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Pitt coach Paul Chryst said today that Anthony Gonzalez will return to quarterback this spring after playing H-back last season under the previous coaching staff.
Gonzalez will be one of five quarterbacks on the spring roster, including incumbent Tino Sunseri, who will be a senior after making 26 starts the past two seasons.
Chryst said there will be competition at all positions, but he added, "You have guys who are really well established and they shouldn't get beat out."
Gonzalez, who will be a redshirt sophomore next season, was recruited as a quarterback in 2010 after leading Bethlehem Liberty to a PIAA Class AAAA championship in 2008.
He was moved to H-back where he caught nine passes for 58 yards as a backup. Gonzalez, 6-foot-3, 215 pounds, also played quarterback in the Wildcat formation, carrying eight times for 36 yards and a touchdown.
Chryst said he is "kind of curious" to see Gonzalez at quarterback. "But it will be hard (to get all the quarterbacks enough work in the spring). It's going to have to sort itself out a little bit. You just don't have that many reps."
Montour High School graduate E.J. Banks, who will be a junior, is moving from defensive back to quarterback — at least on a temporary basis. The other quarterbacks are freshman Trey Anderson and redshirt freshman Mark Myers.
Incoming freshman quarterback Chad Voytik won't arrive on campus until after he graduates this spring from Cleveland (Tenn.) High School.


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Hi Scott, I believe they are one in the same.
Listed in the "History and Antiquities of the Name and Family of Kilbourn, by Payne Kenyon Kilbourne, A. M.", John W. was a Brig. General and second in command, in the "Patriot War", Canada, in 1837. In another couple of sources, "The Patriot War of 1837" The Battle of the Wndmill; On the St. Lawrence River, approximately 2 km. east of Prescott, ON. "General" John Ward Birge:
This windmill structure was constructed in the 1830's as a grist mill for grinding grain. In November of 1838, it was the site of the Battle of the Windmill, fought between approximately 200 insurgents from the United States sympathetic to the 1837 Rebellions in Canada and local militia and British soldiers.
The Rebellion of 1837 in Upper Canada happened because of the political, religious, economic and social problems which had arisen with the administration of a control group called the Family Compact. The time was referred to as the "Dirty 30's".
With the defeat of the rebels, many rebel leaders such as William Lyon Mackenzie, escaped to the United States and found support for their goal of an independent, democratic and republican Canada.
A secret para-military Hunter (or Patriot) Lodge was formed, unknown to the U.S. Government. This Lodge was a band of mis-guided band of idealists who were convinced that the Mackenzie and Papineau Rebellions of the previous year had failed because the Canadian population had not organized themselves properly against the imperialistic British and their toadies in the Family Compact and Chateau Clique. The Hunters were convinced that many would flock to them and that Canada would become a sister republic of the United States. The New York Hunters, led by "General" John Ward Birge, assembled at the Lake Ontario port of Sacket's Harbour for an attack on Fort Wellington, Prescott. The British had been alerted to their activities and the reconstruction of Fort Wellington was authorized.
The Battle
On November 12th, two schooners approached Prescott with the Americans. They attempted to land at Prescott Wharf. However, the customs inspector, Alpheus Jones, sounded the alarm. The two schooners took off and one ran aground at Windmill Point. With the defection of General Birge who claimed sickness and retired to the American shore with 100 men, command now fell to Nils Von Schoultz, a Swedish-Pole, 31 years of age. He envisaged a quick victory but he would soon find out differently for he had stumbled into a hotbed of Loyalism. He could not have found a more unfriendly population.
John Ward Birge married Charlotte James in either Albany, New York or Cazenovia, Madison Co., NY (filed marriage license in Albany on 26 Jul 1831. Married in Cazenovia on July 7, 1832). Charlotte is the daughter of Capt. John James of Manlius, Onondaga County, NY. The New York Hunter Lodge was in Onondega County where John Ward Birge became the "General" of the group.
Charlotte A. James, born May 25, 1809, in Manlius, New York; baptized July 14, 1811 (Records of Christ Church, Manlius, NY); died July 31, 1864, in St. Louis, MO; married July 7, 1832 in Cazenovia, NY, to Dr. John Ward Birge of Cazenovia, NY. They lived in Utica, NY; New Orleans, LA and St. Louis, MO. No issue.
Edgar County, Illinois -- Civil War, 66th Infantry - History and Roster
This is file extracted from "The History of Edgar County, Illinois.",
published in 1879 by Wm. Le Baron, Jr. & Co. of Chicago.
An organization, known as "Birge's Sharp Shooters," was commenced at Benton Barracks, Mo., in September 1861, by John W. Birge, and eight companies collected, which was afterward known as "Western Sharp Shooters."
In the 1870 US Census, we find Physician John W. Birge:
1870 US Census, 2nd Ward, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas:
Birge, John W 63 CT Physician
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Any other sources, thoughts on John Ward Birge, welcomed.
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[MLS] Rookie Danny Mwanga scored in the seventh minute to give Philadelphia a 1-0 lead against defending champion Real Salt Lake Wednesday at
PPL Park, but an equalizer by Fabian Espindola 10 minutes later held up as the teams tied, 1-1.
Sebastien Le Toux nicely set up Mwanga's goal for his seventh assist of the season. Mwanga's goal gave him the lead among MLS rookies with six, breaking a tie with Zach Schilawski of New England. Espindola took a pass from Tony Beltran to score his fourth goal of 2010, one more than he tallied last year.
The Union (4-10-4, 16 points) is seventh in the Eastern Conference and 1-3-2 in its last six games despite playing five of them at home. RSL (10-6-4, 36 points) is second in the Western Conference, four points behind overall points leader Los Angeles.
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Energy is one of the basic necessities of human beings. With the pressures of a growing population and an increasingly energy dependent society, it is imperative to minimize energy wastage, maximize efficient usage and promote eco-friendly production practices. Currently, a large amount of energy is being wasted due to sub-optimal processes and inefficient systems being employed. This leads to significant economic losses and environmental harm. Similarly on the energy generation front there is a huge scope to generate energy in a clean and environment friendly way and make it affordable to masses.
