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Sydney Blu, Boris, and Darude's Predictions for Epicness Aboard Groove Cruise 2013
"What happens on the ship stays on the ship!"
Those are the rules of Groove Cruise, according to founder Jason Beukema.
And today, for the ninth straight year, electronic dance music fanatics and so-called "exotic destination experience junkies" will be sailing out to sea in pursuit of EDM epicness and that ever-elusive "high-energy positive vibe."
But since no one wanted to open wide about the wet and wild debauchery of past Groove Cruises, we here at Crossfade asked three DJs and a repeat GC attendee: "Got predictions?"
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"This being my fifth or sixth Groove cruise, the one thing I know you can expect is a relentless, energetic, uplifting good time, that will have the Groove Cruisers go wild while we sail. This year, I am playing with good friend Mark Knight and you can expect many goodies to come out during my set. My New Generation EP on SCI+TEC has some amazing tracks that have been getting played by a lot of my DJ peers. So expect to hear those and many other new edits and original tracks that I have been working on just for this cruise."
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"Groove Cruise is a festival on water and an amazing bonding experience among music lovers. This will be my fourth year and every year gets crazier and crazier! The experience of being on the sea and in the sun with amazing music that does not stop for three days is priceless. Looking forward do to headlining with Funkagenda on Saturday night!"
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I need to do this on the fly in batches of 6 or so, any ideas?
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There is a trend towards using wireless technologies in networked control systems. However, the adverse properties of the radio channels make it difficult to design and implement control systems in wireless environments. To attack the uncertainty in available communication resources in wireless control systems closed over WLAN, a cross-layer adaptive feedback scheduling (CLAFS) scheme is developed, which takes advantage of the co-design of control and wireless communications. By exploiting cross-layer design, CLAFS adjusts the sampling periods of control systems at the application layer based on information about deadline miss ratio and transmission rate from the physical layer. Within the framework of feedback scheduling, the control performance is maximized through controlling the deadline miss ratio. Key design parameters of the feedback scheduler are adapted to dynamic changes in the channel condition. An event-driven invocation mechanism for the feedback scheduler is also developed. Simulation results show that the proposed approach is efficient in dealing with channel capacity variations and noise interference, thus providing an enabling technology for control over WLAN.
With recent advances in wireless technologies, wireless control systems (WCSs) are attracting increasing attention from both academia and industry [
However, wireless communications raise new challenges for control system analysis and design. Wireless channels have adverse properties, such as path loss, multi-path fading, adjacent channel interference, Doppler shifts, and half-duplex operations [
The area of WCSs is still in its infancy. The suitability of diverse wireless technologies for control applications has been studied through both simulations [
In contrast to all these papers, the focus of this work is on co-design of real-time control and wireless communications. Because of its interdisciplinary nature, this co-design is complicated, with limited results reported in the literature. Liu and Goldsmith [
Considering WCSs closed over IEEE 802.11b WLAN, this paper develops a cross-layer adaptive feedback scheduling (CLAFS) scheme [
This paper is organized as follows. Section 2 describes the architecture of the control system considered. The case used as an illustrative example throughout the paper is also given. In Section 3, the employed cross-layer design methodology is described, followed by an analysis of the temporal properties of the studied WCS in terms of DMR. Then the CLAFS scheme is presented along with relevant algorithms. Section 4 presents the event-driven invocation mechanism for the feedback scheduler. In Section 5 the effectiveness of the proposed approach is validated by simulations highlighting its advantages. Finally, Section 6 concludes with discussions on possible extensions over the proposed approach.
Consider a WCS shown in
In the context of wireless control, there are basically two classes of deadline misses. The first class is that the sample data or the control command is truly lost during the course of transmission due to bit errors, noise interference, low received signal strengths, etc. In contrast, in the second class of deadline misses, the control command is actually received by the actuator, but the communication delay exceeds the deadline, which equals the sampling period.
IEEE 802.11b protocol [
In IEEE 802.11, each node senses the medium before starting a transmission. If the medium is idle for at least a DCF interframe space (DIFS), the packet is transmitted immediately. If the medium is sensed busy, the node waits for the end of the current transmission and then starts the contention, also called backoff process. The node selects a random backoff time. During the backoff process, the backoff timer is decremented in terms of slot time as long as the medium is idle. When the medium is busy, the timer is frozen. When its backoff timer expires, if the network is still idle, the data packet is sent out. The node having the shortest contention delay wins and transmits its packet. The other nodes just wait for the next contention. If another collision occurs, a new backoff time is chosen and the backoff procedure starts over again until some time limit is exceeded.
There are three identical control loops in the WCS, i.e.
The controllers use the PID (Proportional-Integral-Derivative) control law with a continuous-time form
Due to node movement, the communication distance between the controller and the process (where the sensor and the actuator are attached) may change during runtime. According to the properties of wireless signal transmission, the received signal strengths drop with increasing communication distances. When the signal-to-noise ratio of the received signals is below a certain level, IEEE 802.11b will make the trade-off between speed and communication reliability by reducing the transmission rate, for example, from the usual maximum value of 11 to 5.5, 2, or even 1 Mb/s [
Apart from the changes in channel capacity, another problem that needs to be addressed is the effect of noise interference on QoC. In the subsequent sections, a general solution for these problems will be proposed and validated, while using this case as an illustrative example.
To enable wireless control in dynamic environments, the feedback scheduling technology is adopted. It has been shown that feedback scheduling is quite promising in managing uncertainties in resource availability [
The design of wireless networks is often based on a layered network protocol stack, and the design and operation of different network layers are separated. As shown in
When the system operates under dynamic environments, the timing properties of WLAN may vary with different physical layer parameters, which influence in turn the performance of the control systems at the application layer. To maximize QoC, it is necessary to take advantage of dynamic interactions between the physical layer and the application layer. Cross-layer design should be exploited to achieve application adaptation [
In this paper, the sampling periods of control loops are chosen as the parameters of the application layer. The main reason behind this choice is that the sampling periods influence not only the QoC but also the workload on the network, which affects the communication delay and the DMR. In a sense, the DMR can be regarded as an indicator for link quality associated with the physical layer. Since the transmission rate may change at runtime, it naturally becomes another parameter at the physical layer. Consequently, the basic role of feedback scheduling that exploits cross-layer design is to adjust the sampling periods of control systems at the application layer based on information about DMR and transmission rate from the physical layer.
