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Mr. Weininger is a litigation, trial and appeals lawyer who has extensive experience handling business and real estate litigation matters, including creditors' rights, lender liability and fraud claims, disputes involving quiet title, easements and prescriptive rights, aggregate and mining disputes, and construction disputes involving commercial and custom residential properties. Mr. Weininger also has extensive experience handling general commercial, securities and entertainment litigation matters. He has won judgments and successfully resolved cases for clients ranging from individuals and small businesses to publicly-traded corporations and national banks. He has obtained significant monetary and non-monetary relief for his clients, including all forms of provisional relief and injunctive remedies in state and federal courts and in arbitration.
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- Obtained summary judgment for bank defeating alleged fraud and related claims arising out of bank's sale of note secured by multi-million commercial real property collateral.
- Obtained summary judgment for bank following borrowers' default on loan agreement. Mr. Weininger also successfully recovered collateral held by borrowers by invoking various provisional remedies prior to entry of judgment.
- Represented purchasers of luxury custom-built, breach front home in Malibu in multi-party construction defect litigation matter under the Right to Repair Act involving substantial water intrusion problems and other issues. Obtained favorable monetary settlement for client that included reimbursement of all construction defect repair costs incurred.
- Represented real estate investor and developer against publicly-traded guarantors of multi-million real estate loan. The case settled on favorable terms for the client shortly before the hearing on a motion for summary judgment filed by Mr. Weininger.
- Represented numerous banks and lenders in special assets related litigation matters. Successfully obtained various provisional relief and judgments for lenders, including appointment of receivers (including receivership matters for hotels), attachment, levies and other provisional recovery of assets to protect collateral pending non-judicial and/or judicial foreclosure.
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- Successfully represented brokers, broker-dealers and investment advisers in numerous NASD and FINRA consumer arbitrations.
J.D., Whittier Law School, 2001
summa cum laude (graduated 1st in full-time day class)
B.A., California State University, Long Beach, 1996
Awards & Recognition
- Judicial Extern, Honorable Gregory O'Brien, Los Angeles Superior Court, 1999
- Finalist, Saul Lefkowitz Trademark and Intellectual Property Moot Court Competition, Washington D.C., 2001


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I Found my Thrill on Blueberry Hill Smoothie
Submitted by Juliebean on November 7, 2006 - 7:55am
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Servings:Makes 4 cups
What a fantastic way to start a day!
1 young thai coconut
2 cup frozen organic blueberries
Crack open coconut and add meat and water to vitamix blender.
Add 2 cups frozen organic blueberries and blend until completely mixed. This will make a frozen purple smoothie that is delicious!
Add more blueberries if needed to make the smoothie freeze up, and intensify the blueberry taste.
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Submitted by germin8 on October 15, 2007 - 4:41pm.
This recipe gave me an idea for my coconut water and coconut meat. I had some fozen blueberries, so perfect. I did add (very little) almond milk and cashews only because I was remembering a raw ice cream recipe while making this. But you can still taste the coconut and blueberries. It was good.

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There's a particular process that I'm fascinated by, and I tell people about it all the time, but I realized I'd never actually written about it — so here you go.
Let's start with a definition, and then I'll show you some examples.
the flip-flop (n.) the process of pushing a work of art or craft from the physical world to the digital world and back again — maybe more than once
That's pretty abstract. Here's an example recipe:
It's step three above that is most crucial to the flip-flop, because that's where it becomes clear you aren't aiming for fidelity in these transitions from physical to digital and back.
When you do the flip-flop, you achieve effects that aren't possible when you dwell in only one world, physical or digital. You also achieve effects that are less predictable. Weird things happen on the walls between worlds.
Here's a real example. It's a little more complicated, and it demonstrates that the steps don't all have to be executed by the same person:
It is probably the fate of most fruits of the flip-flop, indeed most works of art, in the early 21st century to end up as animated GIFs.
Here's another example with the contributors separated by space and time:
Two more!
First, this project from BERG is a nice tight flip-flop. The recipe goes:
Finally, here's my very favorite example.
It's not as direct as the recipes above, but it absolutely qualifies as the flip-flop, and it's exemplary of the possibility waiting here. Think of each step below as a broad cultural activity, not a specific personal action:
Honestly, I don't think this wave of stuttering slo-mo choreography would be concievable without video. You need to see a human body move this way on a screen before you can imagine moving it that way on the street.
And what's next? What happens when you give the dancer above a motion capture suit and pipe his moves back into a computer? Nonstop flip-flop.
Here's some more choreography, spectacular in the truest sense, that we simply would not be watching if a set of images hadn't bounced back and forth between the physical and digital worlds for a while:
And that, my friends, is how you dance the flip-flop.
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Opinion: Henderson making his mark for Liverpoolby Harry Hesp
Jordan Henderson lined up at Craven Cottage on Wednesday knowing that he could have been battling relegation instead of fighting for a Champions League place.
Rewind 18 months and it appeared that the loud grumbles from The Kop about Henderson's poor performances had found their way into the manager's office, with Brendan Rodgers offering the young midfielder the chance to join Fulham as part of a Clint Dempsey swap deal, Henderson immediately turned the move down - vowing to prove himself to the newly appointed boss.
As it turns out it may have been an inspired piece of man-management by Rodgers, a bluff, with the Reds' boss claiming he never wanted to sell the former Sunderland man anyway.
"I never wanted Jordan to leave, he was a player that I didn't want to lose," Rodgers told the Liverpool Echo, "We talked about the opportunity that was there for him but it was never the case that we wanted him to go."
When Rodgers came to Liverpool he found a project in Henderson, a player low in confidence but with the willingness to develop his game and all the raw attributes to compete at the highest level.
"What he's shown is that he's a great learner. If you have the ability to learn, take things on board and devote your life to your profession, then you have a great chance," Rodgers said after the win over Arsenal.
Patience. Not something that's often afforded by Premier League manager's nowadays but patient is exactly what Rodgers has been with Henderson. And he's been rewarded.
At Fulham on Wednesday night, the midfielder picked up the ball from an attacking corner on the edge of the box and with a glance and a shimmy he ran at the Fulham defence skipping past two players before creating a chance for his side.
A stark contrast to the man who appeared almost frightened of the ball just 12 months ago; immediately offloading as soon as it came to him, usually sideways and to a maximum of six yards.
Henderson was criticised for his lack of bottle during his first season at Liverpool, often caught pulling out of some 50:50 challenges, memorably against Chelsea in the FA Cup final, but again the difference in the player was evident even in his armour at Craven Cottage, sporting a cast for a broken wrist sustained in the mauling of Arsenal - he's toughened up.
Now deployed in an advanced midfield role ahead of Steven Gerrard, Henderson is showing signs of emulating the Liverpool captain and the two have developed a good understanding.
With the skipper taking up a deep role, Henderson has replaced Gerrard as the engine in the Reds midfield and their bond could be seen in their huge embrace at the end of their vital win at Fulham.
It's a combination that's working and one that is bound to have caught the eye of England manager Roy Hodgson.
Rodgers is adamant that the pair should be lining up for England when they face Italy in their opening game of the World Cup.
After the win against Arsenal, Rodgers said: "For me you had the three England (midfield) players on the pitch, Stevie playmaking from behind the two attacking players who can run, get forward and get into the box and press. Wilshere is a wonderful player. Jordan Henderson, tactically is improving so much and Stevie is in the zone just behind. It would be harder to pick a better three than that."
Time will tell if Hodgson agrees. What's for sure is that Henderson is at the heart of this impressive Liverpool team and he certainly can't be ignored.