Gamma Porite operates in clean technology domain and aims to address this concern by bringing out innovative products and introducing new practices that will help optimize energy generation and usage; thus leading to efficient energy management. We believe that the small steps we take today will go a long way in meeting energy demands of the future. The company has been incubated in Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
Why LED
LED stands for Light Emitting Diode, it is an electronic device which emits light when DC voltage is applied. LED lights are the lights for the future; they are swiftly replacing the conventional / traditional lighting solutions of the form of Incandescent, CCFL, Fluorescent & halogen lighting.
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Circulation Services and Policies
Potter Library's Circulation Desk handles the borrowing, return, and renewal of library materials including course reserves. The Circulation Desk staff can be reached at (201) 684-7575.
Students, faculty, and staff of Ramapo College have full borrowing privileges. A valid, barcoded Ramapo ID must be presented when checking out materials. Library barcodes may be obtained at the Circulation desk.
The Potter Library extends borrowing privileges to:
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- Reciprocal borrowers from the Virtual Academic Library Environment (VALE) Institutions – VALE is a statewide consortium composed of public and private institutions of higher education. As a member of the VALE Reciprocal Borrowing Program, Ramapo offers borrowing privileges to students, faculty and staff from other participating institutions. A signed "VALE Reciprocal Borrowing Application Form", available from their home library, will need to be presented at Potter Library's Circulation Desk. The patron will then be issued with a guest borrower's card, which will be valid for one academic year and will have an expiration date of June 30.
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A fine of $75.00 ($50 replacement fee and $25 processing fee) will be charged for items that are not returned 28 days after the due date. A bill will be generated on students' Office of Student Accounts accounts. Borrowing privileges will be suspended for outstanding charges of $75 or more. Transcripts and diplomas may also be held until the charges are resolved. To avoid fines please return all materials promptly.
Any questions about book charges should be directed to Kevin Prendergast, Technical Assistant, at 201-684-7579 ( email: firstname.lastname@example.com).
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Patrons who cannot find books on the shelves should ask the Circulation staff for assistance. A form (available from the Circulation Desk), should be completed in cases of missing books or when patrons claim to have returned the books that are still outstanding in their accounts. Our staff will conduct thorough searches for the book and patrons will be notified of the outcome.
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Project RISE
Rewarding initiative and overcoming employment barriers by teaching both work skills and life skills, Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania's Reentry through Industry Specific Education Project, or RISE, is a program that a nation increasingly dependent on government needs.
With 14 of its first 18 graduates employed, RISE now is recruiting its second class of students from targeted neighborhoods who have physical or mental disabilities, criminal records, low-income or low-education backgrounds or lack computer know-how. They'll receive eight to 10 weeks of free, Home Builders Institute-certified training at Goodwill's facility on Pittsburgh's South Side.
Classes in carpentry, electrical work, plumbing, brick masonry, landscaping, facilities management, painting, "green" building and weatherization take a 70-percent "hands on" approach. Equally important are lessons in resume writing and dress and deportment for job interviews and the workplace.
A Pennsylvania CareerLink site administrator is involved. But Project RISE is an example of a nongovernmental agency — nonprofit Goodwill — taking the lead to help disadvantaged potential workers secure a career-ladder foothold toward self-sufficiency instead of relying on taxpayer-funded entitlements.
Hopefully, Project RISE will be able to assist all eligible students who want to pursue their own American dreams, maximizing its benefits for not just its graduates, their employers and communities but for society as a whole.


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The environmental science class at Flowery Branch High School celebrated Earth Day for an entire week and learned a lot about their peers in the process.
The week culminated with a kickball game Friday at the Field of Dreams, a field at Alberta Banks Park built for special needs kids.
The environmental science class broke up into teams and created Earth Day-inspired lesson plans to teach to special needs classes.
"One of our standards is to understand you're part of the world around you," said teacher Jennifer Smyth, who encourages her students to come up with a service project each semester. "They chose to do a project with the special needs classes."
Smyth said that each day, a different team led an activity or lesson. Activities included making recycling boxes, bird feeders and learning about the ocean through games.
"They really have been into it," Smyth said. "I think it's going to be good for the whole school."
Special Education teacher Robert Alfonso said he was very impressed with the Earth Day activities.
"Watching some of these kids put together a lesson plan, provide information and assist in any way with our students— it's been unreal," he said. "They show they care for their fellow peer."
Senior Ashley Howington said she has been touched by the experience of spending time with the special needs students at school.
"These kids are teaching you actually a lot," Howington said. "We take so much for granted."
She said she was glad she had the chance to spend the week getting to know her special needs schoolmates.
"It just brought tears to your eyes because it's to amazing to watch them get so excited about things that are so simple," she said. "They're so sweet."
Alfonso said in most schools, special needs students are separated from the rest of the school, which can be isolating.
"This is the one school, I can honestly say, that embraces our special needs students," Alfonso said. "It helps our special needs students come in contact with the 'general population.'"
Senior Izaan Cross, part of the group who organized the kickball game, said the Earth Day events were a great way to get out of the classroom to learn.
"I haven't picked up a textbook. I haven't brought my book bag. It's still educational, but in a fun way," Cross said.


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Complex peacekeeping operations faced many interrelated challenges in 2003, including disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR); humanitarian assistance; institution building; strengthening the rule of law; and electoral assistance in post-conflict environments.
Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration
A critical part of peace operations, (DDR) programmes collected, placed in safe storage, or destroyed arms surrendered voluntarily by ex-combatants. In Sierra Leone, the United Nations operation supported reintegration benefits for more than 48,000 ex-fighters. Of the 75,000 demobilized, some 4,000 were children. In the DRC, DDRR also included repatriation of Rwandese, Ugandan and Burundian ex-combatants. The United Nations Mission in Liberia launched its DDR programme in December, with over 40,000 ex-combatants expected to take part, while in Côte d'Ivoire the United Nations mission provided active support for DDR planning. A United Nations DDR programme began in Kunduz, Afghanistan, in the fall.
In the Pacific region, the United Nations Political Office in Bougainville verified and certified in July the completion of the second stage of the Weapons Disposal Plan. This major development opened the way for the election of an autonomous Bougainville government.
