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Tuesday, January 20, 2015 @ 12:01 PM gHale
One of the issues behind detecting malware is how can you discover the bad software if you don't even know it is bad software.
That issue can soon go away as a cyber security technology created at the Department of Energy's (DoE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), can recognize malicious software even if the specific program has not been identified as a threat.
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By computing and analyzing program behaviors associated with harmful intent, ORNL's Hyperion technology can look inside an executable program to determine the software's behavior without using its source code or running the program, said one of its inventors, Stacy Prowell of ORNL's Cyber Warfare Research team.
"These behaviors can be automatically checked for known malicious operations as well as domain-specific problems," Prowell said. "This technology helps detect vulnerabilities and can uncover malicious content before it has a chance to execute."
Hyperion, which has been under development for a decade, offers more comprehensive scanning capabilities than existing cyber security methods.
"This approach is better than signature detection, which only searches for patterns of bytes," Prowell said. "It's easy for somebody to hide that — they can break it up and scatter it about the program so it won't match any signature."
Washington, D.C.-based R&K Cyber Solutions LLC (R&K) licensed Hyperion and is looking to go to market with the program this month.
"Software behavior computation is an emerging science and technology that will have a profound effect on malware analysis and software assurance," said R&K Cyber Solutions Chief Executive Joseph Carter. "Computed behavior based on deep functional semantics is a much-needed cyber security approach that has not been previously available. Unlike current methods, behavior computation does not look at surface structure. Rather, it looks at deeper behavioral patterns."
Carter said technology's malware analysis capabilities can apply to multiple related cyber security problems, including software assurance in the absence of source code, hardware and software data exploitation and forensics, supply chain security analysis, anti-tamper analysis and potential first intrusion detection systems based on behavior semantics.
The licensed intellectual property includes two patent-pending technologies invented by Kirk Sayre of the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division and Richard Willems and former ORNL employee Stephen Lindberg of the Electrical and Electronics Systems Research Division. Others contributing to the technology were David Heise, Kelly Huffer, Logan Lamb, Mark Pleszkoch and Joel Reed of the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division.
Hyperion strengthens the cyber security of critical energy infrastructure by providing evidence of the secure functioning of energy delivery control system devices without requiring disclosure of the source code. This can advance resilient energy delivery systems designed, installed, operated and maintained to survive a cyber incident while sustaining critical functions.
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 @ 04:11 PM gHale
There are benefits for microgrids, small systems powered by renewables and energy storage devices, to break away from the main grid and working off its own island.
The benefit is microgrids can disconnect from larger utility grids and continue to provide power locally.
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"If the microgrid is always connected to the main grid, what's the point?" Department of Energy and Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher Yan Xu asked. "If something goes wrong with the main grid, like a dramatic drop in voltage, for example, you may want to disconnect."
The idea behind microgrids is to not only continue power to local units such as neighborhoods, hospitals or industrial parks, but also improve energy efficiency and reduce cost when connected to the main grid.
Researchers predict an energy future more like a marketplace in which utility customers with access to solar panels, battery packs, plug-in vehicles and other sources of distributed energy can compare energy prices, switch on the best deals and even sell back unused power to utility companies.
However, before interested consumers can plug into their own energy islands, researchers at facilities such as ORNL's Distributed Energy Control and Communication (DECC) lab need to develop tools for controlling a reliable, safe and efficient microgrid.
To simulate real scenarios where energy would end up used on a microgrid, DECC houses a functional microgrid with a generation capacity of 250 kilowatts (kW) that seamlessly switches on and off the main grid.
This grid includes an energy storage system that generates 25kW of power and uses 50kW hours of energy built from second-use electric vehicle batteries, a 50kW- and a 13.5 kW-solar system and two smart inverters that serve as the grid interfaces for the distributed energy emulators. Programmable load banks that mimic equipment consuming energy on the grid can provide sudden large load changes and second-by-second energy profiles.
"A microgrid should run an automated optimization frequently, about every five to 10 minutes," Xu said.
To optimize grid operations, microgrid generators, power flow controllers, switches and loads must end up outfitted with sensors and communication links that can provide real-time information to a central communications control.
"Microgrids are not widely deployed yet. Today, functional microgrids are in the R&D phase, and their communications are not standardized," Xu said. "We want to standardize microgrid communications and systems so they are compatible with the main grid and each other."
Now two years into the inception of ORNL's microgrid project — "Complete System-Level Efficient and Interoperable Solution for Microgrid Integrated Controls," or CSEISMIC — the microgrid test bed at DECC is functional and employs an algorithm developed at ORNL that directs automatic transition on and off ORNL's main grid.
Xu said the next year will focus on getting the energy management system (EMS) running. The EMS will drive optimization by allowing microgrid components to fluctuate an operation based on parameters such as demand and cost.
"The EMS may, for instance, tell the PVs [solar cells] how much power to generate for the next five to 10 minutes based on the time of day and energy demand," Xu said.
The CSEISMIC team has long-term goals of partnering with industries to conduct field demonstrations of standardized grid prototypes.
"As soon as microgrids are standardized and easy to integrate into the main grid," Xu said, "we'll start seeing them in areas with a high penetration of renewables and high energy prices."
