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The FDA has published a report following its most recent International Co-operation on Cosmetics Regulation meeting (ICCR-5), in which it outlines the applicability of animal testing alternatives in the four ICCR jurisdictions (Europe, Canada, Japan and the United States). The report describes the current regulatory climate in each region and it discusses a number of currently available OECD validated non-animal testing methods, such as for skin irritation testing and phototoxicity testing. It also outlines the use of tiered-testing approaches to safety assessment and the necessity of this type of testing paradigm as the focus is shifted to the use of non-animal testing methods. Click on the link above to read the report on the FDA website.


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NBC and Sochi 2014
With the Games taking place 9-12 hours ahead of American time zones, sports fans were increasingly looking to video streaming and live updates to stay in the loop. NBC recognized the need and expanded Olympic coverage, providing multiple opportunities for fans to keep up with all the Sochi action (this meant apps, live streaming sites, television coverage, etc).
February's Top 50: Lots of Love for Tax Sites and More
Ah, February. Whether you celebrated the 14th as the day of love or Singles' Awareness Day, we've got interesting data to share with you! Who received the most internet love? Read on and find out which websites made our Top 50.
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Last week, the Compete PRO team hosted a social media themed networking event at the Wayfare Tavern in San Francisco. Existing clients and other marketing thought leaders were invited to join members of the Compete PRO Account Management and Product teams for a sneak peak at the new Social Insights module. The event also provided a platform for networking opportunities and discussions about the current social media sphere.
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BACKGROUND: Reducing waiting anxiety is an important objective of patient-centered care. Anxiety is linked to negative health outcomes, including longer recovery periods, lowered pain thresholds, and for children in particular, resistance to treatment, nightmares, and separation anxiety. The goals of this study were (1) to systematically review published research aimed at reducing preprocedural waiting anxiety, and (2) to provide directions for future research and development of strategies to manage preprocedural waiting anxiety in health care environments.
METHODS: We performed a systematic review of the literature via ISI Web of Knowledge, PubMed, PsycINFO, EMBASE, CINAHL, and Medline. Included in this review were studies describing measurable outcomes in response to interventions specifically intended to improve the waiting experience of patients in health care settings. Primary outcomes of interest were stress and anxiety. Exclusion criteria included (a) studies aimed at reducing wait times and management of waiting lists only, (b) waiting in non–health care settings, (c) design of health care facilities with nonspecific strategies pertaining to waiting spaces, (d) strategies to reduce pain or anxiety during the course of medical procedures, and (e) interventions such as massage, acupuncture, or hypnosis that require dedicated staff and/or private waiting environments to administer.
RESULTS: We identified 8690 studies. Forty-one articles met the inclusion criteria. In adult populations, 33 studies were identified, wherein the effects of music (n = 25), aromatherapy (n = 6), and interior design features (n = 2) were examined. Eight pediatric studies were identified investigating play opportunities (n = 2), media distractions (n = 2), combined play opportunities and media distractions (n = 3), and music (n = 1). Based on results from 1129 adult participants in the 14 studies that evaluated music and permitted meta-analysis, patients who listened to music before a medical procedure exhibited a lowered-state anxiety (−5.1 ± 0.53 points on the State Trait Anxiety Scale) than those who received standard care. The efficacy of aromatherapy was inconclusive. Studies reporting on the impact of improved interior design of waiting areas, while positive, are minimal and heterogeneous. For children, insufficient evidence is available to corroborate the effectiveness of play opportunities, media distractions, and music for mitigating anxiety in children awaiting medical procedures.
CONCLUSIONS: Music is a well-established means of decreasing anxiety in adult patients awaiting medical interventions. The effect of music on children's anxiety is not known. Limited studies and heterogeneity of interventions and methods in the areas of aromatherapy, interior design, digital media, and play opportunities (for children) suggest the need for future research.
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From the devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy last year, to the recent apartment fire in Shadyside to the current destructive floodwaters in the Midwest, the American Red Cross is always on the ground, assisting those who are in need of food, clothing, shelter and a shoulder to lean on. In addition to this relief, the organization strives to prepare communities in the event of a future disaster.
In an effort to assist the local Red Cross in its readiness initiatives, the EQT Foundation made a $10,000 donation to benefit local preparedness and disaster relief programs. This generous contribution allows the organization to fulfill its important preparedness and relief efforts throughout the Western Pennsylvania community.
"We are so thankful for this generous donation from EQT," said Patricia Waldinger, CEO of American Red Cross Western PA Region. "This contribution enables us to prepare and respond more efficiently during large-scale disasters. Overall, it increases our community's resilience."
The funding provided by EQT will go toward a region-wide shelter drill, taking place Saturday, April 27. The drill will operate 8 simulated shelters across Western Pennsylvania. The preparedness event is designed to test how the local Red Cross would respond during a large-scale disaster operation in the area. The drill allows volunteers and staff to practice their respective roles and as a result, further prepares the workforce to quickly and efficiently deliver Red Cross services during a relief operation.
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A good twist ending makes you look back on the entire movie while shitting your pants. For example, remember at the end of The Sixth Sense where Bruce Willis is dead and no one saw it coming? It was so damn unexpected! Of course, who the hell would expect that the hero of a film wouldn't notice that his only speaking companion for months was a small, unsupervised child?
That kind of trickery is not a fluke, people. It turns out that sometimes in order for a film to really shock us with its ending it has to fudge the facts a little bit, and a twist is only a twist because it retrospectively makes no goddamn sense. Want proof?
(Cracked can't promise all the twists in our new Star Wars mini-series will make sense. But we can promise...something?)
6Skyfall -- The Bad Guy's Plan Depends on Events He Has No Control Over
The Plot Twist
In Skyfall, James Bond tracks his villain through a series of expert spy techniques such as attacking a train with a backhoe, getting shot, fucking feeding a dude to a komodo dragon, and just plain fucking. In the end, he is able to catch his man, a sinisterly foreign yet creepily Aryan ex-agent named Silva (Javier Bardem).
"Hey, Javier, we want you to play a villain."
"Sure, what kind of terrible hairdo will he have?"
But in a twist no one had seen since The Avengers (and before that, The Dark Knight), it then turns out that the villain intentionally got himself captured! It was all a plan to get to Bond's boss, M (Judi Dench), who was on trial thanks to Silva's machinations. Silva manages to upload a virus into MI6's system, escapes his cell, disguises himself as a police officer, and meets up with his henchmen to take out M at her hearing ... but not before crashing an expertly timed train right on a pursuing Bond's dome.
"Usually I'm the one railing people."
Hold On, Now ...
Before we go any further, yes, this is universally considered to be an awesome movie. It's just that any time a movie has the villain do the, "Surprise! Every action you've taken has actually played perfectly into my hands!" bit with the hero, it never really makes sense. And this is a great example -- when you walk through it from the bad guy's point of view, you realize that either Silva is an incredibly lucky bastard, or he's literally God.
The entire point of Silva's scheme is to kill M during her hearing -- he has two guys waiting for him with a cop uniform after he breaks out of MI6 specifically so that he can sneak into the courthouse and shoot her. Presumably he allowed himself to get captured (as opposed to just going straight to the courthouse) because he wanted to upload the virus into MI6's computers to distract everyone.
It was all a cunning scheme to show off his Hannibal Lecter impression.
Here's the thing: Silva's master plan began the moment he got captured, timing it so that he'd be in custody right when M was testifying. But he didn't turn himself in -- he was captured by Bond. So how could he have known when that would happen? Bond tracks a bullet shard in his shoulder to an assassin guy who has a casino chip from a casino where he sticks it to some lady who happens to know where Silva is. That's literally how it happens -- Silva had no control over that. How many days were those two fake cops standing there, waiting for Silva?
