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Sadly, his father won't be there to see his son compete after an accident at the family's Netanya home claimed Costa Mendel's life.
In a tragic irony, Alon, 20, was in Beijing preparing to vie for a medal when he learned that his father suffered fatal head injuries after falling off a ladder outside the family home Wednesday night while trying to hang up a banner honoring his son's Olympic bid. Costa was also Alon's longtime coach.
"How do you say 'semifinals' in Chinese?" read the hand-painted banner, a testament to Costa's optimism about the prospects of Alon, who joined the Israeli delegation after another swimmer was disqualified.
For the Mendel family, the loss was made more acute by the dilemma of whether to recall Alon from the Games. He is scheduled to compete Monday in the 200-meter butterfly race.
Alon's mother, Rina, decided that the best way to honor Costa's memory would be for her son to compete. His sister Maya joined him in Beijing, while another sister remained in Netanya to help arrange the funeral.
"You have to stay there and be strong," Rina told Alon by phone Thursday in a conversation recorded by Israel's Channel 10 television.
"You know your father waited for this moment. Your parents waited for this. We will be among 42 sets of parents watching," she said, in reference to the size of Israel's biggest-ever Olympic delegation.
Judaism places great importance on honoring the dead by attending the burial and, in the case of next of kin, giving up all activities to sit for the seven-day shiva.
Not everyone agreed with the Mendels' thinking. Reams of comments on Web sites disapproved of Alon's staying in Beijing.
Channel 10 quoted Alon as saying that when he swims Monday, he will imagine his father sitting in the audience, cheering him on along with the rest of his family and the State of Israel.
"I intend to muster all my strength and compete," he said.
According to Ha'aretz, Alon will fly back to Israel after competing to take part in what remains of the shiva week.
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Educational, Innovative "Go! Kits" Coming to Montgomery County Public Libraries May 10; Kits Introduce Young Children to Science, Technology, Engineering, Math
Part of Montgomery County Public Libraries' (MCPL) ACE (All Children Excel) initiative is to help children succeed in school by providing resources that will spark an interest in science.
To help meet that need, MCPL has developed educational, interactive Go! Kits to introduce young children to various concepts in science, technology, engineering and math while satisfying their natural curiosity and encouraging them to explore the world around them.
Each kit includes two books about a specific science topic, an educational toy, a mini iPad preloaded with one e-book and several appropriate apps, plus a folder with related activities. The kits will be available at selected MCPL branches beginning May 10 and may be borrowed for two weeks at a time.
"Children need to enter school ready to learn and to be curious about the world around them," said MCPL Director Parker Hamilton. "We feel the Go! Kits are an exciting, inventive way to help them do that."
The materials were selected for two specific age groups:
Little Explorer Go! Kits --preschoolers, ages three to six. There are nine science topics from which to choose -- dinosaurs, oceans, space, plants, volcanoes, animals, insects, machines and experiments. The Little Explorer kits will be available at Aspen Hill, Gaithersburg, Noyes, Olney, Silver Spring, Twinbrook and White Oak libraries.
Young Voyager Go! Kits -- elementary-age children in grades three to six. There are six different science-based topics -- the solar system, bridges, the world around us, weather, robots and machines. The Young Explorer kits will be available at Aspen Hill, Gaithersburg, Olney, Silver Spring, Twinbrook and White Oak libraries.


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New Nine Inch Nails Track Unveiled -
Nine Inch Nails are back with their first new
track in five years.
The new song, aptly titled 'Came Back Haunted,' will
feature on the on the band's new album, which is reportedly set to
be titled 'Hesitation Marks' and will be released on September
'Came Back Haunted' "harkens back to early NIN," says
Lisa Worden (via
Blabbermouth), Music Director for Los Angeles alternative
station KROQ.
"I think it's in line with the first two albums," Worden
continues. "It's got a great beat, it's not the experimental
material [NINE INCH NAILS mainman] Trent's [Reznor] done in the
last five years." Worden indicated the song didn't strike her as
angry. Rather the beat is what made an impression. "I wouldn't say
that it's dance-y, but it does have a great beat, a groove. Trent
really brought it with this song. It's going to sound amazing to
new fans and old. It's just cool."
The new album will also see Reznor return to a major label after
six years as an independent artist after signing with Columbia
Records six years after his less than amicable split with
Interscope Records.
The new NIN record had been in the works for nearly a year
before Reznor revealed to the world that he planned to launch a
revamped line-up.
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Video Review: Voyager 12.04
After reading a comprehensive review at dedoimedo.com on the latest release of Voyager 12.04 I decided to do a short video review of this Linux OS Distribution. I chose to install this distribution to my hard drive. I have always been a great fan of Xubuntu, so I was excited to see what Voyager would look like and compare it's performance to Xubuntu.
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Protestors have targeted Botswana tourism to the Adventure Travel Show in London and the Fitur travel fair in Madrid, to highlight Botswana's persecution of Africa's last hunting Bushmen.
Supporters of tribal rights organization Survival International handed hundreds of flyers to visitors and tourism industry professionals, urging them to stay away from Botswana until the Bushmen are allowed to live freely on their ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). The Botswana Tourism Organization had stands at both events.
Botswana is using violence, torture and intimidation to stop the Bushmen from hunting and to drive them off their land in the CKGR, while attracting tourists to the country with contrived images of Bushmen hunters.
The most recent victim of such abuse was held at gunpoint and beaten by members of Botswana's paramilitary police (SSG).
Bushman Mogolodi Moeti told Botswana's Sunday Standard newspaper, 'While they (SSG) were assaulting me they told me that even the President was aware of what was happening; that they were busy beating me up. They told me that even if they kill me no charges would be laid against them because what they were doing to me was an order from the government.'
The majority of Bushmen are forced to apply for restrictive entry permits to access the CKGR in a system which has been likened to the hated Pass Laws under apartheid South Africa, and the Bushmen's British lawyer has been banned from entering the country.
Since Survival launched its tourism boycott in September 2013, nearly 7,000 travellers have pledged not to visit Botswana until the Bushmen are allowed to live freely on their land, and three tourism companies have joined the boycott.
Survival's Director Stephen Corry said today, 'Botswana continues to flog luxury tours to the CKGR using the image of 'exotic' Bushmen wearing skins and the promise of a chance to 'experience the traditional way of life of Kalahari hunter-gatherers'. In reality, Africa's last hunting Bushmen are being starved, tortured, beaten and intimidated off their land, and the government is doing everything possible to stamp out that very way of life it uses to sell exclusive holidays. Clearly only those Bushmen that generate income for President Khama's investments in the tourism industry are allowed the freedom to 'sleep in grass huts'.'
Note to editors:
- The harassment of the Bushmen was labelled 'ethnic cleansing' by renowned BBC journalist John Simpson and was recently denounced by veteran ANC activist and former Robben Island prisoner Michael Dingake, who said the Bushmen were treated as 'sub-humans'.
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Wealth and money are two seperate things. Money is a bond of debt. Wealth is to have plenty of what you need. Any person of any intelligence would rather have needs fulfilled in plenty, than be bonded in debt, unable to fulfill your needs. Its in the mind of those with enough debt paid by others to have their needs fulfilled that money is a good thing. Otherwise the link between money and plenty is an illusion. Propaganda. People who pay that debt forget their needs because they haven't had them fulfilled, they are so far gone that they don't even recognize their lack. -DOM (BeeVomit) in response to:
"I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Ghandi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?" Albert Einstien
Sunlight streaming down thru the window to my soul, wakes the sleeping child in bed holding his pillow tight to his brow. Not willing to look up and feel the warmth of day encroaching on his dreams. Feels the pull of light to awake and taste the freshness of dawn within.
