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For example, a serving = 8 oz, but a lot of protein items aren't equal to a cup or 8 oz.
Instead of going by serving size, if you are to have 3 servings a protein a day does that equal a certain amount of grams that I can calculate daily? That would be easier than me trying to find out if I have had 3-2-1 servings of each layer.
I'm guessing it can't be done that way since all different 8 oz or 1 cup of food have different grams of protein in it. Anyway to make this easy will be helpful.
-- Jessica Hubbs
If you wish to convert this to grams, you are talking about roughly 250 grams a day. Visual cues often help.
One serving of meat (3 ounces) is very close in size to a deck of cards/the palm of your hand.
If you're an 80's lover, you can also equate that to a cassette tape. If your technological trends are more current, picture an Ipod.
This is not to say you should be eating no more than three ounces of meat at a time, but, if the chicken breast you are eating is roughly the size of two decks of cards/palms, you can estimate that to be two servings of meat. One ounce of meat -- whether beef, chicken, or fish -- contains 7 grams of protein .
What changes the caloric content of different meats is the amount of fat (i.e.: sausage and bacon vs. a grilled chicken breast), but the protein level is always the same.
When it comes to food items considered meat "alternatives" (i.e.: peanut butter, tofu, beans) one serving is considered whatever amount contains roughly 7 grams of protein.
In the case of peanut butter, that comes out to two tablespoons (or one ounce).
If this is all making you dizzy, I don't blame you. This jumble of figures and terms is one reason why the USDA's MyPyramid has been heavily criticized.
This is also partially why food labels require so much multiplying to figure out what you are eating.
Since a serving of ice cream is considered half a cup by USDA standards, that is the amount listed on any ice cream pint's label. As we all know, though, that isn't the most realistic of serving sizes.
Many times, people forget that if they eat a cup of ice cream, they have to multiply every value on that label by two.
One last thing I want to mention in regards to your question is this concept of "a serving of protein." People often erroneously interchange the words "protein" and "meat."
Although meat -- and its alternatives and derivatives -- contains significant amounts of protein, it is not the exclusive owner of this nutrient.
Whole grains offer their share of protein: a cup of brown rice contains 5 grams, a cup of oatmeal delivers 6, and a cup of whole wheat pasta will add 8 grams to your day.
Vegetables also have protein. A cup of broccoli offers 5 grams, a medium baked potato has 3 grams, and eight asparagus spears (1 cup) add up to 4 grams.


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Following on the "earlier announcement": about Albena Stambolova's This Being How winning this year's Bulgarian Writers Contest, here's an excerpt from Olga Nikolova's translation.
8. Fathers and Their Professions
Philip met Maria at a friend's house. Although he never liked to admit it, he failed to notice her at first. She had been sitting in some part of the room, watching him. He had felt her gaze, although without being able to identify where it came from.
For a long time afterwards, he wondered why this creature stood there draped in black cloth, as if an extra in a busy film scene.
Philip was a pathologist and that caused him both annoyance and relief. He was the only one among his friends who could say in a word what he did for a living. For a twenty-seven-year-old man it made things easier. But when people curious about the nature of his work started asking questions, he was not good at explaining.
The voice in the receiver moved him so suddenly and profoundly that he nearly hung up. He couldn't remember what they said to each other, just as later he couldn't recall anything specific from conversations with Maria. He could remember situations in which her presence or her voice obliterated everything else.
No one could say no to this voice, which was now calling to him from the receiver. Why him and not someone else, he never understood. Here I am, Lord.
He proposed to her almost immediately, not knowing what he was doing. The one thing he did know was that he could not have done otherwise. She nodded, as if she had foreseen long ago that this was bound to happen.
Time seemed to be out of joint. The days were shamelessly short, the nights blended into one. Something was ripening in Philip; he could feel it in nervous spasms, but he ignored the signs. He was spinning with Maria in some kind of a whirlwind. He turned into a boomerang, always meekly landing at her feet, no matter what he thought, no matter what he did, and no matter who he went out with.
Before meeting Maria, he had been simply Philip, a doctor, a pathologist. He had been able to describe himself in a word.
After meeting Maria, his center of gravity was transposed out of his body and in the beginning this gave him strength. Strength that Maria absorbed.
9. The Hero's Prize
There was no wedding. They only signed a marriage certificate. She never allowed him to see her passport. The civil servant could see it, but not her husband. He had no idea when she was born, or who her parents were or whether she had any siblings. Whenever he asked her about these things, she laughed, as if his questions were the most inappropriate thing in the world. He was surprised at how easily he could lie to his friends and his family when they asked the same questions. And he lied to himself, thinking that one day he would surely find out, as soon as Maria stopped playing this funny game. Then he forgot about it and remembered it again only when it was too late.
She did not simply give herself to him – she laid herself out like a gift, like an offering. He sank into her with the feeling that he had never experienced anything like this before. All thoughts and questions vanished. Maria became a world he inhabited. He knew he must have done things, at least he must have eaten food and drunk water. Later when the doctor asked him, he could not remember anything else, only that he had felt tireless and strong.
She stayed at home knitting sweaters. There was always something cooked to eat. Maria always had money and the food was always tasty. So tasty that after dinner, his only wish was to take her in his arms and bury his face in her long hair.
She became pregnant almost by magic. Philip was certain it had happened the very first time. If happiness meant being able to stop thinking, Philip was happy. Things just happened and he was part of the process.
