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To demonstrate the structure of NASDAQ ITCH41 data, I wrote a simple yaml-driven parser using python.
It relies on a YAML specification derived from the ITCH41 documentation to construct tables of formatting strings suitable for use with the python struct module which does most of the work.
Using the code is straightforward, as the sample test program (src/main.py) demonstrates:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import itch41
converter = itch41.ITCH41()
sep = '|'
filename = sys.argv[1]
with file(filename) as f:
# read all the messages
for m in converter.parse(f):
# set aside unknown/invalid messages
if m[0] is None:
print >>sys.stderr, m
# convert message to db compatible format
rec = converter.record(m)
print sep.join(rec)
The records generated from the parser may easily be processed by additional code or converted to other formats such as csv. All the output records have the same schema, described in the file src/create.sql.
Note that an extra _offset column appears at the beginning of the record to indicate the byte offset of the corresponding ITCH record in the original data feed. While often helpful in diagnosing downstream data processing issues, it may easily be ommitted if not desired.
This software is licensed under the 2-clause BSD license. See the file LICENSE for details.
The source is kept in a Mercurial repository over at bitbucket which you can get via:
% hg clone http://bitbucket.org/cdtitch41/itch41
You can also browse the source at bitbucket here: http://bitbucket.org/cdtitch41/itch41/src
Checking out itch41 from bitbucket requires Mercurial
Running itch41 requires Python and the python yaml module.
Re-building the itch41 documentation from its reStructuredText sources requires Python and Sphinx
itch41 - project directory
|-- Makefile - build commands
|-- data - directory with Makefile to download some sample data
|-- doc - sphinx documentation
|-- src - Python sources
| |-- create.sql - create table statement for output record schema
| |-- itch41.py - itch41 format converter
| `-- main.py - sample test program
|-- test - test output files
`-- todo - known improvements
Additional directories are created by the Makefile directives:
`-- work - temporary files generated by test


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Color picker
Posted on December 26, 2008 by 200702
Color is one of the most important factors of painting, but it is hard to get a nature color just like the real object. But this color picker can help you finish this hard work. The built-in scanner can help you get the color of any object in real word and then, after the process of the chip, the RGB cartridge located within the pen mixes the inks to create the color scanned.
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Abuja — In a bid to consolidate his position as the new Emir of Kano, the erstwhile Governor of the Central Bank, CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, yesterday, initiated moves to terminate his suit against President Goodluck Jonathan following his sack from CBN.
Sanusi's suit pending before the National Industrial Court, NIC, sitting in Abuja, is challenging the powers of President Jonathan to suspend a sitting Governor of the apex bank without recourse to the National Assembly.
The plaintiff had contended that only a two-thirds majority of the Senate could oust a CBN governor from office, irrespective of any allegation levelled against the occupant of such position.
President Goodluck Jonathan and Lamido Sanusi
Though the case was initially filed before the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, it was later transferred to the NIC by trial Justice Gabriel Kolawole who declined jurisdiction to entertain the matter.
Kolawole had in his judgment on May 20, relied on Section 24(3) of the NIC Act 2006, to transfer the case on the basis that the issues bordered on employer/employee relationship.
On May 30 when the matter came up for hearing at the NIC, the National President of the court, Justice Babatunde Adejumo, directed all the parties to appear before him yesterday to address the court on the import of section 47 of the NIC Act.
Adejumo gave the directive after both Sanusi and Jonathan, urged him to hands-off the case since an appellate court was already seized of the facts of the matter.
The duo told the court that they had lodged separate appeals against the judgement of the High Court.
Whereas Jonathan challenged the powers of the high court to transfer the matter to the NIC even when it had already declined jurisdiction, Sanusi argued that the Federal High Court ought to have heard and determined the suit.
Other defendants in the suit were the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and the Inspector General of Police whose name was later struck out from the matter.
However, when the case came up for hearing yesterday, Sanusi, through his team of lawyers led by two Senior Advocates of Nigeria, Chief Kola Awodein and Abubakar Mahmoud, pleaded for time to enable him decide on whether to continue with the proceeding or not.
"Due to the recent development that has taken place between the last time this case came up and today, we want an adjournment to enable us seek further instructions from our client on what should be the next line of action" Awodein told the court.
The request was not opposed by Counsel to Jonathan, Mr Mathew Echo as well as the AGF, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN.
Consequently, Justice Adejumo, yesterday, adjourned the case to July 4, for mention.
Sanusi who was removed from the CBN on February 20, had challenged the powers of President Jonathan to suspend him based on the report by the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, FRCN, which indicted him of "financial recklessness and misconduct."
He contended that the President action ran contrary to provisions of the CBN Act relating to the appointment and removal of the CBN Governor, adding further that the action amounted to "unlawful interference in the administration and management of the apex bank and is therefore illegal, null and void."
He also specifically prayed the court to restrain the defendants from obstructing, disturbing, stopping or preventing him in any manner whatsoever from performing the functions of his office as governor of the CBN and enjoying in full, the statutory powers and privileges attached to the office.
Sanusi alleged that he was illegally ousted from office following some discrepancies he discovered in respect of amounts repatriated to the federation account from the proceeds of crude oil sales between the period of January 2012 and July 2013.


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Hello all! I just wanted to say that I have gotten home safely and without too much hassle. I am still trying to get used to some things such as it being light out at 10 at night and being able to use the tap water, but on the whole, I am not doing too bad! However, back to the good stuff J.
Today was my first day working with VWB! Yay! It started off with Steve, Jerome, Claire and I going to the FAOC office from which VWB operates in Mbarara. FAOC stands or Foundation for AIDS Orphaned Children; there are many people who work here, helping with projects to generate income to help children orphaned due to AIDS. VWB is kind of a sideline to their own projects. From what I understood, they are currently trying to find and grow plants that provide the optimum nutrition for the Ugandan people as well as using some of these crops, like chickpeas to roast and sell for money in order to keep generating income for their projects. Or something to that effect. The project that VWB is working on is called the Goat Project, a project that has been ongoing for a couple of years now ever since Dr. Claire Card came to set it up in Uganda a few years ago (feel free to correct me if I am wrong Claire!). Now, what exactly does this project do you ask? Well I am ready to tell you!
The point of this project is to provide means of income for impoverished ladies who have no other means of income (although they do give goats to some men too). The ladies (or men) get two goats, a male and female, of breeding age to start off. In order to receive the goats first however, they must first build a goat house, a structure made of boards that is raised off the ground in order to keep goats in. It should have enough room in between the boards to let feces drop through yet still close together that hooves don't get caught. They also should have troughs for water and feed. In order to build these houses, seeing as most if not all receiving the goats in the first place are impoverished, they get a loan from the local revolving fund of money that was started by FAOC. The revolving fund is money that keeps getting added to by women who already have goats and have progressed far enough that they are able to sell their goats and goat products for money thus it is essentially women funding other women for goats. Make sense? Once the women have built their goat houses they are eligible to receive goats from FAOC. One of the jobs that Steve and Jerome have is to test and purchase goats to distribute out to these women. The first kid that is born is donated to another woman in the community so that she too can start her own goat project (I think). After that the ladies are to sell their goats and goat products and put some money back into the revolving fund (in order to pay back the money they borrowed to build their goat house) and so that other women who may not be as successful will be able to use that money for their own purposes as well. I think I have that right, if not I think I have it close enough. Now that you have the background, let's go back to what happened today.
Mondays are apparently meeting days (or maybe every first Monday of the month, or maybe bi-weekly?) where all of FAOC gets together and shares what they have been working on, how it has been progressing, what were the goals since the last meeting…kind of like your regular staff meeting at work. At the meeting I met with the members of FAOC that helped out with the VWB. There was Vivian, a slim whisp of a young woman; there was Teddy, one of the translators with an extremely bubbly personality; there was also Joseph, another translator who was also in the process of building his own shop to sell goods in near his house. He liked to use phrases such as "okkkaaayyy," and "yhesh" to answer everyone, even if he didn't quite understood what you were asking. Most times you would ask him a question about goats and he would answer "yhesh" which was totally irrelevant to the question you asked. He was one of the nicest, giving, and friendly people I have met here. He had a very good heart even if he didn't quite listen to you all of the time. I also met a lady named Skovia that helped run the demonstration farm that FAOC had set up in a nearby town for the goats. She had had polio when she was younger which caused her right foot to arch up into an improper angle however it didn't seem to bother her in the slightest.