Moonlight reflecting off the sea blinds for a moment the waking owl, knows the time is ripe for feeling life's throes in its toes. Grasps tight the bundle of fur and teeth, blood, claws and bone, and lights a branch before the pump breaks. Easier to swallow when it helps itself down the chute.
The prism splits light to parts, colors we see to name, names we place to color. Which colors don't have names? We can see them, but not duplicate them.
Love of money, works of machines?
Fear of the god of all things?
Politics work for those who believe.
Poverty runs through everything.
War and strife, peace forgets
Love compounds what is left.
"Fortune passes everywhere." - Frank Herbert, "Dune"
It is better to be in control
of what I must do than not at all.
When I'm troubled, I see inside
the peace within that's mine by right.
It's the way I'm set to go
though its far from what I know.
Finally, a prayer:
Give me peace and joy
Food and precious metals
Stones, shells, hardwoods
And hundreds of willing hands
Give me long life and plenty
Life of health and wellness
Earn my gratitude from your multitude
Land and sea, fruits, grains, nuts and fish
Sky, stars, fire and protection
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Thick Chocolate Pudding
Total Time
Prep 5 mins
Cook 10 mins
This is the perfect chocolate pudding. It has a rich chocolate flavor, great texture and is not high in fat. I can't count the number of times I have made this. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1⁄3 cup sugar
- 1⁄4 cup cocoa
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups skim milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- In a 2-qt. microwave-safe bowl, combine the first four ingredients.
- Stir in milk until smooth.
- Microwave, uncovered on high for 3 minutes; stir.
- Microwave 4-6 minutes longer or until thickened, stirring after each minute.
- Stir in vanilla.
- Pour into individual serving dishes; cool.
- Refrigerate.
- Garnish with whipped topping if desired.
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This is delicious and chocolatey, like a good hot chocolate. Very quick and easy. And I love that it's not too sweet. The first time I made this (in the microwave), I did encounter some lumps. I only needed 2 minutes in step 4 for an 1100 watt microwave. The second time I made this, I used the stove, and had no lump problems. I also decided to turn it into a mocha pudding - which was awesome! I added two tablespoons of instant coffee, plus one extra tablespoon of sugar.
This reminded me of my mother's chocolate pudding she made us when we were young! My teens devoured it. Use the stovetop not microwave. Anyone used it to make a chocolate pie? That sounds so good!
Tweaked a bit by using whole milk instead of skim, and 3 Tbsp. flour instead of cornstarch. Also made on the stove top, stirring constantly with a wire whisk for about 15 minutes. Refrigerated for two hours. Delicious. I disagree with other reviewers that say this isn't sweet enough as is. I would add slightly more vanilla, but only b/c vanilla makes everything better!! Thanks for posting.


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Spectacled porpoises are rarely seen and are found only in the oceans of the southern hemisphere. Usually they are found near the southern east coast of South America (from Uruguay and Argentina to Cape Horn) and also near the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. Phocoena dioptrica have been seen near New Zealand, Macquarie Island and the Auckland Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and Heard Island and the Kerguelen Islands in the Indian Ocean.
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Posted by rene.bross on 9. March 2012 08:57
We are so excited to share these photos of our Pink Giraffe Baby Shower! Taking inspiration from our Pink Giraffe Invitation, the dessert table is darling in soft pinks, white and a touch of golden yellow. Sweet treats abound with white and pink Jelly Bellies, salt water taffy, strawberry whoppers, delicious vanilla cupcakes, pink rock candy, pink popcorn, pink lemonade with sugared mason jars and the cutest baby giraffe cookies complete with pink spots. To be kind on the wallet, the beautiful glass apothacary jars were assembled with glass items found at the local Good Will store with these DIY instructions. The tissue pom poms were so fun to make with these easy instructions. We also want to share our delicious vanilla buttercream frosting recipe which was originally found here, but we adapted it a bit to have enough to frost cupcakes with a very generous swirl of frosting and so it's not too sticky sweet. We hope you enjoy these photos as much as we enjoyed taking them!
Photos by Rene' BrossPink Giraffe Party Invitation is also available as a DIY Printable Invitation on our sister site Party MonkeyParty Printables pictured above will be available soon on our sister site: Party Monkey
Best Buttercream Frosting Recipeyields a generous amount of frosting for 20-24 cupcakes (depending on how generous you are)
Ingredients 1 cup butter - room temperature or softened in microwave for 10 sec at 90% power, then 7 sec on 90% power 1 cup Crisco (regular or butter flavored for extra buttery flavored frosting) 1/4 teaspoon salt 3 teaspoons vanilla extract 5-6 cups confectioners' sugar (depending on how sweet you want it)
Preparation In a large bowl, cream butter and shortening until light and fluffy. Add salt, vanilla, confectioners' sugar. Beat well.
Note This will make a thick frosting perfect for piping those beautiful swirls shown above. If you need a little thinner frosting, add a little mile to make desired consistency.
Posted by rene.bross on 9. February 2012 20:25
Throwing a baby shower in the near future? How about kicking it up a notch from the basic blue and pink themes to a whole jungle of possibilities? Throwing a baby shower can include a bit of monkey business by making a jungle themed cake or cupcakes. Let loose with party decorations that make your guests feel like they've stepped over to the wild side. What mother-to-be wouldn't love to celebrate the birth of her new 'monkey' in style? Our jungle and monkey themed baby shower announcements will leave other hosts green with envy with our eco-friendly stationary. Check out our coordinating birth announcements, thank-you cards and address labels to complete the look. Go bananas and love it!
Photo credits- clockwise from upper left: Monkey Love Baby Shower Invitation from My Good Greetings; Monkey Diaper Cake from Etsy; Chocolate Banana Bites Recipe; Monkey Cupcakes from Cakes by Becky; Banana bread recipe from ForTheLoveOfCooking.net; M&M Favor Labels
Posted by rene.bross on 9. September 2011 09:35
Fall is almost here and if you are in the midst of planning a baby shower this time of year, there's nothing cuter than the Little Pumpkin Baby Shower theme. Decorations are as easy as a fall breeze, with pumpkins of all shapes, sizes and various fall colors are readily available. Gather some colorful fall leaves, Gerber daisys, candles and ribbons to complete a fabulous table scape. Mini pumpkins make perfect placecard holders and bottles of orange crush add additional color. We hope these photos inspire your Pumpkin Baby Shower!
Photo credits clockwise from upper left: Little Pumpkin Baby Shower Invitation from My Good Greetings; Mason Jars: Ideas by Krista; Tablescape: Wedding Planning Institute; Baby Pumpkin Hat: Special Baby Shower Gifts; Little Pumpkin Cake: Cake Central; Pumpkin Cake Pops: Goodness Gracious; Little Pumpkin Ribbons: Baby Shower Decorations
Posted by rene.bross on 24. June 2011 08:46
Introducing your newborn to an eco-friendly lifestyle starts well before they are actually born. And hosting a green baby shower doesn't have to be daunting. It can actually be very fun and creative with many fun decorating ideas drawn from mother earth. Start with a party invitation printed on 100% recycled paper with 100% recycled envelopes such as the Eco Friendly Garden Shower Invite from My Good Greetings. Be sure to add a note asking guests to forego traditional gift wrap.
Think as green as possible for party decorations utilizing recycled papers and greenery from the yard. Forget the disposable plates and utensils and break out your good china instead. Don't have a china set? Don't worry, think about borrowing pieces from friends or other hosts. Mix and matched china can make a unique and beautiful tablescape. Use potted flowers as table decorations and then give them away as party favors. Tree sapplings potted in reusable glass jars with a name tag make for great place settings and each guest can plant them later in babies name. Sachets of burlap tied with raffia and filled with wildflower seeds also make great favors. Encourage cloth diapers as gifts or collect donations for a month or two of diaper service.