In wireless networked systems, a straightforward design objective of feedback scheduling is to control the DMR at a desired level. Since WLAN does not support non-destructive communication protocols, it is impossible to analyse the system schedulability for WCSs. Therefore, the network utilization is not a suitable choice for the controlled variable for feedback scheduling. Without loss of generality, the DMR of all control loops is used as the controlled variable of the feedback scheduling system. Actually, because WLAN employs a MAC protocol featuring random medium access, the DMR of control loops also reflects the level of DMR of interfering signals.
Before designing the feedback scheduling algorithm, the temporal behaviour of WLAN in terms of DMR needs to be studied. In the following, the effects of the transmission rate
Assume that there is no interfering signal in the system shown in
Since the three control loops in the system are completely identical, every change in sampling period shown in
When the sampling period is relatively small, the network traffic is heavy, resulting in frequent collisions among communication nodes. As a result, the communication delay of a data packet may become large, even go beyond the deadline, or the data packet may be dropped due to too many retransmission attempts. In such situations, the DMR will be large. Enlarging the sampling period can reduce the DMR. The reasons behind can be explained as follows.
Firstly, the increase of sampling period reduces the amount of network traffic and hence the probability of node collisions. Consequently, the communication delay of data packets decreases on average, and the possibility of data packets being dropped also decreases thanks to the reduction in the number of retransmission attempts. Secondly, as the sampling period increases, the deadlines of data packets to be transmitted increase accordingly. Consequently, longer communication delays are allowed. Both of these effects result in reduced DMRs.
Firstly, the increase of sampling period reduces the amount of network traffic and hence the probability of node collisions. Consequently, the communication delay of data packets decreases on average, and the possibility of data packets being dropped also decreases thanks to the reduction in the number of retransmission attempts.
Secondly, as the sampling period increases, the deadlines of data packets to be transmitted increase accordingly. Consequently, longer communication delays are allowed. Both of these effects result in reduced DMRs.
Comparing the results for
From the above analysis, the basic idea of feedback scheduling of WCSs can be stated as follows: with the goal of maximizing QoC, dynamically adjust the sampling periods of control loops to maintain the DMR at a desired level. From the control perspective, lower DMRs are always better. Therefore, large sampling periods should be used to avoid deadline misses.
However, it is not easy to completely avoid deadline misses in a typical wireless environment. As also shown in
Within the framework of feedback scheduling, we use a simple proportional control algorithm to adjust the sampling period:
In the above algorithm, the proportional coefficient
As shown in
In this work, a simple yet illustrative algorithm given by (4) is used to adapt
Besides the above equation, there are other advanced algorithms that could potentially be more efficient in adjusting
For a given control system, the effects of sampling period and DMR on QoC are deterministic, while the DMR is related to the sampling period. Therefore, for a given system setup, there exists an optimal operating point, say (
Suppose the point A(
Based on this observation, we propose to adapt the DMR setpoint to different transmission rates. The setpoints used in this paper are simply set to:
Since only two cases, i.e.
Feedback schedulers are usually time triggered. An obvious advantage of this mode is that it makes it convenient to design and analyse the feedback schedulers using feedback control theory and techniques. In wireless environments where the environmental changes including noise interference and node movement are irregular and bursty, however, it could be very difficult to choose an appropriate invocation interval for time-triggered feedback schedulers.
On one hand, the invocation interval cannot be set too small because accurate DMRs would be impossible to obtain. Therefore, the feedback scheduler with a large invocation interval will not be capable of coping with, in a timely fashion, interference and node movement that occur between two consecutive invocation instants. On the other hand, when a relatively small invocation interval is used, it is possible that the system stays in steady state for quite a long time, when there is actually no need for sampling period adjustment. In this situation, time-triggered feedback schedulers could potentially waste resources in periodic execution of feedback scheduling algorithms and unnecessary update of system parameters.
To address this problem, an event-triggered invocation mechanism is proposed to improve the efficiency of feedback schedulers. Discussed below is how to implement this mechanism.
The schematic diagram of the event-triggered invocation mechanism is depicted in
The design of the event detector is a key issue for implementing the event-triggered invocation mechanism. The major role of the event detector is to decide under what conditions the system needs to execute the feedback scheduling algorithm. Intuitively, when the DMR is in or close to a steady state, there is no need to execute the feedback scheduling algorithm. If the DMR deviates significantly from the desired level, it becomes mandatory to run the feedback scheduler to adjust system parameters. In this paper the following condition is used for issuing the
According to
There are two important parameters,
To evaluate the performance of the proposed event-triggered CLAFS scheme, this section conducts simulation studies for the case given in Section 2 using Matlab along with the TrueTime toolbox [ Scenario I: The controller and the process are close to each other, WLAN operates at 11 Mbps, there is no interfering signals, Scenario II: Due to increased distance between the controller and the process, the transmission rate drops to 5.5 Mbps, the interfering transmitter sends a data packet of 1 KB to the corresponding receiver every 10 ms,
Scenario I: The controller and the process are close to each other, WLAN operates at 11 Mbps, there is no interfering signals,
Scenario II: Due to increased distance between the controller and the process, the transmission rate drops to 5.5 Mbps, the interfering transmitter sends a data packet of 1 KB to the corresponding receiver every 10 ms,
It can be seen that different
Some parameters used in the simulations are as follows: the nominal sampling period
In the first set of simulations, the proposed CLAFS method and the traditional design method without any feedback schedulers (denoted Non-FS) are compared. Since the three control loops are identical and WLAN adopts a random medium access control mechanism without distinguishing between them, all loops are equivalent in principle. Therefore, only the responses of one control loop are given below.
The sampling periods and the DMRs under different schemes are shown in
As can be seen from
Under Scenario II, CLAFS successfully avoids high DMRs by increasing the sampling periods gradually. After a transient process, the DMR keeps around the setpoint 10%. It can be seen that both the sampling periods and the DMR increase on average under Scenario II relative to Scenario I, which may have some negative effects on the QoC. Consequently, the QoC is slightly worse in Scenario II than in Scenario I, as shown in
The above simulation results show that the proposed CLAFS scheme is able to effectively attack the problem of transmission rate changes and ambient noise interference, thus improving the quality of control of the whole system.
