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HIV testing is available in almost all districts of India, and free treatment at ARTCs across 174 districts. Despite this network of free services not all HIV-positive persons access ART services. The Population Council and NACO studied the characteristics of individuals accessing ARTCs and explored factors influencing uptake of ART services. We present findings from ARTCs across Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Manipur, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Karnataka.
We analyzed service data from registers and patient cards of newly registered HIV-positive persons at 10 ARTCs from 1 October 2008 to 31 March 2009.
11,568 HIV-positive patients (51% male) registered at 10 ARTCs over six months. Overall, 50 percent of patients were illiterate (female: 59%; male: 41%; p< 0.001), 22 percent had primary or secondary education, and 6 percent higher education; 71 percent were married (female: 58%; male: 83%; p< 0.001), 21 percent widowed (female: 35%; male: 7%; p< 0.001), 6 percent single, and 3 percent divorced; and 81 percent were unemployed (female: 92%; male: 71%; P< 0.001). Sixty-seven percent of patients were referred from ICTCs, 16 percent from NGOs, 4 percent from private practitioners, 6 percent from clinical services (TB/PMTCT/OPD/ward), 6 percent were self-referred, and 2 percent other. Sixty-one percent of the patients had first-visit CD4 counts < 250cells/ml. The majority registered at ARTCs within one month of being tested HIV-positive (63%), 11 percent by three months, 7 percent by six months, 6 percent by 12 months, and 12 percent after a year. On multivariate analysis, widowed (AOR:1.40 [1.20–1.62] p< 0.001), separated (AOR:1.65 [1.18–2.31] p=0.003), and patients with primary education (AOR:1.22 [1.06–1.40] p=0.004) were more likely to register after one month of HIV diagnosis, while patients older than 45 years (AOR:0.805 [0.65–0.98] p=0.04) and those with CD4 counts > 250 cells/ml (AOR:0.82 [0.73–0.92] p=0.002) were less likely to register after one month.
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Fire Island National Seashore Facilities Reopening After Repairs
With Memorial Day Weekend still two weeks off, more and more facilities at Fire Island National Seashore are reopening after repairs necessitated by last fall's Hurricane Sandy.
Rebuilding After Sandy: Moving The National Park Service Forward With An Eye On Climate Change
If ever there was an exclamation point to a report warning of the consequences of climate change, Hurricane Sandy was it. As the storm swept up the Eastern Seaboard last fall it cut national seashores in two, inundated mainland parks that lie at sea level, downed untold scores of trees, and in its aftermath left the National Park Service with a glowing opportunity to put its parks back together with similarly potent storms in mind.
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Rebuilding After Sandy: Putting Gateway National Recreation Area Back Together Again
Photographic slides paper-clipped to strings to dry out. Officer's Row at Fort Hancock propped up with two-by-fours. Multi-use paths ripped out in places and buried in sand elsewhwere. That was part of the aftermath from Hurricane Sandy at Gateway National Recreation Area.
Rebuilding After Sandy: A Breach In The Wilderness At Fire Island National Seashore
Barrier islands are creatures of the seas, cast about and pushed around by the waves and currents. Proof of that can be found today at Fire Island National Seashore along the New York coast, where the barrier island it sets on was cut in two as well as shoved closer to the Long Island mainland by Hurricane Sandy.
Rebuilding After Sandy: How The National Park Service Is Putting The Pieces Back Together Again
Today, four months after Hurricane Sandy battered and bruised the Eastern Seaboard, the disarray the storm delivered across many units of the National Park System continues to be cleaned up. Some damage remains to be discovered. And though summer remains months away, some units will be severely challenged to be fully operational by Memorial Day.
Fire Island National Seashore Slow To Recover From Hurricane Sandy
Work to recover Fire Island National Seashore in New York from Hurricane Sandy continues, but it's too early to plan a Memorial Day Weekend escape there, according to national seashore officials.
Congress Asked To Approve Supplemental Appropriation Of $400 Million For National Parks To Recover From Sandy
Congress has been asked to provide nearly $400 million to help National Park System units recover from damages inflicted by "superstorm" Sandy earlier this fall.
