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We purchased an 1925 brick colonial in NY last fall. Now that spring may be near, I want to address some of the issues the inspector mentioned on the exterior such as getting the chimney repaired and capped, and some of the brick work repointed. Some sections of bricks are very dirty and we want to clean them. I also want to get rid of the ivy pieces that still remain after I pulled down the stems a month ago. My question is how to clean the dirt off without damaging anything, and do I do this before or after the repointing? We have a reputable old house mason, but I'd like to know what to expect and if I can DIY any of this. Should I be power washing the entire façade? Or use a house wash product (which one)? One post I've read recently suggested using oxyclean. I'm not sure how. Any thoughts would be appreciated. I also need to paint most of the trim in the next year or two. This forum has kept me from doing irreparable damage to the interior this winter and now I don't want to make a mistake outside either. Thanks for your replies. |
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- Posted by columbusguy1 (My Page) on Sun, Apr 7, 13 at 13:58
Cleaning should come before the repointing--and make sure the mason knows what type of mortar to use--earlier mortar was softer than the stuff you get off the shelf today. Modern mortar will cause bricks to crack as it doesn't have enough 'give' like the old stuff. Did you use an herbicide on the ivy? It seems to me that it might start growing back from the stems otherwise.... Do NOT powerwash...the pressure is too high and will damage the brick surfaces, which is the last thing you want--remove the fired surface layer, and you are left with the softer inner brick which will erode and spall quickly from the elements. Never heard of the oxyclean idea--I'd say you mix it in water and scrub away--I tried it in my laundry once, and wasn't thrilled with it, seemed more hype than help. :) |
- Posted by maryinthefalls (My Page) on Sun, Apr 7, 13 at 14:15
Thanks Columbus guy. I will check on the mortar. I was afraid of the power washing too. Why is it the easy things do so much damage? And yes the ivy is coming back, but luckily, it is a single stem and now I will use the herbicide. So how do I wash the house? Most of the dirt is on the second floor, just below the eaves. Are we talking scrub brush and ladders as the only solution? What type of solution should I use? |
- Posted by columbusguy1 (My Page) on Sun, Apr 7, 13 at 17:13
Ideally, I'd say long-handled brushes or brooms with a ladder, but I'm afraid of heights. :) If you can get one of those wand attachments for your garden hose, try using a soap solution with it...a professional power washer is too strong, but house pressure should be okay. |
Correctly handling a power washer will not damage the brick. You spray closer to parallel to the surface, then work the angle closer to perpendicular to clean without damaging the brick while still getting it clean. My old power washer could write in concrete if held close and perpendicular. It still cleaned plenty of concrete, brick, and an occasional deck without damage when handled correctly. |
- Posted by bulldinkie (My Page) on Sat, Apr 13, 13 at 7:35
As I said above we had some men out after home was repointed etc they chemically cleaned our house with bio degradable cleaner this is their job,It was beautiful,Dont sandblast does way too much damage to the brick. |
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Winning early-career researchers excel in entrepreneurship
6 December 2011
After an intense day of competition in London, a team of four budding biotechnology entrepreneurs from the University of Oxford have emerged as the winners of this year's Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES).
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Winners of the 2011 Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES) competition are Ben Owens, Hannah Richards, Bonnie Murphy and Philip Wulff from The University of Oxford.
The team pitched their plan for a hypothetical business called Metachem Solutions to a panel of investors. The panel were impressed by their idea for using yeast to produce high value fragrance components.
Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts said "I would like to congratulate the winners of the Biotechnology and Environment YES competitions on their success. Scientists who are able to combine their expertise with an understanding of business are a very precious resource. By learning how to translate research into wider successes, they can help ensure their work delivers the maximum benefits to society and the economy.
"I am impressed that the participants are taking the opportunity to develop their skills and knowledge at this early stage of their careers - it suggests a bright future for the commercialisation of UK research."
Biotechnology YES is annual business plan competition designed to raise awareness of commercialisation amongst bioscience postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers. The teams prepare a business plan for an imaginary company, generally based on hypothetical (but plausible) science. The team members assume the roles of directors of their company and seek funding for their business plan from a group of equity investors.
The winning team, Metachem Solutions: [l -r] Philip Wulff, Hannah Richards, Bonnie Murphy and Ben Owens. Copyright: Martyn Poynor
Biotechnology YES was developed and is delivered by a partnership between the University of Nottingham, Institute of Enterprise and Innovation (UNIEI) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
In the run up to the finals in London, teams competed at 5 regional heats across the country. This year, for the first time, one of these heats was hosted by an industrial sponsor, the agri-business Syngenta, at their Jealott's Hill site. This gave participants the opportunity to learn about the commercialisation of science from the perspective of a large agri-business company expanding the career horizons beyond academia.
