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An original exhibit on astronomy and earth science, Our Planet, Our Universe explores the strange, curious, and odd peculiarities of the universe and our place in it. Discover the dynamic forces and systems that shape our Earth, as well as other planets and discover the latest information about our solar system. New experiences include computer-based interactives and visuals, including images direct from the NASA/Hubble Space Telescope, and hands-on exhibits that explore some strange - and some familiar - phenomena.
The exhibit is divided into distinct areas that explore earth and space - here are a few of the hands-on exhibits you'll encounter:
Earth, Wind & Sky
- Aeolian Landscapes: Lets visitors manipulate fans to discover how the force of wind can shift sand into spectacular dune shapes and patterns.
- Blue Sky: Find out why our sky is blue through manipulation of different filters in front of a light source through a medium.
- Mars Rover: Guide a to the planetary rover over an 8'diameter simulated Martian terrain Takes the controls of the rover to move and pick up rock samples with its robotic arm while your friend watches the images the rover camera reveals.
Planets & Portals
- Ask An Astronomer: interactive video kiosk featuring short, lively and entertaining answers by the astronomers at the Spitzer Space Science Center.
- Cosmic Collisions: See what happens when galaxies collide through an interactive kiosk.
- Tonight's Sky: What will I see if I look up at the night sky tonight? This software program from NASA is automatically updated every month to show appropriate stars, constellations and other objects playing on a large screen TV.
Gravity, Waves & Warps
- No Sound in Space: Hear what happens when you start an alarm bell, then pump out the air. Can sound waves move through the vacuum of space?
- Black Holes Quiz: Explore the strange and unique phenomena surrounding black holes. Take a journey into a black hole, or find out more at the black hole encyclopedia.
- Warping Space: Manipulate 'stars' and 'planets' along a 2D universe to see how different space can warp into 3 dimensions.
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Solar storms may be a problem of the past due to prevention in the future. For the first time ever, scientist are able to see a 360-degree panorama view of the sun! NASA released these images in early February, recorded from the Solar Dynamic Observatory with those from NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft. Scientists are now embarking on an 8-year exploration, primarily to look at the rotating sun's far side. The goal is to be able to better predict solar storms.
A solar storm is an electrified gas cloud that erupts from the surface of the sun into space, which can damage satellites and disrupt communication systems on earth. Scientists hope that being able to predict the future of solar storms will help them find a way to prevent them. For the first time ever, the video below allows us to watch solar activity in its full 3-D dimensional glory. The video shows us a 360-degree panorama view of the sun and then zooms in on a solar eruption.


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Is the roof on fire? This sea otter from British Columbia seems to think so.
The cuddly creature was captured kicking back in a bed of seaweed by award-winning photographer Matthew Maran, who spent several years shooting wildlife and landscapes for his new book, Vancouver Island: Barley to Clayoquot.
During his trek along the West Coast trail, Maran's lens captured black bears, sea lions and bald eagles. But none of them were quite as camera-aware as this otter, who meticulously groomed himself with his sure paws.
Holler! Sea Otter Raises the Roof in Vancouver Island
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With three floors, 21 rooms and over 2,000 items on display spanning over six centuries you may want some guidance on where to start.
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Ríona Sally Hartman began performing as a solo artist in 2008 and in the short period of time since then has grown a considerable fan base in her native Dublin. Following her well received tour of Ireland, both north and south, in the summer of 2010 Ríona released her debut CD 'Sealegs' at a sold out launch in Whelan's. Since then Sealegs has been garnering praise from critics and audiences alike in particular for the single 'Seasnail', a deceptively sweet sounding waltz broaching the grainier side of love.
Ríona Sally Hartman's live band showcases some of the brightest young minds of the Dublin music scene, each musician with a firm dedication to their craft and with backgrounds in genres as far reaching as jazz, classical and klezmer. Ríona has become known for her eclectic musical influences, and honoring them through a unique pop aesthetic. The eclecticism has allowed her to reach a very broad audience and play a wide variety of venues across the country.
Before Ríona Sally Hartman began performing as a solo artist she was mostly known for her role in the critically acclaimed album 'The Facts of Life for the Palestinian' by Sami Moukaddem (4/5 stars The Irish Times).


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Buying a copy machine is harder than I thought. It became a necessary task when Seliger + Associates decamped from Seattle to Tucson and decided to replace most of its aging office equipment. I got tagged with the assignment. This is the first of several posts on my experience. You'll end up spending a lot [...]
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Dallas Rock and Roll Marathon was not a race that I had planned at the start of the year. It wasn't until Amy Perkel of Boundless Nutrition sent me an email asking if I wanted free passes to the race (it is nice to have sponsors) that I added this event to the list. Of course my first question to myself was how do you recover from a Half-Ironman? And the obvious answer was to run a half-marathon. Shortly after accepting this kind offer did Karen ask me if I wanted to run the A2A Half-Marathon on April 1st. This time I emailed Coach and she said it would be fine because she would just add-on miles to the run or make it a hard run. One way or the other my recovery from a Half-Ironman was to run not one but two Half-Marathons.
When 70.3 Ironman San Juan ended I checked Training Peaks and noticed that the run was NOT going to be a recovery run, but instead a 10 minute warmup followed by a steady tempo pace. Scratching my head I thought…….really? Then I looked at the Saturday training and saw that it was to be three hours on the trainer followed by a 30 minute run. Seriously what were my legs going to do in this race? I had no clue.
After exchanging text messages with my Coach on Saturday night it was determined that the 'tempo' pace was going to be 8:30-8:45/mile. I wanted to be close to what I figured my pace at Ironman Texas was going to be and this was a compromise with my coach.
On Saturday morning Chico was running a race as well. He had a 50 yard dash scheduled and it was quite possibly the funniest thing I have ever seen. The race director was going to count down from 10 and by the time she hit 6 all the kids (about 100) took off running. They were moving so fast that Chico got run over, but the brave soul popped back up and kept hustling. As soon as all the kids hit the finish line, they just wrapped around and raced each other to the medals. I could not stop laughing and did not get one good pic of them.
After that I met Robert over at TriShop for a 3 hour CompuTrainer ride on the Ironman Arizona course. I managed to get in 57 miles for a 19 mph average that made me happy considering I had no recovery or taper for this ride. After that we bounced off and put up 3.25 miles in 30 minutes for a 9:12/mi pace. This was a great day of training. Later that night we hosted Karen's sister who would be running her second half-marathon, and first since the Debacle in the Desert (Yes, the RnR Las Vegas.) We had ordered vegetable pizza and some salads for dinner. By around 8:00pm my eyes were fading fast and by 9:00pm I managed to walk to bed. Within moments I was asleep. I don't remember saying good night to anybody. I don't remember turning on or off the TV. I just remember the alarm going off at 3:30am.