Three Weeks After Superstorm Sandy Struck, National Parks Along Eastern Seaboard Still Digging Out
Crews continue to work to return to service units of the National Park System that were hammered by Superstorm Sandy back on October 29, with personnel coming from as far as the National Park Service's Intermountain Region to help with the cleanup.
Hurricane Irene Washes Out Road at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Various Damage At Other East Coast National Park Units
Reaching Cape Hatteras National Seashore by vehicle in the near future will be hard, if not impossible, due to breaching of Highway 12 by storm waters from Hurricane Irene.
East Coast National Park Units Bracing For Hurricane Irene
As Hurricane Irene continues plodding towards the Eastern Seaboard, units of the National Park System up and down the coast are preparing for the storm.
More National Parks Brace for Hurricane Earl
As Hurricane Earl assails the Outer Banks parks, producing damaging winds, rough surf, overwash, and beach erosion, Cape Cod National Seashore and other coastal parks in the Middle Atlantic and New England regions get ready for the powerful storm's arrival.
Creature Feature: The Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle Faces an Uncertain Future
The Kemp's ridley may be little as sea turtles go, but it's got big problems. It was already the world's most endangered marine turtle before the mammoth Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico threatened to wreak havoc on its vital habitat.
Cape Hatteras National Seashore Dispute Places Birds, Turtles, and Humans on Small Strip of Sand
A diminutive shorebird and a string of villages both dependent on the same necklace of barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina are being pinched in a precarious setting that demonstrates the folly of trying to control nature.
21 National Park System Units Nominated For "Marine Protected Area" Status
Twenty-one units of the National Park System, including five national seashores and four national lakeshores, have been nominated for status as "Marine Protected Areas."
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Climate Change and National Parks: A Survival Guide for a Warming World -- Red Knot and Other Northeastern Migratory Birds
Each spring, certain areas in Acadia National Park in Maine are closed to visitors as peregrine falcons return to their ancestral nesting sites on seaside cliffs. With great anticipation, park visitors gather below the cliffs with binoculars, spotting scopes, and zoom lenses to watch the peregrines — — a species that in the mid-1960s was on the brink of extinction.
Are You a Fan of Lighthouses? National Lighthouse Day is Coming Up
National Lighthouse Day is being observed around the country on August 7, and there are some excellent examples of those beacons in NPS areas. Some parks will host special events this weekend; one of them is more often associated with a famous battle than a lighthouse.
Two Special Bird Walks Offered in May at Fire Island National Seashore
In honor of International Migratory Bird Day, Fire Island National Seashore in New York is offering a special three-hour ranger-guided tour at 9:00 a.m on Saturday, May 9, followed on Sunday, May 17 by a "Peak of Spring Migration" Bird Walk.
Park History: How the National Seashores Came to Be
For years, summer trips to Cape Cod were an annual ritual for my family. My parents had retired to the Cape, and our boys loved romping in the surf and building castles in the sand. Lobster feasts, game-fishing, and whale watching were added benefits, as were exploring the seashore's lighthouses, roaming its dunes, and looking for sea creatures in its mudflats.


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Cluster Headache CausesNo one knows exactly what causes cluster headaches. As with many other headache syndromes, theories abound, many of which center on your autonomic or "automatic" nervous system or your brain's hypothalamus. These systems play a role in rhythmic or cyclical functions in your body. The involvement of either system in the syndrome would account for the periodic nature of the headache.
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Southwestern Bean and Rice Salad Recipe
"We enjoy fajitas and tacos, but finding a good side dish to go with them wasn't easy...until this recipe came along," writes Stephenie Liston of Ankeny, Iowa.
- 3 cups cooked long grain rice, cooled
- 1 can (16 ounces) kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 medium green pepper, diced
- 1 can (2-1/4 ounces) sliced ripe olives, drained
- 1/3 cup lime juice
- 1/4 cup chopped green onions
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh cilantro
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- In a large bowl, combine the rice, beans, green pepper and olives. In a jar with a tight-fitting lid, combine the remaining ingredients; shake well. Pour over rice mixture; toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or until chilled. Toss before serving. Yield: 8 servings.
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Oh geez... I need to see this now. Hopefully they give him some more screen time than last time, though all these clips could just be from one "skit"...