And then, when Bond corners him, Silva blows the tunnel at just the right time for a train to come crashing through it. How did he even know to set explosives in the specific time and place where James Bond would catch him? How did he know a train would be coming along at just that moment? He utters a little catchphrase in the split second the train crashes through -- imagine if the train had gotten delayed and they'd had to stand there in silence for 20 minutes until it finally came along.
5The Dark Knight Rises -- Bruce Wayne Magically Adjusts His Will Retroactively
The Plot Twist
We've all seen The Dark Knight Rises by now, right? Then you know that at the end of the movie, Batman appears to die when he sacrifices himself to save the city, going out in a nuclear explosion in the middle of the ocean (and that's the only realistic way Batman could ever die). The first twist is when we find out that he isn't really dead -- he just fucked off to Italy to stick it in Anne Hathaway.
Pictured with one of the two pearl necklaces she got from him.
But there's one more surprise before the credits: In his will, it is revealed that Batman left a little map to the Batcave to hero cop John "Robin" Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), strongly hinting that Blake will become the next person to don the black cowl. Or at least a thong and pixie boots.
Hold On, Now ...
At what point did Bruce Wayne leave that will? When Bruce's will is being read, the lawyer dude specifically states that it "was not amended to reflect his more modest estate." That means he hadn't touched it since he lost all his money, which happened right at the start of the action in the film, when he barely knew Blake. He hadn't even seen the guy throw a punch at that point.
"What are you like, a 38 ... 40 tall? Yeah, good enough."
But let's say that Bruce secretly added that part later in the movie and simply forgot he was bankrupt -- when do you suppose he had the time to do it? When the big dude with the funny voice was breaking him in half and throwing him in a pit on the other side of the world? By the time Bruce makes it back to Gotham, it's like Escape from New York in there: The city is ruled by criminals, so Wayne's lawyer probably had better shit to do than amend a will. After that, Batman only had one day to get his shit in order before his "death."
Most of which was spent preparing for this.
He certainly couldn't have done it after faking his death -- we know that the will reading happened right after that, since it's established that Bruce had fixed the autopilot only six months prior. Seriously, what kind of superhero entrusts his entire legacy to a dude he just met?
"Say, you wouldn't happen to have years of ninja training and millions in disposable income, would you?"
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The fickleness of gods and their strange fascination with mere
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of all sort of deities – Greek, Egyptian, Norse, and more. Take your
pick - but be careful, these gods can be a jealous bunch.
Block, Francesca Lia. Psyche in a Dress. Joanna Cotler
Books, 2006. Gr. 9-12
The gods of Greek mythology are reinvented here as modern day narcissists and insecure teenagers in this stunningly romantic tale of enduring love. (BCCB 11/06)
Coville, Bruce. Thor's Wedding Day. Harcourt, 2005. Gr.
The Norse poem "Thrymskvitha" sets the stage for this story, and the narration falls to Thialfi, the goat boy, who relays the tale of a missing hammer and a cross-dressing deity. (BCCB 12/05)
Farmer, Nancy. The Sea of Trolls. Atheneum, 2004. Gr. 5-8
Steeped in Norse mythology, this harrowing tale recounts the adventures of young Jack and his sister Lucy as they journey to Jotunheim, the land of the trolls. (BCCB 11/04)
Friesner, Esther. Temping Fate. Dutton, 2006. Gr. 6-8
When Ilana gets a summer job at Divine Relief Temp Agency, whose clients include Greek gods and goddesses, her first assignment is temping for the Fates and proves to be more than a little unusual. (BCCB 9/06)
Gaiman, Neil. Odd and the Frost Giants; illus. by Brett
Helquist. Harper/HarperCollins. Gr. 4-6
Topping out at just over one hundred pages, this slim novel packs plenty of heroism and Norse mythology when a boy assists Loki, Odin, and Thor in reclaiming their kingdom from an endless winter. (BCCB 2/10)
Geras, Adèle. Ithaka. Harcourt, 2006. Gr. 9-12
Drawing from the famous Homerian epic, Geras focuses his story on the long suffering and ever loyal wife of Odysseus, as she attempts to raise their son, fend off suitors, and negotiate her own romantic feelings towards a new love. (BCCB 3/06)
Harris, Joanne. Runemarks. Knopf. Gr. 7-10
Fourteen and shunned by her village because of her magical ability, Maddy finds her life irrevocably changing when she's sent on a quest to find a powerful object that will help tip the balance in the brewing battle between good and evil in this dramatic and compelling fantasy. (BCCB 3/08)
Jones, Diana Wynne. The Game. Firebird/ Penguin, 2007
Gr. 5-7.
Greek and Roman myths mingle in this story about an orphaned girl living in Ireland, where she discovers a realm where stories come alive. (BCCB 6/07)
O'Connor, George, ad. Zeus: King of the Gods; ad. and
illus. by George O'Connor. Porter/First Second/Roaring Brook. Gr. 6-12
A classic creation myth gets the superhero treatment in this stunning graphic novel that retells Zeus' overthrow of Kronos with appropriate majesty and just a dash of humor. (BCCB 3/10)
Owen, James. Here, There Be Dragons. Simon and Shcuster,
2006. Gr. 6-9
Three young men are entrusted with an ancient atlas of a fictional land and, battling creatures from Egyptian, Greek, and Welsh mythology, must defeat the Black King before his thirst for power endangers their own world. (BCCB 1/07)
Riordan, Rick. The Red Pyramid. Hyperion, 2010. Gr. 5-8
Riordan sets his sights on Egyptian mythology as he places the heroes of this story, siblings Carter and Sadie Kane, in a battle for their lives against the vengeful deity of chaos, Set. (BCCB 9/10)
Spinner, Stephanie. Quiver. Knopf, 2002. Gr. 7-10
To keep her vow of chastity to Artemis and appease her father's demands to produce an heir, Atalanta offers a compromise: to marry the man who bests her in a footrace – but those who fail will lose their lives. (BCCB 2/03)
Whitman, Emily. Radiant Darkness. HarperCollins, 2009.
Gr. 7-10
In this powerful retelling, Persephone is transformed from tragic victim to rebellious, sensual heroine as she escapes an overbearing mother and flees into the arms of a dark and handsome stranger. (BCCB 6/09)
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with defined as for and and ...
Okay, I have this problem from a maths textbook and its along the same lines as
If S and T are sets
the Cartesian product S x T of S and T is defined
[(s,t) : s ∈ S, t ∈ T}
Prove if S and T are convex sets in ℝ^n and ℝ^m
then ℝ^(n+m) is convex also
I have the answer but I'm completely confused on how it was derived
Okay, I don't fully understand your answer, heres what I have;
λs1 + (1-λ)s2 S
λt1 + (1-λ)t2 T
and now I can't understand why R^n , R^m makes SxT convex
Ok so this is what you've written;
λs1 + (1-λ)s2 S
λt1 + (1-λ)t2 T
s1 and s2 are elements of set S and t1 and t2 are elements of set T. I wouldn't write the "forall Rn" part since the statements are only true for the convex sets S and T in Rn,Rm. So basically S and T are convex sets in and . This means that the following by definition is true;
λs1 + (1-λ)s2 S
λt1 + (1-λ)t2 T
(If S is a convex set in then λs1 + (1-λ)s2 is in ).
We've just applied the definition of a convex set so far. Now we want to show the set S T (which is of the form x1=(s1,t1)) is also a convex set. So we want to show that;
λx1 + (1-λ)x2 S T
We begin with the equation
λx1 + (1-λ)x2 S T
which becomes (x1 = (s1,t1), x2 = (s2,t2) are elements of )
λ(s1,t1) + (1-λ)(s2,t2) S and T
which means (λ(s1,t1) = (λs1,λt1))
(λs1,λt1) + ((1-λ)s2,(1-λ)t2) S and T
which then becomes ((s1,t1)+(s2,t2) = (s1+s2,t1+t2))
((λs1 + (1-λ)s2),(λt1 + (1-λ)t2)) S and T
what can we say about the equations (λs1 + (1-λ)s2) and (λt1 + (1-λ)t2) ?
