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The Chilean President Sebastián Piñera has presented the Digital Agenda Imagine program me for 2013 -202 0 , in order to boost ICT technological development in the country. The project establishes five strategic areas: Connectivity and Digital Inclusion, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Education and Training, Services and Applications, and Environment for Digital Development, with 14 lines of action and 30 different initiatives. BMI believes this is a good sign for ICT development in Chile, with many companies likely to benefit.
|ICT Sales Could Receive Boost
The Digital Agenda will act as a replacement for Chile's Digital Strategy 2007-2012, which looked to provide ICT infrastructure expansion in the underserved territories at high speeds and reasonable prices. The new Digital Agenda has similar ambitions, seeking to double internet penetration from 40.7% in 2013 to 80% in 2020, while lowering the average price of ICT services. Other important goals include providing free public Wi-Fi to 100% of communities, increasing high speed connections, lowering piracy, increasing ICT sales as a proportion of GDP, integrating ICT technology in all areas of education and encouraging the digitisation of public services as well as e-commerce in SMEs. No budget for the project has been indicated, however.
This move bodes well for a number of companies with a presence in the Chilean market. Sonda, the biggest IT provider in Latin America, saw strong growth in smaller markets throughout the region during 2012 but less so in its core market of Chile ( see our online service, February 4 2013, 'Sonda Benefits From Regional Spread As ICT Market Slows'). The Digital Agenda aims to increase in sales and grow the penetration of ICT services, and Sonda would stand to benefit most from the project. Other beneficiaries might include IBM, which launched a new US$22mn data centre in Santiago in April 2013, Boingo, a wireless hotspot provider with a presence in Chile, as well as wireline and broadband companies such as Telefónica and VTR.
Chile is a technologically savvy country, with strong demand for the latest developments and has positioned itself as a regional leader in this field. However, in our Q313 IT Risk/Reward ratings, Chile fell one spot from 3 rd to 4 th behind Brazil because of a below average industry rewards score. The success of the Digital Agenda could push this score up, as well as upgrading our forecasts, seeing Chile re-capture its position. We currently forecast that Chile's IT market will reach a value of CLP1,865bn in 2013, rising to CLP2,611bn by the end of 2017.


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Fiddleheads Forest School is hosting a Fall Fair at the Graham Visitor Center from 1-3pm on Nov. 14th!
Currently enrolled families and those interested in being a part of our Fiddleheads community are welcome to attend, rain or shine. The fair is family friendly and will feature:
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Support our efforts and learn about: SPrOut (Study of Preschoolers Outdoors), a new research opportunity developed by Dr. Pooja Tandon of Seattle Children's and the University of Washington in collaboration with Sarah Heller and Kit Harrington of Fiddleheads. Families enrolled or interested in Fiddleheads with preschool-age students will have the opportunity to participate this spring, 2016!
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Book Excerpt: The Python Standard Library by Example
3.1.2 Comparison
Under Python 2, classes can define a __cmp__() method that returns -1, 0, or 1 based on whether the object is less than, equal to, or greater than the item being compared. Python 2.1 introduces the rich comparison methods API (__lt__(), __le__(), __eq__(), __ne__(), __gt__(), and __ge__()), which perform a single comparison operation and return a Boolean value. Python 3 deprecated __cmp__() in favor of these new methods, so functools provides tools to make it easier to write Python 2 classes that comply with the new comparison requirements in Python 3.
Rich Comparison
The rich comparison API is designed to allow classes with complex comparisons to implement each test in the most efficient way possible. However, for classes where comparison is relatively simple, there is no point in manually creating each of the rich comparison methods. The total_ordering() class decorator takes a class that provides some of the methods and adds the rest of them.
import functools import inspect from pprint import pprint @functools.total_ordering class MyObject(object): def __init__(self, val): self.val = val def __eq__(self, other): print ' testing __eq__(%s, %s)' % (self.val, other.val) return self.val == other.val def __gt__(self, other): print ' testing __gt__(%s, %s)' % (self.val, other.val) return self.val > other.val print 'Methods:\n' pprint(inspect.getmembers(MyObject, inspect.ismethod)) a = MyObject(1) b = MyObject(2) print '\nComparisons:' for expr in [ 'a < b', 'a <= b', 'a == b', 'a >= b', 'a > b' ]: print '\n%-6s:' % expr result = eval(expr) print ' result of %s: <%s' % (expr, result)
The class must provide implementation of __eq__() and one other rich comparison method. The decorator adds implementations of the rest of the methods that work by using the comparisons provided.
$ python functools_total_ordering.py Methods: [('__eq__', <unbound method MyObject.__eq__>), ('__ge__', <unbound method MyObject.__ge__>), ('__gt__', <unbound method MyObject.__gt__>), ('__init__', <unbound method MyObject.__init__>), ('__le__', <unbound method MyObject.__le__>), ('__lt__', <unbound method MyObject.__lt__>)] Comparisons: a < b: testing __gt__(2, 1) result of a < b: True a <= b: testing __gt__(1, 2) result of a <= b: True a == b: testing __eq__(1, 2) result of a == b: False a >= b: testing __gt__(2, 1) result of a >= b: False a > b: testing __gt__(1, 2) result of a > b: False
Collation Order
Since old-style comparison functions are deprecated in Python 3, the cmp argument to functions like sort() is also no longer supported. Python 2 programs that use comparison functions can use cmp_to_key() to convert them to a function that returns a collation key, which is used to determine the position in the final sequence.
import functools
class MyObject(object):
def __init__(self, val):
self.val = val
def __str__(self):
return 'MyObject(%s)' % self.val
def compare_obj(a, b):
"""Old-style comparison function.
print 'comparing %s and %s' % (a, b)
return cmp(a.val, b.val)
# Make a key function using cmp_to_key()
get_key = functools.cmp_to_key(compare_obj)
def get_key_wrapper(o):
"""Wrapper function for get_key to allow for print statements.
new_key = get_key(o)
print 'key_wrapper(%s) -> %s' % (o, new_key)
return new_key
objs = [ MyObject(x) for x in xrange(5, 0, -1) ]
for o in sorted(objs, key=get_key_wrapper):
print o
Normally, cmp_to_key() would be used directly, but in this example, an extra wrapper function is introduced to print out more information as the key function is being called.
The output shows that sorted() starts by calling get_key_wrapper() for each item in the sequence to produce a key. The keys returned by cmp_to_key() are instances of a class defined in functools that implements the rich comparison API using the old-style comparison function passed in. After all keys are created, the sequence is sorted by comparing the keys.