Okay. Now for the meeting itself. I am not going to lie, I didn't pay very much attention to it, but I did manage to pick up a couple of things. The first topic was about chickpeas and how they were growing and how well the sales were going for the roasted chickpeas (which are very hard to chew but are quite tasty). The second was about the goat project and Scott gave a spiel about how to improve the revolving fund so that it worked better for the women. The main reason I wasn't paying attention was due to the paravet manual that Steve gave me that I was reading at the meeting instead. It was 52 pages of how to train paravets, goat husbandry and usual goat illnesses and how to treat them. I learned a lot about goats in that 3 hour meeting reading that manual than I had learned in my life about goats. Once the meeting was over we went out for lunch at a place famous for its samosas (they were really good).
We travelled back to FAOC after lunch and started to clean up the office that was in the building and to take inventory of our supplies. All of the shelves were covered in mouse poop so I cleaned it all off and Claire and I also organized the supplies in the shelves. We also saw how many syringes and needles we had to see how many we had to buy for a vaccination clinic later in the week. I think I counted around 20 3mL syringes so needless to say we needed to buy more. Claire and I went out to buy syringes and needles and to price out vaccines. At one place where we stopped, a newer veterinary pharmacy, Claire asked the fellow about clostridial and brucella vaccines (2 diseases common in goats, clostridial diseases cause sudden death and abortions, brucella causing abortions and infertility in both males and females). The guy said they had neither of these vaccines as they weren't common in the area. I just laughed as Claire straight-up told him they are the most common diseases and that they should get them in. You should have seen the guys face as he got schooled; the memory still makes me smile. Eventually we finished buying syringes and needles and pricing out vaccines.
It was an early end to the day; we went out for supper somewhere, not quite sure where, and it was early to bed for the next day. It was a good day to introduce me to the rest of the week. Yes I didn't do much vet related stuff but that is alright. I got my fill the rest of the week!
Today was the day I first got to touch an animal and do vet things. And man did it feel good! The group of us went out to check goats to potentially buy at farm run by a fellow named Michael. You are able to tell those that are wealthy here in Uganda by the sheer size of the person's body. And let me tell you, Michael was a very successful farmer. We were to check 10 goats that we were pretty sure Michael was trying to sell for someone else. They were all very young goats, under one year of age. While testing goats, we test for brucella (so we draw blood from the jugular), we check their teeth, their pallor by checking the mucosa of their eyes as well as to see if they have extra teats (if it was a female) which may interfere with milking. I got to take blood from them (cool!) and got very good at checking their teeth. Once we were done checking them out we spray painted a number on them and took a picture of them. This is so we know, when we finish testing for brucella, which goats are which to prevent us from buying one with brucella. While there we also treated a goat for pinkeye.
We went out for a quick lunch before going out the demonstration farm in the village of Kaberebere (kah-bear-a-bear-a OR cab-el-leb-el-lay, the "r's" and "l's" are interchangeable, fun fact). I got to see the demonstration goat house (which was huge) and I finally got to see what napier grass looked like. Also there, there were papaya trees, an avocado tree, a jackfruit tree and a mango tree not to mention the usual matooke and/or banana trees (I still can't tell them apart). After that we went to go see a little boy named Brian. This was a boy who Steve and Laura had found in one of the villages they worked in the first month they were in Uganda; he was HIV positive, severely malnourished, ill and very weak, weighing probably about half of what a healthy boy his age (3 years old) would weigh (I am not 100% sure of all of the details concerning him). They brought him in to the hospital for treatment and periodically check in on him when they go to the village. He is a very cute, serious little boy who loved to play with our residence keys and Jerome's license and debit card.
After spending some time with him we travelled on to another village to check on a goat who had delivered a kid the night before, but was still pushing. The paravet had helped deliver the kid and had checked to see if there was another inside and could not find one. When we got there, the poor girl was in obvious distress. She didn't try to get up when we approached her and was not paying very much attention to her new kid who kept trying to nurse while she was laying down. She was very dehydrated and kept straining. While Claire went to see if she still did have another kid in there, I brought the kid to another female goat so he could get some milk. But let me tell you, females who have their own kids do not like to share their milk with kids who are not theirs. I had to hold the goat between my legs and try to stop her push the poor kid away so he could feed. Claire did end up finding a twin and pulled the poor dead thing out. We gave the girl a shot of antibiotics and were on our way out, after I held a few more baby goats of course!
On our way back home we stopped at Joseph's place in Kaberebere to look in on his son. VWB definitely looks after its people and their families. Joseph's son had had a rash for several months now; Claire took a look at it and took pictures. It was a progressive rash that had grown to cover most of his body over the past months. Claire was pretty sure it was ringworm; it was just odd that no one else in the family had it. The poor boy was itching himself like crazy and many areas were rubbed raw on his skin. We decided to take him in to the hospital as soon as we (or I guess Steve, Jerome and Claire) had time. Then it was time for home! I had a lot of fun finally working with animals today. Don't get me wrong, I loved working in the clinic in Rugazi but here I felt like I was doing what I was meant to do, you know?
I be writing more about this week and try to post it soon!


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MIKE Bartrum. Who ever thought they'd live to see the day when someone said they missed having Mike Bartrum on the roster?
I have no problem with the job that Eagles Jon Dorenbos or Raiders Jon Condo is doing at LS. Both are excellent. I just wish they played a second position. In fact I wish most LS's did.
In case you missed it when I brought it up before; last year I watched the football equivalent to being curb-stomped by a senior citizen, in a Raiders/Chargers game where Condo went out early with an injury. LB Travis Goethel gamely tried to fill in, and was (being kind here) a freakishly nightmare-like failure. Unless you watched that game, this next statement will sound weak: Losing our LS cost us that game. If you did see the game, (even if you hate the Raiders and love the Chargers) you have to concede that that is what happened.
I am scared for life by that game. And apparently so are the Raiders, because we currently have THREE LS's on the roster. And not a blessed one of them plays another position. So even if we do carry a back-up he's dead weight eating up a roster spot.
Bartrum was a TE in addition to being a LS. He did the long-snapping, and he ran down to make tackles like LS should. However he also caught passes, blocked for the run, and even did some kicking for us if I'm not mistaken. (Though I could be confusing him with Chad Lewis on that.) The point is his roster spot held VALUE.
I'd love to see each of my teams carry a guy who can COMPETENTLY fill in, in case "of such an emergency", but could we please get a guy like Mike Bartrum again?
To be honest I don't see Jon Dorenbos as a player who can't be replaced. In fact if he can't be productive at another position and other guys on the team learn to be effective long snappers I could see him getting cut. Lots of players will be in camp early. Some of them could get a chance to compete for the long snapper spot.
I'd leave him be unless someone utterly fantastic came along. A good LS is like a good Holder, you never miss him until his replacement shows you just how good the original was. For example; Though Koy Detmer was a "meh" QB, I think David Akers was a better K when Koy was the H.
I am in agreement especially when it comes to a holder, but if they find someone on the roster competent enough to long snap then I think they move on. I mean I would rather they keep an extra TE rather than keep a long snapper.
That only makes sense.
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Hudson police log, Aug. 9 edition
Friday, July 26
8:59 a.m. Reed Rd. MVA with property damage.
11:06 a.m. Main St. MVA – leaving scene.
12:13 p.m. Drew Cir. Fraud.
12:24 p.m. Lincoln St. Burglary.
5:58 p.m. Washington St. Annoying phone calls.
6:53 p.m. Reed Rd. MVA with property.
7:56 p.m. Main St. Medical.
9:12 p.m. Fort Meadow Dr. Noise complaint.
Saturday, July 27
6:21 a.m. St. James Cir. Medical.
9:37 a.m. Brigham St. Suspicious activity.
12:21 p.m. Chestnut St. Burglary.
3:00 p.m. Huron Dr. Disturbance/general.
4:03 p.m. Felton St. Disturbance/general.