The twins were born. A boy, Valentin, and a girl, Margarita. Philip could not remember ever having discussed what names to choose. It seemed like they were born with their names.
10. After the Fairy Tale's End
Then Maria started to frighten him.
One night, he woke up and looked at his sleeping wife. He watched her for a long time. He was certain that she was not asleep. She lay perfectly still, as if absent from her body.
For the first time he wondered whether a human being had a beginning and an end. He could see her. Maria was sleeping naked, enveloped in her hair. Her breath was barely perceptible. No adjectives could describe her for him. He couldn't say that she was kind, for example, or anything like that. This creature had simply appeared and in the face of this fact Philip was powerless. He was suddenly overtaken by despair. What were his or her feelings? Only star dust, dispersing.
Then he realized that Maria was staring at him. Perhaps everyone having just risen out of sleep had this look in their eyes. Maria's look was evil. At last, something definite. Philip had come to know something and now he could see she didn't like it. Her eyes stared unblinkingly, as if she had no eyelids.
He got up from the bed and left the room.
After this first onrush of fear, Philip tried to talk to his brother. What he heard was that Maria was breaking all accepted codes of behavior.
At first he could not understand what his brother meant. Gradually it dawned on him that he was being accused of disloyalty. Towards himself, towards his family, towards his friends. The sound of these trivial words, which he hadn't heard pronounced for a while, unsettled him.
That same night, Maria refused to sleep with him, and he knew her refusal was going to last.
Philip tried to hide in his work. From then on, he often slept in the hospital, he worked night shifts and became better at his job. He was called more often for criminal cases. He discovered courtrooms.
But he also started drinking. And drinking brought back his ability to speak.
Reading a genre book—whether fantasy, science fiction, crime, thriller, etc.—which begins to seem excessively, stereotypically bad, I have to make sure to ask myself: is this parodying the flaws of the genre? Usually, this questioning takes its time coming. In. . .
The Sicilian Mafia has always been a rich subject for sensational crime fiction. The Godfather, Goodfellas, and The Sopranos worked the mob's bloody corpses and family feuds to both entertainment and artistic value. Giuseppe di Piazza's debut novel attempts this,. . .
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Deborah Knuckey's
passion is traveling. She's been to more than 40 countries, and even took her
mother with her to Italy for cooking school.
wasn't born with a lot of money, and she didn't win the lottery.
has a spending plan. You might call it a budget. She doesn't.
A money coach
and author, Knuckey says she doesn't even use the word "budget" when she counsels
people because of its negative connotations.
word 'budget' says self-deprivation," she says. "The way I approach, I talk about
creating a spending plan and start from, 'What do I want to make room for?' Start
with what you'd really like to spend and how you can create that space. It's not
about being frugal. It's about saying, 'What's most important to me and how do
I get there?' "
OK, so you can say budget, but
think spending plan.
Just like eating right and
exercise, just about everyone understands the value of a spending plan or 'budget'.
But unlike nutrition and exercise, most people don't get an education in money
"Most people don't budget properly
because they're not taught to," says Howard Dvorkin, president of Consolidated
Credit Counseling Services in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. "There are no courses I know
of, especially in the high school level. A lot of families purposely don't talk
about finances; I think that's extremely detrimental."
the right track All the experts say that the place to start is to track
every expense, even snacks from vending machines and change put in parking meters,
for a month. The process itself is time-consuming at the outset, but it's not
difficult. On one chart, write down all your income. On another, write down all
your expenses, broken into categories for fixed expenses like the house and car
payments; flexible expenses that vary each month, including the phone and electric
bills; and discretionary expenses, such as gifts and recreation.
the two lists, see where the gaps are, and adjust accordingly. Now, be surprised
at what you find.
"Obviously, this is theory
and easier said than done," Dvorkin says. "Tracking every nickel is a big process
and a lot of people don't do it. You can make the best budget, but if you don't
track it, what good does it do? In my house, every month, we compare the actual
to the budget. It's not fun. My wife hates me for it. But you have to track what
you're spending."
But writing down where the money
actually goes can be a major eye-opener for many families.
lot of people say after they do the tracking, they didn't realize the little piddly
things really add up over the course of a month," says Barbara O'Neill, a certified
financial planner and family and interim extension specialist in financial resource
management at the Rutgers Cooperative Extension Program.
even had people tell me it was the impetus to quit doing something, like smoking
or playing the lottery. When they saw it was such a large amount, they realized
that could be the extra $100 a month they were looking for. They had never thought
of it as $100 a month, it was just a couple of bucks a day."
one, two and three Knuckey says she asks people to follow three rules
-- live within their means, take care of their future and "maximize their pleasure,"
which could mean different things to different people.
"It might be sending your kids to college, buying a certain sports car or taking
a vacation," she says. "It doesn't have to be frivolous; it just has to be in
line with your values."
Families have
different expenses today than in the past. Twenty years ago, most households had
one phone and long-distance phone calls were for special occasions. Today, it's
not uncommon for families to have two or more phone lines, plus cellular phones
and pagers. They might have a cable modem or DSL, plus the cost of their Internet
service. What used to be a $30 to $50 monthly expense can easily run more than
$200 today.