$ python functools_cmp_to_key.py key_wrapper(MyObject(5)) -> <functools.K object at 0x100da2a50> key_wrapper(MyObject(4)) -> <functools.K object at 0x100da2a90> key_wrapper(MyObject(3)) -> <functools.K object at 0x100da2ad0> key_wrapper(MyObject(2)) -> <functools.K object at 0x100da2b10> key_wrapper(MyObject(1)) -> <functools.K object at 0x100da2b50> comparing MyObject(4) and MyObject(5) comparing MyObject(3) and MyObject(4) comparing MyObject(2) and MyObject(3) comparing MyObject(1) and MyObject(2) MyObject(1) MyObject(2) MyObject(3) MyObject(4) MyObject(5)
See Also:
functools (http://docs.python.org/library/functools.html) The standard library documentation for this module.
Rich comparison methods (http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html# object.__lt__) Description of the rich comparison methods from the Python Reference Guide.
inspect (page 1200) Introspection API for live objects.
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|By Doug Hellmann
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Journalism Needs Journalists, Not Phonies
If you haven't noticed, sports journalism is diseased and dying, swallowed up by conflicted corporate interests at major TV networks and watered down by reporters so busy promoting themselves and politicizing their way into positions at those networks that they forget their professional purpose.
That is, to report.
And to investigate.
And to at least try, in the face of lockdown resistance that makes it more difficult than ever to penetrate the hermetically sealed cocoons of professional and college sports, to uncover the wrongs and make them right.
Given the mega-billions swirling around pro leagues, college conferences and TV networks -- and the inevitable conflicts of interests within -- whatever is left of journalism is pretty damned important these days. ESPN spoke volumes about its future journalistic intentions when it bowed to the demands of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell -- its partner in a longstanding business relationship that includes an eight-year, $15.5-billion extension for the cherished ``Monday Night Football'' franchise -- when he leaned on the network to end an affiliation with PBS on a cutting-edge October documentary about concussions. With that wishy-washy precedent established, don't expect much investigative work from ESPN that would upset its business partners, who, of course, happen to include almost every vital player in the sports kingdom. Fox Sports, the No. 2 network, gave up on investigative reporting long ago, assuming it was involved at all while searching the earth for dorm-room-pinup blondes and shining up Cleatus the Robot every football season.
That leaves ? who? Local newspapers are either about to perish or are in a slow death spiral and, with few exceptions, want nothing to do with angering the powers-that-be in their sports communities. Did you see the recent news about Ron Morris, who was doing good work as a tough, fair critic of the University of South Carolina football program? Seems Steve Spurrier, Head Ball Coach of the Gamecocks and a legendary good-old-boy schmoozer, used his connections with Morris' boss, publisher of The State newspaper in Columbia, to have Morris' commentaries shifted to other topics. Spurrier admitted he pushed hard for a diehard South Carolina fan, Glenn Snyder, to replace Morris. Snyder got the call and told the Romenesko Report website, ``I love the University of South Carolina. I love Steve Spurrier ?'' This prompted the great Leigh Montville, now working for the Sports On Earth site, to write a sample pro-Gamecocks column for Snyder to use anytime he needs to appease the Ball Coach. Since then, publisher Henry Haitz has softened his stance, saying he isn't 'Cock-blocking Morris and will allow him to comment on Spurrier and his program.
This sort of journalistic corruption is happening all over the business, as media companies prioritize the sellout dollar over any sort of ethics. It happened to me in Chicago -- first at the god-awful Sun-Times, then at ESPN Radio, which was trying to hold onto White Sox/Bulls broadcast rights and asked me to sign a form promising I wouldn't discuss aspects of those teams on the air. When I refused, the station dismissed me the morning after Christmas, and ESPN radio execs called me out for it years later when they were interested in hiring me in Los Angeles. Not all aggrieved media members are in position to go public; they might have incomes and families to protect and aren't in position to speak up, as I was. But you get the picture. Whenever a news outlet has the balls and journalistic wherewithal to break an expose, we should applaud the effort in 2013. Unless it's factually flawed or recklessly reported, we should welcome the reporting mission that is done well.
Last week, two media organizations continued to prove they are more interested in covering sports than making money off sports. Yahoo! Sports, which we once ridiculed because of the name, again earned the exclamation point with its latest special report about the sordid, sleazy cesspool that is college football. It alleged that five SEC players, including former Alabama All-American tackle D.J. Fluker, received impermissible benefits during their college careers, and that another ex-Alabama player, Luther Davis, acted as a go-between for agents and arranged for Fluker to receive illegal gifts. Assuming the NCAA is still in the investigation business after the Johnny Manziel autographs-for-pay whiff and wants to prove Fluker was ineligible, Alabama might be forced to vacate a national championship. And if it can demonstrate that coach Nick Saban knew about this issue and didn't report it immediately -- the downfall of Ohio State coach Jim Tressel -- then we have an enormous scandal that impacts college sports history.
The Yahoo investigation is a commentary on the continuing ills of a high-revenue sport, reflecting the dubious condition of higher education in America. I feel the same way about Sports Illustrated's probe of the Oklahoma State program, which exposed more of the usual wrongdoing on and off campus -- academic fraud, under-the-table benefits, drug use and positive tests conveniently ignored for stars -- and did so with enough detail to make me ask larger questions. Such as, how much uglier will the scandals become when ESPN takes over the sport next year -- with its 12-year, $7.3-billion investment in the national playoff tournament? What happens if the 64 sainted, power-conference programs (with Notre Dame) form their own bloc and ``self-enforce'' their own houses? Can you imagine the potential for anarchy and lawlessness? Point being, the more exposes we have, the better the chance of keeping programs cleaner in the future. If the NCAA shies from definitive investigative work -- the enforcement department is in disarray after bungled recent probes led to several resignations -- and ESPN no longer is conducting investigations as the financial ruler of the sport, then thank heavens for Yahoo, Sports Illustrated, USA Today and whoever else is still fighting the good fight and keeping these collegiate cash cows honest.