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I really enjoyed myself at my first NFL game, but I was shocked at the lack of class some of the fans had. Thinking later on it, I guess I shouldn't have expected much; its a competitive sport and its bound to get a little out of hand. Other than that, I had a really good time with my family.
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Let $\tau(\alpha,X)$ be a class term and let G be a function on $On\times V$ such that for all $\alpha$ and y, $G(\alpha,y)\subseteq\alpha\times V$. We also assume that for every $X\subseteq\alpha\times V$ we can prove that $y\in\tau(\alpha,X)\leftrightarrow y\in\tau(\alpha,X\cap G(\alpha,y))$. Then there is a unique class $A\subseteq On\times V$ such that for all $\alpha$, $A_{\alpha}=\tau(\alpha,A\upharpoonright\alpha)$, where $A_{\alpha}=\{z \ |\ \langle\alpha,z\rangle\in A\}=A[\{\alpha\}]$.
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On a farm in small-town Pierz, Minn., Tom and Jenni Smude are breaking new ground in the cooking oil business.
Tom and Jenni started Smude's Natural Sunflower Oil in February of 2010 and have enjoyed the ride ever since. What began as an idea to grow a drought-tolerant crop transformed into a rural small-business success story with the potential to become something even bigger.
A couple of dry seasons on the farm led to the Smudes planting sunflowers. Tom originally wanted to extract biofuel from the crushed sunflowers, but he quickly learned there were other, more profitable, uses for his new crop.
After using a bottle of sunflower oil to fry potatoes for dinner one night, Tom and Jenni were instantly hooked.
"It was like butter," Tom said. "Just awesome."
The idea to cold-press sunflower seeds and start bottling and selling all natural, high-oleic sunflower oil took shape.
The process
The Smudes built a processing building on their farm and process about 30,000 bushels of sunflowers annually. The sunflowers are augured into the building and the seed is sent through an automated system to be cleaned, destined, hulled and sorted.
After that, the seed is cold-pressed, typically at a temperature around 78 degrees. Anything less than 125 degrees is considered cold-pressed. Cold-pressing produces a higher quality and more flavorful oil.
After the oil is extracted, it's filtered and sent to three 7,000-gallon on-site storage tanks before getting bottled and labeled with the help of part-time staff.
That's quite the process for two people who never envisioned they'd one day enter the sunflower oil business at the ground level and rapidly start moving up.
"This was a new idea. It wasn't a common business," Jenni said. "The support we've gotten has been unbelievable."
That support came from family and friends, and also from organizations that help ambitious rural entrepreneurs like the Smudes.
Financing and support
USDA Rural Development recently selected Smude's Natural Sunflower Oil to receive a $298,500 value-added producer grant to help with marketing activities, working capital and overall growth.
Value-added grants may be used for feasibility studies, business plans, working capital for valued-added agricultural products and farm-based renewable energy projects. Eligible applicants include independent producers, farmer and rancher cooperatives, agricultural producer groups and majority-controlled producer-based business ventures.
Using a revolving loan fund established through Rural Development's Intermediary Relending Program, Morrison County provided startup financing in 2009. Other assistance came from the Initiative Foundation of Little Falls, USDA's Farm Service Agency, the Small Business Development Center at Central Lakes College in Brainerd and private financing.
"It's all about jobs," said Colleen Landkamer, USDA Rural Development State Director. "Smude's is a great example of how products grown right in our own backyards can spur economic development for an entire region."
Business takes off
The Smude's started selling their sunflower oil at Thielen Meats and Hartman's General Store, both well-know local businesses in Pierz. They expanded to farmers markets, developed a website and exhibited at health and sportsman's expos.
Business started to grow.
In the early stages, Tom estimates he sent one pallet of sunflower oil every six months for distribution in the Twin Cities. Now he sends two per month. Smude's products can be found in over 100 retail stores and restaurants throughout Minnesota and Tom and Jenni are working to become the country's first national distributor of natural, food-grade, cold-pressed sunflower oil.
But no matter how much business grows, the Smudes know it wouldn't have happened without the grass-roots support from the Pierz community and surrounding region.
"It's all about community pride," Tom said. "Whether people know me or not, they know where my product comes from. That means something, both to us and our customers."
New customers and partners
One of the most enjoyable parts of the new venture has been meeting the people who discover and purchase the Smude's products. Tom talks about a group of Russian immigrants who travel from Minneapolis to St. Cloud regularly to buy Smude's oil because it "tastes like home."
Jenni interacted with a woman from Pennsylvania who was battling breast cancer and found Smude's on the Internet. She wanted to buy the natural oil for health benefits.
Tom also works with five other local growers to purchase sunflowers. He uses the by-product after pressing to feed his Black Angus cattle – all 400 of them. By-product also is sold to other area famers for feed and bedding. Nothing is wasted.
The on-farm processing facility is a shining example of energy efficiency. Tom says the heat from the machines when running at full capacity provides plenty of warmth during the winter and keeps heating and electricity bills well below what was originally budgeted.
Next steps
At an event to recognize the USDA value-added grant on Feb. 16, Tom and Jenni talked about being prepared for the next steps and what it takes for a small rural business to grow. The Smude's will use the grant, which they matched with their own funds, to add jobs and take their business to the next level.
Because Smude's oil is healthy, all-natural and eco-friendly, it's catching the attention of chefs and consumers who want to buy products that are produced locally and have minimal negative impact on the environment.
Future plans include working to gain additional access to markets like restaurants, movie theaters and specialty stores. There are also a couple of new products created with the oil that the Smude's hope to begin marketing.
With two children, a farm, a full-time job, a separate day-job and other side businesses, it's hard to figure out where Tom and Jenni find the time to oversee a blossoming sunflower oil business.
But they wouldn't have it any other way.
"I want to take the risk. Let's do it," Tom said. "I believe in this product and I know others do too."
Click here to visit Smude's Natural Sunflower Oil on the web.
