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Zhonghua minzu
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Simplified Chinese | 中华民族 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 中華民族 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zhonghua minzu (simplified Chinese: 中华民族; traditional Chinese: 中華民族; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínzú), translated as "Chinese nation"[1][2] or "Chinese race",[3] is a key political term that is entwined with modern Chinese history of nation-building and race.[4][5]
Since the late 1980s, the most fundamental change of the People's Republic of China's nationalities and minorities policies is the renaming from "the Chinese People" (Chinese: 中国人民 or zhongguo renmin) to "the Chinese Nation/Nationality" (Chinese: 中华民族 zhonghua minzu),[5] signalling a shift from the communist statehood with people of various nationalities to a national statehood based on a single minzu (nation/nationality).[5]
During the early Republican (1912–27) and Nationalist (1928–49) periods, the term Zhonghua minzu consists of Han Chinese people and other four major non-Han ethnic groups: the Man (Manchus), the Meng (Mongolians), the Hui (ethnic groups of Islamic faith in northwestern China), and the Zang (Tibetans),[3][6] a notion of a republic of five races (Chinese: 五族共和) that is advocated by Sun Yat Sen and the Nationalist Guomindang Party. During the Communist period after Mao's death, the term zhonghua minzu was resurrected to include the mainstream Han Chinese and other 55 ethnic groups as a huge Chinese family.[1][4]
The immediate roots of the Zhonghua minzu lie in the Qing dynasty founded by the Manchu clan Aisin Gioro in what is today northeast China. The Qing Emperors sought to portray themselves as ideal Confucian rulers for the Han Chinese, Grand khans for the Mongols, and Chakravartin kings for Tibetan Buddhists. Before the rise of nationalism people were generally loyal to the city-state, the feudal fief and its lord or, in the case of China, to the dynastic state.[7] The French Revolution and subsequent developments in Europe paved the way for the modern nation-state and nationalism has become one of the most significant political and social forces in history. Nationalism spread in the early 19th century to central Europe and from there to eastern and southeastern Europe and in the early 20th century nationalism began to appear in China.
While Qing rulers adopted the Han Chinese imperial model and considered their state as Zhongguo ("中國", the term for "China" in modern Chinese), and the name "China" was commonly used in international communications and treaties (such as the Treaty of Nanking),[8] domestically however, some Chinese nationalists such as Sun Yat-sen initially described the Manchus as "foreign invaders" to be expelled,[9] and planned to establish a Chinese nation-state modelled closely after Germany and Japan. Fearing, however, that this restrictive view of the ethnic nation-state would result in the loss of large parts of imperial territory, Chinese nationalists discarded this concept. The abdication of the Qing emperor inevitably led to controversy about the status of territories in Tibet and Mongolia. While the emperor formally bequeathed all the Qing territories to the new republic, it was the position of Mongols and Tibetans that their allegiance had been to the Qing monarch; with the abdication of the Qing, they owed no allegiance to the new Chinese state. This was rejected by the Republic of China and subsequently the People's Republic of China.
This development in Chinese thinking was mirrored in the expansion of the meaning of the term Zhonghua minzu. Originally coined by the late Qing philologist Liang Qichao, Zhonghua minzu initially referred only to the Han Chinese. It was then expanded to include the Five Races Under One Union, based on the ethnic categories of the Qing. Sun Yatsen further expanded this concept when he wrote,
Some people say, after the overthrow of the Qing, we will have no further need of nationalism. Those words are certainly wrong... At the present we speak of unifying the 'five nationalities' (Han, Manchu, Mongol, Hui, and Tibetan), yet surely our country has far more than five nationalities? My stand is that we should unite all the peoples of China into one Chinese nation (Zhonghua minzu)...and, furthermore, develop that nation into an advanced, civilized nation; only then will nationalism be finished.
The concept of Zhonghua minzu was first publicly espoused by President Yuan Shikai in 1912, shortly after the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and the founding of the Republic of China. Facing the imminent independence of Outer Mongolia from China, Yuan Shikai stated, "Outer Mongolia is part of Zhonghua minzu [the Chinese nation] and has been of one family for centuries" (外蒙同為中華民族,數百年來儼如一家).
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the concept of Zhonghua minzu became influenced by Soviet nationalities policy. Officially, the PRC is a unitary state composed of 56 ethnic groups, of which the Han ethnic group is by far the largest. The concept of Zhonghua minzu is seen as an all-encompassing category consisting of people within the borders of the PRC.
This term has continued to be invoked and remains a powerful concept in China into the 21st century. In mainland China, it continues to hold use as the leaders of China need to unify into one political entity a highly diverse set of ethnic and social groups as well as to mobilize the support of overseas Chinese in developing China.
