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writer gets a lesson in poker
By Holden
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chain-smoking woman sitting to my left chuckled.
"If you're staying in, I'm folding,"
she rasped, and she shoved her two pocket cards
toward the dealer.
She should have stayed
in. My luck didn't turn; it stayed bad. After
a round of betting, I folded at the flop.
I was in the card room
at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, sitting
between an unsuited pair of cigarette junkies
at the low-limit Texas
hold 'em poker table. I had taken a brief
class the day before to learn how this variation
of poker is played in a casino. (I had played
a few hands of hold 'em poker in kitchen table
games.) Soon I was about to get a real-life poker
lesson, courtesy of a player named Simon. Like
a freshman English major who stumbles into a graduate
mathematics seminar, I knew that a lesson was
being taught when Simon cleaned out our table,
but I didn't understand it. Weeks later, I'm still
scratching my head, wondering if I played poorly,
if Simon was lucky -- or if he simply outplayed
us all.
I have always enjoyed
poker and have always been bad at it because I'm
naive, a lousy liar and too arrogant to take these
personality defects into account when I play.
I have more character flaws than anyone living
outside of prison, and one of them is my belief
that I'm always the smartest guy in the room.
So, at the poker table, I behave as if all I need
is a clear head, and I'll beat everyone. My customary
haughty modus operandi is to sit, sober as a Mormon
missionary, at kitchen tables crowded with pot-smoking,
beer-chugging players, and try to take advantage
of their altered mental states. Then they empty
my pockets.
My boss knew
only about the character flaws, not the poker
incompetence, when he gave what many people would
consider a dream assignment: Go to Las Vegas and
gamble -- on the clock and at company expense
-- and then write about it. I asked for a $500
gambling bankroll and got $300. My game plan went
something like this:
Of those three
things, I accomplished approximately one and a
half. I didn't commit any faux pas. I read about
half of "Hold 'Em Poker," by David Sklansky.
As far as impoverishing my enemies -- well, I
didn't do that. Simon did.
Simon joined our table
soon after that chain-smoking woman sitting beside
me folded because I hadn't folded. A player on
the other side of the table picked up his chips
and left. It was a nonsmoking seat, so I bade
adieu to the heavy smokers I was sitting between
and moved. A new player took my old seat. Simon.
I never asked him what
he did for a living, but I pegged Simon as a salesman
-- cars or stereos or big-screen TVs, maybe. He
had black, slicked-back hair, a small tattoo on
the neck under his right ear, and supreme self-confidence.
He greeted the three guys sitting to his right.
It turned out that they were buddies visiting
Vegas together. The guy farthest to Simon's right,
a redhead with a colorful rosary tattooed on his
left forearm, was Simon's brother, Solomon. Between
them were two friends.
Simon was capable of
swaggering in a chair. Whenever he wagered, he
thumped the chips dramatically on the table. He
talked like a character from "The Sopranos"
and probably could recite the dialogue from every
episode. He barked an endless stream of patter.
His favorite saying: "A scared gambler never
And he meant it. Simon
was betting almost every hand -- and winning.
One time, he won with a full house -- 4s over
deuces. "You mean you stayed in with a pair
of 4s?" one guy asked incredulously. Simon
shrugged and said, "A scared gambler never
Meanwhile, I was getting
terrible cards. In one stretch I folded about
25 consecutive times before betting. I sat at
that table for nine hours that night, and the
best deal I got was a pair of 10s. I rode that
hand all the way to the river, continuing to bet
in the face of reason. When the showdown came,
all I had was that measly pair of 10s, which got
annihilated by the winner's flush.
Simon didn't win that
hand, but he won a lot of others. He kept playing
cards that he had no business playing, at least
according to Sklansky's book. Invariably, Simon
would be dealt a 5 and an 8 and get the winning
hand on the last community card dealt. "A
scared gambler never wins," he would say
in the manner of a man who doesn't know much,
but knows what he knows.
Solomon, the redhead
with the rosary tattoo, occasionally studied me
like I was a specimen in an entomology lab. He,
too, probably knew every episode of "The
Sopranos" by heart. The two buddies sitting
between the brothers seemed content to cheer Simon
on, remarking on his amazing luck.
Occasionally, the four
spoke to one another in Arabic. For all the rest
of us knew, they were saying, "I have two
clubs, so don't go for the club flush." Finally,
the Chinese-looking guy sitting to my left said,
in a not-friendly way, "Hey, Dealer -- this
is an English-only table. Will you please enforce
the rules?" Simon and Solomon and his friends
apologized and stopped speaking Arabic. An hour
later, a new player joined the table -- a Chinese
man -- and he and Mr. English-Only exchanged pleasantries
in Chinese.
Spots opened at our
table as players got sick and tired -- or suspicious
-- of Simon's winning streak. He came to the table
with $100 in chips. Soon he fetched another tray
to hold another $100 in $1 chips. Then another
tray. Then another. "A scared gambler never
wins," he said over and over, as he repeatedly
won with atrocious hole cards. As if he knew what
cards were coming up. Other players stayed in
hands instead of folding, just to force Simon
to a showdown. More often than not, Simon won.
Simon's endless talk,
his chip-thumping, his Jersey wiseguy manner of
speech, his obvious love affair with himself --
they infuriated the rest of us. Was his loathsomeness
a deliberate strategy, designed to provoke us
into playing badly? Was he merely a repugnant,
but lucky, player? Were he and his buddies cheating?
I'll never know, but in hindsight I suspect it
was an act, and he was a good player taking advantage
of the rubes at the low-limit table.
As for me, I estimate
that I won less than one hand per hour. At one
point I went "all in" -- bet all of
my remaining chips -- and won about $30. It was
getting late, and if I had been playing with my
own money I probably would have cut my losses
and called it a night. But it was the company's
money, so I played for a few more hours until
I had lost all of the hundred bucks. By this time,
Simon had parlayed his $100 into more than $600.
I stewed about it for
days. A week later I flew home and got in my car
at the airport garage (new dent in the left rear
door). As I drove toward the tollbooths at the
exit, I cut off a Mercedes-Benz S-Class sedan.
There were queues at all the tollbooths and I
picked the shortest. The guy in the Mercedes got
in a longer line. I kept my eye on him. Sure enough,
he got through his booth and out the exit five
minutes before I did. Thus did I conclude bitterly
that I was enmeshed in a vast karmic conspiracy
to endow me with bad luck only.
Two months later, after my poker-dealt psychic
scars had faded, I made a pilgrimage to the dog
track, home of a spacious, smoke-free card room.
I couldn't get a seat at a Texas hold 'em table,
so I joined an Omaha hi-lo table, blithely disregarding
that I didn't know how to play the game. I quickly
got the gist. The highlight of the evening was
my four-of-a-kind -- kings -- and I walked out
with more money in my pocket than I had walked
in with.
Luck had nothing to
do with it. I won because of skill. Hadn't I made
the same conclusion about Simon?
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Is Romford MP Andrew Rosindell the only face of Havering?
09:00 13 May 2012
Romford MP Andrew Rosindell is the only person in Havering with a face – or so you would think from looking at national time capsule project Faces of Britain.
The website was set up to capture 100,000 mugshots of people across Britain as a memento of 2012 – a year in which the country will witness historical events such as the Olympics, Paralympics and the Queen's diamond jubilee.