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Gabriel (gabs.tv) and Kenney (Kenney.nl) brings to you the sequel of the best nonogram puzzle game here on Newgrounds!
Keys: hold "X" or "SHIFT" to mark spaces with an X (to guide you).
If you didn't check Armor Picross 1 (it was released on early 2006), you may need to go to the INSTRUCTIONS to know how to play this game.
This was a project of over 3 months of development, it took a long time to make it, but it was totally worth it!
I hope you enjoy the game and support us by buying Armor Picross Pro!
P.S.: You may be asked to enlarge the SharedObjects space, please press "YES", it's because every puzzle can be saved so you can continue them later!
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Rated 5 / 5 stars October 13, 2011
Great game
Fun and really challenging. Things to improve are the scroll bar having to go back through each time and find the one you were just on. Better definition on finished and unfinished puzzles and maybe add a retry button instead of going back to the puzzle select screen. Going into my Favorites!!!!
Rated 5 / 5 stars September 6, 2011
where have i've played this b4
this game is awesome and garylarson you have no mind because thats what you need to play
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars August 25, 2011
Great game
A few comments though:
1. You should be able to tell the difference between solved and unsolved levels. The little difference that exists now is simply not enough.
2. The drawings are very bad. I saw another picross game that did a MUCH better job drawing in every single format, from 5X5 to 15X15, and some of the ones I saw here were simply horrible. So I advise you to get better on that.
3. Highlighting the colomn and row you're pointing on might be very helpful. I don't know about other people, but on bigger puzzles like 20X20 I often have trouble recognizing the row and colomn i'm working on.
Other than that, great flowing gameplay, definitely a picross game i'd recommend to other people.
Rated 5 / 5 stars August 17, 2011
is a great game! 10 stars!
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Lysander Scamander (fl. 21st century) was one of the twins born to Luna Scamander (née Lovegood) and Rolf Scamander. He has a twin brother, Lorcan. [3]
- Lysander is the name of a principal character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The play takes place largely at night, lit by moonlight as Oberon states, which harkens back to Lysander's mother, Luna.
- Lysander was also the name of a Spartan General.
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- ↑ J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life confirms that Luna had children "considerably later" than Harry and his friends; Harry's last child was born in 2008 as was Ron and Hermione's. While the exact date cannot be established as "considerable" has too many variables, we know it was after 2008.
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I dont want to remove the entire block of code, bc i still want it to pull the h2 from the theme options.
You can see the first part pulls the header from the theme options, and after that it pulls a blog post.
I have tried replacing everything in the 'bottom left feature inner' div with the code for the widget area, and that did not work.
I hacve tried a number of different starting points and cannot find the right one.
I keep running into errors 'unexpected endif;' 'unexpected endwhile;' and 'unexpected $end'.
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An adiabatic process (/ˌædiəˈbætɪk/; from the Greek privative "a" + "diavaton") is a process that occurs without the transfer of heat or matter between a system and its surroundings.[1][2] A key concept in thermodynamics, adiabatic transfer provides a rigorous conceptual basis for the theory used to expound the first law of thermodynamics. It is also key in a practical sense, that many rapid chemical and physical processes are described using the adiabatic approximation; such processes are usually followed or preceded by events that do involve heat transfer.
Adiabatic processes are primarily and exactly defined for a system contained by walls that are completely thermally insulating and impermeable to matter; such walls are said to be adiabatic. An adiabatic transfer is a transfer of energy as work across an adiabatic wall or sector of a boundary.
Approximately, a transfer may be regarded as adiabatic if it happens in an extremely short time, so that there is no opportunity for significant heat exchange.[3]
The adiabatic flame temperature is a virtual quantity. It is the temperature that would be achieved by a flame in the absence of heat loss to the surroundings.
The term adiabatic literally means 'not to be passed'. It is formed from the privative "α" ("not") + διαβατός, "able to be passed through", in turn deriving from διὰ- ("through"), and βαῖνειν ("to pass"), thus ἀδιάβατος .[4] According to Maxwell, the term was introduced by Rankine.[5][6]
The etymological origin corresponds here to an impossibility of transfer of energy as heat and of transfer of matter across the wall.
An adiabatic transfer of energy as work may be described by the notation Q = 0 where Q is the quantity of energy transferred as heat across the adiabatic boundary or wall.