In Taiwan it has been invoked by President Ma as a unifying concept that includes the people of both Taiwan and mainland China without a possible interpretation that Taiwan is part the People's Republic of China, whereas terms such as "Chinese people" can be, given that the PRC is commonly known as "China".[10]
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The adoption of the Zhonghua minzu concept may give rise to the reinterpretation of Chinese history. For example, the Manchu-founded Qing Dynasty was originally sometimes characterized as a "conquering regime" or a "non-Han" regime. Following the adoption of the Zhonghua minzu ideology, which regards the Manchus as a member of the Zhonghua minzu, dynasties founded by ethnic minorities are no longer stigmatized.
The concept of Zhonghua minzu nevertheless also leads to the reassessment of the role of many traditional hero figures. Heroes such as Yue Fei and Koxinga, who were originally often considered to have fought for China against barbarian incursions, have been recharacterized by some as minzu yingxiong (ethnic heroes) who fought not against barbarians but against other members of the Zhonghua minzu (the Jurchens and Manchus respectively).[11] At the same time, China exemplified heroes such as Genghis Khan, who became a "national hero" as a member of the Zhonghua minzu.[12]
The Zhonghua Minzu concept in practice gives Chinese nationals who are not of the ethnic Han majority preferential university entry status, favorable tax laws, non-compliance with the one-child policy, among other preferential conditions under Chinese law for ethnic minorities.[13] This has in fact led to a tremendous surge in the population of ethnic minorities in China, which number about 5% of the total Chinese population in the 1950s, to about 10% in 2006 of the total in the year 2007; a birth rate about three times that of the ethnic Han majority group in the last half-century.
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The theory behind the ideology of Zhonghua minzu is that it includes not only the Han but also other minority ethnic groups within China, such as the Mongols, Manchus, Hmong, Tibetans, Tuvans, etc. An ethnic Korean from China living and working in Korea or an ethnic Mongol from China living and working in the Mongolia would both be considered members of the Zhonghua Minzu, which can give rise to potential issues (including contemporary loyalty to contemporary states, the proper boundary lines between states/subnational entities, and the modern categorization of historical states) of identity.[12][not in citation given]
Whether ethnic Han Chinese living overseas and not having Chinese citizenship are considered part of this Chinese nationality depends on the speaker and the context. More often than not, overseas Chinese in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore make a clear distinction between being Chinese in a political sense and being Chinese in an ethnic sense, making it unclear whether or not they belong to such a group that contains both political and ethnic connotations.
The conceptual boundaries of the Zhonghua minzu may be complicated by the politics of neighboring countries such as Mongolia and Korea, who exclusively claim regional historical peoples and states. For instance, the idea of Chinggis Khan as a "national hero" is contested by Mongolia, which since the fall of socialism has explicitly positioned Chinggis Khan as the father of the Mongolian state. In opposition to this, it is common to point out that there are more ethnic Mongolians in China than in the state of Mongolia.
A dispute of a similar nature has arisen over the status of the state of Goguryeo in ancient history, with China claiming it as Chinese on the grounds that much of it existed within the current borders of China as well as the ancient borders of China.[not in citation given] On that basis Chinese nationalists maintain that these territories belong to the heterogeneous origin of the Chinese nation. This view is generally rejected by historians from South Korea and North Korea, as well as experts on Goguryeo history from various countries such as the United States, Russia, Mongolia, and Australia.[14][15][16] It has also received criticism from certain domestic scholars, such as a senior scholar from Peking University who likewise considered Goguryeo as a part of Korean history and denied Chinese connections.[17]
See also[edit]
- Bangsa Malaysia
- China proper
- La Raza
- Pan-European identity
- Sinicization
- Sinocentrism
- Three Principles of the People
- ^ a b Dan Landis; Rosita D. Albert (14 February 2012). Handbook of Ethnic Conflict: International Perspectives. Springer. pp. 182–. ISBN 978-1-4614-0447-7. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
- ^ Zhao, Suisheng (2000). "Chinese Nationalism and Its International Orientations". Political Science Quarterly 115 (1): 1–33.
- ^ a b Fitzgerald, John (January 1995). "The Nationaless State: The Search for a Nation in Modern Chinese Nationalism". The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs (33): 75. doi:10.2307/2950089. ISSN 0156-7365. Retrieved 2013-02-22.
- ^ a b Alan Lawrance (2004). China Since 1919: Revolution and Reform : a Sourcebook. Psychology Press. pp. 252–. ISBN 978-0-415-25141-9. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
- ^ a b c Donald Bloxham; A. Dirk Moses (15 April 2010). The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies. Oxford University Press. pp. 150–. ISBN 978-0-19-161361-6. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
- ^ Susan Debra Blum; Lionel M. Jensen (2002). China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 170–. ISBN 978-0-8248-2577-5. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
- ^ nationalism;Identification of state and people
- ^ Empire to nation: historical perspectives on the making of the modern world, by Joseph Esherick, Hasan Kayalı, Eric Van Young, pg 232
- ^ French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC). (cf. by Tongmenghui adherent)
- ^ See, e.g. Ma Ying-jeou, President of Republic of China inauguration speech, 20 May 2008: " (Section 2, Paragraph 8)。
- ^ What makes a national hero?