Buy local produce and ingredients as much as possible. A visit to your local farmer's market may inspire more green ideas as well. Be sure to talk with the vendors- they often have wonderful ideas. And when the festivities are over be sure to recycle as much as possible and compost the food scraps. Set up easy to spot recycle bins for guests to use. We hope the following collage board inspires your next green party event. Be sure to read the photo credits which will lead to more wonderful ideas.
Photo Credits clockwise from upper left: Diaper Cake: A Birdie Told Me, Eco Friendly Garden Baby Shower Invitation: My Good Greetings, Green Cupcakes: Baby Shower Food, Footprint Hand-held Fan with Seed Circle: Good Day Asheville, Mason Jar Greenery: Hey Now Whoa Now
Posted by rene.bross on 8. April 2011 21:09
If there's a little lovebug on the way and pink and baby blue are too mundane, celebrate with the bright colors of a Little Ladybug Baby Shower. Bring on the smiles when bright red, yellow and green colors are brought together on a beautiful tablescape. Fill small buckets or planters with long green grasses or moss and add fresh or silk gerber daisies for easy flower arrangements. Create little ladybugs out of red and black felt and place around the table and onto the flower arrangements. Little white boxes with a silk daisy and little ladybug on top make sweet favor boxes when filled with candy such as red and white m&ms. Fresh strawberries with chocolate dip match the color scheme perfectly. If hosting your ladybug party outdoors in a garden setting, purchase real live ladybugs and have your guests release them into the garden as a natural and organic pesticide. Enjoy these photos as inspiration for your own Ladybug Baby Shower or Ladybug Birthday Party!
Photo credits clockwise from top left: Little Ladybug Baby Shower Invitation: My Good Greetings, Daisy Favor boxes: New York-Newport Wedding blog, Gerber Daisies: Hostess with the Mostess, Ladybug Tablescape: Tyson's Corner, Ladybug Cupcakes: The Cupcake Blog, Ladybug Cake: Katy's Cakes
Posted by rene.bross on 29. March 2011 21:15
A very popular baby shower theme is the Onesie Baby Shower. If the mommy-to-be is leaving babies gender a surprise, a good color scheme is bright yellow and green. This theme lends itself very well to an outdoor or patio shower- think daffodils and green grass with yellow and green pendants hanging in the spring breeze. Here are some photos for inspiration. Enjoy!
Credits: from top left clockwise: Lemonade: Bradley.and.Diondra, Hanging Onesies: Bambootique.Wordpress.com, Diaper Wreath: Crafts and Sutch, Onesie Cookies: Mermaid Sweets, Tablescape with Pendants: Babies, Paper and Song, Green and Yellow Candy Jars, Yellow Baby Bottle Glasses: Design Dazzle, Onesie Baby Shower Invitation: My Good Greetings
Posted by rene.bross on 23. March 2011 09:36
One trend we're seeing more and more on our customized shower invitations at My Good Greetings is the request for unwrapped gifts or eco-friendly gift wrapping. I always wonder if those party guests who are eco-friendly challenged stumble over this request. It may seem awkward and abrupt to bring an unwrapped toaster and toss it on the gift table. And let's face it-- gift wrap can be so pretty. There's something very exciting about seeing a table full of beautifully wrapped presents. But at the end of the day- it really is a complete waste of paper and trees.
One solution is Furoshiki- gift wrapping with a Japanese wrapping cloth. Charissa at TheGiftedBlog.com shares some beautiful samples of this beautiful Japanese art of gift wrapping. She also offers step-by-step instructions on how to create some beautiful wrap designs. Japanese wrapping cloths can be purchased, but if they are hard to find in your area, I'm thinking a beautiful scarf or large square of fabric- edges finished- would do the trick as well. A square tablecloth might work well for a larger gift and the best part- the wrap becomes an additional present—no wrapping waste!
Namitha in India also gives a very detailed instructions and tips on her blog Ephemera Studio
photo: TheGiftedBlog
Posted by rene.bross on 13. March 2011 09:27
Due to popular demand we have decided to extend our Baby Shower Invitation SALE one more week! Get 20% OFF your Baby Shower Invitation order with coupon code: GREENSHOWER. Offer is for new orders only and may not be combined with any other offer. Sale ends 3/20/11 at midnight. If you need something more custom or help personalizing the text on your Baby Shower Invitations, just click our live chat button or give us a call at 1-800-658-1547. We're always happy to help! Shop Baby Shower Invitations today!
Posted by Rene.Bross on 16. July 2009 09:38
In my internet travels today, I found these darling little delicate tissue paper flowers from Zakka Life via Petite Planet and instructions on how to make them. I can't wait to make some myself, but I also thought these would be so pretty as baby (or bridal) shower decorations. Easy, inexpensive to make and oh so CUTE! They would be the perfect match for an "It's a Girl!" baby shower. Check out the easy to follow tutorial here.
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iCloud: Import a vCard
You can import an electronic business card, also called a vCard, into iCloud Contacts. If the vCard contains contact information for more than one person, each contact becomes a separate entry. iCloud Contacts can import vCard format version 3.0 and later.
In iCloud Contacts, click the Action pop-up menu in the sidebar, then choose Import vCard.
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Potential to Freeze DoD Pay
For the government's budget to come under control, there are a lot of proposals on the table. One recent proposal is a five year freeze on the DoD budget (not including overseas operations) which will cut programs like the F-35, V-22, Virginia Class submarines and ballistic missile defense. Another source of cost savings being postulated is cutting the military force, reducing their pay, ceasing COLA increases for military retirees and raising copays for TRICARE medical treatment. Panelists argue that military personnel pay raises have been ahead of their counterparts in the civilian sector in recent years.
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- Budget Plan Shafts Troops, by VnutZ over 2 years ago
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- Warren Buffet Promotes Taxing Rich, by VnutZ about 5 years ago
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Hi everybody!
I have implement an MDI application under MFC.
Briefly I have to make my application to do what you can see at:
There you can find a screen shot of my application. How you can observe
there are two child windows (in this example, but in general there could be
more) displaying each one a bitmap. For each child window the user can set a
transparency value (an alpha value) so that putting that window on another
he can compare the two images (medical interest). Obviously what you see in
the screen shot is a fake example (otherwise I would not be here): in this
example the "sunset" bitmap has a 70% of opacity and the "bmw" bitmap has
100% o opacity; as you can see the "sunset" window is focused and lays above
the "bmw" window. I made this fake example first sizing and positioning the
two windows, then I minimized them and I restore the "bmw" window first and
then the "sunset" window. But, if I move the windows they not repaint
themselves properly. In fact I had subclassed the OnEraseBkgnd and the
OnPaint of my child windows and then I had used the AlphaBlend method to
paint the bitmap (I'll have to subclass also the OnMove when a child window
hasn't 100% opacity value). The problem is that on moving, sizing and so on,
before repainting with the AlphaBlend method I need to repaint what lays
under the focused child windows that is moving, sizing and so on. This means
that I had to repaint the parent window (the MDI container) and eventually
the sibling windows (the other MDI children) in the moving child client
But I don't know how to do this!
Is there anybody that's able to help me?
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Wizards of Nos - Static Tuning Test Procedure
Caution: The test should only be applied to Wizards of Nos (Highpower) nitrous systems. Carrying out this test on other systems (NX, NOS, Nytrex) may result in engine damage.
Note: On power gains above 25hp, a road test/plug inspection should be completed in addition to the static test.
This static test procedure is a standard tuning test for establishing correct mixture setting of Wizards of Nos nitrous systems. This test must only be done with the base 25hp jet setting and should be repeated after the installation of an optional bottle warmer and/or modifications to the fuel delivery system.
On completion of this test, a jet ratio will be established that should be applied to determine appropriate jet sizes when jet changes are made for higher power gains (see mixture ratio table below for examples).Customer support from the Wizards or your local agent is available.