Well am I correct in saying that ((s1,t1)+(s2,t2) = (s1+s2,t1+t2)) therefore S and T are convex IF they both lie in S x T (on a graph)what can we say about the equations (λs1 + (1-λ)s2) and (λt1 + (1-λ)t2) ?
(I'm slightly confused)
I really have no idea
Edit: If S and T are two convex sets in R^n and R^m then their intersection S∩T is also convex, - I understand that but I don't know how its proved that its convex in R^n+m
What we've done is taken any two elements x1 and x2 of and showed that λx1 + (1-λ)x2 also lies in .


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Summer Snacks With Watermelon
Recently, when I asked a bunch of people about their favourite summer snacks, most replied with 'watermelon.' And why not? While this summer heat kills us one frazzled nerve at a time, there is little we can do to stay cool. Watermelons are not only one of the healthiest summer snacks, they're also excellent ingredients for everything from summer salads, to smoothies, juices, and even martinis. Here are Health Me Up's top 3 Watermelon summer snacks.
1. Watermelon Martini: Who doesn't love martinis? They're easy to make, can include any fruit of the season, and taste best completely and absolutely chilled – all great qualities for a summer cocktail. This is a quick and easy Watermelon Martini recipe. As long as your neighbourhood fruit seller has a good supply of watermelons all summer through, you can whip up watermelon martinis any time it suits your fancy.
Ingredients (to serve two):
- 1 cup watermelon juice – the fresher the better
- 1/2 cup vodka
- 1/4 cup simple syrup (sugar) OR 2tbsps watermelon liqueur
- 1 lemon
- 1 tbspn salt + 1 tbspn sugar for the glass's rim
- ice
- Watermelon slices, for garnish and glass wetting
- Mix the salt and sugar together, and after wetting each glass's rim with a watermelon slice – dip it in the salt and sugar mixture.
- Place the watermelon juice, vodka, lime juice, and sugar syrup or watermelon liqueur into a cocktail shaker. Add some ice and shake well.
- Pour into martini glasses.
- Sip the watermelon martini and look pleased.
2. Watermelon Smoothie: Watermelon smoothies are easy to whip out, a sheer delight to sip on and excellent breakfast or evening snack additions. Instead of reaching for that Coke during a movie, whip this watermelon smoothie up, add a straw, and you'll have yourself a healthy little summer snack.
- 1 ½ cup roughly chopped watermelon
- 1 ½ musk melon (if you have some. Or you could add some more watermelon)
- Juice of 2 lemons
- 1 cup skimmed yogurt
- Some ice cubes
Method: Add all ingredients to a blender and blend into a smooth consistency. Enjoy your watermelon smoothie!
3. Watermelon Crush: When we were in school, we would eat these slush or crush things that vendors sold right outside the school's walls. We'd relish them mostly in the summer. Who says you can't have a healthier version of that here and now?
- As much watermelon as you want to eat.
- 1 cup ice per kg watermelon.
- Artificial sweetener or castor sugar to taste. You can even flavour the watermelon with some spice salts or mint and basil.
- Remove watermelon rind and seeds, and then blend it.
- Now add some crushed ice to the juice. Whip or pulse for a few counts. The idea is to watermelon-ify all the ice.
- Now add this to ice trays. You can add sticks to each cube, so that you can hold the stick and suck on the watermelon crush lolly.
- Freeze for about 6-7 hours. And your watermelon crush is ready to be your chosen summer snack of the day.
Or you could just eat the fruit!
Try these super delicious and healthy watermelon snacks this summer and watch the heat and kilos melt away.
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By Paula Cronic: PNT Staff
The Portales Recreation Center is conducting a summer youth program for the second year in a row.
The program offers activities such as games, arts and crafts, movies and physical education for children between the ages of 5 and 13.
"I like the rock climbing wall and the computers," 8-year-old Tera Abeyta said.
Kaycee Craig, 9, is also a big fan of the activities.
"I'm looking forward to the swimming and pretty much everything," Kaycee said.
The program will be split into two four-week sessions: 7:45 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday from June 5 to 30 and from July 3 to 28.
Each session has a sign-up fee of $10 plus a weekly charge of $15 per child.
Field trips to Casel-land Fun Center, Oasis State Park, Roller World, the Clovis Zoo, and local libraries and museums are planned, according to recreation center organizers.
Daily snacks will be handed out and lunches provided by the Portales Municipal Schools.
Each session is limited to 100 students.
Director Johnny Ledbetter said the recreation center received $5,000 from the state for the program, double last year's amount.
Parents or guardians must fill out the registration packet before their children can participate.
Registration packets are available at the recreation center, located at 1001 West 18th St.
For information, call 356-8598.
Other summer activities offered by the city of Portales include:
• Arts and crafts at the city park from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday through Friday. Enrollment and classes start Tuesday.
• Tennis classes will be offered from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday. Enrollment starts June 5 with classes starting June 6.


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There's more to St. Patty's Day than shamrocks and pots of gold. We're bringing you recipes featuring a famous Irish stout that has become beloved by the masses. Cheers to celebrating this decidedly jolly holiday to the fullest.
Our first recipe is mouth-watering Guinness Lamb Stew, a favorite of Cooking Light Test Kitchen Professional Robin Bashinsky. He explains, "The touch of mustard at the end adds a little tangy punch that sets off the robust flavors of the hearty, slowly simmered broth."


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Cat play is an absolute necessity when living in a multiple cat household! Regular play time can mean the difference between living with a group of happy, well behaved little friends and living with a bunch of bad tempered little hooligans!
Cats have a strong need to hunt. It is a part of their being, of who they are. Cat play that mimics a cat's hunting behaviors has a direct and positive influence their mental, emotional and physical well being.
During the hunt, stalking prey and anticipating its movements exercises a cat's mind and improves mental acuity. Chasing, leaping and pouncing on prey exercises a cat's body and improves physical health. And the successful capture of prey helps to improve a cat's confidence and emotional well being.
House cats are like mischievous children. If they don't have anything to do, they tend to relieve their boredom by getting into trouble. Fighting with each other, tearing up the furniture and peeing on the walls are common methods that cats use to get rid of pent-up energy and stress. A key concept to remember when living in a multiple cat household is "A Tired Cat is a Happy Cat!".
Incorporating regular play time for your cats each day will help to make them happier and healthier - and easier to live with! So the question is, how to create play time that makes ALL of your cats happy.
There are 2 basic types of cat play that mimic hunting behaviors. Solitary play and interactive play.
Solitary play is when a cat plays by himself. Examples include batting a treat ball, flinging a toy mouse and scooping things out of a puzzle box. These types of activities mimic the behaviors cats exhibit when playing with caught or trapped prey.
Chasing their own tail, running full speed through the house for no apparent reason, and focusing intently (with butt wiggling!) then pouncing on something we can't see, (something most every cat owner has seen and wondered about!) is also considered solitary play!
Our cats will, on occasion, catch a small rodent or big bug and bring it into the house - presumably to show off. They will fling the thing into the air, bat it around, and dig their prize out from behind or underneath something. One will even steal it and go running off with it! A short time later, the original hunter will return with his prize to start the process all over again!
Since live (or once live!) prey is not a preferred toy for us humans,treat balls, ping-pong balls, fuzzy mice, crumpled paper balls, Crinkle Balls, Cat Tracs or Rings, puzzle boxes, and stuffed catnip toys are all good choices for encouraging solitary cat play. Basically, anything a cat can swat, carry, fling, kick, or scoot using only "paw power" make for good solitary play toys.
