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Definition of the noun defloration
What does defloration mean as a name of something?
noun - plural: deflorations
- an act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something
- the act of depriving a woman of her virginity (especially by rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse)
- lexical domain: Acts - nouns denoting acts or actions
- more generic terms: carnal knowledge / coition / coitus / copulation / intercourse / relation / sex act / sexual congress / sexual intercourse / sexual relation = sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur
Alternative definition of the noun defloration
- the act of deflowering
Defloration is a musical group.
- albums: "Dripping With Blood", "The Bone Collection", "Necrotic Nightmares", "Abused With Gods Blessing"
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"Defloration" is a musical album of Pornlab.
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The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales (2014)
by Maria Tatar
defloration is the desire to protect him from a psychical danger – namely, the hostile reaction of the sexually immature woman...
Virginal Sexuality and Textuality in Victorian Literature (1993)
by Lloyd Davis
Defloration is a temporally ambiguous process that effaces and sustains the sociosexual value of virginity; after the event, it re-marks what is lost or passed. Lady Cook's image of a tested, Miltonic purity resolves this ambiguity by sublating it ...
Legal medicine and toxicology (1909)
by Robert Leonard Emerson
As already mentioned, defloration is the result of the first intercourse on the ostium vaginae. It occurs when the act is freely done, as well as when it is perpetrated by violence, so that it of itself does not in any way prove rape. On the other hand, ...
The Urologic and Cutaneous Review (1917)
§ Hymen defloration is a profession in the Philippines where the hymen has not ben ruptured in childhood by the old woman usually em- *Asche ...
Medicolegal aspects of moral offenses (1911)
by Léon Henri Thoinot
defloration is the rule. (c) From eleven to fifteen years the penis penetrates and usually passes beyond the hymen: complete defloration tends to become the rule . It has seemed to some authors that only cases of complete penetration with ...
Medical jurisprudence, forensic medicine and toxicology (1907)
by Rudolph August Witthaus
Incomplete defloration is the condition usually found. Pain and difficulty in walking are as important symptoms here as in grown women, but they will be present also if the inflammation is artificially produced in support of a false charge .
The Alienist and Neurologist (1905)
by Charles Hamilton Hughes
Hymen defloration is a profession in the Philippines where the hymen has not been ruptured in childhood by the old woman usually employed for this. Defloration of the bride among some Eskimos is done by the angekok. Later, a belief results ...
A Text-book of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology (1921)
by John Glaister
Defloration is the rupturing of the hymen, the result of such carnal knowledge. Up till. the passing of the 24 & 25 Vict. cap. 100, sec. 48, the punishment was death; thereafter, periods of penal servitude or imprisonment. The effect of reducing the ...
The Interpretation of Ritual (2004)
Essays in Honour of A.I. Richards by Jean Sybil La Fontaine
Defloration is the point at which nature and culture meet. Ritual under the ...
International Folkloristics (1999)
Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore by Alan Dundes
Defloration is the riddle, the task that may be represented as very ...
The Philosophy of the Marquis de Sade (2002)
by Timo Airaksinen
Defloration is a process which actualizes a potential opening, but by so doing the orifice is closed by the thing which enters it. The same idea occurs in Juliette at the place at which the valley of Gehenna is mentioned. At the ancient site of ...
Illness and Healing Among the Sakhalin Ainu (1981)
A Symbolic Interpretation by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Defloration is the point at which nature and culture meet.
The Rig Veda (1981)
An Anthology : One Hundred and Eight Hymns, Selected, Translated and Annotated by Wendy Doniger
This blood becomes a magic spirit, potent and dangerous though not necessarily evil ; the defloration is an auspicious event but too powerful to allow its emblem to remain present afterwards. The power of the blood is transferred to the bride's ...
Thinking Through the Body (1990)
by Jane Gallop
Defloration is the tearing of the hymen by a force which goes from outside to inside. In this mythic model, puberty would consist in a tearing of the hymen by a force moving from inside to outside. This myth of puberty sets up a specular relation ...
The Freud Encyclopedia (2002)
Theory, Therapy, and Culture by Edward Erwin
Freud links frigidity in women with anxiety about defloration. Destruction of the hymen leads to "narcissistic injury." Frigidity also reflects the ...
A dictionary of practical materia medica (1900)
in three volumes. Iberis - Pelargonium reniforme by John Henry Clarke
Defloration. Skimmed Milk (cow's). Dilution. Clinical. — Anaemia. Appendicitis. Asthma. Bright's disease. Constipation. Diabetes. Dropsy. Fainting spells. Headache. Heart, affections of. Lactation, defective. Leucorrhoea.
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|28 Jun 1994
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|24 Jul 1992
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|26 Sep 1990
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|Futrex, Inc.
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This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. Pat. application Ser. No. 07/588,628 filed Sep. 26, 1990 and which will issue as U.S. Pat. No. 5,134,302, on Jul. 28, 1992.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to improvements in near-infrared quantitative measuring instruments and particularly, to a method and means for generating synthetic spectra for such instruments.
