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Cold, cold water surrounds me now.
I was miles away.
But still, I could feel them.
My family was the hardest to endure. I'd been with them for so long, that it was almost impossible to block them out even on a normal day. And this … this was not a normal day.
We'd been in Denali almost a month now, and most of them were in the exact same emotional state that they'd been in when they first arrived. Except for Edward, of course. He'd lingered for less than two days before running off on his own to God knows where.
"I can't bear it," he'd told me, as I'd tried in vain to calm him. Alice had seen his leaving and begged me to try to talk some sense into him. After all, that was my role in the family, wasn't it? The sensible one.
"Then bear it for Esme." It was a low blow, reminding him of the pain he was causing our mother. But it was true, and Alice had asked me to make him see reason, and by God, it was reason he would see.
He looked at me with pained desperation, willing me to understand. "You know I can't stand it," he said darkly, and he forced the full brunt of his misery on me. The sheer force of it made me physically withdraw from him. He let out a breath that he didn't need to hold, and his whole body slumped from the effort. It was like all of the hope and love he'd ever felt just deflated right out of him.
"What if it were Alice?" he asked quietly. As if I hadn't already drawn the parallel. As if I didn't completely empathize. "What if you had to leave her?"
I wouldn't.
"What if you had to?"
There is nothing in this world or in any other that would take me from her. I stepped closer to him, until he looked up at me. This was your choice, Edward. No one forced this on you.
His face crumpled and I almost regretted what I'd said. I reached out to him, but he recoiled immediately. He knew that physical contact would make my gift more effective, and I could feel his resistance. He turned his back on me and closed in on himself, content to bear his heartache alone.
"If you could feel it," I told his back gently. "If you could feel their love for you, their devotion to your happiness -"
"There is no happiness without Bella."
There was nothing left to be said. He was refusing to see us, his family, as any kind of comfort or salvation.
He'd left ten minutes later, before the others had come back from their afternoon of shopping. Left me to tell them the news -- that we weren't enough for him. Esme had sobbed tearlessly and her grief was overwhelming. I felt my own body shudder under the weight of it, shoulders shaking as if I was the one crying.
Maybe I was. It was hard to tell the difference anymore.
Lord, can you hear me now?
Carlisle's emotions were quieter, but no less distraught. His was a deep sadness, remembering all too clearly the last time Edward had abandoned him and what had occurred. There was fear for his son, disappointment laced with guilt, and a hopelessness that made my whole body ache. He had been so sure that Edward had finally found the happiness he'd always wanted for him.
But, there was also a hint of anger and resentment there, that he would put his wife through such turmoil (followed by more guilt, of course). But underlying all that was understanding and compassion – an unconditional love for his first son that warred painfully with his other emotions.
Lord, can you hear me now?
Emmett, on the other hand, was good at covering. Well, he was good at it with everyone else, obviously. He smiled and laughed and made jokes almost like he always did. But there was no sincerity behind it. He always laughed a little too loud, tried just a little too hard, and his smile never quite reached his eyes.
He missed Edward so much. It was like every time he walked in the house, his entire being deflated upon remembering that his brother wasn't there to joke with. He would sit in front of the television, staring through it and letting himself fall into a silent depression. I tried to get him out of it. Even let him beat me at wrestling. But it wasn't the same. Especially when the rest of the family was so down, too.
Lord, can you hear me now?
Rosalie couldn't handle it – everyone "moping around and acting like he freaking died." She missed him too, of course. After all, for years, it had just been her and Edward and despite their constant bickering, their love for each other was always just below the surface. It got pushed down pretty deep sometimes, but it was always there all the same.
For Rosalie, the pain would come in quick and sudden spurts. She'd be trying on clothes in front of her mirror and something in the reflection would remind her of him. She'd go from quiet contentment to sharp spasms of grief, that rocked her still chest, in a matter of seconds.
Esme wasn't the only one who cried.
Or am I lost?
And then there was Alice. My cheerful, little pixie who wasn't very cheerful anymore. When she wasn't cooped up in our room trying to see Edward's return, she followed Esme around like a shadow, trying desperately to make up for the hole that Edward (and Bella) left in her mother's heart.
Because if there was something Alice hated more than being heartbroken herself, it was seeing those she loved feeling the same way.