This year's winning team of four early-career researchers emerged from the 390 competitors across all of the regional heats. Their Managing Director, Ben Owens, said "We're delighted to have won. We formed our team especially for the competition - we didn't all know each other before - and it has been an incredible journey.
The winning team from the University of Oxford and Dr. Malcolm Skingle Director of Academic Liaison, GlaxoSmithKline. Copyright: Martyn Poynor
"It has been great to develop a diverse range of skills outside of the lab and I know these are going to be invaluable for the rest of my career. The competition has made me think completely differently about how academic research can be translated to a commercial environment and has given me the confidence to think that researchers can do it themselves - take your own research forward to create a viable business. It's really unique to have this kind of opportunity and I really encourage all early-career researchers to get involved."
Professor Sir Tom Blundell, Chair of BBSRC and after dinner speaker at the Biotechnology YES 2011 final said "Congratulations to the winners and to all of the finalists. I have had the pleasure to be involved with Biotechnology YES for many of its sixteen years and the participants' entrepreneurial skills seem to improve year on year.
"It is clear when speaking to the participants that they have many exciting ideas for commercialising their science whilst having also spent an enormous amount of time and effort developing an understanding of the principles of finance, marketing and intellectual property. These will be an invaluable asset in their future careers and I wish them the best."
Glyn Edwards Interim CE of the BioIndustry Association said "Recent announcements by the government have underlined how important the commercialisation of our world-class life sciences research will be to rebalancing our economy and driving growth. The early-career researchers I saw at Biotechnology YES demonstrated an impressive understanding of what it takes to bring scientific research to market and tremendous enthusiasm for taking their science out of the lab. Encouraging and developing business skills in scientists is a great investment for the UK economy."
The winning team with Biotechnology YES sponsors, judges and organisers. l-r: Dr Simon Cutler, BBSRC, Dr Fiona Marston, RFM Associates, Dr Celia Caulcott, BBSRC, Hannah Richards, Winning team, Professor Sir Tom Blundell, Chair of BBSRC, Bonnie Murphy, Winning team, Dr Ray Elliott, Syngenta, Philip Wulff, Winning team, Dr Malcolm Skingle, GSK, Ben Owens, Winning team. Copyright: Martyn Poynor
An independent review of Biotechnology YES published in 2010 showed that it gives early career researchers the edge in entrepreneurial skills and future career prospects. Having participated in the competition, early career scientists are well prepared to move into industry where their improved entrepreneurial skills are highly valued. There is some evidence to suggest that past participants perceive their earning potential as greater following the competition and the review indicates that the skills gained are exactly complementary to those acquired during a PhD.
For the sixth year, a spin-off competition called Environment YES has been run by the Natural Environment Research Council. 3 teams competed last night in parallel with the Biotechnology YES competition for the Environment YES title, with ReNeVention Ltd from the University of East Anglia being crowned the winners.
Other winners in the Biotechnology YES competition were:
- Best healthcare business plan sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline - Instant Diagnostics
- Best consideration of financial planning strategy sponsored by James Cowper LLP - Instant Diagnostics
- Best consideration of IP strategy sponsored by Potter Clarkson - Synthetica
- Best plant and microbial business plan sponsored by Syngenta - Hortisense
- Best presenter sponsored by University of Nottingham Institute for Enterprise and Innovation - Mehmet Fidanboylu from Biomimix and Qasim Rafiq from Scigen
2011 Finalists
Biotechnology YES
Note: All companies are hypothetical and products are imaginary.
Biomimix (King's College London and Imperial College London) have designed a synthetic analogue of the venom from parasitic wasps which is being developed as a pain relief therapy.
Cyan (University of Glasgow). Due to the recent ban on the use of antibiotics in animal feed to promote growth, farmers have seen a reduction in their profitability. Cyan aims to fulfil this market need using their patented product, a novel strain of blue - green algae which has immunopotentiating effects when grown under specific conditions.
Horti-Sense (John Innes Centre) have developed a compound which binds to boron to initiate a colour change. This allows for detection of boron in soil which is an unexploited but important market. This is complemented in their product NUTRI-ORB with other nutrient detection tests.
Instant Diagnostics (University College London) have developed an antibody based diagnostic kit for the detection of key sexually transmitted diseases.
Metachem Solutions (University of Oxford) developed a novel yeast based biosynthetic platform for production of high value fragrance components.
Salga Technologies (University of Manchester) uses GM algae to remove salt from seawater by sodium channel alterations. They plan to sell their algae kit to desalination plants.
