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Nearly a year after the tsunami, Calcutta sales executive Shouvik Ganguly found courage, time - and air tickets - to bring his family on holiday to the Andamans.
"We have been to so many coastal regions but this is a dream. Everything is so virgin and unpolluted here," says Mr Ganguly, as he prepares to fly back to Calcutta.
His wife Babita says it is not only the Andamans' pristine beaches and corals - or the trip to the Barren islands, home to India's only active volcano - that made her trip "so fulfilling".
"It is also necessary that we take our children to monuments like the Cellular Jail in Port Blair, where thousands of our freedom fighters were imprisoned during British rule.
"A visit here reminds us how much they sacrificed for us to be free," says Babita.
The airfare to the Andamans costs an Indian tourist more than to Thailand or Singapore.
"But we pay much less for water sports like scuba diving or food or travel within the islands," says another visitor, Prashant Jha, from the Indian state of Bihar.
"And the experience is simply great. It is money well spent and so good a destination to de-stress."
Holiday rush
From all across the Indian mainland, tourists are pouring into the Andamans.
"Hundreds of businesspeople and professionals, even middle class Indians, are rushing to the Andamans for a holiday with a difference," says local tourism official, Rana Mathew.
"The curiosity generated by the tsunami is getting the better of the fear."
Mr Mathew said that before the tsunami Bengalis made up the bulk of domestic tourists coming to the islands but people from southern India have exceeded them so far this year.
In winter, though, the Bengalis, who make up the bulk of India's domestic tourists, are coming in droves. So are tourists from up north.
Hotels and flights are fully booked for the next two months.
In the early 1990s, the Andamans used to get around 10,000 to 12,000 tourists a year.
By 2000 tourist traffic had grown 10-fold.
But after the tsunami the monthly average fell to about 500.
Now the federal government is encouraging its employees to travel to the islands on holiday and offering them free air fares.
Since September, tourist traffic is almost back to pre-tsunami levels.
"We expect it to peak during Christmas. Even the number of foreign tourists is rising sharply," says Rana Mathew.
The Andamans tourism department has planned a 17-day island festival beginning 30 December that will bring in Bollywood personalities, poets and cultural troupes from all over India.
"The festival will help our islanders break free of the psychological trauma of the tsunami," says Mr Mathew.
High-end market
But he says the islands need to improve their infrastructure like inter-island shipping and better hotels and connections to the mainland to exploit their tourism potential.
Even foreign tour and travel companies have begun investing in resorts here.
Sri Lanka's top hospitality chain, Atkins Spence, has tied up with the Andamans' Barefoot group to develop a resort in Havelock island and a few more elsewhere.
"We hope they get us high-value niche tourists by developing a Sri Lanka-Maldives-Andamans circuit that they are planning to do," says Barefoot's Samit Sahni.
The plan also finds favour with environmentalists.
"We need to get tourists who value nature and local sensibilities and will not disturb our ecology," says Reshmi Nair, spokesperson for the Society for Andaman and Nicobar Ecology (Sane).
More tourism means greater demands for the island's handicrafts and pearls.
The Andamans are also becoming an exotic location for the shooting of Hindi, Bengali and Tamil-language films.
"This should mean jobs for our people in smaller support roles. These three languages and English are extensively spoken here and there's a strong multi-cultural stage tradition," says cultural representative Gitanjali Rao.
"We need to figure in the mainland's imagination in a big way."


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The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. has a plan to win back the hundreds of thousands of viewers who found something else to do with their Saturday nights through the NHL lockout– double up on Don Cherry, throw in some social media and hope that a shortened season will push people back into their living rooms until the end of June.
Many of the broadcaster's plans focus on what happens off the ice as it celebrates its 60th anniversary as the official Saturday night broadcaster of the National Hockey League. It will host a series of free concerts throughout the season in NHL markets, and is hoping to use smartphones and tablets to get viewers to take part in contests and share thoughts and content via social media.
It said Thursday its highest-profile change will see Don Cherry do a live segment between the first and second period of the network's second game in addition to his usual Coach's Corner slot in between periods in broadcaster's early game. It has also added Andi Petrillo to its in-studio team, a move the broadcaster says marks the first time a female has held that role.
The broadcaster watched its Saturday audiences shrink by as much as 85 per cent on some nights through the lockout, as hockey fans found ways to live without Hockey Night in Canada. And with only a year-and-a-half left in its current broadcast deal with the NHL, the CBC is anxious to play up the cultural aspect of the game rather than dwell on any residual anger fans may feel toward the league and its players.
The stakes are high in the shortened season, which starts Saturday afternoon as the CBC shows three games in a row across the country. In a typical year, it airs about 100 regular season games, but this year it will air half the number and it's still not clear how that will affect its broadcast rights that expire at the end of the 2014 season.
"That's all in negotiations," said Julie Bristow, the CBC's executive director of studio and unscripted programming. "But it's half the games we usually have."
With other broadcasters such as Rogers Media and Bell Media hinting they may bid when rights expire and end CBC's 60-year run, the CBC is focusing on the off-ice product to showcase its strengths as a public broadcaster with a mandate to promote Canadian culture. It will once again do its Hockey Day in Canada event, this year from Peterborough, Ont., and will soon announce the lineups for its cross-country series of concerts.
"We're really trying to bring people to the game," she said. "We want to be talking about how hockey is part of the national DNA and what we hope to be doing on air is celebrating that hockey is back."
The broadcaster has also made some changes to the way it staffs the Saturday night broadcasts – host Ron MacLean will anchor the night's show, and will be joined by analysts Glenn Healy, P.J. Stock, Kevin Weekes, Elliotte Friedman and Ms. Petrillo. The broadcaster used to cycle analysts through its Hot Stove segment between periods, but will stick with that same lineup from the pregame until the final game ends.
As CBC ramps up for Saturday – it needed to rehire almost 250 freelancers who do technical work over the course of the season and redeploy staffers who were reassigned through the lockout – Canada's other two broadcasters are putting the finishing touches on their strategies. Bell Media's TSN initially announced plans to air 42 games, all starring Canadian teams, but is expected to add dozens more featuring American teams today.
Rogers-owned Sportsnet will air approximately150 games across its regional networks. President of broadcasting Scott Moore said aside from the obvious benefits of increased advertising and higher viewership, hockey's return is also an opportunity to drive viewers to the other programming the company offers on its other networks.
"From a ratings standpoint [not having hockey] hurt a lot," he said. "The trouble is when you have that big driver of four or five games a night you have a million people watching and that gives you a promotional platform to talk about Sportsnet World and City. Hockey and baseball are as big a promotions driver for us as anything else we have on any of our networks."Report Typo/Error
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Homeless in Vancouver: City of Vancouver testing office recycling program
The City of Vancouver is about three weeks into testing an office recycling system on its own employees in all city offices, including Vancouver City Hall.
The city's pilot program is part of the zero-waste component of the Greenest City 2020 initiative. Simply put, it finally allows people to recycle at their workplace the way they have been able to recycle in their single-family homes or apartments since the late 1990s.
Replacing the "round file folder" at work
At Vancouver City Hall, for example, wastepaper baskets are out. Every desk jockey now has their very own blue box.
Everything that can be recycled—office paper, takeaway cups, pop cans, newspapers, banana peels, and so on—goes in the blue box. When their blue box is full, the employee takes it over to the recycling station and sorts the content into the appropriate container:
- Refundable containers
- Mixed containers
- Mixed paper
- Landfill
- Food scraps
Once a day, janitors empty the contents of the recycling station bins and transfer the contents to larger equivalent blue bins.
In the main, this system duplicates the process people follow at home with a few notable differences.
The workplace system calls garbage "landfill" and newsprint no longer has its own bin. It goes into "mixed paper." The system does add a bin just for "refundable containers", though.
Either cardboard is also considered mixed paper or the system may completely eschew any kind of bin for cardboard, requiring custodians to bundle it up.
The presence of professional office cleaners in the system will go a long way to insuring it is better adhered to than the residential system of recycling.
I'm told that all the new blue bins the recycling station bins are emptied into come equipped with locks.
So binners won't be getting those office pop cans! Oh well, they're not usually getting them now either.
No real details, just scraps of information
All the posters promoting the program in city offices point employees to "citywire.city.vancouver.bc.ca/zerowaste" for more information on the program.
This is not a website on the Internet. Information for this pilot program appears to be restricted to an internal city network or intranet, rather than being made publicly available on the Internet via the City of Vancouver's website.
One bit of information about the program was printed off the citywire intranet and uploaded to the Web as a PDF file in August, 2013. It lists the materials that can be recycled, including plastic grocery bags and Styrofoam cups, which, I believe are no longer acceptable in the city's residential blue box/bin system and are supposed to be taken to Encorp depots.
The "refundable containers" bin only accepts pop, juice and water bottles, and cans—no juice boxes.
The unequal public-private partnership of recycling
The city currently doesn't have a lot to do with actually collecting recyclable garbage downtown or in the dense apartment-rich areas like the West End or Fairview. The city contracts out that collection to a private waste-hauling company.
In fact, the City of Vancouver may be designing this workplace recycling program and testing it, but it will ultimately be implemented on behalf of the new provincial czar of recycling, Multi-Materials B.C. This is an industry-based, "non-profit" group created by provincial law to insure that commercial packaging is recycled as much as possible.
Taxpayers will certainly be paying for the pilot program, but ultimately any office recycling program will be carried out by private industry—the same waste-hauling companies that currently handle Dumpsters and blue bins will now add the collection of office recyclables.
I don't know who will be reaping the profits of recycling under the new private regime—and there are profits now.
I suspect it won't be the municipalities of British Columbia, which painstakingly figured out workable recycling practices, and no one should expect it to be the hapless binners who really did help push the B.C. government to create the modern bottle deposit system.
Perhaps this is a case of harnessing the profit motive, but I believe whatever MMBC does with provincial recycling will be done with an eye to helping insure the profits stay largely in the hands of the private sector.
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Allen Langdon
Jul 16, 2014 at 8:14am
It is important to clarify an aspect of our program that is referenced in your article. Multi-Material BC's packaging and printed paper recycling program is for residential recycling only, per the provincial Recycling Regulation, which requires the businesses that supply these materials to BC residents to be responsible for collecting and recycling the materials when residents finish with them. Multi-Material BC manages the collection and recycling of materials on behalf of those businesses. Expansion to include commercial or industrial recycling would only happen as a result of any changes to the Regulation.
Jul 16, 2014 at 10:32am
How far is this bit of theatre going to go, anyway? I've heard in the UK they're up to nine different bins. It will never be enough. I expect I'll be scolded for not washing my cardboard soon enough.
Marion the Librarian
Jul 16, 2014 at 11:55am
I work at the Vancouver Public Library and we have had this program for a while and it works great! The city started with the library first because we are trailblazers and, of course, we love to sort!