Caution: Only use this static test procedure on Wizards of Nos (Highpower) nitrous systems with the 25hp jetting. Using this test on other manufacturers nitrous systems could result in engine damage.
Note: Some turbo engines, some race/tuned engines and the occasional naturally aspirated engines do not respond as expected to the static test. This is often due to engine management factors that alter the air/fuel mixture and/or the ignition timing which alters the static test results. In these cases, the road test method should be used.
|1. Run the engine to normal operating temperature with at least one instance of cooling fan operation.
|2. Open the nitrous bottle valve.
|3. Move the nitrous system 'Arm' switch to the 'ON' position.
|4. If a progressive controller is installed, set the 'Start Power' to 50% and the 'Build up Time' to 2.0 seconds (For further information, refer to the controller operating instructions).
Caution: If the engine sounds in any way different (harsh or rattles) to the way it sounds when you rev the engine normally, or if the engine revs rise above the engine redline limit, cease testing and report to our technicians.
Caution: Do not release the accelerator while the nitrous system is activated manually using the throttle microswitch/throttle position sensor (TPS).
Note: Assistance may be required (to operate the accelerator, monitor the engine rpm gauge and to check for exhaust gas colour change) while the nitrous system is activated manually using throttle microswitch/TPS from under the bonnet.Hold the engine revs at one third of the total rev range (i.e. if redline is at 6000rpm, hold at 2000rpm) and activate the nitrous system manually, by holding the throttle mounted microswitch/TPS. Monitor the engine revs and exhaust emission (if possible) for the following correct response:
|6. Release the nitrous system throttle microswitch/TPS (the engine revs should return to the held rpm).
|7. Release the accelerator.
8. If during step 5 the engine revs rise briefly but drop again or only rise a few hundred rpm higher, then the mixture may be too fuel rich. Reducing the fuel mixture can be done by changing to a smaller fuel jet or installing a fuel pressure regulator to reduce the fuel pressure.
9. If during step 5 the engine revs rise very sharply to above the engine redline limit, then the mixture may be too fuel weak. Increasing the fuel mixture can be done by changing to a larger fuel jet or installing a higher flow rate fuel pump.
|10. If a progressive controller is installed, adjust the 'Start Power' and the 'Build up Time' settings to the desired level for road or track use.
A road test should be completed after a successful static test on power gains above 25hp or on vehicles which do not respond well to the static test.
For power increase of 50hp and above, NGK Iridium tip spark plugs are recommended of one grade colder and a further one grade colder for every 50hp increment. As with any engine tuning, a good quality engine oil is advisable.
Warning: Ensure the steering lock mechanism does not engage when turning off the engine.
Note: The Wizards of Nos do not condone speeding on the public highway. A road test should be completed on a suitable road or test track where stopping/inspection is acceptable. Consideration must be given to other road/track users at all times.1. Using an appropriate gear (E.G. 3rd gear) starting from approximately 2000rpm, accelerate at full throttle (nitrous system 'Arm' switch in the 'OFF' position) from approximately 30mph up to 70mph then:
2. Remove the spark plugs for inspection and note the colour.
The firing-end appearances below is considered normal.
Caution: If you hear any noises other than a louder exhaust note or you feel anything other than a smooth surge of power, cease the test and contact our technicians.3. Repeat step 2 with the nitrous system 'Arm' switch in the 'ON' position. You should experience smooth, stronger acceleration.
|4. Remove the spark plugs for inspection and compare the spark plug colour with the colour noted during the non-Nitrous run. The plugs should be the same colour or a slightly darker colour when on nitrous indicating a correct or slightly rich fuel mixture. For further information visit NGK Technical guide or consult our technicians.
|HP Setting
|N˛O Jet
|Fuel Jet
|N˛O:Fuel ratio
|25 (normal)
|25 (Fuel weak)
|25 (Fuel rich)
|50 (normal)
|50 (Fuel weak)
|50 (Fuel rich)
This information is provided by SNTS Performance Ltd. and concurred by the Wizards of Nos. 20th July 2005


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i am fishing at the vaal river this winter, have never been there before and have no idea on what to use for those winter carp.... any tips for baits and dips to use???
We did wel on plain peanuts in the vaal river. And Hannes De Beer also did wel with home rolled Banana and Secret Agent boilies. But i would think it depend where you are going.
Try brown bread mixed with maroek as hookbait and mix some king corn into your ground bait. Someone once told me to try this when all else fails, I did and it worked wonders you will never ever have any other plan B!
I never had a problem with tiger nuts and worked pretty well for me. In addition I like to add a small bit off sweetcorn pellets, mixed with a bit off trout pellets in a pva netting as catfish is not a problem.Another method that I like to use is to take a very small paste spring, take a large hard floatie, dip it in pepper sauce tabasco, pull the spring slightly apart and place it inside the spring. This must be done after installing the small shafted rubber elastic. Then I use brown bread for a baste mix it with, pronutro, horlicks etc and makes a high quality paste. This I paste around the floatie onto the spring. prick it with a tooth pick so the tabasco in the floatie bleeds out while in the water. The spring kit is provided by western accessories.Then I attach this to the hook by threading the braid through the little hole in the elastic with the needle, before slipping the braid over the point off the hook. This bait is very light due to the floatie inside and will sit very lightly on the bottom and on top off the silt if not to deep. I then attach the hook link to the stiff boom as in a combi rig. You can make the brown bread base a high protein but please do not do this if you do not want to go to some trouble to ensure a proper bait.Or you can take a boilie base microwave it for 1-2 minutes depending on the buoyancy you want, instead of cooking, approx 8mm in size and place this inside the spring.
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Indigenous Peoples Experience and 1920's Midway Expansion
November 03, 2011
Public consultation is starting on two new capital projects proposed for Fort Edmonton Park. The Fort Edmonton Management Company is asking residents to provide feedback on the initial concept plans for The Indigenous Peoples Experience and the 1920's Midway Expansion.
The Indigenous Peoples Experience will connect visitors to the history and culture of the Aboriginal Peoples who lived, and continue to live, in the area we now call Edmonton. The goal of this addition to Fort Edmonton Park is to offer a more complete picture of the role of Aboriginal People in the development of the region and provide a place for Aboriginal people to share their stories.
The 1920's Midway Expansion would provide visitors with the opportunity to enjoy more of Edmonton's historical midway entertainment both during the day and potentially into the summer evening hours.
In keeping with the design philosophy of Fort Edmonton Park, every effort will be taken with both of these projects to ensure the experiences are authentic and historically accurate while also being an engaging and memorable experience for visitors.
The Fort Edmonton Management Company will host an information session on Monday, November 7, 2011 – 7pm at the Capitol Theatre at Fort Edmonton Park. Parking is available adjacent to the Hotel Selkirk.
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Volume 113, Issue 7, 15 August 2000
Dissociative electron attachment to gas-phase 5-bromouracil113(2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1306654View Description Hide Description
We report measurements of dissociative electron attachment (DEA) to gaseous 5-bromouracil (BrU) for incident electron energies between 0 and 16 eV. Low energy electron impact on BrU leads not only to the formation of a long lived parent anion but also various anion fragments resulting from endo- and exo-cyclic bond ruptures, such as uracil-yl anions, i.e., and a 68 amu anion tentatively attributed to The incident electron energy dependent signatures of either the and yields (at 0, 1.4, and 6 eV), or the and yields (at 1.6 and 5.0 eV) suggests competing DEA channels for anion fragment formation. The production cross sections, at 0 eV incident electron energy, for and are estimated to be about and respectively.