The other type of play is perhaps even more important to keeping a house full of cats happy - Interactive cat play. Interactive play involves toys that are powered using mechanical or battery power or human power. By far, human powered toys are the best cat toys!
Human powered cat toys, such as fishing pole type toys, most closely mimic the movements of live prey. But more importantly, interactive play improves the emotional bonds between you and your cats.
Playing with cats is a happy activity that makes both you and your cats feel good, creating positive "vibes" that both you and your cats transmit to each other. You feel happier, they feel happier - its a positive, happy time and healthy for all of you!
The only real problem with interactive play is that you will likely wear out before your cats do! This is one reason why both interactive and solitary cat play are important to both you and your cats.
When using fishing pole type toys, wiggle them along the ground and up the furniture, make the feathers or fuzzy toy fly. Use lots of stop and start motions. These motions will mimic live prey the most and give your cats plenty of physical exercise as well as help to keep their focus on the game which exercises their minds.
It is also important to allow them to catch the prey once in a while, hold on to it for a short time, then pull it away. In the wild, cats often catch, lose, then re-catch their prey several times before finally killing and eating it. Allowing them to catch the prey helps with their self-confidence and suddenly yanking it away helps to keep them from getting too cocky!
When play time is winding down, let them catch the prey and keep it as though the thing is dead. Then give them all a treat. In the wild, once prey is finally caught and killed, the cat gets to eat. Giving them a treat at the end of play time mimics this natural behavior.
Keep their toys locked away where they can't get at them all the time and rotate the toys they get to play with. This goes for both interactive and solitary play toys. This helps to peak their interest and keep them from getting bored with the same old things.
We keep the majority of our cat's toys in a foot locker. Whenever we open it, the cats come from everywhere anxious to see what toy we will be getting out for them. Our cats really look forward to their play time and tend to get obnoxious if they feel we have forgotten. Some start following us around and getting in our way, others will start bringing us things like a piece of paper, a toothbrush or even a shoe! And still others will start climbing up our pant legs (or bare legs in summer - ouch!) to get us to stop what we are doing and start play time.
You may need to experiment with different toys to find the ones your cats enjoy the most. Most of our cats love fuzzy mice and crinkle balls but Murry's absolute favorite toy is a small, crumpled paper ball! He will come from out of nowhere when he hears paper crumpling and loves to play fetch with them!
Freddie and Marty love the fuzzy catnip kickers and Wendy's favorite toy is a fuzzy ball which is no longer a ball because all of the insides were pulled out!
You just never know what toys your cats will enjoy. And because they are easily bored, it is always a good idea to have a variety of cat toys for them to enjoy.
While not the answer to everything, we have solved many issues and kept bad behavior to a minimum just by insuring that our cats get to practice their hunting skills every day! If you live with a house full of cats, try adding play time as part of their routine and see for yourself how much better your cats feel and act!
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It was hard enough to fathom the killing, an elderly woman stabbed in her East Side home in what police said might have been a robbery.
But for neighbor Fedelma Dumas, the events that unfolded on Thursday night became even more incomprehensible. Shortly after police found the body of 89-year-old Anna Eblen inside 3095 E. 12th Ave., investigators turned their attention right next door, on the home that Dumas shares with her brother.
"I don't understand why they're still in my house," Dumas said yesterday afternoon, watching as homicide detectives and crime-scene investigators walked in and out of her front door. "I didn't have nothing to do with what happened to Miss Ann. Neither was my brother ever in that house."
As of last night, Columbus police had not arrested or charged anyone in the city's 25th homicide of the year.
Officers were called to Eblen's home just west of Port Columbus and north of Krumm Park shortly before 7 p.m. by a neighbor who thought it odd that her back door was ajar.
"I know she don't leave her back door open," the woman said in her call to 911.
Officers found Eblen inside. She had been stabbed repeatedly.
Neighbors said Eblen and her 92-year-old husband, Harold, had lived in the home for decades. Harold Eblen had been sick recently and was being cared for outside the home when his wife was killed, neighbors said.
Investigators would not say what prompted them to search Dumas' home.
"We took two persons of interest Downtown and spoke with them last night," said Sgt. Christ Holzhauser, supervisor of the second-shift homicide squad.
Dumas, 55, confirmed that she and her 58-year-old brother were under police scrutiny. Her brother, who did not want to talk about the case with a reporter yesterday, was interrogated by detectives until they released him at 4 a.m., she said.
"They just need to get off mine and my brother's back," she said. "He's like very angry."
She said she cooperated with officers, allowing them to search her home and pointing out the clothing her brother had been wearing.
Anna Eblen was a "real little bitty person" and "an old-school wife" who cooked and otherwise looked after her husband, Dumas said. She always looked neat with her polyester slacks, print blouses and styled hair, and she kept her home equally tidy, Dumas said.
"The house, it's like walking in a time capsule," she said.
Dumas and other neighbors kept an eye on Eblen, who according to a police report from earlier this year had been showing signs of dementia. Residents would take in her trash can, mow the lawn and run errands for her, Dumas said. Last week, she opened a can of tuna for Eblen.
"It's just sad that somebody so evil and mean would do that to Miss Ann," Dumas said. "It's just senseless."


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Volume 17, Issue 3, March 2005
- Interfacial Flows
Spraying modes in coaxial jet electrospray with outer driving liquid17(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1850691View Description Hide Description
Coaxial jet electrospray is a technique to generate microencapsules, which uses electric forces to create a coaxial microjet from two immiscible liquids. Compound droplets with narrow size distribution are produced after the jet breaks up. In this paper, the spraying modes are investigated experimentally with proper flow rates of the inner and outer liquids. Ethanol/glycerol/tween mixture (outer liquid) and cooking oil (inner liquid) are fed into the gap between outer and inner capillaries and the inner capillary, respectively. The spraying modes presented in our experiments are "dripping mode," "dripping mode in spindle," "cone-jet mode," "pulse mode in cone," and "multijets mode" sequentially, as the applied voltage increases. The region of stable cone-jet mode extends with decrease of the outer liquidflow rate and increase of the inner one. It is found that the spray phenomena are mainly determined by properties of the outer liquid, which is viscous and electric conductive enough. A rudimentary physical model is developed, in which both the viscosity and liquid interface tension are taken into account.
The stability of an encapsulated cylindrical liquid bridge subject to off-centering17(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1846791View Description Hide Description
Liquid bridges are usually encapsulated with another liquid in float-zone crystal growth processes to ensure the containment of volatile components. This paper is concerned with the stability of an inviscid liquid bridge that is off-centered with respect to its encapsulant. Perturbation theory is used to study the stability of such a bridge subject to inertial disturbances. It is concluded that while the off-centered nature does not change the neutral point it does affect the rate of growth and decay of the disturbances causing the unstable regions to become less unstable and stable regions to become less stable. Limiting conditions are considered in order to provide a better understanding of the physics of off-centering.
Breakup and capture of two sedimenting drops in a vertical temperature gradient17(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1856532View Description Hide Description
A curvatureless three-dimensional boundary-integral algorithm has been developed for tangential Marangoni stresses and used to study breakup and capture of two deformable drops for arbitrary drop-to-medium viscosity and thermal conductivity ratios in parallel and antiparallel arrangements of gravity and an applied vertical temperature gradient. When the driving forces are opposed, the previously observed inhibition of breakup by a weak thermocapillary effect for drops with equal viscosity and thermal conductivity ratios is shown to be almost exclusively the result of changing interfacial tension, with Marangoni stresses having virtually no influence. Alignment of gravity and the temperature gradient in the same direction enhances breakup more than opposing driving forces reduce it, with the limitation that the drops are moving toward a region of zero interfacial tension. The thermal conductivity ratio has negligible impact on these interactions. For bubbles, the effect of a temperature gradient on gravitational results is much less pronounced than for drops. Under certain conditions, parallel orientation of the driving forces weakly inhibits the capture interaction for bubbles, while antiparallel orientation enhances the phenomenon.