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Couscous with Prunes and Toasted Almonds
Spiced prunes add a sweet twist to classic couscous in this recipe from "Mourad: New Moroccan," by Mourad Lahlou. Also try: Brown-Butter Couscous, Couscous with Meyer Lemon and Parsley
- Servings: 6
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- 1 cup whole blanched whole almonds
- Classic Steamed Couscous
- 3/4 cup Spiced Prunes, pitted and cut into 1/4-inch pieces
- 5 tablespoons Clarified Butter for Couscous with Prunes and Toasted Almonds
- 6 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 6 tablespoons chopped chives
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Coarse salt
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Place almonds on a baking sheet and toast for 10 minutes until golden brown (break open to check). Let cool.
Combine almonds with couscous, prunes, clarified butter, lemon juice, chives, and cinnamon; season with salt.


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Have not listened to it long enough..running them in..in my computer room ..but boy is this thing silent...amazing. No Hum whatsoever..
The d3a has been made a pseude triode by 2 * 200R resistors on from screen 2 and 3 to plate (I.e. pin 8 and 9 via the resistors to pin7)
I added a humm pot just for good measure. I think I might that that might just be the only part that is superfluous. Also comtemplated adding the dc filter in the the center tap of the toroidal..but it is so quiet..mechanically and electrically that it is not necessary.
Thanks to Thorsten/KYW for the inspiration for this particular design. It is an extract from one of his schematics (the one pictured below
One of T's amps:
The parts were not chosen because I tried out all types of components etc..but merely because I had been saving them all for a 300B project of my own.
To infinity and beyond!!!
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Slightly related question. I noticed you used the MQ Ex01 100H as an anode load choke on the driver. Brian also lists an S&B "Anode Load Choke for driver tubes" on his site - anyone know what inductance that choke is and could it be used in this Bas/T Lady Day?
> Brian also lists an S&B "Anode Load Choke for driver tubes"
> on his site - anyone know what inductance that choke is and
> could it be used in this Bas/T Lady Day?
This choke was designed for me and can be used in my own design, I measured 160H @ 12mA DC with around 10V @ 20Hz.
CSS FR125's on a makeshift open baffle. Just one channel playing
I was pretty amazed at how much bass this little driver produces in an open baffle (and so was my son as you can hear early on in the film )
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there was no subwoofer somewhere in the room ;-)
Source..computer soundcard playing an mp3.
Amplifier DiyHiFiSupply Ladyday SE amp.. wired as schematic.
To infinity and beyond!!!
Nice one Bas, just a few notes....
1) The 12R resistor pair are heater balancers, so use these or the Humpot/Resistor combo instead, not both. My own use with two sets of resistors on each side of the heater balances the Cathode currents out of each side of the heater.
2) The 0.47uF X 2 Capacitors after the rectifier are really "tuning" capacitors, set so you get the kind of HT you want. I was operating the 300B with 350V/60mA with effectively 6K nominal Load (3K OPT Mismatched). Add a few uF to get the HT up to around 450V.
Also the RC circuit across the choke should be adjusted for lowest ripple.
To infinity and beyond!!!
and went to bed.
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and my Dragonfly's are out on loan...I have the LD's connected to the pc for running in. With little speakersdrivers on the floor. My CSS FR 125'S also on loan.
But I'll add a little switch to the first 2uF C to try it when I have my Prometheus up and running..and will report my findings.
1.) Thanks...yes..stupid of me..
2.) Do you think it will sound better with 450VDC? I also chose the lower voltage and lower current you aimed for because I think you wrote somewhere that you actually prefer lower voltage and lower current for the 300b soundwize.
> I think you wrote somewhere that you actually prefer lower
> voltage and lower current for the 300b soundwize
Actually, I prefer Higher Load, Higher Voltage, Lower Current.
To infinity and beyond!!!
What's the sensitivity of the amp, Bas?
but the D3a has a Mu of around 70. So it is pretty sensitive :-)
To infinity and beyond!!!
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A look back to the rookies from a year ago
By Sports Radio KJR
2012 rookies:
Bruce Irvin (1st) - 8 sacks
Bobby Wagner (2nd) - 140 tackles, was runner-up for NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year.
Russell Wilson (3rd) – Passed for 3,118, 26 TD, 10 INT, 100.0 QB rating. Played in Pro-Bowl
Robert Turbin (4th) – Rushed for 354 yards and averaged 4.4 yards a carry.
Jaye Howard (4th) – Was essentially a non-factor in the defensive line rotation
Korey Toomer (5th) - The Idaho product was placed on the Seahawks practice squad.
Winston Guy (6th) - The Kentucky safety did not factor much, but did play a little in the
J.R. Sweezy (7th) – Was a starter off and on during the season. Displayed enough qualities to earn praise from coaches.
Greg Scruggs (7th) - Played in 11 games and recorded two sacks.
2013 Rookies
Christine Michael (2nd) - Running back from Texas A&M
Jordan Hill (3rd) – Defensive tackle from
Chris Harper (4th) – Big physical wide receiver from
Jesse Williams (5th) –
Tharold Simon (5th) – Tall, athletic, physical corner from LSU.
Luke Wilson (5th) – Rice tight end, who played sparingly his senior year because of a ankle injury. However, consider a very skilled and highly athletic TE.
Spencer Ware (6th) – Played running back at LSU, however, did play fullback and that's the position he'll play with the Seahawks.
Ryan Seymour (7th) – Versatile lineman from Vanderbilt, who can play all five positions.
Ty Powell (7th) – Small, but fast defensive end out of Harding. Fits the style of defensive ends that the Seahawks love.
Jared Smith (7th) – Played defensive tackle at
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Casey James will play support dates for Alan Jackson this weekend. The Let's Don't Call It a Night singer will open for Jackson in Benton, Texas, on Friday, then play with him in Las Cruces, N.M., on Saturday.
In a press release, Casey says: "It's Alan Freakin' Jackson! He is a poetic storyteller, and one of the best artist/writers there is. And as a performer, he has been entertaining and selling out shows year after year. It's a huge honor to open for him."
On Sunday, Casey will play the Country Thunder Festival in Florence, Ariz.
Nashville-based Brian Mansfield began writing about music for USA TODAY in 1997 and took over Idol Chatter just before the start of Season 8. He co-authored Make Me a Star: Industry Insiders Reveal How to Make It in Music, and while he has never auditioned for American Idol, he did sing Boot Scootin' Boogie at Disney World's American Idol Experience the day the attraction opened (he lost). More about Brian | E-mail Brian