Thankfully I put out all of my morning food and clothes. I was dressed and eating by 4:30am when Karen's sister came out and joined me for some hot coffee. A little chitter chatter, Karen finally awoke and we were on the road by 6:15am. It was crazy getting to the race site. There was so much traffic and at one point we went about 10 feet in 5 minutes. Boundless Nutrition was kind enough to provide me with VIP parking passes (Thank You Amy — these were a life saver) and we were able to park right at the finish line. On the shuttle to the race start and I laughed so hard. There was the bus driver who had more energy than me and was hilarious. We laughed the entire time to the race start and I'm sure we annoyed plenty of people but I was relaxed.
We got into Corral 6 which was a 2:00 projected finish time. Let me just say that all the people in the 1:50 to 2:10 projected finish time have all the right in the world to complain about proper seeding in a race. Normally I am in Corral 1 or 2, but seeded myself back here because I did not know what my legs would provide on race day. As we walked up to the start line (approximately 10 minutes) I had planned to take it easy for 10 minutes and figured I would be right with everybody else. Before I knew it I was passing a ton of people and even walkers……really? Walking within the first mile? I was so frustrated but knew I had to maintain my plan as that was far more important than the pace.
I hit the first mile at 8:54 and felt strong. OK, so now I need to hit the paces of 8:30-8:45 per mile and picked it up a bit. My legs felt very strong, even through the hardest part of the course. This course sets up like a mountain. Uphill until Mile 8 and then downhill from there on out. My goal was to run up the hills at the same rate of perceived exertion and ignore my watch (this is a story for another day and one I am very much perturbed about.) As I hit one hill after the other and I was passing runners and feeling strong I made up my mind that come Mile 10 I was going to forget the 8:30-8:45 pace and just run.
Each mile ticked off and they were all faster than 8:30 and I thought…..where is all this leg drive coming from? Splits from Mile 2 to Mile 8 were:
- Mile 2: 8:31
- Mile 3: 8:06
- Mile 4: 8:23
- Mile 5: 8:13
- Mile 6: 8:15
- Mile 7: 8:09
- Mile 8: 8:04
It was at this point that I wound up next to a runner who was looking fluid and for whatever reason made it my mission to not get beat by this guy and to bury him. Why? No clue. I was probably trying to deflect any pain that I was about to endure and push it away from my brain.
We started running in lock step. He would pull slightly ahead and I would catch him. We would run together for a bit and then I would surge ahead a tad. This went on and on from mile marker 8 to mile marker 10. It was at Mile marker 10 that I said it is time to set the best 5k of the entire race so far.
I pushed any and all ideas out of my brain and just ran. My leg turnover was solid. I was landing mid-foot. I was not breathing too hard and I felt like I was on cruise control. I was smart enough to hide my heart rate on my watch and only had total time and pace. Next time I race a half-marathon I am getting rid of pace as well.
When I hit Mile 12 I then spoke to myself and said you can do anything for a mile and started running harder. This race was going to end with the fastest mile yet even if it meant tossing cookies or passing out. I can say that for the first time in a while I had a little stitch and felt hungry. Either way this was not going to stop me from running as hard as my legs would carry me. I also started doing math and knew there was a time I wanted to beat.
As you enter into Fair Park I saw another runner wearing an orange singlet and it was like a bull seeing the red cape. I went hard after him and I passed him, but that must have made him mad because he surged as well. Except guess what mister orange singlet…..I'm only in 4th gear and BOOM down to 5th gear and blew him away.
When I crossed the finish line I was hardly panting and felt so strong that if I had run at this pace the entire race and negative split is as well I would have set a PR this day. I felt so strong out there and my HR stayed relatively low for the pace I was running. Mile splits from Mile 9 on:
- Mile 9: 7:59
- Mile 10: 7:57
- Mile 11: 7:50
- Mile 12: 7:57
- Mile 13: 7:40
- Final: 7:08 pace
My final time was 1:47:22. This cruise control run placed me at 117 out of 782 M35-39 or Top 15%. Overall I finished 863 out of 11312 or Top 8%. I am very happy with my result considering where I am in my training and having just raced a Half-Ironman. Next week brings another challenge because on Saturday I will be riding for 5 hours and then traveling to Oklahoma for another Half-Marathon. I do know that this upcoming race will be slower with a goal of finishing between 1:50 and 1:55 since the first 5 miles will be in Z1/Z2 and the final 8 miles at my goal race pace of 8:45-9:00 per mile. Execution, again, will be the name of the game.
- 5 Km: 26:47
- 10 Km: 52:41
- 7 Mi: 59:40
- 10 Mi: 1:23:10


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In "The Christmas Party", Archie and his fiancée attend an office party where Wolfe condescends to uncharacteristic theatrics. His dramatic technique is good, but it isn't enough to clear him from suspicion of murder. The "Easter Parade" tempts Wolfe to commit petty larceny for an orchid. Though that crime goes unpunished, the inevitable murder doesn't. "A Fourth of July Picnic" has Wolfe scheduled for an unprecedented appearance as an orator. But his day in the sun is rained out by murder. The last selection, "Murder Is No Joke", is a whodunit in a couturier's salon, where a murderer is dressed to kill and kill again.
Stout fellow: explore our list of Nero Wolfe mysteries, including novels and classic radio programs.
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This book contains four Nero Wolfe short stories; Christmas Party, Easter Parade, Fourth of July Picnic, and Murder Is No Joke (later expanded into the novel Frame-Up for Murder). Although I love short stories in general, I have not enjoyed the Nero Wolfe short stories as much as the novels. I really like the way Stout develops the story and characters in his novels, while his short stories often are missing something for me and generally seem rushed. Two of these four shorts were pleasurable exceptions. I really liked Christmas Party and Easter Parade. Both of these two stories had limited twists, but what they had were quite good. The other two were not bad. The narration was first-rate at usual.
"I have loved Rex Stout forever"
And, having him read to me with the bemused indifference that makes Archie Goodwin one of my favorite sidekicks is Heaven. These books are keepers to listen to over and over and enjoy the idiosyncratic love affair that makes the Wolfe-Goodwin relationship. Imagine Dr. Watson doing stand up as Holmes pontificates at him.
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Exported this last night before going to bed.
Progress has been made on the future noble housing, more goblins have been captured (to many, I'm over run with the buggers, and I expanding the dungeons is slow work with everything else going on. I can't wait for the burrow arc) and are sitting in stasis waiting to be moved to their cells.
Their is a siege taking place right now by a bunch of hobgoblins on horse back, which I've decided to ignore for the simple reason of not wanting to deal with any more goblins at the moment.