Which is why I cringed when commentator Jason Whitlock, who advertises himself as a tough-guy critic at-large, condemned Sports Illustrated's Oklahoma State work based on a petty grudge he holds against one of the report's authors. I do not care what Whitlock personally thinks of Thayer Evans, nor does anyone else outside of Stillwater, Okla. -- where a pack of wounded fans and boosters naturally want to kill the messenger -- care about Whitlock and Evans or even know who they are. All I'm concerned about is the content in the five-part SI series and whether it is accurate. And as yet, I'm not hearing anyone, including Whitlock, explain specifically why this story is a pile of crap, other than a few sources claiming they didn't know they were on the record or on tape, the typical complaints after a major investigation is published. Oklahoma State isn't denying much, and the athletic director did issue a self-indicting public apology for the fuss. Based on my decades of reporting experience -- including my share of breaking stories (I'll provide a list) -- it appears most of the reported wrongdoing is accurate, and that the investigation was well worth the effort.
Don't we want to know what truly is happening inside these programs, especially amid a multi-billion-dollar bonanza in a system more easily corruptible than ever? Wouldn't you rather probe these places than just allow them to run amok?
Not in Whitlock's vindictive world, apparently. He says the SI investigation was ``unsophisticated'' -- again, while not once explaining precisely what's wrong with the series yet going into great detail on why Evans is a schmuck. This is shoddy, childish, embarrassing, bullying b.s. from Whitlock, who, if his Twitter feed reflects his life and career, doesn't investigate much of anything except G-strings in strip joints. If you're going to criticize those who are trying to break stories, you'd better try breaking some stories yourself.
Otherwise, shut up and sit down.
In his new capacity at ESPN, Whitlock has been hired not so much to be on the air -- I investigated for myself and confirmed it -- but to run a sub-site promoting African-American sports journalists. That's a worthwhile mission, given the unfortunate dearth of minorities in the profession, but what's he going to do with such a sensitive assignment? Will he teach his hires to trash the work of other journalists just because he doesn't like them personally? That wouldn't be very ESPN-like, and he won't last long there if unprofessional tactics are his mission. Fact is, Oklahoma State is dirty as cow crud. Fact is, until someone demonstrates otherwise, the SI report exposed the school as treating football players like animals -- allowing them to slide through college courses while doing little or no work; letting them get high, even during games, with no repercussions; and distributing under-the-table money via an elaborate system, including a bag man on the coaching staff. The school is not educating young men. The school is exploiting them, enabling them -- and not preparing them for life.
As one who often has condemned the college machine for exploiting black athletes, Whitlock should be upset that such universities continue to abuse young men -- of all shapes, sizes and races, by the way. Instead, in what comes off as hypocritical and twisted, he writes in a piece that ESPN ran, rather surprisingly, ``The stories do not promote healthy NCAA change. The stories demonize the `greedy, immature, uneducated, entitled, mostly-black' athletes and bait sports fans, the media and college administrators to view the denial of opportunity as a solution.''
The stories don't promote healthy NCAA change? I'd say the SI and Yahoo reports are self-explanatory, screaming out that change is urgently necessary in college sports, assuming the system isn't irretrievably broken. And how are these stories ``demonizing'' what he calls ``mostly-black'' athletes? The reports make a mockery of so-called institutions of higher learning and their exploitation of all athletes in big-revenue sports -- black, white, whatever. How is this a racial issue?
Isn't the most scrutinized, demonized athlete in the history of college sports a white kid with pimples named Johnny Manziel?
Any credibility Whitlock has as a commentator disappears when he takes apart a rival like a trash-talker on a football field -- once again, without citing any specific examples of poor reporting in the Oklahoma State expose. Whitlock appeared on an Oklahoma City radio station and was so out of sorts in an interview, ESPN was forced to issue a statement separating the network from his comments. ``We have discussed Jason?s comments with him. They were personal in nature, they do not represent ESPN and they are not acceptable based on the standards we have set,? ESPN told ShermanReport.com in a statement.
Among the observations that required the official corporate slapdown:
Whitlock: ``I think the story is a clich? and bogus and suspect and just the wrong angle.''
Why is the story bogus and suspect and the wrong angle? If Oklahoma State is cheating and committing academic fraud, it's the right angle to investigate. What are journalists supposed to do, quit trying to expose college programs because so many have been dirty in the past? If news organizations are committed to investigations, we'll have a better chance of creating a groundswell to fix a broken system. Halting the journalistic process makes no sense -- then the cheating becomes even more widespread.
Whitlock: ``? having worked with Thayer Evans at Fox Sports, having followed his work for some time, I am completely and utterly flabbergasted that a legitimate news outlet would allow Thayer Evans to be involved in some type of investigative piece on college football that tears down a program, and particularly one that tears down Oklahoma State when it is no secret what a huge, enormous, gigantic Oklahoma homer Thayer Evans is. This is just incredible. Knowing the lack of competence that?s there with Thayer Evans, knowing the level of simplemindedness that?s there with Thayer Evans, to base any part of the story on his reporting is mind-boggling.''
Um, who is being simple-minded? It's neither here nor there if Evans happens to root for Oklahoma, and I'm not sure he does. If a Republican finds dirt on Barack Obama, and it's legitimate dirt, then who cares if he's a Republican? Whitlock sounds like a 17-year-old in a high-school lunchroom who's mad because someone stole his girl. All I see is Evans breaking a big story that no one is strongly refuting, and all I see is Whitlock sitting on his ass and pontificating without providing anything to back up his claims.
Whitlock: `` ? When I learned Thayer Evans was involved, I just said, there?s no way I'll read this because there?s no reason to trust this reporter on anything of any substance. If you go back and look at his track record of reporting and the consistent controversy that surrounds his reporting -- he made a name for himself at the New York Times by writing these annual stories about some top high school football recruit that he would buddy up to, follow around with a tape recorder and then report what some immature 17-year-old kid said about the recruiting process. These kids tended to come from single-parent families with the mother working and busy, so there wasn?t the normal oversight and anybody with a brain could see the exploitation that was taking place. ? It doesn?t surprise me there are sources in this story saying the reporting was heavy-handed and leading. I don?t want to make the whole thing about Thayer Evans, but there?s just no way to avoid it. I?ve worked with him. He?s simpleminded. He?s a hack that can?t write. This isn?t personal, I promise. I have no reason to dislike Thayer Evans personally, and I don?t. But I?ve read enough of his work this guy isn?t qualified for this job and by now Sports Illustrated and anybody else should be well aware of this. Type his name into Google, read his previous work, read how his previous work has been rebunked and there?s just no surprise. This story will be shrouded in controversy.''