Every borough or city has been given space to upload 212 different faces to show a cross-section of its population.
However, since the project was launched four months ago, only one visage has appeared in Havering's grid – that of Romford's elected parliamentary representative.
Despite his lack of companionship, Mr Rosindell appears in good spirits, smiling broadly in a small green rectangle.
David Sanders, the project's co-founder, said: "There are a few areas where there isn't a tremendous number of people and unfortunately Havering is an example of that.
"The local MP is a fantastic start. Hopefully that will be the trigger."
Mr Rosindell confirmed he had uploaded the photo himself, and hoped he would "set the trend".
"MPs should be seen to be active and involved in things," he added. "I don't see any harm in having my picture up there."
The Faces of Britain website explains: "We may never see so many high-profile events take place in a single year again. Faces of Britain gives you the chance to seal your place in an online 2012 time capsule – by uploading your photo onto a grid for your local area so you can say 'I was there' for the rest of your lifetime!"
If you would like to keep Mr Rosindell company "there", please go to www.facesofbritain.co.uk.

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At times life spoils me rotten, this time I needed it the most. Lovely mail from Shannah (daskaninchen) and Ibabe! New chair! It was Shannah's colourful treasures that sealed my decision to go buy it after having walked past it way too many times with longing in my eyes (okay, so I bought the chair the day I first saw it, but I did walk past it several times and wanted to take it home with me, but ignored the temptation until opening Shannah's parcel). I love the quirky proportions and the scruffy red paint. It's perfect next to my book cupboard. Now at least 1½m2 of my ~28m2 are pretty much perfect. (I have no idea what to do with the rest!)
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
making my home a home, again.
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Monday, 21 June 2010
At home, with flowers, books, movies, notebooks. I do have the ugliest wallpaper ever. (If you think it's not too bad, try living with it for a while.) On the wall yet another dictionary project, unfinished, nearly forgotten.
The longest day. I'm having trouble sleeping again, because of the light this time. Somehow it's less irritating now.
The longest day. I'm having trouble sleeping again, because of the light this time. Somehow it's less irritating now.
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Friday, 18 June 2010
Monday, 14 June 2010
returning home
Reading, writing, travelling. Writing has been pretty fantastic lately, nothing makes me happier. Still, I hope it's time to get back to bookmaking too.
(I wish those were my windows. I was walking home from the railway station when I had to stop and take some photos. It was past 11pm, but you could hardly tell. These buildings, this light and colour make this town my town. At least for now.)
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I've got 8 barrels of whiskey, a shotgun, a box of shells, and a cyanide pill. I'm ready.
Moonrise Kingdom is a movie about two kids using each other to get back at their parents in the hope of getting back their parents, whilst simultaneously stringing up a safety net for the audience. Great movie.
My favourite part of the film occurred during the scene when the adults rowed over in their little boats to the secluded cove – which the children have named Moonrise Kingdom. There, when the adults caught their children in the tent getting it on, the male kid hugged the girl and said: "We're in love."
The cyanide pill was calling for me when the kids started to do the sexy dances and kissing. I get it. We're supposed to dismiss all notions of what 'love' is, and let ourselves lean so far ahead that we drop down in the perspective that we should look at love as pure as theirs, that we should have no sort of direct disgust; what century is this you are not supposed to be disgusted anymore, we have to understand everything and everyone – we're supposed to intentionally suspend disbelief and fall into the hole – the director yells without words. The problem is that fake Hermione and that Moscow-hat bespectacled guy had absolutely no chance at real love. What they did was instead to follow what the adults did earlier in their lives – which leads us to our next problem.
It's made absolutely clear that in the movie, the adults are the 'antagonists', the destroyers of all good and pure, the corruption comes directly from them. Bill Murray talks about how he wishes he were dead, Francis McDormand is cheating on her husband. Let's take notice that all adults were portrayed as bumbling and useless. In the eyes of the targeted generation for the movie, here is how the adults look like to them: Bruce Willis – Die Hard; in this film he wears a well-ironed police uniform and does nothing but smoke and walk around. Edward Norton – American History X, The Hulk; never bursts out of his schoolmaster uniform, instead wears silk PJ's and drinks wine to bed. Harvey Keitel – Batman Begins, Pulp Fiction; has burnt marks all over his face because his cabin exploded while he was inside retrieving his arthritis medicine. The cast was chosen specifically to introduce such juxtaposition. What this means is that we know and understand the 'power' of all of these actors, but in a slight nod we acknowledge that in this movie they're playing something they're not – which further pushes the idea of who they are on the inside of the character, versus the role they have to play as the character, but what is 'real' is merely transposed into the inner character of the characters in this movie. What this means for the audience is that we see the all-star cast of adults and we recognize that they have an 'inner' power within them, despite their external uselessness/stupidity. If you haven't realised by now, this is the exact gaze that the audience views their real parents with.
Since we've established that in this movie, the kids see their adults as useless and dumb, can someone explain to me what is going on when the kids decide to follow right in their footsteps? Why are they doing the exact same thing as their parents (fall in love, have sex, hate on life) when they could do the exact opposite (be a Buddhist monk, turn to communism, anarchism…)? These kids see all the faults with what their parents are doing, and to rebel they do the exact same thing but 20 years earlier? For the adults, these activities (fall in love, have sex, hate on life) are merely rituals that they have to go through because they're adults. For kids to actually attempt these things, there is a transgression, and through this transgression we see the "real" meaning behind these things in life, something which the adults cannot see because they're adults. The kids are claiming 'meaning' back from life. I shouldn't need to remind you that this 'meaning' is supplied directly from 20th Century Fox. I hope your ticket was worth the money.
Let's go back: What is love? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more. Perhaps marriage will tell us all we need to know about love. At some point in the film, the kids get married, but just before that a sleazy-looking adult takes off his shades and looks at them sternly, warning them that they should think it over before committing to such a sacrosanct matrimony. The kids look confused, and then walked over to a private area to discuss. We can't hear what they're discussing about, while in the background there is a boy jumping around on a trampoline. I don't get it; I want to know what they're discussing! Perhaps we should look somewhere else for the answer: (500) Days of Summer. In this movie, a young man 'falls in love' and he talks to his younger sister about it. He describes how the girl he loves has the same aptitude for music as he has as well as similar literary tastes. He concludes: "She's the One." How many times you can roll your eyes depends on how much lube you put under your eyelids, but unfortunately this is real. In Moonrise Kingdom, the straight impression is that both of the lover kids clearly had a penchant for quirkiness and music and books, and in that they were meant to be lovers. Wes Anderson had the scene right, the boy bouncing around on the trampoline with music playing in the background while the lover kids discussed about marriage: it was all an act, we couldn't hear anything they were saying because there was nothing to be said, they were simply mouthing words to affirm their love. By now I'm in my 7th keg of whiskey and it might kill me, but it won't help. Love – to kids and the intended audience of the movie, is equally superficial and they're headed straight for the same path as their parents, but of course they think they're different: their love has meaning. Wait, wait, hear me out, I know that love as a concept is relatively recent and before that arranged marriages between tribes were the status quo, but my point is that instead of taking responsibility with the freedom of 'love', they use it precisely as a tool of vengeance against their parents. Even though it's not their fault, there is only one hell.