Scigen (Loughborough University) developed a bacteriocin which promotes a multi-spectrum activity against harmful pathogens. Key application will be its wage as a biopreservative in the food industry.
Soil Solutions (University of Cambridge) have developed the product Biohydrate, a naturally occurring polymer produced by bacteria which improves water retention in soil. This polymer binds water molecules and expands to 1000x its weight. Under drought conditions, the water is released and becomes available to the plant. The benefits of this product are reduced irrigation costs, reduced fertiliser leaching and increased crop yield.
Synthetica (University of Liverpool) - Recycling Plastics to Drive Your Future - has a novel process to enzymatically degrade waste plastics into ethanol for use as a biofuel.
Environment YES
Note: All companies are hypothetical and products are imaginary.
AGC Technologies (Universities of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt) has developed a novel chromium based catalyst on a solid state support that facilitates the conversion of methane to methanol at room temperature.
ReNeVention Ltd (University of East Anglia) identified and purified the protein responsible for silican capsules in diatoms. They have invented the technology to synthetically produce the protein in nanoscale and are able to use its heat absorbing property by producing 3D nanotubular matrices. With this technology they are able to harvest and recycle the wasted heat energy from electrical appliances.
Vortech Forecasting (Universities of Cambridge, East Anglia, Oxford and Liverpool) produce superior short-term regional wind forecasts by combining outsourced observational data collection and a unique forecasting algorithm. The forecasts will be sold to energy companies to allow better demand management and to financial traders who will use them to profit from electricity futures speculation.
The competition receives support from:
- Bioindustry Association
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
- GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
- Medical Research Council (MRC)
- Medical Research Council Technology (MRC T)
- Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
- Nestle
- Proctor and Gamble
- Syngenta
- University of Nottingham Institute for Enterprise and Innovation (UNIEI)
- Wellcome Trust
About UNIEI
The University of Nottingham Institute for Enterprise and Innovation (UNIEI) is a world class centre committed to the development of entrepreneurial skills and the commercial innovation of new technologies and ideas. Our purpose is to engage staff and students in the acquisition of enterprise skills so that they are better able to realize the opportunities generated in a rapidly developing entrepreneurial culture. UNIEI aims to be at the forefront of international thinking and best practice in engaging universities and businesses in the process of wealth creation. For more information see: www.nottingham.ac.uk/enterprise.
About BBSRC
BBSRC invests in world-class bioscience research and training on behalf of the UK public. Our aim is to further scientific knowledge, to promote economic growth, wealth and job creation and to improve quality of life in the UK and beyond.
Funded by Government, and with an annual budget of around £445M, we support research and training in universities and strategically funded institutes. BBSRC research and the people we fund are helping society to meet major challenges, including food security, green energy and healthier, longer lives. Our investments underpin important UK economic sectors, such as farming, food, industrial biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.
For more information about BBSRC, our science and our impact see:
www.bbsrc.ac.uk .
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I've been using Excel for years but I never knew about this one little formula that can save so much work. My predecessor has been using the ISERROR() function nested inside an IF() function to fill cells that return an error code as blank. This means if you have two columns of data that may not necessarily be filled, you can have a blank cell instead of #DIV/0, etc. A little tweak like this can improve readability quickly so you can quickly spot empty cells or not have to wade through errors if
Quite a bit has happened since November...
First off my Kubuntu install fell apart after most of my games library was locked out regardless of WINE. The titles that did work with WINE were too big a pain to get working again and I just wanted my incredible gaming rig back! Since my Windows 7 CD Key was coming up invalid, I found myself forced to install Windows 8 and after an initial "I hate Metro" period it proved to be quite a usable OS...if you throw Metro out the window.
I've always had a soft spot for KDE, so when switching to Ubuntu on my primary home machine it was a no brainer to pick Kubuntu 12.10 over it's Unity-packing parent distro. So far the system has set itself up extremely quickly and given virtually no problems at all beyond a mouse cursor that refuses to stick to the style I tell it to, irritating but hardly a deal breaker. Given the last time I installed Ubuntu I was left seekign network drivers and spending hours getting a laptop to even start this
As a browser nomad, I find it hard to keep up-to-date with extensions and remembering to install even the basics when I jump from one browser to another. In the case of my work computer I have no say in the matter, but at home I have used no less then four different browsers since installing my OS. One extension I have routinely forgotten about is AdBlock, as you can probably tell from previous hilarious failures in targeted advertising.
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It has taken time for me to post this because I wanted to make sure everything was bedded down, calm and not influenced by the various emotional rollercoasters I have been on over the past week.