2. Background and Prior Art
Near-infrared quantitative measuring instruments have been available for approximately 20 years. These instruments have proven to be highly accurate and simple to use for the measurement of chemical constituents in many different types of materials. For example, near-infrared instruments are commonly used in the grain industry for determining the protein of wheat and barley, in the food industry for measuring various organic constituents within food, in the chemical process industry to determine the chemical constituents within a production product, and in the medical field for non-invasively determining such items as body fat percentage.
There are three general types of near-infrared measuring instruments. Reflectance-type instruments normally measure between 1,100 and 2,500 nanometers to provide accurate measurement of materials that have a consistent surface and require access to only one side of the product being measured. Transmission-type measurements are available that operate between 600 and 1,100 nanometers and are able to measure almost any type of product without sample preparation provided that access is available to both sides of the measured product. The third type of near-infrared instrument is the interactance type which normally operates between 600 and 1,100 nanometers. In this type of instrument, light energy is directed into a body of a product and on the same side of the body at some distance away, the internal reflected light is measured.
In any of the above-described type of near-infrared measuring instruments, the use of discrete filters or the use of full scanning instruments are known. An example of the use of a filter-type approach is shown in U.S. Pat. No. 4,286,327.
In many applications, either discrete filter or full scanning instruments will provide similar accuracy. However, there are some applications where the typical discrete filter-type instruments do not provide sufficient information. Examples of this are applications where advanced mathematical treatments such as Partial Least Square or Principle Component Analysis are applied. In such approaches, a large number of wavelengths are needed to provide the necessary calibration coefficients.
One major disadvantage of the full scanning instruments is that they are considerably more expensive than the discrete filter instruments. Thus, the desire has been to develop techniques that allow discrete filter instruments to provide the same sensitivity and versatility as full scanning instruments. One such approach is described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,627,008 where the use of curvilinear interpolation allows development of synthetic spectra from a discrete filter instrument.
However, in the measurement of very subtle constituents, e.g., non-invasive measurement of the level of glucose in the blood stream with a low cost portable instrument, accurate knowledge of spectra is required at many wavelengths. There is a need in the art to generate such spectra to provide a meaningful quantitative measuring instrument.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,286,327 teaches that a group of IREDs, each with a separate narrow bandpass filter in front of it, can be consecutively illuminated, thereby generating meaningful optical information. In such patent, a separate narrow bandpass filter is required for each wavelength to be measured. However, for a low cost portable instrument where broad spectrum information is required, it becomes essentially impractical to provide the number of narrow bandpass filters that are required. A size limitation, combined with the need for low cost, precludes such approach.
For example, research has shown that on some individuals, accurate measurement of blood glucose can be obtained by using a combination of wavelengths between 640 nanometers and 1,000 nanometers. These studies have also shown that different combinations of wavelengths are required for different individuals because of the body composition differences between people. For example, if cholesterol or glucose is desired to be measured, those constituents are in such minute quantities compared to the presence of water, fat and protein in the body that they are difficult to measure without multiple wavelengths. Thus, the need in the art exists to provide a low cost, portable, simple instrument and yet have the instrument provide the equivalent of wavelengths at every 1 nanometer between 640 to 1,000 nanometers so as to be useful over a broad population.
This invention provides a method and means for producing synthetic spectra for use in quantitative near-infrared measuring instruments which can be utilized in curvilinear interpolation instruments and which provide two wavelengths from a single IRED by using a dual chip IRED, and provide multiple outputs by utilizing dual bandpass filters with a single IRED. Thus, two wavelengths at a very narrow tolerance can be produced from a single IRED.
FIG. 1(A) shows a spectra of blood glucose values for a first individual.
FIGS. 1 (B) and 1(C) show an expanded view of the FIG. 1(A) spectra.
FIG. 2(A) shows a spectra of blood glucose values for a second individual.
FIGS. 2(B) and 2(C) show an expanded view of the FIG. 2(A) spectra.
FIG. 3(A) shows a spectra of blood glucose values for a third individual.
FIGS. 3(B) and 3(C) show an expanded view of the FIG. 3(A) spectra.
FIG. 4(A) shows a spectra of blood glucose values for a fourth individual.
FIGS. 4(B) and 4(C) show an expanded view of the FIG. 4(A) spectra.
FIGS. 5(A) and 5(B) are schematics of a dual chip IRED showing different arrangements of such IREDs with optical bandpass filters.
FIGS. 6(A) and 6(B) are typical spectra for both light emitting diodes (LEDs) and infrared emitting diodes (IREDs).
FIG. 7(A) is spectra of a typical narrow bandpass filter and 7(B) illustrates a special narrow bandpass filter for two different bands.
FIGS. 8(A) and 8(B) are schematics of an IRED having three chips and illustrating different arrangements of such IREDs with optical bandpass filters.
FIG. 9 is a block diagram of a non-invasive near-infrared quantitative measurement apparatus according to the present invention.