If you've watched the whole movie, you'll know that adults are impotent. When Bill Murray caught his kids having sex, he lifts up their tent with his bare hands, and growls like a bear, and then does nothing really. Harvey Keitel is as lost as a kite without his scout troopers, Edward Norton swirls his wine before drinking, Bruce Willis is paid to look insecure on screen, Frances McDormand has to ask their kids down for dinner by using a bullhorn. On the other hand, the kids use sophisticated scout-trooper jargons, cross rivers with nothing but a rope, have the distinct ability to navigate the deep forests by themselves. If the adults are useless except for fighting, then the kids are the inverse – useful and smart. However, we shouldn't be content with the idea that kids merely take on the opposite traits of their parents. It's pretty easy to tell why the kids 'rebel', during the boat ride and in the bathtub, the lovergirl had so much hate oozing out of her pores that my screen started flickering and going dark. She made it clear that she hated her parents with all her might. Let's take two steps back, this kind of hatred is only possible when lovergirl has been completely subjugated by her parents – she is powerless. But wait, aren't her parents stupid and impotent? Exactly, what can be worse by being completely oppressed by people that are absolutely stupid? Hence that seething hatred – that kind of hatred that can only be a representation of utter powerlessness. "You might be winning, but I hate you, and you love me, so you lose."
However, here is where I take a divergent turn. It is through this hate; from hate comes the feeling of being oppressed, and this oppression manifests the parent's power which is where the safety net comes in. You hate your parents and their corporate drony lives and the media easily helps you understand how meaningless that is, so you aspire to find meaning out in the world – i.e you major in literature attempting to grasp that poetic reverie that your parents will never understand, but future jobs be damned – it becomes your identity to disavow the future as long as your muse tingles your spine whilst your eyeballs go white as poetry drips from the blood of your pen. At the end of the movie, the lovers stand at the edge of a clock-tower, prepared to jump into the sea for love. This is the ideal moment – think, this is the point at which Bruce Willis appears and buckles down. This is the point of the overturning of power; this is the pivotal scene in which the kids win. This is the re-emergence of the power – 'real power'.
There are three distinct levels here. The parents have symbolic power over their kids, which 'works' since "fine" and "whatever" seems to be the only words parents have ever heard from their kids. However, the kids find out that parents are actually impotent behind that symbolic power – Bill Murray needing to cut the tree down scene; if you need to demonstrate your 'strength' to your kids, your game is up, we all know you're impotent. Finally, the need of kids for their parents to regain that power, although no longer symbolic – the kids want it for real/ believe it as real; which comes out only through the excessive pushing of their parent's impotence, and it is exactly then that the kids believe the power of the parents will return. In other words, kids believe that castrating their parents is the way in which they hope their parents will regain true power. Since kids know the symbolic power in parents is false, they simultaneously then believe in the 'real' power of their parents, and castration is the way to push that power out. However, for castration to even be considered, the assumption of the 'real' power must already be inherent, and that is the 'safety net' of the children. It is only with the 'safety net' at all, that the kids can even push their lives to the extreme without having second thought for any consequences.
The movie ends with the scene in which the boy and the girl are allowed to be together, and the boy is seen painting the girl. One scene later, we see that the painting was instead of the cove where they first fell in love – Moonrise Kingdom. I'm no prophet but I can predict that life is going to continuously be difficult from now on so here's a joke: how do you make cyanide delicious?
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87 years, passed away on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at Leamington District Memorial Hospital. Formerly of Mersea Township. Loving husband of the late Velma Esther (Mellin)(1998). Dear father of Donna Schroeder and husband Kurt, Karen Walker and husband Murray, Kevin Watson and wife Lori. Loving grandfather of Richard Schroeder (Judy), Adrian Schroeder, Paul Walker, Lindsay Walker, Tania Walker, Christy Watson, Matthew Watson and Megan Watson. Fondly remembered by three step grandchildren Aimee Shin (Bill), Jessie Barrette (Stephanie), Jared Barrette (Lynn). Cherished great grandfather of Hanna, Zachary, Brenna, Mikayla, Ethan and Nicholas. Dear brother-in-law of Yanny Watson and Norman Speirn. Predeceased by his parents, Charles (1978) and Florence (Coulter) (1993) and his brother Grant Watson (1992). Many nieces and nephews also survive. Robert farmed in Mersea Township all his life and retired from H.J. Heinz Co. after 34 years. He and his wife were members of many square dance clubs for many years. He loved to boogie and he enjoyed traveling to Florida for many winters. Visiting at the Reid Funeral Home, 14 Russell Street, Leamington (519-326-2631) on Sunday 2-5 p.m. Funeral Service to celebrate Roberts life at the Funeral Home on Monday, March 17, 2008 at 11 a.m. Rev. Ross Williams officiating. Interment Erie Cemetery, Wheatley. Memorial donations may be made by cheque to Leamington Hospital Foundation. Friends may send condolences at www.reidfuneralhome.ca


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The long-running dispute at Unilever has ended with Usdaw union members accepting changes to the company's pension scheme.
The dispute was sparked by Unilever's decision to replace its final salary pension scheme with a career earnings scheme, which workers claimed would substantially reduce the income workers would receive in retirement.
Leaders of the three unions involved – Usdaw, UNITE and GMB – called workers out on strike earlier this year.
They claimed Unilever's plans to axe the final salary pension would see retirement income of thousands of staff slashed by up to 40%.
Following talks held at ACAS in February, Unilever agreed to make a number of significant improvements to the career earnings scheme rules but maintained their position that the existing final salary scheme was unsustainable.
The offer of the improved scheme was put to a ballot of members of all three unions.
But while both Usdaw and GMB members voted to reject it, members of UNITE voted by a margin of two to one to accept the offer.
Faced with a significant number of workers accepting Unilever's improved offer, Usdaw representatives agreed to ballot their members again.
David Johnson, national officer for the Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers, said: "While we have achieved some important improvements to the replacement scheme, our members remain angry and bitterly disappointed by Unilever's decision to close the final salary pension scheme.
"However, once a significant number of their colleagues had voted to accept Unilever's improved offer, Usdaw members were left with little option but to reluctantly follow suit or face fighting the company on their own."
"Our members can be proud of the way they have conducted themselves throughout this dispute and for the determination, resolve and unity they have shown in resisting the company's attack on their future living standards."
Usdaw represents workers at Unilever's manufacturing facilities at Port Sunlight in Wirral and Seacroft in Leeds.
The union also has a small number of members at Unilever's Research and Development facility in Port Sunlight and at the company's factory in Warrington.
At the time of the dispute Unilever said the decision on pensions had been "a tough but necessary choice which reflected the realities of rising life expectancy and increased market volatility."
They added: "We believe the provision of final salary pensions is a broken model which is no longer appropriate for Unilever.
They claimed that pension arrangements – due to be implemented in July – were "exceptionally competitive" and had been significantly enhanced as a result of feedback from workers during a 100-day consultation process.