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For The Monumental John Goodman, A Hard-Working Lucky Streak
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Features By Scott Beggs on August 28, 2013 | Comments (1)It's tough to miss a film festival where a highly anticipated movie is playing, but it's a lot easier to handle when the reaction bursting out of the theater is roundly positive. Excitedly positive. None of this, "It was okay, but…" nonsense clouding the expectations game for something we want to blow our minds. Enter Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity. With stratospheric hopes, the new partnership between the Children of Men director and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki lands in theaters in early October, but Venice Film Festival goers got an early look, and apparently their eyes are completely dilated.
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Movie News By Rob Hunter on August 26, 2013 | Comments (1)Brad Bird's follow-up to Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol has been behind a fair amount of secrecy since its initial announcement, but as the film begins principal photography that veil is starting to lift. Tomorrowland stars George Clooney and Hugh Laurie, and is co-written by Bird, Damon Lindelof, and Jeffrey Chernov. Since it's a Disney production the clear assumption has been that the story will share some connective tissue with their future-themed theme park land. Known for its glimpse into a "future that never was" it's a world populated with steampunk aesthetics, people movers and other visuals expected by the prognosticators of the '20s and '30s. A short synopsis for the film has just been released, and it almost sounds like the big-budget reboot of Real Genius we've always wanted.
'The Monuments Men' Trailer: WWII Drama and Old Men Behaving Badly
Movie News By Adam Bellotto on August 8, 2013 | Be the First To CommentWe just got our first look at a still from George Clooney's The Monuments Men, but that hasn't stopped the powers that be from releasing a new trailer immediately afterward. This one is a bit of a mixed bag. The pairing of Clooney and Matt Damon will always bring about one thing: that Ocean's Eleven sense of suave. You see these two together, you know you're about to see a film about cool guys who look good and pull off daring deeds. Stir this into the "stealing art to save art" story, add the little hint of WWII intrigue we get at the trailer's end, and you've basically got Ocean's for the greatest generation (even though the original Ocean's Eleven already qualifies). The ragtag team of misfits introduced in this trailer really cements this idea. On the one hand, seeing a bunch of bumbling old men stumble through armed combat sounds terrific; especially so when those aging bumblers are played by the likes of John Goodman, Bill Murray, and Bob Balaban. But honestly, the whole idea seems a little played out. I've seen both Ocean's Eleven and Saving Private Ryan. What exactly will The Monuments Men offer that couldn't be accomplished by haphazardly cutting those two films together? A trailer should make you want to see the film in question, but this one just makes me wonder if the awkward music choice and fluctuating tone are more a product of the trailer or the finished film. Check out the first trailer […]
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Movie News By Adam Bellotto on August 8, 2013 | Be the First To CommentWhen the endless stream of awards-show talk begins its yearly smothering of the movie industry, expect the words The Monuments Men to come up. The film's got all the necessary pieces: It's based both on real-life events and on a book (Robert M. Edsel's "The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History") and will have George Clooney wearing both his director and lead actor hats. Presumably, if the film's actually a good one, it'll be racking up all kinds of neat little statuettes. And thanks to Entertainment Weekly (via Facebook), you can see the first still from The Monuments Men above. You can also read more about the film below.
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Movie News By Scott Beggs on July 24, 2013 | Comments (5)This is when the real panic sets in. Stunning in its execution, the new trailer for Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity does its duty in evoking Children of Men's most famous scene. The abject terror, the immediacy of profound danger, the single-take-ness. If you're not standing and clapping by the time it's over, it's probably because you still can't breath:
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Is This the Plot for Brad Bird's 'Tomorrowland'?
Movie News By Scott Beggs on March 4, 2013 | Comments (1)Over at HitFix, Drew has published the logline (and further details) that the production for Tomorrowland is using to find actors: "A teenage girl, a genius middle-aged man (who was kicked out of Tomorrowland) and a pre-pubescent girl robot attempt to get to and unravel what happened to Tomorrowland, which exists in an alternative dimension, in order to save Earth." Brad Bird is directing with a script from Damon Lindelof, so secrecy has been the order of the day, but as Drew mentions, the grain of salt here is that this logline could have nothing to do with what the movie is about. I'll point to the script pages actors' delivered during auditions for The Cabin in the Woods as another example of the games mysterious productions play. They know this stuff gets leaked, so whether they chose to be straightforward or further obfuscate is anyone's guess until we see the first trailer. But all that being said, if this is the real synopsis, it could be a lot of fun. Plus, George Clooney is going to do great as the pre-pubescent girl robot! Unless that's the role Hugh Laurie is taking.
