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|Kent L. Deines
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|Rd Instruments, Inc.
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This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. �119(e) to Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/119,493, entitled SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING FLUID FLOW USING A SONAR SYSTEM, and filed Feb. 10, 1999. The content of Provisional Application Serial No. 60/119,493 is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to flow velocity measurements in pipes and conduits carrying water, sewage, and other fluids.
2. Description of the Related Art
There are many environments where information regarding the mass and/or volume flow rate of a fluid through a conduit is valuable. These include irrigation, residential water distribution, sewage treatment, and many others. Although various types of mechanical flow meters have been used, acoustic methods are often preferable because of their ease of installation, lack of interference with the flow, and long term reliability. One type of acoustic flow measurement device utilizes the Doppler effect to measure flow speed. With these devices, sound energy is reflected off of particles moving with the flowing fluid and is received by a receiving transducer. Sound energy received by the receiving transducer is frequency shifted due to the relative motion between the particles and the receiving transducer. The frequency shift is related to the flow rate of the fluid.
Several systems using Doppler effect based flow measurement have been proposed. One such system is described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,020,374 to Petroff et al. With the system described in this patent, separate transmit and receive transducers are placed in the fluid flow, and a continuous wave signal is output from the transmit transducer. Because the transducers are placed within the flow, installation is difficult and labor intensive, especially if installation is desired in a conduit with fluid flow already present. Furthermore, due to its continuous wave nature and the fact that the Petroff et al. device produces a quickly spreading beam of acoustic energy, an accurate measurement of even an overall average fluid velocity in the pipe is at best difficult and often impossible to obtain. There is therefore a need to develop flow measurement techniques which are more accurate than have been previously available.
With embodiments of the present invention, flow rates of fluid flowing through pipes or other conduits are measured in a relatively convenient and accurate manner. In one embodiment, the invention comprises an assembly for routing fluid and measuring a flow rate of the fluid. The assembly comprises a conduit comprising a wall defining a fluid flow path, said wall having an opening therein, an acoustic transducer assembly sealed into said opening and a signal generator coupled to said acoustic transducer assembly and configured to electrically drive said acoustic transducer assembly.
In another embodiment, an apparatus for measuring the flow rate of fluid in a pipe comprises an acoustic lens, a plurality of acoustic transducers coupled to a lens so as to emit acoustic energy through a surface of the lens, and a signal generator configured to electrically drive the acoustic transducers at a selected excitation frequency so as to produce sound waves in the fluid having a selected wavelength, wherein the acoustic transducers have a characteristic dimension that is much larger than the selected wavelength.
Methods of fluid flow measurement are also provided. In one embodiment, such a method comprises positioning a plurality of acoustic transducers in an opening in the wall of the pipe, emitting a plurality of narrow beam pulses of acoustic energy into fluid flowing within the pipe using the transducers, detecting doppler shifted reflections of acoustic energy from regions within the fluid, and determining total fluid flow through the pipe at least in part by analyzing the doppler shifted reflections.
FIG. 1 is a side cross-sectional view of a first embodiment of the fluid flow measuring system of the present invention installed in a fluid-carrying pipe.
FIG. 2 is a bottom plan view of the transducer array of the measuring system of FIG. 1, illustrating the relative arrangement of the individual transducer elements.
FIG. 3 is cross-sectional view of the lens element of the transducer array of FIG. 2 taken along line 3—3, illustrating the arrangement of an individual transducer element with respect to the lens element.
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the transducer array of FIG. 2 taken along line 4—4, illustrating the curvature of the lens.
FIG. 5 is side cross-sectional view of a second embodiment of the flow measuring system of the present invention.
FIG. 6 is a top plan view of a second embodiment of the transducer array of the present invention, utilizing a pinwheel configuration.
FIG. 7 is a plan view of a third transducer array embodiment utilizing a Janus configuration.
FIG. 8 is a flow chart illustrating one embodiment of the method for installing the transducer array of the present invention via a hot tap.
Embodiments of the invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying Figures, wherein like numerals refer to like elements throughout. The terminology used in the description presented herein is not intended to be interpreted in any limited or restrictive manner, simply because it is being utilized in conjunction with a detailed description of certain specific embodiments of the invention. Furthermore, embodiments of the invention may include several novel features, no single one of which is solely responsible for its desirable attributes or which is essential to practicing the inventions herein described.
FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a first embodiment of the flow measuring system 100 of the present invention. While the system is depicted as being installed in a pipe 102, it can be appreciated that the system 100 may be employed to measure flow in other mediums for conveying fluids including, for example, open channels or ducts. The system 100 is generally includes a transducer array 104 having one or more piezoelectric transducer elements 106 and an acoustic lens 110 (both shown in FIG. 2) connected to an acoustic Doppler sonar subsystem 105. The transducer array 104 is contained within a transducer housing 108 which acts as a partial pressure boundary for the fluid in the pipe. The housing 108 may be mated to the pipe 102 using any fastening technology which will maintain the leak-tight integrity of the system, such as mechanical threads, welding, brazing or adhesive. A sealed pipe 109 is fitted within the top portion of the housing 108, and acts as a conduit for the electrical cabling associated with the transducer array elements. It will be recognized that any number of techniques for sealing the end of the pipe 109 may be used, including a sealed penetration, a water-tight grommet, or even a static fluid head (water seal).
In the embodiment of FIG. 1, a pulsed broadband Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) such as the "Workhorse Sentinel" manufactured by Rowe-Deines Instruments, Inc. of San Diego, Calif., is used in conjunction with the transducer array to generate acoustic signals having a nominal frequency of 2.4 MHz for transmission and analyze received acoustic signals, thereby providing information relating to the fluid velocity and mass flowrate Q within the pipe. The construction and operation of the Rowe-Deines acoustic Doppler sonar system is described in U.S. Pat. No. Re. 35,535 entitled "Broadband Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler", which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. Of course, other types and configurations of sonar systems may be used to generate and/or analyze the signals applied to or generated by the transducer array. For example, a narrowband Doppler or continuous wave (CW) sonar system could be substituted in place of the aforementioned broadband ADCP in certain circumstances.
The mass flowrate (Q) of the fluid in the conveyance medium can be determined through analysis of the fluid velocity information provided by the array/ADCP, since the pulsed ADCP system affords superior range cell resolution. In one embodiment, the determination of mass flowrate is made through the use of a computer algorithm running on a microcomputer system or processor which models the flow in the medium as being essentially symmetric around the center point of the flow area. For example, in a circular pipe, flow is modeled to be symmetric around the central longitudinal axis of the pipe, with the flow velocity varying with distance r from the center point according to a function f (r). Note that the function f (r) may be either empirically determined via velocity information obtained by the ADCP from multiple range cells, or mathematically modeled based on the measurement of one range cell within the pipe. The flow velocity is then averaged or integrated over the cross-section of the pipe to provide a figure representative of the average flow velocity in the pipe. This total flow velocity can then be used to calculate the average flow volume per unit time (Q), which may be multiplied by the known or measured density of the fluid to determine the mass flowrate. While the above-described computer algorithm and processor is used in the present embodiment to correlate the velocity profile data to a mass flowrate, it can be appreciated that other techniques and analytical methods may be used.
The embodiment of FIG. 1 also uses a refractive acoustic lens 110 as part of the array 104. An example lens is described in expired U.S. Pat. No. 4,063,214 assigned to Sperry Rand Corporation, which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety, although other configurations may be used based on the particular application. In the present embodiment, the lens is manufactured from Rexolite (a polymer) which is chosen for its compatible acoustic properties, resistance to various types of fluids, and ruggedness. The lens 110 may be made to conform with the interior surface of the pipe as shown in FIGS. 1 and 4 so as to minimize fluid turbulence, which unchecked will lead to spurious noise and flow resistance. However, it will also be recognized that the vertical (i.e., radial) position of the transducer array 104 and lens 110 may be varied to provide various desired properties and performance.
FIG. 2 is a bottom plan view of a first embodiment of the transducer array 104 of the present invention. This bottom view corresponds with the portion of the array 104 which is closest to the fluid in the pipe and through which acoustic beams are transmitted. The transducer array of FIG. 2 results in the formation of three acoustic beams oriented 120 degrees apart (not shown) as measured in the plane of the array. Each of these three beams has a comparatively narrow beam dispersion angle (φ) of approximately 2.5 degrees, which facilitates spatial localization of the fluid velocity measurements. Note that in the present embodiment, approximately 25 wavelengths (λ) are required to generate this desired beam dispersion. Accordingly, based on a nominal wave propagation velocity of 1500 m/s through the fluid, which in one embodiment is assumed to be predominantly water, and an acoustic frequency of 2.4 MHz, transducer elements having a diameter of roughly 15 mm are required. Therefore, to comfortably fit three transducers in close proximity as shown in FIG. 2, and using the exemplary dimensions, a total array diameter must be on the order of 1.75 inches.
FIG. 3 illustrates the general relationship of the piezoelectric transducer elements to the lens element 110 in the transducer array of FIG. 2. As shown in FIG. 3, the piezoelectric elements, which in one embodiment are formed from ceramic, are each oriented at a non-zero angle (θ) to the bottom plane of the lens 120. As the acoustic energy radiated/received by the elements crosses the lens/fluid boundary 122, it is refracted according to Snell's law as shown in FIG. 3. The angle θ, material, and thickness of the lens may be chosen to produce the desired acoustic refraction and dispersion of the beam 125. Furthermore, the speed of sound of the fluid being carried in the pipe 102 does not need to be known.