The man has a serious, deep-rooted problem with Thayer Evans, doesn't he? If Evans hadn't done some measure of credible work in the past, I don't think SI would have hired him. It should be noted that the other writer on the Oklahoma State series, George Dohrmann, has won a Pulitzer Prize and is coming off a solid expose on UCLA basketball that helped lead to coach Ben Howland's ouster and has stood the test of time. As for calling Evans ``a hack that can't write,'' I hardly would call Whitlock a stylish writer. Sports Illustrated, by the way, isn't beyond reproach. All of this might be perceived as crossfire between Whitlock -- representing new employer ESPN -- and an SI media critic named Richard Deitsch, who has ripped Whitlock often and has a way of criticizing ESPN and other outlets while ALWAYS PRAISING SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, which is a blatant conflict of interest itself.
I know, aren't all these people silly? And unprofessional?
If you're looking for a way to express disgust with the system and exhaustion with every new dirty detail, Paul Newberry of the Associated Press found it. Here's how he approached his column the other day on the SI and Yahoo reports:
``Maybe it's time to wave the white flag.
``Just concede that college sports will always be a cesspool of under-the-table payouts, win-at-all-cost coaches, look-the-other-way administrators, out-of-control boosters, and athletes who make a mockery of the word `student.'
``After another glorious week in the annals of higher education -- Oklahoma State was accused of widespread violations in its football program by Sports Illustrated, while Yahoo Sports reported that several Southeastern Conference players received illicit payments -- do any of us believe the guys running this multibillion-dollar enterprise have any intention of going legitimate?
``No way.
``They throw out a bone every now and then -- graduation rates that suit their purposes, for instance -- but in reality this whole business is just a step above the Sopranos.
``There are plenty of good ideas out there, but most of them will never see the light of day.
``It's so much more profitable to lurk in the shadows.
``Coaches making millions, while some of their own players barely have enough money to live on. Athletic directors selling off their universities to the highest bidder, traditional rivalries and logical alignments be damned. College presidents lurking around the locker room after big wins like star-struck fans, doling out Atta boys to players who have no chance of leaving campus with a diploma.
``But, really, they are not the problem.
``The real problem is right there in the mirror.
``Sure, we talk a good game. But do we really have any intention of giving up those fancy tailgate parties, shared on Saturdays with 100,000 of our closest friends? Would we stand for a university president lecturing us on the dangers of turning our cathedrals of learning into de facto minor-league programs, as Joab Thomas had the nerve to do at Alabama in the mid-1980s before he was quickly shown the door?
``No way.''
That's the type of column I would show a young journalist, while also issuing this advice:
Write for the reader. Realize that sports is more vulnerable to corruption today than ever before, including the TV networks that enable a multi-billion-dollar sports economy. Understand that no one cares about sportswriters but other sportswriters.
And do not be a phony.


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London, 10 May (Argus) — The UK's growing biomass imports could put increasing pressure on its rail and port logistics, adding to existing concerns about the potential introduction of freight specific rail charges for the industry.
New projects in the UK could bring up to an estimated 30mn t year of wood pellets into the country within five years if they all successfully come on line, creating the need for significant investment to convert the supply chain to handle biomass, while still accommodating significant coal imports into the country.
The new biomass generation capacity is located at coal-fired power stations that have converted units to burn wood pellets, meaning it will use existing coal rail infrastructure for transport links.
The main concern surrounds the cost of converting the supply chain to handle biomass, rather than capacity requirements. "Capacity is not a problem, the existing rail network should be able to handle the increase in volumes as it can operate throughout the night," UK rail freight operator group Freight on Rail manager Philippa Edmunds told Argus. "The issue is with converting and building the supply chain to handle biomass — considerable investment will be needed and government policy needs to be in line with this."
Several market participants have expressed concerns that there will be a higher risk of bottlenecks on the rail network — for every wagon of coal, approximately 1.5 railcars would be needs to transport the same volume of biomass. There is also the issue of keeping wood pellets stored correctly and not exposed to rain during the unloading and transporting process, which could add significant delays during the UK winter season. This is already causing some congestion at ports, which have reported week-long waiting times over the past few months as wet weather slows unloading.
At the port of Immingham, work has begun to work towards improving storage and handling capacity. The Immingham Renewable Fuels Terminal is under development to handle Panamax-size bulk carriers which will service up to 3mn t/yr of wood pellets. Once completed, the facility will be able to store up to 100,000t of wood pellets, with four storage silos having a total capacity of 168,00m³. Work is also being carried out at the ports of Hull and Goole to increase storage capacity.
It appears that several investors are waiting to see whether rail freight charges will be implemented before committing to invest in converting the supply chain. The proposed rail freight charges for biomass, which may come into force in 2016, could ease any pressure on existing infrastructure as it may become too expensive to move pellets by rail and push people out of the market as road transport is not a viable alternative.
The Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) is due to reveal its decision on whether it will implement rail freight charges for the biomass industry on 12 June, after the consultation period closed on 28 March. The proposals would enter biomass into the same category as coal, capping the charge at £4.04/thousand gross tonne miles, with a gradual phase in — 20pc in April 2016, 60pc in April 2017 and 100pc in April 2018.
The ORR held a consultation last year to review the charges that freight operators must pay to use the British rail network and decided that new charges were required after work discovered that £280mn-400mn ($430mn-615mn) of wear and tear is caused by rail freight each year.
"We believe that the ORR's proposal to increase freight charges contravenes the government's policy to encourage the conversion of existing coal-fired power stations," Edmunds said. "At the moment, there is an inconsistent message from government with its regulator proposing increased transportation charges which could undermine an important source of energy for the UK."
Those in favour of the implementation say the similarity of the logistics chain for coal and biomass make it more complicated to introduce different freight charges for each commodity. And they say it would take out some investment uncertainty from the biomass market, which is also awaiting key sustainability criteria from the UK government before large-scale investment can move forward.
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Biotechnology companies CCS Cell Culture Service GmbH and Cytocentrics AG has announced the signing of a research and license agreement. The aim of the cooperation is to develop electrophysiologically optimized ion channel cell lines which allow a reliable testing of substances and drugs.
The pharmaceutical industry depends on suitable in-vitro test methods for preclinical drug screening and safety pharmacology testing. Over recent years the automated patch clamp technology has established itself in this field. However, in many cases the application of conventional recombinant cell lines results in low data quality.
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Can't print and use internet simultaneously
Network follies. Airport + wireless ethernet bridge + gigabit switch + printer + Mac + PC = any single network service works until I try to use another one. [more inside]
Looking for an old game for the Mac
Looking for an old Apple Macintosh videogame [more inside]
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How do a password secure an app in OS X?
How do I password protect a specific app in OS X? [more inside]
Foot pedals for Macs?