To study how many wavelengths are required for accurate quantitative measurement using IRED techniques, an interactive study of accuracy of generating a synthetic spectra using the curvilinear approach taught by U.S. Pat. No. 4,627,008 versus actual spectra in different people was performed. For example, in wavelengths between 640 to 1,000 nanometers, it was found that 12 discrete wavelengths properly located in the spectra can generate a synthetic spectra that is equal in accuracy to when one "real spectra" is compared to another "real spectra." ("Real spectra" is defined as a spectra obtained from a high quality scanning spectrophotometer.)
For typical people, it was discovered that the following 12 wavelengths would provide the basis for generating synthetic spectra. (These wavelengths allow some reasonable tolerance, approximately �2 nanometers each.) These wavelengths are set forth in the following table.
TABLE I______________________________________GROUP A GROUP BFilter FilterNumber Wavelength Number Wavelength______________________________________1 640 nm 7 878 nm2 688 8 9163 698 9 9464 754 10 9645 804 11 9746 840 12 1000______________________________________
FIGS. 1(A)-(C) through 4(A)-(C) contain spectra from four different individuals, respectively, covering a broad range of race, body composition and gender. Each of the figures provide an overlay of "real data," i.e., data which was actually measured by a scanning spectrophotometer at every one nanometer interval, represented in an expanded scale, with a synthetic spectra generated using a curvilinear technique utilizing the 12 wavelengths set forth above. On each of these curves in FIGS. 1(A)-(C) through 4(A)-(C), the correlation squared term (R�R) is given as well as the standard error between the "real data" versus the synthetic spectra. As can be seen, the synthetic spectra is very accurate as compared to the real spectra.
Also presented in FIGS. 1(A)-(C) through 4(A)-(C) are the R squared and the standard error of one real spectra overlaid with another real spectra of the same individual, represented as "Real vs. Real", at approximately the same period in time (measured within a few minutes of each other). (Note the figures do not show the curves of the real spectra overlaying.) As illustrated in FIGS. 1(A)-(C) through 4(A)-(C), the synthetic spectra and the real spectra accuracy numbers are quite close to the accuracy number between two real spectra. Moreover, when regression analysis against known blood glucose values was performed with the synthetic spectra analysis of the present invention, it provided essentially identical accuracy as such analysis using real spectra.
A low cost method of implementing this invention is shown in FIGS. 5(A) and 5(B). In each of these figures, there is shown a light emitting diode 10 using two light emitting chips 12 and 14 in the single diode. The chips may be alternately energized through leads 16 as is known in the art. For example, a single diode may be obtained on the market that provides both red and green light, depending on the way it is powered. In FIGS. 5(A) and 5(B), the single diode 10 comprises the two chips 12 and 14. Chip 14 would provide energy in the region of wavelengths Group A and chip 12 would provide energy in the region of wavelengths Group B from Table I above.
This can be further understood with reference to FIGS. 6(A) and 6(B) which are taken from "Opto Electronic Components Data Book 1988" of Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. In these figures, typical spectra for both LEDs and IREDs are shown. For example, wavelength #6 and wavelength #12 from Table I above can be generated using two chips 12 and 14 in a single IRED 10, namely chips AN and DN. Thus, the wavelength region for wavelength #6 in Table I would be from the chip DN, i.e., chip 14, and wavelength #12 would be a chip of the characteristics AN, i.e., chip 12.
Set forth below in Table II are the same wavelengths as in Table I above, but with the corresponding chips selected from FIGS. 6(A) and 6(B). Stated differently, depending on how the IRED is powered, i.e., whether chip 12 or chip 14 is energized, either energy for wavelength 12 or wavelength 6 is illuminated.
TABLE II______________________________________GROUP A GROUP BFilter FilterNumber Wavelength Number Wavelength______________________________________1 640 nm AR or BR 7 878 CN or DN2 688 BR or PR 8 916 CN or BN3 698 PR 9 946 AN or BN4 754 PR 10 964 AN or CN5 804 PR or DN 11 974 AN6 840 DN Type 12 1000 AN Type______________________________________
Also as shown in FIG. 5(A), there is a bandpass filter 20 with two bandpasses. While in FIG. 5(B), there are separate optical bandpass filters 22 and 24, filter 22, for example, with a bandpass for #6 wavelength in the table above, and optical filter 24 with a bandpass for #12 wavelength in the table above. The bandpass filter 20 of FIG. 5(A) could pass two bands, for example, as shown in FIG. 7(B). In other words, FIG. 7(A) illustrates a spectra of a typical narrow bandpass filter which would be filter 24 in FIG. 5(B). FIG. 7(B) illustrates the transmission from a special narrow dual bandpass filter that allows light to pass at two different bands, e.g., 840 and 1,000 nanometers.
When the dual chip IRED in FIG. 5(A) is utilized in a single filter with two bandpasses as shown in FIG. 7(B), and when the first chip of the IRED is illuminated, wavelength #6 is available. When that chip is de-energized and the second chip is powered, then wavelength #12 of the above table is illuminated.