5:19 p.m. High St. Suspicious activity.
6:32 p.m. Washington St. Larceny.
6:50 p.m. Arrested, Steven A. Minardi-Ruby, 25, of 342 Lincoln St., Apt. 317, Marlborough, for shoplifting by concealing merchandise.
7:01 p.m. Rolling Ln. Burglary.
8:09 p.m. Arrested, Edward J. Figueira, 27, of 7 Fuyatt St., Hudson, on warrant.
9:23 p.m. Ontario Dr. Disturbance/general.
Sunday, July 28
12:20 a.m. Church St. Noise complaint.
5:54 p.m. Coolidge St. MVA with personal injury.
10:17 a.m. Central St. MVA with property damage.
1:04 p.m. Washington St. MVA with property damage.
1:56 p.m. Shay Rd. Disturbance/general.
2:36 p.m. Arrested, Dennis Griffin, 48, of 20 Shay Rd., Hudson, for intimidation of witness, domestic assault & battery.
2:46 p.m. Fort Meadow Dr. Disturbance/gathering.
3:17 p.m. Main St. Vandalism.
3:26 p.m. Fort Meadow Dr. Disturbance/domestic.
3:47 p.m. Central St. Vandalism.
7:22 p.m. Brigham St. Larceny.
8:16 p.m. Superior Dr. disturbance/domestic.
9:48 p.m. Main St. Disturbance/general.
Monday, July 29
4:04 a.m. Parmenter Rd. Medical.
8:30 a.m. Fort Meadow Dr. Vandalism.
10:02 a.m. Temi Rd. Fraud.
10:43 a.m. Washington St. MVA with personal injuries.
11:20 a.m. Washington St. Vandalism.
1:34 p.m. Main St. Burglary.
4:49 p.m. Brook St. Suspicious activity.
5:17 p.m. Main St. Larceny.
8:55 p.m. South St. Disturbance/domestic.
10:15 p.m. Felton St. Annoying phone calls.
Tuesday, July 30
9:48 a.m. Park St. Annoying phone calls.
10:02 a.m. Kane Industrial Dr. Medical.
10:32 a.m. Cabot Rd. Annoying phone calls.
3:27 p.m. Main St. Vandalism.
4:14 p.m. Ontario Dr. Disturbance/domestic.
8:55 p.m. Arrested, Emily A. Metivier, 17, of 10 Ontario Dr., Hudson, for domestic assault & battery.
10:21 p.m. Cottage St. Medical.
11:48 p.m. Cayuga Dr. Noise complaint.
Wednesday, July 31
6:37 a.m. Main St. Medical.
8:23 a.m. park St. Vandalism.
8:37 a.m. Washington St. MVA with personal injury.
12:39 p.m. St. James Cir. Medical.
1:39 p.m. Tower St. Annoying phone calls.
9:07 p.m. Broad St. Burglary.
9:25 p.m. Washington St. Suspicious activity.
10:18 p.m. Cheery St. Disturbance/gathering.
11:41 p.m. Lakeshore Dr. Suspicious activity.
Thursday, Aug. 1
7:28 a.m. Robert Rd. Vandalism.
7:44 a.m. Main St. Burglary.
9:15 a.m. Manning St. Burglary.
10:55 a.m. Forest Ave. Vandalism.
11:11 a.m. High St. Vandalism.
11:38 a.m. Washington St. MVA with personal injury.
12:32 p.m. Manning St. Burglary.
3:20 p.m. Temple Ave. Annoying phone calls.
5:40 p.m. Brigham St. MVA with property damage.
7:07 p.m. Arrested, Donnell D. Edwards, 43, of 4 Meeting House Ln., Southborough, for trespass, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct.
Friday, Aug. 2
3:08 a.m. Falls Brook Rd. Medical.
4:58 a.m. Arrested, Antonio F. Melo, 31, of 307 Central St., Apt. 1112, Hudson, for domestic assault & battery.
6:28 a.m. Arrested, Dietrich Bradshaw, 40, of 23 Pope St., Apt. 2E, Hudson, for assault with dangerous weapon, domestic assault & battery.
The information from the police log is obtained directly from the official records maintained at each police station in our circulation area. It contains arrests and samplings of police activity. Those arrested are innocent until proven guilty. The Community Advocate will publish news of acquittals upon notification and a copy of court-issued documentation.
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30th March 2007
Hollywood actor considers White House run
3:28 PM — The veteran actor Fred Thompson, best known for his work on TV show Law and Order, is considering running for the Republican nomination for President of the United States.Thompson, 65, is a former Senator from Tennessee and starred opposite Harrison Ford in The Hunt for Red October. He has combined entertainment work with law and politics throughout his adult life.
Radical AIDS activists take to the streets of New York
3:05 PM — 27 people were arrested yesterday during a protest demanding health care for all in the United States.The event commemorated the 20th anniversary of ACT UP's AIDS activism and direct action.The activists were demanding also demanding single-payer national health insurance and drug price controls.
Radio host's trans hate provokes fury 1
12:25 PM — Less than a week after her murder, Ruby Ordenana, a Latina transgender woman, was called a "psychopath" and a "freak" by a nationally syndicated radio host in the United States.Michael Savage. went on to link the victim and transgender people generally with the Columbine massacre, saying "kids shoot each other there with black raincoats."Columbine in Colorado was the scene of a 1999 school shooting in which 13 people were killed.
Charging for HIV treatment is danger to public health say MPs
11:57 AM — A committee of MPs and peers has called on the government to stop the NHS charging migrants for HIV and maternity treatment.The report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights has been welcomed by HIV charities.In a wide-ranging examination into the treatment of asylum seekers, the committee examined the decision in 2004 to introduce charges for NHS care for failed asylum seekers.
Oxford to hold 5th Pride event in July
11:57 AM — Following last year's successful day, Saturday 14th July 2007 will see Oxford's LGBT community celebrate Pride.This years event also coincides with the Oxfordshire Milliennium, so Pride will be fitted neatly into a summer of spectacular celebrations.Lord Waheed Alli and Peter Tatchell remain patrons of Oxford Pride.
Weekend conference to tackle homophobic crime
11:41 AM — Stonewall Cymru will be calling for greater partnership work between the policeand the lesbian, gay and bisexual community at their annual conference on tomorrow.The gay equality organisation will be highlighting the need to reassure the LGB community that homophobic hate crime is being tackled as a priority.
Nigeria anti-gay law stalls 1
11:13 AM — The impending elections in the African state of Nigeria could mean that a draconian law banning gay lifestyles may not become law.The federal polls are due to be held on 21st Arpil. Nigerians will vote for a new President and elect both houses of the National Assembly.The Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill was debated on the 22nd March but as the Assembly is now out of session, it is hoped the bill will die.
Church must be safe haven for gays says Williams 3
11:13 AM — The Archbishop of Canterbury has said that the Anglican church must listen to gay and lesbian people and provide a safe place for them.He was responding to an internal church report into the progress of dialogue within the Anglican communion.At a conference in Lambeth in 1998 the church promised to listen to the experience of gay and lesbian people.
Gay cruise falls foul of Australian police crackdown 1
10:49 AM — Police in Sydney targeted the gay community for the second time in a month yesterday, with a drugs bust marring the start of an all-gay cruise holiday.2007 is an election year in Australia, and the Sydney force have been involved in a number of highly visible and publicised operations showing they are tough on drugs.
Save NHS money through legal prostitution says BMA 1
10:35 AM — Legalising prostitution would save the NHS £330 million every year, and halve the spread of sexual diseases according to one medical expert.The chair of the BMA public health committee, told the BMA's annual conference on public health and medicine that around 70% of all STIs occurred among prostitutes and their clients.
Gay support from wife of Moscow homophobe
10:24 AM — The wife of Moscow Mayor's spokesman Sergei Tsoi has surprised gay activists in Russia by saying she might attend the Pride event her husband's boss has banned.Pop-singer Anita Tsoi told a newspaper that she enjoys playing gigs in gay clubs, and defended gay people against the Mayor's accusation that they are "satanic."At the beginning of this month the mayors of London, Paris, Berlin and Moscow held their annual meeting.