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- Theoretical Methods and Algorithms
Self-adaptive quadrature and numerical path integration113(2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1305743View Description Hide Description
In the present paper we explore the use of generalized Gaussian quadrature methods in the context of equilibrium path integral applications. Using moment techniques, we devise a compact, self-adaptive approach for use in conjunction with selected classes of interaction potentials. We demonstrate that, when applicable, the resulting approach reduces appreciably the number of potential energy evaluations required in equilibrium path integral simulations.
The mapping of the local contributions of Fermi and Coulomb correlation into intracule and extracule density distributions113(2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1305920View Description Hide Description
The contributions of the correlated and uncorrelated components of the electron-pair density to atomic and molecular intracule and extracule densities and its Laplacian functions and are analyzed at the Hartree–Fock (HF) and configuration interaction (CI) levels of theory. The topologies of the uncorrelated components of these functions can be rationalized in terms of the corresponding one-electron densities. In contrast, by analyzing the correlated components of and namely, and the effect of electron Fermi and Coulomb correlation can be assessed at the HF and CI levels of theory. Moreover, the contribution of Coulomb correlation can be isolated by means of difference maps between and distributions calculated at the two levels of theory. As application examples, the He, Ne, and Ar atomic series, the molecular series, and the molecule have been investigated. For these atoms and molecules, it is found that Fermi correlation accounts for the main characteristics of and with Coulomb correlation increasing slightly the locality of these functions at the CI level of theory. Furthermore, and the associated Laplacian functions, reveal the short-ranged nature and high isotropy of Fermi and Coulomb correlation in atoms and molecules.
On the condensed Fukui function113(2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1305879View Description Hide Description
A critical comparison among recently proposed methods for evaluating the condensed Fukui function neglecting relaxation effects is presented. The sign of the condensed Fukui function is discussed and arguments for a positive definite condensed Fukui function are given. Our numerical calculations in two series of molecules show that: (i) the condensed Fukui function can give, in general, valuable information about the site selectivity in chemical reactions and systematization in a family of molecules. In particular, it has been shown that the selectivity towards protonation in anilines and derivatives molecules can be correctly assessed by the electrophilic Fukui function described in this paper. Within this approach non-negative values for the condensed Fukui function are obtained for the relevant protonation sites in these polyfunctional systems; and (ii) the solvent effects on the condensed Fukui function are negligible, confirming a recently presented theoretical prediction.
Microcanonical temperature and its Arrhenius relation to lifetimes in isomerization dynamics of clusters113(2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1305866View Description Hide Description
In a previous study of isomerizationdynamics of clusters as a chaotic conservative system, we proposed a temperature, called the microcanonical temperature [C. Seko and K. Takatsuka, J. Chem. Phys. 104, 8613 (1996)], which is expected to characterize a phase space distribution on a constant energy plane. In contrast to the standard view of equal a priori distribution in phase space, we note a fact that this distribution usually becomes sharply localized with a single peak, if projected onto the potential energy coordinate. The microcanonical temperature is defined as a kinetic energy at which this projected distribution takes the maximum value. Then the most probable statistical events should be dominated by those components in vicinity of the peak, provided that the projected distribution is singly and sharply peaked and the associated dynamics is ergodic. The microcanonical temperature can be similarly redefined in the individual potential basins. Here in the present article a numerical fact is highlighted that the inverse of the lifetime of an isomer bears an Arrhenius-type relation with thus defined local microcanonical temperature assigned to the corresponding potential basin. We present an analysis of how the Arrhenius relation can arise.
Small-core multiconfiguration-Dirac–Hartree–Fock-adjusted pseudopotentials for post- d main group elements: Application to PbH and PbO113(2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1305880View Description Hide Description
Relativistic pseudopotentials (PPs) of the energy-consistent variety have been generated for the post- group 13–15 elements, by adjustment to multiconfiguration Dirac–Hartree–Fock data based on the Dirac–Coulomb–Breit Hamiltonian. The outer-core shells are explicitly treated together with the valence shell, with these PPs, and the implications of the small-core choice are discussed by comparison to a corresponding large-core PP, in the case of Pb. Results from valence ab initio one- and two-component calculations using both PPs are presented for the fine-structure splitting of the ground-state configuration of the Pb atom, and for spectroscopic constants of PbH and PbO In addition, a combination of small-core and large-core PPs has been explored in spin-free-state shifted calculations for the above molecules.
On the temperature, equipartition, degrees of freedom, and finite size effects: Application to aluminum clusters113(2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1305821View Description Hide Description
The relationship between statistical ensembles (especially microcanonical ensemble) and dynamics, the equipartition theorem, and the notion of dynamical temperature are reexamined with an emphasis on finite size effects. A (dynamical) equipartition ansatz (postulate) is formulated and the notion of dynamical degrees of freedom is introduced. The utility of the dynamical degrees of freedom as an analysis tool is discussed and illustrated in applications to model aluminum clusters.
Exploring the ab initio/classical free energy perturbation method: The hydration free energy of water113(2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1305862View Description Hide Description
The ab initio/classical free energyperturbation (ABC-FEP) method proposed previously by Wood et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 110, 1329 (1999)] uses classical simulations to calculate solvation free energies within an empirical potential model, then applies free energyperturbation theory to determine the effect of changing the empirical solute–solvent interactions to corresponding interactions calculated from ab initio methods. This approach allows accurate calculation of solvation free energies using an atomistic description of the solvent and solute, with interactions calculated from first principles. Results can be obtained at a feasible computational cost without making use of approximations such as a continuum solvent or an empirical cavity formation energy. As such, the method can be used far from ambient conditions, where the empirical parameters needed for approximate theories of solvation may not be available. The sources of error in the ABC-FEP method are the approximations in the ab initio method, the finite sample of configurations, and the classical solvent model. This article explores the accuracy of various approximations used in the ABC-FEP method by comparing to the experimentally well-known free energy of hydration of water at two state points (ambient conditions, and 973.15 K and 600 kg/m3). The TIP4P-FQ model [J. Chem. Phys. 101, 6141 (1994)] is found to be a reliable solvent model for use with this method, even at supercritical conditions. Results depend strongly on the ab initio method used: a gradient-corrected density functional theory is not adequate, but a localized MP2 method yields excellent agreement with experiment. Computational costs are reduced by using a cluster approximation, in which ab initio pair interaction energies are calculated between the solute and up to 60 solvent molecules, while multi-body interactions are calculated with only a small cluster (5 to 12 solvent molecules). Sampling errors for the ab initio contribution to solvation free energies are ±2 kJ/mol or less when 50–200 configurations are used. Using the largest clusters and most accurate ab initio methods, ABC-FEP predicts hydration free energies of water at both state points that agree with equations of state, within the sampling error. These results are the first calculation of a free energy of solvation at extreme conditions from a fully atomistic model with ab initio methods.
Direct iterative solution of the generalized Bloch equation. II. A general formalism for many-electron systems113(2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1305321View Description Hide Description
A general nonperturbative formulation of the recently proposed [H. Meißner and E. O. Steinborn, Int. J. Quantum Chem. 61, 777 (1997); Part I] quadratic iterative scheme for the wave function expansion coefficients (WECs), enabling a direct solution of the generalized Bloch equation, is given for the ab initio electronic Hamiltonians, thus enabling the computation of the molecular electronic structure. The method exploits the concepts of a multidimensional reference or model space, a (non-Hermitian) effective Hamiltonian, and the generalized Bloch equation. The formulation in terms of WECs provides a considerable freedom in the design of various approximation schemes by combining direct iterations on WECs with their approximation by disconnected cluster components based on the exponential cluster ansatz for the wave operator. The resulting formalism is capable of handling a rather large class of both ground and excited states. While the general formulation represents a multiconfigurational, multireference scheme, a special attention is paid to its two-dimensional state selective or state specific version.