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Liberal senior Trenton Hammond is the Mead Lumber Athlete of the Week. Hammond has the best times in the state in the 110 hurdles at 14.30 and the 300 hurdles at 38.20. He won state in the 300 hurdles his freshman and junior years and has won the hurdles in every meet this season. He also runs on the 4x400 relay team with Erving and Eli Altamirano and Edwin Sobalvarro. He is on the 4x100 relay with Misael Gonzalez, Eli Altamirano, and Edwin Sobalvarro. Hammond is an all state football player and will play at Hutchinson next season. He and the Redskins travel to Goddard for the Goddard Invitational track and field meet Friday.
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The 49ers face a similar situation as they approach free agency at the safety position. Last season, it was Dashon Goldson who signed as an unrestricted free agent with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for a whopping $41.25 million with the contract being five years.
This time around, Donte Whitner is a free agent as his three-year contract expires. Here is a closer look at the safety position for the 49ers:
Under contract in 2014: Eric Reid, Craig Dahl, C.J. Spillman, Ray "Bubba" Ventrone, D.J. Campbell
Free agent: Donte Whitner
It would not be surprising if the 49ers don't give an offer to Whitner as he tests the free agent market. Last offseason, the team didn't make an offer with Goldson before he signed his deal in Tampa Bay. In an ideal world, the 49ers would like him back, but realistically, it appears he will not be affordable.
The 49ers will need to make the decision on whether to keep Whitner or Anquan Boldin on the team. It will be a domino effect everywhere else as other moves from free agent signings and possible extensions will take place. If Boldin becomes retained, Whitner is as good as gone.
Craig Dahl would be penciled in as the starting SS assuming Whitner signs with another team. He started 42 games in his career which includes all of the 2012 season with the St. Louis Rams. Dahl was mostly a special teams player on kickoff and punt coverage units who did a good job at covering the lanes.
Last season showed that it isn't impossible to replace a long-time safety when Reid took the FS spot in place of Goldson. Reid was consistent for majority of the season only allowing a handful of receptions and no penalties in 2013. It wasn't until Week 16 against the Atlanta Falcons where he allowed his first touchdown. The rookie safety has also not had any illegal hits compared to Goldson, who has been fined numerous times and even earned a suspension.
C.J. Spillman could be a dark-horse to take over the SS position as he has been on the team since 2010. He will be entering his sixth NFL season and has the athleticism to fill in. The 49ers played him as a safety throughout training camp, but he ended up being buried on the depth chart and mostly played on special teams. The team (and media) has yet to see any hard hitting from Spillman, but he is most familiar with Vic Fangio's system out of the remaining safeties under contract.
Ray Ventrone was a special teams player who excelled everywhere from blocking to being on punt and kick coverage units. He was one of the primary blockers for Andy Lee on punts. Meanwhile, D.J. Campbell is a third-year player who was a Panthers seventh-round pick out of Cal. He should competing for both the safety depth chart and on special teams.
Whitner would be too pricey for the 49ers to keep after he iss coming off three excellent seasons in red and gold. The 49ers shouldn't draft a safety in the first-round in back to back years, as they have higher priorities at wide receiver and cornerback. They're expected to take a safety at some point in the draft, but there won't be a clear-cut starter until training camp.


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The Kolkata alt rockers provide the soundtrack for the Quashiq Mukherjee directed Bengali film Gandu. We speak with vocalist Neel Adhikari about how that happened.
Kolkata alt rock band Five Little Indians have scored the soundtrack for the indie film Gandu. The grimy black and white, explicit underground Bengali movie has been made by the mysterious but intrepidly experimental filmmaker Q, aka Qaushiq Mukherjee, whose last release was Love In India. The film is premiering at the South Asian International Film Festival in New York.
We spoke with Neel Adhikari of Five Little Indians about the film and the soundtrack.
How did you end up scoring the film?
Well Q is a very good friend of ours. We hang out together sometimes, we watch movies and all that. He came and saw FLI at a gig, and he loved the vibe of he band and he thought it'd go really well with what he was planning to do, because all the songs in Gandu – he's rapped it himself. We've provided the music behind it. So we've done a bit of backing vocals, but all the rap, it's basically rap-rock, it's all done by him. And the other thing that was special about the recording process for Gandu is that we practiced as a band, we came in with his lyrics and arranged the songs and everything, and then we went to the studio and took the entire thing, including vocals, live. So the end product, after the mix, has come out really organic and really in-your-face. It doesn't sound slick, it's slick in a very unslick way.
What's the film about?
It's about a loser. It's about a guy who comes from a lower middle class Bengali family. But this guy's into writing rap, he writes rap music in Bangla, and he gets pally with this riksha walla. His name is Gandu in the film, his real name is never revealed. Because people think he's a bit of a misfit in his surroundings, everyone calls him Gandu, so he starts introducing himself as Gandu as well. He makes a friend who's the second character, his name is Riksha. He's a riksha fellow. They get into dope, they kinda form a band, he gets into the Asian Dub Foundation – there's a scene where they play also – it's about dope, it's about sex, it's about perceptions of religion, it's about fear, it's a full downward spiral.
Do you think this will get FLI a lot more exposure?
Actually, that isn't something that we were thinking about when we were doing the film, we did it because it was creatively very stimulating. It was a super story and we really enjoyed doing the music, what comes out of it is something that was completely up in the air, and whatever comes we will accept it gracefully.
What are you working on now?
Right now we're working on our album, we've got a host of new songs that we're sitting on, and simultaneously, we're recording the older songs. Our producer Miti Adhikari who's worked with menwhopause, The Supersonics, he's actually my cousin – he's coming down in November, so we'll be getting the final stages of the album done, and then he'll take it back with him to the UK. You can expect it somewhere around January. We're planning to release it ourselves. We're not going with a label because we don't want to give the rights away.
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Saint Joe's Slips Past Men's Hoops, 73-68
Feb. 1, 2014
Box Score
PHILADELPHIA - Derrick Gordon scored a game-high 21 points and Chaz Williams posted a double-double in leading UMass from a 16-point halftime deficit to a tie game late, before falling 73-68 to Saint Joseph's at Hagan Arena Saturday night.
UMass chipped away and tied the game on a Williams 3-pointer with 1:23 left. After Saint Joe's made a free throw, Williams made split a pair on the UMass end. The Minutemen had two chances to take the lead with offensive tip-in shots, but both rolled off the rim and the ball went out of bounds to the Hawks.
Chris Wilson drew a foul and made two shots to put the home team ahead 70-68 with 30 seconds left.
On the UMass possession after a time out, Gordon lost the ball going in for an attempt on the baseline. The Hawks got possession with 12 seconds and made a pair of free throws to go ahead by four.
UMass (17-4, 4-3 Atlantic 10) shot 59 percent in the second half and used a 14-1 run that knotted the score at 67. The Minutemen had two steals and forced the Hawks to spend their final two timeouts on back-court pressure during the run.
Williams finished with 16 points, 10 assists, five rebounds and three steals. He tied the school record for double-figure assist games with his 15th on Saturday.
Gordon was a point shy of matching his season high and shot 10-for-13 with two assists and two steals. It was his ninth double figure game of the year but only his second in the past 10.
Cady Lalanne had 12 points and five rebounds before fouling out. Raphiael Putney pulled down a game-high 12 boards while adding seven points, two blocks and two steals.
SJU (15-6, 5-2) shot 41 percent from the floor and was 25-for-40 from the free throw line - more than twice as many shots and attempts as UMass.