An ideal or fictive adiabatic transfer of energy as work that occurs without friction or viscous dissipation within the system is said to be isentropic, with ΔS = 0.
For a natural process of transfer of energy as heat, driven by a finite temperature difference, entropy is both transferred with the heat and generated within the system. Such a process is in general neither adiabatic nor isentropic, having Q ≠ 0 and ΔS ≠ 0.
For a general fictive quasi-static transfer of energy as heat, driven by an ideally infinitesimal temperature difference, the second law of thermodynamics provides that δQ = T deS, where δQ denotes an infinitesimal element of transfer of energy as heat into the system from its surroundings, T denotes the practically common temperature of system and surroundings at which the transfer takes place, and deS denotes the infinitesimal element of entropy transferred into the system from the surroundings with the heat transfer. For an adiabatic fictive quasi-static process, δQ = 0 and deS = 0.
For a natural process of transfer of energy as heat, driven by a finite temperature difference, there is generation of entropy within the system, in addition to entropy that is transferred into the system from the surroundings. If the process is fairly slow, so that it can be described near enough by differentials, the second law of thermodynamics observes that δQ < T dS. Here T denotes the temperature of the system to which heat is transferred. Entropy diS is thereby generated internally within the system, in addition to the entropy deS transferred with the heat. Thus the total entropy increment within the system is given by dS = diS + deS.[7]
A natural adiabatic process is irreversible and is not isentropic. Adiabatic transfer of energy as work can be analyzed into two extreme component kinds. One extreme kind is without friction or viscous dissipation within the system, and this is usually pressure-volume work, denoted customarily by P dV. This is an ideal case that does not exactly occur in nature. It may be regarded as "reversible". The other extreme kind is isochoric work, for which dV = 0, solely through friction or viscous dissipation within the system. Isochoric work is irreversible.[8] The second law of thermodynamics observes that a natural process of transfer of energy as work, exactly considered, always consists at least of isochoric work and often of both of these extreme kinds of work. Every natural process, exactly considered, is irreversible, however slight may be the friction or viscosity.
Adiabatic heating and cooling[edit]
Adiabatic changes in temperature occur due to changes in pressure of a gas while not adding or subtracting any heat. In contrast, free expansion is an isothermal process for an ideal gas.
Adiabatic heat occurs when the pressure of a gas is increased from work done on it by its surroundings, e.g., a piston compressing a gas contained within an adiabatic cylinder. This finds practical application in Diesel engines which rely on the lack of quick heat dissipation during their compression stroke to elevate the fuel vapor temperature sufficiently to ignite it.
Adiabatic heating also occurs in the Earth's atmosphere when an air mass descends, for example, in a katabatic wind or Foehn or chinook wind flowing downhill over a mountain range. When a parcel of air descends, the pressure on the parcel increases. Due to this increase in pressure, the parcel's volume decreases and its temperature increases, thus increasing the internal energy.
Adiabatic cooling occurs when the pressure of a substance is decreased as it does work on its surroundings. Adiabatic cooling occurs in the Earth's atmosphere with orographic lifting and lee waves, and this can form pileus or lenticular clouds if the air is cooled below the dew point. When the pressure applied on a parcel of air decreases, the air in the parcel is allowed to expand; as the volume increases, the temperature falls and internal energy decreases.
Adiabatic cooling does not have to involve a fluid. One technique used to reach very low temperatures (thousandths and even millionths of a degree above absolute zero) is adiabatic demagnetisation, where the change in magnetic field on a magnetic material is used to provide adiabatic cooling. Also, the contents of an expanding universe (to first order) can be described as an adiabatically cooling fluid. (See - Heat death of the universe)
Rising magma also undergoes adiabatic cooling before eruption, particularly significant in the case of magmas that rise quickly from great depths such as kimberlites.[9]
Such temperature changes can be quantified using the ideal gas law, or the hydrostatic equation for atmospheric processes.
In practice, no process is truly adiabatic. Many processes rely on a large difference in time scales of the process of interest and the rate of heat dissipation across a system boundary, and thus are approximated by using an adiabatic assumption. There is always some heat loss, as no perfect insulators exist.
