You mention that I want to stop writers from thinking. That is absolutely, 100 percent correct. I do not want people to think or discuss the situation anymore; probably much like you, I want them to act. I include myself in the equation – I have stopped thinking about global warming, and spending all my time doing things to fix it. My post was strongly worded to prevent readers from wasting their limited time, resources, and patience on a foolish scheme.
Just some random surfing on the topic, and look who I found!! Great essay, thanks – and best wishes.


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Space Force says it has a plan to fix gaps in weather data
by Sandra Erwin — September 28, 2020
A U.S. airman looks at meteorological data from weather satellites. Credit: U.S. Air Force
Congress for years has been critical of the U.S. Air Force's weather satellite programs.
WASHINGTON — The Space Force has completed a report mandated by Congress on its plans to acquire weather satellites to fill a growing military demand for meteorological data, a senior official told SpaceNews.
The report is done and is being submitted to Congress by the Department of the Air Force, Charlotte Gerhart, chief of the Space and Missile Systems Center Production Corps Low Earth Orbit Division, said in a recent interview.
The defense appropriations committees for years have been critical of the U.S. Air Force's space weather program, which is now the responsibility of the U.S. Space Force. In the 2020 conference report for the Defense Department, appropriators raised concerns about the Air Force's "commitment to provide accurate and timely weather data, a mission with a profound impact on daily worldwide military operations."
Appropriators directed the secretary of the Air Force to report back with details on the weather strategy. Gerhart said the Space Force's weather acquisition plan "is in the process of being delivered from the Air Force to Congress."
Gerhart said she could not comment on the content of the report to Congress. She noted that the Space Force has several programs in place to provide space-based meteorological and oceanographic data, and is investing in next-generation systems.
The Space Force earlier this month activated a geostationary weather satellite that was transferred to the Air Force by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 2019. Formerly known as GOES-13, the satellite was renamed Electro-optical Infrared Weather System Geostationary (EWS-G1) and moved to the region over the Indian Ocean to fill a gap in coverage.
Gerhart said the satellite provides cloud characterization and theater weather imagery and has enough fuel to function another four to five years.
"We project that we can continue to operate that satellite until 2024, or possibly 2025," she said. "This was a very unique opportunity to utilize a spare satellite, to relocate it to the Indian Ocean region to provide capability that we didn't have previously. We also leverage the European satellites that are in the region but this allows us to have our own satellite to fill that critical need."
It didn't take long to repurpose NOAA's satellite, whereas building and launching a new spacecraft would have taken five to 10 years, said Gerhart.
The EWS-G1 is a temporary fix until the Space Force acquires a new system that will likely be a distributed or proliferated low-Earth orbit constellation, said Gerhart.
SMC's Space Enterprise consortium in June awarded contracts totaling $309 million to three companies for the Electro Optical/Infrared Weather System (EO/IR EWS) program.
Raytheon Technologies, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems and Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates are developing competing space sensor prototypes that can provide global cloud characterization and theater weather imagery. One will be selected for an on-orbit demonstration by 2023. The plan is to deploy new satellites by 2025
The EWS-G1 is a geosynchronous satellite that doesn't cover the poles. Polar coverage currently is provided by four 1960s-era Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites.
For microwave observations, SMC is acquiring a new Weather System Follow-On-Microwave (WSF-M) satellite, which is being built by Ball Aerospace.
Gerhart said the satellite passed a critical design review in April and is on track for a 2023 launch. The contract awarded in November 2018 to Ball Aerospace is for one satellite but there are options in the contract to get a second satellite.
The WSF-M will replace services provided today by the DMSP satellites for theater weather imagery, electrical optical infrared data. It also will add a sensor to measure the direction and speed of ocean winds, as well as the intensity of hurricanes.
Gerhart said SMC also is considering using weather data from private companies but that is assessed on a case-by-case basis. "It depends on what commercial sensors are available and what's going to be the price point for that capability," she said. "Are those sensors going to be accurate enough, are they going to actually meet our requirements?"
A congressional source told SpaceNews that appropriators will be closely watching the Space Force's weather programs and remain skeptical. The source noted past failed efforts by the Air Force to acquire weather satellites and to host sensors on existing satellites.
Two previous programs to replace the DMSP were cancelled. One was the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)that began in 1997 and was cancelled in 2010 due to escalating costs and schedule delays. Another was the Defense Weather Satellite System that followed the NPOESS cancellation. It started in 2010 and was terminated in fiscal year 2012 because of unsustainable costs.
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Google recently slapped something like 50 million small business websites, in fact they called it just like that "Google Slap".
In simple terms it means, if you had a yoga website that appeared in the Google search-engine…on page one, that was good.
But after the "slap" it no longer exists in Google, consiquently people can not find you on the Google search and now it's bad, even though your website still exists.
Crazy as it sounds, it raises a question, why would Google block your website from the search? And if it has not yet, can your website be the next?
The rules of the online game are changing and changing fast.
If you want people to find your yoga website (or whatever your business is, therapy, holistic etc) you have to do more than just build it.
The question is, how do you avoid vanishing from the cyberspace?
It's actually very simple, you just have to follow the number one rules: Stick to the rules!
We recenctly re-modified our Yoga Business Academy website according to Google rules, and virtually overnight, Yoga Business Academy climbed to number one position.
Which means if you search for yoga business, or yoga marketing or any related terms in Google, out of 22million + website returns Yoga Business Academy is number one in Free Google pages, in other words we pay zero to be number one.
We, of course as Yoga Business Consultants are happy to show you how you can position your yoga website number one in your niche overnight, and how to avoid vanishing your business from cyberspace.
If your yoga website was number one in Google, how many more client prospects would see your service, hence how would it affect your profits?