Friday, April 25, 2014 @ 11:04 AM gHale
Treating cadmium-telluride (CdTe) solar cell materials with cadmium-chloride improves their efficiency, but how that happens remained a mystery – until now.
After an atomic-scale examination of the thin-film solar cells, the light bulb has turned on and this decades-long debate about the materials' photovoltaic efficiency increase after treatment appears solved.
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A research team from led by the Department of Energy's (DoE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the University of Toledo and DoE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory used electron microscopy and computational simulations to explore the physical origins of the unexplained treatment process.
Thin-film CdTe solar cells are a potential rival to silicon-based photovoltaic systems because of their theoretically low cost per power output and ease of fabrication. Their comparatively low historical efficiency in converting sunlight into energy, however, has limited the technology's widespread use.
Research in the 1980s showed that treating CdTe thin films with cadmium-chloride significantly raises the cell's efficiency, but scientists have been unable to determine the underlying causes. ORNL's Chen Li, first author of a study on the subject, said the answer lay in investigating the material at an atomic level.
"We knew that chlorine was responsible for this magical effect, but we needed to find out where it went in the material's structure," Li said. "Only by understanding the structure can we understand what's wrong in this solar cell — why the efficiency is not high enough, and how can we push it further."
By comparing the solar cells before and after chlorine treatment, the researchers realized atom-scale grain boundaries ended up implicated in the enhanced performance. Grain boundaries are tiny defects that normally act as roadblocks to efficiency, because they inhibit carrier collection which greatly reduces the solar cell power.
Using state of the art electron microscopy techniques to study the thin films' structure and chemical composition after treatment, the researchers found chlorine atoms replaced tellurium atoms within the grain boundaries. This atomic substitution creates local electric fields at the grain boundaries that boost the material's photovoltaic performance instead of damaging it.
The research team's finding, in addition to providing a long-awaited explanation, could help guide engineering of higher-efficiency CdTe solar cells. Controlling the grain boundary structure is a new direction that could help raise the cell efficiencies closer to the theoretical maximum of 32 percent light-to-energy conversion, Li said. Currently, the record CdTe cell efficiency is only 20.4 percent.
"We think that if all the grain boundaries in a thin film material could be aligned in same direction, it could improve cell efficiency even further," Li said.
Friday, April 25, 2014 @ 10:04 AM gHale
A fuel cell catalyst that converts hydrogen into electricity needs to rip open a hydrogen molecule.
By capturing a view of how the catalyst does this gives insight into how to make the catalyst work better for alternative energy uses.
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This study is the first time scientists have shown precisely where the hydrogen halves end up in the structure of a molecular catalyst that breaks down hydrogen. The design of this catalyst ended up inspired by the innards of a natural protein called a hydrogenase enzyme.
"The catalyst shows us what likely happens in the natural hydrogenase system," said Morris Bullock of the Department of Energy's (DoE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. "The catalyst is where the action is, but the natural enzyme has a huge protein surrounding the catalytic site. It would be hard to see what we have seen with our catalyst because of the complexity of the protein."
Hydrogen-powered fuel cells offer an alternative to burning fossil fuels, which generates greenhouse gases. Molecular hydrogen — two hydrogen atoms linked by an energy-rich chemical bond — feeds a fuel cell. Generating electricity through chemical reactions, the fuel cell spits out water and power.
If renewable power can store energy in molecular hydrogen, these fuel cells can be carbon-neutral. But fuel cells aren't cheap enough for everyday use.
To make fuel cells less expensive, researchers turned to natural hydrogenase enzymes for inspiration. These enzymes break hydrogen for energy in the same way a fuel cell would. But while conventional fuel cell catalysts require expensive platinum, natural enzymes use cheap iron or nickel at their core.
Researchers have been designing catalysts inspired by hydrogenase cores and testing them. In this work, an important step in breaking a hydrogen molecule so the bond's energy can end up captured as electricity is to break the bond unevenly. Instead of producing two equal hydrogen atoms, this catalyst must produce a positively charged proton and a negatively charged hydride.
The physical shape of a catalyst – along with electrochemical information — can reveal how it does that. So far, scientists found the overall structure of catalysts with cheap metals using X-ray crystallography, but for hydrogen atoms X-rays won't cut it. Based on chemistry and X-ray methods, researchers have a best guess for the position of hydrogen atoms, but imagination is no substitute for reality.
Bullock, Tianbiao "Leo" Liu and their colleagues at the Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis at PNNL, one of DoE's Energy Frontier Research Centers, collaborated with scientists at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee to find the lurking proton and hydride. Using a beam of neutrons like a flashlight allows researchers to pinpoint the nucleus of atoms that form the backbone architecture of their iron-based catalyst.
To use their iron-based catalyst in neutron crystallography, the team had to modify it chemically so it would react with the hydrogen molecule in just the right way. Neutron crystallography also requires larger crystals as starting material compared to X-ray crystallography.
"We were designing a molecule that represented an intermediate in the chemical reaction, and it required special experimental techniques," Liu said. "It took more than six months to find the right conditions to grow large single crystals suitable for neutron diffraction. And another six months to pinpoint the position of the split H2 molecule."
Crystallizing their catalyst of interest into a nugget almost 40 times the size needed for X-rays, the team succeeded in determining the structure of the iron-based catalyst.