FIG. 5 illustrates another embodiment of the flow measuring system of the present invention. In this embodiment, the transducer array 104 is contained wholly within a multi-piece transducer housing assembly 130 which is oriented so as to be substantially normal to the flow axis of the pipe, although other orientations are possible. Here, the assembly 130 as a whole is chosen to have an inside diameter (I.D.) of approximately 43 mm based on the array size as discussed above. As shown in FIG. 5, the array is contained within a reducer 132 which has been sized to both receive the array 104 and Rexolite lens 110 on its interior, and fit within the inside diameter of the assembly 130 on its outside dimension. A routing pipe 133 of outside diameter approximating 0.5 in. (standard � in. brass pipe is used in the present embodiment) is threaded into the top portion of the reducer 132, thereby facilitating routing of the electrical cables associated with the array 104. The routing pipe 133 may optionally be sealed at its distal end (not shown) so as to permit the passage of the electrical cabling, but minimize or eliminate the flow of fluid there around should gross leakage past the transducer array occur.
In the present embodiment, the housing assembly 130 is comprised of a saddle 134 having an opening 136 of circular cross-section rigidly mounted around the periphery of the pipe 102 coincident with the perforation 138 through the wall of the pipe 102. A nipple 140 is threaded into the opening 136 in the saddle 134, and a valve 142 threaded onto the nipple 140. The valve may be of any type including (e.g., gate, ball, or other) which provides an internal aperture through its sealing member 144 which has an inside diameter sized to permit passage of the array 104 and reducer 132. A pipe section 146 having an inside diameter of roughly 2 in. is threaded into the top portion of the valve 142 as shown in FIG. 5. Lastly, a cap 148 having an aperture 150 sized to receive the routing pipe 133 is threaded or mounted on the top portion of the pipe section 146, thereby completing the housing assembly 130. The cap 148 includes a sealing mechanism 152 such as an O-ring (shown in FIG. 5) or mechanical seal (not shown) to seal the routing pipe 133 against leakage around its exterior. A spacer ring 154 may also be included around the routing pipe 133 as shown to restrict lateral motion of the array 104 and lens 110 during installation and/or operation. A retaining device 158 is also positioned on the routing pipe 133 and fastened thereto to preclude fluid pressure within the pipe 102 from pushing the array 104 and routing pipe 133 upwards during operation. Other mechanical devices such as stops or keys (not shown) located within the assembly 130 and/or fluid pipe 102 may also be used to assist in orienting and locating the array 104 properly within the system 100 during installation or replacement.
It will be recognized that while the above-described embodiment includes various dimensions and components, any number of combinations of pipes, valves, and component diameters can be used depending on the particular application. For example, a single element transducer array having a smaller diameter may be used with a housing assembly 130 and reducer 132 of comparably smaller diameter. Similarly, the housing assembly 130 or its constituent components could be fabricated as a single, unitary component rather than being assembled as described herein. A wide range of possibilities for constructing the housing assembly 130 and associated components exists.
FIG. 6 illustrates a second embodiment of the transducer array 104 of the present invention. Specifically, in this embodiment, a "pinwheel" type array geometry is used. The construction and operation of the pinwheel array is described in detail in co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/082,500 entitled "Pinwheel Transducer Array", filed May 21, 1998 and assigned to Rowe-Deines Instruments, Inc. of San Diego, Calif., which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
A third transducer array 104 is illustrated in FIG. 7. This is an array of five transducers, one vertical, and the other four at an angle to the flow direction. The vertical transducer may be used to measure the diameter of the pipe. In this embodiment, the lens is configured with a set of recessed facets 170 corresponding to each one of the five transducers. It is further noted that while the embodiments of FIGS. 2, 6, and 7 are described specifically herein, other types of array configurations may be used in conjunction with the present invention.
Referring now to FIG. 8, a method of installing the flow measuring system of the present invention in a pipe under fluidic pressure is described with respect to the embodiment of FIG. 5. As shown in FIG. 8, the pipe in which the system is to be installed (and optimal location therefor) is first selected in state 200. Next, the "saddle" 134 which encloses a portion of the pipe is installed over the desired area of installation in state 202. The saddle includes an access opening 136 which is later used to install and access the array. As previously described, the saddle is tightly fitted and sealed to the pipe around its circumference to inhibit leakage, and includes provision to receive a gate or other type of valve thereon, thereby allowing sealing of the access opening 136 as well.