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Hoping someone can help. I'm accidentally growing something that looks very much like tansy--tanacteum vulgare. I've read a bit about how its leaves have been used to repel pests and such, but I can't find anything that describes the scent of the flowers. If this is indeed what I have, the flowers smell strongly of honey. Can anyone confirm or deny this to help me make my plant ID? |
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The flowers on my tansy plant have just opened this past week and have hardly any scent at all. The smell is similar to ox-eye daisies (C. leucanthemum). Anyone else? |
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the whole plant smells like the foliage, rather acrid. i never noticed the flowers smelling any different than the plant |
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The other day, Adam, Aden and I had a brush with a very scary situation. We were driving along on the highway, when all of a sudden the car in front of us crashed into the car in front of it. We watched in horror as the car flipped over and over and over again on the highway. It was terrifying…I still get chills now just thinking about it. Our life really flashed right before our eyes. We were the next car in the accident that had a car flipping more than once straight ahead of us across the freeway! Although the moment goes so fast, you actually feel like you are moving in slow motion. All I could think about was protecting our new son Aden. Once we got out of our car and helped the victims, I just held our lil baby and cried.
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Well, I harvested my apios for the third year, and I'm a little dissapointed. I used a bigger container, with more sunlight, and my tubers are smaller. Granted I have more of them than usual, but I suspect that the older a mother tuber gets the more it devotes energy to itself. The mother tubers have grown a fair amount, though honestly I forgot to measure at the beginning. Also, it was hard to track down (in the mess of roots) which mother tubers produced which offspring since I had quite a few sharing the contianer. It may be that my soil was bad or oversaturated with mother tubers. Also, I was using potting mix a few years old. Anyways, I'll be trying again next year with hopefully some more insight into this nifty legume.
Considering all that 'abuse', I'd say they turned out pretty well.
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I had some seeds that might have been from an apios, and planted them this spring. When dug the area up this fall, found two very tiny strings of tiny tubers about a quarter of an inch long. I wonder if those were apios. I didn't see any vines, they must have been very small plants. Maybe because the area dried out more than expected. Replanted them in another container with less drainage. Will see what happens next year. |
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Thornwood triangular: Ashley Nosike was tops in the high jump (4 feet) and long jump (14 feet, 7 inches) as Thornwood won 11 events in the nonscoring meet that included Kankakee and Julian. The Thunderbirds also received wins from Janaia Carter in the 60-yard high hurdles (9.65 seconds) and Krysta Dean in the 440-yard run (1 minute, 8.52 seconds).
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St. Xavier 95, Purdue-North Central 47: Brad Karp contributed 20 points and seven rebounds for host St. Xavier (25-4, 21-2) in the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference. Dominique Harvey (11 rebounds), Anthony Grant (6 assists) and Shane Zackery added 12 points apiece for the Cougars.
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St. Xavier 73, Robert Morris 68: Morgan Stuut scored 27 points -- surpassing the 1,000-mark for her career -- in guiding host St. Xavier (23-5). Stuut also grabbed 17 rebounds, giving her a school record 319 for the season. Suzie Broski added 15 points and 10 rebounds for the Cougars.
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1 Awhile later someone told Yosef that his father was ill. He took with him his two sons, M'nasheh and Efrayim. | 1 Some time later Joseph was told, "Your father is ill." So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim along with him. |
2 Ya'akov was told, "Here comes your son Yosef."Isra'el gathered his strength and sat up in bed. | 2 When Jacob was told, "Your son Joseph has come to you," Israel rallied his strength and sat up on the bed. |
3 Ya'akov said to Yosef, "El Shaddai appeared to me at Luz in the land of Kena'an and blessed me, | 3 Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there he blessed me |
4 saying to me, 'I will make you fruitful and numerous. I will make of you a group of peoples; and I will give this land to your descendants to possess forever.' | 4 and said to me, 'I am going to make you fruitful and will increase your numbers. I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you.' |
5 Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Efrayim and M'nasheh will be as much mine as Re'uven and Shim'on are. | 5 "Now then, your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here will be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine. |
6 The children born to you after them will be yours, but for purposes of inheritance they are to be counted with their older brothers. | 6 Any children born to you after them will be yours; in the territory they inherit they will be reckoned under the names of their brothers. |
7 "Now as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died suddenly, as we were traveling through the land of Kena'an, while we were still some distance from Efrat; so I buried her there on the way to Efrat (also known as Beit-Lechem)." | 7 As I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan while we were still on the way, a little distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath" (that is, Bethlehem). |
8 Then Isra'el noticed Yosef's sons and asked, "Whose are these?" | 8 When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, "Who are these?" |