Ideal gas (reversible process)[edit]
The mathematical equation for an ideal gas undergoing a reversible (i.e., no entropy generation) adiabatic process is
where P is pressure, V is volume, and
being the specific heat for constant pressure, being the specific heat for constant volume, is the adiabatic index, and is the number of degrees of freedom (3 for monatomic gas, 5 for diatomic gas and collinear molecules e.g. carbon dioxide).
For a monatomic ideal gas, , and for a diatomic gas (such as nitrogen and oxygen, the main components of air) .[10] Note that the above formula is only applicable to classical ideal gases and not Bose–Einstein or Fermi gases.
For reversible adiabatic processes, it is also true that
where T is an absolute temperature.
This can also be written as
Example of adiabatic compression[edit]
Let's now look at a common example of adiabatic compression- the compression stroke in a gasoline engine. We will make a few simplifying assumptions: that the uncompressed volume of the cylinder is 1000 cm3 (one liter), that the gas within is nearly pure nitrogen (thus a diatomic gas with five degrees of freedom and so = 7/5), and that the compression ratio of the engine is 10:1 (that is, the 1000 cm3 volume of uncompressed gas will compress down to 100 cm3 when the piston goes from bottom to top). The uncompressed gas is at approximately room temperature and pressure (a warm room temperature of ~27 ºC or 300 K, and a pressure of 1 bar ~ 100 kPa, or about 14.7 PSI, or typical sea-level atmospheric pressure).
so our adiabatic constant for this experiment is about 1.58 billion.
The gas is now compressed to a 100cc volume (we will assume this happens quickly enough that no heat can enter or leave the gas). The new volume is 100 ccs, but the constant for this experiment is still 1.58 billion:
so solving for P:
or about 362 PSI or 24.5 atm. Note that this pressure increase is more than a simple 10:1 compression ratio would indicate; this is because the gas is not only compressed, but the work done to compress the gas has also heated the gas and the hotter gas will have a greater pressure even if the volume had not changed.
We can solve for the temperature of the compressed gas in the engine cylinder as well, using the ideal gas law. Our initial conditions are 100,000 pa of pressure, 1000 cc volume, and 300 K of temperature, so our experimental constant is:
We know the compressed gas has V = 100 cc and P = 2.50E6 pascals, so we can solve for temperature by simple algebra:
That's a final temperature of 751 K, or 477 °C, or 892 °F, well above the ignition point of many fuels. This is why a high compression engine requires fuels specially formulated to not self-ignite (which would cause engine knocking when operated under these conditions of temperature and pressure), or that a supercharger and inter cooler to provide a lower temperature at the same pressure would be advantageous. A diesel engine operates under even more extreme conditions, with compression ratios of 20:1 or more being typical, in order to provide a very high gas temperature which ensures immediate ignition of injected fuel.
Adiabatic free expansion of a gas[edit]
For an adiabatic free expansion of an ideal gas, the gas is contained in an insulated container and then allowed to expand in a vacuum. Because there is no external pressure for the gas to expand against, the work done by or on the system is zero. Since this process does not involve any heat transfer or work, the First Law of Thermodynamics then implies that the net internal energy change of the system is zero. For an ideal gas, the temperature remains constant because the internal energy only depends on temperature in that case. Since at constant temperature, the entropy is proportional to the volume, the entropy increases in this case, therefore this process is irreversible.
Derivation of continuous formula for adiabatic heating and cooling[edit]
The definition of an adiabatic process is that heat transfer to the system is zero, . Then, according to the first law of thermodynamics,
where dU is the change in the internal energy of the system and δW is work done by the system. Any work (δW) done must be done at the expense of internal energy U, since no heat δQ is being supplied from the surroundings. Pressure-volume work δW done by the system is defined as
However, P does not remain constant during an adiabatic process but instead changes along with V.
It is desired to know how the values of dP and dV relate to each other as the adiabatic process proceeds. For an ideal gas the internal energy is given by
where is the number of degrees of freedom divided by two, R is the universal gas constant and n is the number of moles in the system (a constant).
Differentiating Equation (3) and use of the ideal gas law, , yields
Equation (4) is often expressed as because .