Utilizing this invention, only 6 IREDs and 6 filters are required to generate the identical data that would normally take 12 optical filters in combination with 12 individual IREDs. Thus, the number of parts is reduced by a factor of 2 which means a significant increase in reliability as well as the cost being reduced by a factor of 2. Moreover, this invention reduces the space requirements and such is essential for a portable pocket-size instrument.
In accordance with another embodiment of the present invention, a low cost apparatus for implementing the present invention is shown in FIGS. 8(A) and 8(B). In each of these figures, there is shown a light emitting diode 30 using three light emitting chips 33, 34 and 35 in the single diode. The chips may be alternately energized through leads 31 as is known in the art, emitting the wavelengths, for example, as shown above in Table I.
Also as shown in FIG. 8(A), there is a bandpass filter 32 with three bandpasses which can pass three bands, or wavelengths of interest, substantially similar to spectra illustrated in FIG. 7(B). In FIG. 8(B), three separate optical bandpass filters 36, 37 and 38 are utilized to pass wavelengths of interest similar to the spectra illustrated in FIG. 7(A).
Utilizing this invention, only 4 IREDs and 4 filters are required to generate the identical data that would normally take 12 optical filters in combination with 12 individual IREDs. Thus, the number of parts is significantly reduced which means a significant increase in reliability as well as the cost reductions.
In another embodiment of present invention, a synthetic spectra can be generated equal in accuracy to a "real spectra" using wavelengths between approximately 600 to approximately 1,100 nanometers, from discrete wavelengths located within the spectra. In addition to the wavelengths disclosed above, utilizing wavelengths at approximately 1023 and approximately 1080 nanometers can be used to create an accurate synthetic spectra in accordance with the present invention.
In still another aspect of the present invention, a synthetic spectra can be generated equal in accuracy to a "real spectra" in wavelengths between approximately 600 to approximately 1100 nanometers, from 14 discrete wavelengths properly located within the spectra. The following 14 wavelengths provide a basis for generating a synthetic spectra. (These wavelengths allow some reasonable tolerance, approximately �2 nanometers each.) These wavelengths are set forth in the following table.
TABLE III______________________________________GROUP A GROUP BFilter FilterNumber Wavelength Number Wavelength______________________________________1 604 nm 8 833 nm2 658 9 8603 702 10 8774 723 11 9105 746 12 9326 786 13 9537 810 14 990______________________________________
A low cost method and apparatus for implementing the present invention is essentially the same as disclosed above in connection with FIGS. 5(A) and 5(B). In this embodiment, seven dual chip IREDs are utilized to create the desired wavelengths as described above. Also, a single bandpass filter having two bandpasses or two bandpass filters can be utilized as disclosed in FIGS. 5(A) and 5(B).
Set forth below in Table IV are examples of types of IREDs which can be used to create the desired wavelengths as set forth in Table III above.
TABLE IV______________________________________LED # Manufacturer Part # Wavelength______________________________________1 Stanley MAA33685 604 nm2 Gilway .sup. E-169 6583 Quantum TI-746 7024 Quantum TI-746 7235 Quantum TI-746 7466 Stanley DN 306 7867 Stanley DN 306 8108 Stanley DN 306 8339 Stanley DN 306 86010 Stanley DN 306 87711 Stanley CN 306 91012 Stanley AN 306 93213 Stanley AN 306 95314 Stanley AN 306 990______________________________________
Utilizing this invention, only 7 IREDs and 7 filters are required to generate the identical data that would normally take 12 optical filters in combination with 12 individual IREDs. Thus, the number of parts is significantly reduced which means a significant increase in reliability as well as the cost reductions.
FIG. 9 illustrates the basic components of a non-invasive near-infrared analysis instrument according to the present invention. A microcomputer processor 90 controls operation of a near-infrared energy source 92. According to the present invention, pluralities of IREDs 10 or 30 as shown in FIGS. 5A-5B and 8A-8B are used as the source 92. A test object 94 such as the finger or other body part of a subject is placed between the source 92 and a detector 96. Near-infrared energy emanating from the test object is detected by detector 96, the signal from detector 96 is processed by circuitry 98 (typically comprising amplification and analog-to-digital conversion circuitry), and inputted to microcomputer processor 90 to perform calculation operations on the data from the detector.
It is the intention not to be limited by this specific embodiment but only by the scope of the appended claims. For example, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the use of twelve or fourteen wavelengths (and, correspondingly, six or seven dual chip IREDs) to create the synthetic spectra.
The present invention is intended to encompass, inter alia, the use of dual or other multiple chip IREDs in an instrument for generating a synthetic allowing quantitative measurements.
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,,, and 'Sunbath' also!
Tks for adding 'Butterfly' to your collection!!
honored to be included among these beautiful pictures! ^.^
and sorry for my english! ^^"
Thank you for including "Opening" in your beautiful collection
thanks for the fav! ^,^
thanks for the fav
Thanks for the adds to this collection!
Thank you very much for the faves on my two flower photos. Much appreciated.