29th March 2007
Survey shows increased support for gay sportspeople
4:09 PM — Gay athletes have been a big topic of conversation for the past few months.Most of the debate and talk was sparked by the recent announcement by John Amaechi the first former NBA basketball player to come out publicly as gay.There was much aftermath to the announcement including some perceived homophobic behaviour.
Guernsey's second shot at an equal age of consent 2
3:07 PM — The Channel Island of Guernsey plans to follow Jersey later in the year by reducing their gay age of consent from 18 to 16.In 1999, the island lowered the age from 21 to 18.Politicians in Guernsey approved an equalisation amendment as part of a "requete," the equivalent of a Private Member's Bill, from Conseiller Carol Steere, which would have seen an equal age of consent of 16.
Married woman in court over civil partnership
2:01 PM — A married woman has appeared in court on charges of making a false statement to a registrar, after she allegedly illegally entered into a civil partnership.Suzanne Mitchell appeared before Shrewsbury magistrates today and was bailed to appear before the crown court at a later date.The 29-year-old lives in Wingfield Gardens in the town.
Gay Governor's wife tells her side of the story 1
12:34 PM — The wife of former governor Jim McGreevey is to talk about her ex-husband's gay life on the The Oprah Winfrey Show.He became the first openly gay state governor in American history following his dramatic public confession of an affair with his former homeland security advisor, Golan Cipel.He left office two months later, in November 2004
Belgium at centre of "gay" Turkish hero row 3
11:46 AM — The education minister of Belgium's French-speaking community is trying to quell a row over a school textbook that identifies the founder of the modern Turkish state as gay.Marie Arena is seeking a meeting with Turkey's ambassador to Belgium, and her spokesman has said that Ataturk's inclusion on a list of famous gay and bisexual people from history was a "mistake."The Walloon region of the country is autonomous in matters of education.
Homophobia allegations at employment tribunal
11:22 AM — An employment tribunal heard allegations yesterday that the brother of former MP Edwina Currie used anti-gay language in the workplace.Former policeman Mike Jackson is taking the Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO) to the tribunal.Giving evidence, Mr Jackson, 57, said that while working as a manager at PITO in London he was exposed to sexist, racist and homophobic behaviour on a regular basis.
18-year-old revealed trans experience in TV documentary 9
11:01 AM — One of the UK's youngest transsexuals has appeared in a documentary to explain to a wider audience the reality of her experiences.Lucy Parker featured in the BBC3 programme Lucy: Britain's Youngest Teen Transsexual last Sunday. The documentary was part of the channel's Body Image series.Lucy spoke frankly about her unhappiness and depression as Richard Parker, her birth identity.
Cardinal questions loyalty of Catholic church to Britain 8
10:30 AM — The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has claimed that religion is under attack in this country.In his strongest condemnation yet of legislation designed to protect gay, lesbian and bisexual people from discrimination, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor last night became the first Catholic leader in nearly 200 years to question whether the policy of the government is at odds with practising the Roman faith.
28th March 2007
Bishops warn MPs about civil rights for gay Italians
6:18 PM — The Italian bishop's conference has today released a statement saying that the government attempt to legally recognise civil unions is unacceptable.The bishops called the idea that Catholic politicians might vote in favour of the proposals "incomprehensible."Italy has been gripped by the conflict between traditionalists and progressives.


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April Fools' Day pranks that came true
April fools' Day is celebrated all over the world on 1 April, when people mark the occassion with pratical jokes and general silliness. These kind of pranks are particularly popular in the the tech world with Pocket-lint even pulling a few of its own jolly japes in years gone by. The irony is that some of these have actually ended up coming true. Read on for our round-up of the best.
Tauntaun sleeping bag
Star Wars fans (the Pocket-lint team included) couldn't believe their eyes when ThinkGeek introuduced a cuddly sleeping bag in the shape of a Tauntaun - the furry snowbeast that Han Solo uses to save Luke Skywalker from a frosty death in The Empire Strikes Back. Complete with printed internal intestines and a plush lightsaber zipper pull, the portable bedding looked like a dream come true for Star Wars aficionados so we weren't the only ones that were gutted when we found out that it was actually just an April Fool.
However, the product proved so popular, with thousands of fans trying to order it, that the team at ThinkGeek actually managed to get clearance from the notoriously litigious Lucasfilm to put the sleeping bag into production for real. Yours for $99.99.
TXT'N'WALK app
This one is from the Pocket-lint archives - a mobile phone app that promises to let you see where you're going while you're looking at your phone, while texting or sending an email. Eagle-eyed readers will have spotted that the app developer Looflirpa is April Fool spelled backwards.
Since that jape in 2009, numerous genunine apps have surfaced that do actually let you use your phone's rear camera to let you see where you're going, while overlaying your text or email screen so that you can see both things at once. Text Vision will set you back just 59p from iTunes.
iCADE iPad Arcade Cabinet
Another one from the funsters over at ThinkGeek, the iCADE was announced on 1 April 2010 and comes in the shape of a retro-styled tabletop arcade cabinet that connects to your iPad using Bluetooth. Needless to say, this was another completely made-up product.
But once again, the product proved so popular that ThinkGeek partnered with ION and Atari to make the gadget a reality. Classic games, such as Asteroids, will available with iCADE support built-in and an API will soon be available to third-party games developers. The iCADE will be available in June 2011 for $99.99.
Virgle/Expedia flights to Mars
In 2009, Google issued a press release outlining Virgle - a joint venture with Virgin, dedicated to the establishment of a human settlement on Mars, with the first manned flight pencilled in for 2016. Needless to say it was merely a jape. In 2009, Expedia offered flights to Mars for just £99, having dropped its interplanetary booking fee, slashing the price by nearly £3 Trillion. Not a bad deal except, of course, for the fact that it was all total nonsense.
Admittedly, this hasn't exactly come true, but you can now book a place on a flight to space, courtesy of Virgin Galactic. No launch date has been confirmed, but the first flight is estimated to take place in 2012. Tickets cost $200,000 with deposits starting at $20,000, so the first flights will be full of rich folk including a healthy smattering of celebrities. We don't wish to sound negative, but it's got 'disaster movie' written all over it.
Mobile phone add-on for iPod
Another one from the Pocket-lint vaults, this time we duped many of our readers into believing that Apple was to introduce a mobile phone add-on for the iPod, and was set to become a big player in the mobile phone market.
This was way back in 2004, and was a total fabrication, created by our esteemed editor. However - fast forward a few years to 2007 and Apple announced its very first iPhone (pictured above). And the rest, as they say, is history.
New York Times iPad app
The pranksters at TechCruch seemed to have missed the memo about April Fools' jokes being funny when they wrote a completely feasible story about the New York Times introducing an iPad app, when it had done no such thing. The joke was that TechCrunch used an old NY Times article from 1996 announcing its website, changing the words 'website' to 'iPad app'. Hilarious, no? The NY Times failed to see the joke and asked them to remove the post.
The following day, the NY Times announced the launch of a genuine free iPad app, making the initial gag seem even less amusing and more like a savvy piece of SEO.
Do you know of any other tech pranks that came true? Let us know in the comments box below.
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An early biographer of Thomas Gray, John Mitford, maintained that "there is surely some pleasure in contemplating the progress of a virtuous and enlightened mind, early withdrawn from public life to the stillness of the academic cloister; and confining its pleasures and prospects within the serenity of a studious retirement." While Gray's poetry, like his life, was serene and studious, it was so enlivened by wit and a wonderful ear as to reach readers well beyond "the academic cloister". It seems likely that almost every reader has heard of "Gray's Elegy", and that even those who do not read know such phrases from it as "The paths of glory lead but to the grave", or other phrases of Gray's such as "where i…
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How Afghan climbers reached their highest peak
KABUL, Afghanistan At 2:30 p.m. on July 19, 2009, the first Afghans to climb their country's highest mountain unfurled a national flag on the icy peak in the blue above the clouds.
The celebration was fleeting. Minutes later, they headed down with a French companion, buffeted by violent gusts of wind and worried that exhaustion and a lack of oxygen would imperil their descent.