Repetitive stress and foot pedals (for Macs)? [more inside]
Anti-Theft Powerbook
How hard is it to defeat an Open Firmware password on a PowerBook? [more inside]
Convert FAT32 to HFS+ nondestructively?
Is it possible to convert a FAT32 disk to HFS+ in-place (i.e., with all the data intact)? [more inside]
No desktop after failed Mac software update
Help me solve my iBook/OS X mini-disaster. No desktop after failed software update. [more inside]
So many fonts, so few used...
Printing a book of fonts- shareware or freeware for Mac advice needed... [more inside]
Freezing iMac.
"New" iMac G5 with a serious case of the freezies. Hardware test shows no problems with any hardware. Wiping and re-installing does no good. How on earth can I fix this? [more inside]
How can I solve these Safari browsing slow-down problems?
My computer is driving me insane. Please help. My 1.8gz Macintosh g5 has developed several annoying quirks, the cumulative effect of which is to make browsing the internet an exercise in frustration. Sometimes I want to pull my hair out. Here are the three things that I believe, individually and/or in combination, are causing the slow-downs. I have no idea how to fix any of them: [more inside]
Windows using a Mac Printer
I have a printer on my MacMini and I want to be able to use it for print requests from my Windows XP laptop. I was able to get it working using CUPS and the MacMini's IP address, but the problem is that since the Mac is on a DHCP wireless network, the IP address can (and has) changed. Now printing from the laptop won't work. How do I identify the Mac from the laptop without using an IP address? [more inside]
How do I reset the settings on Terminal for OS X?
I've managed to screw up Terminal on OS X. I chose File | New Command and checked Run command inside a shell, then with the window active I went to Terminal | Window Settings... and then clicked on Use Settings as Defaults. Ever since then, a File | New Shell will just open a window running the same command as the one that I did the Use Settings as Defaults on. How can I fix this and reset Terminal's configuration? I'm using OS X 10.4.5 on an Intel Mac mini, if it makes a difference.
You can never be too rich, too thin or have too much disk space...
You can never be too rich, too thin or have too much disk space... [more inside]
How do I compile GCC on OS X?
When compiling gcc-3.4.4 on OS X 10.4.5 I get an error about an undefined symbol,
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12GB per hour = too much
can someone recommend an app for recording video on a mac from dv input, but in a format more compact than dv? [more inside]
Stop your whining!
My eMac is whining at me. [more inside]
Are the new Macs worth the leap?
So is there a "MeFi concensus" on the new Intel Mac's? [more inside]
Wierd Mac problem
Mac OS X can't start new programs, or shut down. Long explanation follows. [more inside]
Graphics transplant for grey-haired Powermac?
I need a cheap graphics card for my old Powermac G4 that will drive a high-res LCD. [more inside]
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My mother has an Acer LCD (model AL1715) hooked up to her Mac Mini. The warranty expired 3 days ago, and last night it woke up after being asleep for about 45 minutes with a black line across it - the image divided in such a way that the image has rolled - that is, the bottom is at the top and the top at the bottom, split not quite equal halves. Disconnecting and reconnecting don't work, powering off and back on don't work, changing the display mode on the mac doesn't work, and we can't find a reset button. Acer doesn't answer tech support phone calls (endless holds) or emails. Any ideas?
iPod coexisting with Mac and Windows?
Has anyone converted their iPod from Mac formatting (HFS) to Windows formatting (Fat32), but continued to use it primarily on a Mac? [more inside]
How does Mac OS X know what program to open when you double click on a file?
How does Mac OS X know what program to open when you double click on a file? [more inside]
New Lacie hard drive not recognized - OSX
Lacie hard drive problem - Mac OS Panther. For the past couple days, I was ripping CDs as MP3s via iTunes and writing them to my Lacie 160 Gig Firewire hard drive (the Porsche one). This morning, the drive "is unreadable by Mac OSX..." What gives? [more inside]
Will Apple print iPhoto books with nudity in them?
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Where to buy a Powerbook power supply?
Where can I buy a power supply for a Macintosh Powerbook WallStreet?
Dance games for the Macintosh?
Inspired by this question and a whim, I'm considering dance games as a possible path to improved fitness. I have a modern Macintosh, but no PC and no game consoles. Though I can't find any commercial dance games for the Mac, I have found StepMania. Based on this info, what is my best option? Should I buy a console, a dance game, and dance pad? Can somebody recommend a good Mac-compatible dance pad? Are there other inexpensive solutions? This really sounds like a fun way to exercise, but I don't know where to start.
single button for print screen
Is shift-control-apple-3 really the only way to take a screenshot and put it in the clipboard? I miss my single "print screen" button on a PC. It's a minor annoyance - but the key combination is cumbersome.
Switch. And Switch back, you know, whenever you damn well please.
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How do I get my external hard drive to talk to my computer again? They seem to be pissed off about something, and now they won't even recognize the other's existence. [more inside]
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Neither a brain surgeon nor particularly ham-fisted, should I dissassemble my iBook?
The internal hard drive on my G3/600Mhz iBook is not long for this earth. I'm looking for advice from MeFis who have replaced the drive themselves; specifically, if faced with the task again would you say "Hell no!" or rather "Wow, that wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be"? [more inside]
Emacs keys in Firefox
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How can I quit playing the Bards Tale?
I picked up a Mac Classic at a rummage sale a while ago, and it has a whole mess of games. I started one called "The Bard's Tale", but I can't exit out of it! [more inside]
How can I prevent iPhoto from auto-launching when I plug in a card reader?
How can I prevent iPhoto from auto-launching when I plug in a card reader? When I plug in a card reader, iPhoto assumes that it is being summoned and auto-magically launches itself. I don't want this to happen. I don't want iPhoto to ever launch without my permission, which I might grant once a year or so. Yet, every day I have to cope with it launching multiple times as I attempt to transfer photos to my hard drive. It is a minor annoyance, true, but it is an annoyance. My question, then, is how can I make iPhoto stop doing this? I've searched its settings high-and-low, but to no avail. I've searched the System Preferences high-and-low, but to no avail. There must be something I'm missing.
Adding VRAM to a Mac Mini?
Is it possible to add more VRAM to a Mac Mini?
I keep losing my application icons in OS X.
I keep losing my application icons in OS X. [more inside]
portable IMAP client for OS X?
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Microsoft Access on a Mac
Is there any program that runs natively on OS X that would allow me to work with a Microsoft Access database? Or am I doomed to run SoftPC? [more inside]
Best memory configuration for a Power Mac G5?