The thing about Alice was that I was far more sensitive to her emotions than the others. Her longing for Edward and Bella was a constant ache in my chest, a throbbing in my heart that felt like I was missing a necessary organ or something. Edward was her best friend in the family (besides me, she'd always say, but I know better) and Bella was her best friend outside of it. She'd lost them both in a matter of a week.
But she insisted that she still saw Bella as one of us. This added a thick layer of constant frustration and confusion that made my head spin. And with Edward insisting that he was never going back to her, a cold wave of fear kept nipping at her (at us). If Edward didn't change her, who would?
And it was the same thing, every day. The guest house in Denali had taken on such a dreary climate, that it often felt like we were in the death row wing of a prison – no hope of escape and only one wretched end to look forward to.
Tanya and her sisters didn't make my situation any easier, either. Their constant lusting after all of us, which had seemed to shift its focus onto me now that Edward was gone, was uncomfortable to say the least.
And all I've got is your hand.
So, that's how I ended up out here. Through thick woods and three miles away from the house. I'd first found this lake the very first time Alice and I had traveled here, her visions of the Cullens leading us to Denali, where we had just happened to miss them. The lustful atmosphere was strong back then, too, so I'd go on long runs around the area, trying (mostly in vain) to find a reprieve.
I wanted to be numb. To have a complete lack of feeling, both physically and emotionally. It was something I hadn't experienced since being turned and to be honest, I wasn't even sure it was possible. But, God, did I try.
I had jumped into the lake the second I saw it, my body easily buckling the ice that had formed on top. I had sunk immediately, my body completely submerging in the icy water. I could have sworn the water almost felt cold.
And I would rest there, breathing the water in and letting it wash through my still body. I would let my eyes fall, let my limbs just hang and I would just be still. I could still hear the world above me, but the water deafened it a little bit. And I could still feel the slightest movement in the water, but it was softened a little bit.
And I could still feel all of their emotions, but with the water pressing into my skull and the cold almost reaching me, it was easier to ignore it.
It was the closest I would ever get to being numb.
And I can't let go of your hand.
I felt and heard her footsteps on the ice, at the far edge of the lake, closest to the house. She knew I came out here, of course. I'd never told her why, but I'm sure her visions explained it. At least, she always acted like she knew.
She tried so hard sometimes to not feel. To be a blank slate for me, something I didn't have to worry about. She hated feeling like she was adding to my burdens. What she could never understand was that any kind of emotion from her was a relief. It reminded me of our bond and how empty my life was before.
I opened my eyes just in time to see her tiny figure fall through the ice. The bits and shards sparkled in the morning sunlight as they danced away from her and drifted into the water. The beams that touched her through the broken surface made her look even more ethereal than she usually did.
She was wearing just a thin white slip that would've looked suicidal to any human passerby. Her bare feet were pointed gracefully as she slowly made her way toward me, the slip floating up around her waist, revealing simple cotton underwear. She reached her hand out to me then, but I remained frozen. Esme must've just found something of Edward's during her fit of frenzied cleaning. My chest constricted painfully and I closed my eyes, trying to shut out her anguish.
Tiny fingers skimmed over my forehead, trying to will the pain away. Her thumb grazed the scar above my left eyebrow as her other hand flitted over my eyelids, brushing the lashes with her fingertips. And then she was kissing me once, twice, three times on my eyes, my nose, my forehead. Every inch of my face was her canvas as she brushed her lips along a pattern only she could see (or maybe it was just the scars and connect-the-dots).
I opened my eyes, needing to see the angel before me. And with the sun shining down behind her and her dress floating up in white waves behind her, her eyes shining with adoration and love, that's exactly what she looked like. My angel.
I finally made myself move, reaching out to her, needing to feel her in my arms. She wrapped her tiny hands around my neck, threading one into my hair and pulling me to her. As if I could ever stay away.
Her legs wrapped tightly around my waist and I hooked my arms firmly around her, holding us together. She was sending strong waves of love toward me, enfolding me in her comfort. She was still sad, but that wasn't the foremost thing in her mind. Right now, I was blessed enough to be her sole focus and desire.
As she clung to me tighter, I realized that I could have stayed like that for days, even years, just holding her. But she apparently had other plans. Or maybe it was me. (I could never tell anymore.)