They aimed to deliver a message one doesn't hear much, that Afghans can succeed. To say, according to a new film about the adventure, that there is more to Afghanistan than the Taliban, opium and burqas, the head-to-toe garments worn by some Muslim women.
Yet the upbeat tale masks a back story of reversals and obstacles that parallels the challenges of operating in a nation eroded by conflict. The saga is about rivalry, persistence, and tension that can flare among Afghan officials and foreign benefactors and promoters with clashing agendas. On a tiny scale, the story echoes other moviemaking ordeals. The filming of "Apocalypse Now," a 1979 award-winner set in the Vietnam War, was so fraught with drama that a documentary was made about its production.
On Sept. 22, at Kabul's French Institute, a boxy, 1970s-era structure, more than 100 Afghans and foreigners attended the first public screening of "24,000 Feet Above The War," a 52-minute documentary that profiles four Afghans who sought to scale Mount Noshaq, a 7,492-meter-high (24,580-foot-high) peak - Afghanistan's highest - in the Hindu Kush mountain range in the northeast.
Noshaq, close to the Himalayas, presides over a sliver of land, the Wakhan Corridor, that borders China, Pakistan and Tajikistan. Its isolation has largely spared it the violence that has gripped much of the rest of Afghanistan. An annual trickle of international tourists, many of them veteran climbers, is returning after a generation's absence.
The September film screening, meant to be a celebration of hope, came two days after a suicide bomber killed former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, head of a government-backed peace council trying to reconcile with the insurgency.
The crowd applauded the wiry, weathered Afghan climbers who ascended the auditorium stage after the lights came up. Some had worked as guides and porters for foreign expeditions up Noshaq, going as far as base camps but never to the top.
In the 2009 bid, helped by French climbers, Malang Daria and Amruddin Sanjar reached the summit. Another climber, Afiat Khan, turned back because of altitude sickness, and the fourth, Gurg Ali, accompanied him for his safety.
At the screening, Daria wore a blazer over his traditional garb, a shalwar kameez. He embraced his role as an ambassador for Afghan pride, describing what he felt at the peak in this way:
"I saw all of the Afghan people at the top of Noshaq."
It was the message that Louis Meunier, a 32-year-old trekker from Paris who crossed Afghanistan on horseback in 2005, had hoped to generate during the several years he spent preparing the three-week expedition and then producing the documentary from 50 hours of footage. The total cost was 90,000 euros ($122,000). Meunier didn't make it to the summit because of acute bronchitis.


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Kham (Tibetan: ཁམས; Wylie transliteration: Khams; Simplified Chinese: 康巴; Pinyin: Kāngbā), also referred to as the Kingdom of Kham, is one of the three traditional provinces claimed by the Tibetan government-in-exile and the International Tibetan Independence Movement. During the Republic of China's rule over mainland China (1911-1949), most of the region was called Xikang Province (西康省 Xīkāng Shěng). It held the status of "special administrative district" until 1939, when it became an official Chinese province. Its provincial status was nominal and without much cohesion, like most of China's territory during the Japanese invasion and civil war.
Linguists and anthropologists refer to Kham as the 'Ethnic Corridor of Southwest China', as its vast and sparsely populated territories are inhabited by over 14 culturally and linguistically distinct ethnic groups. For reasons of simplicity, the Chinese government combines the various ethnic groups of Kham together with the Tibetans to form one big nationality, called the "Tibetan Nationality". There are, however, significant differences in traditions and beliefs--even physical appearance--between the peoples of Kham and Lhasa. At least one-third of Kham residents are speakers of Qiangic languages, a family of twelve distinct but interrelated languages that are unrelated to the Tibetan language. Many Khampas are members of the Bön religion or 'Black sect' of Tibetan Buddhism, a group that had been largely marginalized and stigmatized by other Tibetan sects.
Kham comprised a total of 50 contemporary counties, which have been incorporated into the Chinese provinces of Sichuan (16 counties), Yunnan (3 counties), and Qinghai (6 counties) as well as the eastern portion of the Tibet Autonomous Region (25 counties).
Kham has a rugged terrain characterized by mountain ridges and gorges running from northwest to southeast. Numerous rivers, including the Mekong, Yangtze, Yalong Jiang, and the Salween flow through Kham.
Kham itself was never controlled by a single king, but was generally a patchwork of two dozen or more kingdoms, tribes, and chiefdoms that were constantly at war with each other. Since the collapse of the Tibetan Empire in the mid-9th century, the peoples of Kham had aggressively maintained their independence from Lhasa. Local chieftains ruled their respective territories with hereditary titles bestowed by Chinese emperors. Chinese control was minimal, however, and chieftains were able to rule with a large degree of independence from both China and Tibet.
In 1717, Dzungar tribes of Mongolia invaded Tibet, and a period of internal strife and civil war followed. The Kangxi emperor sent armies into the area for a period of 20 years, and local leaders were forced to pledge their allegiance to the Qing Empire. In 1724, the regions of Amdo and Kham were made into the province of Kokonor, with parts of Eastern Kham incorporated into neighboring Chinese provinces.
Tibetan control of the Batang region of Kham appears to have continued uncontested from the time of an agreement made in 1726 until soon after the invasion of Tibet under Francis Younghusband in 1904, which alarmed the Qing rulers in China. They sent an imperial official to the region to begin reasserting Qing control, but the locals revolted and killed him. The Qing government in Beijing then appointed Zhao Erfang, the Governor of Xining, "Army Commander of Tibet" to reintegrate Tibet into China. He was sent in 1905 (though other sources say this occurred in 1908) on a punitive expedition and began destroying many monasteries in Kham and Amdo and implementing a process of sinification of the region:
In 1910, the Qing government sent a military expedition of its own to establish direct Chinese rule and deposed the Dalai Lama in an imperial edict. The Dalai Lama once again fled, this time to India. "By going in and then coming out again, we knocked the Tibetans down and left them for the first comer to kick," wrote Charles Alfred Bell, a British diplomatic officer stationed in Sikkim and a critic of the Liberal government's policy. The situation was soon to change, however, as, after the fall of the Qing dynasty in October 1911, Zhao's soldiers mutinied and beheaded him.
The 13th Dalai Lama fled to British India in February 1910. The same month, the Chinese Qing government issued a proclamation deposing the Dalai Lama and instigating the search for a new incarnation. While in India, the Dalai Lama became a close friend of the British Political Officer Charles Alfred Bell.
The official position of the British Government was it would not intervene between China and Tibet and would only recognize the de facto government of China within Tibet at this time. Bell, in his history of Tibet, wrote of this time that "the Tibetans were abandoned to Chinese aggression, an aggression for which the British Military Expedition to Lhasa and subsequent retreat [and consequent power vacuum within Tibet) were primarily responsible". Later, Britain defined the Indo-Tibetan border at the 1914 Simla conference with the McMahon Line. China's delegation initialled the convention but the government repudiated it.
In 1932, an agreement signed between Chinese warlord Liu Wenhui and Tibetan forces formalized the partition of Kham into two regions: Eastern Kham, which was administered by Chinese forces, and Western Kham, which was administered by Tibet. Eastern Kham subsequently became the actual area of control of China's Xikang province. The border between eastern and western Kham is the Yangtze River - Dri Chu in Tibetan and Jinsha Jiang, or Chang Jiang respectively, in Chinese.
In 1950, following the defeat of the Kuomintang rulers of China by communist forces in the Chinese Civil War, the People's Liberation Army entered western Kham. Western Kham was then set up as a separate Qamdo Territory (昌都地区), then merged into Tibet Autonomous Region in 1965. Meanwhile, Xikang province, comprising eastern Kham, was merged into Sichuan province in 1955. The border between Sichuan and Tibet Autonomous Region has remained the Yangtze River. The northernmost region of Kham, Yushu, has been a part of Qinghai province since the 18th century.


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The Kenyan Ministry of Information and Communication has given citizens until Friday (January 4th) to register their mobile phone SIM cards, Kenya's The Standard reported.
"We have until Friday and everyone should understand that the implication of not registering would actually cost them 300,000 shillings ($3,500) or three years in jail," said Permanent Secretary Bitange Ndemo. "The regulations are already with the attorney general's office and the gazette notice is coming out on Friday."