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- Mineral sequestration of CO2 by reaction with alkaline residues (2012)
- With the onset of industrialization within the last 150 years, a significant increase in the concentration of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) is recorded in the atmosphere. According to current scientific understanding the rising atmospheric CO2 levels can be linked with high probability to the observed phenomenon of global warming. Consequently, the reduction of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions has become a global challenge of environmental research and policy. In this thesis, a novel approach to achieve a long-term mineral sequestration of CO2 was studied, using alkaline residue materials. This study examined for the first time a process that allows for rapid removal of CO2 from flue gas through reaction with lignite fly ashes in aqueous solution. In this process the basicity of the residues is utilized for mineral trapping of CO2 by precipitating stable calcite. Lignite fly ashes are a cheap, inexpensive, highly reactive byproduct of coal combustion. Due to the exposure to heat, these waste streams generally contain high amounts of reactive Ca/Mg (hydr)oxides and thus offer a high alkalinity. The alkaline residues were therefore not considered as an environmental problem, but rather as useful reactants for technical CO2 neutralization in the context of combustion processes. Carbonates are end-products of weathering processes at the earth surface and mineral carbonation is thus assessed to be a permanent and safe storage option of CO2. Compared to alternative forms of carbon storage (e.g. the injection into gas reservoirs) cost-intensive monitoring programs for safety reasons can be omitted. Also, the carbonation generally leads to heavy metal fixation in the residues, allowing for an environmentally less problematic disposal of the products or even their industrial re-use (e.g. road construction, cement industry). Due to the common high reactivity of alkaline fly ashes no pre-treatment (e.g. grinding, using chemical additives) is needed compared to the use of natural silicate minerals as feedstock material. For these reasons mineral carbonation of alkaline residues can be considered as a process with low costs and low energy consumption, thus making it an interesting CO2 reduction pathway from an economical point of view. In Chapter 1, the mechanisms and rates of reactions between alkaline lignite fly ash and CO2 in aqueous suspensions were evaluated. Aqueous laboratory experiments showed that CO2 from flue gas can be bound directly as carbonate. Additionally, solutions with high dissolved inorganic carbon content are formed, which can be injected into aquifers for mineral CO2 sequestration. As the dissolution rates of the alkaline mineral phases are high, gas phase CO2 transfer into the aqueous phase is mostly the limiting factor for the overall carbonation process. CO2 dissolution is controlled by the solution pH, by the available surface area of the gas/water interface and by the gradient at that interface. The maximum conversion of 5.2 moles of CO2 per kg fly ash (≈ 0.23 kg kg-1) obtained at 75 °C demonstrates the high potential of alkaline fly ashes to sequester CO2. This value accounts for a CO2 sequestration capacity of nearly 3.5 million t of CO2 in Germany alone based on the available lignite fly ash, which corresponds to 2 percents of the CO2 emissions from lignite power combustion (168 million t a-1 in 2009). In Chapter 2, laboratory carbonation experiments are described, which were carried out with the individual mineral phases CaO and MgO in aqueous solution. The process showed parallels with the reactions observed during carbonation of lignite fly ashes, suggesting that Ca and Mg (hydr)oxides can be used as proxies to estimate alkaline waste reaction with CO2 in general. The carbonation of CaO happens fast, occurs at high pH values > 12 and is controlled at the mineral surface by the dissolution of Ca(OH)2. As long as Ca(OH)2 is available CO2 uptake by the system is high and leads to the simultaneous precipitation of calcite (CaCO3). Under similar conditions MgO carbonation is a slower and much more complex process. In the presence of MgO an initial pH of ~ 10.8, indicating solubility equilibrium, was reached. Subsequently, TDIC concentrations and EC increased almost linearly. The pool of MgO based alkalinity can be made available for mineral trapping if the kinetic restrictions for precipitation of Mg-carbonate can be overcome, e. g. by running the processes at higher temperature (> 50 °C) and higher s/l-ratio. Corresponding to related work the precipitation of hydromagnesite (Mg5(CO3)4 (OH)2 ∙ 4H2O) is found for temperatures above 50 ° C already at a suspended amount of 4 g L-1. Precipitation of nesquehonite (MgCO3 ∙ 3H2O)) starts upon a suspended amount of MgO of more than 10 g L-1 at 25 ° C. In Chapter 3 the setup and the results of a model are shown, which was used to simulate and evaluate the process of alkaline material carbonation over time. Experimentally derived specific dissolution rates for CaO/MgO and CO2 are used for the development of a kinetic geochemical model based on the freely available PHREEQC algorithm. The software offers the access to databases, which containing thermodynamic constants of all common dissolved species in natural and industrial processes. Experimental assays conducted in an aqueous carbonation reactor (see Chapter 1 and 2) were used as reference to test the model and evaluate its robustness and sensitivity. The reaction course of the experiments based on the use of the pure phases (CaO and MgO) was successfully reproduced by our simulations. The developed model may thus be used as a valuable tool for the optimization of technical scenarios/facilities for CO2 sequestration. In order to study different mineral sequestration scenarios for calcite precipitation, we used the simulation to test the variation of process parameters and the addition of chemical additives (CaCl2, CaSO4). Finally, the simulation of the carbonation of lignite fly ash was tested using our simplified model based on CaO, MgO, calcite, anhydrite as kinetic reactants. It was shown that advanced techniques to determine the exact mineralogy of combustion residues and the extension of the availability of thermodynamic data of specific mineral phases are necessary to improve geochemical modelling in future work. In Chapter 4, the potential contribution of lignite fly ash to mineral CO2 trapping in a high anhydrite (CaSO4) containing aquifer were analyzed. The study examined the possibility of combining underground CO2 storage and geothermal heat/energy production from an anhydrite rich aquifer. In such a scenario Ca2+ for the precipitation of calcite could be provided from the dissolution of the calcium sulfate. The dissolution of anhydrite concurrently releases acid, being counterproductive with respect to the formation of carbonates. The possibility of pH buffering by the addition of alkaline lignite fly ash is therefore appraised to optimize the conditions of carbonate precipitation. The performed laboratory experiments, as basis for thermodynamic simulations with PHREEC, confirmed that the buffering capacity derived from the fly ashes is essential for calcite precipitation in such a system. Already with an addition of 0.1 weight percent of fly ash per volume of the injection solution the amount of precipitated calcite was maximized. The dissolution of anhydrite is associated with a concurrent increase in pore space and can balance the porespace reduction by precipitation of carbonates and secondary silicates in the geothermal reservoir.
- Budget and fluxes of nitrogen in mountainous agroecosystems in a summer monsoonal climate under intensive land use (2012)
- A balanced nitrogen (N) cycle in intensively managed ecosystems is necessary as it underpins other ecosystem services. This study evaluated the agricultural practices in a typical mountainous catchment in South Korea in respect to N dynamics and their potential effect on water quality with the aim to develop options for a more sustainable catchment management. In the 1st study, we used two approaches to calculate N budgets for the 5 key crops of the basin at the field scale. The gross and net N budgets for all crop types were found to be positive. Based on the small differences between the results of the two approaches we identified fertilizer N as well as soil Nmin as the dominant N input sources. As fertilizer N application was the major N input source (>50%), its reduction is the major scope of action for N savings at the field scale. A closely linked action is the synchronization of fertilizer N with soil Nmin. The large amount of fertilizer that is applied prior to planting (>60%) at the beginning of the monsoon season revealed that split applications could help reducing the fertilizer N additions and increase the low N use efficiencies (NUE). Based on the significant differences between gross and net N surplus for rice and bean fields, we identified the high amount of plant residues remaining after harvesting (>100 kg N ha-1) as a further factor for potential N savings. The 5 main crops accounted for over 80% of the total catchment N surplus (>400 Mg), even though their contribution to the area was only around 20%. A land use shift to perennial crops with lower N inputs was therefore found to be a possible but spatially limited chance to reduce N surpluses at the catchment scale. The comparison of catchment N surplus with stream N export revealed that 73-86% of the agricultural N surpluses were transported to water bodies in the catchment by either leaching or surface runoff. In the 2nd study, we followed the fate of fertilizer N in a ridge and furrow (R/F) cultivation with polyethylene (PE) mulch by using 15N tracer. N leaching was simulated with Hydrus 2D. The comparison of 4 N fertilization levels (0, 150, 250 and 350 kg N ha-1) revealed that already 150 kg N ha-1 is sufficient to reach the maximal yield of radishes. Based on the low results of fertilizer N use efficiency (FNUE), we recommend two applications during the first 25 days of growth and a further application around day 50. These split applications adjusted to the plants' needs increase the FNUE of the radish and decrease the fertilizer N losses during the growing season. However, split applications might be impractical in plastic covered R/F cultivations because mechanical equipment to apply fertilizer under the PE mulch is required. Based on the finding that 15N retention in soil and nitrate concentration in seepage water decreased similarly for ridges and furrows during the entire growing season, we conclude that the PE mulch had no significant effect on 15N retention in soil and on nitrate concentration in seepage water and did therefore not effectively protect the fertilizer in the ridges from percolation. Based on the simulation results, we found that the ridges and furrows contributed approximately an equal amount of leached N to the total amount. We therefore conclude that the PE mulch provided little protection for the fertilizer N in the ridges during heavy rainfall. N leaching amounts were further found to increase linearly with an increase in N addition rate as it is well known for R/F cultivations without PE mulch. The PE mulch did therefore not prevent the linear increase in leaching with an increase in fertilizer N addition. We summarize that without the use of additional measures such as split applications of fertilizer, the application of PE mulch in a summer monsoon climate with heavy rainfall events does not positively influence the N leaching rates. In the 3rd study, we monitored soil water dynamics in the field and used this data set to simulate the influence of PE mulch on water fluxes with Hydrus 2D. We simulated soil water dynamics in 1) conventional flat tillage (CT); 2) R/F cultivation without PE mulched ridges (RT); and 3) R/F cultivation with PE mulched ridges (RTpm). The comparison of the simulated pressure heads during dry and wet periods revealed that the PE mulch induced significant soil moisture patterns only during the dry periods. During monsoon events, the effect of the PE mulch was dependent on the soil texture and the hydraulic conductivity. Summarizing the advantages and disadvantages of the R/F cultivation with PE mulch on sloped fields, the practice was observed to have the lowest amount of drainage water, the lowest evaporation rates but also the highest surface runoff rates. Hence, PE mulching might be assessed as a tool to reduce percolating water, but it concurrently increases water contribution to the river network by surface runoff.