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Why then did I go down from 1200 (to 1361) when I beat someone who has a rating above 1200 (1089)?? Admittedly don't have time to read the article... but hoping someone knows how this works anyway!
everyone starts out with a rating and a variable that determines how accurate your rating is. if you haven't played any games, then that variable is HUGE and allows your rating to swing more aggressively. but if you have played 1,000 games all very recently, then you have a low variable, so your rating will move more slowly. also, your opponent's variable matters. if they have a very loose variable, your rating will move less than if they have a tight variable.
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TORONTO, ONTARIO, Sep 18, 2012 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Ron Dizy, President and CEO of ENBALA Power Networks has been named in Delta Management's 2013 Clean50 Awards in the category of Renewable Energy. The 2013 Clean50 Awards recognizes individuals and teams that have pioneered revolutionary projects for alternative energy innovation and clean capitalism in Canada. ENBALA is a world leader of developing and operating a unique Smart Grid platform, pioneering innovation to balance the real-time supply and demand for electricity through industrial, commercial and institutional facilities.
Nominees for this year's Clean50 Renewable Energy were asked to submit a project that has had an outstanding measurable impact in the industry. Under Mr. Dizy's leadership, ENBALA operates a Smart Grid platform that offers electricity grid operators an innovative way to integrate the operation of renewable power generation sources, such as wind and solar, into the grid. This is a real-time, robust, reliable and resilient approach that increases the grid's efficiency and reliability, while providing a new revenue stream for large electricity users that are engaged to participate in the solution.
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What can be more appealing, romantic and glamorous for a bride than an artistic vintage inspired wedding ring set? We found these charming antique bridal sets on the website of Emma Parker & Co and we've decided to bring them here so that you can examine them closely and learn more about the antique style.
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The surprise comes from the fact that the number of those who decide to adopt this fancy style for their wedding ceremony and receptions is constantly growing! The truth is that the old couture style is nowadays brought back to life by really talented and experienced designers with great visions who know how to transform a traditional or a classic and standard design into a more fashionable and glamorous design that can reach the preferences of the modern women.
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A foreign diplomat in Turkey told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the rebels were likely not receiving any heavy weapons, making any chance of their taking over Aleppo exceedingly low. The diplomat asked that his name and details of his position not be published because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
There has been a marked increase in the number of refugees fleeing to Turkey in the past two days as Aleppo-based activists reported fresh clashes.
Some 3,350 people crossed the border overnight and Wednesday to escape the escalating violence, Turkey's state-run news agency reported Wednesday. Some 50,000 Syrians have now found refuge in Turkey. Even more refugees have crossed into Jordan and Lebanon.
"Unfortunately, there is a human tragedy going on in Syria," Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan said Wednesday, keeping up Turkey's criticism of the violence.
The regime has been hit by a wave of defections, most recently by Prime Minister Riad Hijab.
The rebel Free Syrian Army and a Jordanian security official said Hijab arrived in Jordan on Wednesday, two days after hiding in a "safe location" inside Syria near the border.
FSA leader Ahmed Kassem, who told The Associated Press on Monday that Hijab had defected to Jordan, said Wednesday that he had actually been inside Syrian territory for the past two days waiting to cross. He said his earlier account was meant to "confuse the Syrian regime over the prime minister's whereabouts."
A Jordanian security official said Hijab's escape was coordinated between the Jordanian army and FSA. He insisted on anonymity because he is not allowed to speak to the media.
Assad has been forced to rely on a shrinking list of allies, including Iran. Senior Iranian envoy Saeed Jalili visited Damascus on Tuesday, appearing with Assad in a show of solidarity.
The rebels have blasted Iran's influence in the country, and over the weekend rebel forces intercepted a bus carrying 48 Iranians and kidnapped them. Rebels claimed the men are military personnel, including some members of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard who were on a "reconnaissance mission" to help Assad's crackdown on the uprising.
Iran initially said the 48 were pilgrims visiting a Shiite shrine in Damascus. The Iranian foreign minister said Wednesday that some of the kidnapped Iranians are retired members of the army and Revolutionary Guard.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran has announced openly that some of the pilgrims kidnapped are retired members of the Guard and the Army," Iran's official IRNA news agency quoted Salehi as saying during a visit to Turkey.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard is the nation's largest military force.
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Help-does anyone out there know what the threading is for a Mercian seat tube bolt-screw(1977 vintage/)??It looks like 7mm,but I don't know the threading-I have an assortment of spare nuts-bolts-mainly MC stuff-but they don't fit(more than 1.5 gently turns).I took it out years ago for some dumb shi! project,and it is gone.I emiled Mercian,but I don't expect a reply.Thanks.Charlie
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My car is about 260,000 miles. It never failed to start until six months ago, when the car randomly would not start with no cranking sound. Each time the jump start worked right away. I have brand new battery. In fact i thought the battery was the problem, so I got new battery three times the last six months. The not-starting problem happens once every few weeks, usually right after I had driven on freeway for about 20-40 minutes. I brought the car to the shop, the mechanics said the alternator is working. The starter might be on its way out. If it is the problem of the starter, why it started right away when jumped? Could it be the alternator not always charging battery when driving? I have both original starter and alternator. Thank you for any possible solutions.