- ^ a b The Chinese Cult of Chinggis Khan: Genealogical Nationalism and Problems of National and Cultural Integrity, City University of New York.
- ^ Ethnic Mosaic of Modern China: An Analysis of Fertility and Mortality Data for the Twelve Largest Ethnic Minorities.
- ^ Bae, Young-dae; Min-a Lee (2004-09-16). "Korea finds some allies in Goguryeo history spat". Joongang Ilbo. Retrieved 2007-03-06.
- ^ Byington, Mark (2004-01-01). "Koguryo part of China?". Koreanstudies mailing list. Retrieved 2007-03-06.
- ^ "Korean-Russian academia jointly respond to Northeast Project" (in Korean). Naver. 2006-10-31. Retrieved 2007-03-06.
- ^ "Chinese Scholar Slams Co-opting Korean History". Chosun Ilbo. 2006-09-13. Archived from the original on 2006-10-19. Retrieved 2007-03-06.
External links[edit]
- The War of Words Between South Korea and China Over An Ancient Kingdom: Why Both Sides Are Misguided Zhonghua minzu and the Sino-Korean controversy over the 'ownership' of ancient Koguryo.
- Sinicization vs. Manchuness: The Success of Manchu Rule


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"This is a meatless version of one of my split pea soups. Made thicker, it can be used as a sweet accompaniment to a plate of Basmati rice and assorted Indian breads."
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1 pound green split peas
2 (14.5 ounce) cans beef broth
1 head roasted garlic, mashed into a paste
1 cup grated carrot
1 large onion, grated
1 1/2 tablespoons curry powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
2 tablespoons hoisin sauce
1/2 teaspoon salt and pepper to taste
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Duffy made her observation after moderating a roundtable of corporate execs talking about industry issues at the opening general session of MPI's Professional Education Conference North America, held January 22 to 24 in Charlotte, N.C. Among the panelists was Patricia Carbee, senior vice president, marketing and business development, Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., who described how Penn Mutual meetings went through some "major changes" in the last half of 2005 in response to regulatory challenges. "We were asked to change how we're running our conferences," she told the more than 2,000 industry professionals in attendance at the general session. "So imagine — in midyear we had producers trying to [qualify for] a conference and we changed the rules on them. We weren't very popular for a while."
The regulatory environment drove these changes, Carbee said. Penn Mutual's focus has traditionally been on life insurance products, but its producers also sell annuities and investment products — thus bringing company meetings under the regulatory arm of NASD and the Securities and Exchange Commission. What has changed, Carbee said, is that while Penn Mutual could previously set up incentive programs favoring the sale of life insurance products, "we can't do that anymore. Everything has to be weighed equally. It's really had an impact on how we plan our conferences."
Carbee also brought up regulations governing gifts. "In the industry, we can give only $100 worth of gifts to a producer in a year," she said. "We used to give a gift basket worth more than that. Now we have to really think about what we give them — even as an amenity."
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A further sign that the regulators are going to continue to monitor certain aspects of industry meetings is a recent proposal by NASD and the New York Stock Exchange to change business entertainment rules.
The rule that Carbee referred to — NASD Rule 3060 — prohibits any member firm or person associated with a firm from giving gifts in excess of $100. NASD, in further interpreting the rule, has determined that it does not prohibit "ordinary and usual business entertainment," provided that the entertainment is "neither so frequent nor so extensive as to raise any question of propriety."
However, in the last couple of years there have been some highly publicized cases of companies engaging in exorbitant entertaining. Consequently, NASD wants to provide greater clarity regarding entertainment spending.
Under the proposal, neither NASD nor the NYSE would impose specific dollar limits, but member firms would have to establish their own policies containing set dollar limits, or establish guidelines for expenses that would require advance super-visory approval. Companies would have to keep detailed records of business entertainment spending and make them available to the recipients' employers on request.


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Rishi Prabhakar - The spirit of change
new generation guru, Rishi Prabhakar teaches a course with an innovative
mix and has started diverse programs to help usher in a better India
"Life will soon be experienced by one and all as heaven and ecstasy,"
says Guru Rishi Prabhakar. He particularly envisages a great future for
India. In fact, his spiritual search was guided by his fervent love of
the land. "The Siddha Samadhi Yoga (SSY) program came about as a byproduct
of my quest to transform India," he says. "We are the only light of the
world," he adds and predicts that within six months India wilt make dramatic
Comparing Japan to a kshatriya (the Hindu warrior caste), the USA
to a vaishya (the trader) and India to a brahmin (the intellectual),
he points out: "We have simply not realized our brahminical powers. "
A graduate in engineering from the Bangalore University, 48-year-old Rishi
Prabhakar has been an aeronautical engineer, computer scientist and management
graduate before his transformation. Given his background, he draws deep
from the wellsprings of both Indian spirituality and western rationality.
As he illustrates complex philosophical concepts with analogies drawn
from the world of computers and cricket, he is perhaps more accessible
and acceptable to the urban Indian than ochre-robed swamis.