The structure, they found, confirmed theories based on chemical analyses. For example, the barbell-shaped hydrogen molecule snuggles into the catalyst core. Once split, the negatively charged hydride attaches to the iron at the center of the catalyst; meanwhile, the positively charged proton attaches to a nitrogen atom across the catalytic core. The researchers expected this set-up, but no one had accurately characterized it in an actual structure before.
In this form, the hydride and proton form a type of bond uncommonly seen by scientists — a dihydrogen bond. The energy-rich chemical bond between two hydrogen atoms in a molecule is a covalent bond and is very strong. Another bond called a "hydrogen bond" is a weak one formed between a slightly positive hydrogen and another, slightly negative atom.
Hydrogen bonds stabilize the structure of molecules by tacking down chains as they fold over within a molecule or between two independent molecules.
The dihydrogen bond in the structure is much stronger than a single hydrogen bond. Measuring the distance between atoms reveals how tight the bond is. The team found the dihydrogen bond was much shorter than typical hydrogen bonds but longer than typical covalent bonds. In fact, the dihydrogen bond is the shortest of its type so far identified, the researchers report.
This unusually strong dihydrogen bond likely plays into how well the catalyst balances tearing the hydrogen molecule apart and putting it back together. This balance allows the catalyst to work efficiently.
"We're not too far from acceptable with its efficiency," said Bullock. "Now we just want to make it a little more efficient and faster."
Friday, February 21, 2014 @ 09:02 AM gHale
A new suite of computer codes that closely model the behavior of neutrons in a reactor core, called neutronics, could give a more accurate way to analyze nuclear power reactors.
Technical staff at Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC, supported by the research team at the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL), used the Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications core simulator (VERA-CS) to analyze its AP1000 advanced pressurized water reactor (PWR). The testing focused on modeling the startup conditions of the AP1000 plant design.
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"In our experience with VERA-CS, we have been impressed by its accuracy in reproducing past reactor startup measurements. These results give us confidence that VERA-CS can be used to anticipate the conditions that will occur during the AP1000 reactor startup operations," said Bob Oelrich, manager of PWR Core Methods at Westinghouse. "This new modeling capability will allow designers to obtain higher-fidelity power distribution predictions in a reactor core and ultimately further improve reactor performance."
The AP1000 reactor is an advanced reactor design with enhanced passive that builds on decades of Westinghouse's experience with PWR design. The first eight units are currently under construction in China and the United States, and represent the first Generation III+ reactor to receive Design Certification from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
CASL is a U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Innovation Hub established at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a part of DoE's National Laboratory System. The consortium core partners are a strategic alliance of leaders in nuclear science and engineering from government, industry and academia.
"At CASL, we set out to improve reactor performance with predictive, science-based, simulation technology that harnesses world-class computational power," said CASL Director Doug Kothe. "Our challenge is to advance research that will allow power uprates and increase fuel burn-up for U.S. nuclear plants. In order to do this, CASL is meeting the need for higher-fidelity, integrated tools."
During the first generation of nuclear energy, performance and safety margins ended up at conservative levels as industry and researchers gained experience with the operation and maintenance of what was then a new and complex technology. Over the past 50 years, nuclear scientists and engineers gained a deeper understanding of the reactor processes, further characterizing nuclear reactor fuel and structure materials.
By making use of newly available computing resources, CASL's research aims for a step increase in the improvements in reactor operations that have occurred over the last several decades.
"CASL has been using modern high-performance computing platforms such as ORNL's Titan, working in concert with the INL Fission computer system, for modeling and simulation at significantly increased levels of detail," said CASL Chief Computational Scientist John Turner. "However, we also recognized the need to deliver a product that is suitable for industry-sized computing platforms."
With that understanding, CASL designed the Test Stand project to try out tools such as VERA-CS in industrial applications. CASL partner Westinghouse ended up selected as the host for the first trial run of the new VERA nuclear reactor core simulator (VERA-CS). Westinghouse chose a real-world application for VERA-CS: The reactor physics-analysis of the AP1000 PWR, which features a core design with several advanced features. Using VERA-CS to study the AP1000 provides information to further improve the characterization of advanced cores compared to traditional modeling approaches.
Westinghouse's test run on VERA-CS focused on modeling one aspect of reactor physics called "neutronics," which describes the behavior of neutrons in a reactor core. While neutronics is only one of VERA's capabilities, the results provided by VERA-CS for the AP1000 PWR enhance Westinghouse's confidence in their startup predictions and expand the validation of VERA by incorporating the latest trends in PWR core design and operational features.
The CASL team now is working on extending the suite of simulation capabilities to the entire range of operating conditions for commercial reactors, including full-power operation with fuel depletion and fuel cycle reload.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 @ 04:11 PM gHale
By identifying fundamental forces that change plant structures during pretreatment processes used in the production of bioenergy, there may be more effective ways to convert woody plant matter into biofuels.
Pretreatment subjects plant material to extremely high temperature and pressure to break apart the protective gel of lignin and hemicellulose that surrounds sugary cellulose fibers.
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"While pretreatments are used to make biomass more convertible, no pretreatment is perfect or complete," said Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL) Brian Davison, who was a coauthor of a research study and paper on the subject.