Halil Kanacevic led four SJU players in double figures with 18 points and five assists.
The Hawks created some distance in the first half and maintained a lead through the period. A 9-2 run gave SJU a 17-12 lead just over seven minutes into the game. The margin grew to double-digits with 6:22 left and reached as large as 17 before taking a 41-25 score into the break.
UMass' Maxie Esho left the game in the first half when he caught an elbow to the head going for a rebound.
After playing five of six on the road, UMass will return home on Wednesday to face La Salle. The game will tip off at the Mullins Center at 7:00 p.m.
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We hope you are enjoying this series of blog posts covering excerpts from our recent chat with Richard Campbell, Chairman of Astra Bank.
We asked Richard to share with us some early memories of working with the bank. In response, he took a trip down memory lane to recount an interesting story. Back in the 70's, his father-in-law was still with the bank and Richard was new on the scene, observing and absorbing the very strong and deep-rooted culture of customer service. A customer of the bank who was a farmer was really struggling with his farming operation and not making much money at all. He had been a long-standing customer but was starting to experience diminished net worth. Richard's father-in-law advised him to consider getting a full-time job and move away from farming. The customer said he had thought about it but was honest about his genuine love and passion for farming which he felt would never allow him to stay away from it completely for too long. He was nervous that watching other farmers get busy in the spring time with new planting, he would kick up whatever else he was doing and get back on the farm. Seeing his determination to keep at it, his resolve to rise above the challenges of the times and his focus and perseverance to make things happen, Astra Bank went along and took a chance on this customer.
Things turned out well for the customer and he hit some good prices for his farming produce. The farming operation was back to being profitable. The customer still banks with Astra and is very happy even after all these years. That is the most important thing for us—we value relationships and aim to build customers for life. If that requires us to sometimes take a chance on a customer and win their trust, we are happy to go that extra mile. We know from our experience over the years that it pays to do so. It keeps our customers happy and they bring more eager customers into our branches!
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ESOL Activities Entry 3
Series: ESOL Activities
Author: Smith, J
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 2008
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Level: B1 Pre-Intermediate
Description: A collection of photocopiable activities specially written for ESOL teachers, based on and clearly referenced to the Adult ESOL Core Curriculum.
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Each of the activities is free-standing, and comprehensive teacher's notes give a clear indication of any preparation required, as well as suggestions for differentiation. There are also self-study exercises linked to every activity, which are perfect for use as ready-made homework tasks.
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A North Dakota man was killed in a motorcycle accident in Volusia County Friday night, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. FHP spokesperson Sgt. Kim Montes says 27-year old Levi Leibfried of Devils Lake, North Dakota, was eastbound on State Road 40 around 6:35 Friday evening near Creek Haven Road. Troopers say Leibfried's motorcycle "…traveled into the westbound lanes…" of State Road 40 for an unknown reason, and was struck by a westbound SUV. Leibfried was ejected from the bike in the accident, and was pronounced dead at the scene by the Medical Examiner. The motorcyclist had not been wearing a helmet. The FHP says the accident remains under investigation.
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It took two players hitting two homers a piece and six shutout innings from the BJ bullpen for Liberal to finally end what was beginning to feel like a Haysville hex. The BJ's beat the Heat 8-2 Saturday night at Brent Gould Field for the first time after four straight losses to the Jayhawk League leaders. With his parents looking on from Houma, Louisiana, Blake Bergeron hit a two run homer in the first and a solo shot in the third. College of Sequoias third baseman Joe Perez led off the second and sixth innings with homers. Both sluggers have a team leading five a piece now this season. Rhode Island's Kyle Borded added a 3-4 night with a double at the plate.
As impressive as the BJ's offensive onslaught was, the BJ arms came to rescue as well. Arkansas lefty Christian Kowalchuk pitched the first four innings striking out four and allowing two runs. Another former Saint Clemson's Tomas Cruz pitched three scoreless innings weeks after pitching for the Tigers at the College World Series. Cruz struck out four and earned the win in his BJ debut. San Diego's Nick Youpel pitched a scoreless eighth meaning he hasn't allowed a run in nine and one-third innings pitched. Lamar's Brandon Ward-Hersee pitched a scoreless ninth.
Liberal jumped off to a 5-0 lead scoring two in the first, one in the second, and two more in the third. Liberal added a run in the sixth and two more in the eighth in the win. Haysville scored two in the fourth and loaded the bases with one out but Kowalchuk induced a fly out to right and picked a runner off first to get out of Liberal's only jam of the night.
The BJ's have won nine of their last 10 and are 18-7 overall and 10-7 in the Jayhawk. The Heat cool to 20-7 overall and 16-6 in the Jayhawk. The same two teams meet Sunday night at 7 p.m. on Brent Gould Field. Windtree Management is the buyout sponsor.
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If the Sundance film festival is about edge, then New Frontier—a cluster of digital-arts exhibits—is a fragile scalpel cutting deeply into the medium's creative possibilities.
The wildest experiments in story telling happen at NF. From virtual-reality video games to a 3-D video installation of a French woman who rebels against the omnipresence of video cameras by wearing DIY helmet that hides her face while sending her a video image of the people she meets to an interactive behind-the-scenes lesbian porn photo session, New Frontier will spin your head around.
One of the problems with such out-there digital installations is that Murphy's Law lives at the place servos, electronics, computer programming and creativity collide. But at the end of Sundance this year, everything was running smoothly—even the line at the video game EVE: Valkyrie moved smartly.
But for pure inspiration, Doug Aitken's relatively low-tech The Source was New Frontier's mother lode. In a massive immersive projection yurt—that's the best word I can think of—a couple dozen video interviews unwind with artists and musicians explaining how they do what they do.
The installation's technology is clever, yet unremarkable: In the center of the structure, the viewer is surrounded by the babble of conversation from several screens. But as he moves toward one of the screens, its audio becomes clear as the others fade. The effect is achieved with simple buffers and a few precisely placed speakers.
But The Source's temporary building on Swede Alley that allows the videos to be viewed from the outside simultaneously steals the show.
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Jasmine Mohandesi and American are looking to solidify their chances at a Patriot League Tournament berth when they play at Holy Cross and Army this weekend.
Oct. 16, 2012
Patriot League Women's Soccer Release - 10.16.12
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. — The road to the postseason could become much clearer as the Patriot League women's soccer teams embark on their second double weekend of matches this season. The standings tightened up last weekend thanks to the 1-1 draw in Hamilton, N.Y., between Colgate and Navy, while American, Army and Holy Cross picked up victories.
The Eagles won 1-0 at Bucknell Saturday afternoon, lifting themselves into sole possession of third place and just one point out of the first-place tie. American is seeking a return to the League tournament for the first time since 2009. Though Bucknell suffered the loss, the Bison have the inside track on a berth thanks to their head-to-head win against Holy Cross. Bucknell and the Crusaders are tied for fourth.
Army lifted itself into the tournament picture with its 2-1 win over Lehigh at home Sunday, but the Black Knights will need help if they are to earn a chance to defend their League crown. The road gets no easier for Army, which hosts Navy with the Star (and postseason implications) on the line in one of four critical League battles Friday night. The other three feature Holy Cross hosting American, Colgate going to Lafayette and Lehigh entertaining Bucknell.
Four more bouts are slated for Sunday, with all set for 1 p.m.