9 Yosef answered his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." Ya'akov replied, "I want you to bring them here to me, so that I can bless them." | 9 "They are the sons God has given me here," Joseph said to his father. Then Israel said, "Bring them to me so I may bless them." |
10 Now Isra'el's eyes were dim with age, so that he could not see. Yosef brought his sons near to him, and he kissed them and embraced them. | 10 Now Israel's eyes were failing because of old age, and he could hardly see. So Joseph brought his sons close to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them. |
11 Isra'el said to Yosef, "I never expected to see even you again, but God has allowed me to see your children too!" | 11 Israel said to Joseph, "I never expected to see your face again, and now God has allowed me to see your children too." |
12 Yosef brought them out from between his legs and prostrated himself on the ground. | 12 Then Joseph removed them from Israel's knees and bowed down with his face to the ground. |
13 Then Yosef took them both, Efrayim in his right hand toward Isra'el's left hand and M'nasheh in his left hand toward Isra'el's right hand, and brought them near to him. | 13 And Joseph took both of them, Ephraim on his right toward Israel's left hand and Manasseh on his left toward Israel's right hand, and brought them close to him. |
14 But Isra'el put out his right hand and laid it on the head of the younger one, Efrayim, and put his left hand on the head of M'nasheh - he intentionally crossed his hands, even though M'nasheh was the firstborn. | 14 But Israel reached out his right hand and put it on Ephraim's head, though he was the younger, and crossing his arms, he put his left hand on Manasseh's head, even though Manasseh was the firstborn. |
15 Then he blessed Yosef: "The God in whose presence my fathers Avraham and Yitz'chak lived, the God who has been my own shepherd all my life long to this day, | 15 Then he blessed Joseph and said, "May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day, |
16 the angel who has rescued me from all harm, bless these boys. May they remember who I am and what I stand for, and likewise my fathers Avraham and Yitz'chak, who they were and what they stood for. And may they grow into teeming multitudes on the earth." | 16 the Angel who has delivered me from all harm --may he bless these boys. May they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they increase greatly upon the earth." |
17 When Yosef saw that his father was laying his right hand on Efrayim's head, it displeased him, and he lifted up his father's hand to remove it from Efrayim's head and place it instead on M'nasheh's head. | 17 When Joseph saw his father placing his right hand on Ephraim's head he was displeased; so he took hold of his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. |
18 Yosef said to his father, "Don't do it that way, my father; for this one is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head." | 18 Joseph said to him, "No, my father, this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head." |
19 But his father refused and said, "I know that, my son, I know it. He too will become a people, and he too will be great; nevertheless his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will grow into many nations." | 19 But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He too will become a people, and he too will become great. Nevertheless, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a group of nations." |
20 Then he added this blessing on them that day: "Isra'el will speak of you in their own blessings by saying, 'May God make you like Efrayim and M'nasheh.'"Thus he put Efrayim ahead of M'nasheh. | 20 He blessed them that day and said, "In your name will Israel pronounce this blessing: 'May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.' " So he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh. |
21 Isra'el then said to Yosef, "You see that I am dying, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your ancestors. | 21 Then Israel said to Joseph, "I am about to die, but God will be with you and take you back to the land of your fathers. |
22 Moreover, I am giving to you a sh'khem [shoulder, ridge, share, city of Sh'khem] more than to your brothers; I captured it from the Emori with my sword and bow." | 22 And to you, as one who is over your brothers, I give the ridge of land I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow." |
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. (The Complete Jewish Bible Online) | Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |


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In Rivka Galchen's debut novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, a psychiatrist discovers that his wife, Rema, has been replaced with an almost perfect double. The psychiatrist sets out on a quest that leads him from the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan to Buenos Aires and Patagonia, hunting for the authentic wife that he has reason to believe has fallen into the clutches of a world-wide, perhaps even multiverse-spanning, weather manipulation syndicate. Published in 2008, Atmospheric Disturbances has been translated into over 20 languages, and was awarded the William J. Saroyan International Prize for Fiction. In 2010 Galchen was chosen by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 American writers under the age of 40. Her short story "The Entire Northern Side Was Covered with Fire" was published in the "Summer Fiction" issue of the magazine (June 14 & 21, 2010). She teaches writing at Columbia University.
David J. Linden makes a welcome return to Brainwave after his appearance last year with chocolatier Jacques Torres to mark the publication of his book The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good. He is professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and also author of The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God. The book The Accidental Mind is an attempt to explain the human brain to intelligent lay readers, and recently received a silver medal in the category of Science from the Independent Publisher Association. Dr. Linden has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neurophysiology since 2008.