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Road Trippin Across the U.S. - Let's Talk Snacks to Pack
This morning I write on the eve of a journey. Tomorrow, I will wake early, squeeze the last of my belongings into my newest purchase -- the kind that goes vroom and that makes me feel like quite the grown-up -- and with my atlas in hand, head south. Then east. I am picking up my best buddy, Amy -- a Seattlelite who also worked on the farm -- and we'll drive to Virginia to work on the same farm once again.
As much fun as it would be to drive along the coast, there is one stop we must make before returning to life out East: Bob's Red Mill. For some, it may seem silly to plan a trip around a granary mill, but to those I say that if we're just going to buy a ton of Bob's Red Mill products out East, then wouldn't it make sense to get them ourselves and see where they're produced? Plus, Bob's is one of the most notable natural granaries in the world. It's a food nerd thing.
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From there, we'll hit the coast and spend some time in the Redwood National Forest. I remember driving through briefly as a kiddo, but given my age at the time, the only memories I have are a little less landscape-centric and a little more Baby-sitter's Club. This time through, things will be different, as Kristy and Claudia's antics will be replaced with hikes, yurts and warm sleeping bags. Out of everything on the trip, I think I'm most looking forward to this first stop.
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Once we've had our fill of the ever tall redwoods, then it's on our way to the Grand Canyon. Now depending on our mood, we may drive through wine country -- Sonoma, Napa -- and continue on 101 to see the California coast, or we may just link back up with the interstate and tuck it down to Bakersville, so it's over and onward to Vegas. One of my good friends from Seattle is a forest ranger in Yosemite, and as much as we tried to swing seeing her and Yosemite for the first time, weather doesn't allow it, so any immediate interludes with Yogi and Boo Boo will just have to wait.
Neither of us are what you would think Vegas girls to be, so I'm sure we'll hightail it out of there as soon as possible to the Grand Canyon, then the Grand Staircase. Cannot wait to hippie it out with epic scenery, hikes and spending as much time in nature as possible. I've never spent time in the desert, so I'm really looking forward to seeing what my impressions are and how landscape, so different to my beloved PNW strikes me.
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The same as anti-smoking patches, you place it on an area somewhere in your body (usually top of the arm or your hip), then it gradually releases chemical substances into your bloodstream.
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You most likely haven't heard about the weight lost patch before since the technology is rather new within the weight reduction market. This particular concept is actually called "Transdermal application" which means that the ingredients are absorbed by the skin versus internally just like pills as well as powders.
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Association congratulates new Police Commissioner
25 February 2014
Association congratulates new Police Commissioner
The Police Association today congratulated Mike Bush on his appointment as Commissioner of New Zealand Police.
"This will be a popular appointment amongst police. Mike Bush has policed his way to the top, most recently as Deputy Commissioner: Operations, and before that presiding as District Commander over the re-engineering of Counties-Manukau into Police's model district," said Police Association President Greg O'Connor.
"Of course, the top job brings with it a whole raft of new challenges. The Commissioner will be tasked with grappling with budget pressures as they continue to mount over coming years. He will also be the public face of Police not only when things go well, as crime stats currently are, but also when things go wrong – as, unfortunately, they inevitably must from time to time, especially as resources become stretched. Ultimately, it will be his performance in the face of these new challenges on which Mike Bush's success in this job will be judged.
"We look forward to working with Commissioner Bush when he takes up his new role from 3 April," Mr O'Connor said.


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Kevin Harvick passed Denny Hamlin with 11 laps to go Sunday, then held on to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup series race at Michigan International Speedway.
Harvick's No.29 team gambled by staying on the track instead of making a pit stop during a late caution.
It paid off with a momentum-building victory for the series points leader.
This was Harvick's third win of the season and his first this year on a nonrestrictor plate track.
Hamlin finished second, followed by Roush Fenway Racing drivers Carl Edwards, Greg Biffle and Matt Kenseth. Team owner Jack Roush was back at the track this weekend, days after his hospital release following serious injuries in a plane crash.
Australian Marcos Ambrose finished 15th.
It was a rough day for several Chase contenders. Kurt Busch blew an engine, Mark Martin damaged his car early and spent most of the afternoon running outside the top 30, and Jeff Gordon was in the top 10 when he had a flat tyre with 47 laps to go.
Gordon finished 27th, Martin finished 28th and Busch finished 40th.