After the saddle 134 has been installed, the nipple 140 is mated to the saddle in state 204. Next, in state 206, the valve is installed. A sealed drilling apparatus of the type well known in the mechanical arts is inserted into the access port through the gate valve in state 208. In state 210, the aforementioned drilling apparatus is used to perforate the wall of the pipe 102 in the desired diameter (i.e., approximately 2 in. using the embodiment of FIG. 5). In state 212, the drilling apparatus is removed, the valve 142 is shut. In state 214, the pipe section 146 is installed into the top of the valve 142. In state 216, the spacer ring 154 is installed over the routing pipe 133, followed by the sealing cap 154, and the array 104, reducer 132, routing pipe 133, and spacer ring 154 being positioned within the pipe section 146 up until the point of contact with the sealing element 144 of the valve 142. In state 218, the cap 154 is threaded or otherwise mounted to the pipe section 146 so as to form a seal. Lastly, in state 220, the valve 142 is opened (i.e., in FIG. 5, the ball 144 is rotated such that its aperture is aligned with the interior of the nipple 140 and pipe section 146) and the array 104, lens 110, reducer 132, spacer 154, and routing pipe 133 slid through the valve into place within the fluid pipe 102. The system 100 may then be tested and operated.
It will be recognized that while the foregoing discussion describes a preferred method for installing the transducer array within a fluid-carrying pipe under pressure, other sequences of acts may be used, and/or certain acts may be deleted from or added to the method as required by the particular application.
The foregoing description details certain embodiments of the invention. It will be appreciated, however, that no matter how detailed the foregoing appears in text, the invention can be practiced in many ways. As is also stated above, it should be noted that the use of particular terminology when describing certain features or aspects of the invention should not be taken to imply that the terminology is being re-defined herein to be restricted to including any specific characteristics of the features or aspects of the invention with which that terminology is associated. The scope of the invention should therefore be construed in accordance with the appended claims and any equivalents thereof.
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I never imagined after graduating from Randolph-Macon Woman's College that I would return to teach at my alma mater. My college friends also expressed a similar surprise. However, after 25 years at the college as a faculty member, I have come to appreciate what I have in common with my students because I am an alum. I have lived in some of the same dorms as they live in; I know which are the Odd and Even steps and have never gone up the Even steps; I didn't have to learn what Pumpkin Parade and the Daisy Chain are. I also share connections to the college with my own daughters: Suzanne Halka, who spent a semester with the college's World in Britain (Reading) Program and Melissa Halka, who is in the class of 2014 at the college. My family connections to the college don't end there. My husband, Chet Halka, also teaches here and is my colleague in the Spanish Department.
The reason I studied Spanish at R-MWC and later at Brown University was due, in large part, to the influence of my mentor, Charlotte Stern (Professor Emerita, R-MWC). Her teaching and enthusiasm in the classroom had a profound effect on me; more profound an influence than that of any of the professors I had at Brown. Charlotte's influence on my career continued when my husband and I came to the college because of the encouragement she gave us to apply for jobs here. I found it just as rewarding to have her as a colleague as it was to have her as a professor. My example of the influence and the close tie I had with a faculty member is not unique at this college. The close relationships that students can have with their professors here mean a great deal, but they don't happen at all colleges.
I was probably destined to teach language. I was born and grew up bilingual in São Paulo, Brazil and after that, lived near Paris, France. Three of my college semesters were spent studying in Madrid, Spain so, for me, language has always been a part of my life. I really don't think I can conceive of life not speaking another language besides English. My experience living in other countries has also given me a different perspective on life, I think. As a child I always thought of things from both an American and Brazilian point of view. I like to believe that I still approach life from a culturally diverse point of view.
At Randolph, I have taught mostly language courses (Elementary and Intermediate Spanish, Composition and Conversation, Conversational Spanish among them.) Shortly after I came to teach at the college, however, my interest in the culture of other countries led me to create courses in Spanish and Latin America Culture, something that had not been part of the curriculum before. More recently, I have been able to go back to my roots and teach courses dedicated to Brazilian culture and Conversational Portuguese. The love I developed for art in my Art History class and during weekly visits to the Prado Museum while I was a student in Spain drew me to the Maier Museum of Art at the college. For many years I have taken my Composition and Conversation students to the museum to do oral presentations, in Spanish, of works in our permanent collection. It is my belief that this gives our Spanish students a unique opportunity to use their language skills while taking advantage of one of the treasures on this campus.
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'Sack the Olympic strikers' storm: Question to Hunt provokes union's fury... and fuels a growing split in the Coalition
- BBC presenter Garry Richardson infuriates unions with 'goading' of Culture Secretary
- He asked Jeremy Hunt if union workers were a 'disgrace'
- Unions say Richardson was 'totally unacceptable', but BBC say it was merely 'robust questioning'
A BBC sports presenter has infuriated union leaders by asking whether striking border staff threatening the Olympics should be sacked.
Garry Richardson also asked if the union members were 'a disgrace' during an interview with Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt yesterday.