In the second set of simulations, the performance of event-triggered and time-triggered CLAFS methods is compared. To facilitate comparisons with the event-triggered scheme simulated in the first set of experiments, the invocation interval for the time-triggered feedback scheduler is set as
The sampling periods and the DMRs for the system using time-triggered CLAFS are presented in
To this point only the QoC is examined, which is
The above results show that the proposed event-triggered invocation mechanism yields significant reduction in feedback scheduling overheads while providing comparable feedback scheduling performance, thus improving the efficiency of the CLAFS scheme. Furthermore, by simply selecting a smaller
This paper deals with dynamic management of the communication resources in WCSs. A cross-layer adaptive feedback scheduling scheme, which features co-design of real-time control and wireless communications, has been developed. With this scheme, the effects of noise interference and changes in link capacity on QoC can be addressed effectively, thus enabling wireless control in dynamic and uncertain environments. To avoid the difficulty of time-triggered invocation in making trade-offs between response speed and overhead in wireless environments, an event-triggered invocation mechanism has also been proposed, which improves the practical performance of feedback scheduling.
The proposed scheme could be extended in several aspects. One possibility is generalizing the cross-layer design framework. For example, in order to take into account the effect of different MAC protocols, the MAC sub-layer may be included in the framework. In cases where the energy consumption of the nodes is a concern, physical-layer parameters such as the transmit power may be made available for other upper layers. Another possibility is improving the adaptive feedback scheduling algorithm. Given that the behaviour of the wireless network with respect to deadline miss ratio could be modelled with sufficient accuracy, for instance, it is possible to obtain analytically an optimized adaptive feedback scheduling algorithm using relevant control theory and techniques.
Our future work in this direction includes development of an experiment system for WCSs over WLAN, which will be used to assess the performance of the proposed scheme with more extensive results. Another topic is to conduct theoretical stability analysis of WCSs that employ the proposed feedback scheduling scheme.
The first author would like to thank Prof Yu-Chu Tian at QUT, Australia, for valuable suggestions. This work is supported in part by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant No. 20070420232, Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60474064 and 60704024, Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. Y107476, Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu under Grant No. BK2006573, and Australian Research Council (ARC) under Discovery Projects Grant No. DP0559111.
Architecture of a wireless control system.
Cross-layer design framework for wireless control systems.
Deadline miss ratio of the wireless control system.
Schematic diagram for adapting deadline miss ratio setpoint.
Pseudo code for cross-layer adaptive feedback scheduling.
Schematic diagram of event-triggered invocation.
Control performance without feedback scheduling.
Control performance with CLAFS.
Sampling periods.
Deadline miss ratio.
Control performance with time-triggered feedback scheduling.
Sampling periods and deadline miss ratio for time-triggered feedback scheduling.
Comparison of event-triggered and time-triggered invocations.
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Even when fully complying with federal clean-air laws, refineries are nasty operations, spewing tons of hazardous pollutants into the air of neighboring communities. But under a regulatory loophole, refineries, chemical plants and other industrial facilities have been allowed to pollute even more during an equipment malfunction, or when shutting down and starting back up following a malfunction.
Why is it not surprising to learn that some of the nation's most notoriously dirty facilities evade clean air law by claiming that they are in startup, shutdown, or malfunction mode much of the time?
Excess emissions occur routinely at industrial facilities throughout the country, according to a report by the Environmental Integrity Project. In the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington, residents report seeing the tell-tale signs of refinery malfunctions—gas flares and billowing smoke—at the area's four refineries on a nearly weekly basis.
In September 2005 and again last October, a power outage caused pollution and safety controls to fail at three Wilmington-area refineries, blanketing the neighborhood in black and yellow smoke. In Texas, one of the few states that tracks these emissions, 30 refineries reported releasing 45 million pounds of pollutants in one year during malfunction, shutdown and startup.
Not any more. A federal appeals court has just ruled, in a suit brought by Earthjustice against the Environmental Protection Agency, that refineries must meet the standards of the Clean Air Act all the time, not just under "normal" operating conditions.
Wilmington residents and those in our neighboring refinery communities are elated that the court has agreed that polluting industries should be held accountable for their environmental and public health impacts," said Jesse Marquez, executive director of the Wilmington-based Coalition for a Safe Environment.
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Hello Fatima
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How old are the two of you?
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How far is Balckburn from your family?
Who is this friend he wants to move near? Why does he want to move near a childhood friend instead of staying close to family?
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Was he acting badly toward you before marriage?
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I am sorry for what you are going through, and I would urge you to remember that it's not only important that we love someone, but that they love us back. Emotional abuse tends to lead to physical abuse and as you are not a child, there is really no reason for him to be yelling and calling you names.
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Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are naturally-occurring molecules that exhibit strong antibiotic properties against numerous infectious bacterial strains. Because of their unique mechanism of action, they have been touted as a potential source for novel antibiotic drugs. We present a summary of computational investigations in our lab aimed at understanding this unique mechanism of action, in particular the development of models that provide a quantitative connection between molecular-level biophysical phenomena and relevant biological effects. Our work is focused on protegrins, a potent class of AMPs that attack bacteria by associating with the bacterial membrane and forming transmembrane pores that facilitate the unrestricted transport of ions. Using fully atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, we have computed the thermodynamics of peptide-membrane association and insertion, as well as peptide aggregation. We also present a multi-scale analysis of the ion transport properties of protegrin pores, ranging from atomistic molecular dynamics simulations to mesoscale continuum models of single-pore electrodiffusion to models of transient ion transport from bacterial cells. Overall, this work provides a quantitative mechanistic description of the mechanism of action of protegrin antimicrobial peptides across multiple length and time scales.
The prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has emerged as a major global public health crisis [
In order to provide a detailed analysis of the AMP mechanism of action, we have focused our efforts on protegrin, a particularly potent peptide initially isolated in pigs [
In a recent review [
The study of protein-membrane systems by experimental techniques is cumbersome due to the extremely fast time scales and small length scales of the relevant physical phenomena. To address these shortcomings, we have carried out molecular dynamics (MD) simulations coupled to free energy simulation techniques to compute various potentials of mean force (PMFs) relevant to protegrin membrane association. These simulations consist of fully atomistic representations of solvated peptide-membrane systems, in which different reaction coordinates are constrained. In the case of peptide adsorption, the relevant reaction coordinate is simply the distance between the peptide and the membrane; the resulting PMF represents the free energy of the system as a function of this distance. The details of these methods are largely omitted here, and the interested reader is referred to [
These and similar results provide the most detailed quantitative measure of these distinct membrane-association processes available to date. Clearly, we can infer that monomer and dimer adsorption are both favorable, with free energies of adsorption of approximately −2.5 kcal/mol and −4.5 kcal/mol, respectively. Further analysis of the PMFs showed that adsorption is driven largely by the entropy gain associated with counterion release from the membrane [
In order to relate the PMF data above to more intuitive physical quantities, we have devised a simple statistical-mechanical model to calculate membrane adsorption and insertion isotherms of PG-1. We are interested in computing the equilibrium concentrations of the various membrane-associated states of protegrin: The bulk concentrations of monomers (
The superscript
As already mentioned, we have only recently computed the PMF of insertion. We therefore also present results where the insertion free energy is left as a free parameter (
At free energies of −4 kcal/mol, inserted dimers, surface-bound dimers and inserted monomers are all present in comparable amounts. With only a slight decrease in the insertion free energy to −5 kcal/mol, inserted dimers become the dominant state. In
Not surprisingly, inserted dimers completely dominate the isotherms, and the high surface density leads to almost complete saturation due to crowding effects. Although rudimentary in their treatment, these models offer a novel perspective on the key membrane association steps in the action of protegrin, from molecular-level thermodynamics to macroscopically relevant quantities such as adsorption isotherms.