I've converted most of my wood to pearlash.
This is all that remains of the last of my annoying river dwellers. When I drained the river, I was confronted by the annoying reality that my river strainers would no longer work because the creatures couldn't get out of the river bed.
This ramp was dug as part of an attempt to draw them onto my cage traps, which ended up failing.
I was content to just leave things be at this point, but then tragedy struck. Asmel Larreg, one of my founding dwarfs and the first legendary weaver, was struck down by these hideous reptilian creatures while trying to gather spider silk in the river bed.
In response to this disaster (Asmel Larreg did more than just weave. He was also one of my best bag makers and a pretty good mechanic to boot, along with having competent in a few other useful skills) I quickly walled all access to the portion of the river bed that contained the lizard and snake-men.
But that wasn't enough. I wanted revenge. I wanted them dead, not caged. Only one problem: I had no military, not a single one.
So a crazy plan was hatched. I took all of my dogs out of their cages (almost forty of them all told) and I trained them all as war dogs. All of them. I then build several cages in the river bed, behind my hastily constructed barricades, and stuffed them all in. The training and caging took almost an entire year from start to finish.
Once they where caged, I hooked the cages up to a lever and then blocked off all ways out of the river bed except for the ramp pictured above (which was blocked with a forbidden door).
I then pulled the lever and ~40 war dogs started milling about in the river bed. I got all of my dwarfs safely behind locked doors (lest they rush into the river bed to recover corpses and get themselves killed) and then un-forbid the ramp door. ~40 war dogs proceeded to stream towards the offending reptilian menace.
It was over extremely quickly, and I only lost several war dogs. This end of the river was COVERED in blood and body parts. My dwarfs spent most of a season removing corpses and body parts from the river bed. - Sinergistic
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nice grand stair case! That must have been alot of channeling.
Not really, no, I just channeled around the edges, and then collapsed it ^_^ (after locking my dwarfs up in their bedrooms and the food room)
It took several tries to get it to collapse, I kept pulling the level attached to the supports I had installed, and nothing would happen. I finally got it on the 4th attempt though, after completely channeling around the top level, and then collapsing that down on to the layers below.
all of my *manual collapses* have ended in epic fail so far, I've lost many good miners trying to collapse things and I also managed to bust a hole in my ceiling causing magma to pour in!
Like woah
"Like woah" - Markavian
So, uh, what bit of it was 'woah'? :P
Edit: I would also like you thank you for your amazing website. I've seen so many cool and inspiring forts since I started browsing it about 8-9 months ago. (didn't register until recently) It is a very awesome service, and a huge boon to the DF community.
[Message edited on 2009/01/13 at 11:22 by Sinergistic]
What are all the B's in your cages?
'Bugbears' part of the Goblin Family mod found here.
I tinkered with it a little to adapt it to the kind of fort I wanted (got rid of TRAPAVOID for one, because that just wouldn't work now, would it?). I also removed the [CANSPEAK] tag as well, which leads to all of them wanting me dead. Lots of sieges, lots of ambushes, lots of good times in the future with I begin work on the arenas.
I updated 'The Dungeon' point of interest with a little more info on what's in the cages.
[Message edited on 2009/01/15 at 12:04 by Sinergistic]
I've seen this tileset being used a lot lately, which one is it?
I'm using a hand drawn copy of Dortens and whatever came with the mayday v16 set.
I'm still playing around with it and tweaking it to how I want it.
Singergistic, you've hollowed out a huge cylinder with a walk way around the edge of each level. It looks fantasticly grand. And then there's the spiral dungeon on the ground floor. Its just epic proportions. A far cry from the single tunnel hovels that most people begin building.
And thanks for the kind words : )
I haven't had too many problems with manual channeling. My worst problem probably is dealing with the unhappy thoughts of being knocked off your feet.
I would just like to point out the historic 10,000th point of interest attributable to this map. Cheers everyone, I love what you've done for this site :)
Awesome! I love the look of the glass-furnished bedrooms with this tileset. The central shaft of chaotic stairway hell is also amazing, and the spirally area way down below.
Very grand-looking fort. Has a nice, smooth feel to it - very much like the basis around the central pit / giant empty space.
( 107 Early Summer to onwards )
This is the only entrance to the fort, and is rather slapdash one, though it gets the job done.
The state it's in now is the default state. The bridges on ground level are down, allowing traders and goblins alike access to the fortress. Ambushes are generally spotted the moment they enter the walls.
Step one involves waiting for as many attackers to enter the noose as possible. Once I've gotten as many goblins behind the two bridges on ground level as possible, I raise, sealing the goblins inside. This prevents them from running away.
Step two involves waiting for the goblins to throw themselves on the traps, after enough get trapped, the rest get scared and just mill about without jumping on the traps like nice goblins. Once this occurs, I move to...
Step three, where I lower the small bridge one z-level up. This provides a route of escape for the goblins, who then run straight through the rest of the traps in an attempt to leave the map.
Step four, I revert to the default state, while allowing my dwarfs outside to clean and reload the traps with fresh cages. - Sinergistic
( 109 Mid Summer to onwards )
For a fortress with no military, we sure do get a lot of corpses. Dead traders, dead goblins the traders killed, dead horses, wardog victims, with a little leftovers from food bought from traders mixed in.
I wasn't expecting this to fill up for a while, and had to rush to complete the sister refuse pile (seen to left) in the middle of a siege.
Installing the doors took almost two months since my masons where busy hauling cages and leftovers from a dead trader. - Sinergistic
( 105 Mid Autumn to onwards )
Cage traps + aggressive animals = caged animals. I love it. My dwarfs go to pick up the first victim/future gladiator and what happens? More jump up to attack my dwarfs and get caught. Dwarfs go back to get cages, and the process repeats. Still quite a few in the river, however. - Sinergistic
( 109 Mid Summer to onwards )
When I'm not requesting wood and pearlash from traders, I'm requesting gems. Lots of gems. Anything I can get my hands on.
The most recent addition to my gem stockpile was from a dead wagon, who was killed while trying to make it to my trade depot through a goblin ambush. Kind of annoying, but the gems where free, so I'm happy.
- Sinergistic
( 105 Early Spring to onwards )
This is where all the glass working, smithing and furnaces are. The bags you see are mostly silk with a few leather ones I embarked with.
The empty bit in the center is a sand collection spot. In theory, it should cut down on the amount of traveling dwarfs need to do to fill the bags with sand, but they have a mind of their own and INSIST on getting bags from a stockpile much farther away. Most of the time anyway, once they get started, it works ok. - Sinergistic
( 109 Mid Summer to onwards )
This is where the future nobles will live.