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News about Doc Rivers, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Raptors Win Over Bucks Puts Them One Win Away From a Series Against the Cavs
Norm Powell scored 25 points, Serge Ibaka 19 and DeMar DeRozan 18 for the Raptors, who can wrap up their first-round series on Thursday in Milwaukee....
April 24, 2017, Monday
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Chaos Greets Doc Rivers in His Return to the Garden
Like Phil Jackson and the Knicks, Doc Rivers is at a crossroads with the Clippers. But the troubles of the Clippers are mostly confined to the court....
February 8, 2017, Wednesday
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Clippers' Big Collapse Against Rockets Forces a Game 7
During the fourth quarter, in what should have been a 12-minute send-off to the next round, the Clippers were outscored by the Rockets, 40-15....
May 16, 2015, Saturday
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A Game 7: Spurs-Clippers Series Deserves Nothing Less
The teams' extraordinary first-round playoff series, which could easily be mistaken for a conference finals, moves to Los Angeles for its climax on Saturday night....
May 2, 2015, Saturday
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Kevin Love Has Surgery and Will Miss Four to Six Months
Love, who was injured in Cleveland's series-clinching win at Boston on Sunday, had surgery on his dislocated left shoulder and may need six months to recover....
April 30, 2015, Thursday
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Steven A. Ballmer Speaks Loudly and Carries a Big Wallet
Ballmer, the former chief executive of Microsoft and the first-year owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, is, in the words of the team's coach, "the most normal $24 billion guy I know."...
April 22, 2015, Wednesday
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Clippers' Doc and Austin Rivers Try to Balance Their Many Roles
When Doc Rivers, the Clippers' coach and president of basketball operations, acquired his son Austin, they established the N.B.A.'s first father-son-player-coach relationship....
March 19, 2015, Thursday
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Blake Griffin's Out, and Clippers Are Crushed by the Thunder
After announcing that the All-Star forward Blake Griffin would be out indefinitely, Los Angeles fell to its most lopsided defeat of the season, a 131-108 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder....
February 9, 2015, Monday
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In Los Angeles, Warm Receptions
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Reinforcing bad behaviour : the misuse of security indicators on popular websites
Stebila, Douglas (2010) Reinforcing bad behaviour : the misuse of security indicators on popular websites. In Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OZCHI 2010), ACM, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, pp. 248-251.
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Before making a security or privacy decision, Internet users should evaluate several security indicators in their browser, such as the use of HTTPS (indicated via the lock icon), the domain name of the site, and information from extended validation certificates. However, studies have shown that human subjects infrequently employ these indicators, relying on other indicators that can be spoofed and convey no cryptographic assurances. We identify four simple security indicators that accurately represent security properties of the connection and then examine 125 popular websites to determine if the sites' designs result in correctly displayed security indicators during login. In the vast majority of cases, at least some security indicators are absent or suboptimal. This suggests users are becoming habituated to ignoring recommended security indicators.
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Sensor Web Enablement DWG
Botts, Mike (Botts Innovative Research)
Liang, Steve (University of Calgary)
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OGC members are specifying interoperability interfaces and metadata encodings that enable real time integration of heterogeneous sensor webs into the information infrastructure. Developers will use these specifications in creating applications, platforms, and products involving Web-connected devices such as flood gauges, air pollution monitors, stress gauges on bridges, mobile heart monitors, Webcams, and robots as well as space and airborne earth imaging devices.
OGC members have developed and tested the following candidate specifications. Others are planned.
- Observations & Measurements (O&M) - Standard models and XML Schema for encoding observations and measurements from a sensor, both archived and real-time.
- Sensor Model Language (SensorML) - Standard models and XML Schema for describing sensors systems and processes associated with sensor observations; provides information needed for discovery of sensors, location of sensor observations, processing of low-level sensor observations, and listing of taskable properties, as well as supports on-demand processing of sensor observations.
- Transducer Model Language (TransducerML or TML) - The conceptual model and XML Schema for describing transducers and supporting real-time streaming of data to and from sensor systems.
- Sensor Observations Service (SOS) - Standard web service interface for requesting, filtering, and retrieving observations and sensor system information. This is the intermediary between a client and an observation repository or near real-time sensor channel.
- Sensor Planning Service (SPS) - Standard web service interface for requesting user-driven acquisitions and observations. This is the intermediary between a client and a sensor collection management environment.
- Sensor Alert Service (SAS) - Standard web service interface for publishing and subscribing to alerts from sensors.
- Web Notification Services (WNS) - Standard web service interface for asynchronous delivery of messages or alerts from SAS and SPS web services and other elements of service workflows.
Please visit our OpenGIS® Specification page to view and comment on publicly available OGC Sensor Web Enablement Specifications. OGC invites organizations to join OGC and participate in OGC Sensor Web initiatives and other initiatives related to interoperable geoprocessing.
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- OGC Reference Model
- Sensor Web Enablement White Paper
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg may have said "no way, no how" to a presidential bid but that doesn't mean he doesn't want people engaged in the political process.
Bloomberg is among those headlining today's launch of No Labels, a new organization that wants to have an impact on Congress and the 2012 presidential election. The group says it's not right or left, just forward.
Joining Bloomberg, who tried out the Democrat and Republican parties before becoming an independent, were a slat of politicos and entertainers. AKON, a Grammy-nominated pop star, sings the No Labels anthem.
In an appearance Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press, Bloomberg asked supporters to "cease and desist" the hype about him running for the White House.
Bloomberg has been outspoken in the past about the rise of partisanship in politics. Shortly after switching his registration to independent, Bloomberg in 2007 said neither the Republican nor the Democratic Party "stands for anything."
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Big Gigantic doesn't play typical electronic music, which is great because in such a vast genre, it can be hard to stand out. For saxophonist Dominic Lalli and drummer Jeremy Salken, they're one of the most in-demand electronic acts around, spiking their dance-friendly tunes with dubstep, hip-hop, funk and plenty of jazz — Lalli has a master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music. The duo played New Year's Eve at NYC's soon-to-be shuttered Roseland Ballroom if you thought you went to a good party. I chatted with drummer Jeremy Salken about the duo's newest album, The Night Is Young, released last Monday. Oh and why he won't eat kangaroo on tour in Australia, even though he was told it was tasty.
My first call ended in phone tag while I listened to his outgoing voicemail message, a full minute of confused grandpa assuring you it's all going to be okay. Then he laughed at me for listening to the whole thing. Then we dove right into the most specific request I've ever heard on a tour rider.
So what's on your rider, and what on that list could you not live without?
Peanut butter pretzels are a must, coconut juice, Odwalla, deli meats, Sour Patch Kids, chips, salsa and guac, and queso. Definitely queso. We specifically ask for white cheddar.
Which city you've performed in has the best food?
New York is probably my favorite place to eat just because of the variety, but we live in Colorado and between Denver and Boulder, the food is great — specifically there's a lot of great spots in Boulder, but Denver in the past few years is starting to catch up.