"Whereas the pretreatment can improve biomass digestion, it can also make a portion of the biomass more difficult to convert," he said. "Our research provides insight into the mechanisms behind this 'two steps forward, one step back' process." Also, pretreatment is the most expensive stage of biofuel production.
The team's integration of experimental techniques including neutron scattering and X-ray analysis with supercomputer simulations revealed unexpected findings about what happens to water molecules trapped between cellulose fibers.
"As the biomass heats up, the bundle of fibers actually dehydrates — the water that's in between the fibers gets pushed out," said ORNL's Paul Langan. "This is very counterintuitive because you are boiling something in water but simultaneously dehydrating it. It's a really simple result, but it's something no one expected."
This process of dehydration causes the cellulose fibers to move closer together and become more crystalline, which makes them harder to break down.
In a second part of the study, the researchers analyzed the two polymers called lignin and hemicellulose that bond to form a tangled mesh around the cellulose bundles. According to the team's experimental observations and simulations, the two polymers separate into different phases when heated during pretreatment.
"Lignin is hydrophobic so it repels water, and hemicellulose is hydrophilic, meaning it likes water," Langan said. "Whenever you have a mixture of two polymers in water, one of which is hydrophilic and one hydrophobic, and you heat it up, they separate out into different phases."
Understanding the role of these underlying physical factors — dehydration and phase separation — could enable scientists to engineer improved plants and pretreatment processes and ultimately bring down the costs of biofuel production.
"Our insight is that we have to find a balance which avoids cellulose dehydration but allows phase separation," Langan said. "We know now what we have to achieve — we don't yet know how that could be done, but we've provided clear and specific information to help us get there."
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 @ 07:10 PM gHale
There could soon be new types of nuclear fuel pellets that would be safer in the event of a nuclear disaster.
New materials could end up encasing uranium-bearing fuel as an alternative to zirconium alloys, which have seen use as the outer layer of nuclear fuel pellets for the last 50 years, said a team of scientists from the University of Tennessee (UT) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), who will present their work at the AVS 60th International Symposium and Exhibition in Long Beach, CA.
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Using sophisticated computer analyses, the UT and ORNL team identified the positive impact of several possible materials that exhibit resistance to high-temperature oxidation and failure, on reactor core evolution, thereby buying more time to cope in the event of a nuclear accident.
"At this stage there are several very intriguing options that are being explored," said Steven J. Zinkle, the Governor's Chair in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. There is evidence that some of the new materials would reduce the oxidation by at least two orders of magnitude.
"That would be a game-changer," he said. The materials examined include advanced steels, coated molybdenum and nuclear-grade silicon carbide composites (SiC fibers embedded in a SiC matrix).
The next step, he added, involves building actual fuel pins from these laboratory-tested materials and exposing them to irradiation inside a fission reactor. Once they perform as desired, the new fuel concepts would likely end up tested in a limited capacity in commercial reactors to then enable larger deployment possibilities.
Though it would take years before any new fuel concepts end up used commercially, given the rigorous and conservative qualification steps required, Zinkle said, these new materials may eventually replace the existing zirconium alloy cladding if they prove to be safer.
The typical core of a nuclear power plant uses the heat generated by fission of uranium and plutonium in fuel rods to heat and pressurize water. Steam then generates to drive steam turbines for electricity production. Water continuously circulates as a coolant to harness the thermal energy from the fuel and to keep the core from overheating.
The cooling pumps are a critical part of the reactor design because even when a nuclear reactor shuts down, the power it generates from radioactive decay of fission products remains at 1 percent of its peak for hours after shutdown. Given that nuclear power plants generate a staggering sum of energy under their nominal operating conditions (~4 GW of thermal energy), even one percent power levels after shutdown prove substantial. That's why it's essential to have cool water circulating continuously even after the shutdown occurs. Otherwise you risk overheating and ultimately melting the core – like leaving a pot boiling on the burner.
That's basically what happened at Fukushima. On March 11, 2011, engineers at the plant managed to initially safely shut down the plant following a massive earthquake, but then a large tsunami knocked out the backup generators running the water pumps an hour later. What followed were explosions associated with hydrogen generated from the reduction of steam during high temperature oxidation of core materials, and releases of radioactive fission products. The accident displaced the local population and will take years and require a significant cost to clean-up.
Fukushima has had a profound impact on the safety culture of the industry, said Zinkle. Despite the fact that not a single U.S. nuclear power plant was unsafe or shut down in the wake of the accident, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued new requirements to enhance their safety, including increasing the requirements for backup power generation on site.
Monday, August 27, 2012 @ 05:08 PM gHale
Knowing the position of missing oxygen atoms could be the key to cheaper solid oxide fuel cells with longer lifetimes.
That means new microscopy research could enable scientists to map these vacancies at an atomic scale.
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Although fuel cells hold promise as an efficient energy conversion technology, they have yet to reach mainstream markets because of their high price tag and limited lifespans.
Overcoming these barriers requires a fundamental understanding of fuel cells, which produce electricity through a chemical reaction between oxygen and a fuel. As conducting oxygen ions move through the fuel cell, they travel through vacancies where oxygen atoms used to be. The distribution, arrangement and geometry of such oxygen vacancies in fuel cell materials should affect the efficiency of the overall device, researchers said.