Electrically induced pattern formation in thin leaky dielectric films17(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1852459View Description Hide Description
The stability of the interface between two thin leaky dielectric liquid layers bounded between two flat electrodes is considered. A coupled system of evolution equations is derived for the interfacial location and charge density using lubrication theory. This system is parametrized by the dielectric constants of the two fluids in addition to ratios of their conductivities, viscosities, and thicknesses. A linear stability analysis is conducted and the behavior of the system in the nonlinear regime is also examined. The system is destabilized by electrical stresses that are resisted by capillarity and modified by viscous dissipation. Our results suggest that decreasing the thickness ratio is destabilizing, giving rise to periodic structures of decreasing wavelength. Decreasing the viscosity ratio was also found to lead to the formation of sharp-edged structures whose vertical extent is virtually equal to the gap width between the electrodes. Similar structures were also determined upon increasing the ratio of the dielectric constants and electric conductivities.
Enhanced damping of capillary bridge oscillations using velocity feedback17(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1859191View Description Hide Description
In reduced gravity, the stability of cylindrical liquid bridges and other systems having free surfaces is affected by ambient vibrations of the spacecraft. Such vibrations are expected to excite capillary modes. The lowest-order unstable mode of a liquid bridge is particularly susceptible to vibration as the length of the bridge approaches the stability limit. This mode is known as the (2,0) mode and is an axisymmetric varicose mode of one wavelength in the axial direction. In this work, an optical system is used to detect the (2,0)-mode amplitude. The derivative of the error signal produced by this detector is used to produce the appropriate voltages on a pair of annular disk electrodes which are concentric with the bridge. A mode-coupled Maxwell stress profile is thus generated in proportion to the modal velocity. Depending on the sign of the gain, the damping of the capillary oscillation can be either increased or decreased. This effect has been demonstrated in Plateau-tank experiments. Increasing the damping of the capillary modes on free liquid surfaces in space could be beneficial for containerless processing and other technologies.
Viscous versus inviscid instability of two-phase mixing layers with continuous velocity profile17(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1862234View Description Hide Description
We consider the temporal instability of parallel two-phase mixing layers. The viscous case is examined using a composite error-function velocity profile. The inviscid case is considered for the broken-line velocity profile, where the thickness of the boundary layer in each fluid next to the interface is chosen to match the viscous error-function profile at the interface and far away from it. Viscosity modifies the inviscid stability properties quantitatively, but we can also discern an additional unstable mode exclusively related to viscous shear. In the absence of interfacial tension, this mode dominates at large wavenumbers when the Reynolds number is sufficiently high. The various viscous modes cannot generally be attributed to either one of the phases due to mode mixing or exchange. For parameters resembling those of atomization experiments and applications, the most unstable wavelength and growthrate in the viscous case can exceed the inviscid values significantly. The viscous stability analysis also provides better agreement with recent experimental results for air and water than inviscid stability calculations.
On-shell description of stationary flames17(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1864132View Description Hide Description
The problem of nonperturbative description of stationary flames with arbitrary gas expansion is considered. On the basis of the Thomson circulation theorem an implicit integral of the flow equations is constructed. With the help of this integral, a simple explicit expression for the vortex mode of the burnt gas flow near the flame front is obtained. Furthermore, a dispersion relation for the potential mode at the flame front is written down, thus reducing the initial system of bulk equations and jump conditions for the flow variables to a set of integrodifferential equations for the flame front position and the flow velocity at the front. The developed approach is applied to the case of thin flames. Finally, an asymptotic expansion of the derived equations is carried out in the case where is the gas expansion coefficient, and a single equation for the front position is obtained in the second post-Sivashinsky approximation. It is demonstrated, in particular, how the well-known problem of correct normalization of the front velocity is resolved in our approach. It is verified also that in the first post-Sivashinsky approximation, the equation reduces to the Sivashinsky–Clavin equation corrected according to Cambray and Joulin. Analytical solutions of the derived equations are found, and compared with the results of numerical simulations.
- Viscous and Non-Newtonian Flows
Aging and free surface flow of a thixotropic fluid17(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1844911View Description Hide Description
Free surface flows of thixotropic fluids such as paints, self-compacting concrete, or natural mudflows are of noticeable practical interest. Here we study the basic characteristics of the uniform flow of a layer of thixotropic fluid under gravity. A theoretical approach relying on a simple thixotropy constitutive equation shows that after some time at rest over a small slope angle the fluid layer should start to flow rather abruptly beyond a new, larger, critical slope angle. The theory also predicts that the critical time at which the layer velocity should significantly increase is proportional to the duration of the preliminary rest and tends to infinity when the new slope approaches the critical slope. Experiments carried out with different suspensions show that the qualitative trends of the flows are in very good agreement with the theoretical predictions, except that the critical time for flow start appears to be proportional to a power 0.6 of the time of rest whereas the theory predicts a linear dependence. We show that this indicates a restructuration process at rest differing from the restructuration process under flow.
Collapse and merging of cavity regions in a granular material due to viscous flow17(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1850148View Description Hide Description
Experimental studies are made on the collapse of macroscopic cavity regions placed in an otherwise homogeneous granular material due to viscousflow. First, an initially circular two-dimensional hole is exposed to a uniform flow at infinity and the process of boundary shape deformation due to locally enhanced stress components is clarified. Above a certain critical velocity, particles on the upstream-side boundary lose contact with neighboring ones, and are carried to the other side of the boundary. At the same time the fluidized region develops towards upstream direction in the granular material. A simple scaling law on the reduction of the void area is obtained. Second, attention is paid to the interaction of two circular cavities of equal radii, whose center-to-center distance and angle of attack are varied. In some configuration of cavities, lowering of the critical velocity of collapse is recognized. Successive processes on the collapse of upstream-side and downstream-side cavities are classified depending on the magnitude of velocity and the configuration of cavities. A possible scenario on the growth of global scale patterns in granular material such as water vein formation and landslides is suggested.
Distributed forcing of flow over a circular cylinder17(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1850151View Description Hide Description
In the present study, we apply a distributed (i.e., spatially varying) forcing to flow over a circular cylinder for drag reduction. The distributed forcing is realized by a blowing and suction from the slots located at upper and lower surfaces of the cylinder. The forcing profile from each slot is sinusoidal in the spanwise direction but is steady in time. We consider two different phase differences between the upper and lower blowing/suction profiles: zero (in-phase forcing) and (out-of-phase forcing). The Reynolds numbers considered are from 40 to 3900 covering various regimes of flow over a circular cylinder. For all the Reynolds numbers larger than 47, the present in-phase distributed forcing attenuates or annihilates the Kármán vortex shedding and thus significantly reduces the mean drag and the drag and lift fluctuations. The optimal wavelength and amplitude of the in-phase forcing for maximum drag reduction are also obtained for the Reynolds number of 100. It is shown that the in-phase forcing produces the phase mismatch along the spanwise direction in the vortex shedding, weakens the strength of vortical structures in the wake, and thus reduces the drag. Unlike the in-phase forcing, the out-of-phase distributed forcing does not reduce the drag at low Reynolds numbers, but it reduces the mean drag and the drag and lift fluctuations at a high Reynolds number of 3900 by affecting the evolution of the separating shear layer, although the amount of drag reduction is smaller than that by the in-phase forcing.