The luxuriously bearded, lungi-clad Prabhakar, whose luminous eyes are
the most captivating part of a generally striking face, is quite jovial
when speaking in public or while addressing his students.
Though Prabhakar mused on metaphysical matters even as a college student,
his quest really began in 1974 when, as a successful computer scientist
working in Canada, he learnt Transcendental Meditation
(TM) which gave him "a new vision which did not depend on anyone doing
Joining Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi, he rose up in the TM movement. While TM emphasizes effortlessness,
Prabhakar felt it involved some doing and began to chart his own course.
That meant uprooting himself to return to India. Followed intense spiritual
practices under the guidance of various teachers, including his master,
Sri Visweswaraiah, bringing him to the point of enlightenment. But evolving
the SSY course took some more time and inspiration from varied sources,
including Werner
Erhard's est.
Prabhakar's mother, C.A. Rama Devi, who shares the limelight with him
now, recalls: "Initially the SSY course only had meditation.
Gradually pranayama
was added. Thereafter Guruji discovered the benefits of raw
food and introduced that too. Being a scientist, whenever he hears
of something new, he experiments on himself before introducing it in SSY."
SSY literature says that the course's equivalent in the ancient days was
Brahmopadesam (a sermon on Brahman), which dramatically altered
one's outlook towards life.
For a guru who is trying to change the society and the world, the core
of his philosophy sounds paradoxical: non-doing. "Everyone who is 'doing'
something is only making a greater mess. You cannot 'do' anything without
creating its opposite," he points out and adds: "Our philosophy is to
discover the unbounded happiness within, which does not depend on any
doing whatever, and all doings will naturally blossom."
While non-doing has a long and venerated tradition in India in advaita vedanta ,
SSY's uniqueness, feels Prabhakar, is its ability "to transmit the technology required to shift from doing to non-doing". He says: "Adi Sankara might
have had an understanding, but no one has been able to give it as a sadhana
procedure for the last two to three millennia."
A unique aspect of his teaching is taking responsibility for everything
around us. This is because, he says, "everything is yours" and "nothing
is yours". This paradox gets resolved by Mahatma Gandhi's concept of trusteeship. Again, the guru suggests accepting
that "everything is OKas is" before we go about changing things.
For Prabhakar, meditation is non-doing. Meditation is basic to the intensive
13-day SSY course which includes a series of pranayamas and yoga mudras
such as the chin mudra and the chinmaya mudra. There are
also daily discourses by Prabhakar on issues such as responsibility and
leadership. The course culminates in a four-day retreat meant for intense
meditation and silence to acquaint the participant his own inner happiness.
these collectively cleanse the five sheaths or bodies of our beingthe
process is traditionally called pancha kosha suddhi. These are:
the physical body (annamaya kosha); pranic or aural body (pranamaya
kosha), the mind body (manomaya kosha), the intellectual body
(vignanmaya kosha) and the ego body (anandamaya kosha).
By virtue of this multi-pronged cleansing, the body heals, the mind becomes
still, the heart opens up and a transcendental understanding becomes possible.
Rishi Prabhakar says that many systems like yoga take you from the physical
to the egotistical, but SSY reverses this process. Similarly, he points
out that most self-improvement systems try to change what you are thinking;
the practice of samadhi changes the way you think. Advanced courses,
including one to train as an SSY teacher, are also open.
Since its inception in 1979, SSY has attracted over two lakh (20 thousand)
participants. But Prabhakar estimates the number of those who regularly
practice it to be much smaller. There are over 500 men and women who devote
their time and energy to help conduct the course. The SSY has already
grown deep roots in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka,
and is gaining ground in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat as well.
The Rishi Samskruti Vidya Kendra (RSVK), under whose aegis the courses
are held, has 300 centers running courses in India, with an overseas presence
in North America. 'We are growing exponentially," claims Prabhakar. "What
we accomplish in one week now, we could not accomplish in one year earlier.
In Pune, India, we have a three-month queue for participation."
"The world has discovered something that was not there before," he continues.
When reminded of other bigger and equally spiritual movements, he is dismissive:
"I know all of them. But they do not know of non-doing. So, they are all
do-gooders. They will not take people very far."
What certainly sets Prabhhakar apart from other gurus is his consistent
work in fields not overtly spiritual. But then he has been inspired by
Mahatma Gandhi and represents an emerging understanding that spirituality
is not divorced from life, rather it is the basis of life. Personal transformation
should contribute to social transformation.
On the social front, SSY volunteers are assisting Anna Hazare, known for single-handedly greening Ralegaon Siddi village
in Maharashtra, India, in developing 300 model villages through water
management techniques and social reform. The RSVK has also taken up similar
work in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Cleaning India
is another RSVK project. Its centers adopt neighborhoods and villages,
cleaning them for a few months until the local residents take the responsibility.
Rishi Prabhakar has also envisaged an 'enlightened management', which
for him is simply being one with everyone and transmitting the vision
for others to own, which makes them automatically "do things". Symbiosis,
a management school in Pune, believes in him and insists that all its
students undergo the SSY course.