Mine action
Mine action was an essential part of peace-building in 2003 and played an important role in multidimensional United Nations peace operations in Cyprus, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia and Eritrea, Georgia, the Golan Heights, Kosovo, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Western Sahara, as well as in Afghanistan. In some of these areas, United Nations-sponsored mine action coordination centres marked hazardous locations, cleared landmines and unexploded ordnance, undertook mine awareness training in high-risk communities and provided assistance to victims. The United Nations Mine Action Services (UNMAS) also implemented a mine action Rapid Response Plan in Iraq.
Protection of civilians and humanitarian assistance
Responding to the imperative of protecting civilians in armed conflict, the United Nations has placed the principles of humanity, neutrality and impartiality at the core of its peacekeeping efforts.
In 2003, humanitarian components of United Nations peacekeeping operations continued to address the needs of civilians, including refugees and internally displaced people.
Efforts were made to ensure a more coherent and strategically coordinated humanitarian response involving recipient countries, non-governmental organizations and other international institutions. Quick impact projects designed to alleviate the immediate needs of the local population served to build confidence and support.
Child protection
Particular attention was given to address the specific needs of children. The appointment of child protection advisers in United Nations peacekeeping missions, including MONUC and UNAMSIL, was instrumental in protecting children's rights, including halting the recruitment of child soldiers and taking effective measures to disarm, demobilize, reintegrate and rehabilitate children recruited or used in hostilities.
Human rights and the rule of law
Peace operations continued to concentrate on the promotion of human rights and the restoration of the rule of law—both key to building sustainable peace. The United Nations worked to reform police forces and develop democratic institutions in countries and territories facing post-conflict challenges. In Kosovo, UNMIK promulgated a new Criminal Code of Kosovo, which clarified and modernized the definitions of criminal offences and took into account modern principles of international and human rights law, and a new Criminal Procedure Code of Kosovo, which strengthened the powers of prosecutors and enhanced the protection of victims and defendants. The United Nations operation in Liberia included important rule of law components.
Electoral assistance
In 2003, the United Nations continued to provide electoral assistance through its peace operations and the Electoral Assistance Division of the Department of Political Affairs. In light of the Organization's view that electoral assistance is a tool for conflict prevention, the Division responded positively to all of the 20 official new requests made throughout the year while maintaining earlier projects, providing electoral assistance to a total of 43 countries.
As part of the Bonn Agreement and timetable, the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) undertook a wide range of activities for the registration of voters through the deployment of a large electoral assistance team in the country. A team from the Electoral Assistance Division was dispatched to Iraq in mid-2003 to consult with the Iraqi Governing Council, the CPA and a broad range of Iraqi and international actors on the nature of proposed transitional elections. During the year, electoral advisers were deployed in three peace operations in Africa—UNAMSIL in Sierra Leone, MONUC in the DRC, and MINUCI in Côte d´Ivoire—in anticipation of the establishment of major electoral components in the near future.
Peace and economic development
The Security Council continued to encourage Member States to take effective measures to address the economic incentives used to fuel conflicts. In Sierra Leone, the Kimberley Process7 of diamond certification offered an example of how to reduce the scope of illicit transactions in precious stones and raw materials which often support violence in resource-rich countries. In the DRC, in order to end the practice identified as a major factor feeding the conflict, a United Nations Panel of Experts submitted recommendations to the Security Council in October to help the Transitional Government manage these resources transparently. In Kosovo, UNMIK launched a privatization process in 2003 and established progress in economic development as one of the basic standards to be met before final status discussions could begin.
7 The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, which began in January 2003, is a negotiating procedure to establish minimum acceptable international standards for national certification schemes covering the import and export of rough diamonds.


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Bioniche Life Sciences is hoping to ignite sales of its "pre-harvest" vaccine for killing E.-coli bacteria in beef cattle just days after traces of that organism were found in Australian meat exported to the US.
The ASX- and Toronto-listed biosciences group issued a press release this morning reminding the world that there are studies saying the vaccination concept works - and here is one that we just happened to prepare earlier.
The slight draw back for Bioniche is that it is yet to be licensed to flog its Econiche vaccine by the US Department of Agriculture.
Bioniche's product was cleared for use in Canada in 2008, although it admits in its statement that uptake has been slow and limited to small producers of branded product who see the cost of the vaccine as a worthwhile investment to protect their reputation.
Cracking the US market is obviously difficult because Bioniche says that it has been "in dialogue" with the USDA since February 2008, after having been told that it could receive a conditional licence once certain conditions were met.
It said today that the department recently updated its guidelines and it was hoping to "collaboratively reach consensus on the path to vaccine licensing".
Insider suspects that is diplomatic code for Bioniche wanting a meeting to work out how the heck it can crack the market.
Alesco defence
Takeover target Alesco Corporation has stepped up its defence campaign against DuluxGroup's $2-a-share offer by producing a pretty brochure telling shareholders to take no action.
The brochure follows advice by the Alesco board on May 1, the day the bid was announced.
It made an additional statement on May 7, after a more complete board assessment of the offer, to take no action. And, on May 11 after Dulux's Bidder's Statement was released, it was advised that shareholders take no action.
Insider begins to wonder exactly what the Alesco board and its advisers, Greenhill Caliburn, are doing to justify their fees. To date, there has been no evidence of the usual appeal to The Takeovers Panel on a technicality, and no announcement that the board is seeking an independent evaluation, no strategic leaks to select financial media about rival bidders - and, intriguingly, no direct assertion that the Dulux offer undervalues Alesco.
There does not appear to have been much engagement or communication between the two camps, and Alesco's entire strategy bears all the hallmarks of Spotless Group's unsuccessful defence against Pacific Equity Partners on the grounds that its share price might be low now - but it has done lots of good things that will make the price rise soon.
Admittedly, Alesco is slightly hampered by the timing of the offer. Its financial year closes on Thursday, which is said to be the main reason the board sought an extension from the corporate regulator to delay the release of its target's statement to June 8.
Alesco directors clearly do not want to send out unaudited numbers to investors, and are additionally burdened by one of the Dulux offer conditions that wants them to sign a statement to the effect that the company's profitability has not changed materially from previous guidance.