Computers, with software and peripherals
such as printers, modems and scanners, are another line-item that didn't even
exist on our parents' household budget sheets. The easy availability of credit
and online shopping have made it easier than ever to spend beyond our means.
with high-tech expenses have come some Internet-based resources. Quicken,
the money management software, offers a MyFinances section on its Web site to
track all your financial information. Most cooperative extension programs offer
family financial planning information; the Rutgers University program has a set
of tools at its Web site to help families plan out their goals.
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Is anyone interested in having a men-only swap? Not jock straps, but anything depending on a questionnaire that we fill out. Maybe with a $10 or $20 limit.
I'm involved in two swaps on knittingparadise.com and thought it might be interesting to swap with other men.
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Hot Spring Yoga Tour
General Information
- Type:
- Relaxation / Massage
- Price from:
- 7350 USD /person
- Phone:
- +66815358588
- Fax:
- +31-316-285316
- Payment Types:
- Cash
- Credit Card
- Cheque
- Travellers cheque
- Paypal
- Wire Transfer
- Duration:
- 14 days
- Location Start:
- Tokyo
- Location Finish:
- Tokyo
- Start time:
- 07.30 am
- End time:
- 05.30 pm
- We Speak:
- Dutch, German, French, English
Last updated: 02/04/2007
Our journey takes us to the very centre of Japanese culture, to the Asia within Japan.Modern Japanese profess not to be religious, yet the landscape is dense with the traces of a great spiritual legac
Day 1
You'll arrive today at New Tokyo International Airport (Narita).
Your ride to Tokyo town will provide a first view of the Japanese capital, so modern and familiar, and yet so different. Streets are busy but orderly and neat, lights and signs glitter everywhere, alternating with serene green oases.ou'll find a most comfortable room waiting at your hotel : Ryokan Shigetsu l After you check in we relax and meet all together, for your first real Japanese dinner, to go over the itinerary for the next few weeks.
Day 2
Our first early yoga session followed by a still somewhat western breakfast, we will show you Tokyo delights. You'll ascend the Tokyo Tower to the observatory level for a commanding view of the city, and visit the Imperial Palace Plaza. From there we will go to the Akihabara, the Asakusa Kannon Temple. Followed by a typical sushi lunch we have a little treasure hunt planned using the subway as the mase. We will end up in a very popular shopping area for the young travelers. Finishing of the day with a great dinner sampling the vast range of local brewed Sakes. (no hangover guaranteed! Well, almost then) Asakusa Kannon Temple
Day 3
For our yoga session this morning we go to a place where other people practice their disciplines too. We will go back to the hotel for breakfast and check out to goon fun day of exploring.
Our coach will take us this morning to the Toshogu Shrine, one of the most spectacular temple complexes in Japan. You'll marvel at the intricately carved details. From here we'll follow the Irohazaka road with its notorious hairpin turns upward into the mountains, where we'll stop to take a traditional Japanese lunch. A little hike with breathtaking views at Lake Chuzenji and Kegon Falls from the Akechidaira Plateau, followed with a well deserved soak in hot spring water!. Dinner will be an experience on its own with traditional home cooking
Day 4
A refreshing early morning yoga session followed with a traditional Japanese breakfast. The coach will pick us up in the morning, driving through the neatly tended countryside and beyond. Mount Fuji with its perfect, snow-capped conical shape will hover into view, every more impressive as we approach. We'll continue right onto the slopes of Japan's highest mountain, and ascend to the halfway point at 2300 meters (7600 feet) for spectacular views of rolling fields, orchards, lakes, and streams. We'll take our lunch at the Highland Resort, followed by a relaxing cruise on Lake Ashi, and a thrilling ride on the Mt. Komagatake aerial tramway. A comfortable bed awaits you at the Nikko Tokanso with a hot tub to sip some healing oolong tea. (organic green tea)Mt.Fuji
Day 5
We'll take a short drive this morning through the Hakone mountains to Odawara station on the main rail line, where we'll catch the Bullet Train for Nagoya . Change to Meitetsu train at Nagoya and arrive at Inuyama around 12:50 PM . After lunch, Gifu Castle and Kinkazan Ropeway and enjoy Japan Rhine Boat Cruise. After dinner at your hotel, enjoy cormorant Fishing Show ( Ukai) , traditional Japanese fishing method using birds! Shinkansen
Day 6
This morning will be a bit different, we will have a short walk to the base of a small mountain or big hill, we will do a short yoga session and hike up the hill where awaits us a breathtaking view and a cable carriage to take us back down again. From here we go to the biggest hotspring in this area where we will have a lunch and a good long soak and scrub. This evening we will do some voice testing at a karaoke bar and maybe try out luck at a local casino or patchinko pala ..in Nagoya.
Day 7
We will have a late yoga start followed with a big western (kind of) breakfast. We check out from Hodakaso Sangetsu. to get ready for a full day touring . Visiting Noritake Garden . Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology , Lunch included. After which we'll be off to see the sights. Nagoya grew as a fortified town, and we'll see the reconstructed Nagoya Castle with its tiers of roofs. Then we'll continue to the train station to board an express train for the Imperial City of Kyoto.
Day 8
After yoga, we'll tour the major sites of the ancient capital of Japan this morning, including the Golden Pavilion, Nijo Castle with its exquisite interiors (or Ryoanji Temple when Nijo Castle is closed), (On Saturdays, Sundays, and national holidays, we'll take in the Higashi Honganji Temple instead.) After lunch at Kyoto's Handicraft Center, we'll continue to Nara, first capital of a united Japan. Highlights will include the Todaiji Temple with its huge Buddha; the 3000 lanterns of the Kasuga Shrine, and the Deer Park, where the animals are free to roam.