The effect of added polymers on the formation of drops ejected from a nozzle17(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1850431View Description Hide Description
The presence of small amounts of polymer in Newtonian solvents can have a significant impact on the flow behavior of these fluids in extension-dominated flows. This study investigates the effect of elasticity on the on-demand drop formation through the use of low viscosityelastic liquids. A high-speed camera is employed to observe drops ejected from a nozzle. The drops are created using a piezoelectric sleeve that contracts around a nozzle forcing fluid out. We observe that the satellite drops commonly produced with Newtonian fluids of identical shear viscosity in the same geometry can be suppressed when polymers with sufficient molecular weight are added. For our nozzle, the minimum required molecular weight is 300k PEO at a concentration of 25 ppm. However, the resultant increased elasticity in the solution requires a greater pulse strength to eject the drop. In addition, the fluids containing polymers have a longer thread, a longer time to separation, and a lower velocity than the Newtonian fluids with similar shear viscosity.
Ferrofluid pipe flow in an oscillating magnetic field17(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1863320View Description Hide Description
Ferrofluid pipe flow in an oscillating magnetic field along the pipe axis is studied theoretically in a wide range of the flow rate. The field-dependent part of viscosity (it can be positive or negative) reveals significant dependence on the flowvorticity, i.e., ferrofluids exhibit non-Newtonian behavior. This is manifested in an alteration of the velocity profile—it ceases to be parabolic—and deviation of the flow rate from the value prescribed by Poiseuille's formula. The presented model based on the conventional ferrohydrodynamic equations and an assumption of the ferrofluid structure fits well experimental data recently obtained by Schumacher, Sellien, Konke, Cader, and Finlayson ["Experiment and simulation of laminar and turbulent ferrofluid pipe flow in an oscillating magnetic field," Phys. Rev. E67, 026308 (2003)].
- Laminar Flows
Chaotic mixing in thermocapillary-driven microdroplets17(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1850374View Description Hide Description
Liquid microdroplets represent a convenient system for studies of mixing by chaotic advection in discrete microscopic volumes. The mixing properties of the flows in microdroplets are governed by their symmetries, which give rise to invariant surfaces serving as barriers to transport. Thorough mixing via chaotic advection requires destruction of all such invariant surfaces. To illustrate this idea, we demonstrate that quick and thorough mixing inside a spherical microdroplet suspended in a layer of substrate fluid can be obtained by moving the droplet along a two-dimensional path using temperature-induced surface tension gradients. The use of flow invariants also provides a convenient way to analyze the mixing properties of flows in many other experimental implementations.
Sharp scalar and tensor bounds on the hydrodynamic friction and mobility of arbitrarily shaped bodies in Stokes flow17(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1852315View Description Hide Description
We prove rigorous inequalities for the hydrodynamic translational friction and mobility matrices and of an arbitrarily shaped rigid particle in terms of the electrostaticcapacitance of a conducting particle of identical shape. Specifically, we derive the scalar and matrix inequalities and , where all quantities are normalized by the corresponding values for a sphere, and the mobility matrix is evaluated in the center-of-mobility reference frame. These bounds are obtained using a variational approach with the energy dissipation functional expressed in terms of the induced force distribution on the surface of the particle. To relate the hydrodynamic problem to the solution of the corresponding electrostatic problem, the trial force field is expressed in terms of the charge distribution on the equipotential particle surface. This procedure yields the first rigorous bounds on hydrodynamicfriction that apply to bodies with translation-rotation coupling. We demonstrate that the error of the Hubbard–Douglas approximation , corresponding to our scalar bound, is quadratic in the deviation of the trial induced-force field from the exact form—which explains why this relation is highly accurate for many particle shapes. Our numerical results confirm that the Hubbard–Douglas approximation is accurate for a variety of objects, including helices with translational–rotational coupling. In addition, we establish a rigorous, sharp bound on the effective (scalar) Brownian diffusion coefficient of an arbitrarily shaped particle.
- Instability and Transition
Richtmyer–Meshkov instability of arbitrary shapes17(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1848547View Description Hide Description
We consider the effect of a shock passing through an arbitrarily shaped interface between two fluids. The evolution of the interface into a new shape, written formally as , is found by applying the linear, classical Richtmyer–Meshkov instability result to each mode in the Fourier expansion of the original interface. We provide several examples where the new shape can be found analytically. For any interface we define an associated dual interface and show that . Representing a shock by a new mathematical operator we find how , and transform under the effect of a shock. Kink-singularities are found in when and where has a discontinuous change in its first derivative. These are the locations where jetting occurs. We briefly discuss the effects of nonlinearity, compressibility, viscosity, etc., all of which suppress kink-singularities, and present hydrocode simulations of shock tube and high-explosive-driven experiments to highlight the influence of compressibility, nonlinearity, and material strength.
Instability of isolated compressible entropy-stratified vortices17(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1851451View Description Hide Description
The normal mode linear analysis is applied to investigate the stability of a circular isolated compressible vortex with the emphasis on studying the effect of entropy stratification of the basic flow on stability properties. We study a family of vortices that have zero total circulation, with the swirl velocity being presented by a Taylor-type distribution in the radial direction. The stratification of entropy is modeled by a Gaussian two-parametric profile whose parameters control the maximal deviation from the homentropic distribution and the extent of the entropic zone. Results presented concern the effect of these parameters and the vortex intensity on instability characteristics. In particular, in the case of homentropic flow,vortices considered are found to be stable only for sufficiently high intensities and cease to be stable as the intensity weakens. As an example of the situation where unstable normal modes can be excited, the scattering of sound waves by the vortexflow is considered. By simulating this process numerically, we show that the scattered field becomes unstable in the course of time and acquires a typical periodical pattern in polar angle. The characteristics of this instability (viz., the growth rate and the azimuthal phase frequency) coincide with those of the linear analysis very closely. This fact shows conclusively that the instability is caused by the induction of unstable normal modes in the vortex by means of sound irradiation.
Characteristic modes and evolution processes of shear-layer vortices in an elevated transverse jet17(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1852575View Description Hide Description
Characteristics and evolution processes of the traveling coherent flow structure in the shear layer of an elevated round jet in crossflow are studied experimentally in an open-loop wind tunnel. Streak pictures of the smoke flow patterns illuminated by the laser-light sheet in the median and horizontal planes are recorded with a high speed digital camera. Time histories of the instantaneous velocity of the vortical flows in the shear layer are digitized by a hot-wire anemometer through a high-speed data acquisition system. By analyzing the streak pictures of the smoke flow visualization, five characteristic flow structures, mixing-layer type vortices, backward-rolling vortices, forward-rolling vortices, swing-induced mushroom vortices, and jet-type vortices, are identified in the shear layer evolving from the up-wind edge of the jet exit. The behaviors and mechanisms of the vortical flow structure in the bent shear layer are prominently distinct in different flow regimes. The frequency characteristics, Strouhal number, power-spectrum density functions, autocorrelation coefficient, as well as the time and length scales of the coherent structure and the Lagrangian integral scales are obtained by processing the measured instantaneous velocity data. The Strouhal number is found to decay exponentially with the increase of the jet-to-crossflow momentum flux ratio. The autocorrelation coefficients provide the information for calculating the statistical time scales of the coherent structure and the integral time scales of turbulencefluctuations. The corresponding length scales of the vortical structure and the integral length scales of turbulence in the shear layer are therefore obtained and discussed.
Precession driven dynamos17(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1852576View Description Hide Description
The dynamo effect is demonstrated numerically in precession driven flow in a spherical container. Both laminar as well as unstable flows act as dynamos. At low Ekman numbers in unstable flows, the dynamo mechanism relies predominantly on the components of the flow excited by instabilities. All calculations are performed in a frame of reference attached to the boundaries. In this frame, the rotation axis of the fluid executes a periodic motion with a period equal to the rotation period of the boundaries, whereas the magnetic dipole moment undergoes slower variations interrupted by reversals.