I felt a warmth spreading through me, turning the miserable aching in my chest into something else entirely. She was clutching at my shoulders now, trying to get closer (it was never close enough). My hand found her neck and I pulled her only far enough way to gain access to her mouth. Even immersed in water, kissing her was still a heightened experience. I could still feel every little touch and caress.
I wasn't numb anymore.
I love you.
Don't you know I love you?
And I always have.
Will you come with me?
Am I lost with you?


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Fast Fourier Transform
Hi everyone, I would like to analyse the turbulent spectrum of the flow over a bluff body. As I'm simulating using FLUENT all the data is on the Spatial space and I need to use FFT to transform the data to the Fourier space.
In order to compare my simulation with other results I got the velocity (U, V, W) on the same point that the paper presented. Also I have the code to compute the FFT. So my question is about how to do it.
To obtain the spectrum, should I use the FFT of the V velocity and from the results get the square ? For example:
FFT(V) = R+iIm
The one dimensional streamwise velocity spectrum is R^2+Im^2 plotted in a log graph? What about the frequency on the X axis? How do I calculate? Does any one know about it?
Re: Fast Fourier Transform
Hi Lourival, If i understood you, you want to calcualte the spectrum of time-series of the velocity. Spectrum of U for example can be computed like this spectrum of U=FFT(U)*conjugate of FFT(U), for V just replace U. Regards, Zack
Re: Fast Fourier Transform
Hi Zack, you got the problem, that is right I want to calculate the spectrum of time series of the velocity.
Sorry about my small knowledge about Fourier, I'm trying to get some more insigths about it, my doubts is about the conjugate. The conjugate of FFT(U) is the imaginary part? So the spectrum of U is the (Real part of FFT(U))*(Imaginary part of FFT(U)) ?
Another doubte, when I calculate the FFT(U) I have a simetry on the half way, for example 512 on the 1024 data. Should I consider this in my calculus?
Re: Fast Fourier Transform
It's me again, the FFT(U) returns a result like z=a-ib and the conjugate is z'= a+ib, so the spectrum is = a^2 + b^2, OK??
Also, as I can see, once we calculate the FFT(U) we have a plane of simetry, as I said on the last msg. Consequently the spectrum is related only to the first part (or second). To determine the frequency on the abscissa axis it is necessay to calculate w = arctan(b/a) for each point of the spectrum?
Another question is concerned about a filter, is necessary to filter the results? Is necessary to filter the spectrum velocity?
Thanks for your attention
Best regards
Re: Fast Fourier Transform
Dear Lourival, YES, right, if z=x+iy, the conjugate of z is x-iy. About the frequaency, i suppose you want to calculate the Strouhal number since you are simulating flow around a bluff body. Am I right?. OK. the frequency depends on sampling rate in a dimensional sence(the rate that write the data to the file per second), frequency is 1/T. be aware to calculate different frequencies for only half of the sepctrum as you said. for filtration, as i know it depends. Regards, Zack
Re: Fast Fourier Transform
Dear Zack... again you are right. As I'm simulating the flow around bluff body I would like to have the Strouhal number.
The values of the velocity were sampled at each time step, so the sampling rate were the same of the time step, in this case ts = 2E-5 [s]. Unfortunately I didn't get the idea concerning the frequency.
Tell me if I am wrong. The frequency on the abscissa axis (log scale) is 1*1/ts, 2*1/ts, 3*1/ts... and so on???
Thanks again...
Re: Fast Fourier Transform
Dear Lourival, Yes, you are right. I will give example from Matlab for 512 samples. Yfft = fft(y,512); this fft of the samples Power_spectrum = Yfft.* conj(Yfft) / 512; Graph the first 257 points (the other 255 points are redundant) on a meaningful frequency axis: f = sample rate*(0:256)/512; from 0 to the half of the samples. Strouhal number =f*length scale/velocity scale. Hope everything is clear now. Regards Zack
Re: Fast Fourier Transform
Dear Zack, I believe that I got the idea. I just didn't understand why Power_spectrum = Yfft.* conj(Yfft)is divided by 512.
So the frequency is f = sample rate*(from 0 to 256)/512 and for each frequency, f , should I calculate the Strouhal number? And then compare each one with the Theoretical Strouhal number?