Direct iterative solution of the generalized Bloch equation. III. Application to -cluster models113(2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1305322View Description Hide Description
A state-selective multiconfigurational single-reference method that was outlined in the preceding paper of this series (H. Meißner and J. Paldus, J. Chem. Phys. 113, 2594 (2000); preceding paper), and is based on a quadratic iterative algorithm enabling the direct solution of the generalized Bloch equation, is applied to several model systems consisting of interacting hydrogen molecules, nowadays referred to as the H4, S4, and H8 models. These exactly solvable models are often used to test the efficacy of post-Hartree–Fock methods in their ability to recover both the dynamic and nondynamic correlation energies, since they enable a continuous variation of the degree of quasidegeneracy from the degenerate to nondegenerate limit by varying a single geometrical parameter, while simulating the dissociation of one or more single bonds. Various approximation schemes that were outlined in Part II, as well as their combinations, are tested and their performance evaluated. The size-extensivity deviations of those approximations that do not rely on the exponential cluster ansatz for the wave operator are also examined using larger hydrogen molecule clusters. It is shown that the so-called approximation performs extremely well in all cases and even outperforms the externally corrected, reduced multireference (RMR) CCSD in the quasidegenerate region of geometries.
Direct iterative solution of the generalized Bloch equation. IV. Application to LiH, BeH, and113(2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1305323View Description Hide Description
The state selective, one- and two-determinantal versions of the recently proposed direct iterative approach to the solution of the generalized Bloch equation [H. Meißner and J. Paldus, J. Chem. Phys. 113, 2612 (2000); Part II] are applied to the ground and excited states of several test molecular ab initio models for which the exact full configuration interaction results are available. Both closed- and open-shell states of different spin multiplicity are considered, as well as the excited states belonging to the same symmetry species as does the ground state. The versatility and flexibility of this approach stems from the possibility of introducing the cluster expansion based approximations of highly excited clusters at various levels of the iterative scheme, leading to a sequence of approximations including both the configuration interaction and coupled cluster methods with singles and doubles as a special case. Both the reliability and the efficiency of these various approximations is examined, and potentially promising approximation schemes are identified.
Hydrogen bonding at the diatomics-in-molecules level: Water clusters113(2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1303850View Description Hide Description
Further developments of the intermolecular diatomics-in-molecules (DIM) theory towards construction of potential energy surfaces of hydrogen-bonded molecular aggregates are presented. Compared to the previously studied hydrogen fluoride clusters [J. Chem. Phys. 111, 4442 (1999)], considerably more complicated and challenging systems, namely, water clusters have been analyzed in this work. The present DIM, or more precisely, diatomics-in-ionic-systems, scheme is based on the balanced treatment of neutral and ionic contributions to the electronic properties of polyatomic species, and in this case takes into account the mixing of the OH and electronic states within the valence bond description of water molecules. The potential curves of diatomic molecules required for the present application, including ionic species have been computed by ab initio quantum chemistry tools. The results of DIM calculations of equilibrium geometry configurations, binding energies, and relative energies for the low-lying isomers of are compared to the reference data showing a good predictive power of this method.
Flexible transition state theory for a variable reaction coordinate: Derivation of canonical and microcanonical forms113(2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1305865View Description Hide Description
A completely general canonical and microcanonical (energy-resolved) flexible transition state theory (FTST) expression for the rate constant is derived for an arbitrary choice of reaction coordinate. The derivation is thorough and rigorous within the framework of FTST and replaces our previous treatments [Robertson et al., J. Chem. Phys. 103, 2917 (1995); Robertson et al., Faraday Discuss. Chem. Soc. 102, 65 (1995)] which implicitly involved some significant assumptions. The canonical rate expressions obtained here agree with our earlier results. The corresponding microcanonical results are new. The rate expressions apply to any definition of the separation distance between fragments in a barrierless recombination (or dissociation) that is held fixed during hindered rotations at the transition state, and to any combination of fragment structure (atom, linear top, nonlinear top). The minimization of the rate constant with respect to this definition can be regarded as optimizing the reaction coordinate within a canonical or microcanonical framework. The expression is analytic except for a configuration integral whose evaluation generally requires numerical integration over internal angles (from one to five depending on the fragment structures). The form of the integrand in this integral has important conceptual and computational implications. The primary component of the integrand is the determinant of the inverse G-matrix associated with the external rotations and the relative internal motion of the fragments.
- Gas Phase Dynamics and Structure: Spectroscopy, Molecular Interactions, Scattering, and Photochemistry
Direct-dynamics approach to catalytic effects: The tautomerization of 3-hydroxyisoquinoline as a test case113(2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1305744View Description Hide Description
The mechanism of tautomerization of 3-hydroxyisoquinoline (3HIQ) in its first excited singlet state is studied theoretically for the isolated molecule and the 1:1 complexes with water and acetic acid (3HIQ/AA). It is found that the proton transfer is a tunneling process which is strongly mediated by the motion of the heavier atoms involved in the hydrogen bond bridges. Therefore it is argued that quantitative assessment of the tremendous catalytic effect of complexation observed experimentally is possible only through the evaluation of multidimensional tunnelingrate constants. These are addressed using a direct dynamics approach based on the multidimensional instanton model. The potential energy surface, which governs the tautomerization dynamics, is generated from ab initio calculations at CIS/6-31G* and CASSCF(8,8)/6-31G* levels of theory. It is formulated in terms of the normal modes of the transition state and consists of 33, 57, and 72 degrees of freedom for 3HIQ, and 3HIQ/AA, respectively. The catalytic effect of complexation is discussed as an interplay between the static component, reflected in the change of geometries and relative stabilities of the three stationary points, and the dynamic one, resulting from the effects of coupling of the tunneling motion to the skeletal modes. Since the coupling parameters reported in the present study are typical for proton transfer along hydrogen bridges, the relative weight of these effects in the overall acceleration of the reaction will be larger in complexes with smaller reduction of the barrier height upon complexation.
The electronic structure and chemical bonding of aluminum acetylide: and An experimental and theoretical investigation113(2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1305881View Description Hide Description
We have investigated the electronic structure and chemical bonding of and both experimentally and theoretically. Photoelectron spectra of were obtained at several photon energies. Two anionic isomers were observed: one with a very sharp ground state feature and a low vertical electron binding energy (0.71 eV) and another with a very broad ground state feature with a much higher vertical electron binding energy (1.58 eV). Theoretical calculations were performed at various levels of theory for both the anion and the neutral. We found two isomers with relatively close energies for the anion: a quasilinear acetylide species and a planar-bridged structure. However, only one stable isomer was found for the neutral, which has the acetylide structure. Adiabatic and vertical detachment energies were also calculated for the two anionic isomers and were used to interpret and assign the experimental spectra. We found that the sharp 0.71 eV feature was from the acetylide isomer, whereas the broad 1.58 eV feature was from the isomer. The excellent agreement between the calculated and experimental electron affinities and excitation energies lends considerable credence for the assignments of the two anionic isomers. The structures and bonding of the acetylide neutral and anion and the anion are discussed. © 2000 American Institute of Physics.
Quantum Monte Carlo determination of the atomization energy and heat of formation of propargyl radical113(2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1305878View Description Hide Description
The quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method is used to compute the atomization energy and the heat of formation of the propargyl radical, The effective core potential and fixed-node approximations are used in the diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) variant of QMC. Two generalized gradient approximationdensity functionals, B3LYP and B3PW91, are also applied for comparison. The atomization energy determined by these methods is 606.12 kcal/mol (B3LYP), 610.24 kcal/mol (B3PW91), and 607.6(0.6) (DMC). The latter compares favorably with separate measurements of 608.0(3.0) and 608.5(1.2) kcal/mol. The determined by these methods is 84.03 kcal/mol (B3LYP), 79.91 kcal/mol (B3PW91), 82.5(0.6) (DMC), and two independent measurements yield values of 82.5(3.0) and 81.5(1.2) kcal/mol.