In this section, we turn our attention to protegrin transmembrane pores, the structural units responsible for the antimicrobial properties of protegrins, as well as many other AMPs [
Our first foray into the investigation of these structures consisted of fully atomistic MD simulations of an octameric protegrin pore embedded in a lipid bilayer [
Based on the results of our MD simulations, we conjectured that the unrestricted transport of ions facilitated by protegrin pores would disrupt the transmembrane potential of bacteria, resulting in cell death. To investigate this point further, we first devised and implemented a modeling strategy to compute the single-channel conductance properties of protegrin pores. Our goal was to provide a quantitative connection between earlier patch clamp experiments by Sokolov
In order to circumvent the computational difficulties associated with nonequilibrium MD simulations, we employed a continuum transport theory known as the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations [
The flat portion of the experimental I-V curve suggests a voltage-dependent gating, wherein the protegrin pore collapses at positive voltages. Since our model assumes the pore to be a rigid boundary for the PNP equations, we cannot capture this. However, as long as the pore is open, the match in the slopes of the two curves, which is equivalent to conductance, is excellent. This work further corroborates the structure of protegrin pores, and offers a direct quantitative connection between ion transport properties and atomistic-level structural features of the pore.
Our success in modeling the single-channel conductance of protegrin pores led us to ask what the effects of such pores would be on an entire cell. Using the single-pore conductance obtained from our PNP model, we have constructed a larger scale model that yields the time-dependent ion concentration in bacterial cells [
One important remaining question is related to the structure of lipids around the protegrin pore. Determining the structure of lipid bilayers is an important determinant of activity and specificity of protegrins. These antimicrobial peptides are known to be active against Gram negative bacteria but not so active against Gram positive bacteria. A hypothesis is that the lipid membranes of various bacteria have different compositions of lipid molecules that result in different energies for pore formation. In
The current knowledge of the mechanism of action of protegrin, while more expansive than for almost any other AMP, still lacks a quantitative, physics-based perspective. In particular, while biophysical studies have isolated and elucidated several important phenomena (e.g., membrane association, dimer formation, pore formation, ion conduction), few attempts have been made to provide a unified analysis that connects these different important aspects of the protegrin mechanism of action. The multiscale analysis presented herein makes a number of significant contributions to the current understanding of this mechanism of action. We hope that this work stands as proof of the usefulness of quantitative, physics-based approaches in the investigation of complex biological systems, particularly in their ability to connect distinct but coupled phenomena across disparate time and length scales.
This work was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (GM 070989). Computational support from the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also partially supported by National Computational Science Alliance under TG-MCA04N033 and utilized the TeraGrid Cluster.
The proposed mechanism of action of Protegrin 1. Peptides (depicted in red ribbons, with the two disulfide bonds shown as yellow sticks) adsorb to the membrane surface (
PMFs of adsorption for protegrin monomers and dimers on 1:3 POPE:POPG lipid bilayers. D is the separation distance between the PG-1 center of mass and the phosphate plane of the upper leaflet of the membrane. From [
Membrane association isotherms for insertion free energies of −4 kcal/mol (
Membrane association isotherm for monomers and dimers based on the free energy of insertion computed from MD simulations (corresponding to
Snapshot from molecular dynamics simulations of an antimicrobial peptide pore (peptides are shown in green) inside a cell membrane (lipid headgroups are shown in red and lipid acyl chains in gray). When a pore is formed, vital sodium and chloride ions (blue and red spheres) move in and out of cells too fast for bacteria to respond, leading to cell death. Computer simulations can provide structural and dynamic information of the relevant transport phenomena impossible to achieve with current experimental methods.
Current-voltage relationship of a protegrin pore.
The different models of lipid topologies surrounding the PG-1 transmembrane pore. (


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OTTAWA -- An RCMP allegation Sen. Mike Duffy awarded $65,000 in Senate contracts to a friend who did little actual work is the latest twist in the case of the embattled former Conservative.
The Mounties filed a production order in an Ottawa court on Tuesday to gain access to bank-account records related to the allegation. They are looking at new allegations of fraud and breach of trust against Duffy based on fresh findings.
"That investigation determined that Sen. Duffy hired a friend as a consultant over an approximate four-year period and paid him a total of approximately $65,000 during that time, for little or no apparent work," wrote Cpl. Greg Horton, the lead investigator.
'That investigation determined that Sen. Duffy hired a friend as a consultant over an approximate four-year period and paid him a total of approximately $65,000 during that time, for little or no apparent work'-- RCMP Cpl. Greg Horton, in a court request for access to bank records
Duffy said in an email it would be "inappropriate for me to comment while these matters are being examined by the RCMP." No charges have been laid against Duffy.
Police had been building their case against Duffy using Senate documents obtained previously from the upper chamber. Initially, they scrutinized his housing and travel expenses and the $90,000 the prime minister's former chief of staff gave him to repay questioned expense claims.
But while a auditor was sifting through those papers, he flagged a series of payments to Duffy friend, Gerald Donahue, a former TV technician. The money represented 57 per cent of Duffy's general Senate office expenses.
Between 2009 and 2012, Duffy asked the Senate to pay Donahue for a range of writing services including speeches, advice on web-page design and development and general media consulting.
But Donahue told police he didn't do any writing and never produced any tangible document, report or work product and never worked on the website.
His company also didn't have any other employees, even though Duffy once told the Senate Donahue had brought in "additional staff."
"The work he performed for Duffy was limited to research and verbal advice," says the police report of an interview, adding it was Duffy who devised a $200-an-hour "inflated" payment.
The RCMP point out Donahue was a TV technician for most of his working life, with no consulting experience.
Donahue told police he didn't personally get the money. He said he has been on disability and so could not receive such income. His company, Maple Ridge Media Inc. (later Ottawa ICF), was under his wife's name.