Thanks a lot
Re: Fast Fourier Transform
Hi Lourival, First of all, you can calculate for any amount, say to all data N, when you calculate f should be from (0 to N/2)/N. when you done that, plot power spectrum (from 1 to (N/2+1))Vs f (or St), f or St you want is the value when power spectrum is the highest. see here a part from my m-file. UFFT=fft(U,N); spectrum=UFFT.* conj(UFFT)/N; f = sample rate*(0:N/2)/N; St=f*(cylinder diameter)/(U mean at inlet); figure(1) plot(St,spectrum(1:N/2+1)) title('STROUHAL NUMBER') xlabel('Strouhal Number') ylabel('Power Spectrum')
Regards, Zack
Re: Fast Fourier Transform
Hi Zack, thanks a lot for your help, I did exactly as you told me, I believe that I have a small data on the velocity and this results in a lot of noise and it is not possible to identify the real Strouhal number... I have 4000 data of velocity (I filled all the 4096 data, enought to be proportional to 2, with 0). What do you think about it??
Thanks for your help ..
Re: Fast Fourier Transform
Dear Lourival, What is your Reynolds number?, if is high enough to be turbulent, then it is normal to see noise in the results. also you can plot the velocity and see if it is periodic laminar or there are fluctuations. in case of laminar vortex shedding you should get one peak.
Re: Fast Fourier Transform
Hi Zack, well my Reynolds number is on the transition zone, ReD = 3900. I believe that there are noises, specially because on the velocity profile there is fluctuations around a average profile and it is periodic but probably not enough. As I said before I took only 4000 samples of the velocity, and I'm starting to believe that at least the double is the minimum... What do you think?
Best Regards
Re: Fast Fourier Transform
Dear Lourival
I see your flow is turbulent. Actually for 2D you can see 2 peaks at Re=>250, so with inceasing Re will get more peaks in strouhal number indicating to the fluctuation, so the shedding has no unique frequancy.
Re: Fast Fourier Transform
Thanks Zack, Actually I agree with you, but I belive that there is a peak indicating the Strouhal number, as many others, but the Strouhal should be the expressive one. And I don't get this...
Best Regards
Re: Fast Fourier Transform
Dear Lourival,
OK. could please send me your data I will try to see it. thesis_ak at yahoo dot com
Re: Fast Fourier Transform
To reduce the noise level in your spectrum (at the expense of spectral resolution), use Welch's method:
1) divide your data in N (possibly 50 % overlapped) sub-segments,
2) for each segment compute the power spectrum using FFT over this segment: S_i(f)=FFT_{u_i(t)}(f)*conjugate[FFT_{u_i(t)}(f)],
3) average the N spectra : S(f)=(1/N)*Sigma_{i=1}^N S_i(f)
To improve the results, you should multiply your data by a window (whatever your like : Hamming, Hanning, Welch, Parzen...) prior to compute the FFT in stage 2
If spectrum levels are of importance, you should ensure that your spectrum is normalized as in the experiments. Most probably the normalization is such as the integral from 0 to half the sampling rate of S(f) df is equal to the variance of your data (Parseval theorem).
Also note that for this kind of spectrum with strong peaks, it is often interesting to use more advanced spectrum estimators than FFT ones, especially if you are a little short on data. You could for instance try Burg's method (maximum entropy). Details and C or Fortran programs can be found in numerical recipes online.
Hope this helps.
Re: Fast Fourier Transform
Dear Lionel, I believe that I got the idea of reducing noise on the FFT. Please check if it is right.
1) Divide my data on N sub-segments (50% overlaped) For example total data of 4096, i.e. N = 3, the first sub-segment goes from 1 - 2048, the second goes from 1024 - 3072, the last from 2048 - 4096.
2) After this sub division calculate the FFT of each sub segment and multiply by its conjugate.
3) Average the N spectra.
Well if it is right I got the idea, my doubts are concerning the window, should I multiplicate my data on the sub segment by a function that is validy only on that range? For example, for the first sub segment the function is zero from 2049 - 4096? Another doubt concerning the FFT of the subsegment, should I calculate the FFT for the first sub segment, for instance, from 1 to 4096 or only for 1 - 2048?
On the averaging I didn't get the meaning of Sigma_{i=1} on your answer.