Patriot League Notebook
• Navy and Colgate would clinch Patriot League Tournament bids with wins AND a loss by either Bucknell (at Lehigh) or Holy Cross (home for American).
• Navy's tie at Colgate Friday snapped the Mids' winning streak at 15. Navy now owns the nation's second-longest unbeaten streak at 16. UCLA owns the longest active run at 22 straight without a loss.
• American's three-game win streak in League play is the longest since 2009. That same year marks the Eagles' last appearance in the Patriot League Tournament.
• Charlene Belanger is the first American keeper to post three straight shutouts since 2001.
• Lehigh has wrapped up its season-long six-match road trip and will finish the regular season with three straight at home.
• Holy Cross sophomore Gina Righini netted her fourth career game-winning goal in Saturday's 2-1 triumph over Lafayette.
• Navy is situated eighth in the latest NSCAA/Continental Tire Mid-Atlantic rankings.
• Colgate's Jillian Kinter and Holy Cross' Carly McCabe are both ranked in the nation's top 20. Kinter is 19th averaging 1.87 points per game, and McCabe is 19th with a .875 save percentage.
• Holy Cross is aiming for its first League tournament berth since 2000.
Patriot League Weekly Awards
JASMINE MOHANDESI, AMERICAN Sr., F, Vienna, Va.
Mohandesi's goal in the 24th minute stood up to lift American to a key 1-0 win at Bucknell Saturday in Lewisburg, Pa. It was the Eagles' third consecutive win in League play, lifting them into sole possession of third place with three matches to go. Mohandesi, who earns her first weekly honor of the season, has a team-best four goals and shares the team lead with nine points.
ALLY PASQUARIELLO, HOLY CROSS So., D, Suffield, Conn.
Pasquariello was part of the Crusaders' defense that held Lafayette in Saturday's 2-1 win in Worcester, Mass. Holy Cross held the Leopards to just one shot in the first half, enabling it to take a 1-0 lead into the intermission. Pasquariello contributed offensively as well, picking up the assist on Gina Righini's eventual game-winner in the 68th minute for her first career point. It's Pasquariello's first weekly honor of the season.
CHARLENE BELANGER, AMERICAN So, GK, Alexandria, Va.
Belanger was stout in net with seven saves as American won 1-0 at Bucknell Saturday. She sophomore recorded her third straight shutout, and it marks the first time the Eagles have won three consecutive matches in League play since 2009. In addition, Belanger is the first Eagles keeper with three straight clean sheets since 2001.
JENNA PANEPINTO, COLGATE Fr., M, Buffalo, N.Y.
Panepinto notched her second goal of the season in the 55th minute of Colgate's 1-1 draw at home against Navy. The tie kept both teams knotted at the top of the League standings with 10 points. Panepinto, who notches her first career weekly honor, scored for the first time since Sept. 5 against Albany. Panepinto's twin sister Lexi was BRINE Rookie of the Week on Aug. 20.
JOEY MOLACEK, ARMY Jr., F, Saugus, Calif.
Molacek's goal in the 77th minute snapped a 1-1 tie and stood as the game-winner in Army's 2-1 victory Sunday over visiting Lehigh. It was the Black Knights' first League win of the season, providing a boost for their chances at the League tournament.
ASHLEY WALSH, COLGATE Sr., GK, Baldwinsville, N.Y.
Walsh was strong in net with eight saves as Colgate drew Navy 1-1 Friday night in Hamilton, N.Y. She has started all 15 matches, and has 84 stops on the season.
GINA RIGHINI, HOLY CROSS So., F, Salem, N.H.
Righini netted the game-winner in the second half as Holy Cross posted a 2-1 win over visiting Lafayette. The Crusaders are tied for fourth with Bucknell at 2-2-0 (six points).
BRITTANY FRUIN, NAVY Sr., M, McLean, Va.
Fruin's goal off a free kick in the 71st minute lifted Navy to a 1-1 tie at Colgate in Friday night's first-place showdown. The Mids and Raiders remain tied for first with 10 points.


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Volume 22, Issue 3, September 2012
We present experiments on reactive front propagation in a two-dimensional (2D) vortex chain flow (both time-independent and time-periodic) and a 2D spatially disordered (time-independent) vortex-dominated flow. The flows are generated using magnetohydrodynamic forcing techniques, and the fronts are produced using the excitable, ferroin-catalyzed Belousov-Zhabotinsky chemical reaction. In both of these flows, front propagation is dominated by the presence of burning invariant manifolds (BIMs) that act as barriers, similar to invariant manifolds that dominate the transport of passive impurities. Convergence of the fronts onto these BIMs is shown experimentally for all of the flows studied. The BIMs are also shown to collapse onto the invariant manifolds for passive transport in the limit of large flowvelocities. For the disordered flow, the measured BIMs are compared to those predicted using a measuredvelocity field and a three-dimensional set of ordinary differential equations that describe the dynamics of front propagation in advection-reaction-diffusion systems.
Introduction to the Focus Issue: Chemo-Hydrodynamic Patterns and Instabilities22(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4756930View Description Hide Description
Pattern forminginstabilities are often encountered in a wide variety of natural phenomena and technological applications, from self-organization in biological and chemical systems to oceanic or atmospheric circulation and heat and mass transport processes in engineering systems. Spatio-temporal structures are ubiquitous in hydrodynamics where numerous different convective instabilities generate pattern formation and complex spatiotemporal dynamics, which have been much studied both theoretically and experimentally. In parallel, reaction-diffusion processes provide another large family of pattern forminginstabilities and spatio-temporal structures which have been analyzed for several decades. At the intersection of these two fields, "chemo-hydrodynamic patterns and instabilities" resulting from the coupling of hydrodynamic and reaction-diffusion processes have been less studied. The exploration of the new instability and symmetry-breaking scenarios emerging from the interplay between chemical reactions,diffusion and convective motions is a burgeoning field in which numerous exciting problems have emerged during the last few years. These problems range from fingering instabilities of chemical fronts and reactive fluid-fluidinterfaces to the dynamics of reaction-diffusion systems in the presence of chaotic mixing. The questions to be addressed are at the interface of hydrodynamics, chemistry, engineering or environmental sciences to name a few and, as a consequence, they have started to draw the attention of several communities including both the nonlinear chemical dynamics and hydrodynamics communities. The collection of papers gathered in this Focus Issue sheds new light on a wide range of phenomena in the general area of chemo-hydrodynamic patterns and instabilities. It also serves as an overview of the current research and state-of-the-art in the field.
Stirring effects in models of oceanic plankton populations22(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4751329View Description Hide Description
We present an overview and extend previous results on the effects of large scale oceanic transport processes on plankton population dynamics, considering different types of ecosystem models. We find that increasing stirring rate in an environment where the carrying capacity is non-uniformly distributed leads to an overall decrease of the effective carrying capacity of the system. This may lead to sharp regime shifts induced by stirring in systems with multiple steady states. In prey-predator type systems, stirring leads to resonant response of the population dynamics to fluctuations enhancing the spatial variability—patchiness—in a certain range of stirring rates. Oscillatory population models produce strongly heterogeneous patchy distribution of plankton blooms when the stirring is weak, while strong stirring may either synchronise the oscillatory dynamics, when the inhomogeneity is relatively weak, or suppress oscillations completely (oscillator death) by reducing the effective carrying capacity below the bifurcation point.