Experiments on the late-time development of single-mode Richtmyer–Meshkov instability17(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1852574View Description Hide Description
The late-time development of Richtmyer–Meshkov instability is studied in shock tubeexperiments. This investigation makes use of the experimental apparatus and visualization methods utilized in the earlier study of Collins and Jacobs [J. Fluid Mech.464, 113 (2002)] but employs stronger shocks and initial perturbations with shorter wavelengths to obtain much later-time (in the dimensionless sense) images of the single-mode instability. These modifications produce a very detailed look at the evolution of the late-time single-mode instability, revealing the transition and development of turbulence in the vortex cores that eventually results in the disintegration of the laminar vortex structures into small scale features. Amplitude measurements taken from these images are shown to be effectively collapsed when plotted in dimensionless variables defined using the wave number and the initial growth rate. The amplitude measurements are compared with several late-time nonlinear models and solutions. The best agreement is obtained with the model of Sadot et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett.80, 1654 (1998)] which can be slightly improved by modifying the expression for the late-time asymptotic growth rate.
Linear stability analysis of axisymmetric perturbations in imperfectly conducting liquid jets17(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1863285View Description Hide Description
A discussion is presented on the role of limited conductivity and permittivity on the behavior of electrified jets. Under certain conditions, significant departures with respect to the perfect-conductor limit are to be expected. In addition, an exploration is undertaken concerning the validity of one-dimensional average models in the description of charged jets. To that end, a temporal linear modal stability analysis is carried out of poor-conductor viscousliquid jets flowing relatively to a steady radial electric field. Only axisymmetric perturbations, leading to highest quality aerosols, are considered. A grounded coaxial electrode is located at variable distance. Most available studies in the literature are restricted to the perfect-conductor limit, while the present contribution is an extension to moderate and low electrical conductivity and permittivityjets, in an effort to describe a situation increasingly prevalent in the sector of small-scale free-surface flows. The influence of the electrode distance , a parameter defined as the ratio of the electric relaxation time scale to the capillary time scale, and the relative permittivity on the growth rate has been explored yielding results on the stability spectrum. In addition, arbitrary viscosity and electrification parameters are contemplated. In a wide variety of situations, the perfect-conductor limit provides a good approximation; however, the influence of and on the growth rate and most unstable wavelength cannot be neglected in the general case. An interfacial boundary layer in the axial velocity profile occurs in the low-viscosity limit, but this boundary layer tends to disappear when or are large enough. The use of a one-dimensional (1D) averaged model as an alternative to the 3D approach provides a helpful shortcut and a complementary insight on the nature of the jet's perturbative behavior. Lowest-order 1D approximations (average model), of widespread application in the literature of electrified jets, are shown to be inaccurate in low-viscosity imperfect-conductor jets.


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Firstly Meghan, what a gorgeous little man Alex is, delicious! My heart goes out to you and i agree with the pp's that the first few weeks are the hardest.
By posting on this forum you have taken a big step forward in establishing a fantatstic bf relationship with ya little 'un.
It sounds like you have great support from your hubby and even though your Mum may be driving you up the wall at least she isnt going the other way and trying to push you towards formula. It must be frustrating though that she isnt acknowledging that it can be REALLY tricky to get this whole feeding thing down...
Is it at all possible for you to have a 'babymoon'? This is basically just hanging out with your baby 24/7, both naked in bed if possible, just snuggling and having some close and dreamy time to bond, and not just stressin about !!!!THE LATCH!!!!! If he starts to have positive associations with your breast he be will more likely to latch. And you sound like you could do with less stress!
Good luck anyway, dont beat yourself up about the formula thing, I have read so many stories about women who get off to a bad start and end up bf their babies successfully.


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Banks have long argued that processing debit card transactions by starting with the largest dollar balances and working their way to the smallest benefited customers. Here's an alternate explanation of what might have motivated them: "Multiple Millions $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$."
That was the pitch a popular vendor of "high-to-low" debit transaction processing software delivered to Union Bank of California, a unit of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, according to documents recently unsealed in a consolidated federal class action.
CAST Management Consultants promised that by processing customers' daily checking and debit transactions based on the highest to the lowest dollar values, instead of in chronological order, Union Bank could drastically increase how many "insufficient funds" fees clients paid. Union Bank signed up, according to an amended class action complaint pending in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
The Union Bank case is one of more than 30 related suits pending before U.S. District Judge Lawrence King and the first in which previously confidential documents have been unsealed. Consolidated by the court in 2009, the now unified multidistrict class action alleges that large banks manipulated the order in which they processed debit card transactions to checking accounts to stick customers with higher overdraft fees. Specifically, it alleges that banks shifted to high-to-low processing to maximize the number of overdraft fees charged after customers' checking account balances dipped below zero. Such practices were often hidden from bank customers even as they were used to extract illegal fees, the class action alleges.
The industry has contended that high-to-low processing was legitimate and in fact in demand among customers who wanted their largest bills to be paid first.
The difference of views has led to numerous cases charging leading banks with wrongful behavior. Among them: Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc. and Fifth Third Bank. Some of the suits have been settled out-of-court. In other cases banks appear to have a solid shot at getting claims transferred to industry arbitration panels, where they are likely to result in a more favorable outcome for defendants, as previously reported in American Banker.
In Hassler v. Sovereign Bank, a judge in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey dismissed a high-to-low case because the judge found that the bank's processing method had been adequately disclosed.
Whatever the final outcome of the Union Bank case, it could prove highly embarrassing to the commercial banks by showing how they aggressively adopted recommendations of lavishly paid consultants, even as they downplayed the ethical, legal and reputational risks.
"They're all similar," says Aaron Podhurst, an attorney on the plaintiffs' executive committee in the consolidated Florida class action, of the lawsuits. Banks "were warned in-house that this is dangerous, get rid of this, not a good idea. And they didn't heed that."
Documents filed in the Union Bank case appear to paint a picture of an institution focused on maximizing fee revenue by using CAST's technology while dismissing employee concerns that resequencing payments was unfair and possibly illegal. One bank employee argued high-to-low processing was harmful to "Poor but Honest" customers, according to an email sent from a colleague and cited in the amended complaint.
Bank documents turned over to plaintiff attorneys during discovery indicate Union Bank agreed that CAST would receive 20% of any extra overdraft charges generated under its high-to-low system. Union Bank employees also discussed how to hide the bank's policy from customers, even as it was costing them tens of millions of dollars, internal emails show.
"By design, the details of what happens inside the bank when an overdraft occurs were never intended to be communicated to the public," a Union Bank employee wrote to a colleague in an email cited in the suit.
Union Bank said its overdraft policies were in line with those of its peers in a written statement to American Banker. Those policies "reflect our customers' preferences, and are lawful," a bank spokeswoman wrote. CAST, which is based in Los Angeles, did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
There is a strong case to be made for processing checks — as opposed to debit card transactions — in descending order from those with the largest to the smallest balances, says industry researcher Mike Moebs. Large payments tend to be the most important to customers, and beginning with them makes it more likely that they will be paid in the event that a customer does not have enough money to immediately cover all charges.
In contrast to check processing, however, debit card charges are what are called "must pay" transactions, meaning the bank is committed to covering all bills in the system. Under these terms, there is no benefit to customers in having their largest transactions processed first.
Union Bank reversed its high-to-low overdraft policy last year. It now posts transactions from the lowest-to-highest values.
Some Union Bank records do show employees arguing that high-to-low processing would meet an unspecified "customer demand." However, executives raised objections on fairness grounds, while the employees implementing the system appear to have feared an adverse customer reaction.


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Turret Arch, seen here through North Window, is one of three giant arches on the Windows trail. The North Window and South Window are arches known together as the Spectacles.
The park's arches consist of sandstone that contains iron oxide that give them that red coloring.
These arches, which together are known as the Double Arch, are two of more than 2,000 arches in the park.
Kait Thomas, an interpretative ranger at Arches National Park, stands in the Fiery Furnace below the Twin Arches.