Now substitute equations (2) and (4) into equation (1) to obtain
factorize ::
and divide both sides by PV:
After integrating the left and right sides from to V and from to P and changing the sides respectively,
Exponentiate both sides, and substitute with , the heat capacity ratio
and eliminate the negative sign to obtain
Derivation of discrete formula[edit]
The change in internal energy of a system, measured from state 1 to state 2, is equal to
At the same time, the work done by the pressure-volume changes as a result from this process, is equal to
Since we require the process to be adiabatic, the following equation needs to be true
By the previous derivation,
Rearranging (4) gives
Substituting this into (2) gives
Substituting ,
Using the ideal gas law and assuming a constant molar quantity (as often happens in practical cases),
By the continuous formula,
Substituting into the previous expression for ,
Substituting this expression and (1) in (3) gives
Graphing adiabats[edit]
An adiabat is a curve of constant entropy on the P-V diagram. Properties of adiabats on a P-V diagram are:
- Every adiabat asymptotically approaches both the V axis and the P axis (just like isotherms).
- Each adiabat intersects each isotherm exactly once.
- An adiabat looks similar to an isotherm, except that during an expansion, an adiabat loses more pressure than an isotherm, so it has a steeper inclination (more vertical).
- If isotherms are concave towards the "north-east" direction (45 °), then adiabats are concave towards the "east north-east" (31 °).
- If adiabats and isotherms are graphed severally at regular changes of entropy and temperature, respectively (like altitude on a contour map), then as the eye moves towards the axes (towards the south-west), it sees the density of isotherms stay constant, but it sees the density of adiabats grow. The exception is very near absolute zero, where the density of adiabats drops sharply and they become rare (see Nernst's theorem).
The following diagram is a P-V diagram with a superposition of adiabats and isotherms:
The isotherms are the red curves and the adiabats are the black curves.
The adiabats are isentropic.
Volume is the horizontal axis and pressure is the vertical axis.
See also[edit]
- Cyclic process
- First law of thermodynamics
- Heat burst
- Isobaric process
- Isenthalpic process
- Isentropic process
- Isochoric process
- Isothermal process
- Polytropic process
- Entropy (classical thermodynamics)
- Quasistatic equilibrium
- Total air temperature
- Adiabatic engine
- Magnetic refrigeration
- ^ Carathéodory, C. (1909). Untersuchungen über die Grundlagen der Thermodynamik, Mathematische Annalen, 67: 355–386, doi:10.1007/BF01450409. A translation may be found here. Also a mostly reliable translation is to be found at Kestin, J. (1976). The Second Law of Thermodynamics, Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Stroudsburg PA.
- ^ Bailyn, M. (1994). A Survey of Thermodynamics, American Institute of Physics Press, New York, ISBN 0-88318-797-3, p. 21.
- ^ http://buphy.bu.edu/~duffy/semester1/c27_process_adiabatic_sim.html
- ^ Liddell, H.G., Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon, Clarendon Press, Oxford UK.
- ^ Maxwell, J.C. (1871), Theory of Heat (first ed.), London: Longmans, Green and Co., p. 129
- ^ Rankine, W.J.McQ. (1866). On the theory of explosive gas engines, The Engineeer, July 27, 1866; at page 467 of the reprint in Miscellaneous Scientific Papers, edited by W.J. Millar, 1881, Charles Griffin, London.
- ^ Kondepudi, D., Prigogine, I. (1998). Modern Thermodynamics: From Heat Engines to Dissipative Structures, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, ISBN 0–471–97393–9, p. 88.
- ^ Münster, A. (1970), Classical Thermodynamics, translated by E.S. Halberstadt, Wiley–Interscience, London, ISBN 0-471-62430-6, p. 45.
- ^ Kavanagh, J.L.; Sparks R.S.J. (2009). "Temperature changes in ascending kimberlite magmas". Earth and Planetary Science Letters (Elsevier) 286 (3–4): 404–413. Bibcode:2009E&PSL.286..404K. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.07.011. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
- ^ Adiabatic Processes
- Silbey, Robert J.; et al. (2004). Physical chemistry. Hoboken: Wiley. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-471-21504-2.