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said the latest allegations demonstrate yet again why he believes the "unelected, unaccountable and under indictment" Senate needs to be abolished.
"Sixty-five thousand dollars is more money than most Canadian families earn in a year," he said.
"It's treated like chump change by senators who are unaccountable and unelected and it's a scandal... What else has been going on in the Senate? That's what Canadians want to know."
The Mounties are also seeking bank records for Sen. Patrick Brazeau, another former member of the Conservative caucus, in connection with disallowed housing claims.
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July 4, 2006
Carnival of Liberty LII — The Anniversary Edition
One year ago, the libertarian end of the blogosphere was reeling from the Kelo decision. While the decision wasn't that big of a step to expand precedent, it's significance was clear: your property is no longer yours, and the government will take it any time they think there's a better use for it.
A few days later, the Life, Liberty, and Property blog community was born. Started by a small group of bloggers irate over one Supreme Court decision, the community has now bloomed. Now boasting nearly 150 members, it serves as one of the core forces in the blogosphere for mobilizing libertarians to act on issues affecting us. Perhaps Kelo may be our Stamp Act, and the egregious violation of what our entire country perceives as essential liberties will result in us gaining the strength to win those liberties back.
Shortly after the formation of the LLP community, we asked ourselves what more we could do to bring attention to the constant battles between freedom and government. At the time, we suggested hosting a blog Carnival, a place where each week's best liberty-oriented posts would be collected. I was given the honor of hosting the first Carnival of Liberty, which we aptly posted on Independence day. I have again been given the honor of posting the anniversary edition. Kelo may have slipped below the radar, but the battles for liberty rage on, as we saw our Senate debating whether or not to take our rights to freedom of speech just last week. The anti-liberty forces have taken no rest, and thus we must not either.
I would like to take a moment to thank Eric and Quincy, without whom the LLP community would never have gotten off the ground. Unfortunately for us (although not for him), Eric had to stop blogging due to a grand new career. Quincy, too, has largely stopped blogging, although I've seen him leaving comments here or there. Thankfully, though, Doug has taken over the reins, and the LLP group is stronger than ever.
So without further ado, it's time to light this firecracker!
First, some shameless self-promotion. Last week, Doug highlighted one of of my posts in his presentation of the Carnival. That post was part 1 of 2, and part 2 is here: The Legitimacy of Government.
Next, I'm going to do the same as Doug. I had intended to follow strict chronological order with the posts, but this one deserved more. Matt Barr over at New World Man has a post titled Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor. I can honestly say that after 20-odd postings, this one hit me right between the eyes. I've been thinking a lot recently about what the Founders really did. And about what I'm doing in life, now that I'm approaching 30. Apparently, Matt's been thinking about the same things. It makes you wonder, what drives your life? The Founders had something, do you?
This really tells us why the Declaration should be celebrated as having the effect of independence without a treaty or a Constitution or whathaveyou. Better men than we pledged everything they had — a not inconsiderable amount of stuff, by the way — to the cause of indepenedence. Their fortunes, their honor, and really, their lives were forfeit if it didn't work out. If we can look ahead 15 years and see an actual nation with a Constitution and a bicameral Congress and a President and all that, it's because those men committed themselves to the cause on July 4th.
What cause have you committed yourself to lately? Immigration reform? Painting the map red? Supporting the emasculation of an Islamic jihad network? Peanuts. Make something, something that squares with and exalts the dignity of man, that makes generations, hundreds of millions, free and prosperous; and say that if you destroy this, you destroy me. Then you're on the right track.
hell's handmaiden gives us Shooting the Cat… yet again. It does appear, though, that no cats were harmed in the making of a wonderful post defending freedom for the sake of freedom:
Free people pay a price. Freedom demands it. A guilded cage is immensely safe. But those inside it are not free. A totalitarian system– xenophobic, locked away from the outside– can provide impressive protection for its people, but that protection is only from outside forces. That protection is not of liberties and there is no protection from government itself, which, if one recalls history, was a primary concern of our founders.
The Debt Free blog examines the issue of the United Nations gun-grabbing proclivities, in Should the United Nations Determine Your Civil Rights? Even if you're for gun control, ask yourself if you want to accept that at the price of giving your freedom to the boys at Turtle Bay:
However, if you examine the big picture, you will come to the realization your personal feelings vis-a-vis the 2nd Amendment are missing the broader issue. The issue is weather or not we, as U.S. citizens, want unelected representatives of other nations deciding our fate in any measure.
Unwilling Self-Negation gives us an interesting piece of satire titled My Name is Aliya Ehteram & I am an Adulteress. I believe this is what is meant by the "honor" of being a Muslim woman?
Stephen Littau of Fearless Philosophy for Free Minds, who was one of the first LLP members after Kelo, gives us The State of Property Rights One Year Later. Unfortunately, it's not that good. There are positive signs, but it is clear that government doesn't want to give up this power.
Francois at The Radical Libertarian gives us the "What If" Disease. Francois is a market anarchist (about as radical as a libertarian can get), and takes on several of the statist criticisms of anarchy, which fall under the "what if?" category:
In short, the error of the statist arguments discussed above lie in their confusion between the state and agencies in a market anarchy. In a market anarchy, there can be no such thing as a state by definition. Individuals in a market anarchy, therefore, are subject to extremely different incentives, ones which are based on personal freedom and responsibility. This means that the total depravity and irresponsibility or the state cannot be imputed to such individuals.
One Man Bandwidth exposes the insanity of a still-unfree society in THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A PUBLIC EXECUTION TO START OFF AN EDUCATIONAL EVENT IN CHINA. I can't say it any better than this:
Dave reports, via a Shanghai newspaper, that three drug dealers were executed yesterday after hearing their sentences read out in front of 1,300 Shanghai residents who were invited to a university campus to witness an object lesson on the ills of narcotics: Remember! Drugs don't kill people, drug enforcement agents kill people.
Mensa Barbie interviews George Washington in The Interview: "Father of our Country". The fact that we libertarians often need only revive the words of the Founding Fathers to construct an argument about modern issues shows just how forward-thinking those men were.
Dan Melson of Searchlight Crusade, who works in real estate, gives us another look at eminent domain in Kelo: One Year Later. With his knowledge of the real estate business, it puts into much better perspective just how badly the ordinary citizen gets screwed in the eminent domain game, and offers his suggestion on how to fix it:
Indeed, the point of this is to make it worthwhile for the condemning agency (or developer) to offer a good price for a voluntary sale. If they're paying legal and evaluation expenses for both sides, not to mention employee time tracking and coordinating and documenting the necessity, and because of this, the suit's victim can stop them from getting the property on the cheap, it becomes the most cost effective thing to do to offer a price where the owner will want to sell – voluntarily – in the first place.