Which is a better memory configuration on a Power Mac G5: 4x1GB or 8x512? What's the advantage/disadvantage of either configuration (besides the price)? [more inside]
Help a 98 lb weakling develop into a Mac programmer with Cocoa-fu.
I would like to learn to program for Mac OS X, and Cocoa seems to be the way to go. Considering most of the documentation and books I've picked up say things like, "since this book is about Cocoa, we assume you know Objective-C," and the Objective-C books assume I already know C... What's the best path for a beginner like myself to progress from knowing nothing, to actually programming using Cocoa on Mac OS X? [more inside]
Photoshop has disappeared...
[OSX] After installing Tiger on my iBook (and using Software Update to upgrade to the latest version), I am no long able to open Photoshop. The applications icon has been replaced with another application's document icon! [more inside]
Help me recover text from BBEdit midcrash!
I'm using BBEdit to type a long weblog entry. I'm deep in the process of writing, so I don't save for a long time (so no lectures). Finally, when I'm nearly done, I save. I get the spinning beachball of death. I sense trouble, so I try to close other open applications via the dock. No go. The first app I try to close hangs the rest of the system. It's been five minutes now and the spinning beachball of death keeps spinning, but nothing else is happening. I can move the cursor, but mouseclicks do nothing. I have a feeling that the computer will stay like this until I power down or until you, my dear fellow mefites, help me to recover my precious writing. [more inside]
Can someone point me towards a GUI noise generator for the mac?
Can someone point me towards a GUI noise generator for the mac? [more inside]
Inventory app for OS X?
I sell things on the internet. I use a Mac running OS X. Are there any good product inventory programs out there that do not run on top of Filemaker? (Currently, we are using an Excel file but not happily)
Simple (I hope) question: I'm thinking that in the next year I might buy a Mac. I'm also interested in Linux, though, and I've thought about buying a "white box" PC to run Linux and open-source apps. I don't really understand the relationship between OSX and 'nixes all that well. Does OSX run Linux-type programs too? (TIA)
Directory listing in OSX output to text file.
How to list the contents of an OSX directory, and output to text file? [more inside]


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Audiences at opera singers' recitals do not, customarily, pump their arms and cheer. Of course, singers at said recitals don't usually perform tunes by Queen and Guns N' Roses flanked by a quartet of female horn players, either.
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Carl Froch: Groves Rejected Trilogy Clause in Contract
By Edward Chaykovsky
IBF/WBA 'regular' super middleweight champion Carl Froch does not expect a trilogy fight with domestic rival George Groves. This coming Saturday night at Wembley Stadium in London, 80,000 fans will pack the house to watch the two boxers get it one for a second time. Last November, Froch defeated Groves with a controversial ninth round stoppage.
Froch claims that Groves rejected a contract clause which called for a rematch clause. Groves recently signed with Germany-based Sauerland Event.
"George has got his second go at me but doesn't fancy a third if he happens to get lucky. Maybe he's not as confident as he's pretending," Froch told Daily Mail.
Hopefully no Froch-Kessler III in 2015. Wouldn't surprise me at all though, especially if Froch loses. A "farewell match" in Nottingham against his old nemesis sounds predictable.Comment by stefjonno1 on 05-29-2014
[QUOTE=hamada44;14601229]This prick. Carl froch didnt want this rematch. Its on record he said he doesn't want to go over old ground. He wanted jcc jr in vegas.[/QUOTE] Correct. He say's a lot of thing's then seems to forget what he…Comment by Weebler I on 05-29-2014
[QUOTE=MDPopescu;14600808]Regardless the outcome of the rematch, [B]the trilogy clause is only favoring Froch.[/B] The Ugly Kid took the right decision.[/QUOTE] and if it's a draw? [QUOTE=MDPopescu;14601594]It was Hearn who wanted rematches -- they're big money in this case.[/QUOTE] Hearn claimed…Comment by MDPopescu on 05-29-2014
It was Hearn who wanted rematches -- they're big money in this case.Comment by hamada44 on 05-29-2014
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Stock-market turmoil sent corporate pensions on a roller-coaster ride last week. The S&P 500 companies started off the week with a collective pension-funding deficit of roughly $425 billion, an improvement of about $29 billion from a year earlier, according to employee benefits adviser Aon Hewitt.
But, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled more than a thousand points on Monday, Aug. 24, that deficit widened by $13 billion to $438 billion, the largest such gap since February.
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A documentary about the Flamin' Groovies, a legendary rock band from the 1970s and their attempt at a comeback after 30 years.
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The Flamin' Groovies story goes all the way back to 1965 when the band began in their hometown of San Francisco, California. Their first self-released 10-inch album called Sneakers sold well and caught the attention of Columbia Records, which signed them and released their first real album, Supersnazz, on the Epic label.
"Bill Graham hated our name. He thought we were gay or something. He said, 'you gotta change your name.' That's like telling Van Gogh that color don't work." Cyril Jordan
The band had its first brush with success in 1971 with the song and album entitled Teenage Head, which is listed in the 2006 book, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 1972, Chris Wilson joined the band as lead singer and they released the song Slow Death. The gritty sound of this recording was infectious and the band was invited to play television shows around the world.
Slow Death on live television...
The Groovies continued to tour hard and record an impressive number of albums during the 1970's. In 1976, they released their biggest hit to date, Shake Some Action. The song hit 142 on Billboard's top 200 and years later was featured in the film Clueless.
Shake Some Action on live television...
In July of 1976, the Ramones opened for the Groovies in London at the Roundhouse. This show is considered a galvanizing event for the UK punk scene. In 1981, after over a decade of hard work and dedication the band experienced a difficult and painful break up.
"We were all, you know, basically just too stoned to continue. We needed to take a break. Everybody had cocaine-itis." Cyril Jordan
"It seemed like life was thwarting us at every turn and after ten years of living out of each others suitcases we just couldn't take it anymore and we cracked." Chris Wilson
The band went their separate ways and rarely spoke over the next 30 years. George worked for the United States Postal Service for 25 years, Cyril often held 3 jobs at once, and Chris jumped from one construction job to the other. The clock was ticking, the years were passing when Cyril, Chris and George finally decided that it was time to let bygones be bygones and to continue exactly where they had left off that day in 1981 when they broke up.