"A big part of making a better fuel cell is to understand what the oxygen vacancies do inside the material: How fast they move, how they order, how they interact with interfaces and defects," said Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL) Albina Borisevich. "The question is how to study them. It's one thing to see an atom of one type on the background of atoms of a different type. But in this case, you want to see if there are a few atoms missing. Seeing a void is much more difficult."
ORNL scientists used scanning transmission electron microscopy to determine the distribution of oxygen vacancies in a fuel cell cathode material below the level of a single unit cell. The team verified its findings with theoretical calculations and neutron experiments at the lab's Spallation Neutron Source.
"Even though the vacancy doesn't generate any signal in the electron micrograph, it's still a big disturbance in the structure," Borisevich said. "You can see that the lattice expands where vacancies are present. So we tracked the lattice expansion around vacancies and compared it with theoretical models, and we were able to develop a calibration for this type of material."
By providing a means to study vacancies at an atomic scale, the ORNL technique will help inform the development of improved fuel cell technologies in a systematic and deliberate fashion, in contrast to trial and error approaches.
Beyond its relevance to applications in fuel cells and information storage and logic devices, ORNL coauthor Sergei Kalinin said the team's research is also building a bridge between two scientific communities that traditionally have had little in common.
"From my perspective, it is physics marrying electrochemistry," Kalinin said. "The idea is that vacancies are important for energy, and vacancies are important for physics. The materials that physicists like to study are exactly the same as the materials used for fuel cells, and unless we understand how vacancies behave at interfaces, ferroic domain walls, and in thin films, we will not be able to fully appreciate the physics of these systems."


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21 April 2011
New Donkey Kong Country for Wii2
Said to already be in development
20 April 2011
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Might be first to have Wii2 development kit
19 April 2011
Other outlets join in the Wii price drop
Still no official comment from Nintendo
18 April 2011
First Wii price cut comes
On sale at Best Buy for $170
15 April 2011
Nintendo to announce new console?
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11 March 2011
Gathering dust is all Wii is doing
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20 December 2010
Nintendo Wii is just for streaming
People playing games do it on an Xbox
03 December 2010
Nintendo to kill off Wii Speak
No update on future of Wii Speak Channel
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Wii disappearing
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In this course, author David Diskin lays out a practical framework for building and delivering business presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint, and covers tips and tricks for controlling elements in slide decks. This course demonstrates how to engage an audience, present data in meaningful ways, incorporate gestures, and manage question-and-answer sessions. The course also includes tips on creating photo slide shows and utilizing keyboard and mouse tricks.
Recall that our presentation already has some obvious divisions. Each department has their own title slide. For example, here's the introduction to the Human Resources Department. Now that our slides' formatting has been reset, they look a lot better and are more consistent. Just to remind you, we applied this layout using the Section header layout found here. But now let's go deeper with the New Section feature. Although this doesn't benefit the audience, it will make our lives a lot easier since we're working with four different departments.
I'm going to place my cursor here between slides 12 and 13. With the cursor blinking I'm going to pull- down the Section menu and choose Add Section. This will tell PowerPoint that slide 13 marks the beginning of a new section. The new section is added and you can see here it's called an Untitled Section. I can right-click and choose Rename and now I'll call it Sales. Let's repeat the process but this time we'll do it using the Slide Sorter View.
Here you can see that we have the new Sale section with a clear line delineating it from the rest of the presentation. I'll scroll up and place my cursor in front of Human Resources. I'll pull-down the Section menu and add a new section, right-click, and Rename. I'll do the same with Fulfillment-- right-click and Rename. And then Customer Service--right-click and Rename.
Let's go ahead and add just one more section for the end of our presentation. We'll scroll back up and see how this looks. If we want to rename the default section, we can. So why do we bother adding sections? Well, here's a few things that we can do now that we've established these section breaks. Besides renaming, we can also delete and move sections. For example, if I wanted to delete the entire Human Resources section, I can right-click on the section header and choose Remove Section and Slides. Let's hit Undo.
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For example, if I click here on the little triangle, the Human Resources section is collapsed. I can do the same with others, and now I can focus on just these two sections. Clicking the triangle again expands the section. There's one more benefit, but to show you that we need to run the slideshow. I'll press F5 to begin. While running the slideshow, I can right-click anywhere and a menu appears. We've always been able to go straight to a slide, but now I can go straight to a section.
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Home > Database > Thesaurus > Gender issues
Gender issues
Search for Gender issues in the CIRRIE database
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Prolific authors
The following are the authors with the most articles on Gender issues in the CIRRIE database in the past five years (2010-2015).
- Chen Y: 7 articles
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And then there were seven. Aaron Harrison was officially tabbed to the Charlotte Hornets summer league roster on Wednesday, becoming the seventh Wildcat from the 2014-15 Final Four squad to earn selection to an NBA squad.
Kentucky swimmer Christina Bechtel will make her USA Swimming National Team debut this week at the World University Games in Gwangju, South Korea. A five-time All-American and one of the most decorated swimmers in UK history, it marks the first international competition of Bechtel's career. Bechtel will compete in the 50 and 100-meter ...