Any recommendations in Boulder? You know, in case we get hungry for whatever reason?
1. Moon Gate
This place has been there forever and it's not super-fancy. They have this thing called Little Moon Shrimp: tempura-battered shrimp with egg and bok choy and it's freaking amazing, like nothing I've ever had. I always try to get people to go there and they won't, cause it doesn't look like it would be that great, but it is.
2. Oak
The meatballs with marinara, burrata and grits and it comes out in a little-cast iron skillet. It's mindblowing and will fill you up immediately.
3. Brasserie 1010
It's a French spot, they do this chicken called Brick Poulet with an incredible sauce served with squash and fries.
Which music festival you've played has the best catering backstage?
Hangout Festival, it's in Gulf Shores, AL. A lot of places have good catering but because they're on the beach and they have a restaurant on-site, they were shucking fresh oysters. The first couple of years they were doing filet and lobster, now they've dialed it down but it still has the best food. The Big Day Out Festival in Australia had incredible food, too. They did a lot of lamb and goat and some stuff you don't usually see, like kangaroo. But I didn't want to eat it cause I played with one while I was there.
You must be a pro at eating on the road after all these years. Any advice for other musicians on tour?
I would recommend bringing a blender on the road, cause it's really easy to get frozen fruit, OJ, a banana and some yogurt. Inexpensive meals. And don't eat fast food. Also, Yelp is your best friend on tour.
What's a food you didn't always like?
Brussels sprouts. I didn't know I liked them until everyone started frying and seasoning 'em right. I hated them growing up, but they're the new thing. Before, everybody had some kind of roasted beet thing on their menu, now I feel like Brussels sprouts are taking the place. I like when they chop them up and take them apart, deconstruct them. Or obviously fried.
If it's 3AM, what are you probably eating?
If we're on the road and there's pizza left over from the gig, I'll eat that. When I get off stage and I'm craving food, it's either pizza or sushi. Dom tends to go for candy, he's always eating some kind of sweets. He'll pick up a box of ice cream sandwiches and eat the whole thing.
Is there something you like to snack on if you're really hungry during a show?
I've eaten and played at the same time. With drums sometimes you can play one-handed. When I'm been starving at little bar gigs I keep a basket of fries behind me and just munch on them. I've put a piece of pizza on plate on top of the floor tom and just take bites when I can. You wouldn't really notice it.
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I got off the plane traveling from Zurich, Switzerland and walked through a long corridor with windows that revealed the cloudy Boston sky. CNN broadcasted from a TV monitor with the latest on the presidential election. Rolling my suitcase along at a fast clip across the tiled floor, I was excited to be home. I had to slow down for a long line that formed underneath a sign that read "Immigration and Customs." Now at a complete stop, in a line that was growing quite long, a ripple of confusion erupted through the crowd. There seemed to be one line forming without a distinct line for US passport holders. The man in front of me turned around and commented, "Everything is so disorganized here. This country is just going down the drain."
After being in many beautiful countries in Europe where life just seemed so much better for people, the weight of the trials and tribulations of being an American seemed to wash over me like a big sloshy wave. The dismal soundtrack of CNN overhead didn't help. Perhaps because I had been traveling for sixteen hours straight up until that point, I did not respond to him with much more than a tired nod. Yet, even in that moment of dull surrender, something awakened and shifted within me. I felt an internal promise like a spark of light in a dark room. It was a tiny voice that silently responded in the core of my being and it said, "I like this country and it's worth fighting for."
I had just given ten concerts, in nine European countries in 24 days. I was blessed to tour with Neelamjit Singh on tabla, Siri Kirtan Kaur on base, and Stuart Fuchs on guitar. I sing and play the harmonium and share chants from the Kundalini yoga and Sikh tradition. Our concerts have become healing sessions where people have the opportunity to experience the power of mantra to heal. Everybody needs healing. Even in the most beautiful and prosperous countries.
In between concerts, we had some time to walk around and I admired the numerous public recycling facilities, the incredibly efficient public transportation and the beautiful design of cities without any urban sprawl. I felt a sense of environmental awareness on a government level that is palpable in many of these countries. Given my great passion for the environment and a deep desire to be a part of the change so that we can give our coming generations a beautiful planet to live on, I think the technology of mantra has a lot to offer us.
In one concert I explained how mantra works. I was sharing about one mantra in particular called "Sat Naraayan."
Sat Naraayan Waaheguru
Haree Naraayan Satinaam
It means:
True (Sat) is the experience of Naraayan, the Name of God, and when we chant it, we are given an incredible energy of abundance, courage, and support for the soul. We chant Waaheguru to open the gate of transformation, that we may truly experience the wisdom of the Divine.
When we chant Naraayan, the seed of its consciousness, the Haree, gets planted within and we are able to access the Satinaam, the truth of the vibration of God's Name which calls forth the truth of the soul.
This mantra allows us to live in our abundance, our truth, and joy.
As I explained in the concert, when we chant these sacred words there is a deep transformation happening and we are accessing our inner truth. However, we may not feel it right away on a mental level because it is a very deep kind of communication - from cell to cell. The cells in our big toe are getting the communication in the same frequency as the cells in the brain. Wherever the receptivity is greatest for the vibration of the mantra to transfer, that is where the energy goes. Perhaps the cells in the big toe get the transfer and start vibrating truth first. We keep chanting and eventually other cells get it until our whole being is vibrating the inner truth of the soul. Eventually our thoughts, our words, and finally our actions reflect this truth. That is why a daily chanting practice is so key in all of this.
Yet, we can have all the daily practices that we can dream of- hours and hours of chanting and still be overwhelmed. In order for mantra to truly work for us, we have to make a choice to actively engage with the mantra and allow it to truly resonate. As environmental and peace activists, if you wish to identify yourself in that way, we have to actively engage with our part, no matter how small it may feel or even be. That moment in the airport, looking at that man's tennis shoes, was my wake up moment to engage and a new English mantra was born for me.
I like this country and it's worth fighting for.
We have mantras from the masters, saints and sages of our times that are ancient combinations of sounds to shift our consciousness. And we also have the repetition of our own words that create consciousness. We can understand through the technology of mantra how changing our base frequency communication can shift us inside and the energy of our environments.
Yes, it's true. In Europe, there is much more awareness about the environment, better health care, more organization on so many levels and the list goes on. But as my grandfather said, who was active in the American peace movement after World War II,
"Now it's your turn, we did our part."
So I say to you now, with a deep prayer in my heart, it is our turn. Each of us.
It is a matter of belief. Not religious. Just pure and simple inner belief, hope and trust. I am starting small; with my neighbors, my friends, with my power to vote and all the little things that will add up.
I believe we can live for freedom. I believe we can protect our environment. I believe we can be a loving community although diverse in nature. I believe we can be a force of peace on this planet. And yes, while I may be just one voice living in southern New Hampshire, like a tiny cell in a big toe, I am Naraayan. We each are Naraayan, a beautiful vibration of God's Name, living in our truth.
Snatam Kaur is an American singer, peace activist and author raised in the Sikh and Kundalini Yoga tradition. She grew up in the presence of her spiritual teacher, Yogi Bhajan, learning the essence of Naad Yoga, a form of yoga focusing on sacred sound. At the core of this practice is an essential experience of peace and healing which helps her music be accessible to all people. Her book Original Light is a compassionate and supportive guide to creating a daily spiritual practice. To find out more about her book and online course visit snatamkaur.com.