Peter Porcupine takes aim at the writers for the man in tights with Truth, Justice, and the American Way. While Superman is now fighting for "all that stuff", rather than the American Way, Peter Porcupine, explains cynically why that just might be appropriate:
So by all means, let's bring our children to see another voice mocking the once noble ideal of Truth, Justice and 'all that stuff'. Let us instill them at the earliest age possible with a sense of shame and stamp out any patriotism that they may feel. After all, that is the new American Way.
Sonja at The Atlantic Review tells us how folks are Importing the American Spirit of Civic Responsibility to Germany. While some view America as the haven for dog-eat-dog capitalism, others are starting to realize that we have a civic society, and in many cases without government support:
Defying traditional European prejudices, American society is not based purely on the survival of the fittest. Quite on the contrary: public engagement here is much more common, volunteer services for the underprivileged are diverse and creative, and public-private partnerships usually work more smoothly than in my home country. The Körber Foundation in Hamburg has set their minds on importing this spirit of civic responsibility to Germany with their competition called USable. Every round, overall prize money of $180,000 is awarded to good ideas and best practices people have picked up in the U.S. to be realized in Germany, too. There is also a special text competition.
Michael Hampton of the Homeland Stupidity blog explains how the Surgeon General clouds tobacco smoke issue. It appears that the actual report didn't ever claim secondhand smoke to be anywhere near as dangerous as the Surgeon General claimed in his press conference. But since most people only read what the news media reports, it's unclear whether he'll get away with it. Michael does bring up a very important point, much like the statement that conventional wisdom is often wrong:
In his speech, Carmona spoke of the "scientific consensus†regarding secondhand smoke. Yet there is no such thing as scientific consensus. When someone says that phrase, they're about to lie to you. Science does not work by consensus. It works by experiment. Either a hypothesis can be demonstrated to be true, or demonstrated to be false, or when neither is the case, more research is needed.
Jon Swift, in an beautiful display of snarkiness, suggests that we Declare Supreme Court Justices Enemy Combatants. After all, since some folks believe Bush can unilaterally declare people as enemy combatants, with no judicial oversight, where's the problem. And if he does, how can these justices fight it?
Undoubtedly, these terrorist-sympathizing Justices will go to court in an attempt to fight being designated enemy combatants. But if the case makes its way up the Supreme Court, they will be forced to recuse themselves, allowing for the other four justices to uphold the ruling. Then these justices can be taken to Guantanamo or an undisclosed location and held until hostilities have ended; that is, when terrorism has been completely eliminated from the face of the Earth.
Lisa of The London Fog has submitted four posts this week. The New Truth Replaces the Old Truth, again, "They aren't engineering society to anybody's benefit" but their own, A Course In Miracles, and Publik edyoocashun.
Likewise, RG Combs of Combs Spouts Off has submitted two posts this week. First, he asks what might have happened: Financial privacy: what would Kerry do? It seems that the financial monitoring Kerry advocates is far stricter than those Bush implemented. Yet Bush is accused of violating civil liberties. Would the accusations come if Kerry were in office? Second, he points out that Reading Hamdan: now, that's torture. It appears that it's 185 pages of twisted logic. Which, with the house of cards our "living constitution" jurisprudence has become, isn't a surprise.
Principled Discovery gives us a story about Something to Be Proud of. Not all occupations are identical, and sometimes the threat we protect people from is much greater than the threat they feel we bring:
But the summer of 1994 was the first time I remember feeling a strong sense of pride at my national heritage and the principles upon which our nation was founded. I was in a small suburb of West Berlin, just a brief walk from where the Berlin wall once stood. I opened up the Berliner Zeitung to find a full page spread thanking the American miitary as they prepared to withdraw from the American quadrant. America's military presence had been continuous and visible since 1945, but we had never treated Germany like an occupied country. The harrassment, violence and even rape suffered by East Germans at the hands of the Soviet Union was unheard of in the American sector. Heartfelt memories of the Berlin airlift were shared. My friend's parents told me of their fear when the Soviet Union first closed off Berlin. And tears welled in their eyes as they told of the arrival of the first packages. As America, an occupying military force, prepared its withdrawal, the people of Berlin thanked us for establishing and preserving their own liberty.
Doug of Below the Beltway, following up on several posts about the Flag, free speech, and flag-burning, and points out Congress's Next Victim: Our Right To Contract. Congress wants to blast a hole in the ability of Homeowner's associations from setting rules, in this case requiring an HOA to allow you to display a flag.
Over at the Liberty Corner, Tom Anger spends a little time Parsing the Vote on the "Flag Burning Amendment". He wonders why it is that those 34 nay votes really chose to protect free speech. A few, he says, are clear, but quite a few may be motivated more by the desire to see flags burned than the desire to allow freedom of speech. Can you guess which ones?
I'm sure that many of the Democrats voted nay for the same valid reason as that of Senators Bennett and McConnell. But many others, I am equally certain, voted the way they did for one or both of these reasons:
—They can no longer find it in themselves to believe that America, in spite of its faults and mistakes, is better than its enemies.
—Their partisanship so consumes them that they oppose the Republican president's efforts to defend America — of which the flag is a reminder.
I won't name names. That's an exercise for the reader.
In a post over at The Liberty Papers, I announced the opening of Brad's Smoking and Bare-Knuckle Boxing Emporium!. I argued that when entering into private agreements on private property, some things that would be violate rights in the outside world become acceptable. I use this as a defense against the pro-smoking-ban crowd claiming injury on private property from cigarette use.
I think there's another problem with that analogy. To go on with the "your right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my noseâ€, what if I wanted to start my own little "Fight Clubâ€. I buy a little store, set up a boxing ring, and everyone who wants can come in and get into a fistfight.
Assault is illegal. But if I have consenting adults fighting in my ring, are anyones rights being violated? And if so, how is the sport of boxing (or football, or any other contact sport) any different? It's true, it might not be knife-throwing, but I think there's undoubtedly be the occasional injury in my "Fight Clubâ€. And the normal rules, if I remember the movie correctly, is that you come to "Fight Clubâ€, you fight; there are no spectators.