That said, Insider has no opinion on whether Dulux's $2 a share is a good price for Alesco, but simple maths tells us that the only other benchmark figure for Alesco's value at the moment is the sharemarket price - and at $1.975 a share, the stock is selling at a discount.
Unless that changes soon, impatient capitalists will begin to surrender their stock to Dulux.
Not-so startling revelation
Elsewhere in takeover targets, Genesis Resources chairman Eddie Pang yesterday sent the ASX a letter telling it that the company had sent a letter to shareholders.
You might have expected there would be some reference to the share swap offer from Clancy Exploration, but no, there were more important things to discuss.
The letter to investors, signed by newly appointed managing director Peter Kong, told them (modestly) that three new directors, including a managing director, had been appointed ''each of whom are experienced in the management of mining projects and capital raisings''.
Kong informed his owners that the company is ''currently pursuing and executing with vigour'' the strategic plan it unveiled a fortnight earlier - and gave them a copy of that, too. Sum total of ''news'' - zero.
Incentive move hits wall
Investor fears that Samson Oil & Gas' new long-term incentive plan was going to hand 200 million shares to the company's executives have killed it off - at least for now. Samson chairman Victor Rudenno yesterday announced without explaining why, that the company had pulled all the resolutions.
Insider guesses that for keen followers of Samson, it was obvious what had happened, but cannot help wonder if the company did itself a disservice in the way it called the meeting in late April - and, now, in killing the agenda.
The original meeting documents filed with the ASX met all the legal requirements, but had no covering letter to investors explaining the board's thinking in introducing the share-based incentive scheme.
Insider is not surprised that without any such context, investors saw an agenda for issuing a few million shares and options to directors and executives, including the ''no more than 200 million'' shares to be issued under the scheme, as something for management's benefit rather than their own.
By the time Rudenno got around to writing a five-page explanatory letter earlier this month - including some conciliatory gestures - it was all starting to look defensive rather than progressive.
Rudenno, who as a former stockbroking analyst would know how skittish investors can be about such schemes, pointed out in the letter that the 200 million figure was designed to cover the 10-year life of the scheme, not the next 12 months. He even reined the number in to 75 million because Samson had discovered shareholders had to vote to renew the scheme every three years anyway.
Colorado-based chief executive Terry Barr also offered to forego a simultaneous options award to help get the scheme over the line.
Samson has a slightly more complex life than most ASX listings because not only are most of its exploration activities and executives in the US, but its American Depository Shares (each worth 20 Samson shares) also trade there - meaning it has to meet a second set of filing and regulatory requirements.
All this was happening against a background of Samson shares plunging from a late February high of 14¢, in anticipation of production results from fracking wells, to a low of 7.8¢ in the market rout of a couple of weeks ago. The shares are back at 8.8¢ as of yesterday, but that is still down 30 per cent since the incentive scheme was unveiled.
Bad news and worse news
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare's below-expectations profit announcement on Friday cost it about as big a fall in market worth as the net result of $NZ64 million.
Not only was the outcome less than analysts had been tipping, its outlook was for a couple more years of stunted profit growth.
By the time the analysts' reports had circulated yesterday, it was more of the same with the shares dropping another 12 cents to $1.68, and bringing the two-day loss in value of the shares to $138 million.


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In the Denton interview, Rivkin confirms what Packer confidants have known for years, that Packer snr, who was a Rivkin client as a stock trader, and himself are no longer on speaking terms. Rivkin claims his ongoing relationship with James was the catalyst for therift.
Almost two decades ago, when James was starting out in the family business, relations between the two men were good enough for Kerry Packer to ask a favour of Rivkin.
Rivkin said: "One day I get a phone call: 'I'm sending my f---ing son over and I want you to lose him some f---ing money on the stockmarket so he understands the f---ing value of the f---ing dollar.'
"And so Jamie came over and I liked him and I don't like losing money for anyone. I hate losing money for people with a passion.
"So I made him money and for many years we spent a lot of time together and it gave his father the shits, that we got so close. And so his father withdrew permission [for him] to be up close to me. His father and I had been quite friendly as well at that stage."
Rivkin and James were photographed together at the young Packer's Bondi apartment last month.
The meeting took place after James's regular morning Bondi swim in the same week Packer snr had emergency surgery at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
"That's a very complicated family," Rivkin said of the Packers. "Kerry had a love-hate but mostly hate relationship with his father [newspaper and TV channel owner Sir Frank Packer]. Kerry's not your normal, average person as you probably realise by now.
"You'd hardly say that James had a normal childhood, but I think he's a terrific bloke.
"He's a great friend of mine. He's a hugely intelligent character, he's a hugely loyal character, he can be very, very charming."
Rivkin calls Kerry Packer "the best businessman I've ever met in this country", but says he believes Packer is an unhappy multibillionaire.
"Money doesn't buy you happiness. And so he's a very unhappy man. Like, a very unhappy man," Rivkin said.
Rivkin, one of the few Kerry Packer associates to speak publicly about him, said he feared Packer.
"He is the only person in this country that I've feared," he said. "And the reason for that is not because he can do any wrong to me, but I feel he can extract any information that he wanted to extract from me and that was a rather scary process.
"He seemed to be able to extract out of me what no one else could and therefore I didn't enjoy our meetings on a business level."
In the interview, to be broadcast at 9.30pm on ABC, Rivkin offers little information about the insider trading conviction, against which he has said he will appeal.
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Hi there I'm confused as to how to start this problem, any help at all would be great thanks!
John Sununus was once the governor of New Hampshire, and his name reminds one of the authors of a palindrome (a words which is spelt the same way forwards as backwards, such as SUNUNUS).
How many seven-letter palindromes (not necessarily real words) begin with the letter S and contain at most three letter?
You are looking at a 7 word palindrome, which means that the first four letters will be mirrored about the fourth, for example:
EXA(M)AXE where mirroring is about the letter M.
We need therefore all combinations of
1. a four letter word,
2. starting with "S",
3. made up of maximum of 3 letters, meaning that there must be at least one pair of duplicates,
4. using the 26-letter alphabet.
There are four positions to fill, of which the first one is already filled with the letter "S".
There are 26 choices for each of the following 3 positions, giving 26³ words starting with "S".