Barriers to front propagation in ordered and disordered vortex flows22(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4746764View Description Hide Description
We present experiments on reactive front propagation in a two-dimensional (2D) vortex chain flow (both time-independent and time-periodic) and a 2D spatially disordered (time-independent) vortex-dominated flow. The flows are generated using magnetohydrodynamic forcing techniques, and the fronts are produced using the excitable, ferroin-catalyzed Belousov-Zhabotinsky chemical reaction. In both of these flows, front propagation is dominated by the presence of burning invariant manifolds (BIMs) that act as barriers, similar to invariant manifolds that dominate the transport of passive impurities. Convergence of the fronts onto these BIMs is shown experimentally for all of the flows studied. The BIMs are also shown to collapse onto the invariant manifolds for passive transport in the limit of large flowvelocities. For the disordered flow, the measured BIMs are compared to those predicted using a measuredvelocity field and a three-dimensional set of ordinary differential equations that describe the dynamics of front propagation in advection-reaction-diffusion systems.
Invariant manifolds and the geometry of front propagation in fluid flows22(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4746039View Description Hide Description
Recent theoretical and experimental work has demonstrated the existence of one-sided, invariant barriers to the propagation of reaction-diffusion fronts in quasi-two-dimensional periodically driven fluid flows. These barriers were called burning invariant manifolds (BIMs). We provide a detailed theoretical analysis of BIMs, providing criteria for their existence, a classification of their stability, a formalization of their barrier property, and mechanisms by which the barriers can be circumvented. This analysis assumes the sharp front limit and negligible feedback of the front on the fluid velocity. A low-dimensional dynamical systems analysis provides the core of our results.
Horizontally propagating three-dimensional chemo-hydrodynamic patterns in the chlorite-tetrathionate reaction22(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4740464View Description Hide Description
Planar reaction fronts resulting from the coupling of exothermic autocatalytic reactions and transport processes can be deformed by convection in the presence of gravity field. We have experimentally investigated how buoyancy affects the spatiotemporal pattern formation at various solution thicknesses in three-dimensional medium. In the chlorite–tetrathionate reaction, a stable structure propagating horizontally with constant velocity and geometry develops when appropriately thick solutions are studied. Both the horizontal and the vertical projections of the resulting three-dimensional structures are quantitatively characterized: the smooth leading edge of the front is independent of the solution thickness and the structured trailing edge ends in a center cusp with a constant angle.
Marangoni-driven convection around exothermic autocatalytic chemical fronts in free-surface solution layers22(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4747711View Description Hide Description
Gradients of concentration and temperature across exothermic chemical fronts propagating in free-surface solution layers can initiate Marangoni-driven convection. We investigate here the dynamics arising from such a coupling between exothermic autocatalytic reactions, diffusion, and Marangoni-driven flows. To this end, we numerically integrate the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations coupled through the tangential stress balance to evolution equations for the concentration of the autocatalytic product and for the temperature. A solutal and a thermal Marangoni numbers measure the coupling between reaction-diffusion processes and surface-driven convection. In the case of an isothermal system, the asymptotic dynamics is characterized by a steady fluid vortex traveling at a constant speed with the front, deforming and accelerating it [L. Rongy and A. De Wit, J. Chem. Phys. 124, 164705 (2006)]. We analyze here the influence of the reaction exothermicity on the dynamics of the system in both cases of cooperative and competitive solutal and thermal effects. We show that exothermic fronts can exhibit new unsteady spatio-temporal dynamics when the solutal and thermal effects are antagonistic. The influence of the solutal and thermal Marangoni numbers, of the Lewis number (ratio of thermal diffusivity over molecular diffusivity), and of the height of the liquid layer on the spatio-temporal front evolution are investigated.
Influence of temperature on linear stability in buoyancy-driven fingering of reaction-diffusion fronts22(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4753924View Description Hide Description
A vertical Hele-Shaw cell was used to study the influence of temperature on Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities on reaction-diffusion fronts. The propagation of the chemical front can thus be observed, and experimental results can be obtained via image treatment. A chemical front produced by the coupling between molecular diffusion and the auto-catalysis of the chlorite-tetrathionate reaction, descends through the cell, consuming the reactants below while the product is formed above. Buoyancy-driven instabilities are formed due to the density difference between reactants and products, and the front takes a fingering pattern, whose growth rate has temperature dependence. In this study, the effect of temperature on the linear regime of the instability (that is, when the effects of such instability start to appear) was analyzed. To measure the instability, Fourier transform analysis is performed, in order to obtain the different wave numbers and their power as a function of time. Thus, the growth rate for each wave number and the most unstable wave number is obtained for each of the temperatures under study. Based on repeated experiments, a decrease in the growth rate for the most unstable wave number can be observed with the increase of temperature.
CHEMO-hydrodynamic coupling between forced advection in porous media and self-sustained chemical waves22(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4734489View Description Hide Description
Autocatalytic reaction fronts between two reacting species in the absence of fluid flow, propagate as solitary waves. The coupling between autocatalytic reaction front and forced simple hydrodynamicflows leads to stationary fronts whose velocity and shape depend on the underlying flow field. We address the issue of the chemico-hydrodynamic coupling between forced advection in porous media and self-sustained chemical waves. Towards that purpose, we perform experiments over a wide range of flow velocities with the well characterized iodate arsenious acid and chlorite-tetrathionate autocatalytic reactions in transparent packed beads porous media. The characteristics of these porous media such as their porosity, tortuosity, and hydrodynamics dispersion are determined. In a pack of beads, the characteristic pore size and the velocity field correlation length are of the order of the bead size. In order to address these two length scales separately, we perform lattice Boltzmann numerical simulations in a stochastic porous medium, which takes into account the log-normal permeability distribution and the spatial correlation of the permeability field. In both experiments and numerical simulations, we observe stationary fronts propagating at a constant velocity with an almost constant front width. Experiments without flow in packed bead porous media with different bead sizes show that the front propagation depends on the tortuous nature of diffusion in the pore space. We observe microscopic effects when the pores are of the size of the chemical front width. We address both supportive co-current and adverse flows with respect to the direction of propagation of the chemical reaction. For supportive flows, experiments and simulations allow observation of two flow regimes. For adverse flow, we observe upstream and downstream front motion as well as static front behaviors over a wide range of flow rates. In order to understand better these observed static state fronts, flow experiments around a single obstacle were used to delineate the range of steady state behavior. A model using the "eikonal thin front limit" explains the observed steady states.
Segmented waves in a reaction-diffusion-convection system22(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4752194View Description Hide Description
The interaction of traveling waves, with both Marangoni and buoyancy driven flows, can generate an extraordinary rich array of patterns ranging from stationary structures to chaotic waves. However, the inherent complexity of reaction-diffusion-convection (RDC) systems makes the explanation of the patterning mechanisms very difficult, both numerically and experimentally. In this paper, we describe the appearance of segmented waves in a shallow layer of an excitable Belousov-Zhabotinsky solution. The segmentation process was found to be dependent both on the depth of the solution and on the excitability of the reaction. We caught the essential features of the system through a RDC model, where the chemical waves were coupled both with surface and bulk fluid motions and we found that by varying the excitability of the reaction, and in turn the wavelength of the chemical fronts, it is possible to create a sort of hydrodynamic resonance structures (corridors), which are responsible for the segmentation process.