Mr Hunt then dramatically escalated the row by admitting that Cabinet ministers have discussed the possibility of firing the 5,000 staff who are expected to go on strike.
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Robust: BBC man Garry Richardson was seen to be 'goading' Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt into calling union workers a 'disgrace'
His words stoked a growing Coalition row between Tories, who want legislation to curb strikes, and Liberal Democrats, who see no case for a change in the law.
The Public and Commercial Services Union immediately called on Mr Richardson to apologise.
It compared the BBC to Right-wing US news station Fox News and said it had made an official complaint.
British broadcasters are required by law to comply with impartiality rules.
But critics of the union said that Richardson had been following a 'perfectly legitimate line of questioning' and simply representing the views of the public.
The interview was conducted on the Sportsweek programme on Radio 5 Live.
Richardson said: 'It's great that you have got these contingency plans and you have got these people able to come in and you have trained them up to step in.
'Why not just let those people go on strike and when they want to come back after they have done all their disruption say, "Sorry, your job's not there any more"? Sack them.'
Earlier, he said of the workers: 'They are a disgrace, aren't they?'
Mr Hunt said he did not want to 'escalate' the row but admitted ministers had discussed the idea of sacking immigration staff, whose walkout on Thursday could paralyse Heathrow on the eve of the Games opening ceremony.
He added: 'Sack them? That is the Ronald Reagan approach and I can tell you that among ministers there have been people asking whether we should be doing that.
'But I don't want to escalate things by talking about that right now, because I know among those 600 people there are lots of people who want to do the right thing and turn up for work.'
In 1981 then US president Mr Reagan famously sacked hundreds of air traffic control workers who went on strike.
Mr Hunt said the PCS was 'totally out of tune with the mood of the country'.
Chancellor George Osborne is said to be 'furious' at the behaviour of the strikers and is demanding tough laws to outlaw strikes called on a low turnout such as the 20 per cent who voted in the PCS ballot.
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Only 1,800 of the PCS's 16,000 members voted for the action.
But the policy is controlled by the Department for Business run by Lib Dem Vince Cable.
Employment relations minister Norman Lamb, another Lib Dem, said at the weekend he was 'so far unpersuaded' that unions' powers needed to be curbed.
On top of the strike, immigration staff and other Home Office workers will work to rule and refuse overtime from July 27 to August 20.
In a letter to the BBC, the PCS wrote: 'This is totally unacceptable for a BBC journalist, this isn't Fox News, and [we] would like to know how Five Live proposes to remedy it as a matter of urgency.'
But Jonathan Isaby, political director of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: 'Not only was Garry Richardson pursuing a perfectly legitimate line of questioning, but he was asking the question on the lips of many people up and down the country.
'The PCS is intent on causing chaos on the eve of the Olympics as union members attempt to keep hold of their gold-plated public sector pensions and oppose necessary restraint in public spending.
'It's unsurprising that increasing numbers of taxpayers are wondering why there shouldn't be consequences for a selfish minority causing such disruption, especially when the eyes of the world are focused on us.'
A BBC spokesman said: 'Garry Richardson was seeking to clarify Jeremy Hunt's views with robust questioning about the Government's response to the planned industrial action.
'The questions did not represent a personal point of view but were designed to explore and test the Government's position.
'The BBC is committed to reporting impartially on the week's events.'
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Galatasaray have completed the signing of Brazilian midfielder Felipe Melo from Juventus.
The 30-year-old spent the last two seasons on loan at the Turk Telekom Arena and a permanent transfer has finally gone through after lengthy negotiations over the fee.
The clubs have agreed a €3.75million deal for the Brazil international, with a number of performance-related payments also included.
A statement on Juventus' website read: "Juventus Football Club can announce that Brazilian midfielder Felipe Melo de Carvalho has today been sold to Turkish side Galatasaray for an initial fee of €3.75m.
"The payment could rise by a further €0.5m should the player achieve certain sporting targets stipulated in the agreement between the two clubs."
Before moving to Turin in 2009 from Fiorentina for €25m, Melo played in both La Liga and the Brazilian Serie A.
During the two seasons Melo was on loan at Galatasaray he became a key fixture in the side, making 62 appearances in all competitions, scoring 13 goals.
He will be tasked with helping to retain the Turkish Super Lig after Fatih Terim's men won a record 19th title last season.
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Tealium Inc., which provides tag management products for digital marketers, has raised $10.5 million in a funding round from Battery Ventures.
The vendor says it will use the funds to fund research and development and hire new sales, marketing and account management staff, Tealium says.
Digital tag management allows marketers to add, modify or remove JavaScript tagson their e-commerce sites. Those tags are used for tracking ad clicks and views. The system also allows marketers to test vendor tags on their web sites right away, a process which otherwise can take some businesses up to six months of work, the company says. The Tealium system is pre-configured to support tags from hundreds of vendors right away and it also allows marketers to test new vendors against one another on its web interface before they lock into any deals.