- Impact of extreme hydrological conditions on belowground carbon cycling and redox dynamics in peat soils from a northern temperate fen (2012)
- Peatlands have an important role in the global carbon cycle and constitute the largest pool of carbon stored in terrestrial ecosystems due to their disproportionally high areal soil carbon density. This globally relevant carbon stock is the result of a process mostly initiated after the last glaciation period. A key factor for this long term carbon accumulation is the relative low decomposition of organic matter in these predominantly water logged ecosystems. Hydrological conditions play thus a fundamental role in peatlands and the feedback of carbon cycling in these ecosystems in response to climate change is under debate. Peatlands are important CO2 sinks but also constitute global sources of CH4. The atmospheric exchange and production rates of these greenhouse gases are strongly influenced by the hydrological regime. An increased frequency of extreme meteorological conditions resulting in drying and flooding events is predicted to occur in the future. The major issue regarding the climate change debate at the global scale is how rapid these greenhouse gases are being released to the atmosphere. Despite the general consensus regarding the broad effects of drying and flooding on CO2 and CH4 exchange, belowground processes producing such greenhouse gases and their response to water table dynamics is underrepresented and usually simplified or overgeneralized. Temperature, moisture, oxygen content and nutrient content are among the major environmental controls for organic matter decomposition rates in peat soils. Another important and intrinsic control is peat quality or humification degree of organic matter. The interrelation and relevance of all these factors vary among sites and with hydrological condition in a temporal and spatial scale. This work presents investigations focusing on belowground redox processes aiming to witness the dynamic interrelation of soil physical and chemical (soil gas and pore water chemistry) variables, and evaluates the relevance of some controls of organic matter decomposition during a wide range of hydrological conditions. Most of this work shows information under in situ conditions and complementary laboratory experiments were performed minding the in situ observations. The findings contribute to general knowledge by providing raw data in fen peats under fluctuating and contrasting water table conditions in a relatively high spatiotemporal resolved scale. Dryings led to increased air filled porosity, O2 intrusion, CO2 degassing, inhibition of methanogenesis and renewal of electron acceptors. The opposite trend occurred upon rewetting with pulses of iron and sulphate reduction and delayed methane production to a variable extent. Upon flooding, continued anaerobic conditions stimulated the accumulation of reduced products, methanogenic precursors (acetate and hydrogen) and CH4. The general assumption that the water table directly controls the oxygen content in peat was relativized. This work shows that such relation is greatly influenced by peat physical properties, which partially control the changes in moisture. Based on these findings, the mineral content and the degree of compaction in organic soils can be implemented to more accurately represent the dynamics of aeration in peats upon water table changes. Another general assumption is that drying events, i.e. temporary decline of water table below mean position, lead to increased CO2 production and emission from peat soils to the atmosphere. Such statement was also relativized and must account for the depth distribution of respiration rates in relation to the mean water table of the peat deposit. Based on these findings, the high relative contribution of upper peat layers already exposed above the water table mask the effects of increased CO2 production in deeper peat upon water table drop. Additionally, the role of moisture was shown to be little for aerobic respiration. This work also evaluates the importance of drought severity by accounting for the post drought effects on methane production. More intense and prolonged drying events led to a greater regeneration of electron acceptors in peat soil, which broadly suppressed or limited methane production upon rewetting. This relation was not simple and several factors such as water table position, post drought water table fluctuations, temperature and organic matter content contributed to the recovery of methane production after drying. The provision of substrates by fermentation processes limited peat respiration during shallow water table and drying. In contrast, accumulation of acetate and hydrogen was observed during flooding indicating a decoupling of fermentation from terminal metabolism and favouring the co-occurrence of iron reduction, sulphate reduction and methanogenesis.
- Monte Carlo Simulation Methods for Studying the Thermodynamics of Ligand Binding & Transfer Processes in Biomolecules (2012)
- The binding and transfer of ligands is of central importance for the function of many biomolecular systems. The main topic of this thesis is the development and application of Monte Carlo (MC) simulation methods for studying complex ligand binding equilibria which can also involve conformational changes. The simulated systems were described by microstates within a continuum electrostatics/molecular mechanics (CE/MM) model of the receptor-ligand system. The CE/MM modeling methodology was improved. The improvements led to more detailed molecular models that enable a more realistic reproduction of system properties and environmental conditions. The developed simulation methods were applied to biomolecular systems whose function involves aspects that are important for the understanding of bioenergetic energy transduction. The results of this thesis are presented in five articles that are published in peer reviewed scientific journals. Manuscript A presents the Monte Carlo simulation software GMCT which was largely developed in this thesis. The software offers a variety of different simulation methods that allow the user to harness the full potential of CE/MM models in the simulation of complex receptor systems. Manuscript B presents a novel theoretical framework for free energy calculations with the free energy perturbation method. The novel framework is more broadly applicable and can lead to more efficient simulations than previous formulations. The derivation of the formalism also led to interesting insights into general statistical mechanics. The formalism was implemented in GMCT and could already be used fruitfully for the free energy calculations presented in Manuscripts C and D. Manuscript C demonstrates the application of free energy measures of cooperativity to study the coupling of protonation, reduction and conformational change in azurin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PaAz). Such a coupling is prototypic for bioenergetic systems because it forms the thermodynamic basis of their energy transducing function. PaAz is an experimentally well characterized, small electron transport protein. For this reason, PaAz was used here as model system to demonstrate the usefulness of cooperativity free energies in detecting and quantifying thermodynamic coupling between events in complex biomolecular systems. The results of this study led to new insight that could help to determine the still enigmatic physiological role of PaAz. In Manuscript D, free energy calculations were applied to study the thermodynamics of transport through the ammonium transporter Amt-1 from Archaeoglobus fulgidus (AfAmt-1). Ammonium is the most directly utilizable nitrogen source for plants and microorganisms. AfAmt-1 and its homologues facilitate the transport of ammonia/ammonium across biological membranes in living beings from all domains of life. It is intensely debated how these proteins perform their function and whether ammonia or its protonated form ammonium is actually transported. The study extended upon previous theoretical studies by including the effects of substrate concentration, electrochemical transmembrane gradients, proton-coupled binding equilibria and competitive binding of different ligand species. It was found that the transported species is most likely the ammonium ion. An ammonia/proton symport mechanism that involves a pair of coplanar histidine residues at the center of the transmembrane pore as transient proton acceptor is made plausible by the high genetic conservation of these residues. Manuscript E presents a first application of the microstate description within a CE/MM model to the simulation of the non-equilibrium dynamics of a molecular system. We simulated the re-reduction kinetics of the primary electron donor in the photocycle of the bacterial photosynthetic reaction center from Blastochloris viridis. The simulation results are in very good agreement with experimentally measured data.