The deadline for registration was originally on Monday, with the government threatening to shut off unregistered numbers, but none has been switched off.
Ndemo said the registration crackdown is essential for ensuring a smooth election season, enabling police to trace messages inciting violence and arrest the responsible individuals, Kenya's Capital FM reported.
There are 30.8 million active SIM cards in Kenya, 80.4% of which are registered, according to the Communications Commission of Kenya.


text: DSpace Collection: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/3191 2015-07-06T18:13:08Z From extruded-2D to fully-3D geometries for DNS: a multigrid-based extension of the Poisson solver http://hdl.handle.net/2117/21618 Title: From extruded-2D to fully-3D geometries for DNS: a multigrid-based extension of the Poisson solver Authors: Gorobets, Andrei; Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier; Soria Guerrero, Manel; Pérez Segarra, Carlos David; Oliva Llena, Asensio Abstract: Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of incompressible flows is an essential tool for improving the understanding of the physics of turbulence and for the development of better turbulence models. The Poisson equation, the main bottleneck from a parallel point of view, usually also limits its applicability for complex geometries. In this context, efficient and scalable Poisson solvers on fully-3D geometries are of high interest.In our previous work, a scalable algorithm for Poisson equation was proposed. It performed well on both small clusters with poor network performance and supercomputers using efficiently up to a thousand of CPUs. This algorithm named Krylov-Schur-Fourier Decomposition (KSFD) can be used for problems in parallelepipedic 3D domains with structured meshes and obstacles can be placed inside the flow. However, since a FFT decomposition is applied in one direction, mesh is restricted to be uniform and obstacles to be 2D shapes extruded along this direction.The present work is devoted to extend the previous KSFD algorithm to eliminate these limitations. The extension is based on a two-level Multigrid (MG) method that uses KSFD as a solver for second level. The algorithm is applied for a DNS of a turbulent flow in a channel with wall-mounted cube. Illustrative results at Re τ = 590 (based on the cube height and the bulk velocity Re h = 7235) are shown. 2014-02-17T15:33:45Z DNS of turbulent natural convection flows on the MareNostrum supercomputer http://hdl.handle.net/2117/21617 Title: DNS of turbulent natural convection flows on the MareNostrum supercomputer Authors: Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier; Gorobets, Andrei; Soria Guerrero, Manel; Oliva Llena, Asensio Abstract: A code for the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of incompressible turbulent flows that provides a fairly good scalability for a wide range of computer architectures has been developed. The spatial discretization of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is carried out using a fourth-order symmetry-preserving discretization. Since the code is fully explicit, from a parallel point of view, the main bottleneck is the Poisson equation. In the previous version of the code, that was conceived for low cost PC clusters with poor network performance, a Direct Schur-Fourier Decomposition (DSFD) algorithm was used to solve the Poisson equation. Such method, that was very efficient for PC clusters, can not be efficiently used with an arbitrarily large number of processors, mainly due to the RAM requirements (that grows with the number of processors). To do so, a new version of the solver, named Krylov-Schur-Fourier Decomposition (KSFD), is presented here. Basically, it is based on the Direct Schur Decomposition (DSD) algorithm that is used as a preconditioner for a Krylov method (CG) after Fourier decomposition. Benchmark results illustrating the robustness and scalability of the method on the MareNostrum supercomputer are presented and discussed. Finally, illustrative DNS simulations of wall-bounded turbulent flows are also presented. 2014-02-17T15:22:24Z Low-frequency unsteadiness in the vortex formation region of a circular cylinder http://hdl.handle.net/2117/21548 Title: Low-frequency unsteadiness in the vortex formation region of a circular cylinder Authors: Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol; Rodríguez Pérez, Ivette María; Borrell Pol, Ricard; Oliva Llena, Asensio Abstract: The presence of low-frequency fluctuations in the wake of bluff bodies have been observed in several investigations. Even though the flow past a circular cylinder at Re = 3900 (Re = U ref D/ν) has been the object of several experimental and numerical investigations, there is a large scattering in the average statistics in the near wake. In the present work, the flow dynamics of the near wake region behind a circular cylinder has been investigated by means of direct numerical simulations and statistics have been computed for more than 858 shedding cycles. The analysis of instantaneous velocity signals of several probes located in the vortex formation region, point out the existence of a low-frequency fluctuation at the non-dimensional frequency of f m = 0.0064. This large-scale almost periodic motion seems to be related with the modulation of the recirculation bubble which causes its shrinking and enlargement over the time. Two different configurations have been identified: (i) a high-energy mode with larger fluctuations in the shear-layer and in the vortex formation region (Mode H) and (ii) a low-energy mode with weaker fluctuations in the shear layer (Mode L). The influence of such a low-frequency in the wake topology has been studied not only by means of the phase-average flow field for each mode, but also by the analysis of the time-average first- and second-order statistics of each wake mode. The results are compared with the long-term averaged solution and with results in the existing literature. Description: Electronic version of an article published as "Physics of fluids", vol. 25, no 8, 2013. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4818641. 2014-02-12T15:33:46Z Direct numerical simulation of a NACA0012 in full stall http://hdl.handle.net/2117/21438 Title: Direct numerical simulation of a NACA0012 in full stall Authors: Rodríguez Pérez, Ivette María; Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol; Borrell Pol, Ricard; Oliva Llena, Asensio Abstract: This work aims at investigating the mechanisms of separation and the transition to turbulence in the separated shear-layer of aerodynamic profiles, while at the same time to gain insight into coherent structures formed in the separated zone at low-to-moderate Reynolds numbers. To do this, direct numerical simulations of the flow past a NACA0012 airfoil at Reynolds numbers Re = 50,000 (based on the free-stream velocity and the airfoil chord) and angles of attack AOA = 9.25 and AOA = 12 have been carried out. At low-to-moderate Reynolds numbers, NACA0012 exhibits a combination of leading-edge/trailing-edge stall which causes the massive separation of the flow on the suction side of the airfoil. The initially laminar shear layer undergoes transition to turbulence and vortices formed are shed forming a von Kármán like vortex street in the airfoil wake. The main characteristics of this flow together with its main features, including power spectra of a set of selected monitoring probes at different positions on the suction side and in the wake of the airfoil are provided and discussed in detail. 2014-02-03T15:29:47Z Limits of the Oberbeck–Boussinesq approximation in a tall differentially heated cavity filled with water http://hdl.handle.net/2117/21437 Title: Limits of the Oberbeck–Boussinesq approximation in a tall differentially heated cavity filled with water Authors: Kizildag, Deniz; Rodríguez Pérez, Ivette María; Oliva Llena, Asensio; Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol Abstract: The present work assesses the limits of the Oberbeck–Boussinesq (OB) approximation for the resolution of turbulent fluid flow and heat transfer inside a tall differentially heated cavity of aspect ratio G = 6.67 filled with water (Pr = 3.27, Ra = 2.12e11). The cavity models the integrated solar collector-storage element installed on an advanced façade. The implications of the Oberbeck–Boussinesq approximation is submitted to investigation by means of direct numerical simulations (DNS) carried out for a wide range of temperature differences. Non-Oberbeck–Boussinesq (NOB) effects are found to be relevant, especially beyond the temperature difference of 30 °C, in the estimation of heat transfer, stratification, and flow configuration. 2014-02-03T14:56:31Z Heat transfer analysis and numerical simulation of a parabolic trough solar collector http://hdl.handle.net/2117/21435 Title: Heat transfer analysis and numerical simulation of a parabolic trough solar collector Authors: Amine Hachicha, Ahmed; Rodríguez Pérez, Ivette María; Capdevila Paramio, Roser; Oliva Llena, Asensio Abstract: Parabolic trough solar collector is the most proven industry-scale solar generation technology today available. The thermal performance of such devices is of major interest for optimising the solar field output and increase the efficiency of power plants. In this paper, a detailed numerical heat transfer model based on the finite volume method for these equipment is presented. In the model, the different elements of the receiver are discretised into several segments in both axial and azimuthal directions and energy balances are applied for each control volume. An optical model is also developed for calculating the non-uniform solar flux distribution around the receiver. This model is based on finite volume method and ray trace techniques and takes into account the finite size of the Sun. The solar heat flux is determined as a pre-processing task and coupled to the energy balance model as a boundary condition for the outer surface of the receiver. The set of algebraic equations are solved simultaneously using direct solvers. The model is thoroughly validated with results from the literature. First, the optical model is compared with known analytical solutions. After that, the performance of the overall model is tested against experimental measurements from Sandia National Laboratories and other un-irradiated receivers experiments. In all cases, results obtained shown a good agreement with experimental and analytical results. 2014-02-03T14:32:57Z Symmetry-preserving discretization of Navier-Stokes equations on collocated unstructured meshes http://hdl.handle.net/2117/21111 Title: Symmetry-preserving discretization of Navier-Stokes equations on collocated unstructured meshes Authors: Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier; Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol; Oliva Llena, Asensio; Pérez Segarra, Carlos David; Verstappen, R.W.C.P. Abstract: A fully-conservative discretization is presented in this paper. The same principles followed by Verstappen and Veldman (2003) [3] are generalized for unstructured meshes. Here, a collocated-mesh scheme is preferred over a staggered one due to its simpler form for such meshes. The basic idea behind this approach remains the same: mimicking the crucial symmetry properties of the underlying differential operators, i.e., the convective operator is approximated by a skew-symmetric matrix and the diffusive operator by a symmetric, positive-definite matrix. A novel approach to eliminate the checkerboard spurious modes without introducing any non-physical dissipation is proposed. To do so, a fully-conservative regularization of the convective term is used. The supraconvergence of the method is numerically showed and the treatment of boundary conditions is discussed. Finally, the new discretization method is successfully tested for a buoyancy-driven turbulent flow in a differentially heated cavity. 