Out of the 3³ words, many of them do not have duplicates, i.e. made up of four distinct letters. We need to subtract these words.
The number of words with distinct characters can be made with
25 letters for the second position (ecluding "S")
24 letters for the third position (excluding "S" and the second position) and
23 letters for the fourth position (excluding the three previous letters).
for a total of 25*24*23 words.
So the number of words satisfying the required criteria is:
26^3-25*24*23 = 3776
Oh okay I think I am following. . .
So, how many seven-letter palindromes contain at most three different letters one of which is S?
We would start out with 26^3, but I don't understand how to make sure S will be included as one of the different letters. Any suggestions? Thank you.
Since the last three letters of a 7-letter palindrome is identical to the first three, the number of 7-letter palindromes would be the same as the number of distinct 4-letter words.
In this case, the 4-letter words begin with an "S", and contain only 3 letters, which is the same as requiring that at least 2 of the 4 letters are the same.
By assuming that the first letter is "S", we only have 3 other letters to fill, hence 26^3.
Some of these words will have 4 distinct letters, others will contain at least one pair of identical letters.
The count of distinct letters are eliminated by subtracting the number of ways to make distinct letters:
1st position: "S"
2nd position: 26-"S"=25
3rd position: 26-"S"-2nd=24
4th position: 26-"S"-2nd-3rd = 23
So there are 25*24*23 words starting with "S" that are made up of 4 distinct letters.
Oh ok so there are 13800 that contain at most three different letters one of which is S.
Can you at all help with this?
Multiple personality disorder (MPD) is a condition in which different personalities exist within one person and at various times control that person's behavior. In a recent survey of people with MPD, it was reported that "98% had been emotionally abused, 89% had been physically abused, and most had experienced both types of abuse." Make this statement more precise.
Watch out!
26^3=17576 is the number of ALL 4-letter words starting with "S".
25*24*23=13800 is the number of 4-letter words starting with "S" that contain exactly 4 distinct letters.
26^3-25*24*23 = 3776 is the number of 4-letter word starting with "S" that contain 3 or less distinct letters, including "S".
For this problem, do you think you can pinpoint the exact percentage of patients who experienced both, or do you think you can only present a range?
If it is the exact value, what is it?
If it is a range, what are the upper and lower limits?
Ok now I am confused again with 5:08, it seems the same as the first subpart of the problem. They can't be the same answer, for this one: How many seven-letter palindromes contain at most three different letters one of which is S?
And for the MPD problem that was really the whole problem. It seems like I have nothing to work with though. . .I'm not sure where to go from here
You can consider
n: number of people surveyed.
E: the set of those who had been emotionally abused.
P: the set of those who had been physically abused.
Basically for the MPD problem I have to make it more precise.
For 5:08, the problem was interpreted as 3 letters including "S". The reasoning is we cannot have more than 3 if we exclude the "S" which makes the requirement superfluous.
If the problem were 3 distinct letters excluding the "S", the 26^3 is the answer.
For the MPD problem, try drawing possible Venn diagrams using the given information, and you will probably notice some trends or hints.
Should read:
"If the problem were 3 distinct letters or less excluding the "S", the 26^3 is the answer. "


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Movie Review
Who is Billy Taggart?
The court system says he's innocent. Granted, the cop shot and killed someone in one of New York City's neglected housing projects under, shall we say, unclear circumstances. But Billy's defense team says he was only defending himself, and the jury believes it.
The mob outside says he's a self-deputized executioner at best, a cold-blooded murderer at worst. The man he killed was accused of raping and killing a woman—but was exonerated by the same legal system now trying Billy. Some, including the cop, believe the guy just got off on a technicality. So does that mean Billy engaged in some vigilante justice? You bet he did, they say.
Mayor Hostetler declares Billy a hero. Forget everything else, he says. This guy took out a thug—a murderer in all but the paperwork. There's one less homicidal rapist on the streets of NYC, Hostetler says. How can that be a bad thing?
But hero or no, there's still politics to consider—and politically Billy's damaged goods. He can't remain on the force, not with half the city calling for his blood. Hostetler tells him he's gotta step down. But have no fear, the mayor promises: Billy Taggart now has a friend in a very high place.
Seven years go by, and Billy's just a guy who takes pictures, he says—a private investigator who spends nights trailing wayward spouses, days trying to collect money from heartbroken clients. It's a disheartening job … but it is a job. And what else is a disgraced ex-cop supposed to do?
Then one day he gets called into the mayor's office. Hostetler tells Billy that his wife is cheating on him. He wants evidence of the dalliance, and he wants it now. He's locked in a brutal election battle with a bleeding-heart billionaire named Jack Valliant, and Hostetler needs to nail down the truth of the matter before his opponent gets a whiff of it.
And with that, Hostetler hands Billy a check for $25,000—half of what Hostetler plans to pay—and tells him to get to work.
If Billy's mind hadn't been clouded by all those zeros, perhaps he might've considered why Hostetler would've ponied up so much money to a guy who "just takes pictures." A guy with some damaging skeletons in his closet. Might this consummate politician have other, even more troubling reasons why he wants Billy to tail his wife?
Who is Billy Taggart?
It's up for debate. But few accuse the guy—including Billy himself—of being particularly smart.
Positive Elements
Billy is hardly what you'd call a model police officer or an exemplary private eye. He does many things that we at Plugged In—and most of those around us in society—can only sadly shake our heads at. But here's the thing: When everything's on the line and he must either do the right thing or save his own skin, he chooses the former. He exposes corruption and saves a good chunk of New York City from certain (if not particularly dramatic) destruction, even though he knows it'll mean the end of his freedom. And when you try to define the word hero, is there any clearer definition than that? A man who risks his life and well-being for the sake of doing what's right? Billy isn't a hero when the movie begins. When it ends? Perhaps.
Spiritual Content
Billy's Catholic faith is mentioned in passing several times. And when he visits the home of his girlfriend's parents, we see that the place is festooned with a great deal of Catholic iconography. That girlfriend, Natalie, is a fledgling actress performing in her first big indie movie: Her character is said to be religious.