- Soil erosion and conservation potential of row crop farming in mountainous landscapes of South Korea (2013)
- Soils play an essential role for mankind because they provide fundamental ecosystem services required for human life, primarily for the production of food by providing the environment for plant growth. However, soils worldwide became highly threatened by human induced degradation, especially as a consequence of accelerated erosion by water during recent decades. In consideration of climate change and an increasing food demand of a rising population, there is an urgent need to conserve the soil resources by implementing effective erosion control measures for agricultural production. The effective implementation of those measures strongly depends on the specific conditions of particular regions and requires the analysis of the existing farming systems and their capability for erosion control. Objective of this thesis is the analysis of the major agricultural practices applied for row crop cultivation in mountainous watersheds of South Korea with respect to water erosion and the identification of their conservation potential. Our first two studies analyze the subsurface flow processes, the runoff patterns, and the associated erosion rates of the widely applied plastic covered ridge-furrow system (plastic mulch), and our third study investigates the impact of herbicide applications on erosion associated with conventional and organic farming. To analyze the flow processes induced by the plastic mulch cultivation, we conducted four irrigation experiments on potato fields that represent a smooth surface, uncovered ridges, and plastic covered ridges with and without a developed crop canopy. With an automatic sprinkler, we irrigated small plots with a dye tracer solution of Brilliant Blue and potassium iodide, collected surface runoff, and excavated soil profiles to visualize the subsurface flow patterns, which were subsequently analyzed by image index functions. We found that the ridge-furrow system, especially when ridges are covered with plastic, decreased infiltration and generated high amounts of surface runoff, whereas a developed crop canopy increased infiltration due to interception and stem flow. The analyses of the subsurface flow patterns show that the plastic covered ridge-furrow system induces preferential infiltration in furrows and planting holes due to its topography and the impermeable covers, but that the impact on flow processes in the soils is relatively small compared to the impact on runoff generation. To identify the patterns of overland flow and the erosion rates associated with the plastic mulch system, we installed runoff collectors to monitor runoff and sediment transport of two potato fields with concave and convex topographies, and we applied the EROSION 3D model to compare the plastic covered ridge-furrow system to uncovered ridges and a smooth surface. We found that plastic mulch cultivation considerably increases soil erosion compared to uncovered ridges as a consequence of high amounts of surface runoff. Our results show that the ridge-furrow system concentrated overland flow on the concave field, resulting in severe gully erosion, but prevented flow accumulation and reduced erosion on the convex field, which demonstrates that the effect of this cultivation strategy is primarily controlled by the field topography and its orientation. To analyze the effects of conventional and organic farming on water erosion, we measured multiple vegetation parameters of crops and weeds of conventional and organic farms cultivating bean, potato, radish, and cabbage, and we simulated long-term soil loss rates with the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE). We found that organic farming reduced erosion for radish, as a result of an increased weed biomass due to the absence of herbicides, but that it increased erosion for potato due to lower crop coverage, presumably as a consequence of crop-weed competition or herbivory associated with the absence of agricultural chemicals. Although we demonstrated that a developed weed cover in the furrows can potentially decrease the erosion risk for row crops, our results show that the average annual erosion rates of both farming systems exceed by far any tolerable soil loss. In consideration of the generally high soil loss found in our studies, we conclude that the applied farming practices are not capable for effective erosion control and soil conservation in this region. However, based on our findings, we could identify possible modifications of those practices that can help to reduce the risk of erosion in the future. We recommend perforated plastic covers for ridges to reduce runoff generation, and the orientation of the ridge-furrow system along the contours or towards field edges to prevent flow accumulation and gully formation. Additionally, we suggest residue mulching of furrows to protect the soil surface from overland flow, and the cultivation of winter cover crops after harvest to maintain a better soil cover throughout the year.
- Crystalline-core micelles based on triblock terpolymers with polyethylene middle blocks (2012)
- This thesis is focused on the crystallization-induced structure formation of polyethylene containing triblock terpolymers in organic solvents to surface-compartmentalized worm-like crystalline-core micelles (wCCMs). Obtaining profound knowledge of the parameters controlling the self-assembly process allowed the production of a variety of complex one-dimensional micellar architectures with many potential applications, such as adaptive surfactants. At first, the basic parameters that control the crystallization-induced self-assembly were explored using symmetric polystyrene-block-polyethylene-block-poly(methyl methacrylate) (PS-b-PE-b-PMMA) triblock terpolymers and a PS-b-PE-b-PS triblock copolymer. In good solvents for the PE block, e.g. THF and toluene, the selective formation of wCCMs was observed over a wide range of concentration, applied crystallization temperature and polymer composition. Whereas wCCMs produced by PS-b-PE-b-PS showed a homogeneous PS corona, a patch-like compartmentalization of the corona was observed if the micelles were formed by PS-b-PE-b-PMMA. As THF shows equal solvent quality for both corona blocks, wCCMs with almost alternating PS and PMMA compartments of about 15 nm were observed in this solvent. However, if structure formation was conducted in bad solvents for PE, such as dioxane or dimethylacetamide, spherical micelles with amorphous PE cores were formed already before crystallization. Hence, the subsequent crystallization of PE resulted in spherical CCMs with a patchy or a homogeneous corona depending on the used triblock. These findings allow the highly selective production of stable spherical or worm-like CCMs from the same polymer. As the corona structure of the patchy micelles self-assembled from triblock terpolymers was mainly deduced from transmission electron microscopy (TEM) performed on dried samples, a small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) study was performed in order to elucidate the morphology in solution. Therefore a partly deuterated triblock terpolymer was synthesized and measured at different contrasts to allow the selective detection of the different corona compartments. The resulting SANS curves could be interpreted using a form factor model for core-shell cylinders with alternating PS and PMMA hemishells including interparticle interactions, thus validating the TEM observations. Notably, Janus-type and patchy cylinders can be clearly distinguished using the applied form factor model. Moreover, the controlled formation of wCCMs with tunable corona composition and structure was achieved using the cocrystallization of different triblock copolymers. Via random cocrystallization of PS-b-PE-b-PMMA and PS-b-PE-b-PS the corona morphology could be tuned continuously from a mixed corona at low PMMA content over spherical PMMA patches of increasing number and size to alternating PS and PMMA patches. This approach allows to manufacture wCCMs with predefined corona structure omitting the need to synthesize a new tailor-made triblock terpolymer for every desired morphology. By establishing the controlled crystallization-driven self-assembly of triblock terpolymers with PE middle blocks, it was further possible to prepare wCCMs with predefined average lengths up to 500 nm and length polydispersities as low as Lw/Ln = 1.1. Here, self-assembled spherical CCMs of PS-b-PE-b-PS were used as seeds for the controlled growth of PS-b-PE-b-PS unimers. Upon further addition of PS-b-PE-b-PMMA unimers these grew epitaxially onto the preexisting wCCMs, resulting in triblock co-micelles that consisted of middle blocks with a homogeneous PS corona and outer blocks with alternating PS/PMMA compartments. These structures represent not only the first block co-micelles including blocks with a patchy corona, but also the first ones produced from purely organic block copolymers. In view of application, the ability of patchy wCCMs formed by PS-b-PE-b-PMMA to stabilize interfaces was investigated using pendant-drop tensiometry. The observed reduction of the interfacial tension at the toluene/water interface was significantly higher than that of comparable triblock terpolymer single chains and that of wCCMs with a homogeneous PS corona. Interestingly, the obtained equilibrium interfacial tension equaled that of Janus cylinders with similar dimensions. To explain this unexpected finding the corona chains were proposed to adapt to the interface via selective collapse and shielding of the incompatible part of the corona chains. Studying wCCMs formed by several triblock terpolymers with different compositions, the interfacial activity was found to increase with increasing overall length of the corona chains, and to a certain extent with the molar fraction of PS units in the corona.