Tealium raised $1.1 million from technology investors in January. By June, it increased revenue 700% compared with the first half of last year, while also adding 60 new clients including the Finish Line Inc. and U.S. Auto Parts Network Inc., the company says.
Tealium says it has more than 100 clients on five continents. Most of its recent growth has come from U.S.-based clients, says co-founder Ali Behnam.
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1. الْهَوَى (hawa) = Attraction
The beginning of love. This love can arise suddenly, but is transient, not yet firm in the heart.
2. الْعَلاقَةُ ('alaqah) = Attachment
Love that becomes attached to the heart, and loses the transitory property ofhawa.
3. الْكَلَفُ (kalaf) = Infatuation
Love that begins to intensify and have a physical affect on the lover.
4. الْعِشْقُ ('ishq) = Desire
Love that engulfs the heart of the lover entirely, and takes it as its residence, such that love and the heart in which it resides become intimately familiar with one-another.
This love blinds the lover to any faults in the beloved.
5. الشّعَفُ / اللَّوْعَةُ / اللعَاج (sha'af, law'ah, li'aj) = Passion
Love that starts to burn, but at this stage, the love is still pleasurable in the heart.
6. الشّغَفُ (shaghaf) = Affliction
Destructive, all-consuming love. The heart begins to be devoured by the love.
7. اَلْجَوَى (jawaa)= Grief
Love that started with the outer covering of the heart. It takes over the entire heart, and results in an inner grief and sorrow.
8. التّيْمُ (taym) = Enslavement
Love to the point where the heart is enslaved to the beloved.
9. التَّبْل (tabl) = Malady
Love, which was once living pleasurably in the heart, having made it its home, now turns against the heart, and so overwhelms, confounds and bewilders it, that it is as though it were its enemy.
10. التَّدْلِيْه (tadleeh) = Disorder
Love when the heart is thus being destroyed from within, and begins to lose all sense of balance and reason, it goes into a state of chaos and disorder.
11. الْهُيُوْمُ (huyum) = Insanity
Love that comes to its conclusion.
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I love you… and I do not know the boundaries of my love.
Oh darling what are we to do in this nation? This nation that dares not see its body in the mirror for fear of craving it? That dares not hear a woman's voice on the phone for fear of being too impure to pray? What are we to do in this nation that knows all there is to know of the October Revolution, of the Zanj slaves who rose against the Caliph master of the Karmathians, who stood against the Caliph's armies - and still keeps talking down to women like some Sheikh? What are we do in this nation [that lingers] between the works of Imam Ash-Shafi'i and the works of Lenin… between Qur'anic exegesis and Playboy magazines… between Mu'tazilism and the music of The Beatles? - Nizar Qabbani
"Death does not hurt the dead, death hurts the living."
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We like quaintness, great food, sight seeing, and we realize this will be a short London stay so we're limited in what we can see.
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Reasonably priced doesn't give us enough information.
We stayed one night at The Apex Temple Court for 144 UK pounds. It was a very nice hotel and a very good price. But, its just an OK location. Not horrible, but not in the thick of anything.
It was super quiet with a wonderful staff and nice everything. Quite modern, which isn't everyone's style.
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Ooops, we were posting at the same time. Apex Hotels are not quaint, but Temple Court was once part of the Inns of Court and the architects have done an amazing job of keeping the flavor of the original building.
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Thanks -- since we will have such a short stay I want something in the thick of things -- so I guess that isn't quaint by definition (but I would like for the accommodations to be quaint). I don't care for modern. We want to be near a tube.
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The Apex Temple should be within walking distance of the show in the West End. Google makes in 23 minutes or 16 minutes by the 15 bus.
Where are you staying on the business portion of your trip? It is often cheaper and certainly easier to extend at your first hotel than to move to another one, especially on a weekend.
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Hello there… Have you checked Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove? Those neighborhoods are very nice, but probably more in the west of central London, meaning that you would have to commute taking the bus. This in case you don't mind using public transport. Also Bloomsbury is lovely. It is actually more central than Notting Hill, and with great public transport connections. If you like to walk and enjoy the city you can easily access a good number of Classic London sights. Another great place is Marylebone. This neighborhood is very close to shopping centers, good restaurants, coffee and teashops and pubs.
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Featuring two stainless steel graters in one tool, the Dual Grater combines both fine and medium grating options. The company is also launching the Dual Grater Coarse/Ribbon that is designed for grating hard cheese, carrots, potatoes and vegetables on one side and garlic and soft cheese on the other.