The top level, pictured here, is planned to be the kings quarters. A clear glass ceiling and walls, with a connecting walkway to the other side, will make up his quarters. Once completed, the river will be undammed to allow water to flow over the whole contraption. The preserved rock floor will allow for engravings
Lower levels will serve the lesser nobles, and will consist of rock ceilings with clear glass walls and windows looking out into the river.
I'm not really sure with what I want to do with the area above the river here, maybe a 'park' of some kind. - Sinergistic
( 107 Early Summer to onwards )
I think I built it a little to far from where the creatures where, but I had plans for the area closer to the edge that I didn't want to risk spoiling, so I built it farther back. Said plans have since been scrapped, so I think I might build another strainer (or just extend this one) to try and catch the 'fish' closer to the edge. Currently, I'm just playing the waiting game and seeing if I can get anymore without having to change anything.
I've caught at least 6 'fish' with this one so far (That I know of), so it wasn't a total failure. - Sinergistic
( 105 to onwards )
The beginning of the bedroom section, which will hold about 140 or so at current count, I'm most likely going to have to expand this once I raise the pop cap. - Sinergistic
( 107 Early Summer to onwards )
This level is one of the stockpile levels. The stockpile on the right is an obvious furniture stockpile, but the ones are the left and bottom are a little less obvious.
The upper left stockpile is a armor stockpile and contains pretty much ALL of the goblin armor I've confiscated.
The lower left is an weapon stockpile and contains a few screw pumps + all the goblin weapons I've confiscated.
The bottom stockpile is a finished goods stockpile, and since I don't do any craftsdwarf work, it's full of all the goblin cloths I've confiscated. Narrow this and Narrow that and Narrow such and such.
There are plans to build an incinerator to destroy this contraband, but the architect is having a hard time deciding where to put it, and is beginning to question whether we should build one at all. - Sinergistic
( 107 Early Summer to onwards )
This is the highest level of my tombs, currently empty as of 107. I'm think I will rip out the walls that go from the center to the sides and redo them with all constructed walls. It looks somewhat crap right now, I kinda wish I hadn't engraved the walls :(
- Sinergistic
( 107 Early Summer to onwards )
This stockpile is where all of the goblins that are captured above ground end up. This stockpile takes from a stockpile closer to the entrance, and is set to accept only goblins.
Once they end up on this stockpile, I strip them of their gear, and then move them to their cells. - Sinergistic
( 107 to onwards )
This is the connection, and the only planned connection, between the old (current) fort and the new (expansion) fort. In the future, I plan on redoing the floors in a brighter color to provide contrast with the darker walls.
In the lower right you can see the bottom of my tombs. - Sinergistic
( 107 Early Summer to onwards )
This coffin has the first (and so far only) dwarf death. During a seige (+ an ambush) one of the miners somehow got trapped outside, and instead of seeking cover inside the fort, ran straight for the invading goblin army (who where flinging themselves on my cage traps).
He managed to get through 10-20 goblins unscathed, and kept going. I was hoping he would keep going past the bridges, so that I could raise them and save him, but no dice. He just reaches the bridges, and decides to turn around and head back. He reaches the rear end of the goblin army, turns a corner and bumps right into a goblin spearman who promptly skewers him on the spot.
I was worried about a tantrum spiral (since my fort as had a couple long periods of nothing going on, so lots of friends all around) but I never noticed any signs of unhappiness and stopped worrying about it after a couple months. Since then I've installed doors to the outside that I lock when an ambush shows up. - Sinergistic
( 105 Early Spring to onwards )
The beginning of the dungeons, each of those cages has a goblin in it.
Future plans: Add some magma features dotted around the area, maybe seal off different 'sections' with magma moats and bridges, like the entrance. I also plan on having military patrols through here, once I get enough dwarfs together.
Edit: It's in the comments, but I may as well mention it here as well. I am using the Goblin Family mod (found here) to add a bunch of different goblin types to the game.
'B' = Bugbear
'g' = Goblin Morlock
'w' = Woodwose
'H' = Hobgoblin
And that is all I've encountered so far. - Sinergistic
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A device for removing and re-applying a cover to an open container of a liquid aspirated in an analyzer, the device including a plurality of receptacles disposed in an array for holding a plurality of containers of a liquid, a cover for each of the receptacles of a size and shape sufficient to sealingly cover a container in each receptacle, a mechanism for permanently attaching the cover to the receptacle, the mechanism including a retainer of each of the covers that is pivotally mounted on the receptacle and a bi-stable pivot in the device for pivoting and holding the retainer and thus its cover in either a first position in which the cover contacts and closes a container, or a second position in which the cover is held raised away from contact with any container in the receptacle by means of a leaf spring pressed against a cam.
1. In an analyzer including an aspirator and a device for removing and re-applying a cover to an open container of a liquid to be aspirated in an analyzer, said device comprising
a plurality of receptacles disposed in an array for holding a plurality of containers of a liquid;
a cover for each of said receptacles, with a predetermined size and shape sufficient to sealingly cover a container placed in said each receptacle;
and means for permanently attaching each said cover to a respective one of said receptacles, said attaching means including a retainer for each of said covers that is pivotably mounted on said receptacle;
the improvement wherein said analyzer further includes bi-stable pivot means in said device for pivoting and holding each retainer and its cover in selective alternative positions, said bi-stable pivot means comprising a cam mounted to rotate with said each retainer and having an instability projection extending beyond the rest of said cam, and a leaf spring frictionally engaging said cam to hold said cover in a raised position and alternatively to bias against said projection when said retainer is rotated sufficiently to close a respective cover against a container;
and means for actuating said bi-stable pivot means.
2. A device as defined in claim 1, and further including sensing means for sensing when said retainer has uncovered a container, and means responsive to said sensing means to signal that a container is available in the device.
3. A device as defined in claim 1, and further including a manual handle attached to each retainer.
The invention relates to a device comprising receptacles that hold containers of liquid that must be covered except when the liquid contents are being aspirated.
In analyzers for testing biological fluids, for example the analyzer shown in U.S. Pat. No. 5,008,082, the patient's biological fluid is supplied via sample tubes to an aspirator, which then delivers it as is to a slide test element, or in some cases, to a dilution cup to which a diluent is added, also by the aspirator. Such diluents are supplied to the aspirator of the analyzer via vials or cups which are periodically refilled by the operator. However, it is important that such vials be re-capped or re-covered when aspiration is not occurring, to prevent evaporation. Covers which have to be removed and reapplied manually are unacceptable since they involve too much operator intervention.