- Site-specific modelling of turbulent fluxes on the Tibetan Plateau (2013)
- The Tibetan Plateau attracts attention in recent decades due to its influence on the East-Asian Monsoon and regional hydrology. Therefore estimates of the regional energy and water balance have come into the focus, utilising remote sensing and regional model approaches, but such attempts require surface-specific flux data of high quality for validation. Eddy-covariance measurements are qualified for this task, but these are scarce on the Tibetan Plateau, incomplete due to quality filtering and potentially biased due to the well-known closure gap of the observed energy balance as well as small-scale heterogeneity. This thesis is related to the infrastructural EU project CEOP-AEGIS, aiming at a standardised processing of eddy-covariance data – including correction of the energy balance closure and gap-filling – on the Tibetan Plateau. In a pre-analysis step, particular issues about data quality of turbulent fluxes (sensible heat flux and latent heat flux/evapotranspiration) at Tibetan Plateau sites have been addressed. One of them is the degradation of data quality due to the frequent occurrence of near-ground free convective conditions. Another issue arises from coordinate rotation for non-omnidirectional sonic anemometer, which requires a careful handling. In consequence, a sector-wise planar-fit is recommended, disregarding the sector influenced by the anemometer's mounting structure. This can reduce occurrences of invalid momentum flux data, whilst no effect on scalar fluxes can be seen. As a main topic, this thesis investigates the application of process-based modelling to estimate turbulent flux exchange between the surface and the atmosphere for typical surface types on the Tibetan Plateau. Therefore a case study has been carried out at Nam Co, Tibetan Plateau. Turbulent flux measurements over dry and wet grassland as well as over a shallow lake have been conducted during the summer monsoon season of 2009, and modelled with the land surface scheme SEWAB and a hydrodynamic multilayer model for the lake. Adaptations were implemented to the land surface scheme with regard to the special conditions on the Tibetan Plateau, such as extreme diurnal variation of surface temperature and variation in soil moisture, further called TP version. The analysis includes a consequent model comparison with eddy-covariance data, using model parameters derived independently rather than applying optimisation strategies. Specific attention has been devoted to the impact of observed energy balance closure and its correction, establishing a new correction method according to the Buoyancy flux. The land surface model reasonably represented the dry and the wet grassland site by only setting the site-specific model parameters, and the TP version performed overall better than the original version, while laboratory measurements of soil parameters failed to improve model performance in comparison to standard parameter values. Soil temperature and moisture measurements as well as field based knowledge of the soil type have been identified as minimum requirements for model parameter acquisition. Lake surface fluxes have been modelled reliably, the lake depth has been taken into account. These results can be transferred to any lake on the Tibetan Plateau given the required forcing data including a representative lake surface temperature. The choice of the surface model and the selection of the energy balance closure correction method are inter-related problems. The correction partitions the balance residual to the sensible and latent heat flux. This can be typically done according to the Bowen ratio, or according to the presented new method which attributes a larger fraction to the sensible heat flux. Testing both methods leads to partly ambiguous model performance, especially with respect to the used parameter sets. It clearly leads to shifts in model bias, while the R² metric suggests higher model compatibility to the Bowen ratio correction. The latter agrees with previous findings with respect to SEWAB modelling, but is in contradiction with recent experimental findings, attributing the closure gap to secondary circulations, driven by buoyancy. Future research on model structure should account for such processes. As expected, the flux measurements showed distinct differences between the investigated land use types in magnitude and dynamics. The used models were able to resolve these differences in general with contrasts between surface types exceeding model errors. This must be considered when validating regional flux estimates with eddy-covariance data from the dry Nam Co station. The findings from this thesis provide the basis to process eddy-covariance data on the required level as described above.
- Dynamic Self-Assembly of Magnetic Colloidal Particles (2013)
- Abstract Dynamic self-assembly represent one of the most powerful tools in Nature to spontaneously organize a system on a hierarchy of different scales. Most of the processes at the nano/micro scale occur at very low Reynold's number where inertia can be neglected. Creeping flow magnetic systems can be characterized by the Mason number. The Mason number measures the ratio between the viscous and the magnetic torque and is the main parameter governing the behavior of paramagnetic colloids investigated in this thesis. The work presented in this thesis explores new dynamic regimes of colloidal dynamics which occur when suddenly switching to high Mason numbers. In a static magnetic field the equilibrium structure of paramagnetic colloids are chains. At high Mason number in a rotating magnetic field the time averaged equilibrium conformation is a two dimensional cluster. By switching from a static to a rotating magnetic external field, we cause a transient dynamics from a static to the dynamic equilibrium state. The first question addressed in this thesis is: what is the physics that determines the transient folding pathway from one to the other equilibrium state? Dynamic magnetic fields were used by others to propel top down DNA-linked chains of paramagnetic colloids in a liquid. The second question asked is whether we can dynamically self-assemble swimmers taking a fully bottom up approach? The third question is: is it possible to assemble more complex dynamic patterns that lead to motion of the swimmers governed by more collective coupled hydrodynamics that goes beyond slender body theory of the linked chains? This thesis answers the three questions and contributes to the understanding of colloidal dynamics and self-assembly in dynamic magnetic fields in the regime of high Mason numbers. We explore two aspects of the dynamic self-assembly i.e. the transient kinetics between two dynamic self-assembled equilibria and the dynamically self-assembled propulsion of magnetic swimmers beyond slender body hydrodynamics. The thesis therefore aims at achieving magnetic control over the assembly of complex dynamic colloidal structures.
- "The New Chemistry" - Sustainable Catalysis with Alcohols (2013)
- Subject of the thesis are new iridium complexes stabilized by anionic P,N- or P,N,P-ligands. These complexes were used in homogeneous catalysis. Furthermore, mechanistic studies were performed to provide an insight into the catalytic cycles. Synthesis protocols for a multitude of different product classes have been developed. The iridium complex 1, stabilized by a neutral P,N-ligand, reacts under basic conditions with 2-aminopyridines. By elimination of dipyridylamine the new catalyst species 2a was formed, which is more stable than catalyst 1. Based on this finding eight new anionic P,N-ligands and the resulting iridium complexes were synthesized. After optimization of the reaction conditions (solvent, base, temperature and catalyst loading) these catalysts were used in BH (borrowing hydrogen)/HA (hydrogen autotransfer) reactions. The selective monoalkylation of anilines with primary alcohols was investigated. In comparative experiments the superiority of the new class of catalysts versus the original catalyst 1 was clearly shown. Under mild reaction conditions (70 °C) the selectivity profile with respect to the monoalkylation has been preserved. The catalytic protocol was subsequently extended to the alkylation of aromatic diamines. Therefore various diaminobenzenes were used as substrates. Also Dapsone®, an important drug in treatment of leprosy could be used as starting material. We succeeded in both symmetric and unsymmetric monoalkylations of diamines. Due to the selectivity profile of the catalyst regarding aromatic amines, also unprotected amino alcohols could be used as alkylating reagents. By the use of tridentate P,N,P-ligands, a novel class of more stable catalysts compared to complexes 2a-9a, could be developed. Due to sealing the synthesis reactor with a semipermeable membrane, the retransfer of the "borrowed" hydrogen could be prevented and H2 is released. Dehydrogenation and condensation steps are now possible instead of BH/HA. By reacting secondary alcohols with β-amino alcohols, pyrroles were accessible. After adapting the synthesis protocol to this new class of products the tolerance of functional groups was tested. Diversely functionalized alcohols were used. Under mild reaction conditions (90 °C) and very low catalyst loadings (down to 0.03 mol% iridium), a large number of novel pyrroles was accessible. Using this protocol 21 differently substituted α,α-pyrroles, 12 bicyclic pyrroles, symmetrically as well as non-symmetrically substituted oligopyrroles and three β-aminopyrroles were synthesized. The catalyst resting state was identified by NMR experiments and X-ray structure analysis to be an iridium trihydride. This trihydride is formed under catalytic conditions, by treatment of the pre-catalyst with alcohols or in hydrogen atmosphere. In the final part of the work, a catalytic pyridine synthesis was developed. In this so far unknown heterocycle synthesis up to four different substituents could be introduced within a single reaction step. 2,6-, 2,5-, 2,4- and 2,3-substituted pyridines were synthesized selectively by using variously substituted primary or secondary alcohols and γ-amino alcohols. Furthermore, both the synthesis of bicyclic pyridines as well as the synthesis of pyridines that bear chiral substituents is possible.