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Inclement Weather Turns People On
Honestly, I was just kind of looking for an excuse to use the word inclement — one of my favorites — and this study seemed like the perfect vehicle. But also, it contains important findings about inclement weather and how it makes people horny. Research done by Trojan found that about 70 percent of Americans had done it during a tornado, thunderstorm or hurricane. You know what that means, kids. Along with the candles, bottled water and canned beans, you'd best be adding some [Trojan] condoms to your emergency survival kit because you'll need to be prepared to entertain yourself while locked in the storm cellar. If only I had someone, besides my television, to keep me company during Hurricane Irene. Oh well, there will be other storms in my future I suppose. [CBS Tampa]


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With many stocks touching all time highs, and the Dow Jones Industrial Index more than double its 2009 low, the market is vulnerable.
The conflict in Syria may be the trigger for the next leg down. Conflicts in the mid-east seem to be a recurring theme for the past several decades if not centuries, and the violence shows no signs of easing. The apparent use of chemical weapons has finally caught the attention of leaders in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, among others, and they appear on the verge of a decision to intervene. Where that will stop is hard to say, but it seems there will be turmoil for some time to come.
Along the way, the escalating violence has traders bidding up the price of crude oil, now approaching $110 a barrel.
At the same time, the United States central bank appears on the eve of an end to its massive stimulus program euphemistically called "Quantitative Easing" instead of just "outright market manipulation". Whether that reduction in so-called QE happens in September (as many predict} or later in the year is irrelevant. The fact is we are going to see materially higher interest rates and very likely sooner rather than later. The bond pros can adroitly play the short term swings and take their chances, but for the individual investor, safety is a better plan.
Safety is a word that rolls off the tongue quite easily but offers very little guidance. Even short term treasuries yielding a fraction of a percentage point of interest cannot really be termed safe, since for certain the value of your investment will dwindle as inflation outstrips the yield on the debt and the trading value falls in the face of higher rates. So what is safe?
My view is that investors should adopt a multifaceted strategy to deal with the risks inherent in today's stock market. The prevailing theme of this strategy is that real money is made when there is blood on the floor but you cannot benefit if you have to sell stocks at cheap prices to buy other stocks at cheap prices. Simply stated, you have to have a cash position.
In addition to cash investors should address the risks in stocks.
Companies selling oil into world markets at prices tied to Brent are likely to benefit until the conflict in the Mid East is resolved, and that does not seem likely to happen any time soon. A mix of seniors like Canadian Oil Sands (OTCQX:COSWF) and juniors like Bankers Petroleum Ltd.(OTCPK:BNKJF) are among my favourites.
High oil prices may trigger higher inflation expectations. We have enjoyed years with low inflation but they are not the norm over long periods. The massive "money printing" by central banks will eventually have to resolve itself somewhere and it just might be in terms best measured by inflation. Long term protection against inflation is best achieved with hard assets. I like washed out base metal stocks with large reserves as a hedge for a portion of my holdings. Names like Freeport McMoRan (NYSE:FCX), First Quantum (OTCPK:FQVLF) and Cameco (NYSE:CCJ) are on my list as well as a smattering of juniors like Nevada Copper (OTC:NEVDF), New Millennium Iron Corporation (OTCPK:NWLNF) and Royal Nickel (OTCQX:RNKLF).
It also makes sense to have a liquid short position. Some names which are particularly vulnerable to a market downturn are Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE:WHR), CP Rail (NYSE:CP) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL). Whirlpool (WHR) participates in one of the world's most competitive industries and is closely tied to economic activity. At recent prices it has touched all time highs. History suggests this has run its course. CP Rail has run to highs as well, fueled by intense cost cutting and operations tweaking under the auspices of Hunter Harrison, recently installed by Bill Ackman to run the company. Ackman has already started to sell, possibly to try and offset the shellacking he has taken on Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) and J.C. Penney (NYSE:JCP) holdings. The share price of CP Rail is well ahead of its earnings and the 100 plus year-old technology of rail does not warrant multiples in the twenties and higher. Apple has been a stock market darling, but now faces greater competition, shrinking margins and maturing markets. Highly liquid, it is likely to follow the market down and reward Apple bears. If you become an Apple bear, you should be discreet about it since the Apple fans seem rabid in their love for the company and you will want to avoid being beaten or lynched for disagreeing with their fervor.
Residential real estate in some areas of the United States remains a good investment, since many homes are selling for less than they cost to build and there is a shortage of homes on the horizon, the result of several years of under building which has lagged family formation. Again, selection and prudence are key watchwords. It was over enthusiasm for housing which started the whole crisis in 2008-2009.
For my money, I am long oils such as PennWest Energy (PWE), Pengrowth Resources (NYSE:PGH), Canadian Oil Sands, Lightstream Resources (OTC:LSTMF) and Bankers Petroleum (OTCPK:BNKJF) and mines such as New Millennium Iron Corp., Iamgold (NYSE:IAG), Seabridge Gold (NYSEMKT:SA), Adriana Resources (ANARF.PK), Mercator Minerals (OTC:MLKKF), Capstone Mining (OTCPK:CSFFF) and Cameco Corporation (CCJ) and a few technology companies like Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Micron (NASDAQ:MU), short a handful of stocks like Whirlpool, CP Rail, Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE:RY), TD Bank (NYSE:TD), and my favorite short Apple (where I am short both puts and calls). I have an interest in 8 real properties purchased in Atlanta ,which I see as excellent long term value, and I hold a substantial cash position.
I don't recommend stocks but I do recommend you consider the risks when you invest. I hope this article helps in that regard.
Disclosure: I am long MSFT, INTC, MU. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article. I hold positions as set out in the article, which is not an exhaustive list but meant to be representative. I may sell or add to any position at any time but have no current plans to do so.


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Dara Torres
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Jennie Finch
Lolo Jones
Ali Fedotowsky
Kym Johnson
Laila Ali
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18 Comments on "ESPY Photos Part Three"
Apart from the cross eyed Aussie girl from Dancing with the Stars, who ARE these people?
Eye roll. Athletic girls are not good at dressing their bodies.
@Freya reall??? Details please!
Jennie Fibch was my nieces mentor. She's very sweet, really pretty, and even taller than I am.
Kim Johnson put her bra and half slip on then forgot to wear a dress.
@ S. Joy Well, Lolo is not exactly the nicest person, so good for the interviewer.
i didnt read the title at first but looking at these women i was like "dam" at the bodies went back up and of course it was women in sports.
looking good gals!
Laila Ali ???
Did anybody watch the red carpet pre-show? Hubby and I couldnt stop laughing. The interviewer asked Lolo Jones if she made her outfit and she was sooo offended.
who dressed these people? terrible all around
I'm sorry, who?
I don't recognize a single one.
Kym Johnson looks ridiculous.
Ugh. Ali.
Kym Johnson forgot her dress
BAd clothes
Also why are Ali wearing a bathrobe?
I totally missed Lolo's stripper heels, girl's rocking the muscles in a good way.
The Sexpy's!
Ali : Sex doesn't get you an espy, I think you went to the wrong event.
Lolo : Did no one point out how awful those shoes are? Really? No one??


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MERCED, CA — UC Merced, the 10th campus of the prestigious University of California system and the first major American research university to be built in the 21st century, is currently accepting applications for graduate students to enroll as the campus' first students for the fall 2004 semester.
"The initial class of graduate students at the University of California, Merced will find a special opportunity to work in close association with the founding faculty in a collegial, multidisciplinary setting," said Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies Keith Alley. "They will gain the knowledge and expertise that are hallmarks of a UC graduate degree while being pioneers as our first students."
Facilities will be equipped with state-of-the-art technology, and a curriculum tied to the process of discovery will include an unusual amount of personal interaction with faculty mentors. Graduate students frequently will be able to work in multidisciplinary clusters with their mentors and other faculty, truly sharing in their achievements and discoveries.
Graduate education at UC Merced is organized around multi-disciplinary graduate groups that will emphasize a highly interdisciplinary approach to solving society's major problems. The faculties of the three current schools have committed to work together to provide course offerings and research experiences that transcend disciplinary boundaries and attack important real-world issues.
The initial three programs of graduate study include: environmental systems; quantitative and systems biology; and molecular science and engineering.
UC Merced has partnerships with Yosemite and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, which will allow research to be conducted in protected National Forests and Parks. Through this exceptional relationship, graduate students will be able to study natural resources that are otherwise inaccessible. Students can also capitalize on the abundant resources at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and benefit from the campus' strong business connections throughout the San Joaquin Valley.


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Celebrity Style: Mandy Moore
Mandy Moore looked very au natural at the Mercedes-Benz Bridgehampton Polo Challenge in Long Island over the weekend. Her gold knit dress is flattering but I'm glad she chose to pair it with those white sassy wedge sandals! Without them, the ensemble would be quite snooze-worthy. She tops it all off with some chunky jewels...she's literally golden!