The heads and tails of buoyant autocatalytic balls22(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4745209View Description Hide Description
Buoyancy produced by autocatalytic reaction fronts can produce fluid flows that advect the front position, giving rise to interesting feedback between chemical and hydrodynamic effects. In this paper, we numerically investigate the evolution of autocatalytic iodate-arsenous acid reaction fronts initialized in spherical configurations. Deformation of these "autocatalytic balls" is driven by buoyancy produced by the reaction. In our simulations, we have found that depending on the initial ball radius, the reaction front will develop in one of three different ways. In an intermediate range of ball size, the flow can evolve much like an autocatalytic plume: the ball develops a reacting head and tail that is akin to the head and conduit of an autocatalytic plume. In the limit of large autocatalytic balls, however, growth of a reacting tail is suppressed and the resemblance to plumes disappears. Conversely, very small balls of product solution fail to initiate sustained fronts and eventually disappear.
Ion-selective Marangoni instability—Chemical sensing of specific cation for macroscopic movement22(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4729142View Description Hide Description
Spontaneous motion and tension oscillation of an oil/water interface responding to specific cation Ca2+ or Fe3+ were observed when the oil phase containing the anionic surfactant bis(2-ethylhexyl) phosphate came in contact with the cation-containing water. Both the dynamics were the results of Marangoni instability. Complex formation between the anionic surfactant and cation caused the instability. The results showing the level of cation extraction and degree of interfacial tension revealed that the surfactant-cation combination forms an oil-soluble complex with reduced surface activity. Brewster angle microscopy indicated that molecules of the complex tend to aggregate at the interface. This aggregation affected the desorption rate of the complex. We were able to generate ion-selective instability by imposing mechanical and electrochemical perturbations to the interface at equilibrium. The results from these efforts suggested that the aggregation is a type of thermodynamic transition and is required for the onset of instability:Desorption probably occurs as an exfoliation of the aggregated complex, which generates the gradient of interfacial tension. For the standard experiment of biphasic contact, two neighboring interfacial flows compress the local interface between them. We considered that this compression provides mechanical work to the local interface, resulting in desorption of the aggregates and occurrence of instability. Both complex formation and aggregation are possible in the presence of the specific cation. The interface detects the cation via the chemical and thermodynamic processes in order to develop the macroscopic movement, a form of biomimetic motion of the oil/water interface.
Chemo-Marangoni convection driven by an interfacial reaction: Pattern formation and kinetics22(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4742844View Description Hide Description
A combined study devoted to chemo-Marangoni convection and the underlying kinetics is presented for a biphasic system in which surfactants are produced in situ by an interfacial reaction. The pattern formation studied in a Hele-Shaw cell in both microgravity and terrestrial environments initially shows an ensemble of chemo-Marangoni cells along a nearly planar interface. Soon, a crossover occurs to periodic large-scale interfacial deformations which coexist with the Marangoni cells. This crossover can be correlated with the autocatalytic nature of the interfacial reaction identified in the kinetic studies. The drastic increase in the product concentration is associated with an enhanced aggregate-assisted transfer after the critical micellar concentration is approached. In this context, it was possible to conclusively explain the changes in the periodicity of the interfacial deformations depending on the reactant concentration ratio.
Convection and reaction in a diffusive boundary layer in a porous medium: Nonlinear dynamics22(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4748866View Description Hide Description
We study numerically the nonlinear interactions between chemical reaction and convective fingering in a diffusive boundary layer in a porous medium. The reaction enhances stability by consuming a solute that is unstably distributed in a gravitational field. We show that chemical reaction profoundly changes the dynamics of the system, by introducing a steady state, shortening the evolution time, and altering the spatial patterns of velocity and concentration of solute. In the presence of weak reaction, finger growth and merger occur effectively, driving strong convective currents in a thick layer of solute. However, as the reaction becomes stronger, finger growth is inhibited, tip-splitting is enhanced and the layer of solute becomes much thinner. Convection enhances the mass flux of solute consumed by reaction in the boundary layer but has a diminishing effect as reaction strength increases. This nonlinear behavior has striking differences to the density fingering of traveling reaction fronts, for which stronger chemical kinetics result in more effective finger merger owing to an increase in the speed of the front. In a boundary layer, a strong stabilizing effect of reaction can maintain a long-term state of convection in isolated fingers of wavelength comparable to that at onset of instability.
CO2 sequestration in a radial Hele-Shaw cell via an interfacial chemical reaction22(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4754021View Description Hide Description
In this manuscript, experimental data for the displacement of a finite volume of aqueous using gas in a radial Hele-Shaw cell will be presented. This chemical reaction is known to generate precipitate along the gas-liquid interface and we seek to understand the influence of the reactive process on fluid displacement. The reactive experiment is compared with the non-reactive case to determine if there are any measurable differences between the two in the range of parameters: pressures (1%–10% of an atmosphere measured in gage pressure),liquid volumes (either 50 or ), and concentrations (0, 10, or 20 mM) studied. Analysis is performed by measuring the displacing fluid area and total fluid area to determine several quantities (gas expansion rate, quasi-equilibrium film rate and value, and presence of fingering instability) used to distinguish the experiments. In general there appears to be little effect of the chemical reaction on most of the measured quantities.


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The USA soccer team had a lot of mathematical possibilities to advance in the World Cup before facing Germany on June 26. Of course, if the USA hadn't been burned so late in its last match, it would have secured its place in the World Cup knockout stage long ago. As such, the Americans could have faced their most heartbreaking soccer moment of all time if they were knocked out of second place in Group G, but they held after all despite a 1-0 loss to the Germans.
For a time in the second half of the USA-Germany and Portugal-Ghana matches, things looked dicey. The Americans had clearly been the worse team against the Germans, yet they clung to a scoreless tie until Thomas Mueller broke through in the 55'th minute. At around the same time, Ghana had evened their match with Portugal at 1-1, raising the possibility of elimination with one or two more bad breaks.
Ghana had already eliminated the USA from the World Cup directly in 2006 and 2010. If it defeated Portugal and if the Americans gave up one or two more goals to Germany, then Ghana would leap into second place on goal differential. Given that the Germans were taking control over the U.S. and that Portugal had nothing left to play for, the worst seemed just around the bend.
USA soccer fans could finally breathe easy in the 80'th minute, thanks to Cristiano Ronaldo, of all people. Ronaldo destroyed the Americans with his cross kick to set up Portugal's last-second tying goal on June 22, which made America's World Cup route so dicey yesterday to begin with. But once Ronaldo scored Portugal's final goal himself, the U.S. could finally breathe easy.
Since Germany didn't need another goal and Ghana would have needed two in the final minutes to have a chance, the end of Group G play turned out to be anticlimactic. In the end, the Germans won the group with seven points, while the Americans and Portuguese finished with four each -- with the USA's even goal differential far ahead of Portugal's -3.
The Germans really sent the Americans through the World Cup with their 4-0 blowout of Portugal on June 16. They couldn't give USA soccer another gift with an upset loss, but America took what it could get -- namely another trip to the knockout stage after all.