It is known from the prior art to provide for automated means that remove covers of tubes of patient sample. See, for example, DE - GM 3,141,780. However, the covers that are removed are stoppers that are not replaced, so that such automated mechanism contributes nothing to automated means for removing and then replacing the covers of vials of liquid such as diluents. Still further, since the covers in question in the case of the stoppers of the prior art are not permanently mounted in the analyzer, they are potentially parts that can become loose within the analyzer, and therefore a source of jams.
Therefore, there has been a need prior to this invention to provide a device for automated removal and re-application of covers for containers in an analyzer, the covers being permanently secured to the device.
There is provided a device that meets the aforesaid need.
More specifically, there is provided a device for removing and re-applying a cover to an open container of liquid to be aspirated in an analyzer, the device comprising
a plurality of receptacles disposed in an array for holding a plurality of containers of such liquid,
a cover for each of the receptacles, of a size and shape sufficient to sealingly cover a container placed in each receptacle,
means for permanently attaching the cover to the receptacle, the attaching means including a retainer of each of the covers that is pivotably mounted on the receptacle,
and bi-stable pivot means in the device for pivoting the retainer and thus its cover towards and away from a container in the receptacle.
Accordingly, it is an advantageous feature of the invention that containers of diluent or other additive liquids are provided in an analyzer with covers that are both automatically operated for aspiration, and by their permanence do not become loose within the analyzer.
It is a related advantageous feature that the automatic operation of the covers permits manual operation as well.
Other advantageous features will become apparent upon reference to the following Detailed Description when read in light of the attached drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 shows a top view of the device according to the invention installed in the processing station of an analyzer; and
FIG. 2 shows a lateral view of the device according to FIG. 1 (cross-section along a line II--II in FIG. 1).
What follows is a description as the invention is applied to the preferred embodiments, in which the liquid contained is a diluent. Additionally, the invention is useful for containers of any liquid that is added to the patient sample in an analyzer, for any purpose. Because the covers of the device are permanently attached, the device most preferably is not used to provide the biological fluid samples, which usually come with their own covers (e.g., stoppers) already in place.
The device shown in FIG. 1 is arranged on a transport path 5 in the area of a processing station 4 of an analyzer.
Device 1 consists of a plurality of arranged receptacles 10 to receive containers 2 filled with liquid to use in the analysis. Preferably, receptacles 10 are linearly disposed.
Each receptacle 10 comprises a cover means 6 illustrated in its covering position and designed as a lid 60 arranged on an outrigger handle 73 of a retainer 70 and associated with the opening 20 of a container 2, said lid being pivotable about an axis of rotation 63 of a pin 12 extended along a longitudinal side of the device and supported in bearings 11 of a retainer.
On a longitudinal side of device 1 extending opposite to the bearings 11 each receptacle 10 is associated with a sensing mark 13 designed as a slot and arranged in a horizontally extending bar 15.
One of the receptacles 10 is aligned with an actuating means 3 arranged in processing station 4 and with an aspirating station 40 for the liquids of the containers 2 in which a sensor 14 designed as an optoelectric switch is arranged for detecting the sensing mark 13.
The actuating means 3 comprises an actuating element 30 including an actuating pin 31 projecting into the area of an arm 71 of retainer 70.
On one of its sides, retainer 70 includes a cam 74 which is concentrically arranged to the axis of rotation 63 and which is engaged by a hold-down element 75.
In FIG. 2, the lid 60 is shown both in its covering position 61 and in its uncovering position 62. Above the lid an aspirating head 41 is illustrated which is aligned with the center axis of container 2.
Beneath transport path 5 a microprocessor controlled, motor-driven eccentric drive 34 of actuating means 3 is arranged with its drive pin engaging with a horizontally protruding bifurcated lever arm 36 of actuating element 30.
Actuating element 30 which is designed as a flat slider is guided in a vertically extending channel 51 of a side wall 52 of transport path 5. In the area of the lower end of the actuating element 30 two sensing apertures 32 are arranged one above the other to cooperate with a sensor 33, said apertures being associated with the covering position 61 and the uncovering position 62 of the lid 60 or with the upper end position 37 and the lower end position 38 of the actuating element.
In its upper end position 37, an actuating pin 31 of actuating element 30 mounted to a retaining arm 39 is positioned above and outside a bifurcated guide means 72 of arm 71 of retainer 70, in which case 2 the lid lies planarly on the opening 20 of a container with the hold-down element 75 formed as a leaf spring engaging the extreme end of a flattened cam section 76 of cam 74.
In its lower end position 38, the actuating pin 31 rests on the lower prong of the fork of guide means 72, the lid 60 being positioned in a vertical uncovering position 62 pivoted by about 100 degrees from its previous position and the hold-down element 75 contacting the periphery of cam 74.
The device operates as follows: Initially, the device 1 is equipped with containers 2 filled with liquid outside the analyzer. For this purpose, the cover means 6 is manually pivoted by actuating retainer 70 by means of its outrigger handle 73 and moving it together with lid 60 from its horizontal covering position 61 to its vertical uncovering position 62. Then the closure (not illustrated) of a container 2 is removed and the container placed in the receptacle 10 of device 1. Subsequently, retainer 70 is manually pivoted back to its covering position 61 so that the opening 20 of the container is covered by the lid (see FIG. 2). This procedure is repeated until all receptacles 10 of device 1 are equipped with containers 2. In an input station (not illustrated) of the analyzer the device 1 is now placed on the horizontally extending transport path 5 and moved to a processing station 4 (shown in FIGS. 1 and 2) by means of a microprocessor-controlled transport means (not illustrated). In this position, device 1 is aligned with a receptacle 10 in the area of the actuating means 3 or with a container 2 in the aspirating station 40 beneath the aspirating head 41. Alignment is effected by means of sensor 14 arranged at the transport path 5 and the sensing marks 13 of device 1.
Then the actuating element 30 of the actuating means 3 is pulled down by means of the drive pin 35 of the microprocessor controlled, motor-driven eccentric drive 34. First, the lower sensing aperture 32 of the actuating element 30 is moved out of the sensing range of sensor 33. Then actuating pin 31 arranged at the upper end of the actuating element 30 hits the lower prong of guide means 72 of arm 71 and pivots retainer 70 together with lid 60 from its covering position 61 to its uncovering position 62. Actuating element 30 is moved downwards until it has reached the sensing range of sensor 33.
Then the aspirating head 41 is lowered into container 2 for removing liquid and, after an upward movement to its upper end position, moved to a further processing station (not illustrated).
Subsequently, eccentric drive 34 is started again and retainer 70 together with lid 60 is pivoted back to the covering position 61 by means of actuating element 30. Actuating pin 31 thereby hits first the upper prong of guide means 72 and pivots retainer 70 from its approximately vertical uncovering position 62 to its approximately horizontal covering position 61 before it releases guide means 72.