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Elastic Properties
The Bulk Modulus
The bulk elastic properties of a material determine how much it will compress under a given amount of external pressure. The ratio of the change in pressure to the fractional volume compression is called the bulk modulus of the material.
A representative value for the bulk modulus for steel is 160 x 109 N/m2
and that for water is 2.2 x 109 N/m2. The reciprocal of the bulk modulus is called the compressibility of the substance. The amount of compression of solids and liquids is seen to be very small.
The bulk modulus, B, is a material property that relates the change in volume with a change in pressure:
B = -V(¶P/¶V)T = -(¶P/¶ln(V)) T
A typical bulk modulus of medium density polyethylene is about 0.14 GPa (= 109 N/m2). This is for a polyethylene that has a density of 0.93 g/cm3.
The bulk modulus can be calculated by distorting all of the dimensions of the unit cell using the program cellvec_xyz and calculating the energy as a function of the change in volume. This procedure uses the fact that the pressure is:
and so
If we distort along all three dimensions of the unit cell by the same fractional amount we uniformly change the volume of the unit cell. If we plot the calculated energy as a function of the volume we will obtain a curve whose curvature (¶2E/¶V2) and unit cell volume V can be used to calculate the bulk modulus.
Young's modulus
For the description of the elastic properties of linear objects like wires, rods, columns, which are either stretched or compressed, a convenient parameter is the ratio of the stress to the strain, a parameter called the Young's modulus of the material. Young's modulus can be used to predict the elongation or compression of an object as long as the stress is less than the yield strength of the material.
Figure 1. Definition of terms used the calculation of elastic constants.
The relation between the external diagonal stress, Pi, and the diagonal components of the strain tensor, hi, can be expressed as the following matrix equation:
To obtain the Young's modulus along the chain (assumed here to be in the x-direction according to our set-up of the unit cell above one needs to solve for h1 at the condition P1 = 1, P2 = P3 = 0 GPa.
The elastic constants are obtained from:
Where Di and Dj are dimensionless displacements along unit cell vectors, V is the unit cell volume and U(D) and U(0) are the energies of the deformed and undeformed unit cell, respectively.
Example: Calculation of the Young's Modulus of Polyethylene
Using the program elastic_xyz.f we can create .car files with distortions along each of the unit directions, x, y and z. The program will prompt you for a four-letter root name and will then add "_x.car", "_y.car" and "_z.car", respectively, to create files:
with the same fractional distortion. We choose to sample the range from 0.96 to 1.04. We calculate the energy at each of the distorted unit cells using DFT methods. First, we perform a single point energy calculation. Plots are given for each of the dimensions.
Figure 2. The binding energy of the high density (orthorhombic) unit cell with displacements along the given unit cell directions for a single point energy calculation. The displacements are given in fractional coordinates along each unit cell direction.
Note that the minimum energy is not necessarily at the dimension given the x-ray crystal structure. A deviation likely arises from inaccuracy in the DFT calculation. The best model is obtained along the length of the carbon chains (x-direction). Here there is a clear minimum and Young's modulus could be calculated using these data. The deviation from experiment is only 1% along the x dimension.
Next we reoptimize the geometry for each deformed structure as shown in the Figure below.
Figure 3. The binding energy of the high density (orthorhombic) unit cell with displacements along the given unit cell directions for a reoptimized geometry at each deformation geometry. The displacements are given in fractional coordinates along each unit cell direction.
Along y and z there are clearly problems. The chain interactions along these dimensions are weak. DFT theory does not capture dispersion forces and so the weak chain interactions at larger distances may be an artifact.
Based on these calculated deformation energies we obtain the following deformation energies for D = 0.01 (using only one of the dimensions)
U(Dx) - U(0) = 1.0 ± 0.15, D = 0.01
U(Dy) - U(0) = 0.5 ± 0.25, D = 0.01
U(Dz) - U(0) = 0.25 ± 0.15 , D = 0.01
Ignoring off-diagonal terms in this simple example and substituting into the above formula (V = 2.534 x 4.93 x 7.4 = 92.4 Å3) we find:
Yx ~ 350 ± 54 , Yx ~ 180 ± 90, Yx ~ 90 ± 54 GPa
Experimental measurements of Yx range from 230 to 360 depending on the method used. See reference 1.
There are at least two ways to improve on this result.
1. Sample smaller changes to determine whether there are well-defined minima. There could be more than one minimum given that there a number of interactions as the chains pushed together or pulled apart.
2. Better DFT calculations can be carried out by employing larger basis sets.
1. Miao et al. J. Chem. Phys. (2001), 115, 11317-11324


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My old university tutor often complains when he has to write references – they take up a lot of his time, and he doesn't get paid for them. Since he's doing my prospective employer a service, he thinks they should pay him. However, that means he's motivated to write me a bad reference, because then I won't get the job, and I'll ask him to write me another one – so he gets paid again. Of course, we could say that he only gets paid if I get the job – so he writes me an overly gushing reference. How can we motivate my tutor to write a fair and accurate reference, and compensate him for his time?
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A recent study in the UK claims Facebook (FB) is "dead and buried." The reasoning: teens think Facebook isn't cool anymore.
And clearly, we should all listen to teenagers.
"What we've learned from working with 16-18 year olds in the UK is that Facebook is not just on the slide, it is basically dead and buried," the study stated. "Mostly they feel embarrassed even to be associated with it. Where once parents worried about their children joining Facebook, the children now say it is their family that insists they stay there to post about their lives."
This isn't the first time someone has said Facebook is in a death spiral. There have also been reports that millions of people have left the social network in the United States and United Kingdom over the past year. And after its third quarter earnings call, where Facebook's CFO acknowledged a decrease in teenage daily active users, the stock nosedived 15%.
Still, the theory that Facebook is going to die altogether is moronic. Here are the three most common complaints about Facebook and why they make no sense.
1. "MySpace died!"
It's easy to compare Facebook to the social network it helped bury, MySpace. But saying "Myspace died" isn't true. It was acquired by News Corporation for $580 million two years after it was founded. That's a win by any startup measure. It wasn't until 2008, when Myspace was under new management, that Facebook outgrew it.
Also, MySpace was never as large as Facebook is now. At its peak 2008, MySpace had 100 million registered users and generated $600 million.
Facebook now has 1.19 billion monthly active users and it generates more than $1 billion per quarter. It is magnitudes larger than 2008 Myspace in terms of active users and revenue, which makes it that much harder to kill.
Even people who acknowledge Facebook's teen problem say the risk of it becoming Myspace is small.
"The problem [with Facebook] is that, in the US and UK, most people who want to sign up for Facebook have already done it," Enders Analysis new media specialist Ian Maude told The Guardian."There is a boredom factor where people like to try something new. Is Facebook going to go the way of Myspace? The risk is relatively small, but that is not to say it isn't there."
There is a boredom factor where people like to try something new. Is Facebook going to go the way of Myspace? The risk is relatively small, but that is not to say it isn't there.
2. Teenagers don't think it's cool anymore.
Teenagers, particularly college students, were the first to use Facebook. To hear Facebook's initial core users say they're "bored" with it is startling. But they haven't quit the social network altogether.
"The reality is there is a decline [of teens on Facebook], but it is still no. 1 [among teens in 30 out of 32 countries] and account ownership still remains at near full penetration," Tom Smith, CEO of social media data company Global Web Index, tells Forbes.
Bored teens on Facebook make up a relatively small number of Facebook's total users too.
"We think the lower daily usage is currently limited to a small portion of younger teens, likely ages 13-15, that may be using additional services such as Facebook-owned Instagram, Snapchat, and Whats App," J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth wrote after Facebook's last earnings call.
Despite a few disinterested members, Facebook's total active users are still on the rise. Parents and other late adopters are just started on the social network. Facebook is also taking advantage of emerging markets. In some European countries, where Facebook has quickly amassed tens of millions of users, three-fourths of monthly active users are logging onto the social network daily.
Essentially, Facebook is losing steam in one small user base (teens) but growing steadily in others (adults and emerging markets).
"From Q2 2012 to Q3 2013 the percentage of active users among 16 – 19 year olds fell from 62% to 52%, and among 20 – 24 year olds fell from 63% to 52%," Forbes summarized the findings of a recent GlobalWebIndex study. " Now the interesting part: The percentage of active users among the 35 – 44 year old age group rose from 47% to 53%, among 45 – 54 year olds from 43% to 49%, and among 55 – 64 year olds from 39% – 45%."