- Coarse-grained Modeling of Protein Dynamics using Elastic Network Models (2013)
- Dynamics is crucial for the functioning of biological macromolecules. Because of severe limitations in studying protein dynamics experimentally or with all-atom simulations, coarse-grained methods, especially elastic network models (ENMs), are frequently employed. In the last years, studies on various proteins showed that ENMs reliably reproduce experimental data, despite the simplified protein representation and the purely harmonic potential function. This work on two proteins with very different dynamical properties highlights the remarkable success of ENMs and shows which kind of questions can be answered using coarse-grained methods. The allosteric enzyme aminoglycoside phosphotransferase(3')-IIIa (APH), which confers resistance against a broad range of aminoglycoside antibiotics to pathogenic bacteria, drastically changes its flexibility upon binding of substrates, but without changing its average conformation. In contrast, the homotrimeric vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein G (VSV-G), which triggers the pH-dependent fusion of viral and host membrane, undergoes a large structural rearrangement. A striking difference between the two proteins is their shape. VSV-G contains weakly constrained protein segments, the fusion loops, which can undergo large-scale motions at low energetic cost, whereas APH is not obviously arranged into different protein segments. Nevertheless, ENM calculations show that also APH consists of independently moving segments with correlated internal motion, so-called dynamic domains. The concept of dynamic domains can explain the differential effects of ligand binding on the dynamics of APH. The first chapter of this thesis describes how experimental evidence for the importance of dynamics successively replaced the former idea of static proteins, and explains the dynamic basis of ligand binding, allostery and conformational changes. In the second chapter, theoretical methods for the analysis of protein dynamics are introduced, with emphasis on the ENM-based methods used in my studies. The studies are summarized in the third chapter. In the study on APH, I employ the Gaussian network model to analyze the ligand-dependent dynamics, the broad substrate specificity and the perturbation-sensitivity of the ligand binding sites. In a second study, ENM-based as well as all-atom molecular dynamics simulations are used to analyze the conformational change of VSV-G. Both approaches detect the fusion loops of VSV-G as most flexible parts of the protein, and thus as most likely starting point for the structural rearrangement, but only the all-atom model can generate deviations from the average structure at low pH. The last study describes the implementation and application of a dynamic domain assignment method, called CovarDom, which is based on covariances of residue fluctuations. Calculation of dynamic domains for a large protein set demonstrates the general applicability of CovarDom.


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This hotel is located in Jacksonville (Southeast Jacksonville), where area attractions include The Avenues, The Champions Club at Julington Creek, and Mandarin Park. Area attractions also include Mandarin Mill Family Golf & Batting Cages and St. John's Golf and Country Club.
Hotel Features
At Hampton Inn & Suites Jacksonville South - Bartram Park, recreational amenities include a fitness center and a seasonal outdoor pool. The hotel also features complimentary wireless Internet access and a 24-hour business center.
Room Amenities
Plasma televisions include premium cable channels. Guestrooms also feature beds with Select Comfort mattresses, complimentary wireless Internet access, and complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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At your hotel
Hampton Inn & Suites Jacksonville South - Bartram Park features a fitness center and a seasonal outdoor pool. High-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. This hotel offers access to a 24-hour business center and a meeting room. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. Event facilities measure 912 square feet (82 square meters). This Jacksonville hotel also offers multilingual staff, gift shops/newsstands, and coffee/tea in the lobby. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Hampton Inn & Suites Jacksonville South - Bartram Park is a smoke-free property.
- ATM/banking
- Gift shops or newsstand
- One meeting room
- Express check-in
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- 24-hour front desk
- Free breakfast
- Number of floors - 5
- Coffee/tea in lobby
- Fitness facilities
- Grocery/convenience store
- Total number of rooms - 103
- Laundry facilities
- Multilingual staff
- Free self parking
- Conference space size (meters) - 82
- Smoke-free property
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-out
- Free Wi-Fi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Year Built 2009
- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 912
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Television in lobby
Stay connected
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Park your car
Free self parking
In your room
- Plasma TV
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Premium TV channels
- Climate control
- Complimentary weekday newspaper
- Phone
- Microwave
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Premium bedding
- Air conditioning
- Free local calls
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Complimentary toiletries
- Shower/tub combination
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Washer/dryer
- Cable TV service
- Free Wi-Fi
- Dial-up Internet access (complimentary)
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Sleep Number by Select Comfort mattress
Eat and drink
A complimentary hot/cold buffet breakfast is served each morning between 6 AM and 10 AM.
Recreational amenities at the hotel include a fitness center and a seasonal outdoor pool.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible path of travel
- Braille or raised signage
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
The fine print for Hampton Inn & Suites Jacksonville South - Bartram Park
When you arrive
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
When you leave
Check-out time is 11 AM
How you can pay
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Minimum Spring Break check-in age is 21 years old.
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 5 per night
We should mention
Children 18 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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The Census Bureau just released new data a few days ago, from the 2009 American Community Survey, and once again, the number of single people has grown. The nation is even more single than it was a year ago, and it looks so very different than it did a few decades ago. I'll run through a few key "singles rule" stats in the first section. Then in the second, I'll mention some of the explanations that have been offered in the media. (The New York Times gets the award for the most gratuitous, baseless singles-bashing account of why people stay single.) I bet you can anticipate the explanation that did not appear in any of the stories I read.
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There are now about 106.4 million Americans, 18 and older, who are divorced or widowed or have always been single. That's up from 104 million the year before. The percentage of Americans who are not married is creeping ever closer to that 50% mark. (See the note at the end about exact percentages.)


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Can you tell me which projectors have a 3yr warranty on bulbs?
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theres a company called Roche AV which will offer a 4 year warranty on lamps for any projector
I currently get ours from ActiveUK and have just bought a Hitachi one from them with a 3 year bulb replacement warranty.
At Bett the new Hitachi short throw projectors (the really short throw cool looking ones) came with three years unlimited bulb replacement all for £900!
We are going to be buying these when we get some money
you gotta remember the waranty will only be valid if you clean it every so often though....
and mostly run them in Eco mode, so you often find that you need, despite whats said, 2000 lumens ones as when you run them in Eco mode they become the magic 1500 we need in a school.