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Mnemonic Art Tour
Take advantage of a short tour of some paintings in the collection that function as mnemonic devices. The iconography in these paintings serve to reference specific passages in the sutras. That is why most of these works were not meant to be revealed to those who were not already initiates. The tour will include two types of paintings: narratives such as the life of the Buddha, and mandalas which are complex two-dimensional diagrams of one's multi-dimensional state of mind.
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As a prelude to the staged program, we are planning to stage a simple game of 'telephone' prior to the session to demonstrate the fallibility of oral transmission and the nature of short-term memory. Each ticket holder will stand on one of the steps of the 108-stepped spiral staircase of the Museum. The guest speaker stands at the base, whispers a short phrase they have prepared to the visitor on the first step, and the phrase would spiral up through the line until it reaches the ear of the scientist. The conversationalists will only reveal the original phrase and the result phrase when on stage in the theater, thus starting the conversation about memory.


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Typically, this does not cause a problem and requires no treatment. But sometimes, the valve cannot keep blood moving in one direction and a tiny amount leaks backward. Most cases of mitral valve prolapse are not serious. But in some cases, the condition progresses to a serious problem that requires surgery.
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Jignesh Patel's Big Data Revolution
Over the past 40 years, Madison has played a significant but often unsung role in the rise of Big Data. Now one UW prof is carrying the torch, working on research with the potential to transform the digital revolution and democratize data as we know it.
Jignesh Patel's Quickstep project will make processing Big Data more efficient and available to more people.
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"It's kind of like finding a needle in a haystack."
Jignesh Patel is sitting in a Madison café talking about big data. Between sips of coffee, the University of Wisconsin computer sciences professor uses the familiar expression to explain just what this buzzy tech phrase is all about before launching into a remarkable story about Madison's connection to its past, present and future.
The tech trend du jour, "big data" refers to the vast amount of information that's out in the world, made possible by the digital trails we leave with the ever-increasing portion of our routine activities occurring online—email, web searches, online banking and shopping, social media posts and so on. All of this digital activity, coupled with the miniscule costs of storing this information, enables those who can harness and analyze large sets of data to learn all kinds of valuable information about the world and those living in it. It's big data to thank (or blame) when you see a web ad for a store you were just browsing online, and what makes it possible for the weather app on your phone to tell you if it's going to snow today. In Patel's hay and needle narrative, the enormity of all the data that's out there is the hay; the tiny portion that someone actually wants is the proverbial needle. That weather app can tell you it's going to snow in Madison today at noon, yes, but it also has information on the temperature in New York, the wind speed in San Diego and the overnight low in Little Rock.
And while the term big data has been around for a decade, crossing over from geekspeak to mainstream media usage over the past year or two, what it stands for—having an infinite amount of information available at the swipe of a finger—is what defines this digital revolution we're in.
Patel, forty-three, has spent the last twenty years, most of them in Madison, studying data. His work has led him to receive such prestigious honors as the National Science Foundation Career Award and faculty awards from companies like Google, IBM and Microsoft. Research from his PhD, conducted at UW in the 1990s, was commercialized by computer hardware giant NCR Corp, where Patel worked as a software engineer consultant for a year. He's published more than eighty academic papers and has been courted by all the major social networking companies, including Twitter, which acquired a startup Patel co-founded, called Locomatix, last August. Locomatix utilizes large sets of data to power real-time mobile analytics for businesses. While Twitter's plans for the Locomatix platform remain veiled, it's clear that the pithy—and now public—social messaging company is after Patel's kind of brainpower.
Originally from Mumbai, India, Patel first came to UW in 1991 as a graduate student to study computer hardware. He took one fateful course in databases, a sub-field of computer sciences that deals with organizing and analyzing data sets, and was hooked. While the topic of databases itself was interesting, it was UW's reputation in this field and the people pushing it forward that won him over.
"A lot of data processing stuff that now runs the world, the ideas for that were invented here," Patel says. "The influence of Wisconsin, going back to its legacy as being the pioneer in ... building database technology, is at the heart of technology today."
The groundbreaking research Patel references is the stuff of the Wisconsin Database Systems Group, a research collective launched by then-associate professor David DeWitt in the late 1970s. "It was one of the very few departments around the world at the time that actually saw the value of data," says Patel, who received his master's and PhD from UW in 1993 and 1998, respectively, with DeWitt as his advisor.
DeWitt, now professor emeritus after a thirty-two-year tenure in the UW computer sciences department, including four years as its chair, is big stuff. He is thought of as the father of parallel database systems—a technical term that Patel says is the precursor to big data. Parallel database systems changed the game. It was like going from a single-lane highway plagued by traffic jams to a six-lane freeway where the cars are all still headed in the same direction but are able to move faster and more efficiently. "The world's economy runs on databases," DeWitt says.