2013-12-31T10:28:23Z Improved semi-analytical method for air curtains prediction http://hdl.handle.net/2117/21065 Title: Improved semi-analytical method for air curtains prediction Authors: Giráldez García, Héctor; Pérez Segarra, Carlos David; Rodríguez Pérez, Ivette María; Oliva Llena, Asensio Abstract: The present study is devoted to the analysis and prediction of the efficiency of air curtains. The attention is focused on improving existing semi-analytical methods with the information from CFD simulations and experimental measurements. The goal is to obtain an accurate simplified model which describes the three-dimensional behaviour of the air jet without requiring large time consuming calculations. The interaction of the air curtain with other agents, e.g. pedestrians and flying insects, is also revised. The model is validated against both experimental data and advanced LES calculations carried out by the authors. Furthermore, a parametric study shows the air curtain behaviour for different configurations. 2013-12-19T15:33:29Z A simple approach to discretize the viscous term with spatially varying (eddy-)viscosity http://hdl.handle.net/2117/20836 Title: A simple approach to discretize the viscous term with spatially varying (eddy-)viscosity Authors: Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier; Gorobets, Andrei; Oliva Llena, Asensio Abstract: A simple approach to discretize the viscous dissipation term in the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations with spatially varying viscosity is presented. Unlike the case where the viscosity remains constant, its discretization may be quite cumbersome especially for high-order staggered formulations. To circumvent this problem, we propose an alternative form of the viscous term whose discretization is straightforward. Notice that this approach is also suitable for eddy-viscosity models for Large-Eddy Simulation. Moreover, since it is based on already available operators, it can be easily implemented on any structured or unstructured code. The (supra)convergence of the method is numerically shown on both a fourth-order Cartesian staggered and an unstructured collocated formulation. 2013-11-28T14:02:15Z Symmetry-preserving regularization of wall-bounded turbulent flows http://hdl.handle.net/2117/20783 Title: Symmetry-preserving regularization of wall-bounded turbulent flows Authors: Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier; Gorobets, Andrei; Verstappen, Roel; Oliva Llena, Asensio Abstract: The incompressible Navier-Stokes equations constitute an excellent mathematical modelization of turbulence. Unfortunately, attempts at performing direct simulations are limited to relatively low-Reynolds numbers because of the almost numberless small scales produced by the non-linear convective term. Alternatively, a dynamically less complex formulation is proposed here. Namely, regularizations of the Navier-Stokes equations that preserve the symmetry and conservation properties exactly. To do so, both convective and diffusive term are altered in the same vein. In this way, the convective production of small scales is effectively restrained whereas the modified diffusive term introduces an hyper-viscosity effect and consequently enhances the destruction of small scales. In practice, the only additional ingredient is a self-adjoint linear filter whose local filter length is determined from the requirement that vortex-stretching must stop at the smallest grid scale. To do so, a new criterion based on the invariants of the local strain tensor is proposed here. Altogether, the proposed method constitutes a parameter-free turbulence model. 2013-11-26T15:19:06Z Modular object-oriented methodology for the resolution of molten salt storage tanks for CSP plants http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19718 Title: Modular object-oriented methodology for the resolution of molten salt storage tanks for CSP plants Authors: Rodríguez Pérez, Ivette María; Pérez Segarra, Carlos David; Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol; Oliva Llena, Asensio Abstract: Two-tank molten salt storages are the most widespread thermal energy storage technology within concentrated solar power plants. In spite of this, there are design aspects such as thermal losses control, optimisation of the storage or how these devices scale up with the increase in power capacity of the plant which still should be considered. In this sense, numerical modelling of these systems can be a powerful tool for reducing their cost. The present work aims at modelling molten salt tanks by proposing a parallel modular object-oriented methodology which considers the different elements of the storage (e.g. tank walls, insulation material, tank foundation, molten salt storage media, etc.) as independent systems. Each of these elements can be solved independently and using different levels of modelling (from global to fully three-dimensional models), while at the same time they are linked to each other through their boundary conditions. The mathematical models used, together with some illustrative examples of the application of the proposed methodology, are presented and discussed in detail. 2013-06-28T14:10:19Z Numerical simulation of wind flow around a parabolic trough solar collector http://hdl.handle.net/2117/18780 Title: Numerical simulation of wind flow around a parabolic trough solar collector Authors: Amine Hachicha, Ahmed; Rodríguez Pérez, Ivette María; Castro González, Jesús; Oliva Llena, Asensio Abstract: The use of parabolic trough solar technology in solar power plants has been increased in recent years. Such devices are located in open terrain and can be the subject of strong winds. As a result, the stability of these devices to track accurately the sun and the convection heat transfer from the receiver tube could be affected. In this paper, a detailed numerical aerodynamic and heat transfer model based on Large Eddy Simulations (LES) modelling for these equipments is presented. First, the model is verified on a circular cylinder in a cross-flow. The drag forces and the heat transfer coefficients are then validated with available experimental measurements. After that, simulations are performed on an Eurotrough solar collector to study the fluid flow and heat transfer around the solar collector and its receiver. Computations are carried out for a Reynolds number of Re W = 3.6 x 10(5) (based on the aperture) and for various pitch angles (h=0,45,90, 135, 80, 270). The aerodynamic coefficients are calculated around the solar collector and validated with measurements performed in wind tunnel tests. Instantaneous velocity field is also studied and compared to aerodynamic coefficients for different pitch angles. The time-averaged flow is characterised by the formation of several recirculation regions around the solar collector and the receiver tube depending on the pitch angle. The study also presents a comparative study of the heat transfer coefficients around the heat collector element with the circular cylinder in a cross-flow and the effect of the pitch angle on the Nusselt number. 2013-04-12T13:17:16Z Parallel algorithms for Sn transport sweeps on unstructured meshes http://hdl.handle.net/2117/17446 Title: Parallel algorithms for Sn transport sweeps on unstructured meshes Authors: Colomer, Guillem; Borrell Pol, Ricard; Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier; Rodríguez Pérez, Ivette María Abstract: The Boltzmann Transport Equation is solved on unstructured meshes using the Discrete Ordinates Method. The flux for each ordinate is swept across the computational grid, within a source iteration loop that accounts for the coupling between the different ordinates. In this paper, a spatial domain decomposition strategy is used to divide the work among the available CPUs. The sequential nature of the sweep process makes the parallelization of the overall algorithm the most challenging aspect. Several parallel sweep algorithms, which represent different options of interleaving communications and calculations in the solution process, are analysed. The option of grouping messages by means of buffering is also considered. One of the heuristics proposed consistently stands out as the best option in all the situations analyzed, which include different geometries and different sizes of the ordinate set. With this algorithm, good scalability results have been achieved regarding both weak and strong speedup tests with up to 2560 CPUs. 2013-01-21T16:36:47Z Assessment of the symmetry-preserving regularization model on complex flows using unstructured grids http://hdl.handle.net/2117/15762 Title: Assessment of the symmetry-preserving regularization model on complex flows using unstructured grids Authors: Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol; Borrell Pol, Ricard; Rodríguez Pérez, Ivette María; Pérez Segarra, Carlos David; Oliva Llena, Asensio Abstract: The main objective of the present paper is the assessment of symmetry-preserving regularization models on unstructured meshes. Three different test cases have been studied: the impinging jet flow, the flow past a circular cylinder and a simplified Ahmed car. The properties of the filters and their performance on general unstructured meshes have also been considered. A detailed analysis considering the Gaussian and the Helmholtz differential filters is presented. 2012-04-25T13:27:10Z Object-oriented simulation of reciprocating compressors: Numerical verification and experimental comparison http://hdl.handle.net/2117/15021 Title: Object-oriented simulation of reciprocating compressors: Numerical verification and experimental comparison Authors: Mohan Damle, Rashmin; Rigola Serrano, Joaquim; Pérez Segarra, Carlos David; Castro González, Jesús; Oliva Llena, Asensio Abstract: Numerical simulation of reciprocating compressors is important for the design, development, improvement and optimization of the elements constituting the compressor circuit. In this work, an object-oriented unstructured modular numerical simulation of reciprocating compressors is presented. Pressure correction approach is applied for the resolution of tubes, chambers and compression chambers, while valve dynamics are modelled assuming a spring-mass system having single degree of freedom. The modular approach offers advantages of handling complex circuitry (e.g. parallel paths, multiple compressor chambers, etc.), coupling different simulation models for each element and adaptability to different configurations without changing the program. The code has been verified with some basic tests for assuring asymptotic behaviour to guarantee error free code and physically realistic results. Cases with different compressor configurations and working fluids (R134a, R600a and R744) have also been worked out. Numerical results are compared with experimental data and illustrative cases of multi-stage compression are also presented. 2012-02-08T13:39:07Z


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After reading Chris' article on form label alignment I'm reconsidering a design change on a project element I'm working on.