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A broad-minded and accepting bunch—with the dominant beauty (and class) standards of their own day.
And the desire for understanding is the first step toward a more inclusive and broad-minded future.
None of these "broad-minded women" were ever intended for Mr. Ideal.
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You are known to be rich—I mean cultured and progressive and broad-minded.
His scheme is so noble and broad-minded that I can not refrain from detailing it.
She was broad-minded—the breadth and depth of perfect health and a clean heart.
The real character and importance of these movements have been appreciated by broad-minded historians.


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Hey - don't know if you intended to send this ONLY to me or not - but
anyways here goes.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bosse Timothy [mailto:Bosse dot tf at mellon dot com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 3:15 PM
> To: Mitch (WebCob)
> Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] Hotspot Access Pages
> This is a difficult request for multiple reasons.
> 1) Security/Simplicity - I believe a router/firewall should do JUST
> that. As more applications are added, there is a greater risk of
> security compromise. KISS is always a good mantra to repeat.
> ESPECIALLY when you think a feature should be added.
Of course - which is why I was proposing modularity. There are loads of
people who don't need IPSec, and there are others who don't need WAP
support, and so on. Then there are those that need some sort of accounting
features - before you say that doesn't belong in a firewall I will tell you
I agree perhaps the SYSTEM doesn't, but certainly the packet counters or
SNMP loggin has to be there - it's the only place it can be.
> 2) Logistics - How do you propose to add new applications to a read-only
> FS? What standard/method of plug-in/module/package management do you
> propose to use? Will the proposed method greatly increase the size of
> the image? Will the packages greatly increase the size of the package?
> What happens if you are out of space on the media or FS that you are
> attempting to add to? I can think of several answers to each. None of
> the answers I can come up with are all that pretty or easy to implement.
Packages could be added and obviously tested on a read write file system,
and then bundled into a customer read only package. Many people are already
using kernel hacking and so on to do this. I was proposing using the
existing FreeBSD package management system - I had asked if it was still in
the base monowall distribution, but didn't hear a response. There are lots
of ways to make this happen - that's not the point right now though - first,
should it happen at all. I'd say if it improves the breadth of the project
without destabilizing core functions that are essential to all users, then
it can only be good... time will tell.
> 3) Time/Resources - Unless somebody else wants to take a stab at writing
> something, Manuel is the one who is creating m0n0wall. Each feature
> must be carefully thought out and implemented. Support initially
> remains with Manuel until people are able to pick up on the changes that
> were made. All of this requires a huge chunk of time and thought.
Of course, but I for one haven't ehard a reply from Manuel on the concept of
a module or package system to support extra features - could be done, but as
I said in a few of my emails, I think one of the key WEAKNESSES to free
software is the willingness of the community to splinter over minor
differences. With a package management system, and basic support in the web
interface for including extra config pages if they are present and follow a
certain format would allow the splinter groups to stay within the core
project without having to branch, and set up their own maintenance and site
and lists and so on - which benefits the core mono community as the larger
the community the broader the testing, and support and so on...
I'd certainly be intersted in helping, but to do the work in a vacuum is to
invite failure.
> 4) Other Methods - Manuel has provided an excellent document on how to
> make changes to the images. Take a look at the m0n0wall Hacker's Guide.
> If people are really dead set on getting a function added, and they feel
> it's falling on dead ears, try developing it yourself. You might, in
> the process of development, find out why it fell on dead ears in the
> first place.
Yup - and that works for features where you are the only one doing it. Why
should the dozens of individuals work in isolation on each minor variation
and have to resort to patching and remerging with each new mono release when
a little work on a package system could allow more community effort &
support on the core product?
> Honestly, I think requests just need to be made. One of my biggest pet
> peeves is the fact that multiple people request a feature that has
> already been requested multiple times. Read the archives, if it's
> there, read the archives to determine if it's been accepted/rejected.
> If it isn't make your request.
While I appreciate your angst at those not reading the archives, I can't
really expact that much - some of them are new and some of them - like
myself - are probably overworked. I spent a few hours a day keeping up with
lists and projects I'm interested in or support in some way - if I had to
read archives - (how much is reasonable - where's the standard - is it the
last 1000 messages or the last 6 months? ;-) If multiple people didn't make
a request, the community at large wouldn't realize the breadth of interest
in a particular feature.
> Manuel will make a decision to attempt the feature or not. Either way,
> the debate over adding it or not is over at that point. If you like the
> feature you will use it. If you don't like it, you won't use it. If
> you really don't want the feature in your image, refer to reason #4.
Don't recall seeing any response to the package system concept - I kicked a
few ideas out there but haven't seen a response yet.
> I don't develop that often or that well, so I keep my requests to a
> minimum and I stay thankful that somebody took enough time to create a
> product to the point it is today.
I do develop often, and well enough to keep employed, but am often busy
enough to prevent me from doing a lot of time on too many of the projects I
have interest in - if I am going to roll code, I like to make sure it is
general in use and accepted by the powers that be. I don't want to splinter
and spend valuable time creating a patch that will soon be forgotten unless
it is essential to my business or clients - I'd rather generalize it, adapt
it to the betterment of the project and contribute the effort to an active
project or branch to ensure it gets the longest life.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mitch (WebCob) [mailto:mitch at webcob dot com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 4:39 PM
> To: Timothy Jans; m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
> Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] Hotspot Access Pages
> This is what I suggested and outlined before - Manuel - any opinions on
> an extention interface like I described?
> That would allow people needing features to extend the platform without
> having to branch the project, and would avoid the bloat for people who
> don't need the extras.
> m/
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Timothy Jans [mailto:timothy dot jans at pandora dot be]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 1:10 PM
> > To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
> > Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Hotspot Access Pages
> >
> >
> > Can't we make some kind of plugin system in m0n0wall (like they have
> > with
> > freesco)
> > so you can easely install (and remove) a 3rd party plugin.
> > That way everyone is happy ;)
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Richard Morrell" <dick at dickmorrell dot com>
> > To: "John Voigt" <1geek at jvoigt dot com>
> > Cc: "David Rodgers" <david dot rodgers at kdsi dot net>; <m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 9:32 PM
> > Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Hotspot Access Pages
> >
> >
> > Quoting John Voigt <1geek at jvoigt dot com>:
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "David Rodgers" <david dot rodgers at kdsi dot net>
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > Well, for you it's a firewall. A lot of people are using it with
> > > the Soekris box as a wireless router in their SOHO environment
> > >
> >
> > David is a disciple of the school of hard knocks and lack of
> > personality people. He has best interests at heart but he does need to
> > sharpen up his people skills to add to his obvious depth in network
> > technologies.
> >
> > Either that or lets set up a Paypal fund for an overdue personality
> > injection.
> >
> > Dick
> >
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