In this position, cam 74 of retainer 70 has pivoted about the axis of rotation 63 to the extent that cam section 76 contacts hold down element 75 and thus forms a lever arm which by means of the spring force of hold-down element 75 produces a torque that urges retainer 70 into its covering position 61 and presses lid 60 onto the opening 20 of container 2 such that evaporation, contamination or spilling of the liquid within and outside the analyzer is reliably prevented.
Thus, section 76 is a point of instability in cooperation with the spring action of element 75 such that the contact of element 75 against cam 74 urges the cam to rotate towards the first position contacting a container with the cover, when element 75 passes over section 76.
The invention disclosed herein may be practiced in the absence of any element which is not specifically disclosed herein.
The invention has been described in detail with particular reference to preferred embodiments thereof, but it will be understood that variations and modifications can be effected within the spirit and scope of the invention.
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|Section 1 UNL Bylaws "1.10.1 Academic Planning Committee. To facilitate performance of the duties of the Chancellor specified in Sections 2.8 and 2.9 of the Regents Bylaws and Section 1.2 of these UNL Bylaws, and to enable the faculty governing body to act upon matters specified in Section 2.12.1 of the Regents Bylaws, an Academic Planning Committee is hereby created."
|Article 2 Membership and Terms
|Section 1 UNL Bylaws "1.10.1 Membership. The Academic Planning Committee shall consist of sixteen members as follows: (a) six faculty members elected as provided by the Academic Senate to staggered three-year terms. These members shall represent biological sciences, social sciences, physical sciences, and humanities with no more than two from a single college; (b) one faculty member at large selected by the UNL Graduate Council to serve a three-year term; (c) two academic deans selected by the Chancellor to serve three-year terms; (d) the President of the Academic Senate (or designee); (e) one undergraduate student and one graduate/professional student as selected by the President of ASUN; (f) the Director of Institutional Research and Planning for UNL who shall serve as secretary; (g) the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; (h) the Vice Chancellor of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and (i) the Vice Chancellor for Research as an ex officio non-voting member. The Committee shall select its chair from among its faculty members."
Section 2 Vacancies. A vacancy shall exist if any member 1) is absent from three successive called meetings without notifying an officer, 2) has extended illness of more than four months, 3) submits a letter of resignation to the Chair, or 4) is unable to attend a special meeting of the APC called during the Summer. This latter vacancy is considered temporary. Faculty positions will be filled in consultation with the Academic Senate, or the Graduate Council in the case of their representative; the Chancellor will fill any other vacancies that may occur.
Section 3 Terms of Office and Annual Meeting. The terms of the members will be taken from 1 August to 31 July. The Annual Meeting will be the last regular meeting prior to 31 July which will be attended by all members including persons elected to terms starting 1 August.
|Article 3 Officers, Terms, and Duties
Section 1 Officers. The officers of the Committee shall consist of a Chair and a Vice Chair, both of whom shall be selected from the Faculty Members as directed by the UNL Bylaws (see Article 2 Section 1), and the Secretary, who is the Director of Institutional Research and Planning for UNL.
Section 3 Subcommittees. The Chair of the Committee may appoint subcommittees on his or her own authority or by motion of the Committee carried by simple majority. The charge of such a subcommittee may be to investigate a specific topic of concern or to formulate a recommendation for action by the entire Committee.
|Article 4 Responsibilities
|Section 1 UNL Bylaws "22.214.171.124 Responsibilities. The Academic Planning Committee is charged with the following responsibilities:
|Section 2 UNL Bylaws "1.10.2 Collegiate Academic Planning. The Academic Planning Committee shall encourage academic planning within the colleges and other units of UNL on a continuing basis through joint faculty-administrative-student action. The Academic Planning Committee shall be represented on all Academic Program Review teams and shall comment on the review process and visiting team report to the appropriate vice chancellor.
|Section 3 UNL Bylaws "1.10.3 Financial Exigency. "Financial exigency is a bona fide situation of such serious and widespread proportions, caused by financial circumstances beyond the control of UNL, that normal operations cannot be maintained and UNL programs must therefore be significantly altered.
"Financial exigency for UNL shall be declared by the Board of Regents based upon a recommendation by the Chancellor in consultation with the President. The Chancellor's recommendation shall be made only after all relevant information bearing upon the problem has been made available to the Academic Planning Committee following the procedures described in the Procedures to be Invoked for Significant Budget Reallocations and Reductions (Adopted by the Academic Senate on December 8, 1992 and ASUN on February 10, 1993), and operating as the Financial Exigency Committee described in Regents Policy 4.2.11.
"The Academic Planning Committee shall assist the Chancellor in seeking remedies for a financial exigency. Such remedies may include elimination of faculty, staff, and administrative positions. Recommendations by the Academic Planning Committee for such elimination shall be governed by the Procedures to be Invoked for Significant Budget Reallocations and Reductions. Persons affected by a declaration of financial exigency under Section 4.16 of the Regents Bylaws shall have the right to appeal to the appropriate grievance committee or to the Academic Rights and Responsibilities Committee pursuant to Section 4.14 of the Regents Bylaws."
|Article 5 Academic Program Reviews
|Section 1 Responsibilities. Academic Program Review (APR) at UNL is the responsibility of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and the Vice Chancellor for the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The Academic Planning Committee has the responsibility of monitoring the process of each APR as indicated by the Academic Program Review Guidelines (Fall 1996).
|Section 2 Representatives to APR Committees. It will be a duty of the APC Chair to assign a representative from the faculty and academic dean members to monitor each APR at the request of the APR Coordinator. The APC Representative will be charged to report to the entire APC on the review, in particular on procedural problems encountered in the review.
|Article 6 Conduct of Meetings
|Section 1 Quorum. A quorum shall consist of eight members, five of whom shall be from among the eight faculty members.
|Section 2 Robert's Rules of Order shall govern unless indicated herein.
|Section 3 Order of Business. The order of business shall be the approval of minutes of the last meeting, items of agenda, unfinished business, new business which includes any items of concern that members of the Committee may bring to the Committee, and adjournment.
|Section 4 Challenge. Any member may call for a vote of the members present to discontinue discussion on any item of new business. A simple majority aye vote of those present will pass.
|Section 5 Consent Agenda. Consent agenda items distributed by email may include draft minutes for review, comment and approval, and second submissions of program proposals.
|Section 6 Special Meetings. The Chair of the Committee may call special meetings to expedite current business, to consider urgent issues, or upon request from the Chancellor.
|Section 7 Procedures during the Summer. The Academic Planning Committee does not meet during the summer. Regularly scheduled meetings are generally suspended during early May and resumed after faculty are scheduled to return in August. There are occasions when it is not in the University's best interest to delay consideration of a Project Initiation Request (PIR) or Program Proposal over the summer. The following procedures provide the Academic Planning Committee an opportunity to respond to critical requests and proposals during the summer months when the Academic Planning Committee does not meet on a regularly scheduled basis.
|Article 7 Changes to the Operating Procedure
|Section 1 Presenting Changes. Any member of the Committee may present, in writing, changes in the Operating Procedures to the Chair, such changes to be placed on the agenda for the following scheduled meeting of the Committee. The changes will be read and discussed at that meeting.
|Section 2 Accepting Changes. The changes with any amendments will be sent out with the call to the following scheduled meeting, at which meeting action will be taken.