Multi-isotope study of fractionation effects in the ozone formation process113(2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1305890View Description Hide Description
The isotope fractionation of all ozone isotopologs of mass 48–54 u has been measured with high accuracy. The data represent a standard for the magnitude of the ozoneisotope effect since pressure, temperature, and composition of the gas in which ozone is produced are well known. While and are depleted by −1.5% and −3.9%, respectively, all others are enriched with showing the highest value of 19.8%. Enrichments or depletions are independent of the isotope composition of the oxygen gas.
Interpretation and deperturbation of the Λ-type doubling in the state of GaH113(2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1305882View Description Hide Description
The unusual J dependence of the Λ doubling splitting that separates e and f levels in the state of GaH has been interpreted using a deperturbation study carried out in an effective Hamiltonian point of view and based on a case (c) partition of the Hamiltonian: rather than limiting the zeroth-order part of the Hamiltonian to electronic and vibrational motions, spin-orbit interaction is also included, leaving outside just those effects linked with nuclear rotational motion. Thus the reasons for the peculiar behavior of the Λ splitting come out in a simple and appealing way. Essentially, with such a procedure, the variation with increasing rotation of the Λ-doubling splitting, i.e., the variations of the energydifferences between e and f levels, are directly connected with fairly large differences between the rotational parameters (including mandatorily first and second order centrifugal distorsion) occurring in the off-diagonal Coriolis matrix elements within the block. To a lesser extent, smaller differences between the e and frotational constants in the diagonal elements also contribute to the pattern of splittings. The consistency of the resulting values of the main fitted difference parameters splitting at null rotation and first-order diagonal and off-diagonal rotational constant differences) is examined on the basis of experimental data on the one hand and new ab initio calculations on the other. Correct orders of magnitude are obtained although rotational constant differences but one are experimentally larger than expected theoretically from a model restricted to the four electronic states dissociating into ground state products.
Ab initio studies of anionic clusters of water pentamer113(2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1301497View Description Hide Description
Conformers of water anionic pentamer cluster have been reported here in using ab initio as well as density functional methods. Relative stabilities of these conformers obtained from inclusion of electron correlation at various levels indicate that they are very close in energies. The plots of singly occupied molecular orbital (SOMO) reveal that the excess electron exhibits stabilization selectively as either a surface state or an internal state. Vibrational frequencies of some of the conformers have also been reported at the MP2 level.
Vibrational spectra and intramolecular vibrational redistribution in highly excited deuterobromochlorofluoromethane CDBrClF: Experiment and theory113(2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1302083View Description Hide Description
The rovibrational spectra of deuterobromochlorofluoromethane (CDBrClF) were measured at intermediate and high resolution full bandwidth, half-maximum) by interferometric Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in the range from the far infrared at to the near infrared covering all the fundamentals and CD stretching overtones up to polyad The spectra are completely analyzed in terms of their vibrational assignments to fundamentals, combinations and overtones. At high excitation the analysis reveals the dominant anharmonic coupling between four high frequency vibrational modes; the CD stretching two CD bending and the CF stretching mode The analysis is carried out using effective model Hamiltonians including three and four vibrational degrees of freedom. We also present vibrational variational calculations on a grid in a four-dimensional normal coordinate subspace. The potential energy and the dipole moment function are calculated ab initio on this grid using self-consistent field second order Møller–Plesset perturbation theory (MP2). Experimental and theoretical results for band positions and integrated intensities as well as effective spectroscopic parameters are found to be in good agreement. The important anharmonic coupling between the CD chromophore and the CF stretching vibration can be described by an effective cubic Fermi resonance coupling constant which leads to intramolecular vibrational redistribution between the CD and CF chromophores on the femtosecond time scale. Time dependent intramolecular vibrational redistribution processes in CDBrClF are derived in various representations, including time dependent probability densities ("wave packets") in coordinate space and finally time dependent entropy.


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AT&T round three: It's hard to see past Singh
Saturday was a tale of two putters. Phil Mickelson went from 26 putts per round on Friday to 33 (and nearly 2 putts per green in regulation) while Vijay Singh went from 32 putts in round two to 28 on Saturday (1.6 PPG). Not hard to figure who's top of the leaderboard and who missed the cut.
Mickelson's dramatic exit must be especially hard because the rest of his game was clearly coming round. He actually equalled Singh for finding greens Saturday, topping 80 per cent for only the second round this season. His accuracy off the tee was almost the same. But in the face of a really bad putting day he pushed it on the 14th with appalling consequences - 11 strokes on a par 5! Lefty's season came off the rails big time at that moment.
He sounds remarkably complacent about his troubles. Admittedly he got off to a bad start with that illness, but so far this season he averages just 61 per cent for accuracy off the tee, 66 per cent for greens in regulation, 28 putts per round (and 1.8 putts per GIR), and even his distance figures are nothing to shout home about at an average of just over 280. These are nowhere near where the next best thing to Tiger Woods should be.
Lefty has played some really great golf this season, some of it in this competition. But he hasn't played enough of it.
Then again neither had Singh until his putter suddenly fizzed into life on Saturday. Maybe he read my suggestion that once he worked out which end of it was up he'd do just fine! Question is, of course, which putter do we see in round four?
Those around Vijay don't inspire a whole lot of confidence: veterans for whom victory is a distant and infrequent memory, or rookies untested in the Sunday pressure cooker at this level.
The omens stack up for Vijay too. There was a time when players thought nothing of zipping in to win from three or four shots back. But not since 2003, when the Sunday morning leader has invariably gone on to claim the spoils. And the pressure will be on his co-leader Dudley Hart, who desperately needs the money to gain exempt status for this year (1st or 2nd should do).
Vijay did fluff his lines at last year's Canadian Open when he was the Sunday morning leader, but that was to Jim Furyk. So it's a brave man that takes Vijay on in the market Sunday. Let's face it, even when his putting was rubbish this week he hit under par. It could need a brave - and probably lucky - round to beat him.
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The first in a series, this steampunk novel for kids takes place in one town. Rownie and other abandoned orphans encounter a goblin troupe and a grandmother a-la Baba Yaga.
Hmmm. I'm not really sure why this was picked as the National Book Award winner this year. I liked it better than "Endangered" but "Never Fall Down" was more powerful. I'll have to see how I feel after I read the other two.
Awesome book! I love everything about it. I love the simplicity of the language, and the weirdness of it, the author is always giving us something that we've never heard of before -- fish that live in sand, a mask that is the river, saying hello with a pebble -- a truly fantastic fantasy. The villain is incredibly creepy and the heroes are all very individual. I reacted differently from other readers in that I kind of liked the pace at which information is revealed -- very slowly, so there is always another mystery pulling you through the book. I guess I found it refreshing. There are so many books that get bogged down in too many explanations. I really didn't want it to end.
Dark, tragic, sad.
The first in a series, this steampunk novel for kids takes place in one town. Rownie and other abandoned orphans encounter a goblin troupe and a grandmother a-la Baba Yaga.
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Hoping to find his lost brother, Rownie escapes the home of the witch Graba and joins a troupe of goblins who perform in Zombay, a city where humans are forbidden to wear masks and act in plays.
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This book is a result of a symposium held in November 1965 at which eminent scientists from the fields of pediatrics, pathology, zoology, physiology, and physical chemistry were gathered. To paraphrase the chairman's remarks, this unique symposium made it possible for experts in many fields to contribute to a common discussion on the development of the lung. Indeed, the book contains much more than the title implies, for the subject matter ranges from a consideration of the electrochemical potential of water at different temperatures to developmental anatomy of the human lung. Thus it might have been more aptly titled "Developmental Pulmonary Physiology," but even this title seems an inadequate description of the scope of the text.