Car randomly not starting, no cranking sound, had to jump start on 1995 Toyota Corolla
by Toyo95 in Norwich, CT on May 01, 2013
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ANSWER by ziptie12 , May 01, 2013
When it fails to start , what symptom does it give you? A simple 'click' , cranking but will not 'catch'(start), or no response at all from turning the ignition Answer EACH of those questions and help narrow down the cause(With headlights on and key in crank position , the lights don't change at all)? Answer EACH of those questions and help narrow down the cause.
COMMENT by Toyo95 , May 01, 2013
When the problem happened, It had no cranking sound. The dashboard lid up, but no response from turning the ignition. This only happened five times for the last five months. I didn't try with the headlights on when it was not starting. If it happened again, I will make sure to test.
ANSWER by globalhelper , May 01, 2013
do you have any eng codes?
COMMENT by Toyo95 , May 01, 2013
My engine light has been on since 2008. Because it is a 95 Toyota, I am not able to get the code reading.
COMMENT by ziptie12 , May 01, 2013
For code retrieval on that year , there is a diagnostic connector box under the hood (about an inch by an inch&a half) possibly by one of the strut towers. Open the lid and there should be a diagram of the terminals. With key off , put a jumper wire(Metal paper clip) into the ones labeled TE and TE1 , turn key to 'on' and count the flashes-ex.--code 34 would be 3 blinks followed by a short pause then 4 blinks , then a longer pause before the next code , if more than one.


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Skip to comments.Walking Dead - What Are Your Season Finale Predictions? [contains SPOILERS from most recent episode]
Posted on 03/26/2013 10:36:13 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
Here is a list of the major named characters and their locations as of the end of the most recent episode "This Sorrowful Life":
The Prison:
baby Judith
The Governor
Sasha (Tyreese's sister)
Allen (originally part of Tyreese's group)
What are your predictions for the season finale?
The Zombies will continue to eat well.
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LOL! As always! ;-)
From last week's preview, it appeared that the prison group would be packing up to leave. It also appeared that the Gov was getting ready to assault the prison at about the same time.
Rick and Co. try to leave the prison but can't get out before the Guv hits them I predict.
ummm I admit to watching this show,not for sure why..
The prison is left booby trapped. The prison crew makes it to Woodbury or back where Malcolm is. Either one or both Glenn and or Maggie dies given the love and affection we saw last time.
Is that Maggie as a zombie getting choked by Michone?
I thought that they were packing up to leave the prison while the Governor was busy torturing Andrea. The sneak peek seems to hint that the prison is empty when the Governor and his people show up to assault the prison. But what surprises did Rick & crew leave behind for them?
Some Walkers fight over the Governors good eye.
It does kind of look like Maggie, doesn't it? No, that pic is from the most recent episode "This Sorrowful Life". The zombie is just a random extra, as far as I know.
Wishes? The Governor must die. I'd have had that bastard at room temp a looong time ago. Andrea should have done it a long time ago but has proven herself useless.
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I didn't start watching this show until this season. I am somewhat troubled by the callous indifference shown to the plight of the Walkers by the characters. After all, they were human once and became Zombies through no fault of their own.
But they might do a look-like-he-dies thing but then he pops up again half way through the next season. Either Glenn or Maggie is doomed (then Darryl and Carol will become next season's cute couple) and probably Hershal.
And maybe...the baby dies but doesn't become a zombie proving that the virus does not transmit to the next generation.
Then, Carl and Beth hook up because it is the end of the world and you're never too young to start because you probably will never reach maturity any way.
Milton is probably doomed. Andrea will live even though most of us would rather see her eaten.
Whew! Is that enough?
Never ever ever get engaged, or talk about how happy you are, right before a season-ending battle.
"Is that Maggie as a zombie getting choked by Michone?"
No, I think it's actually Debbie Wasserman-Schultz without makeup on.
That was Greg Nicotero. He's the head of the special makeup effect department. He also directs some episodes. He's been a zombie 3 different times on the show (so far).
I thought I heard them say on the Talking Dead that there would be some "celebrity" zombies in the upcoming season finale.
They are in survival mode and have become hardened. They don't kill Walkers unless threatened by them.
I just don't know how any of them can have an apetite. LOL
Well, perhaps Andrea can start her own walker civil rights law practice after the Governor's done torturing her. ;-)
Low information voters will join the hordes of the undead haunting the 1% until they're reduced to poverty. Fast food will take on a whole new identity.
The last episode had 10.99 million viewers for the initial broadcast hour. Next week Season Finale will probably top 12 million.
My prediction is its really hard to predict with this show. However, it won't hurt my feelings if Andrea and Milton bite the dust. Andrea could have ended this coming battle if she had killed the Governor. She had multiple opportunities.
LOL, this is nothing but one cliche it seems. I was thinking the governor kidnaps Judith, but that would be to close to Lost.
The only survivors are Rick, Carl, Daryl, Michonne, Hershel (all of the best actors). AND The Governor!
Everyone else gets eaten.