Sexual Content
Natalie's cinematic break is largely based, it would appear, on a very graphic sex scene in her indie movie. We see (in this movie within the movie) her bare breasts as she acts out sex with her co-star, a sequence filled with sexual movement and gasping and sweaty grappling. Billy sees the scene for the first time during the movie's premiere: He's embarrassed and horrified, and at an after-party he drunkenly accuses Natalie of actually having sex with her co-star. (Natalie neither confirms nor denies.)
As mentioned, Billy spends a lot of time trailing secret lovers around town. During one stakeout, he takes pictures of a man and woman in each other's erotic clutches, seeing critical portions of the woman's breast. Many characters discuss infidelity. Hostetler, even as he accuses his wife of cheating on him, appears to suggestively touch his personal assistant's backside. We hear discussion about the sexual proclivities of dogs, faked orgasms and homosexuality. Same-sex marriage is a cause championed by the mayor's wife.
Violent Content
The movie opens with Billy still clutching a smoking gun as his infamous assailant/victim lies dead in the street—a bloody bullet hole in his forehead and more bloodstains on his shirt.
As Billy's leaving the scene of an extramarital interlude, he's attacked by two men—one who takes exception to his trespassing, the other the guy engaged in the affair. He beats both of them down pretty emphatically, leaving them bleeding beside the house. Later, one calls up Billy's office and threatens his life.
Billy roughs up the actor he suspects of sleeping with his girlfriend, choking him. He also shoots an assailant in the leg; the two fight in a darkened room, and Billy eventually kills the guy. The ex-cop breaks into a house and threatens a would-be informant with a gun.
Billy is shot at and engages in a frenetic car chase; several automobiles are damaged along the way, and Billy's own vehicle crashes into a concrete barrier, knocking him out. He fills a bathtub with water and forces the head of a potential witness down into it, "encouraging" him to talk. A man is found dead in the street, blood staining his shirt. Hostetler seems to threaten his wife. Jack breaks a glass in his hand. A man slaps and berates his adult son.
Crude or Profane Language
At least 85 f-words (including a handful of uses in some background music) and almost 20 s-words. We hear "a‑‑," "b‑‑ch," "b‑‑tard," "h-ll," "f-g," "p-ss" and some crude colloquialisms for male body parts. God's name is abused about 10 times, more than half conjoined with "d‑‑n."
Drug and Alcohol Content
Shortly after we first meet Billy, we hear that he's been sober for seven years—ever since he left the force. He's repeatedly offered drinks and, initially, he refuses them all. He tells someone that he quit drinking because of his relationship with Natalie.
But after Billy sees Natalie's filmed sex scene, the ex-cop swan dives off the wagon, drinking heavily that night and becoming extraordinarily belligerent. After he roughs up Natalie's co-star and leaves Natalie in tears, he staggers around the city streets for a while longer, buying more booze and occasionally throwing half-full bottles at passing cars.
That same evening he discovers that the man supposedly having an affair with the mayor's wife has been murdered. Suddenly, he takes on the appearance of a stone-cold-sober detective and is ushered into the investigation by the police commissioner himself. As the plot marches forward, people keep encouraging Billy to drink more and more. And when Billy and the commissioner have an informal talk at a bar, the commissioner leaves and tells the bartender to give Billy anything he wants on the commish's own tab. Billy immediately pulls a bottle of booze close to him and starts pouring.
He must spend much of the latter half of the movie somewhat inebriated, then, despite being on the job and behind the wheel and making whiz-bang detective deductions that he was seemingly incapable of making while sober. So Billy's late-movie heroism seems to go hand-in-hand with his perpetual inebriation—making alcohol the central player in one of the movie's most alarming logical and ethical leaps.
Others also drink wine, champagne, hard liquor, etc. Billy and the commissioner find Jack Valliant in a state of deep impairment. Someone smokes a cigarette.
Other Negative Elements
Broken City is a broken movie—a ham-handed cop-and-corruption thriller that never manages to thrill, a political morality tale with precious few morals. Despite a strong cast (Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta-Jones), the whole thing feels flat and flimsy.
In terms of content, though, all the typical problems you'd expect to find in an R-rated actioner arrive intact: violence, sex, foul language. Add to that a hero who also seems to use booze like Popeye uses spinach, which gives us a more unusual content problem to ponder.
Think of Broken City as a crime scene, if you will. Now see the police tape cordoning it off. And the police officer waving curious pedestrians away. "Move along," he's saying. "There's nothing to see here."
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Mark Wahlberg as Billy Taggart; Russell Crowe as Mayor Hostetler; Catherine Zeta-Jones as Cathleen Hostetler; Jeffrey Wright as Carl Fairbanks; Barry Pepper as Jack Valliant; Alona Tal as Katy Bradshaw; Natalie Martinez as Natalie Barrow; Kyle Chandler as Paul Andrews
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Mobility-enabled employees are more likely to reach out to research colleagues via social communication within a company. Involving employees of support or adjacent departments with other key areas and virtual teams are simplified. All resulting in positive results in organizational operating performance. As a result, the profitability of the business can grow, and costs get lower when the time required to make important decisions is reduced. The combination of a marketplace of productivity tools/services and mobility speeds decision making, leading to a significant positive affect on time to market…critical in the life sciences industry.
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After so much reality TV and confessional celebrity interviews, the public is tired of accessible stars.
Names themselves on Facebook are accessible and public information, under the service's rules.
When celebrities step outside, they face high expectations to be both fashionable and accessible to the middle class.
According to Richard, Ferguson was not accessible by telephone or any other means of communication.
My children didn't find it accessible, but the minute they got to Stratford and started seeing the plays, they get it.
It was accessible only on one side, and that from the ravine or glen below.
At each moment in time, projects will be accessible, and feedback can be provided.
The demand is widespread that the information which this book contains should be put into accessible shape.
I had gained his confidence—enough to render him accessible to a bribe.
As I have said, it is curious that there is next to no instruction or guidance commonly provided or accessible in this matter.
c.1400, "affording access," from Middle French accessible, from Late Latin accessibilis, verbal adjective from Latin accessus "a coming near, approach" (see access (n.)). Meaning "easy to reach" is from 1640s; Of art or writing, "able to be readily understood," 1961 (a term not needed in the years before writing or art often deliberately was made not so).