The book is divided into five sections: phylogeny of the lung, ontogeny of the lung, the gas liquid interface, intrauterine gas exchange, and the start of breathing. Following each paper within a section, a
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Proof you can't hurt a liberal by hitting them in the head.
A Logan Square shop owner who'd been robbed in the past grabbed a baseball bat and fought back when a pair of men came in intent on robbing the place.
Store surveillance cameras captured the bold brawl at Quizhpe's Gifts & Sports, in the 2200 block of North Western Avenue, at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The robbers, one of them with a gun, apparently had no idea what they were in for when they walked into the shop.
"One of the guys, he said, 'Give me the money or you are dead,' and after that I was close to him and I tried to hit him with the bat, and the other guy he started shooting," said Luis Aucaquizhpi.
Aucaquizhpi's brother-in-law, 62-year-old Luis Quizphe, fended off the gunman with a baseball bat for a moment before the shooter tried to run away. Little did the robber know, however, that customers need to be buzzed in and out of the store. Seeing that they couldn't get out, one of the attackers returned to the counter and continued shooting.
Aucaquizhpi is seen in the video tossing a stool at the gunman and later chasing him with a fire extinguisher after the two robbers buzzed themselves out of the shop.
Quizphe was shot in the leg during the ordeal and was listed in good condition at Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital on Wednesday evening. The man with the gun appears to also have shot his accomplice. Police said they found 10 shell casings on the floor.
Quizphe's son credited God for being on his dad's side.
"I thank God that nothing worse happened to him, that he's alive. I'm grateful for that," said Juan Quizphe.
Police said no arrests had been made in the case as of Wednesday afternoon. After getting away, the men, whom Aucaquizhpi described only as being black men, ran north on Western Avenue and then west on Belden Avenue before getting into a gray car.
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> Greetings,
> Can anyone suggest a good tutorial for connecting linux clients to linux
> printer servers? I'm able to connect my Windows machines to them using
> SAMBA but I'm failing with my linux clients. I've been googling but have
> yet to find anything detailed enough to get me going. My linux printer
> server is OpenSUSE 10.2, clients 10.3 and Ubuntu 7.04. Thanks,
> Tom
One way is to create the file /etc/cups/client.conf on all clients
with just the line:
Then it just works, unless you reject remote clients.
Suse has it this way (at least what I have found out)
The file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf (on your cups server)
SystemGroup sys root
So you need to create a lppassword for admin, as member of the group sys or root.
lppasswd -g sys -a admin
Then just login to http://localhost:631 , go to the admin page
(login as admin, or whatever you created)
setup your printers, aliases and rules, allow remote print, or whatever.
There is manuals and everything in there.
You can also use YaST to change the remote access.
Windows can use http://cupsserver:631/printers/printername as device
using IPP (even if they are doing their best to hide it for you) ,
but it seems that windows don't grab the PPD from
http://cupsserver:631/printers/printername.ppd , but instead need samba to
get the drivers+special software, I really don't know, but there is no problem
to install the drivers+software from the CD.
My cups server at home is configured to use slp broadcast,
(and one SLP Directory Agent) so I never do anything when installing a new
machine, just install the OS, login and the printers are there, working perfect.


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Lady Gaga beats Barack Obama's Facebook record
In February, she was behind actor Vin Diesel, actress Megan Fox and the US leader - but has now gone past all of them. According to Famecount, only five others, none of them living, have more Facebook fans than Lady Gaga. They are the late Michael Jackson, Texas Hold 'em Poke, the Family Guy TV show, the game Mafia Wars and the Facebook site itself.
"Achieving 10m fans is a key milestone for both Lady Gaga, and for social media in general. It is testament to the incredible reach of Facebook, and to the phenomenon of Lady Gaga," Sky News quoted Jamie Gavin from Famecount as saying.


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Box score NEW ORLEANS – The Rockets had made their repairs, moved the ball and built a lead that had reached 19. In the second half, in a stunning and crucial turnaround, they even took care of the ball. With nearly 10 minutes left, however, it all shut down. The ball got 'sticky,' as Kevin McHale hates to say but likes to put it. For nearly six minutes, the offense that had lived up to Thursday's session of the Kevin McHale Film Festival shut down. The Rockets missed seven shots with five turnovers with the Hornets closing to 10, the deficit they had made up in the
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Wu, CY, Niu, Z, Tang, Q, Huang, WJ, Rivard, B, Feng, JL (2009). Remote estimation of gross primary production in wheat using chlorophyll-related vegetation indices. AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY, 149(7-Jun), 1015-1021.
AbstractA number of recent studies have focused on estimating gross primary production (GPP) using vegetation indices (VIs). In this paper, GPP is retrieved as a product of incident light use efficiency (LUE), defined as GPP/PAR, and the photosynthetically active radiation (PAR). As a good correlation is found between canopy chlorophyll content and incident LUE for six types of wheat canopy (R-2 = 0.87, n = 24), indices aimed for chlorophyll assessment can be used as an indicator of incident LUE and the product of chlorophyll indices and PAR will be a proxy of GPP. In a field experiment, we investigated four canopy chlorophyll content related indices (Red edge Normalized Difference Vegetation Index I Red Edge NDVI), modified Chlorophyll Absorption Ratio Index [MCARI(710)], Red Edge Chlorophyll Index [CIred (edge)] and the MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index [MTCI]) for GPP estimation during the growth cycle of wheat. These indices are validated for leaf and canopy chlorophyll estimation with ground truth data of canopy chlorophyll content. With ground truth data, a strong correlation is observed for canopy chlorophyll estimation with correlation coefficients R-2 of 0.79, 0.84, 0.85 and 0.87 for Red Edge NDVI, MCARI(710), CIred (edge) and MTCI, respectively (n = 24). As evidence of the existence of a relationship between canopy chlorophyll and GPP/PAR, these indices are shown to be a good proxy of GPP/PAR with R-2 ranging from 0.70 for Red Edge NDVI and 0.75 for MTCI (n = 240). Remote estimation of GPP from canopy chlorophyll content x PAR is proved to be relatively successful (R-2 of 0.47, 0.53, 0.65 and 0.66 for Red edge NDVI, MCARI(710), CIred edge and MTCI respectively, n = 240). These results open up a new possibility to estimate GPP and should inspire new models for remote sensing of GPP. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Aquamarine Power has been named one of the best places to work
in Scotland, coming second overall in Scotland's Great Workplaces
Awards and gaining top spot in the Leadership Excellence Award.
The awards are as a result of anonymous surveys conducted by the
Great Place to Work Institute and follow a top ten place in their
UK-wide award scheme last year.
The judges praised us for being a friendly place to work, where the
management team is focused on improving the working environment for
their employees.
"This is a fantastic result," said Aquamarine Power CEO Martin
McAdam. "The award recognises the unique culture here at Aquamarine
Power, particularly the high level of respect, trust and pride we
have in our workplace while developing Oyster. The personal
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communication right through the business has created and stimulated
a very strong team spirit - this is what gives us the edge and
makes us a great place to work."
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I am trying to make it so it doesnt jump halfway down the page. I can set it the textarea to focus on bye using auto_focus:
I see that is executed here:
if (tinyMCE.settings['auto_focus']) {
window.setTimeout(function () {
var inst = tinyMCE.getInstanceById(tinyMCE.settings['auto_focus']);
inst.selectNode(inst.getBody(), true, true);
inst.contentWindow.focus();}, 10);
I've altered this code to accept a setting of OFF and skip any type of focus and even added code to put focus on one of the form elements.
I would have thought this was the final piece of code to get run on init but it isnt. If you set an id for auto_focus: it appears it is the final bit of code. If you don't it seems to continue on and go some place else.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
Is there some parameter I can set to absolutely run a plugin or somthing at the very end of all this so it doesnt set focus.