For the evening entertainment we have a traditional Japanese show with a Geisha dance traveling back in time
Day 9
Yoga in the morning, We've included an open day at this point, for you to fill as you wish-and there's plenty to do and see in Kyoto! We will visit a sake brewery, and, among others, the Fushimi Inari Grand Shrine, with its thousands of bright gates, all an expected surprise.
Activity of the day: Brewery, shrine visits, town tour
Accommodation: Ryokan Kinoe --
Day 10
his morning after our yoga session, we'll board the Bullet Train for the rapid trip to Nagoya, then transfer to an express train to travel northward to Takayama, the town that time forgot. Though it's not all that far from Japan's major cities, sedate Takayama maintains its narrow streets lined with traditional wooden houses, their squared second levels projecting overhead. We'll have a chance to stroll streets lined with traditional craft businesses, including sake breweries, and visit a collection of colorful festival floats and the Kusakabe Folkcraft Museum, once a residence of powerful merchants. Take as long as you like to poke around-we'll be staying the night at TAKAYAMA
Day 11
Waking up in a garden of peace we will conduct our yoga session in the open air. We'll experience traditional rural Japan throughout the day. First we'll visit the famous Takayama outdoor market, where farmers bring their produce. You'll find both the familiar and the exotic. Our scenic route will take us alongside Lake Miboro and the Shokawa River to impossibly picturesque Shirakawago, its farmsteads set among piney mountains and green paddies. Designated a World Heritage site in 1995, it's especially known for its Gassho-Zukuri, "clasped-hands" thatched roofs pitched steeply to shed winter snows. We'll continue to Gokayama, another World Heritage rural village, where we'll learn about the craft of Gokayama Washi, traditional Japanese paper making. We'll find our rooms waiting at the cute Takitei Ryokan!
Day 12
We'll spend the morning with our yoga session followed with a nutritional japans breakfast. We set out to visit Kanazawa, an unusual castle town that retains many of its old structures. We'll walk through Kenroku-en, one of the most exquisite formal gardens in traditional Japanese style, visit the Kutaniyaki kiln where vividly colored lacquer ware is crafted, and stroll the streets of the Nagamachi Samurai neighborhood lined by old wooden houses and crisscrossed by old canals. In the afternoon, we'll board the express train, connecting to the Bullet Train that will speed us back to Tokyo by evening to our first accommodation that we started of in. Back to familiar grounds and a great
Day 13
We will have our yoga session early this morning, as we will have a fun day planned at Mami Flower design school. ( The term 'Flower Design' first came into existence together with its creator, 'Mami Kawasaki, Flower Designer'. With the aim of spreading in Japan the 'very natural use of flowers within our daily lives' that she encountered as a student in the United States, she founded the 'Mami Flower Design School'. More recently, Keita Kawasaki has established the theory of 'Japanese Flower Design' and combined this with his own artistic sensitivity to create today's school, which is increasingly drawing the attention of people all over the world. Today you learn how to make your own creation to take back home. We will enjoy our last dinner with some amazing people you have met during your tour with us. This is the time to exchange addresses and say slowly goodbye to new friends made.
Day 14
To Yoga or not to Yoga, this is our last day
we sadly say goodbye and hope to see you on our next Yoga World Tours discovery
we hope this was indeed an other life changing experience.
We've arranged your transportation to Narita Airport in time to check in and catch your homeward-bound flight. By now you'll understand the traditional word of farewell: Sayonara.
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- 14 days, 13 nights accommodation 14 dinner, 14 lunch, 13 breakfast
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- 14 dinners, 14 lunches, 13 breakfasts (which are an experience on its own!)
- Japanese bathhouse
- All transport
- Yoga lessons
- Observatory
- Palaces, castles - Temples
- All Hikes and walks as mentioned
- Flower arrangement work shop Kayaking
- papermaking mill
- Brewery
- Musea
- Boat cruise,
- Aerial tramway ride,
- Geisha dance and theatre
- Surprise entertainment
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The New York Times, in its constant effort to stay ahead of the heckling of the right wing, hired the 31-year-old Ross Douthat to be its No. 2 conservative columnist, after David Brooks, a bit more than a year ago, and almost nobody has taken notice of him since.
It is not that his conservatism makes him invisible, but that he is so mealy-mouthed. The man-boy must be desperate to be liked or afraid of his own shadow or steadfast in his desire not to insult anybody and keep his job.
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For population 25 years and over in Charlevoix:
For population 15 years and over in Charlevoix city:
46 residents are foreign born
Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with mortgages in 2012: $2,295 (1.4%)
Nearest city with pop. 50,000+: Green Bay, WI (146.0 miles , pop. 102,313).
Nearest city with pop. 200,000+: Milwaukee, WI (206.0 miles , pop. 596,974).
Nearest city with pop. 1,000,000+: Chicago, IL (269.3 miles , pop. 2,896,016).
Nearest cities: Ironton, MI (2.3 miles) , Bay Shore, MI (2.9 miles ), Horton Bay, MI (3.0 miles ), Norwood, MI (3.0 miles) , Ellsworth, MI (3.2 miles ), Advance, MI (3.3 miles ), East Jordan, MI (3.6 miles ), Boyne City, MI (3.7 miles ).