University of Kentucky Athletics will induct seven members into the UK Athletics Hall of Fame in late September. The 2015 class includes Lisa Breiding Duerr (cross country/indoor and outdoor track), Andy Green (baseball), Jared Lorenzen (football), Nate Northington (football), Greg Page (football), Taryn Ignacio Patrick (swimming and...
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The road trip that just wrapped up began inauspiciously, as UK fell to Mississippi State in front of a record crowd. With only a few days to prepare for matches at Georgia and Auburn, head coach Craig Skinner was concerned about the confidence of his team, especially when the Cats lost their opening set against the Bulldogs.Read More [+]
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Weathers goes old-school, going 1 2/3 innings to pick up the save!
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Brandon Phillips is a lot of fun to watch. That remains a big one in WK's favor.
Weathers is going to be the only closer who pitches three innings every five games.
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Our founder Vyckie Garrison and NLQ got a nice mention in a Huffington Post Article written by Clay Farris Naff - Slouching Towards Bethelem: Putin, Religion and the Second Coming of Fascism The article nicely ties together some of the ongoing news stories involving world politics with religion, putting together the puzzle pieces in a way not many have considered. Very good read. … [Read more...]
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Quoting Quiverfull: Fred Phelps Sr. of Westboro Baptist Dead
According to the website Towleroad the former head of Westboro Baptist Church Fred Phelps Sr. has passed on Wednesday evening. Earlier in the week the media had been reporting that Mr. Phelps was was expected to die at any moment.Our sincerest condolences to his son Nathan Phelps, long-time NLQ friend. Losing a parent, even an estranged parent, is emotionally painful. Please be kind to yourself and remember the good memories of your father. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Super Bowl Commercials Satan's Plan?
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Quoting Quiverfull: Unrighteous Education?
by Colin Campbell of Meat For MenMen, sending our children to be educated by the unrighteous should cause us serious concern. Not only are (sic-missing word) subjected to the liberal agenda which is pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, anti-Christian values, and out-lawing prayer and the Bible, but many of their classmates are from homes that have broken morals and are drug infected. … [Read more...]
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Quoting Quiverfull: Bearing It?
by Colin Campbell from Meat For Men The Greek word for "bear" is "stego" meaning "to roof over, to cover with silence, endure patiently, forebear, suffer." There are some things in life that we find difficult to change, and in some cases, cannot change, at least without divine intervention. … [Read more...]
Why Would Any Woman Want to be an Evangelical Christian?
by Bruce Gerencser cross posted from his blog The Way ForwardWhy would any woman want to be a Christian? If the Bible is the Word of God, inspired by God, and every word is true, why would any modern, thinking woman ever darken the door of an Evangelical church?Over the past hundred years women have continued to gain rights and privileges kept from them by men, law, and social propriety. The right to vote. Equal pay for equal work. The right to use birth control. … [Read more...]
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SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP) -- Former University of Oregon quarterback Nate Costa has been sworn in as a Springfield, Ore., police officer, embarking on what he calls his "dream job." Near the end of his football career with the Ducks, Costa began job-shadowing Springfield detectives. He has completed a yearlong internship with the department and was sworn in Tuesday.
In August, he'll enroll in a 16-week training program at the Oregon Public Safety Academy in Salem. For now, he'll work with a field training officer on the streets of Springfield.
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Graduation Money Card Gift Idea
Hi everyone, Kiki from Kiki and Company back and I am so excited to be with you today to share a fun way to give some money (or a gift card) to your favorite graduate this month! I don't know many college students who don't LOVE pizza, so I thought I'd make a little punny card shaped as a pizza box: It's perfectly small, perfectly punny AND it has a place for you to put as much "dough" as you'd … [Read more...]
Rhubarb Raspberry Crisp
Hey friends! I am Kelsey from Poofy Cheeks back sharing another recipe. Today I am sharing a recipe for Rhubarb Raspberry Crisp. A lot of my recipes come from my childhood and this one is no exception. Growing up we had a huge garden on a piece of property my parents owned in the country. We would go out each Spring and plant the garden as a family. We grew rhubarb, raspberries, strawberries, … [Read more...]
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Hi all! So happy to be back for another post with Jen. In celebration of Cinco de Mayo…I made up some fresh garlic guacamole. I was never a huge fan of guacamole until I had this recipe. It is made with the freshest of veggies so that makes it a no guilt snack right?!?!! That is always a good thing. I usually double the batch because it goes pretty quickly. A little tip to keep it from browning in … [Read more...]
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Hi! It's Laurie from Gallamore West. I'm usually all about desserts, so today I'm excited to share a delicious main dish recipe with you. My Easy Bacon and Cheese Quiche comes together quickly, but looks fancy enough for a Mother's Day Brunch. I make this Easy Bacon and Cheese Quiche anytime even for dinner because it's quick, delicious, and fills four hungry little boy tummies over at … [Read more...]
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Hi Everyone! Kiki from Kiki and Company back to share another free printable for you this month. I don't know about you, but these months are FLYING by! Whew! May is right around the corner and so is celebrating the most lovely ladies in our lives, our mothers! Who doesn't LOVE Abraham Lincoln's famous mother quote: I made you a sweet print that you can give to the mothers in your life (or hang … [Read more...]
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Employees of the U.S. agency that oversees offshore oil and gas drilling are barred for the first time from regulating a company where a friend or relative works.