I have just bought a projector and smarttboard from www.smarteducation.co.uk and they gave a three year warranty on the NEC projector bulb.
By the way got a very good price for the package as well!
I think you will find the Epson EMP S5 and the EMP X5 is 4 year as long as you buy for ediucation the price is Just over £400 depending on Model, also only one filter to clean and instant off with very cheap lamps around £130
Infocus have now also started offering a bulb warranty, probably to catch up with the Epson and Hitachi models.
Epson are offering a 4 year warranty on the projector & lamp on the EMP83e & EMP400E (short throw) if purchased & registered before end July 2008.
The warranty is a de-install & re-install meaning their engineers take the projector down & put it back up again.
Both are network capable so they can be monitored on the network, turn them on/off remotely, check lamp, filter warning etc.
I know allot of new Sony ones do...
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British actor Derek Jacobi is best known for his Shakespearean stage work, but he's been in many other movies, series, and tv programs. CPL has many of his best roles on dvd.
Take a look at I, Claudius Never mind the newer Rome tv series (okay, watch it--it's good)... Go back to this classic "classic" set in Rome of 37-68 AD (based on Robert Graves' novel). The production values of this BBC series are very low. Remember the '80s, when we decided to tape in glorious video? Don't let that deter you, Jacobi is wonderful as the "idiot" Claudius and John Hurt as Caligula is truly creepy. Star Trek fans look out for Patrick Stewart. It's a good winter viewing, 13 50-minute episodes, but well worth the time spent.
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Jacobi is unexpected as what seems at first the bit part of a homeless man in this mystery set Thames-side. A pub owner finds a Charles Dickens manuscript of a short story entitled The Riddle, which is played out as the story within the story. It's a great premise for a show and Jacobi is the strongest actor.
Jacobi also appears in Dickens' Old Curiosity Shoppe.
Love Victoriana? Try the series based on Anthony Trollope's The Pallisers or The Wyvern mysteries, in which Jacobi plays an odious lord whose intentions for his adopted neice turn out to be less than philanthropic. The story has romance and the obligatory "don't go into that room even if you hear weird noises coming from it."
Even if you're not in high school English anymore, you can still check out our stage productions of Shakespeare on dvd. Try Derek Jacobi in Richard II or Hamlet. You can't go wrong with Shakespeare. This is a good resource for students who have difficulty reading the plays. Shakespeare wrote in Modern English not "Old English" as many assume. It's just Elizabethan, not contemporary modern English, and stage productions really bring the characters to life.


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By April MacIntyre Nov 27, 2012, 21:08 GMT
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Tune in alert for Curtain Upon Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy airing Tuesday, January 1 at 9:30 p.m. on PBS, from THIRTEEN's Great Performances.
From Irving Berlin to Stephen Sondheim, and from Fanny Brice to Barbra Streisand, the film explores the phenomenon of how Jewish-American songwriters created a uniquely American art form.
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As Sir Robin carols merrily to King Arthur in Monty Python's Spamalot, "In any great adventure, if you don't want to lose...you won't succeed on Broadway if you don't have any Jews."
Eric Idle's cheeky lyric, which unfailingly generated knowing guffaws from Broadway audiences, proves to be more than a little grounded in truth, as Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy convincingly attests.
This new 90-minute documentary by Michael Kantor, creator of the Emmy-winning series, Broadway: The American Musical, airs on Great Performances Tuesday, January 1 at 9:30 p.m. on PBS. (Check local listings.)
Great Performances is a production of THIRTEEN for WNET, one of America's most prolific and respected public media providers.
Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy - narrated by Joel Grey -- explores the unique role of Jewish composers and lyricists in the creation of the modern American musical. Featuring interviews and conversations with some of the greatest composers and writers of the Broadway stage, Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy showcases the work of some of the nation's pre-eminent creators of musical theatre including Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Kurt Weill, Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz, Jule Styne and many others.
Though these remarkable songwriters were purveyors of what we think of today as the Broadway sound, the documentary demonstrates how there were echoes of Jewish strains in many of the works. From "Yiddishkeit" (all things Jewish) on the stages of the Lower East Side at the turn of the century to a wide range of shows including Porgy and Bess, West Side Story and Cabaret, the film explores how Jewish music and ethos informs many of America's favorite musicals.
Dynamic footage includes performances by stars such as David Hyde Pierce (Spamalot), Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara (Nice Work if You Can Get It), Zero Mostel (Fiddler on the Roof), Betty Comden and Adolph Green (On the Town), Nathan Lane (The Producers), Al Jolson (Sinbad), Fanny Brice (The Great Ziegfeld), Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl), Joel Grey (Cabaret), Dick Van Dyke (Bye Bye Birdie), Danny Kaye (Lady in the Dark), Ethel Merman (Gypsy), and Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel (Wicked).
The film is the first of its kind to examine the phenomenon that, over the 50-year period of its development, the songs of the Broadway musical were created almost exclusively by Jewish Americans. These are the popular songs that our nation took to war, sang to their children at bedtime, and whistled while waiting for the bus; taken in total they comprise the vast majority of what is now commonly referred to as "The American Songbook."
As historian Phil Furia cites as just one vivid example, Irving Berlin had so assimilated that he went on to "write the most popular Christmas song, 'White Christmas'...and the most popular Easter song, 'Easter Parade.' It's the Horatio Alger story told in Yiddish." Berlin's "God Bless America" became so popular, it nearly replaced the National Anthem.
While Jewish Americans certainly abounded in other areas of the musical theater, their predominance in the area of songwriting was nearly complete, with only the Episcopalian Cole Porter represented as a major figure in the pantheon of America's greatest composers of Broadway songs. And even Porter, after three Broadway flops, finally ascertained the surefire way to success: "I'm going to write Jewish tunes." As Andrew Lippa, the composer/lyricist of The Addams Family, points out in the film, "Porgy and Bess and Show Boat and Oklahoma! These are ideas that are fictions. What do we make America into? How do we take what we know and make it into America?"
The film features interviews with Sheldon Harnick, John Kander, Andrew Lippa, Stephen Schwartz, Phyllis Newman, Charles Strouse, Harold Prince, Maury Yeston, Mary Rodgers Guettel, Ernie Harburg, Marc Shaiman, David Shire, Stephen Sondheim, Mel Brooks, Stephen Schwartz and many others.
Rare clips include Irving Berlin singing "God Bless America," rehearsals for Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim's Gypsy, and original South Pacific star William Tabbert singing "You've Got to be Carefully Taught" with Richard Rodgers at the piano.
The film was produced, written, and directed by Michael Kantor, whose Broadway: The American Musical series was originally viewed by an estimated 15 million people, and won the 2005 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Series. Most recently, Kantor was executive producer of Give Me the Banjo hosted by Steve Martin, and one of the producers of "The Thomashefskys" with Michael Tilson Thomas (Great Performances March 28, 2012). Kantor created Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America, the Emmy-nominated six-part documentary series hosted by Billy Crystal that debuted on PBS in January 2009. Other PBS credits include writer, director and producer of "Quincy Jones: In the Pocket" for American Masters, and producer of The West for PBS (Executive Producer Ken Burns).
Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy is an Albert M. Tapper production, and Barbara Brilliant is creator and executive producer. For Great Performances, Bill O'Donnell is series producer, and David Horn is executive producer.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 20, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Carrying and lifting heavy luggage during the holidays can lead to neck, wrist, back and shoulder pain and injuries unless you take proper safety precautions, an orthopedic surgeon says.
In 2012, nearly 54,000 luggage-related injuries occurred in the United States, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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