We are re-designing a report for one of our customers. This report is an application that get submitted… not unlike a mortgage application… long with a ton of data.
I've been playing with layout to coming up with a format that is clean and easy to read. I'd be interested in seeing what others have done when trying to lay out and organize a lot of information/data.
You could wrap each label and related text field in a div, that way they all line up like a list. then give the labels a set width, and that lines up all the text fields. Give some padding and margin here and there and things'll be lined up quite nice ready for some unique styling.
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The Toronto Blue Jays used the big hitters to tie it with homers — but all it took to win it was a single by one of their little guys.
Jose Bautista homered for the fifth straight game in the sixth inning, following a two-out solo homer by Melky Cabrera.
Edwin Encarnacion led off the seventh with a homer to tie the game 3-3 and, with two out in the seventh, Munenori Kawasaki came through with the two-out single to score pinch-runner Steve Tolleson with what proved to be the winning run.
Fond Farewell
Derek Jeter was given a uniquely Canadian gift by the Blue Jays.
The Yankees captain was given a three-night stay in the royal suite of the Fairmont Banff Springs hotel in Alberta in a ceremony before his final game in Toronto.
The vacation includes a helicopter tour of the Canadian Rockies, a private cooking lesson with the hotel's executive chef and a
private mixology lesson.
Blue Jays pitcher Mark Buehrle and right-fielder Jose Bautista presented Jeter with the package as well as $10,000 for his Turn2
Jeter is retiring after 19 years, all with the Yankees, and has been feted at the last game in every major-league city as the season
winds down.
The 4-3 victory gave the Blue Jays the final two games of the three-game series against the Yankees.
While little ball helped the Blue Jays score the decisive run, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons was happy to see the return of the long ball that has been missing for most of August.
"Definitely, they win," Gibbons said. "It's guaranteed runs. I think when you get into trouble though when you start swinging for them, you're trying to hit them. It's kind of what we do, though you've still got to get your other hits. But we've been missing that."
Derek Jeter, who is retiring at the end of the season and was playing his final game at Rogers Centre, hit a soft line drive to second to end the game with pinch-runner Ichiro Suzuki at third base. It gave Casey Janssen his 20th save of the season and left-hander J.A. Happ (9-8) the win.
Gardner 1 single short of cycle
Centre-fielder Brett Gardner homered, tripled and doubled to fall a single short of hitting for the cycle as he helped the Yankees build a 3-0 lead after five innings.
Bautista is one shy of the club record of six consecutive games with a homer set in 2001 by Jose Cruz, Jr.
"That's so hard to do what he's doing," Gibbons said. "He's in a nice little groove. I think he is waiting his at-bats out for a pitch to hit. He's using that left-centre field gap pretty good that shows you he's on the ball, he's not spinning off it, that's where he runs into trouble. He's a good hitter. It's tough to hit five in a row but he's a guy that can do that."
Happ allowed nine hits and three runs in seven innings and Yankees right-hander Brandon McCarthy (8-14) allowed five hits and four runs in six-plus innings. He is 5-4 after joining the Yankees in a trade with the Arizona Diamondbacks on July 6.
"They grind," Happ said. "I feel like every team, especially in this division, does that. A day like today, McCarthy was throwing really well and I'm just trying to stay in there and keep us in the ball game. We stayed on him and came back and that was huge."
Gardner led off the first with his 16th homer of the season. It was the sixth homer of his career leading off a game and five have been this season. Jeter singled but was erased when Martin Prado hit into a double play.
"It was nice to get out of there after the leadoff home run, try to find a groove," Happ said.
The Yankees increased their lead to 2-0 in the fourth on a single to left by Francisco Cervelli. It scored Prado who led off with a single and took third on a two-out hit by Chase Headley.
The Yankees took a 3-0 lead in the fifth when Gardner tripled to left centre with one out and was awarded home when the relay throw from shortstop Jose Reyes overshot third base. It was the 17th error of the season by Reyes.
Cabrera and Bautista hit back-to-back home runs with two out in the sixth to cut the lead to 3-2.
It was the 16th of the season for Cabrera and the 29th for Bautista.
Encarnacion led off the seventh with his 28th homer of the season. He is still trying to find his hitting form since being out with a quadriceps injury from July 6 to Aug. 15.
"If we're going to do anything we definitely need him," Gibbons said. "So hopefully that's a start of something. I thought, when he first came back, his swings were better and I thought his timing was pretty good for the long layoff. Then he hit a stretch where he was a little bit out of whack and his timing was off. He'll tell you the key to his success is keeping both hands on the bat and he has been out front, a lot of times releasing that top hand and everything."
Dioner Navarro walked and Tolleson ran for him. Right-hander Dellin Betances replaced McCarthy. Tolleson stole second and scored the go-ahead run on a two-out single by Kawasaki.
Left-hander Brett Cecil replaced Happ for the eighth and Janssen came out for the ninth.
Pinch-hitter Jacoby Ellsbury, who did not start because of a left ankle injury, hit a bloop double to right in the ninth with one out.
"My adrenalin was pumping," Ellsbury said. "I typically don't pinch hit. . . In that situation, you want to get on base and get into scoring position. Once I saw that ball go up in the air I knew it was going to take a high hop. There's only one thing I could do, go for two and hopefully get into scoring position."
Ichiro ran for him and took third on Gardner's groundout to first. That brought up Jeter and he hit a soft liner to second to end the game.
"When it came off the bat I thought for a minute it would be over his head at second," Gibbons said.
"I could see the little fairytale story being written," Janssen said. "But got that out of my head and knew I had to attack him."
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
happy halloween & google trends
Google search terms can give us some interesting insight into social phenomena like this: [angry birds costume] had been at the top spot and continues to steadily rise, but was recently usurped by [black swan costume]. Check out the Google blog post for the full story.
Happy Halloween!
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