The irrepressible guru's prediction: "Management technology will revert
to the Indian guru-shishya (teacher-student) tenets. There will
be no more carrot-and-stick manipulation. In a few months, Harvard professors
will be here to learn About management." To strengthen the foundations of education, the RSVK tries to introduce a children's SSY program in schools which
have to set aside two periods daily meditation. The idea is gaining currency
in the south. In Bombay, three schools have introduced it.
The 'Government of Wisdom' is Prabhakar's latest and most ambitious experiment
to restore the rishi culture to India. This is prompting him to enter
an arena most spiritual gurus avoid. But, he says firmly: "If we don't
give direction to world, we are not real gurus." He has already set up
an Advisory Committee of Elders (ACE) in Karnataka, India, to steer the
government in the direction truth, integrity and just administration.
Those who took part in the ACE conclave in Bangalore, India, in early
June included M.N. Venkatachalaiah, the former chief Justice of India,
Rama Jois, the former Chief justice of Punjab and Haryana, and Vishwesha
Teertha Swami of Pejawar Mutt. Another ACE is coming up in Goa. Will the
Indian government take the ACE seriously? "People taking it seriously
will make it happen," says Prabhakar.
"May the whole world live in peace ."
Reader's Comments
Subject: Very thought full design of course - 3 December 2013
I like the SSY program designed by Rushi Prabhakar as this is very close to the society and the course designed in such a way that every human being need to know for comfortable life and get benifited with positive thinking.
by: Ravi
Subject: abt ssy - 27 June 2013
i love ssy very much bcoz it thought me meditation
by: manoj k
Subject: SSY - 3 November 2012
After SSY I got new birth in HOSA ADARSHA PRAPANCHA with grate love
by: R C Nagaraj
Subject: Program Details - 10 July 2012
For program details, you can contact at the numbers provided in the SSY.org website. The contact person's phone number is provided for each of the RSVK centers across the country.
by: Dinesh


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Arizona is the sexiest state in the nation today. That's because its local lawmakers are debating House Bill 2625. The Democrats don't like it because it requires that women provide their employers with proof that they are taking contraception for reasons other than to prevent pregnancy in order to get reimbursed for their prescription. ("Here's that TPS report, Roger. Oh, by the way, I take the pill to control ovarian cysts. See you at Rachel's going-away party.") The Republicans like it because it would allow employers to opt out of covering birth control or other forms of contraception in their insurance plans if they have religious objections to it.
All this sexy bedroom talk started a couple weeks ago when every news outlet in America got all hot and bothered by the Rush Limbaugh brouhaha. You remember when AM radio's Sexiest Man Alive called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" for testifying before Congress about why health insurance should cover birth control. Then last Friday, President Obama released his administration's new birth control mandate stating that religious organizations do not have to sponsor contraceptive services.
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Themes > Science > Chemistry > Electrochemistry > Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy > The Electrical Double Layer |
Introduction In the discussion of electron transfer reactions so far there has been no mention of the nature of the electrode/electrolyte interface. It is clear that any interface will disrupt the electrolyte solution since the interactions between the solid and the electrolyte will be considerably different to those in solution. For electrodes which are under potentiostatic control there will also be the additional influence of the charge held at the electrode. These different factors result in strong interactions occurring between the ions/molecules in solution and the electrode surface. This gives rise to a region called the electrical double layer. Many models have been put forward to explain the behaviour observed when electrochemical measurements are performed in electrolyte solutions. Below we introduce two of the models which have been used to explain the effects occurring in this region. The electrical double
layer The attracted ions are
assumed to approach the electrode surface and form a layer balancing the
electrode charge, the distance of approach is assumed to be limited to the
radius of the ion and a single sphere of solvation round each ion. The
overall result is two layers of charge (the double layer) and a potential
drop which is confined to only this region (termed the outer Helmholtz
Plane, OHP) in solution. The result is absolutely analogous to an
electrical capacitor which has two plates of charge separated by some
distance (d) with the potential drop occurring in a linear manner between the two plates. It is perhaps no surprise that when impedance analysis is performed on electrochemical systems the response due to the electrolyte redistribution is modelled in terms of capacitative elements. The model of Helmholtz
while providing a basis for rationalising the behaviour of this region
does not account for many factors such as, diffusion/mixing in solution,
the possibility of absorption on to the surface and the interaction
between solvent dipole moments and the electrode. A later model put
forward by Stern begins to address some of these limitations now the ions are assumed to be able to move in solution and so the electrostatic interactions are in competition with Brownian motion. The result is still a region close to the electrode surface (100x10-10 m) containing an excess of one type of ion but now the potential drop occurs over the region called the diffuse layer. Many modifications and improvements have been made to these early models with the latest approaches using numerical modelling to follow the redistribution effects as the electrode potential is varied. |


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Timothy McCavit, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department: Pediatrics
Assistant Professor
Department: Pediatrics
General Address
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75390-9063
Office Phone: 214-648-3896
Office Fax: 214-456-6133
Dr. Timothy L. McCavit, M.D., M.S.C.S., is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Operations Director for the Pediatric Sickle Cell Program at UT Southwestern / Children's Medical Center Dallas. He received a BS in molecular biology from Texas Tech University in 1998 and an MD from UT Southwestern Medical Center in 2002. He completed post-graduate medical training at UT Southwestern in 2009 (residency and fellowship) and an MS in Clinical Sciences from UT Southwestern in 2013.