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Modern Art
The Modern Art section is mainly composed of painting and sculpture from the 20th Century forward.
It is arranged alphabetically by artist, then by medium (in the order listed below), then
chronologically by date, and alphabetically by title.
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We all have those moments. Be it in, anime, movies or video games, we all have those moments that define why we love it. Our resident anime lover Karuhi is doing another Top 100 list and this time, we are to show our defining anime moments. I plan on watching quite a few anime during the coming months so i'll this will be only one part of four that i plan on doing. Each part will contain five moments and with explanations as to why i love them. Hopefully, i can get a lot of it done before my time is up.
Well then, with the formalities out of the way, lets get this list started!
Kotomine Kirei feels pleasure.
I apologize, i could not find a video for this scene so i just had to write the best description i could do
Kotomine Kirei was a man whose devotion to his religion was only matched by his devotion to his duty. He was someone who would kill when necessary without any kind of remorse. When the Holy Grail tournament started, he had no qualms about lying to his servant Assassin and sending him to his impending demise unknowingly. He also did this to the rest of his assassin squad by sending all of them in order to find out what Riders Noble Phantasm was. He knew that sending them in to find out was potentially dangerous and there was little chance that they would return from it but he did anyways. For this reason, Archer, one of the main characters in the Fate series took an interest in him and at one point decided to teach him what pleasure was despite his resolve to never feel something viewed as so sinful. Archer was able to trick Kirei into feeling pleasure by getting him to think about one of the contestants thought meaningless conversation. It was done in such and elaborate yet subtle way that Kirei could not have seen it coming. Now, Kotomine Kirei, the man with a hatred for anything that seemed even remotely sinful, had felt pleasure. He could not even resist it or argue against it. In fact, it was at this moment where he silently came to a conclusion that pleasure was in fact, something the be naturally felt. I was completely blown away by this match of morals and ideals.
One Piece
The Death of Edward Newgate
One Piece is my all time favorite anime, so naturally, there's bound to be a little One Piece in this list. Don't worry, i don't plan on filling these lists with floods of One Piece moments though there will be just a few.....only a few though
I remember watching this scene and being left without any words. Literally, i tried to express my feeling after the scene but i just couldn't. I was left completely awestricken. Whitebeard was a character that we didn't get to see much of even in the hundreds of episodes the One Piece has. We only heard of him and how it was only he that could match the Pirate King, Gol.D.Roger in a match. When one of his crew members. Fire-Fist Ace was captured by the marines and set to be executed, he set out to do war with the in order to save his comrade. During the whole war, you begin to find out what kind of person Whitebeard is and why it is that he has survived so long in this world and why he is also feared by both pirates and marines alike. He's a passionate person a wrath that would rival that of a gods. At the end of the war he was left terribly injured and his will damn near broken. While he was protecting the rest of his crew-members in a final attempt to allow them to escape he remembered a conversation he had with an old friend. That is where the scene below comes in
That was a speech that left me completely awestricken. He knew what the world needed to know and he knew that no matter what had happened the will of Ace, a cremember he had tried to raise as his own son would be passed down though his adoptive brother, Monkey.D.Luffy as he saw what Luffy was truly capable of during the war. He then died, in the most fitting way for a man of such high caliber.
Darker Than Black
The Hei becomes a Human Contractor
One again, no video for this one. I apologize.
Darker Than Black is an anime i find extremely hard to describe as i myself had a hard time following the story and the plot. However, even with those barriers, i found myself craving more and more after each episode. It was one of the ew anime where the main protagonist is in fact, my favorite character in the series. Hei was an interesting character and learning about him throughout the series and seeing what kind of person he truly is was an awesome experience. Even though he was the main protagonist he was never the main focus of many of the episodes. it usually followed the other secondary characters. This only made him mor interesting because waiting to see how he would end up reacting to those characters something i always looked forward to.
At the end of the series, with the aid of his friends, Hei chooses that he will be both a human and a contractor. It was a choice that he thought was impossible due to the fact that contractors were barely considered people due to their lack of emotions and robotic decisions being that contractors always made the most logical choice in any situation. It felt like a fitting decision befitting that of a human and a contractor (I love Mao). The final scene has him leaving the house he stayed in during his missions and leaving to start his new life. He is chased for a while by officer Misaki, who wants to understand his purpose and reason for being the way he is but she soon loses him in a corner. A fitting end to a spectacular series.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Greed Regains His Memories
Greed from FMA; Brotherhood is one of my favorite characters to date. I've even done research on how to cosplay as him (but that's not gonna happen any time soon) As Greed, it's only natural that he would want everything to himself, from the grandest of treasures to the most sensual of pleasures and this is what led him to originally deserted his siblings and father in order to start a new life full of all his dreams and desires. Wrath, his "youngest" sibling, had tracked him down, killed the comrades he gained during his time away and taken him back. He was captured ,had his body melted, his spirit extracted and made back into a philosophers stone. He was then put into a new body with all his old memories purged from him.......or so he thought.
One of his comrades which had survived the raid and had come looking for him. With a little bit of luck he was able to find the base where Greed was taken back to and reborn. Not too long after entering the base, he was found by none other than Greed himself who, not knowing who he is treats him as an intruder and attacks him. That's where the next scene comes in.
You can feel the raw emotion in this scene. The way Greed struggles to come to grips with the fact that he had just killed his own friend in cold blood. The memories of the times he had with his friend returns and it completely begins to tear his emotions down. Ling, begins to admonish Greed for his actions. It was such an amazing conversation between the two of them. The final scream from Greed sent a chill down my spine. it was a scream of pure pain and regret.
There were supposed to be 5 but there are still a lot of shows i want to watch and some moments i want to save for other lists so i'll end this one here. Hope you enjoyed it! See you next time!


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Barely 10 weeks ago, we had never heard of Jedi Jim. Vincent had not yet swashbuckled into our world. We couldn't even begin to imagine the impact of Melody's footprints on the moon, nor the myriad applications of Susan's beauty experience. Zoe, Tom and Natasha were but a dream, albeit a slightly disturbing one.