Latitude: 45.32 N, Longitude: 85.26 W
Daytime population change due to commuting: +1,736 (+68.2%)
Area code: 231
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Crime rate in Charlevoix detailed stats: murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, burglaries, thefts, arson
Full-time law enforcement employees in 2012, including police officers: 8 (7 officers).
Charlevoix, Michigan accommodation, waste management, arts - Economy and Business DataUnemployment in July 2013:
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Population change in the 1990s: -189 (-5.9%).
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Charlevoix-area historical tornado activity is significantly below Michigan state average. It is 65% smaller than the overall U.S. average.
On 4/3/1956, a category F4 (max. wind speeds 207-260 mph) tornado 34.0 miles away from the Charlevoix city center killed 2 people and injured 24 people and caused between $50,000 and $500,000 in damages.
On 7/3/1974, a category F3 (max. wind speeds 158-206 mph) tornado 18.1 miles away from the city center injured 2 people and caused between $50,000 and $500,000 in damages.
Natural disasters:The number of natural disasters in Charlevoix County (4) is a lot smaller than the US average (12).
Major Disasters (Presidential) Declared: 1
Emergencies Declared: 3
Causes of natural disasters: Blizzard: 1, Drought: 1, Freeze: 1, Hurricane: 1, Snowstorm: 1 (Note: Some incidents may be assigned to more than one category).
Birthplace of: Nancy Talbot - Businessman, Robert Boss - Player of football.
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Big Rock Point . General Electric Co.Bechtel Corp.General Electric Co.Consumers Power Co.Boiling Water Reactor (BWR). Net Output: 67 MWe. Permanently shutdown. Date started: 09/1962. Date closed : 11/1965..
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Drinking water stations with addresses in Charlevoix and their reported violations in the past:CITY OF CHARLEVOIX (Population served: 2994, Surface_water):
Past monitoring violations:CHARLEVOIX TOWNSHIP (Population served: 1612, Groundwater):
Past monitoring violations:WHITING PARK CAMPGROUND-FLOW (Population served: 200, Groundwater):
Past monitoring violations:SEQUANOTA CLUB (Population served: 150, Groundwater):
Past monitoring violations:WHITING PARK (Population served: 65, Groundwater):
Past monitoring violations:IRONTON COVE MARINA (Population served: 31, Groundwater):
Past health violations:PAT MCKEOWN FORD INC. (Population served: 25, Groundwater):
Past monitoring violations:THE LANDINGS (Population served: 25, Groundwater):
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Drinking water stations with addresses in Charlevoix that have no violations reported:
Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2012: 20.9%
(19.3% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 0.0% for Black residents, 100.0% for Hispanic or Latino residents, 100.0% for other race residents, 98.2% for two or more races residents)
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Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Charlevoix, MI51 people in local jails and other municipal confinement facilities in 2010
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Religion statistics for Charlevoix city (based on Charlevoix County data)Percentage of population affiliated with a religious congregations: 41.53%
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Food Environment Statistics:
Number of grocery stores: 8
Number of convenience stores (no gas): 5
Number of convenience stores (with gas): 15
Number of full-service restaurants: 33
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Charlevoix government finances - Cash and Securities in 2002 (per resident):
6.04% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($61,331 average adjusted gross income)
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved from foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
6.88% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($38,577 average adjusted gross income)
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved to foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
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Number of bridges: 1
Total length: 6 meters (20ft)
Total average daily traffic: 15,896
Total average daily truck traffic: 635
Total future (year 2018) average daily traffic: 16,391
FCC Registered Cell Phone Towers: 2 (See the full list of FCC Registered Cell Phone Towers in Charlevoix)
FCC Registered Antenna Towers: 74 (See the full list of FCC Registered Antenna Towers)
FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers: 17 (See the full list of FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers in Charlevoix, MI)
FCC Registered Microwave Towers: 2 (See the full list of FCC Registered Microwave Towers in this town)
FCC Registered Maritime Coast & Aviation Ground Towers: 15 (See the full list of FCC Registered Maritime Coast & Aviation Ground Towers)
FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses: 56 (See the full list of FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses in Charlevoix)
FAA Registered Aircraft Manufacturers and Dealers: 1 (See the full list of FAA Registered Manufacturers and Dealers in Charlevoix)
FAA Registered Aircraft: 27 (See the full list of FAA Registered Aircraft)
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Neutron Science In the News – 2014
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ORNL watches FY 2015 budget; stall could hurt neutron sources
Knoxville News Sentinel 11/29
Since Oct. 1, the beginning of fiscal year 2015, Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- like other federal installations -- has operated under a continuing budget resolution that freezes spending at 2014 levels.So far, so good, according to ORNL Director Thom Mason, but he expressed concern about impacts later in the year if Congress doesn't pass an actual budget. The continuing resolution approved in September is due to expire Dec. 11 and could be extended if there's no budget agreement. In a recent interview, Mason said the lab wasn't expecting big funding increases for FY2015, but the areas of most concern are the neutron sources -- the Spallation Neutron Source and the High Flux Isotope Reactor. They are two of the most widely used scientific resources at the Oak Ridge laboratory, and the SNS only recently restarted after being shut down for most of the fall because of repeated problems with the target vessel -- a key component in producing neutrons -- and other issues.