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Working paper series / Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften : Finance & Accounting
Year of publication
- 2005 (19) (remove)
- Deutschland (3)
- Bank (2)
- Corporate Governance (2)
- Europäische Union (2)
- Kapitalmarkt (2)
- Klein- und Mittelbetrieb (2)
- Kreditmarkt (2)
- Kreditrisiko (2)
- Malmquist-Productivity (2)
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- Banks and German corporate governance : on the way to a capital market-based system? (2005)
- The German corporate governance system has long been cited as the standard example of an insider-controlled and stakeholder-oriented system. We argue that despite important reforms and substantial changes of individual elements of the German corporate governance system the main characteristics of the traditional German system as a whole are still in place. However, in our opinion the changing role of the big universal banks in the governance undermines the stability of the corporate governance system in Germany. Therefore a breakdown of the traditional system leading to a control vacuum or a fundamental change to a capital market-based system could be in the offing.
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- Board independence and CEO turnover (2005)
- It is widely believed that the ideal board in corporations is composed almost entirely of independent (outside) directors. In contrast, this paper shows that some lack of board independence can be in the interest of shareholders. This follows because a lack of board independence serves as a substitute for commitment. Boards that are dependent on the incumbent CEO adopt a less aggressive CEO replacement rule than independent boards. While this behavior is inefficient ex post, it has positive ex ante incentive effects. The model suggests that independent boards (dependent boards) are most valuable to shareholders if the problem of providing appropriate incentives to the CEO is weak (severe).
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- Business models and stock exchange performance : empirical evidence (2005)
- In recent years stock exchanges have been increasingly diversifying their operations into related business areas such as derivatives trading, post-trading services and software sales. This trend can be observed most notably among profit-oriented trading venues. While the pursuit for diversification is likely to be driven by the attractiveness of these investment opportunities, it is yet an open question whether certain integration activities are also efficient, both from a social welfare and from the exchanges' perspective. Academic contributions so far analyzed different business models primarily from the social welfare perspective, whereas there is only little literature considering their impact on the exchange itself. By employing a panel data set of 28 stock exchanges for the years 1999-2003 we seek to shed light on this topic by comparing the factor productivity of exchanges with different business models. Our findings suggest three conclusions: (1) Integration activity comes at the cost of increased operational complexity which in some cases outweigh the potential synergies between related activities and therefore leads to technical inefficiencies and lower productivity growth. (2) We find no evidence that vertical integration is more efficient and productive than other business models. This finding could contribute to the ongoing discussion about the merits of vertical integration from a social welfare perspective. (3) The existence of a strong in-house IT-competence seems to be beneficial to overcome.
- 153
- Credit risk transfer, real sector productivity, and financial deepening (2005)
- We derive the effects of credit risk transfer (CRT) markets on real sector productivity and on the volume of financial intermediation in a model where banks choose their optimal degree of CRT and monitoring. We find that CRT increases productivity in the up-market real sector but decreases it in the low-end segment. If optimal, CRT unambiguously fosters financial deepening, i.e., it reduces credit-rationing in the economy. These effects rely upon the ability of banks to commit to the optimal CRT at the funding stage. The optimal degree of CRT depends on the combination of moral hazard, general riskiness, and the cost of monitoring in non-monotonic ways.
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- Demutualization, outsider ownership and stock exchange performance - empirical evidence (2005)
- Academic contributions on the demutualization of stock exchanges so far have been predominantly devoted to social welfare issues, whereas there is scarce empirical literature referring to the impact of a governance change on the exchange itself. While there is consensus that the case for demutualization is predominantly driven by the need to improve the exchange's competitiveness in a changing business environment, it remains unclear how different governance regimes actually affect stock exchange performance. Some authors propose that a public listing is the best suited governance arrangement to improve an exchange's competitiveness. By employing a panel data set of 28 stock exchanges for the years 1999-2003 we seek to shed light on this topic by comparing the efficiency and productivity of exchanges with differing governance arrangements. For this purpose we calculate in a first step individual efficiency and productivity values via DEA. In a second step we regress the derived values against variables that - amongst others - map the institutional arrangement of the exchanges in order to determine efficiency and productivity differences between (1) mutuals (2) demutualized but customer-owned exchanges and (3) publicly listed and thus at least partly outsider-owned exchanges. We find evidence that demutualized exchanges exhibit higher technical efficiency than mutuals. However, they perform relatively poor as far as productivity growth is concerned. Furthermore, we find no evidence that publicly listed exchanges possess higher efficiency and productivity values than demutualized exchanges with a customer-dominated structure. We conclude that the merits of outside ownership lie possibly in other areas such as solving conflicts of interest between too heterogeneous members.
- 152
- Der Handel von Kreditrisiken : eine neue Dimension des Kapitalmarktes (2005)
- This paper makes an attempt to present the economics of credit securitisation in a non-technical way, starting from the description and the analysis of a typical securitisation transaction. The paper sketches a theoretical explanation for why tranching, or nonproportional risk sharing, which is at the heart of securitisation transactions, may allow commercial banks to maximize their shareholder value. However, the analysis makes also clear that the conditions under which credit securitisation enhances welfare, are fairly restrictive, and require not only an active role of the banking supervisory authorities, but also a price tag on the implicit insurance currently provided by the lender of last resort.
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- Die Altersvorsorge in Russland - Theoretische Analyse, aktuelle Rahmenbedingungen und ihre Umsetzung (2005)
- Das russische Rentenversicherungssystem befindet sich in der Krise. Wie in einer Vielzahl entwickelter Staaten auch, erodiert die Basis des umlagefinanzierten Rentensystems ("Generationenvertrag") auf Grund des demografischen Wandels. Dies wird verstärkt durch die mangelnde Wirtschaftskraft Russlands. Ausgangspunkt der Diskussion des russischen Rentenmodells in diesem Artikel ist die Darstellung der theoretischen Grundannahmen, die Analyse der aktuellen und zukünftigen Rahmenbedingungen sowie eine Prognose der natürlichen und räumlichen Bevölkerungsbewegung in Russland. Hierauf folgt die Präsentation der gegenwärtigen Situation einschließlich der bereits erfolgten ersten Schritte zu einer umfassenden Neuordnung des Rentenversicherungssystems sowie die Darstellung von "hot steps" auf dem Weg zu einer nachhaltigen Alterssicherung.