David DeWitt
With DeWitt at the helm, the group quickly grew to five members and became one of the premier academic research collectives of its kind right from the start. "Nobody else had five people in database systems," DeWitt says. Considering that the "nobody else" here refers to Berkeley, MIT and the University of Michigan—the only other institutions with similar groups at the time—it's no wonder Wisconsin's early dedication to database systems secured its prominence in the field early on.
Jeff Naughton, current chair of UW's computer sciences department, left his faculty post at Princeton to return to his hometown of Madison because of UW's expertise in databases, his area of research.
"This was like the center of the universe for database systems," he says.
And because UW's computer sciences department played such a large role in developing this core technology, many higher-ups at technology companies are UW alumni. "Google has a strong influence of Wisconsin folks on the back-end," Patel says. "Many were graduate students with me in the '90s. Same thing with Facebook and Twitter." Companies like Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle and IBM have also had former members of the Wisconsin Database Systems Group within their senior leadership teams.
After receiving his PhD and consulting with NCR Corp. for a year, Patel moved to Ann Arbor to teach at the University of Michigan. He stayed there for nine years, eventually coming back to Madison in 2008 in a rare move for UW's computer sciences department, which, according to DeWitt, seldomly hires back its own PhD graduates as a means to get new blood into the department. But they wanted Patel back. He's that good.
Back with the Wisconsin Database Systems Group, Patel developed a particular interest in how much energy is consumed in running database systems, especially when he thought about the energy needs his two young children's generation will inherit. The problem? "You can't put in more power than we already put in," he says. The amount of data in the world doubles every eighteen months to two years. "But to match that we obviously can't start to double our power budget every two years," Patel says. "That's unsustainable." This power limit appears across the spectrum of computing, from a personal tablet or phone to hundreds of thousands of corporate- and government-owned servers across the globe.
Think of it this way: If you wanted your iPad to be twice as fast—take half as much time to load a Netflix movie, for example—the only way to get that iPad the power it needs to do that would subsequently heat up the iPad, making it twice as hot. "You probably wouldn't like that very much," Patel says. More than just making the device painful to the touch, such a heat increase would melt its inner parts.
So that's what Patel's working on now. His current research at UW, a project launched in 2011 called Quickstep, is working toward developing a next-generation database system that will organize and process big data more efficiently to make the best use of the power that's available. If you can't put more power in, you have to make use of what you have, doing more with less.
Patel and his ten graduate research assistants are taking a nuanced approach with the Quickstep project, developing both computer hardware and software together to complement each other and make this new database system as efficient as possible.
Craig Chasseur, a current PhD student and one of the Quickstep research assistants, says that the advances in software and hardware over the past few decades have not matched up. "Current database systems are leaving a lot of potential ... on the table. A big thing we're addressing with Quickstep is unlocking all that potential."


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Would a half bullnose granite edge look good with an island like this that has an overhang, or should I use a pencil edge? My overhang looks like the first picture, but my island is styled with all drawers like the second picture. Drawers are shaker style. Thank you!
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I personally think a full bull nose looks much better. It is also much safer if you have small children that could bump their heads into the countertop edge. A half bullnose has a much sharper edge, while a full bullnose is totally rounded. Either will hurt if you bump your head into it, but you are not likely to split the skin and bleed with a full bullnose. |
In the pictures it appears that the counters have an eased edge, which is a nice soft squared edge. Personally I prefer that clean look to having rounded edges, especially when they drop off into a straight line (like a half bullnose). Don't get me wrong...I like designed edges, and have some magnificant ones going into my home, but with my shaker style cabs, I went with a similar profile of a squared edge (eased so the edges aren't pencil sharp) which flows well with the squares on the doors. A couple of times our KD (My design, her order and a few tweeks) has suggested curved "stuff" (wood etc) to add to the kitchen. The rounded items never look good with the clean squared edges of shaker in my opinion. |
I prefer an eased edge as shown in the photos...a nice, simple, clean line...especially with Shaker, as igloo said. But then I have to admit that I always prefer a square shaped edge to rounded. |
A 1/2 bullnose would look great. Basically, it's a square edge without the sharp edge. We have the 1/2 bull on our granite and I really like it. We were going to get the full bullnose, but I read here about how drippings will run off the full rounded edge on onto the wood cabinets. Makes sense. In addition, I've also read here that a square, sharper edge can chip more easily than a rounded one. Makes sense as well. The 1/2 bullnose looks classic, IMO. |
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