Ephemeral Pools, seen here in front of Organ rock, fill with rainwater and are home to tiny ecosystems of plants and organisms.
The Wolfe Ranch trail contains ample rock art. Humans began migrating to Arches about 10,000 years ago.
Gopher snakes are nonvenomous. They are often mistaken for rattlesnakes because they have similar markings and can vibrate their tails.
The desert hairy scorpion grows to between 4-7 inches long and can live up to 20 years.
The collared lizard pursues prey by running on its hind legs. Its stride can be up to three times the length of its bodies.
The peregrine falcon uses a dive called a stoop to snatch smaller birds in mid-flight.
Sunset in the Salt Valley marks the beginning of the day for nocturnal wildlife living in Arches National Park.
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Jack is a pied, domino-faced Border
Collie. We talk across his invisible
Fence. He, in dog, me in ... whatever this is.
English? The mazy motions of the air?
Something reins us both as far as we dare.
I stand on the line neither of us miss,
And we wait, kind, doggy, and in the null
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Members of the Boise City Council are (back, L-R) council members TJ Thomson, Ben Quintana, Lauren McLean, Scot Ludwig (front, L-R) Council Pro Tem Elaine Clegg, Mayor David H. Bieter and Council President Maryanne Jordan.
The Mayor works full-time, managing the day-to-day operations of the City and providing leadership and policy direction to the City Council. The Mayor chairs all meetings of the City Council, voting only in the case of a tie. The six members of the City Council work part-time, holding budget and policy-setting authority for the city. The Mayor and City Council members are elected at large by popular vote. City Council members are elected to a specific Council seat, but the seats are not determined geographically. City elections are held in odd number years (e.g. 2007, 2009, 2011).
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Boise, August 4, 2008 - Boise Police wrote some 789 speeding tickets during the recent crack down on aggressive driving, writing more than 1100 tickets in all. Officers hope the recent campaign leaves motorists with the message that driving responsibly is also driving safely.
Boise Police, thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Idaho Department of Highway Safety, put more officers out on the streets from July 18 - 27. Officers focused their patrols from approx. 4:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. in neighborhoods all over the city.
In tallying up the effort found:
Other aggressive driving violations included running red lights, stop signs, or reckless driving.
Boise Police appreciate the partnership of the Idaho Department of Highway Safety and will continue these special patrols throughout the year, as funding is available.
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Boise July 18th, 2008 - The Boise Police Department has received a $25,000 dollar grant to put extra officers on the roads. Over the next two weeks officers will search for aggressive drivers who place everyone on our roads at risk. This Idaho State grant from the Department of Highway Safety will allow Boise to place additional officers on the road to search for this type of driving. The behaviors that define aggressive driving are: failure to yield the right-of-way, stop sign violation, speeding, basic rule or driving too fast for conditions, reckless driving, tailgating, and disregarding traffic signs or signals. The goal of this project is to reduce motor vehicle crashes, injuries and deaths caused by youth and adult aggressive driving behaviors, through increasing law enforcement presence, and educating the public.
Background: In 2006, aggressive driving was a contributing factor in 54% of all crashes and 116 fatalities in Idaho. The economic cost of crashes involving aggressive driving was $875.9 million dollars. This represents 49% of the total cost of all crashes in Idaho. Aggressive driving is the highest single contributing factor in both injury and fatal crashes. In 2006, youth drivers were 4.1 times as likely to be involved in aggressive driving crashes. Aggressive Youth drivers, ages 15 - 19, comprised 22% of all fatal and injury crashes in 2006, yet comprise just 6.6 of all licensed drivers.
The fine for speeding tickets is between $75-$140. All other moving violations are $75. Keep in mind that careless and reckless driving violations are misdemeanors.
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Our favorite examples of street art are the "installations" where they add something so subtle that you don't even know it's there. We asked you to show us your inner-Banksy by adding subliminal artwork to the world around you using image manipulation. The winner is below, but first the runners up ...
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Culp issues 4Q warning, layoffs
May 3, 2005-- Home Textiles Today,
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Facing weakening demand for its U.S.-produced upholstery fabrics, Culp Inc. said it's laying off about 225 workers as it consolidates production, and warned of a deeper than expected fourth quarter loss.
Culp had earlier cautioned analysts and investors to expect a loss before restructuring charges in the range of 3 to 8 cents per share. But now the producer of mattress ticking and upholstery fabrics is forecasting a wider loss of 13 to 17 cents per share before one-time restructuring costs.
Culp will also combine its sales, design and customer service activities for two divisions, Culp Decorative Fabrics and Culp Velvets/Prints. As a result, two buildings in Burlington, with about 140,000 square feet of space, will be sold. The layoffs will total about 17 percent of the workforce in Culp's domestic upholstery fabrics business, the company said.
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This program links together computer science and linguistics through the written forms and grammars of languages. First, we'll consider writing: what do the world's alphabets, syllabaries and pictographic writing systems tell us about the structure of human languages? Are some writing systems particularly appropriate for some languages, or is it possible to represent any language with any writing system? Ciphers deliberately conceal information without removing it. What does cryptography tell us about the nature of information?
Second, we'll look at the grammars of human and computer languages. The syntax of a computer language can be described precisely, while human languages have exceptions. Yet there have been many attempts to model human language with computers, and to create ways for computers to "read" and "listen" to human languages. To what extent have automatic translation programs and Internet search engines been successful? Why is it that humans can handle ambiguity, but computers have such a difficult time?
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- Cryptography: We'll study a variety of ciphers and program some of them using Python.
- Transformational grammars: We'll study regular, context-free, context-sensitive and probabilistic grammars.
- Phonology: We'll introduce the sound systems of human languages.
- Writing systems: We'll compare how alphabets, syllabaries and pictographic systems encode phonological and morphological information; we'll study how writing systems have developed over time.
- Morphology and syntax: We'll introduce aspects of word formation and word arrangement in human languages.
- Pragmatics: We'll study aspects of human language in use, including the information structure of discourse (i.e., theme, rheme and focus), implicature and context-dependent expressions.
Students will participate in lectures, seminar, labs and workshops on linguistics, programming and computation. They will be evaluated on quizzes, exams, papers and programs.
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Key findings from the report include:
Steep increases in the use of crack cocaine over the last decade
Significant increases in crystal methamphetamine use, especially among street-involved youth
Remarkably easy access to drugs such as cocaine and crystal meth
Reduced drug injection rates but high mortality among injection drug users due to long-term HIV infection
Dramatic reductions in the sharing of syringes and related HIV and hepatitis C infections among injection drug users
Adult drug users in Vancouver reported that it was very easy to get cocaine, with about 90% of respondents stating that they could get cocaine or crack within 10 minutes. Crystal meth was also reported to be readily available to street-involved youth, with almost 60% of youth saying they could get the drug within 10 minutes. The reported availability of these so-called hard drugs is similar to the reported availability of marijuana among these groups.
Although the report shows significant positive effects of the city's harm reduction programs, including dramatic reductions in infectious disease transmission and drug overdose rates, mortality rates are still high, mostly because of HIV infections acquired a decade ago. The death rate is 10 times higher for male injection drug users than it is for the general male population in British Columbia, and for females, the rate is 22 times higher for injectors than for the general female population.
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Bleacher Report presents the top 15 January transfer targets playing for unfancied clubs.
What is an unfancied club? It's a team that isn't at the forefront of the average footballing fan's mind. Generally speaking, it's a side that makes up the numbers.
This article will not include Eintracht Frankfurt or Toulouse players because good team chemistry is a sizeable factor in both clubs occupying a place in the upper echelons of their respective leagues.
Of course, should Eintracht Frankfurt or Toulouse fall back into mediocrity come the January transfer window, then they would be more inclined to do business.