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Iomega has a habit of launching new formats of its own before taking a while to catch up with what's popular, open-ended and widely used. This is the case with its Super DVD range. However by including DVD-RAM support, Iomega keeps one eye out for the earliest adopters of rewriteable DVD, and can truly claim to be universal unlike the truckload of burners we've recently seen only supporting +/-R/W and not the caddy format.
You also need to take the time to sort out your USB cabling but it was good to finally have a USB 2.0 device to test with our Belkin PCI interface card. As you can imagine from the Iomega portable CD-RW we reviewed some time ago, the Super Drive is as portable as the average breeze block but even bricks don't also need to be plugged into the mains, with a proprietary connector you'll take ten minutes to install because although you get the pins to line up, you don't want to force the plug in and risk bending them. Also the depth of the basic burner measures 240mm, but this extends to 370mm (or 14.25in) when you eject a disc, so the drive's semi-permanent home needs a lot of clearance and swapping around with other items on your desk to fit in.
Once everything's connected, much like installing a scanner, you load Iomega's Hotburn software, connect the drive, it detects via USB 2.0 and you're ready to go. Or rather we should say, if you have any hitches at all you're directed to uninstall your existing burning software- and then you're ready to go. This time Iomega's chief program, Hotburn, is at least self-contained and installed without tray icon programs to slow up the testbed, unlike previous incarnations of its software. That's not to say the other five utilities won't leave behind icons you may want to turn off.
The Hotburn interface is intuitive enough for the casual user to guess-click their way around it. In case you feel like it's doing too much handholding, you can switch back to a more Nero -style look, which copies Windows Explorer anyway. It's annoying to be given the rounded-up file size figures, but then the program waits until you want to burn to warn you when the file size in Kilobytes breeches the limit. Again it's up against three years of Nero simplicity when you'd simply look for a bar at the bottom of the screen. Remember this is the basic, enclosed package to let you create discs. The more enhanced features have to be enabled, after you click past the copyright disclaimers and warnings. To be fair, pros would already own a copy of Roxio Creator 7 Suite or Nero 6, patched to support this burner.
Performance ranged from satisfactory to slow, but that was exacerbated by one fact: No enclosed media in the box. Given that the machine supports all three formats, it was a surprise to not even receive the cheapest rewriteable of the three, a DVD+RW now sold in ten packs of £1.50 per disc in PC World's seasonal offers. The Super Drive's already a premium product by dint of being portable so another £5-10 on top and a blank in the box would have been good, even if the user may have had to do their own formatting. Let's not forget we already had the USB 2.0 card as well, otherwise non-laptop users would need to fork out up to £20 more for the PCI board, or suffer USB 1.1 speed, which for DVD burning, we rejected given that CD would slow to 6-speed.
We'll post further results as we continue testing but the Super Drive followed the usual better known brand=better speed pattern regarding media. As with most DVD Burners, fastest performance on fewest files was the order of the day, so big chunks of video or WAV audio took less time than discs full of non-sequential general data. As it's there on your desk though, in a home environment, you could burn and carry on working or doing other things without any urgency. Those needing a true road warriors' drive may prefer the smaller LaCie range as opposed to this workstation add-in.
To be fair to the Super DVD Writer, its bulk contributed to its quietness throughout testing, even when a mess of wires kept one of its rubber feet off my wooden table. Iomega couldn't resist one last hallmark- if you want Firewire connectivity instead, you need to buy a separate model entirely, whereas LaCie have been combining this ability for at least two years. It all depends on your requirements and whether you want entirely open options. The basic 400Mbits/sec Firewire has been affordable on PC for three years, so if you have it, then it's only a matter of seeing if there's a street price variation on either model before you make your choice. If you want it truly portable you'll pick LaCie but if you want all three rewritable formats in the one box to take from machine to machine, none of which you want to upgrade with a new internal burner, you can't entirely rule out either Super DVD Writer. Just remember the money for your own blanks and a USB 2.0 card as well if your machine is over two years old.
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"(Today's) kids are digital natives, and they can't understand when you don't have digital resources for them at school," Hales said. "That's how they're used to learning."
Casey McAffee, a junior at Tooele High School, said she has taken the ACT twice but would have preferred a digital option. She said taking the test on a computer would probably require participants to be more spread out than they currently are, and it would eliminate the sometimes cumbersome task of balancing test materials on a classroom desk.
"I dropped my papers several times," McAffee said. "They give you, like, four different packets you have to keep track of."
Giovanni Parker, a Tooele High School sophomore, said it's odd that the test hasn't gone digital yet. He said a computer-based version probably wouldn't change the way he studies or prepares for the test, but he would still prefer it to a pencil and paper version.
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Federal Judge Curtis Collier, on the sixth day of a sentencing hearing in an asbestos case, on Monday handed Don Fillers a four-year prison term for his part in what his own attorney described as the "horrible debacle" on Watkins Street.