"We were just so happy when we first saw each other. We just grabbed each other and gave each other a big hug and a kiss." Chris Wilson
"I'm getting a little too old to be doing this rock 'n' roll thing." Cyril Jordan
"I made a promise with Cyril...that we would see this out together to the end. Now that we're back together again, it's almost as if we get a second chance to fulfill that promise." George Alexander
New drummer Victor Penalosa faithfully recreates the style heard on the classic recordings, while at the same time adding his own flavor. The foursome has gone into the studio to record brand new material as well as finish up some long lost recordings. They have begun playing shows again to enthusiastic fans both old and new. Fans have been delighted with what is being called "a dream set list," including original songs the band has never performed before onstage.
"This time around, it happened mostly because of the fans." Cyril Jordan
"I thought one day we might get the kudos and attention that we all had craved. I hope that's what's happening now." Chris Wilson
"I hadn't played the bass for twenty-five years. I had no reason to play." George Alexander
"Time and space don't affect us for some reason when we're together. It's like the day after we broke up in 1980." Cyril Jordan
We are pleased and honored to have music veteran, Joel Jaffe, on board who will supervise the audio recording and mixing, and will engineer and produce The Groovies latest album at Studio D in Sausalito, California.
Joel has worked with such artists as Ray Manzarek, Roy Rogers, Carlos Santana, Ringo Starr, John Entwhistle, Indigo Girls, Huey Lewis & The News, Todd Rundren and The Call to name a few. Joel was also the engineer/sound mixer for the cult classic films Light Sleeper and Wave Twisters.
Filmmakers William Tyler Smith and Kurt Feldhun met at New York University and have known each other for over 20 years. Having recently collaborated on a documentary about Ray Manzarek of the Doors and Delta Blues slide-guitarist Roy Rogers, Smith and Feldhun decided to team up once again to tell the incredible story of the Flamin' Groovies, a band that they both knew from their youth. (Please see our full bios above right for more information.)
"I had one of their albums in high school and I really liked it. I was thrilled to hear that they were making a comeback 30 years later." Kurt Feldhun
"I went to see one of their recent shows in NYC and I was introduced to them back stage. As soon as I met the band and heard their stories, I knew we had to make this movie." William Tyler Smith
We have recently completed our first round of production, successfully shooting the Groovies' recent Northeastern tour and recording of some of their new tracks.
The money we raise will be used to complete production and take us through a rough cut. It will enable us to cover our expenses: equipment rentals, crew wages, transportation, fuel, expendables, food and all of the other unpredictable expenses that are inherent to documentary filmmaking. It will also cover all post-production expenses through the completion of a first rough edit.
We will resume shooting in April when the Groovies go on tour again and complete the recording of their latest tracks. We will travel to London, Phoenix and San Francisco to reveal the private lives of each band member. We will also be shooting interviews with celebrity fans and music business insiders. These may include celebrity fans such as Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Keith Richards, Ivan Julian (Richard Hell and the Voidoids), Mick Jones (The Clash), Dick Manitoba (The Dictators) and John Carpenter.
Your funds will help us preserve the legend of the incredible Flamin Groovies for generations to come.
Thank you so much for your time and consideration.
We appreciate your support.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com
Facebook Page For The Movie https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Incredible-Flamin-Groovies-Movie/660957357273508
End of the World: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/flamin-groovies-at-the-end-of-the-world-song-premiere-20131105
Shake Some Action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XXLQozrq1g
Slow Death: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL3pP29N-Wc
You Tore Me Down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXfsHztgH84
Tallahassee Lassie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hvNHazbwGI
Little Queenie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hvNHazbwGI
Roll Over Beethoven: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_PAr445CwM
Groovies Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Flamin-Groovies/85760453541
Documentary filmmaking is always a risky endeavour as you are dealing with human lives, which often times, can be highly unpredictable and volatile.
Smith and Feldhun have been producing, directing, shooting and editing documentary and fiction films for over twenty-five years. Both have always successfully completed all of their films. To date, all three of Smith's feature films have been sold around the world. His fourth, Translucent Blues, edited by Feldhun, about the musical collaboration between Doors keyboardist, Ray Manzarek and slide-guitarist, Roy Rogers, is nearing completion and already has distributor interest. Feldhun's television show, Fishin' Impossible, which he produced, directed and edited, is currently being broadcast on ESPN International.
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Metrics for Explosivity, Inerting & Compatibility
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Overview and Significance
Determining if a material or formulation is detonable and determining if an adulterant has inerted a detonable material are extremely difficult problems that cannot be properly addressed unless better metrics are developed. That development is the goal of this project. Because the potential matrix of threatening combinations of fuels and oxidizers is large, we seek to determine the characteristics required for detonability; bounding the problem in terms of oxidizer and its ratio with each fuel. In the laboratory, we probe characteristics such as heat and gas release, and a full suite of chemical, thermal and sensitivity analyses to correlate to larger scale detonation performance tests. A method which can successfully determine what formulations are potentially detonable would also reveal if "inerting" of an explosive had successfully made it non-detonable or just "safer". Either question, what is potentially detonable and if adulteration has achieved non-detonability, currently requires very large-scale testing or a reliable small-scale test. The goal of the R1-B projects is development of the latter-a reliable small-scale test which screens large scale threat combinations quickly and inexpensively. We have taken here a number of approaches to this problem. They are discussed below:
Approach 1: How well an explosive functions is highly dependent on bulk properties, e.g. density, lattice structure, but whether a chemical can detonate at all, requires that the molecule have certain molecular features. To be an explosive, the molecule must be able to react with chemistry that produces heat and gas; and this must happen rapidly enough that the detonation front is supported by the energy release. Examination of the atoms making up the molecule allows prediction of whether heat and gas can be produced. This aspect of the molecule is being investigated under Approach 1 with full details as referenced in paper and in R1-A.1. The thermal and burn behaviors of 11 solid oxidizers and combinations of 13 fuels were determined; burn rate was found to roughly correlate with standard reduction potentials. The thermal studies highlighted the importance of a melt or phase change of one component of the formulation in triggering the reaction. These studies also indicated that the choice in oxidizer, outweighed the choice in fuel, in determining the total energy released. These exciting observations are the first steps in finding behaviors observed on the milligram scale that may correlate with detonability measured on the kilogram scale. Figure 1 is a plot of temperature of decomposition vs heat of decomposition. The fact that explosives clearly group in a different region than non-explosives suggests we can use thermal analysis of small samples as one metric to rate detonability. The critical question of whether the reaction can happen fast enough to support detonation is usually found experimentally. Other approaches in this project are examining the reaction that may or may not support steady detonation.
Approach 2 is looking at one of the fundamental molecular properties–dissociation energies during gas phase ion impact with an inert gas. By examining a variety of explosive and non-explosive compounds in an ion-trap or a triple-quadrupole mass spectrometer, a correlation may be observed between ease of fragmentation from the energy input required and the rank order of detonability.