TF Stern reminds us of several unsung verses of the national anthem in his post First Verse Only, Please. While I'm not a believer, I agree with TF that the effort to "cleanse" our history of any mention of Christianity is not useful for anyone. TF brings up the "separation of church and state", which he points out does not exist in our Constitution:
The separation of church and state which has been spoken of so forcefully by those who would deny our history is a stone wall being erected by those ungrateful reprobates who would deny our Father in Heaven credit for having established this great land, the author of liberty; it's the stone wall in their hearts and minds, not one that is in the Constitution of the United States of America.
Carola over at deep qt has fled the urban for the suburban, and responds to those who thinks she lost her soul in the process with O My Suburbia. Without thinking she's been replaced by a drone from the pod she mentioned, I'll let her explain:
But sometimes, when I sit on the porch and watch the joggers, kids on bikes and old people out for strolls with equally old dogs, I shudder to think how sedentary and unhealthy demon Kar has made suburbanites. Take me for instance. Kar now carries me to my favorite supermarket. A local outlet of a vile mega chain. It's several miles away and features a large stock and low prices. In urban days I shopped at another store with similar advantages. It too was several miles away. But then I walked or used public transportation. How I miss those bracing hikes through rough terrain with arms full of grocery bags. Made more exciting by the chance that the bottom of a bag might drop out. Who knew what might explode on the sidewalk and mingle with the existing impasto? A quart of milk? A jar of jam?
Doug, writing at The Liberty Papers, asks whether Thomas Jefferson was wrong, and that it is Mitt Romney who really knows The Source of Our Rights? You see, Romney said that rights are determined by majority rule. I guess that makes slavery alright, as long as enough people vote for it, right? Funny, though, both Doug and Jefferson might disagree:
If there is one idea fundamental to the American Republic, it is the idea that individual liberty derives not from the will of the majority — whether that be the majority of the people of the Commonwealth of Massachusettes or a majority of the members of the Supreme Court — but is an inherent part of who we are. Individual rights do not need to be recognized by the state to exist, they exist because we are free human beings and if the state fails to recognize them it is the oppressor.
Tom Wright at the Wrightwing also takes on the Flag Burning debate. He pointed out the two previous times the constitution was used to deny rights, rather than protect them: the three-fifths compromise and the 18th Amendment:
Both of these attempts to restrict rights through the Constitution led to violence and death. It could be argued that Prohibition still does, through the never abandoned idea that simply banning something potentially harmful, can make society all better.
And last, but most certainly not least, The Bull Speaks provides his birthday wishes to the nation on July 4, 2006. It's an apt way to end the 52nd Carnival of Liberty, the one-year anniversary of its inception, and the 230th Birthday of the true land of the free:
Just like they did in the Lexington Green on April 19th, 1775, for the following eight years, and for the two centuries since, Americans have willingly fought and died for Freedom. Let us not forget that we, too, once wore the yoke of Tyranny. We threw it off at great cost. Proving that Freedom is a worthy Cause cost us much more during the years from 1861 to 1865. Liberty was tried by fire – and was proved True. In 1917 we took that Truth to Europe. Again in 1941 we went to Europe, and to the Pacific, to fight for the Freedom of Mankind. Though those wars were won, the Fight for Liberty continued in Korea, Vietnam, the long Cold War, Kuwait, and today in places like Afghanistan and Iraq. Forever Faithful, our Heroes continue to protect us and our Constitution from "All enemies, both Foreign and Domesticâ€. The Founding Fathers knew one Truth about the fight for Liberty most of us have long forgotten:
It is a fight that will never end.
Have a happy holiday, everyone. I'd point out that it's more than just grilled food and cold beer, but you already knew that. And make sure to check out Homeland Stupidity next Tuesday, where the Carnival will be hosted.
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[...] Brad Warbiany hosted the very first Carnival of Liberty on July 4, 2005, so it is only fitting that he be the host of Carnival of Liberty 52. Its been one year since the first Carnival of Liberty, and one year since the founding of the Life, Liberty & Property Community. As Brad notes, we've come a long way in both endeavours. Here's to going further in the year to come. [...]
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The 1st Anniversary Carnival of Liberty has been posted at The Unrepentant Individual: The 1-year blogiversary edition of the Carnival of Liberty is up. The fledgling carnival, along with the LLP Community, has grown from a few bloggers irate over…
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Brad Warbiany (The Unrepentant Individual) has posted the 52nd Carnival of Liberty. There are more than two dozen entries in the 52nd CoL, which also marks (slightly belatedly) the first anniversary of the Life, Liberty, Property
Brad Warbiany hosts the 1st anniversary edition of the Carnival of Liberty. Appropriate day to have such an anniversary.
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The Unrepentantindividual hosts: The 4th of July, and Special Anniversary Edition of: Carnival of Liberty LII! Wonderful posts, and geat job hosting.
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Thanks for the thanks, and the non-bloggage has been because of a failure on OLM.net's part to renew the domain name as they said they would in the original contract. I'm about to get back into it, actually, though not at quincysblog.com.
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A $36 million initiative to improve safety for WA school children, will see a flashing speed sign installed at every 40km/h school zone to remind motorists to slow down.
Each flashing sign will be installed over four years at a cost of $40,000 for each of the 928 schools that don't already have the technology said Treasurer Troy Buswell on Sunday.
Mr Buswell said the concern of road safety in school areas was one of the biggest issues raised by the community at a local level.
"These lights are an excellent way to raise drivers' awareness that they are entering a different speed zone and to make sure they slow down. The Liberal-led government has made road safety one of its top priorities," he said.
The death toll this year has been almost triple that of the same time last year, after three deaths on the weekend took the state's 2013 road toll to 25.
Minister for Road Safety Liza Harvey described the death road toll as "horrific".
"It's been nothing short of horrific - our road toll to date this year."
Ms Harvey said she felt for the families of Saturday's fatal crash in Morley which claimed the lives of three WA men and urged people to drive safely.
"Slow down, take care and drive to the conditions," she said.
"The community, the drivers out there need to slow down, they need to drive to the conditions, think about their families, and think about the consequences about getting behind the wheel in their vehicles."
Mr Buswell said the money had been allocated and would be spent to improve road safety for children, if the state government was re-elected.
"What better an outcome than to give parents' increased comfort in letting their kids walk to school," he said.
Mr Buswell said the Liberal-National government was entering into "campaign mode" as it approached the March 9 state election.
"We're winding down in government, we're starting to launch into the campaign".