For the window function, the Hann function is w(k) = 0.5*(1- cos(2*k*pi/(N-1)) ? On which k is the index of the full data (from 1 - 4096)??
Thanks a lot for your help and attention...
Best regards
Re: Fast Fourier Transform
There are two possibilities:
1) Use a FFT of length equal to the length of the sub segment: using your example, 2048 => 1025 independent Fourier modes with frequencies ranging from 0 to f_sampling/2. The window should have the same length than the segment, therefore N=2048 in your formula.
2) Use a FFT of length equal to twice (or any other integer multiple) the length of the sub-segment: using your example, the data d(i) that have to be Fourier transformed are of length 4096 and are built such as:
i=1 -> 2048: d(i)=w(i)*s_j(i) with w the window function (N=2048) and s_j the samples over the jth segment (i.e. s_1(1)=s(1), s_1(2)=s(2), ... , s_1(2048)=s(2048), s_2(1)=s(1025), s_2(2)=s(1026), ... , s_2(2048)=s(3072), s_3(1)=s(2049), s_3(2)=s(2050), ... , s_3(2048)=s(4096))
i=2049 -> 4096: d(i)=0.0 (known as zero padding).
You will obtain 2049 Fourier modes with frequencies ranging from 0 to f_sampling/2. However only half of them, the even ones, are independent (and identical to the ones obtained when using method 1), the other being related to a kind of spectral interpolation.
Note that because of the windowing, the power contained in the spectra is altered due to the power of the window. It should be corrected either:
- by multiplying each jth spectrum by a constant computed so as to ensure that the Parseval equality is met (integral over spectrum related to the jth segment=variance over this segment) or
- by dividing the resulting jth spectrum by W=N*sum_(i=1->N) w(i)^2.
The first approach is safer since it is free of difficulty that could arise from the normalization used in the FFT program.
Lastly, in my previous post, sigma_{i=1} was simply meaning sum from i=1.
Hope this helps (sorry for the bad english)
Re: Fast Fourier Transform
Dear Lionel, I got the paper of Welch that it is described the method. Here I resume the method.
"Supose X(j), j=0 to N-1, we take segments, possibly overlapping, of length L with starting points of D unity apart.
X1(j) = X(j), j=0..L-1 X2(j) = X(j+D), j=0..L-1 X3(j) = X(j+(K-1)D), j=0..L-1 .... Xk(j) that cover the entire record
For each segment of length L we calculate the modified periodogram. That is select a data window W(j), j=0..L-1 and form the sequences X1(j)W(j), ..., Xk(j)W(j). We take de FFT of each segment: A1(n), ..., Ak(n).
Finally we obtain the K modified periodogram Ik(fn)=L/U*Abs(Ak(n))^2, k=1,...,K. where: fn = n/L, n=0,...,L/2
And U = 1/L*Sum(W(j)^2) that j=0 to L-1.
So that the spectral estimate is the average of these periodogram
P(fn) = 1/K*Sum(Ik(fn)) that k=1 to K."
As I understood correctly the average is over the half part of the record for each segment and is it different from that presented by you? If I take for simplicity W(j) = 1 for j=0 to L-1 Am I not modifing the average spectrum??.
Sorry bother you. And don't worry about english, mine isn't good enought
Re: Fast Fourier Transform
The Welch method, as summarized in your post, seems to me similar to the one I was describing: K segments (possibly overlapping) of length L resulting in an average over K spectra of length L/2+1 (frequencies from 0 to f_sampling/2 or reduced frequency f/(f_sampling/2) from 0 to 1, as in Welch paper).
For the sake of simplicity you can use a square window (W(j)=1). However it implies that for each frequency the spectrum you obtain is equal to the convolution of the underlying spectrum with the Fourier transform of the square function (0 outside of the segment and 1 inside) that is equal to sinc(f)=sin(f)/f, a slowly decaying function of f. Consequently, part of the energy of one single Fourier mode will be spread over the adjacent frequencies. This could be a serious problem for spectra with strong peaks as the one you want to analyze.
The purpose of a window is to use a function with a Fourier transform that has a faster decay than the sinc function so as to reduce as much as possible this smearing. Moreover, since part of the data has been damped near the beginning and the end of the segment when using a non-square window, overlapping can be used to partly recover the influence of the damped samples since they will be used in the computation of more than one spectra.