But then - there has to be a major hook for next season:
The Survivors Find Out That There Is A CURE!
Tune in next season:)
Damn it, you're probably right.
The characters have not always been so callous. The personal loss, deprivations, hunger - the abject horror they've experienced since day one have changed them, even as they tried to retain their humanity.
You really must see it from the beginning.
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I thought jdub was being facetious?
I'm in agreement with you about Glenn or Maggie, and Herschel. I knew when the three of them shared those happy little moments about the proposal that at least one will die. UGH, I hate it.
My prediction is that the Governor survives.
Morrisey plays such an effective villain, it is just shocking. I noticed on the Talking Dead that when Morrisey was introduced, there seemed to be a good three seconds before anyone dared to applaud him.
I thought this was quite an underhanded compliment at how effective he is as a villain.
In the comic book Glenn and Maggie get married and have a baby. Eventually Glenn dies.
I pretty sure Andrea lives.
My guess is that Milton will let Andrea go and the Gov will kill him.
I would not be surprised if Andrea then kills the Gov.
Before the last episode, I predicted Daryl would be killed, and Merle would go nuts. Clearly, I had that backward.
In the season finale, Daryl will kill the governor, Milton will die, and Carol will die. Carl will save the group in some surprising way.
I know, right? :-(
I agree..by the way did you see the gov on the Talking Dead? co producer was on as well...Morrisey is an effective villain for sure
In the pilot episode, Rick was setting off to find his wife and son, and he came across a female walker----she was just a torso, trying to pull herself along by her arms. Rick put her out of her misery, but before he did, he said, "I'm sorry this happened to you." I don't believe the survivors are indifferent. It's just that they've necessarily become harder, and are doing what they must to survive.
I was amazed on how well he does the good 'ol boy Southern dialect considering his natural Irish regular speech.
Yep, I did. Dude just owns.
I thought I heard that he was to play Doctor Who now. Not sure if I misheard that or what, but I'd watch.
Daryl made it back? Last I saw of him he was at the meeting place killing zombies who were eating his brother Merle (who died at the hands of the Governor).
But I think he is an Englishmun.
Much of season 2 was hand-wringing about that issue. Herschel, the one-legged guy, had kept a bunch of zombies in his barn on the theory that they might be saved with a cure. They eventually escaped and ate up some of his family. That was sort of the end of the discussion on sympathy for the zombies.
I've always thought Brit actors do better Southern accents.
Andrea rejoins Rick's group along with Milton, Tyrese and Sasha. Beth, Hershel and possibly Carol get killed.
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Well its all done. Will be giving it the commute test tomorrow. Sram X9 triggers shift like a dream compared to whatever it was stock. The tires are a bit on the beefy side but I love the balloon ride. Some Duranos on this thing would make me have to rename it. LOL
With the parts bin/spare stuff I already had saving me from needing a fortune of new stuff, I am well under 400 bills for this configuration. Loving it!
As seen here the ride comes in at just over 30 lbs.
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The former head of an oil field services company admitted today that he had company employees work several months on a remodeling project...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The former head of an oil field services company admitted today that he had company employees work several months on a remodeling project at the home of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens.
Ex-VECO Corp. CEO Bill Allen made the admission Friday while testifying in the federal corruption trial of a former state lawmaker.
Allen and former VECO Vice President Rick Smith in May pleaded guilty to extortion, conspiracy and bribery of legislators.
Under cross-examination by defense attorney James Wendt, representing former state Rep. Pete Kott, Allen acknowledged that the more than $400,000 he admitted spending in the bribery charge was for other legislators — and for work done at the Girdwood, Alaska, home of Stevens, the longest serving Republican in the U.S. Senate.
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"I don't think there was a lot of materials," Allen said. "There was some labor."
The workers were VECO employees, probably one to four at a time, Allen said. He said the work on the home lasted for "probably a couple of months." Later, he said it might have been as much as six months.
The remodeling work in summer and fall 2000 more than doubled the size of the house, a four-bedroom structure that is Stevens' official residence in Alaska.
Stevens has said while the contracting bills were first sent to VECO for accuracy checks, he paid for the work.
Stevens' spokesman, Aaron Saunders, had no comment on Allen's testimony. He referred to an earlier statement, which said Stevens was not commenting because Stevens does not want to appear to be trying to influence the case.
Allen said he also gave Stevens some old, used furniture.
He would visit the remodeling every month or two, he said.
"Most of the time I was gone with VECO business," Allen said.
Prosecutors asked Allen whether he was aware that other contractors, non-VECO employees, worked on Stevens' house and were being paid by VECO.
Allen he knew of at least two, a plumber and a carpenter.
The remodeling job at Stevens' home was fraught with problems at the start. He estimated it would cost about $85,000 and told city building officials he would be his own contractor.
The plan was to raise Stevens' single-level home and, beneath it, construct a new first floor with two bedrooms, a game room and sauna. The completed project would be twice the size of the original, modest house in the town of Girdwood, about 40 miles south of Anchorage. Building records don't indicate how things went wrong, but somehow the framing was botched and help was called in to fix it.