Neutrons galore at ORNL
Knoxville News Sentinel 11/21
The Spallation Neutron Source has returned to action and is providing neutrons for research experiments for the first time in a month, and officials hope there will be sustained operations for the first time since summer.Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason said Wednesday that the SNS had been restarted at low power, and Associate Lab Director Ron Crone said the SNS resumed neutron production at 7 a.m. on Thursday "after addressing the recent target failures." Crone said the High Flux Isotope Reactor, ORNL's other neutron source, also is operating again following an 18-day maintenance and refueling outage.
Accepting the SNS challenge: Lab works to overcome problems, restart experiments
Knoxville News Sentinel 11/15
These are tough times at the Spallation Neutron Source, which hasn't produced neutrons -- its reason for being -- on a regular basis since summer.The shutdown has brought important experiments, exploring the very essence of materials and how they behave and interact with other materials, to a standstill. But scientists and engineers are problem-solvers at heart, and the mood was surprisingly upbeat last week as they talked about what's gone wrong and how they hope to fix it.
ORNL Researchers Calculate Thermodynamic Forces Driving Transformation of Vanadium Oxide
AzoMaterials 11/12
Researchers from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the Department of Energy have made a breakthrough in comprehending vanadium oxide, a typical transition metal oxide, by calculating the thermodynamic forces that cause the transformation.The results have been recorded in Nature, November 10, online issue. John Budai co-led the study with Jiawang Hong, a colleague in the Materials Science and Technology Division of ORNL. Vanadium oxide enhances storage media and recording, improves strength of structural alloys and provides color to synthetic jewels. In the future it may be used as optical shutters turning opaque on satellites to hinder obtrusive signals, nanoscale actuators for switches and field-effect transistors for electronics manipulation in spintronics and semiconductors in devices maneuvering magnetic spin.
Big maintenance at High Flux Isotope Reactor
Knoxville News Sentinel 10/17
The High Flux Isotope Reactor returned to operation last week following a 38-day outage for refueling and maintenance, one of the longest of the year. According to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's reactor chief, Tim Powers, it was a productive outage and "very busy."Workers installed a third digital instrument that monitors the neutron power level in the reactor core; replaced cables that supply power to the Cooling Tower Fans; and performed surveillance tests and inspections on a number of systems, including emergency power supply, ventilation filtration and reactor protection.
Neutron production resumes at SNS
Knoxville News Sentinel 10/17
After being shut down for more than a month because of multiple problems, the Spallation Neutron Source has resumed production of neutrons for research experiments.
Kevin Jones, director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Research Acceleration Division, said the SNS systems were restarted over the weekend -- with neutron production resuming shortly before 6 a.m. Sunday.The Spallation Neutron Source is one of the world's premier facilities for using neutrons to explore the properties and structure of materials, and it attracts scientists from around the United States and abroad. About 150 experiments reportedly had to be rescheduled because of the unplanned outage at the ORNL research complex atop Chestnut Ridge.
How magnetic dimers interact to create long-range order
PhysOrg 10/13
Researchers carrying out experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Photon Source (APS) and Spallation Neutron Source have shed new light on how magnetic long-range order forms and remains stable despite the presence of disruptive quantum fluctuations. Since the material under study, SrCu2(BO3)2 (SCBO), bears important similarities to layered Cu-O compounds that exhibit high-temperature superconductivity, the research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, may provide insights into this form of quantum magnets as well, which has eluded thorough understanding for nearly 30 years.The data showed that the antiferromagnetic state of SCBO becomes stabilized through subtle dimer contractions, elongations, and tilts, which impact the relative strengths of the intra-dimer and inter-dimer couplings.
Smallest-possible Diamonds Form Ultra-thin Nanothread
Carnegie Science 9/25
A team including Carnegie's Malcolm Guthrie and George Cody has, for the first time, discovered how to produce ultra-thin "diamond nanothreads" that promise extraordinary properties, including strength and stiffness greater than that of today's strongest nanotubes and polymer fibers. Such exceedingly strong, stiff, and light materials have an array of potential applications, everything from more fuel efficient vehicles or even the science fictional-sounding proposal for a "space elevator." Their work is published in Nature Materials."We used the large high-pressure Paris-Edinburgh device at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to compress a 6-millimeter-wide amount of benzene-a gigantic amount compared with previous experiments," said Guthrie. "We discovered that slowly releasing the pressure after sufficient compression at normal room temperature gave the carbon atoms the time they needed to react with each other and to link up in a highly ordered chain of single-file carbon tetrahedrons, forming these diamond-core nanothreads."
Research team aims to improve plant-based battery with neutrons, simulation
PhysOrg 9/18
When Orlando Rios first started analyzing samples of carbon fibers made from a woody plant polymer known as lignin, he noticed something unusual. The material's microstructure - a mixture of perfectly spherical nanoscale crystallites distributed within a fibrous matrix - looked almost too good to be true."I thought, this looks like a material that people would go through a lot of work modifying graphite to make it look this way," said Rios, a materials scientist at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. "It had a really distinct microstructure from any other graphite I'd seen." Rios and his colleagues soon realized the lignin fiber's unique structure could make it useful as a battery anode, potentially improving upon graphitic materials found in most lithium-ion batteries. Lignin, a low-cost byproduct of the pulp, paper and biofuels industries, could be transformed into a cheaper version of highly engineered graphite through a simple and industrially scalable manufacturing process.