The Obama administration's decision yesterday to lift its ban on deep-water drilling ahead of schedule satisfied neither energy companies nor critics of offshore oil and natural-gas exploration.
Four weeks ago, oil company executives were celebrating an Obama administration decision to expand drilling off the U.S. East Coast. Now, after a rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, they face a grilling in Congress and tougher rules on how they do business. Representative Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, on Thursday told chief executives from five companies that they will be called to appear before his committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. The companies include BP Plc, which leased the rig to drill the well that is now leaking 5,000 barrels a day into the waters off the coast of Louisiana.
President Barack Obama 's six-month ban on new offshore drilling while a commission investigates BP Plc 's Gulf of Mexico oil spill may slow employment gains after U.S. companies added fewer jobs than forecast in May.
Offshore oil drillers should upgrade the disaster-response plans that lawmakers have described as "carbon copy," according to two industry task forces probing BP Plc 's Gulf of Mexico spill.
The U.S. will more than double the minimum bid on oil leases in the western Gulf of Mexico to take advantage of pent-up demand as the administration seeks to reduce the federal budget deficit.
President Barack Obama 's moratorium on deep-water drilling is costing no more than 8,000 to 12,000 jobs because offshore rig operators have retained skilled workers, according to an administration report.
The Obama administration's six-month shutdown of 33 rigs to overhaul offshore drilling regulations might end sooner than planned, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told a Senate committee today.
Noble Energy Inc. won the first U.S. deep-water drilling permit in the Gulf of Mexico since BP Plc 's oil spill 10 months ago, and regulators said they expect to approve more applications.


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I'm sure i will be fine once the shock wears off.. now to find a name...
utterly shocked
I'm sure i will be fine once the shock wears off.. now to find a name...
Dina married to Jon
Mom to ~i~ Nikki (2/13/04-2/14/04), Kiera (8/08), Bella (2/10) & expecting Seth 5/6!
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I feel ya. I really WANT another girl and I FEEL like this child is a girl too (I have one 4 y/o dd) but everyone else says/wants it to be a boy. I just cant see myself being a "boy mom." I mean, Im sure if it happens, I will be just as thrilled at the idea of something different happening this time and it will be a new learning experience for both S.O. :)
Emma Jean made me a mommy on 10.14.08. and Alexis Jacqueline made her a big sister on 4.16.13.
Happy wife to DH since 2000
Our baby boy born 4/30/10 - life got even better!
Finally convinced DH to go for #2, and it HAPPENED! YEAH! Baby boy #2 born 5/29/13
Awwww, boys are so sweet! Mine is just so sweet and cuddly. He thinks I'm the greatest thing that walks this Earth. He's so loving and caring. Not like girls aren't any of those things, there's just a lot less drama
Stay at Home Mom to Kaitlyn 9/26/07, Colin 9/24/09 and Kylie 5/1/13
I think it will be a nice change to shop for boy clothes! And to get a "break" from the upkeep of dressing little girls. Sweatpants and a shirt and your out. They don't even have to match!
Give it a day and let the excitement surround you!
I was the same way totally convinced I was having a girl but nope it's boy and i think i am still in shock and have known for 2 weeks.
Married to Jeff
We have 4 awesome kids!
CDing, BFing, BWing, SAHM to H 1-09, W 8-11 and J 5-13
Embrace it! It just means you get to experience new and different things! We need more boys in the world to be taught right by their mommas! A happy healthy baby is all I need (although I feel like mines a boy!)
God bless and Good Luck!


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Wing Dings
Smoothing out those unwanted dents may have gotten easier
"If you have a leading edge caved in from a bird strike or some other major dent, magnets probably won't correct the problem because the metal is too stretched and deformed," explains Olsen. "What we do best is smooth out wing surfaces where someone has dropped a heavy tool or buffer. We also can correct most hangar rash."
The process of dent correction with magnets is different from standard sheet-metal repair. The magnet head is charged and laid directly against the surface to be smoothed out. Then the operator pulls the trigger and fires a 400- to 550-volt electrical charge through the head and into the metal. This is a far stronger charge than any magnet most people have experienced, several thousand times beyond your typical refrigerator shopping-list magnet. The Fluxtronics "shot" requires only a few milliseconds and sounds a little like the report of a powerful staple gun.
Standard procedure is to use several small jolts of current and pull dents a little at a time rather than attempt to extract the full dent in one or two pops. "If you use too much power," explains Olsen, "you can pull too hard and wind up actually lifting the edges of the depression, creating a kind of crater effect."
Olsen next applied the magnetic dent remover to a small crease on top of the Mooney's right flap. Again, the depression was barely noticeable to anyone but me. The engineer laid the Fluxtronics magnetic head flush with the surface and fired a series of pulses that gradually pulled the metal back toward its original shape. No, he didn't completely eradicate the dent, but when he was done, the irregularity was far less noticeable.
Olsen had a collection of before-and-after photos of more dramatic dents removed from the wings and tail surfaces on Citations, Falcons and Lear Jets. If the stakes are high for conventional dent repair to personal airplanes, costs can be stratospheric on bizjets and airliners. The Fluxtronics system can often reduce the dings to a reasonable level at minimal cost.