In addition to his clinical focus on the care of children with sickle cell disease, Dr. McCavit has a research interest in long-term outcomes for children with sickle cell disease. His published work to date has examined early death, stroke, and infection by Streptococcus pneumoniae in young sickle cell patients. In addition, he has a research interest in quality-of-care (QOC) and has completed studies evaluating novel QOC indicators for sickle cell pain and febrile neutropenia in pediatric cancer patients. He is a member of the American Society of Hematology's Subcommittee on Quality of Care. Recently, he has developed a research interest in iron deficiency anemia including clinical trials for the treatment of newly-diagnosed and refractory iron deficiency anemia in children.
Medical School | UT Southwestern Medical Center (2002) |
Residency | UT Southwestern / Children's Medical Center (2005), Pediatrics |
Residency | UT Southwestern / Children's Medical Center (2006), Pediatrics |
Fellowship | UT Southwestern / Children's Medical Center (2009), Pediatric Hematology/oncology |
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Bordetella holmesii bacteremia in children with sickle cell disease: an emerging pathogen.
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PedsQL™ Sickle Cell Disease Module: Feasibility, Reliability, and Validity.
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Enjoy a great stay in one of the best places in Barcelona in the city center. A comfortable room in a nice apartment and the best tips to get around the city.
The flat will be shared with us, no other guest will be around.
• Sunny, spacious, stylish, clean and with a 1.50 metres comfortable bed.
• VERY IMPORTANT: Full Bathroom for private use in the same room. You won't have to share with anybody else.
• Big storage space, a table and two stools.
• Windows with sound-proof chamber air outside. Rest assured.
• Balcony with table and chairs and mountain views. Also you can see the port of Barcelona, with the swell.
• Gel and hand cream.
• Sheets, duvets, pillows and quality towels.
• High speed Internet / WiFi.
• Calm and relaxed throughout the apartment.
• Heating in winter and air conditioning in summer.
• Map of the city and various guide books of Barcelona.
• Hair-dryer.
• A variety of herbal teas and coffee at your disposal when you need it.
• Breakfast: Juice, toast, butter and jam.
A modern, sunny and comfortable apartment situated on the fifth floor with elevator. Living room with views of the city and the mountain of Montjuic, modern kitchen with cooker, fridge, microwave, washing machine, WiFi Internet, security door. The apartment is well connected by public transport. Parallel Metro (line 3 and line 2) The apartment is located just a minute walk from the stop.
Spacious with a balcony and a lot of storage. Ensuite bathroom just for you, no shared bathroom,
Sant Antoni is a central neighbourhood and charming. Here you will be perfectly placed to explore the classic areas of Barcelona and other sites of interest: El Raval, El Born, the Gothic Quarter, Las Ramblas, Plaza Catalunya and Montjuic magic fountain. Metro STOP Paralelo is less than a minute from the apartment and allows you to explore other attractions offered by this amazing city: Sagrada Familia, the Gracia district, Park Guell ...
In the neighbourhood you will find an excellent food market, many supermarkets, many bars and restaurants for lunch, dinner, tapas and snacks. It is a genuine neighbourhood with local people.
Against this section extends the Montjuic mountain, whose slope is the multicultural neighborhood of Poble Sec, which is also remarkable culinary.
The apartment is located in an emblematic avenue in the early twentieth century was a beacon of leisure in Europe, with hundreds of theaters and cabarets. If you stay in the apartment you will have the chance to see from your balcony one of the cabarets that still maintain their splendor, the Mill.
The place has everything you need for a beautiful stay.
Room type: | Private room |
Bed type: | Real Bed |
Accommodates: | 2 |
Bedrooms: | 1 |
Bathrooms: | 1 |
Beds: | 1 |
Extra people: | $14 / night after the first guest |
Minimum Stay: | 3 nights |
Monthly Price: | $1289 /month |
Check In: | 3:00 PM |
Country: | Spain |
City: | Barcelona |
Neighborhood: | El Poble-sec |
Cancellation: | Flexible |
Jose and Isabel were the ideal hosts. Jose gave me lots of helpful information, places to visit and showed me around the old city section after work. From him I learnt so much about Spain and things Spanish. Isabel was very friendly and great company. This was an ideal first airbnb experience.
Jose and Isabella were amazing! Gave us the space we needed but helped us with any queries and we even had a day out with Jose. Definitely recommend staying with them.
We had the best weekend in Barcelona! The weather was nice, we saw a good music show and stayed in a great place with very nice and accommodating hosts.
Isabel and Jose live in a nice and central area and the next metro station is just in front of the house.