Spallation Neutron Source shut down prematurely; problem with newly installed target
Knoxville News Sentinel 9/15
The Spallation Neutron Source returned to operation Aug. 15 following its annual five-week summer maintenance period, but the SNS was shut down prematurely late last week after a problem was identified with a new target vessel that had been installed during the summer outage."We have begun the target replacement process, and should resume operation for users within two weeks," Ron Crone, assistant lab director, said via email. "Users who were scheduled during this unplanned down time have been notified; we are working to accommodate them by rescheduling their beam time." The exact cause of the target failure has not been determined at this point, but it could be related to a new design for the vessel. "As part of our plans for continuous improvement, we installed a target with a modified design that included a new internal mercury flow pattern intended to minimize the internal cavitation damage at higher power operation," Crone said.
Imaging fuel injectors with neutrons
PhysOrg 9/15
Blowing bubbles may be fun for kids, but for engineers, bubbles can disrupt fluid flow and damage metal.Researchers from the Fuels, Engines and Emissions Research Center at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and collaborators from ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor - a DOE Office of Science User Facility - are using neutrons to study the formation of these damage-causing bubbles in fuel injectors. This team is attempting to make the first-ever neutron images of cavitation, the physical event that leads to bubble/gas formation, inside the body of a gasoline fuel injector. In August, they conducted their research at HFIR's CG-1D beam line, which is used for neutron radiography and computed tomography, to non-destructively study the internal structure of the fuel injector. With data in hand, they will be diving deep into the analysis of the images to identify both the location and the timing of the cavitation. "We can measure the spray of a fuel injector using X-rays, but imaging the internal structure in operation is very challenging," said Hassina Bilheux, HFIR instrument scientist for CG-1D.
HFIR named Nuclear Historic Landmark; sixth ORNL facility to be designated
Knoxville News Sentinel 9/11
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor has been designated a Nuclear Historic Landmark by the American Nuclear Society.The HFIR is the sixth facility at ORNL to gain that designation. The 85-megawatt research reactor, which was built in the 1960s, remains an important part of the lab's research activities and production of radioisotopes for medicine, research and industry. Here's what ORNL Director Thom Mason said in a statement: "This designation from the ANS recognizes HFIR's role in the history of the nuclear age, but it also speaks to the excellence of its design and operation. HFIR remains one of the world's most capable reactor-based neutron science, radioisotope production and materials irradiation facilities, and we expect that to continue for many years."
HFIR's fuel conversion seeming less likely
Knoxville News Sentinel 8/27
Despite its age, the High Flux Isotope Reactor is considered one of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's most valuable assets.The High Flux Isotope Reactor was built in the 1960s. That's pretty old by reactor standards. But the HFIR has undergone a significant makeover in recent years - replacement parts, infrastructure upgrades and new research capabilities - and lab officials have stated their intention to operate the 85-megawatt reactor for decades to come. It's apparently good to go. One lingering question: When will Oak Ridge National Laboratory convert the reactor to use a lower-enriched uranium fuel?
ORNL, UTGSM Study Compares Structures of Huntington's Disease Protein
Newswise 7/16
Neutron scattering research at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has revealed clear structural differences in the normal and pathological forms of a protein involved in Huntington's disease.Huntington's disease, an incurable neurodegenerative disorder, starts as a genetic mutation that leads to an overabundance of "huntingtin" protein fragments, which form clumps in the brain. Valerie Berthelier of the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, who co-led the study published in Biophysical Journal with ORNL's Chris Stanley, said the goal was to establish a baseline understanding of huntingtin's structure in order to eventually determine the true structural basis of Huntington's disease.
Thom Mason on SNS expansion: 'Even in tough times, you need to be doing new things in science'
Knoxville News Sentinel 7/15
This is perceived to be a pretty tough time to get new projects funded in Congress, but Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason said there's still a plan to get started on an expansion of the Spallation Neutron Source sometime in the next two to four years.The SNS expansion, which would include a second target facility and essentially double the research capabilities, has already received a preliminary blessing from the U.S. Department of Energy. DOE last year approved "Critical Decision-0," which means the agency agreed there is a "mission need" for the project. Early estimates suggest that the expansion could cost a billion dollars or more, almost as much as the original SNS price tag of $1.4 billion.
SNS achieves a big milestone: full power
Knoxville News Sentinel 7/13
The Spallation Neutron Source is operating like it should, and that is not as simple as it sounds. Last month, eight years after construction was completed and seven years after operations began, the SNS finally achieved the beam power for which it was designed: 1.4 megawatts. Even at lower power levels, the accelerator-based center for materials research set all sorts of records, and scientists from around the globe flocked to Oak Ridge to do experiments with the richest source of neutrons available. It has been a productive journey, but even more is expected with the higher beam power.Kevin Jones, who heads the Research Accelerators Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, noted that the SNS actually reached 1.4 megawatts last September, for about 30 minutes, but the system was too unstable to continue. For the first time, the accelerator-based pulsed neutron source operated steadily for users at its baseline design power of 1.4 megawatts on June 26. "Over the past year, we have implemented technical and operational improvements to provide stable operation at 1.4 MW with little operating margin," said Kevin Jones, director of ORNL's Research Accelerators Division. "This achievement is the result of a lot of hard work by the dedicated and talented staff of our division."