- Broholm, Collin. "Adiabatic free expansion." Physics & Astronomy @ Johns Hopkins University. N.p., 26 Nov. 1997. Web. 14 Apr. *Nave, Carl Rod. "Adiabatic Processes." HyperPhysics. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2011. [1].
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Joseph Freda, who joined the department about a year-and-a-half ago, is facing two counts of simple assault for his contact with Thomas Templeton, of York, Maine. State police charged Templeton with reckless driving and disobeying a police officer after a pursuit that ended in Salem shortly before 2:12 a.m. on Oct. 6.
Salem police said in a statement that they fully cooperated with the investigation and placed Freda on unpaid administrative leave after their own internal investigation into the matter. Freda is expected to have an administrative hearing regarding his job status next week.
Associate Attorney General Jane Young said her office is now looking into other incidents involving Freda.
Freda also drew at least one complaint while on duty as a police officer in Brookline prior to accepting a job in Salem, according to court records. Resident Sharon Ryherd, who was arrested in June 2009, complained about Freda's conduct when she was arrested for disobeying a police officer, resisting arrest and reckless operation. The charges were later dropped to non-criminal violations and Ryherd paid fines, court records say.
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JACKSONVILLE – The Jaguars' future at safety officially is at hand.
"It was just a decision at that time that (Jaguars General Manager) Dave (Caldwell) and I talked about and made," Bradley said Wednesday as the Jaguars (0-5) prepared to play the Denver Broncos (5-0) at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver, Colo., Sunday at 4:05 p.m.
Lowery, who started 20 games the past two seasons, started the first three games this season before sustaining a concussion on the first series of a Week Two loss at Seattle.
"D-Lo has been very good for us and a good player," Bradley said. "He's given a lot to us and was great throughout. It was an organizational decision."
Placing Lowery on injured reserve and subsequently releasing him means rookies
Cyprien, the Jaguars' second-round selection in the 2013 NFL Draft, started the first five games of the season, with Evans – a sixth-round selection – playing extensively in place of Lowery in Week Three and starting the last two games.
"It really doesn't change much," Evans said. "You kind of heard it early on. They were saying the future was Johnathan (Cyprien) and Josh Evans. It just came a little sooner than people probably expected."
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*Bradley said he won't use the Broncos' being significant favorites for Sunday's game as motivation for players. "I don't go there," Bradley said. "Things like that, at times, are more external motivation. If you get caught doing that one week, you're doing it the next week, then you're doing it the next week. Then, you're always searching for reasons to be motivated. … We can get caught up in all the other things, but when you do that you miss yourself, what you need to do."
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*Mincey and Burton remain in the concussion program, and the team is awaiting test results from this week….
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Leading universities report that enrollment in computer science and engineering courses is up significantly this year among students pursuing computer science majors as well as those studying other subjects, particularly science or business.
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State workers' pay is back on the budget chopping block.
Officials representing Gov. Jerry Brown met with state employee union leaders last week and delivered the news: A budget revision he'll release Monday includes a new proposal to cut payroll costs in the upcoming fiscal year.
The decision to take a bite out of state workers' pay comes amid a deepening California budget deficit that Brown pegged in January at $9.2 billion through 2012-13 but now is thought to be considerably more.
The sources, who declined to talk on the record because the administration asked all involved to keep the budget discussions secret, said Brown's representatives didn't outline specific cuts. They said the governor wants to cut payroll costs by at least 5 percent, and asked union leaders to come up with ways to make the reductions.
Brown has the authority to lay off workers, but any other reductions a pay cut or furloughs, for example require bargaining or legislation.
Asked about the meetings with labor, Department of Finance spokesman H.D. Palmer said, "The governor has already indicated that more difficult reductions will be required," because the state's budget deficit has grown since Brown issued his first budget proposal in January.
"The details of those reductions will be detailed in the May revision," Palmer said.
Brown is championing a November ballot measure that will ask voters to accept tax increases to relieve pressure on the budget.
If voters reject the proposal, Brown says deeper cuts will be necessary, particularly in school funding. Palmer declined to say whether the state worker pay cuts would be contingent on the outcome of the election.
GOP political strategist Wayne Johnson said that Brown's decision to propose employee cost cuts is more about "optics" than the fiscal math because, unlike local government budgets, state employees' pay makes up a relatively small percentage of the $85.9 billion budget that lawmakers passed last year.