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- EU financial integration : is there a 'Core Europe'? ; evidence from a cluster-based approach (2005)
- Numerous recent studies, e.g. EU Commission (2004a), Baele et al. (2004), Adam et al.(2002), and the research pooled in ECB-CFS (2005), Gaspar, Hartmann, and Sleijpen(2003), have documented progress in EU financial integration from a micro-level view.This paper contributes to this research by identifying groups of financially integratedcountries from a holistic, macro-level view. It calculates cross-sectional dispersions, andinnovates by applying an inter-temporal cluster analysis to eight euro area countries for the period 1995-2002. The indicators employed represent the money, government bond and credit markets. Our results show that euro countries were divided into two stable groups of financially more closely integrated countries in the pre-EMU period. Back then, geographic proximity and country size might have played a role. This situation has changed remarkably with the euro's introduction. EMU has led to a shake-up both in the number and composition of groups. The evidence puts a question mark behin d using Germany as a benchmark in the post-EMU period. The ¯ndings suggest as well that ¯nancial integration takes place in waves. Stable periods and periods of intense transition alternate. Based on the notion of 'maximum similarity', the results suggest that there exist 'maximum similarity barriers'. It takes extraordinary events, such as EMU, to push the degree of ¯nancial integration beyond these barriers. The research encourages policymakers to move forward courageously in the post-FSAP era, and provides comfort that the substantial di®erences between the current and potentially new euro states can be overcome. The analysis could be extended to the new EU member countries, to the global level, and to additional indicators.
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- German insurance industry: market overview and trends (2005)
- This article presents an overview of the contemporary German insurance market, its structure, players, and development trends. First, brief information about the history of the insurance industry in Germany is provided. Second, the contemporary market is analyzed in terms of its legal and economic structure, with statistics on the number of companies, insurance density and penetration, the role of insurers in the capital markets, premiums split, and main market players and their market shares. Furthermore, the three biggest insurance lines—life, health, and property and casualty—are considered in more detail, such as product range, country specifics, and insurance and investment results. A section on regulation outlines its implementation in the insurance sector, offering information on the underlying legislative basis, supervisory body, technical procedures, expected developments, and sources of more detailed information.
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- Heterogeneous multiple bank financing under uncertainty: does it reduce inefficient credit decisions? (2005)
- Small and medium-sized firms typically obtain capital via bank financing. They often rely on a mixture of relationship and arm's-length banking. This paper explores the reasons for the dominance of heterogeneous multiple banking systems. We show that the incidence of inefficient credit termination and subsequent firm liquidation is contingent on the borrower's quality and on the relationship bank's information precision. Generally, heterogeneous multiple banking leads to fewer inefficient credit decisions than monopoly relationship lending or homogeneous multiple banking, provided that the relationship bank's fraction of total firm debt is not too large.


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He wasn't Zamora then, of course. It would be years before Tim Cridland would take the name of a small Northern California town as his stage name, years before he would do the skewers through the cheeks and the sword-swallowing himself. "It's not something that I jumped into all of a sudden. It took me years of research. It was a lifelong interest, and I gradually, gradually acquired knowledge."
The Torture King (which is what he calls himself when he answers the phone for the interview) admits that it's hard to explain that initial appeal. Most boys that age were stealing glimpses into Playboy and imagining things they wanted to do with those bodies rather than considering what it would be like to stick skewers through their own. When the Torture King tries to convey that early fascination, he sounds oddly reminiscent of a self-help tape. "I can't really explain why it is, but a lot of it has to do with the mind-and-the-body interaction, and you have more potential than you think. What I do is an extreme example of that. A lot of limitations you have are self-imposed, and you are capable of doing things that you probably have no idea that you can do -- things like sword swallowing is one example."
The uplifting message of human potential goes awry with his choice of an example. "All the feats I'm doing are things that I've learned. People have the capacity to do this." And most have the good sense not to.
The Torture King grows uncomfortable talking about the philosophy behind sticking skewers through his arms and cheeks or swallowing swords and fire ("I've been fire-eating since I was 15"). "I want to point out that the whole show is fun, it's entertainment. That's the main point of it. There are serious sides to what I do in terms of the mind-body relationship, and some people have been asking about that, and I've been doing some lecturing at New Age conventions lately. But the show -- some people might find it shocking, but it's shocking in a fun way. There are some shocking roller coasters, but people are still drawn to them. It's a fun show. We get the audience cheering and yelling, and everybody leaves having a good time. That's the main point."
The show, coming to the Firehouse at 10 p.m. and midnight Friday, Dec. 11, includes Zamora, the strongman Mighty Jack Hartley ("some beefcake for the ladies," says the Torture King) and Flex the Rubber Boy. "I'm going to be eating fire," he says, describing the evening's entertainment. "I'm going to stand on eggs without breaking them" -- this feat, he explains, is done to show that "precision and skill" are employed in ways other than those death-defying acts. "I swallow swords. I break up bottles onstage and walk on them, jump up and down on them barefoot. I lie down on them and have someone from the audience jump up and down on me. Rubber Boy, for a warm-up, goes through a tennis racket and through a toilet seat. It gets stranger from there. I do the bed of nails with four guys on top of me who weigh 200 pounds-plus, so I have at least 800 pounds on top of me."
The Torture King goes on to describe one of Rubber Boy's feats, in which he manages to put himself into a bound straitjacket and then into a small box, qualifying himself as the only living "enterologist." "When you see it, it's very funny, very amusing -- to me," he qualifies.
This is not -- in case you've gotten your hopes up -- an S/M show, the Torture King wants to note. He's not anything like the late performance artist Bob Flanagan, who drove a nail through his penis in the documentary Sick. Everyone keeps their clothes on in this show. Needles go through public parts only.
"The name 'Torture King' was something that was given to sideshow performers because that's the only context that the North Americans can understand the feats that are being performed," he explains. Piercings before swine, so to speak. "I appear to be torturing myself, but in reality I'm not. I'm showing you that I can overcome injury and pain. Everything I do is a physical mind-body stunt. I'm drawing aspects from martial art, from yoga, from Middle Eastern disciplines. I get myself in situations that should be painful or cause me injury, and I overcome that. I am not really hurting myself -- which does not mean it's not real; everything I do is real. We let people verify that all the implements we're using are real.
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