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ECO-TOURISM SILVER AWARD
Recently the Sands at Nomad has been certified as SILVER by the environmental body Ecotourism Kenya.
This award was received after environmental auditors visited The Sands Hotel and Restaurant, noting it's projects, ethos, environmental policy and it's path towards sustainability. In their report the Sands was reported to be an 'Exemplary property' and was moved directly to the silver category by-passing bronze.
As part of the feedback received was a list of places for improvement, The Sands is set on 'Going for Gold!'


Morrow is a village in Warren County, in the Cincinnati metro area.
The latitude of Morrow is 39.354N. The longitude is -84.127W.
The estimated population, in 2003, was 1,422.
Sections below provide additional information and links about Morrow demographics, travel and tourism, nearby airports, cemeteries, the Warren County economy, education, environment, genealogy, government, historic sites, Cincinnati area jobs, libraries, maps, museums, newspapers and other media, nonprofit groups, real estate, recreation, religion, transportation, and weather in the 45152 ZIP code.
30% of Morrow residents report German ancestry, and 15% report Irish. For more info on local ancestry groups, see the Morrow ancestry & family history guide.
At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Morrow was $15,416, compared with $21,587 nationally.
10% of Morrow residents age 25 and older have a bachelor's or advanced college degree.
Median rent in Morrow, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $394. Monthly homeowner costs, for people with mortgages, were $888.
Warren County supported George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election. For more information, see our Morrow political report.
The average commute time for Morrow workers is 26 minutes, compared with 26 minutes nationwide.


Polaris is the world's leading healthcare compliance software and consulting firm, providing innovative solutions to Life Sciences companies. Our services range from best-in-class compliance software to expert consulting, planning and strategic guidance from the industry's leading compliance authorities. Polaris also offers competitive data analytics and end-to-end managed services. Polaris is headquartered in New York City, with worldwide offices in Amsterdam, Boston, Hong Kong, New Brunswick, Paris and San Francisco. Since 2001, the world's most recognized pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies have relied on Polaris as their trusted life sciences compliance solutions partner.


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We've all heard the expression 'First Impressions Count' while using the staging your home there is nothing truer and your hallway is what's create that first, and very important, impression on anyone looking to get your property. Halls and entrance areas give any viewer the first real glimpse of the property they have selected to view.
Give area that lived in feel by going to add accessories. Pillows, rugs, cushions all create that generate a welcoming stroke. By having proper way accessories, you might be able cause the room into whatever market . it to get.
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Directly on top of the Pokemon Center is a 2 story office building. On the first floor are two NPCs who speak about how Pokemon are strange and have special abilities that they'll use. Onto the second floor is another family. The woman talks on how difficult it really is to discover ideas for meals all the time. The man beside the bed is seeking to get his daughter to bust a gut. He says he is totally new father and asks the trainer in case they have ever babysat before. The trainer is prompted to enter a phrase to help make the child laugh. The saying is completely random, but there are generators online to learn what the phrase is. The phrase is with regards to the trainer's ID number. The trainer will receive a component of wallpaper for Secret Base if as the maxim goes the correct phrase.
When comparing quotes from contractors for home improvement, don't just look at the dollar wide variety. There are many factors which should also be compared, like warranties, time lines, labor costs, and some tips often may possibly contracted always be on world-wide-web site. You want to balance the price the project with what amount it will affect living.
There are two to be able to watch Being Human on your iPad: iTunes - Episode 1 is offered for free on apple itunes. An SD Season Pass for that remaining 12 episodes is $19.99; the HD Season Pass is $29.99.
Starting a decorating project without an insurance policy in place first will lead many aggravation and disappointments. A person most likely end lets start on the color scheme clashing with the piece of furniture or with the wrong connected with furnishings produce the style you were after. Actually simply makes things more difficult than it must be. So thoughts is broken ready to start that new decorating project, sit down and plan it out first. You will be glad master.


Roadtrip! To the Lake Student Travel Log is an essential item for instructors using the Roadtrip! lesson book. All of the "at-home activities" from the Teacher Guidebook are pre-typed onto individual assignment sheets. Print out and send home with your students or annotate during the lesson on your iPad and email the assignments to the parents.
Roadtrip! is so much fun for beginners and this Travel Log is a great tool to use for communicating the activities to be done at home. The format is easy to use and matches the student book. I appreciate the generosity of Piano Pronto and Jennifer Eklund in providing this resource free.
Great for helping families support the student! And you can't beat free!
The fact that this is offered free speaks to what great customer service Jennifer and her team offer. A teacher expressed a need for an assignment book specific to Roadtrip!, several others voiced their need as well, and within a week, this practice book was made available free of charge. This book really helps parents know what to do during home practice.


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