Jose gave us very good advice on how to get around in Barcelona and where to go for non.touristy tapas spots. Our room was clean and very nice and we really felt at home.
I can only recommend these two - they're lovely folks and if I ever come back to Barca, I'll definitely try staying at theirs again!
My girlfriend and I stayed at Isabel & Jose's for five nights and we enjoyed it so much. They were friendly and helpful with very good advice regarding eating out and places to visit. They gave us privacy but nevertheless were always up for a nice chat when they were at home. I would like to thank Isabel & Jose very much for a wonderful time and I would always recommend staying with them!
We really loved our stay with Isabel & Jose and we would definitely recommend it to our friends. They were very helpful and Jose even showed us a very lovely little place where we could eat tapas. Things like this you don't have when you go to a hotel. The room was big enough and clean. When we first arrived it seemed a bit noisy with all the traffic and sirens but when we closed the shutters it was actually really quiet. The bed was also very good, we even overslept once :) The breakfast was really basic but this wasn't a problem for us. We would definitely stay here again when we would come back to Barcelona!
Isabel and Jose are absolutely lovely and were very welcoming. They were both very helpful in showing us some great things to do around Barcelona and also some great places to eat!! Their home is in the most perfect location and the room is light and spacious. Thank you Jose and Isabel, we loved staying with you.
Isabel and Jose's apartment is the perfect place to stay in Barcelona. The apartment is perfectly located to explore the city by foot and there is a subway station about 2 minutes away. The room has it's own bathroom and balcony and is beautifully decorated. We had some great chats with Isabel and Jose about travel and they gave us some fantastic recommendations, which really made our stay special. I highly recommend staying in this apartment and I am 100% positive you will enjoy your Barcelona experience if you do.
I had the most pleasant experience staying with Isabel and Jose at their lovely apartment.
First of all the apartment itself was conveniently situated close to a metro station and close to city centre yet it was very quiet and peaceful! Clean and excellent size bedroom and bathroom, the bed was so comfortable I forgot to wake up one day! Did I mention the cute balcony adjoined to the bedroom, perfect to chill out.
Secondly and most importantly the hosts were so nice and friendly I really felt I was staying with friends, they went out of their way to make sure I felt welcome and comfortable.
I highly recommend staying at this apartment, it was the best first Airbnb experience I could have.
Isabel and Jose thank you so much! xx
Isabel and Jose were very friendly and helpful hosts. They provided a warm welcome and gave useful tips on how to get easily from A to B and where to eat in Barcelona.
The apartment was located very centrally and in walking distance from the center (metro was also close). The room was as described, comfortable with sufficient space and the private bathroom was also cosy.
We enjoyed the 3 days even with the hot temperatures in July and highly recommend Isabel & Jose as hosts.
Jose and Isabel's place, for me and my girlfriend, was paradise in Spain. The place was as pictured inch to inch and I believe everyone who comes and stay with them will enjoy the beautiful set up of their home. The balcony, for me, was one of the best features of their place. wonderful view in the morning during your breakfast.
Their place is so close to the metro stations and it is situated just next to the heart of the city so taking a stroll along Barcelona from Jose & Isabel's place is just the best thing to do.
But what I want to actually emphasise is the hospitality of Jose & Isabel. They made our trip so enjoyable and memorable! They are very knowledgeable about the city and trust me when I say they do. Good restaurants, all the timings and happenings during the week. No one could know better.
This is the place for you in Barcelona if you are planning a trip there!


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Crowds at the Canadian Museum of Flight witnessed a piece of history on Friday morning as a retired Conair Firecat Air Tanker made its final flight through Langley skies.Two fly-overs and a ceremonial water drop over Langley Regional Airport marked its last journey before the red plane was parked at the Canadian Museum of Flight.
The Firecat, which was donated to the flight museum by Abbotsford-based Conair Aviation, is the greatest acquisition the centre has ever made, according to Bruce Friesen, vice president of the Canadian Museum of Flight."Our job as a museum is to bring British Columbia's aviation history into the future, to make sure it doesn't disappear," said Friesen."This plane is B.C. aviation history. For all of us at the museum, this is perhaps the most useful exhibit we could possibly have. We are just so excited."Originally built as a CS2F Tracker aircraft in the 1950s, the plane was used to hunt submarines off the deck of the Royal Canadian Navy's HMCS Bonaventure during the Cold War. When the military retired the fleet in the 1970s, Conair bought the planes and converted them to Firecats to battle fires. They were retired from service in Canada this year, although some are still operating in France.Obtaining one of the planes for the museum has been a 10-year process for the plane's final pilots, Bill Findlay, a long-time volunteer with the museum, and Ray Horton, a pilot with Conair for more than 30 years.The pilots, who are also next-door neighbours, made it their ultimate goal to have a Firecat in Langley as soon as the planes were retired.They wanted to bring the "airplane home to our original home," since Conair Aviation originated from Langley's Skyway Air Services, which operated out of Langley Airport in the 1960s."It means so much to the museum to have the aircraft here," Findlay said. "It's just the thrill of a lifetime. I've been involved in flying for 45 or 50 years and this is right up there with one of those big, big days."It's a big moment for Conair, too, Horton added."It's a real pleasure for us because this was an incredibly successful airplane in our fleet. It's an icon from our fleet, it's been in our service for over 30 years," he said. "To see them retire is a bit of a tear-shedder, but at the same time we know we are going to have it here on display for people for many, many years to come."