Allen also said the plea agreement he signed admitted payments to Stevens' son Ben, whom Allen had hired as a consultant after Ben Stevens left college in 1995. The consulting work continued after Ben Stevens was appointed to the Alaska state Senate in 2002.
"It was $4,000 per month," Allen said.
Wendt closely questioned Allen whether the amount to the younger Stevens exceeded $200,000. Allen said the amount he paid Stevens before he was a state senator should not be counted.
"I don't think you can count that," he said.
Allen stepped down from his job as VECO chairman after his plea agreement. The sale of the company to CH2M Hill was completed last week.
VECO is one of the state's largest oil field services company, with more than 4,000 employees. The company operates around the world but more than half of its work is in Alaska, supporting the oil industry with service and maintenance contracts, according to Allen.
Allen for more than two decades has been a behind the scenes political force, supplying campaign money to lawmakers sympathetic to the petroleum industry.
Over the past six years, VECO executives and the company itself contributed more than $119,000 to Ted Stevens' political organizations, according to tracking by Political Money Line, an Internet database. Of that amount, Allen contributed $20,000. Stevens and Allen also are longtime friends and partners in a racehorse investment.
Kott, whose trial began Monday, is charged with doing the bidding of VECO in exchange for money, nearly $9,000, a political poll for his re-election bid and the promise of a job with VECO. Kott was a seven-term state representative from Eagle River, a northern suburb of Anchorage. He is a former state House speaker.
Associated Press Writer Matt Apuzzo in Anchorage contributed to this report.


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Research Article
Stamping plasmonic nanoarrays on SERS-supporting platforms
Version of Record online: 6 APR 2011
DOI: 10.1002/jrs.2940
Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Journal of Raman Spectroscopy
Volume 42, Issue 11, pages 1916–1924, 15 November 2011
Additional Information
How to Cite
Bhandari, D., Wells, S. M., Polemi, A., Kravchenko, I. I., Shuford, K. L. and Sepaniak, M. J. (2011), Stamping plasmonic nanoarrays on SERS-supporting platforms. J. Raman Spectrosc., 42: 1916–1924. doi: 10.1002/jrs.2940
Publication History
- Issue online: 10 NOV 2011
- Version of Record online: 6 APR 2011
- Manuscript Accepted: 8 FEB 2011
- Manuscript Received: 31 AUG 2010
- nanotransfer printing;
- surface-enhanced Raman scattering;
- nanofabrication;
- SERS substrate;
- Maxwell's equation
The dielectric property of a nanoparticle-supporting film has recently garnered attention in the fabrication of plasmonic surfaces. A few studies have shown that the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR), and hence surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), strongly depends on the substrate refractive index. In order to create higher efficiency SERS-active surfaces, it is therefore necessary to consider the substrate property along with nanoparticle morphology. However, due to certain limitations of conventional lithography, it is often not feasible to create well-defined plasmonic nanoarrays on a substrate of interest. Here, an additive nanofabrication technique, i.e., nanotransfer printing (nTP), is implemented to integrate electron beam lithography (EBL) defined high-aspect-ratio nanofeatures on a variety of SERS-supporting surfaces. With the aid of suitable surface chemistries, a wide range of plasmonic particles were successfully integrated on surfaces of three physically and chemically distinct dielectric materials, namely, polydimethyl siloxane (PDMS), SU-8 photoresist, and glass surfaces, using silicon-based relief pillars. These nTP-created metal nanoparticles strongly amplify the Raman signal and complement the selection of suitable substrates for better SERS enhancement. Our experimental observations are also supported by theoretical calculations. The implementation of nTP to stamp out metal nanoparticles on a multitude conventional/unconventional substrates has novel applications in designing in-built plasmonic microanalytical devices for SERS sensing and other related photonic studies. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


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Another Day of Life (Paperback)
In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other way, begging his was from Lisbon and comfort to Luanda--once famed as Africa's Rio de Janeiro--and chaos.Angola, a slave colony later given over to mining and plantations, was a promised land for generations of poor Portuguese. It had belonged to Portugal since before there were English-speakers in North America. After the collapse of the fascist dictatorship in Portugal in 1974, Angola was brusquely cut loose, spurring the catastrophe of a still-ongoing civil war. Kapuscinski plunged right into the middle of the drama, driving past thousands of haphazardly placed check-points, where using the wrong shibboleth was a matter of life and death; recording his imporessions of the young soldiers--from Cuba, Angola, South Africa, Portugal--fighting a nebulous war with global repercussions; and examining the peculiar brutality of a country surprised and divided by its newfound freedom.Translated from the Polish by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand.
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Born in Pinsk (in what is now Belarus), the celebrated Polish foreign correspondent Ryszard Kapuscinski is the author of, among other titles, Shah of Shahs, Imperium, Shadow of the Sun, The Other and the memoir Travels with Herodotus. His books have been translated into twenty-eight languages. He died in 2007.
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?Despite Kapuscinski?s insistence that 'the image of war is not communicable.' He has done just that and done it very well.??Newsweek