Brown has made other moves to demonstrate he's serious about cost-cutting, including recalling some state employees' cellphones and reducing the government's car fleet.
"He's in campaign mode right now," Johnson said. "Whatever he's doing is geared toward moving poll numbers for his tax initiative."
State employees' pay and benefits have been targeted for years. Former GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered layoffs, imposed furloughs and twice tried to withhold state workers' wages during budget stalemates with majority Democrats in the Legislature.
Brown criticized furloughs when he was running for office. He has the authority to order layoffs, but the process usually takes at least six months, and the savings often fall short of expectations.
Furloughs are an option only if the Senate and Assembly authorize Brown to execute them. The courts have ruled the policy falls under the Legislature's power to set wages and working conditions. That seems unlikely now, given Democrats' traditional ties with labor.
Brown would have to bargain other cost savings, such as outright pay cuts or higher employee contributions to pension or health benefits.
Just last month, Brown reached agreements with four unions representing roughly 24,000 employees.
Those deals extended the terms of pacts set to expire in July. Two of the contracts increased the state's health benefit costs by 9.5 percent for about 16,000 psychiatric technicians and equipment operators.
With the four extensions in place, the contracts covering roughly 180,000 state workers represented by 12 unions all expire within the first three days of July 2013.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
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I woke up yesterday morning and had one kidlet, one cat and one dog in bed with me. Hubby's in Macao at the moment roughing it at a hotel who's smallest suite looks like a palace! Oh, and they have four pools, too. So I wish I were there and he was the one waking up to the menagerie surrounding me! Between the nudges for rubs, the meows for food and the butting with a wet nose to be let outside I'd really like a chance to sleep in past six o'clock in the morning.
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Still, I shouldn't complain too much. My furbabies continue to amuse me endlessly. Seriously pets are so entertaining. Better than television. Spirit has become a mean, not-so-lean dog attacking machine. I've never seen anything like it. She doesn't hold back at all if Chaos gets into her space. Okay, she was on one corner of the bed this morning and Chaos on the others, but the only time she'll be nice to the dog is sleep time. Otherwise, she's permanently on DEFCON 4. Chaos, being a smart dog, keeps a wide berth when Spirit's awake because being pounced on can happen at any moment.
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Smalls has begun to venture downstairs again whether Chaos is around or not. I think this is only because she wants to go outside. She's always come back before, but I have my doubts this time. If it was June I wouldn't worry so much, but since the rainy season will be here any minute I'm a bit worried. Though she's a pretty smart cat so I guess if it was a choice of being wet or being dry with a dog in the house she'd choose the later.
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Rocket has surprised us all with his new-found courage. He will walk right in front of Chaos now. Of course, Chaos is asleep. But he's stopped running and has even hissed on occasion. If any of the cats will change sides, I think it will be Rocket. He really loves to pal around and Chaos really wants someone to play with. Time will tell.
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9 comments:
- Dru said...
I'm so glad that they are tolerating one another.
How's the writing coming along? - 9/10/08, 3:11 AM
- Sarita Leone said...
I get such a kick out of these animal photos. Brought a smile to my day early this morning, thanks.
Hope you have a lovely day! - 9/10/08, 5:47 AM
- Virginia said...
You really put some cute photos on this site, love them.
Lately I have been getting a kick out of watching the hummingbirds fighting over the feeders on the deck. One hummingbird thinks both feeders is his and does not want any of the other birds to feed, but he just can't keep them away. - 9/10/08, 8:50 AM
- Brandy said...
Awww, I like hearing about how they're getting along. Or not getting along. *G*
And you're right. Pets are so darn entertaining! *G*
I hope you have a pleasant day. - 9/10/08, 12:56 PM
- catslady said...
That last photo is priceless!! With 6 cats and a visit from my grandpuppy, it's never quiet at my house lol.
- Jane said...
Ooh, Macao is fun, though I didn't get to gamble.
- Nathalie said...
Wow... that bed was crowded!
- limecello said...
Awe - those pictures, and your furbabies too! Maybe they'll get along [even better?] soon...
- Marianne Arkins said...
I almost couldn't read you post for the LOL pix... so cute!!!