Foreman David Wood was given 20 months in prison and demolition firm owner James Mathis 18 months in connection with an inadequate abatement of asbestos that resulted in a major governmental cleanup involving the EPA and others in 2005.
The defendants were given until Nov. 16 at 2 p.m. to self-report to prison.
The judge also handed down fines and restitution in the case. The restitution amount was set at $27,899.10 each, including against the Watkins Street Project LLC.
Fillers, 64, was also assessed fines of $20,000, $2,220 and $2,224. The corporation that he and his late brother, Gary Fillers, set up to buy the old yarn plant, was fined $30,000, $2,220 and $2,224.
Attorney Gary Humble had asked that no action be taken against the corporation, saying it is insolvent and has a $300,000 mortgage it can't pay. He said the property in Ridgedale "is like a meth house. Who is ever going to pay to buy this property." He said he expects it eventually "will go back to the bank."
Prosecutor Matthew Morrison of Knoxville had asked for "significant periods of incarceration to send out the message that this can't happen. People cannot just put jobs and profits over human health."
He said the deterrent effect of the sentence was important because he said inspectors are only able to go to about 25 percent of the demolition sites where there is asbestos and others "are on the honor system." The SCT site was discovered when inspector John Schultz of the Chattanooga Hamilton County Air Pollution Control Bureau happened by.
Attorney Leslie Cory said Don Fillers "has led a very good life. It's obvious that many, many people looked up to Mr. Fillers as a role model. This has been a horrible debacle, but he has done everything in his power to rectify the damage."
Fillers told the court, "I'm sorry this has all happened. I would never do anything to harm my family, my friends and my neighbors. I just wish it hadn't happened."
Gary Fillers pleaded guilty early on and got a six-month home confinement sentence. He died about six weeks ago.
Attorney Gene Skiles said Wood "would never, ever want to harm anyone." He said if anyone faces long-range problems from handling the SCT asbestos, it is Wood.
Mathis gave a long statement in which he declared he was innocent of the charges. He said his demolition firm had been involved in numerous projects around the community without such problems. He said it was originally to be his role to hire an asbestos firm and he recommended SCI. Then he said the Fillers brothers decided on their own to go with a much-cheaper firm.
He said he pulled his firm off the site after a disagreement about a fluid found in an old tank. He said he wanted to have it tested, but the Fillers brothers said to just pour it out on the ground.
A jury convicted the defendants on Jan. 27 of conspiracy and criminal violations of the Clean Air Act, as well as obstruction of justice in relation to salvage and demolition activities at the plant.
Authorities said the "evidence proved that the defendants entered into a year-long scheme in which the plant was illegally demolished while still containing extensive amounts of asbestos. Additionally, the defendants hired day laborers and paid them low wages to improperly remove asbestos-
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greater community. Today's sentences show that those who break the law and put the public at
risk to make illegal profits will face serious consequences."
Attorney Flores said, "Mathis was looking at 14 years when he hired me nine weeks before the sentencing hearing.
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When you think about what classes are most important to children's formal education, what comes to mind? Is it maths? English? maybe science or history? Chances are you probably didn't think of music, but maybe we need to rethink the value we place on music class...
Meryl Streep plays Ricki Rendazzo, rock musician and mother in her new film Ricki and the Flash – and this is where the tension lies. A life on the road and judgement about her career choice has left her relationship with her children in tatters. Two Australian rock'n'roll greats - Deborah Conway and Rebecca Barnard talk Meryl, music and motherhood.
Meet harpist Peter Roberts, Australia's only fully qualified music thanatologist.
What do you get when you combine the sound of buzzing bees, piano music composed by one of our top composers played by one of our top pianists and the sound of Melbourne's Astra choir?
Men at Work's 'Down Under' is a song that has been at the top of the world and through the copyright infringement wringer.
From the suburbs of Adelaide, raised by mathematician parents, to leading lives on the world's most famous stages—Stanley and Daniel Dodds return to Australia for three performances alongside the most accomplished classical musicians from Oz.
Where do Salsa, sharpie dancing, whirling dervishes and a pagan goat festival come together?
Beccy Cole wanted to be a country singer from childhood. Her life reads like a song, from leaving home in her teens due to bullying to the realisation she was gay at age twenty-six and her subsequent 'coming out' on Australian Story.
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Bisexuals and their partners say they often feel silenced by wider society. But an Australian study into the experiences of 78 women in relationships with bisexual men has revealed some of the nuances of their situation.
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Actor, comedian and writer Celeste Barber has over a million followers on Instagram, where she recreates photos of the rich and famous in a satirical and shameless way.
You might have a tangle of rainbow pastel-coloured plastic bowls and containers in a certain drawer in your kitchen. Some still call it 'the Tupperware drawer'. But you may not know the story of the herculean rise and fall of the businesswoman behind the brand.