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The contemporary South African university faces persistent pressure to transform in order to contribute to regional and national development. However, change (or transformation) is likely to be characterised by multiple and competing ideologies which may undermine attempts to position the university as a contributor to development. Using the notion of engagement as exemplified by development-related projects at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU), this paper seeks to establish whether there is evidence of multiple notions of engagement, whether these notions are in alignment across three system levels, and whether the development-related activities of academics are strengthening the core functions of the university. We find that there are three dominant notions of engagement at NMMU, that they are not in alignment and that, generally speaking, the development-related activities of academics cannot be said to be strengthening core activities. Given these findings, we propose that competing ideologies in a transformative context make it both difficult and necessary for the emergence of a pact to ensure coherent and consistent change towards a common goal.
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|Beyond Engagement Exploring Tensions between the Academic Core and Engagement Activities at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
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|Beyond the Apartheid University? Interrogating the transformation of the South African higher education landscape
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|National Systems and Comparative Studies
|South Africa
|Transformation, Transformation of higher education, Higher Education, Higher Education Institutions HEI s, South Africa
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Sylvie Zijlmans and Hewald Jongenelis invited ten friends in a meadow on ten consecutive days. They assembled the ten photographs of the ten meals to create a single image of a large feast. 'Ten to One' will be displayed from 28 February as a wall-sized installation.
In the installation 'Ten to One' Sylvie Zijlmans and Hewald Jongenelis present a large image of a feast. They had the guests' outfits made by a hundred different tailors in Beijing. The artists use the fact that many Western commodities are made on the other side of the world as an opportunity for a personal introduction to these tailors, who normally remain anonymous.
The exhibition is accompanied by a magazine about the project with a text by Dirk van Weelden.
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Members of the Wisconsin congressional delegation today sent a letter to the President (see below) calling for prompt consideration of the significant flood damage that has occurred in the seven additional Wisconsin counties for which Governor Doyle declared a state of emergency late last week. These are Dane, Grant, Green, Jefferson, Kenosha, Racine and Rock counties.
The letter expresses appreciation for the President's cooperation in ordering federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the counties of Crawford, La Crosse, Richland, Sauk and Vernon, and encourages timely consideration of Wisconsin's request for additional counties that have been affected by the devastating floods.
August 27, 2007
The President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
Over the past week, severe storms continued to saturate many communities in Wisconsin with record rainfall. These storms generated widespread flooding in the state and have resulted in the destruction of numerous power lines, roads and bridges. Flash flood watches continue in many areas of the state as forecasts predict more rain this week.
Over the weekend, Governor Jim Doyle declared a state of emergency in seven additional Wisconsin counties including Dane, Grant, Green, Jefferson, Kenosha, Racine and Rock. The State of Wisconsin has requested assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and is continuing to conduct site visits and assess damages this week.
Mr. President, we appreciate your cooperation in ordering federal aid to supplement the state and local recovery efforts in the counties of Crawford, La Crosse, Richland, Sauk and Vernon. We now encourage your prompt consideration of Wisconsin's request for the additional counties affected by this devastating natural disaster. Thank you in advance for your efforts on behalf of the State of Wisconsin.
Russ Feingold, Herb Kohl, Paul Ryan, Tammy Baldwin, Dave Obey, Ron Kind, Jim Sensenbrenner, Tom Petri, Steve Kagen, Gwen Moore
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Precious metals preview: Gold hits three week high
COMEX Gold is quoting around $ 1,250 per ounce in Asian trades
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COMEX Gold futures topped out around $ 1244 per ounce mark- exactly around its 50 day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) and are drifting lower now.
Precious metals preview: Gold jumps to two week highs
The commodity closed at Rs 28254 per 10 grams.
MCX Gold holds steady above Rs 28K
The counter opened with a strong gap today but intraday highs near Rs 28080 per 10 grams failed to hold on
Precious Metals Preview: Gold tests six week low
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The inaugral PDXnode meetup - my notes
- ESRI and the host, Walmart Labs, are actively coding in node - Walmart Labs is hiring to build out the node services backing walmart dot com.
- Jerry Sievert, the creator of the Bailey's Taproom hardware / software setup, presented his co-authored Terraformer node module.
- Node in the browser is a thing.
- For bison/lex like BNF grammar parsing in node check out jison.
- Grunt is awesome - the build all do all container.
- If you're consuming a node module that you're actively developing then you can either use npm link, or depend on a github branch/version via package.json.
- npm install --save is the way to easily install an npm packge and add it to your package.json.
- npm star is a fun way to appreciate a package - but you need to login for it to work apparently?
- Terraformer is an example of a single project that exports multiple node modules and uses grunt.
- Browserify is awesome but HUDE. It stops your package from being under 10k. It's suitable for large projects.
- If you don't have heavy node dependencies you can achieve the portability Browserify delivers in just 27 lines of code. See the first 27 lines of Terraformer/blob/master/dist/node/Parsers/WKT/parser.js.
- this will be the exports module or window depending on your environment.
- AppFog offered free hosting to the pdxnode.com site for the user group..
I'm not sure on the politics of this logo. I crafted it from the node pdx conference logo.
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The snarled battle between the Myrtle Tree Farm commune and Family and Children's Services appears to be over, as the father known as Isaac has been released from jail after spending time for contempt of court.
Students in Grade 7 at Coldbrook, Evangeline Middle School, Wolfville and Kingston will have the option of extended core French next year.
Brent Fox says the old DAR station in Kentville should be allowed to die in dignity. Parts of the station date back to 1869.
Wolfville native Chris Van Buskirk has been elected as the next Acadia Students' Union president.
50 years ago…
Kentville coroner H.C. Lindsay, who has served for 21 years, has presided over 500 inquests. Ten of the deaths were listed as murder.
Municipal councillor Opal Parker accompanied a delegation from seven school sections in the Gaspereau area to Halifax. They met with the Minister of Education to air their concerns about small children travelling to Avonport. They believe an eight-room school is warranted in Gaspereau.
Kentville has had water fluoridation for six years and it was the first community in the Atlantic provinces to adopt the treatment. Three studies Dr. W.G. Dawson of the health department said "it should be a source of justifiable pride to have another to add to the already long list of firsts."
Bud Chisholm was elected president of the Kings County Commercial Travellers Association, succeeding Jack Robinson.
75 years ago…
D.R. MacKinnon, who was put out of business by a fire in Wolfville, is having some difficulty finding a place in which to reopen his drug store, but hopes soon to be ready for business again.
Due to increasing demand, the Wolfville post office has added 116 new boxes, making a total of 529.
Wolfville curlers carry a one-man match margin over Kentville and Windsor into final play for the Calkin Trophy at the Glooscap Curling Club.
Canning native John R. Bigelow has been appointed as a forest products market representative for the provincial agriculture department. He is a graduate of Acadia University.


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