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Storms knock down trees, cut power in Virginia, D.C.
Powerful storms blew through Northern Virginia Friday night, blowing down trees, knocking out power and triggering tornado warnings earlier in the evening. The cell pushed north through Stafford County into Prince William County and Fairfax.
Several trees have crashed into houses, Fairfax County officials said. No injuries have been reported. In Stafford County, customers at a Loews were required to stay in the store while the storm passed. Trees were knocked down here as well.
Dominion Power reported on their website that 14,757 customers in Virginia were in the dark. Pepco reported about 6,600 customers without power.
By about 8 a.m. Saturday, Pepco reported 395 customers without power. Dominion had 1,644 without power.
Earlier, the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for Stafford, Prince William and Fairfax counties, which expired at 7:15 p.m. A warning for Fredericksburg city was called off earlier.
Around 6:44 p.m., the Weather Service said radar images indicated a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado seven miles southwest of Stafford moving northeast.
Above, video shot in Bristow shows dark clouds hanging over the city and winds whipping trees. The strong thunderstorm was moving rapidly up the I-95 corridor.
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Keeping Up How a big fan raises bigger questions about fire safety and energy conservation.
NFPA Journal®, September/October 2009
By Kathleen H. Almand, P.E., FSFPE
Energy conservation is driving new technology development in all aspects of our daily lives, from LED lighting in our homes to the batteries in our cars to the comfort control strategies in our workplaces. Many of these technologies, some of which are adapted from other uses, have a direct or indirect impact on fire safety—or at least require a closer look to determine what the impact might be.
July - August 2009 A research blueprint for bigger, better hazardous materials standards
May - June 2009 Can green energy be safe energy?
March - April 2009 The five year research agenda
January - February 2009 The future of the NFPA 13 family
November - December 2008 Three projects undertaken for NFPA's fire service constituency
September - October 2008 Smoke detection technology
July - August 2008 In this anniversary year, we prepare for the next 25 years
One such technology is high-volume low-speed (HVLS) fans, which are being widely implemented as an energy-efficient means of providing a well-ventilated work environment in manufacturing and storage facilities and in many big-box stores. Originally invented by Walter Boyd in 1995 as a low-maintenance means of optimizing the productivity of dairy cattle, HVLS fans achieve their energy efficiency through the use of very large blades—up to 25 feet (8 meters) in diameter—that influence a correspondingly large volume of air.
Widespread use has prompted questions about the fans' impact on the performance of ceiling-level sprinklers in manufacturing and storage facilities. Do the large fan blades obstruct the spray pattern of the sprinklers when the blades are stationary, or when moving? How do the air flows induced by these fans impact the effectiveness of sprinklers in controlling fires in these occupancies? Do the fans need to be shut off? When?
To answer these questions, the Fire Protection Research Foundation undertook a research program last year to develop design requirements for NFPA 13, Installation of Sprinkler Systems. The study, conducted by the San Diego office of Schirmer Engineering, was sponsored by, and built on previous studies by, the insurance and fan industries. Although the fans are in widespread use in many types of facilities, the research project of necessity focused on specific aspects of this broad issue: early suppression fast response (ESFR) sprinkler protection of Class A commodity in-rack storage. A study of fans on the market was undertaken to determine some worst-case scenarios for fan obstruction, and a series of small-scale studies of sprinkler spray pattern was conducted.
These studies concluded that the fans do not represent a significant obstruction to water flow if they are located three feet (0.9 meters) or more below the level of the sprinklers.
Two full-scale tests were then conducted to explore the impact of the air flows generated by the moving fan on sprinkler effectiveness in two scenarios varying the relative placement of fan and sprinkler head. These tests demonstrated that there are certain configurations in which sprinklers can continue to be effective in the presence of operating fans. Questions remain, however, regarding the worst-case scenario for fan versus sprinkler placement, and extending the results to higher ceiling and storage heights and control mode sprinklers. The Foundation and its partners will work to answer these questions in future studies.
This project is an interesting example of how our rapid deployment of new technologies in response to our declining natural resources is affecting fire safety. The use of these fans is widespread, yet the questions about their interaction with sprinklers—and the formulation of practical strategies to address those questions—are playing catch-up. Sometimes, we don't fully comprehend the impact of new technologies on fire safety until those technologies are in the marketplace.
There are many other examples where our interest in saving energy with new technologies—solar panels, "green" building materials, and so on—has a direct impact on fire safety. We can address that impact if we are ready for it. It is important for all of us in the fire safety community to keep up with developments in energy-saving technology, so that we can better ensure that the technology is fire-safe.