In the past researchers developed a method for mass spectrometeric (MS) applications which was termed survival yield. The basic idea behind it was to supply enough energy to the molecule to see when only 50% of it was left over and the rest was gone due to fragmentation. Recently, with the advent of new technologies and the progress in MS field resulted in reviving of this application as a proof of a concept for established ionization methods such as desorption electrospray ionization (DESI), electrospray ionization (ESI), and the newly developed accessories (mainly ionization probes) such as laser electrospray MS (LEMS). However, most of these applications are being performed on very simple molecules termed thermometer ions, which in the process produce only one or two fragments that can be easily identified and analyzed.
Unfortunately, for most compounds (including virtually all energetic materials), this is not the case. Usually an array of fragments is formed; some cannot even be accounted for because of the constraints of the instrument, itself. Therefore, a new method must be developed which still has similar basis of the survival yield approach, but accounts for its limitations.
The concept is to produce and isolate ions of individual molecules within either an ion trap or a collision cell of a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (MS). Once the ion has been isolated from the matrix (liquid phase, impurities, fragments or other unwanted ions), the collision energy provided by the MS can be gradually increased to observe several unique molecular properties: 1) the minimum energy eliciting initial fragmentation; 2) 50 % dissociation; 3) 100 % dissociation; 4) the window of energy associated with fragmentation; and 5) a product ion spectrum. Each analysis requires less than 500 micrograms and presently takes 5 to 40 minutes to produce up to 6 full scans from 0 to 50 normalized collision energy units (eV). Initially, the ion trap MS is being used for method development and proof of principle. A quick-look experiment shows that innocuous compounds can be differentiated from energetic ones, the latter being fragmented with much less energy. Once this method is optimized, we will attempt to establish consistent parameter sets across all compounds, e.g., solvent selection, tune conditions, percent of ion trap fill, etc. At what concentration a compound ills the ion trap may provide additional information about the ionization efficiencies. Because the ion-trap is attached to an exact mass detector (Orbitrap), molecular fragments can be assigned molecular formulas within 10 ppm accuracy.
Approach 3: Materials characterized as "explosives" release sufficient energy to "support" or "propagate" a detonation. Military explosives have been classified as such using detonation tests of prescribed size and initiating charge. Homemade explosives (HMEs) often fail these tests because they release too little energy to support detonation in the prescribed tests; therefore, they are not recognized as real explosive threats. However, these HMEs will perform as explosive materials if the charge size is increased beyond a material- specific size, the critical diameter (Dcr). At sizes less than Dcr, an explosive will not propagate detonation; any conventional explosivity or detonability test performed under the critical diameter of the material will indicate that the material is not an explosive. The critical charge size of many potential threat materials is so large that they are frequently not perceived as threats, when in reality they were simply tested below Dcr. For example, as dictated by shipping regulations, ammonium nitrate (AN) is not classed as an explosive, rather as DOT 5.1, because it does not propagate detonation at a diameter of 3.65 cm. However, with sufficient AN (e.g. when the diameter exceeds 100 cm) it becomes detonable, as was accidentally demonstrated by the explosion in West Texas in April, 2013. Field testing at large scales is hazardous, expensive and slow. Thus, the goal of the R1-B projects is to determine whether a material is detonable at any scale by performing experiments with less than a few pounds of the material in question. A further complication exists in screening a material for explosivity. To confirm that a material is an explosive, traditional testing must be done well above critical diameter and with a sufficient initiating charge. Thus, detonation failure can occur for several reasons including: (1) The material is too small in size; (2) It is insufficiently initiated; or (3) It is not an explosive. Traditional detonability tests do not differentiate.
For non-ideal explosives, a term which describes most HMEs, small-scale testing necessarily means studying these materials well below their Dcr. When steady detonation is not possible, conventional metrics, such as detonation velocity, yield little information. New diagnostics must be devised. Several approaches to this problem have been considered. Our initial approach was over-compensating for edge losses.
Approach 4 was actively soliciting other groups to join us in this effort. As a result, a group at Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) successfully probed evidence of detonable characteristics using 25 mL samples of hydrogen peroxide aqueous solutions of varying concentrations. While they were successful at that scale, they used instrumentation unique to that lab. It has also been demonstrated by LANL researchers that the reaction zone of detonating nitromethane (NM) can be observed using photon Doppler velocimetry (PDV). We believe that a similar approach used to characterize a failing detonation can yield useful information about the material's capacity to detonate, i.e. confirming or denying the existence of a critical diameter.
Theoretically, PDV can be adapted as an embedded probe inside the explosive material; thus, it would act as a time-resolved velocimeter similar to MI but without the size constraints of microwave waveguides and with very high spacial and temporal resolution.Phase 2 Year 2 Annual Report
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Students Currently Involved in Project
- Ryan Rettinger
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Founded in 1994 with customers in: Germany, Malta, Mexico, Spain. RVSL Aachen is a Certification body for ISO´s Environmental Certification and ISO Management systems. Consulting for Risk Management, Business Continuity, Energy Management.Management systems that we assess: Quality ISO 9001, Environment ISO 14001, Safety and Health OHSAS 18001, ISO 22000, ISO 13485, ...
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A kitchen and a living room in revolutionary Cairo: six women gather, preparing to change a little girl's life forever. Some of the guests are having doubts; will they have the courage to save her? From comedy of manners to hard-hitting drama, Gather Ye Rosebuds is a gripping tale of life in New Egypt.


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Our biological organics afford reproduction. Mankind can make both new forms that breathe, but we can also envision something that breathes. Therefore, to breathe life in our work, we decided that the theme for our 27th exhibition should be 'ORGANICS'.
Organic is a word with many a definition, but it mostly relates to the most important thing we all carry with us; life. In technical terms, organic defines an ability to respond to stimulants, reproduction and growth, amongst others. Our artists have taken their skills to the limit yet again to bring you our most diverse pack yet. With every piece showing a vastly different aspect of life, we think we have covered a great deal of the spectrum 'organic' defines. From the life that grows on our fine planet, to the theoretical lifeforms that may be inhabiting other galaxies. The result is stunning.
For this exhibition we decided to highlight Lars Sowig. Time and time again he proved himself as an incredible artist and a good friend to all, so we we didn't have much difficulty in deciding on this Lastly, we like to thank you all for the great response we had on 'DEPTH' and hope this exhibition will impress you once again. Sit back and enjoy 'ORGANICS'!
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