And yet here we are – four candidates remain to face the final battle, with only the interview panel standing between them and Lord Sugar's £250,000 investment. On Sunday one of them will be crowned winner, but the winning isn't why we watch The Apprentice – it's very much about the glorious comedy moments along the way. Here are a few of my favourites this series.
Best "are you really that stupid?" moment
Oh, so many moments of mindless fatuity to choose from. Vincent calling a fishmonger to ask where to buy meat in London, Gavin trying to buy a top hat in a dry cleaner's, Susan asking if the French love their children, Helen and Melody trying to flog £50 watches in a pound shop. But I think the winner has to be way back in episode one, when two ambitious, young men in the prime of their lives stood in a London fruit market and enjoyed the following exchange:
Glenn: "Is that an orange?"
Vincent: "Don't know."
Best pitch
By best I obviously mean worst, because watching someone do a good job is no fun at all. Jim's excruciating attempt to pitch Hip Replacement magazine was only outdone a couple of weeks later when he promised Asda a £30m ad campaign if they ordered a few tubs of biscuits. Leon being bulldozed by Natasha while pitching lads' mag Covered was hilarious. But for sheer weirdness it has to be Edna presenting the girls' phone app to a roomful of techy kids while wearing long black leather gloves. So wrong.
Best boardroom moment
Tom confessing that he and Natasha decided who would pitch to the French by playing paper, scissors, stone was outstanding, but my favourite was Lord Sugar's response to Jim's assurance in week seven that they weren't "trying to shoot Bambi". Lord Sugar invariably has an array of withering responses to hand, but "it was actually Bambi's mother that got shot" is possibly one of my favourite ever.
Best idea that never made it
So many brilliant ideas that never made the cut – Lucky Fish cat food, Coffin Dodger magazine, Popsquit biscuits, Tom's "tell me the what the weather was like on any day in history" app, Byron pies…all opportunities missed. My favourite was Tom's emergency biscuits from week nine, made all the better for being called "EmerCrunchy". I want some, NOW.
So those are my best bits of series seven so far, although I'm sure Sunday's final will add plenty of new ones to the list. Let us know which have been your favourite moments and, of course, who you're predicting to win. See you Sunday, 9pm for the final - live!


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Arturo in particular built up the organization and aligned it with the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels in the early 2000s.
After the bloody battle for Cuidad Juárez it was widely touted that Sinaloa had won the Mexican drug war.
The notorious Sinaloa cartel boss is trying to use Mexican law to get himself out of jail—and it just might work.
In Juárez, locals regard him as the commander of the ultra-violent Sinaloa offensive in their city.
And he was not the only Sinaloa cartel informant to suffer an abrupt reversal of fortune with ICE.
Sometimes he stays at the lower ranch a week at a time, and he might go on to Sinaloa for all we know.
To-day we have news that some of our troops have crossed the Sinaloa border.
By 1763 Sinaloa and Ostimuri (southern Sonora) had ceased to be frontier regions.
What was that you said about the Sinaloa priest story of the red gold?
Artibeus hirsutus has recently been found in northern Sinaloa and in southwestern Chihuahua.


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A PERFORMING arts student is celebrating after scoring a role in a sportswear advert to star alongside some of the world's top footballers, including Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Ibrahimovic and Neymar.
Macaulay Cooper, 19, from Connah's Quay, landed the role through his agent who spotted his talent when he took the lead role in a West Cheshire College performance of Equus.
After a rigorous audition process, Macaulay was selected to have a speaking role in the Nike advert which was first aired during the Champions League semi-final.
Macaulay, who is studying a HNC in performing arts, said: "I love football and acting so to land this role is incredible for me. I have been to Barcelona, Madrid and London to do the filming which was an amazing experience.
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2007.23: The steady propagation of a semi-infinite bubble into a tube of elliptical or rectangular cross-section
2007.23: Andrew L. Hazel and Matthias Heil (2002) The steady propagation of a semi-infinite bubble into a tube of elliptical or rectangular cross-section. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 470. pp. 91-114. ISSN 0022-1120
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This paper investigates the propagation of an air finger into a fluid-filled, axially uniform tube of elliptical or rectangular cross-section with transverse length scale a and aspect ratio [alpha]. Gravity is assumed to act parallel to the tube's axis. The problem is studied numerically by a finite-element-based direct solution of the free-surface Stokes equations.
In rectangular tubes, our results for the pressure drop across the bubble tip, [Delta]p, are in good agreement with the asymptotic predictions of Wong et al. (1995b) at low values of the capillary number, Ca (ratio of viscous to surface-tension forces). At larger Ca, Wong et al.'s (1995b) predictions are found to underestimate [Delta]p. In both elliptical and rectangular tubes, the ratio [Delta]p([alpha])/[Delta]p([alpha] = 1) is approximately independent of Ca and thus equal to the ratio of the static meniscus curvatures.
In non-axisymmetric tubes, the air-liquid interface develops a noticeable asymmetry near the bubble tip at all values of the capillary number. The tip asymmetry decays with increasing distance from the bubble tip, but the decay rate becomes very small as Ca increases. For example, in a rectangular tube with [alpha] = 1.5, when Ca = 10, the maximum and minimum finger radii still differ by more than 10% at a distance 100a behind the finger tip. At large Ca the air finger ultimately becomes axisymmetric with radius r[infty infinity]. In this regime, we find that r[infty infinity] in elliptical and rectangular tubes is related to r[infty infinity] in circular and square tubes, respectively, by a simple, empirical scaling law. The scaling has the physical interpretation that for rectangular and elliptical tubes of a given cross-sectional area, the propagation speed of an air finger, which is driven by the injection of air at a constant volumetric rate, is independent of the tube's aspect ratio.
For smaller Ca (Ca < Ca), the air finger is always non-axisymmetric and the persisting draining flows in the thin film regions far behind the bubble tip ultimately lead to dry regions on the tube wall. Ca increases with increasing [alpha] and for [alpha] > [alpha]^ dry spots will develop on the tube walls at all values of Ca.
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It was out with the pies, chips and stodgy food (well most of it), and in with salads, sushi, fruit and low-fat options, when Southland District Health Board employees said they wanted healthier food in their cafeteria.
Revamping the café menu was just one of the changes the DHB made as part of its mission to promote good health.