By the time you read this, Olsen hopes to have a number of his Fluxtronics magnetic dent removal systems in place at FBOs around the U.S. In those instances when magnets can handle the repair, the process is quicker, cheaper and far less time-consuming than conventional re-skinning.
Bill Cox is entering his third decade as a senior contributor to Plane & Pilot® and provides consulting for media, entertainment and aviation concerns worldwide.


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Packers 2012 individual report card: Defense
Rick Wood
Packers rookie Casey Hayward intercepts a pass intended for the Houston' Keshawn Martin. Hayward became the Packers' first all-rookie selection at cornerback.
BOB McGINN | Grades: TEAM | OFFENSE | DEFENSE | SPEC. TEAMS | CHAT
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The third paragraph piqued my interest. Perhaps this aspect of political campaigns is different in France. I would be genuinely interested to know the answer.
In the midwestern US, and I imagine in most parts of the country, volunteers for most politicians go from door to door, speak to the residents and leave literature. They also make phone calls for their candidate.
In our city, many of the candidates themselves go from door to door to introduce themselves.
So Mitt Romney's campaign wasn't "taking a page from" the President's volunteers. This was already a common occurrence here.
Is it different in France?
Thank you, and best wishes to all.
'The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.'
This is France 24, sir. Please keep your Fox News opinions on Fox News.
Most Americans who voted for Mr Obama are those suffering from a form of Stockholm Syndrome as the country was being held to ransom by Islamic captors led by an Osama which conveniently rhymes with Obama. A Black person with a non Islamic sounding name would not have been elected.


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(AP) -- Tiny motion sensors are attached to the walls, doorways and even the refrigerator of Elaine Bloomquist's home, tracking the seemingly healthy 86-year-old's daily activity.
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|Table of Contents
|Vol. 9, No. 4, 2001
Issue release date: 2001
|Section title: Original Paper
Molecular Cloning and Characterization of Profilin-3: A Novel Cytoskeleton-Associated Gene Expressed in Rat Kidney and TestesHu E.a · Chen Z.a · Fredrickson T.a · Zhu Y.b
Departments of aRenal Pharmacology and bMolecular Biology, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, KingofPrussia, Pa., USA
Published online: 6/27/2001
Issue release date: 2001
Number of Print Pages: 10
Number of Figures: 6
Number of Tables: 0
ISSN: (Print)
eISSN: 1660-2129 (Online)
For additional information: http://www.karger.com/NEE
Profilin is a small actin-binding protein that is involved in diverse functions such as maintaining cell structure integrity, cell mobility, tumor cell metastasis, as well as growth factor signal transduction. In this paper, we describe the molecular cloning and characterization of a novel form of profilin, termed profilin-3, from rat kidney using a PCR-based procedure for isolating tissue-specific genes. The profilin-3 cDNA encoded 137 amino acids, and it shared extensive homology to profilin-1 and profilin-2 from mice and humans. More strikingly, the expression of profilin-3 was highly selective, and its mRNA was only found in the kidney and to a much lesser extent in the testis. The size of the mRNA for profilin-3 in the testis was 1.2 kb, while in kidney it was approximately 4.4–5 kb, suggesting the presence of tissue-specific transcription from different promoters. In addition, we also found that the expression of profilin-3 mRNA was significantly elevated in two types of renal diseases: diabetic nephropathy (db/db mice) and polycystic kidney diseases (cpk mice). Similar to profilin-1 and profilin-2, profilin-3 was localized in the cytoplasmic domain. Furthermore, it was capable of interacting with actin and poly-L-proline in an in vitro assay as well as in transfected cells. These results strongly suggest that, contrary to the ubiquitous presence of profilin-1 and profilin-2, there is a tissue-specific form of these cytoskeleton-regulatory proteins and that the kidney/testes-specific profilin-3 may play a unique role in renal and/or reproductive functions.
© 2001 S. Karger AG, Basel
Received: Received: December 3, 1999
Accepted: May 19, 2000
Number of Print Pages : 10
Number of Figures : 6, Number of Tables : 0, Number of References : 40
Experimental Nephrology (Journal of Renal Cell Biology)
Vol. 9, No. 4, Year 2001 (Cover Date: 2001)
Journal Editor: L.G. Fine, London
ISSN: 1018–7782 (print), 1421–9956 (Online)
For additional information: http://www.karger.com/journals/exn
Published online: 6/27/2001
Issue release date: 2001
Number of Print Pages: 10
Number of Figures: 6
Number of Tables: 0
ISSN: (Print)
eISSN: 1660-2129 (Online)
For additional information: http://www.karger.com/NEE


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Shounter Lake
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Shonter Lake)
|Shounter Lake
Shountar Lake
|Shounter, Neelum Valley, Azad Kashmir
|34°58′23″N 74°30′46″E / 34.97306°N 74.51278°ECoordinates: 34°58′23″N 74°30′46″E / 34.97306°N 74.51278°E
|Basin countries
|Surface elevation
|10,200 feet (3,100 m)
Shounter Lake is a small lake located in Shounter Valley, a sub valley of Neelam Valley, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan at the elevation of 10,200 feet (3,100 m).[1]
The lake is accessible from Kel by a jeep track.
See also[edit]
- ^ Neelum adventure Retrieved:11 June 2013
|This Pakistan location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.