A record-breaking month for ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source
PhysOrg 7/3
The Spallation Neutron Source at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory broke records for sustained beam power level as well as for integrated energy and target lifetime in the month of June.For the first time, the accelerator-based pulsed neutron source operated steadily for users at its baseline design power of 1.4 megawatts on June 26. "Over the past year, we have implemented technical and operational improvements to provide stable operation at 1.4 MW with little operating margin," said Kevin Jones, director of ORNL's Research Accelerators Division. "This achievement is the result of a lot of hard work by the dedicated and talented staff of our division."
Czech ambassador tours ORNL
Oak Ridge Today 6/14
Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Friday hosted a visit by Petr Gandalovic, ambassador of The Czech Republic.The ambassador toured ORNLs High Flux Isotope Reactor and facilities for advanced reactor materials development and testing. He met with ORNL Director Thom Mason and held discussions with lab staff on topics including fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactors and the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors.
Superheavy element 117 confirmed
PhysOrg 5/2
The stage is set for a new, super-heavy element to be added to the periodic table following research published in the latest Physics Review Letters. Led by researchers at Germany's GSI laboratory, the team created atoms of element 117, matching the heaviest atoms ever observed, which are 40 per cent heavier than an atom of lead.The periodic table of the elements is to get crowded towards its heaviest members. Evidence for the artificial creation of element 117 has recently been obtained at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, an accelerator laboratory located in Darm-stadt, Germany. In a powerful example of international collaboration, this new measurement required close coordination between the accelerator and detection capabilities at GSI in Germany and the unique actinide isotope production and separation facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the U.S. The special berkelium target material, essential for the synthesis of element 117, was produced over an 18-month-long campaign. This required intense neutron irradiation at ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor, followed by chemical separation and purification at ORNL's Radiochemical Engineering Development Center.
First view of nature-inspired catalyst after ripping hydrogen apart provides insights for better, cheaper fuel cells
PhysOrg 4/23
Like a hungry diner ripping open a dinner roll, a fuel cell catalyst that converts hydrogen into electricity must tear open a hydrogen molecule. Now researchers have captured a view of such a catalyst holding onto the two halves of its hydrogen feast. The view confirms previous hypotheses and provides insight into how to make the catalyst work better for alternative energy uses.
"The combined amount of carbon in vegetation and the atmosphere is only half of the carbon stored in soils," said Melanie Mayes of ORNL's Environmental Sciences Division. "How quickly that carbon moves in and out of soils is one of the big uncertainties in modeling the carbon cycle."
This study is the first time scientists have shown precisely where the hydrogen halves end up in the structure of a molecular catalyst that breaks down hydrogen, the team reported online April 22 in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. The design of this catalyst was inspired by the innards of a natural protein called a hydrogenase enzyme.
"The catalyst shows us what likely happens in the natural hydrogenase system," said Morris Bullock of the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. "The catalyst is where the action is, but the natural enzyme has a huge protein surrounding the catalytic site. It would be hard to see what we have seen with our catalyst because of the complexity of the protein."
Researchers use neutrons, simulations to examine soil carbon
PhysOrg 3/31
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may get the lion's share of attention in climate change discussions, but the biggest repository of carbon is actually underfoot: soils store an estimated 2.5 trillion tons of carbon in the form of organic matter.
"The combined amount of carbon in vegetation and the atmosphere is only half of the carbon stored in soils," said Melanie Mayes of ORNL's Environmental Sciences Division. "How quickly that carbon moves in and out of soils is one of the big uncertainties in modeling the carbon cycle."
With an eye on the big picture, Mayes and her colleagues are taking a closer look at soil carbon by studying nanoscale interactions between organic matter and minerals in soil. The team's novel combination of neutron analysis and supercomputer simulations is providing experimental and theoretical data that challenge long-held assumptions in soil science.
Multiphysics Simulations Transmuting Designs for Safer Nuclear Power
Engineering.com 1/7
Like the rest of the US's nuclear research reactors, Oak Ridge National Lab's (ORNL) high flux isotope reactor (HFIR) is moving from high-enriched uranium (HEU) fuel to low-enriched uranium (LEU). As such, the safety of the system must be assessed to incorporate the changes in fuel properties and the subsequently modified fuel plate.
Due to the recent growth in multiphysics, fluid-structure dynamics calculations can be coupled using a fluid-structure interaction (FSI) solver. The FSI solver is the key to the analysis of the HFIR system. Due to a built-in fully coupled FSI solver, and implicit solution capabilities, ORNL chose COMSOL to obtain their stable and precise solution.
Comprehensive phonon "map" offers direction for engineering new thermoelectric devices
R&D Magazine 1/9
If you've ever been stuck in traffic on a hot, sunny afternoon, you might have noticed the rippling effect caused by the release of even hotter exhaust fumes. If so, you've watched opportunity drift away.
Automobiles, power plants, laptops and many other machines produce heat when they operate. Waste heat is an unavoidable energy loss, a tradeoff in order to produce the kind of energy for which the machine is intended. However, this heat could be partly recycled into electrical energy through thermoelectric technology, which converts a temperature difference into an electric voltage.
To understand how to design better thermoelectric materials, researchers are using neutron scattering at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) and the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE)'s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to study how silver antimony telluride is able to effectively prevent heat from propagating through it on the microscopic level. Heat in materials is carried by quantized sound waves, known to scientists as phonons. By mapping the phonons and their interactions with the atomic architecture of silver antimony telluride, researchers in ORNL's Quantum Condensed Matter and Materials Science groups discovered that a complex structure of nanoscale domains improved the thermoelectric properties of this compound.


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