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When you've reached the point of putting your faith in Russia to bail you out, you've almost capitulated. Almost.
The oil market is at that penultimate point. The optimism that took hold last week on comments from Russia's energy minister that he might be open to coordinating supply cuts with OPEC has largely fizzled. Brent crude, having closed last Monday at a dreadful $30.50 a barrel, ended the week at a merely abysmal $34.74 (and already this week it's headed back down from there). The fact that this generated so much excitement tells you how low expectations have sunk.
It isn't just that a sustained love-in between Russia and Saudi Arabia et al. looks highly unlikely. The bigger problem is that, even if it happened, it wouldn't necessarily offer the quick fix that last week's price jump suggested.
First, why it's unlikely. As so often with Russia, history gets in the way. In two of the most recent oil price crashes, in the late 1990s and in 2008, Russia increased oil output even as OPEC was cutting.
Moreover, Russia's oil companies and the government aren't really in a position to actively reduce supply. Thane Gustafson, author of "Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia", says that the combination of low oil prices and sanctions squeezing access to foreign capital mean "cash flow remains absolutely critical" for the Kremlin and the country's oil majors. Sacrificing barrels in the hope of juicing supply looks very risky in that environment.
Especially as the potential rewards look very uncertain.
It all comes down to global oil inventories. When Saudi Arabia put together a coalition of the willing to cut supply back in 1998, the aim was to reduce the amount of oil in storage to the point where prices would start to reflect fears of scarcity. And that is what happened (helped along by the early stages of China's investment boom).
The challenge today is bigger and complicated, critically, by shale and Iran.
The latest monthly report from the International Energy Agency shows that commercial inventories of oil in the OECD countries stood at nearly 3 billion barrels at the end of the third quarter of last year, equivalent to about 64 days of forward demand. As I wrote earlier here and here, a sustained turn in the oil price will require that "days of demand" number to start falling and probably get back below 60.
Using IEA supply and demand projections and assuming no cuts from OPEC, that ratio peaks at more than 72 days in the second quarter of this year and then begins to decline -- very slowly. Along with downside risk to demand from China's slowing industrial sector, that suggests the bottom is still not in for oil.
Now say Russia and Saudi Arabia and the Gulf state OPEC members really did cut 5 percent of their output, starting in a couple of weeks. That would take almost 1.4 million barrels a day off the market. That is a big slug and would imply, all else equal, inventories starting to fall as soon as this spring rather than in the summer. Even so, days cover would still be around 69 days in the third quarter.
In the real world, Iran would blunt the impact. As sanctions are eased, Tehran is eager to regain market share. The IEA expects Iran's output could rise toward 3.6 million barrels a day within six months, up from about 2.9 million a day in the fourth quarter of last year -- eventually offsetting half the cut outlined above.
Meanwhile, any increase in oil prices resulting from cuts would throw a lifeline to a U.S. oil industry that has held up better than virtually anyone expected in terms of output but now faces a reckoning as more cash has to be diverted to shoring up balance sheets rather than drilling more wells. As it stands, the IEA expects U.S. oil production in the third quarter of 2016 to be 660,000 barrels lower than a year earlier. Moderately higher oil prices wouldn't reverse all of that, but could mean declines are lower than expected.
Assume that Iran hits 3.6 million barrels a day by the end of the year -- slower than the IEA assumes it can -- and U.S. output stops declining in the second quarter. Under that scenario, inventories still peak in this quarter -- but they remain above 70 days worth of OECD forward demand all the way through at least the third quarter.
So even leaving aside bad blood and a lack of trust between Riyadh and Moscow, would a cut even be worth it?
Phil Verleger, an energy economist, has looked at the impact of price elasticity in making this decision; that is, what is the expected increase in the oil price from supply being taken off the market. For a country such as Saudi Arabia, the price must rise high enough to offset the lower number of barrels being sold, so that overall income goes up. In this case, if a 5 percent cut sent oil prices up by 20 percent for a year, overall income would rise by 14 percent, all else equal. A seeming no-brainer.
Except that, given how little a 5 percent cut might shift the needle on inventories, average oil prices for the next year might not rise that much. A 5 percent price increase, for example, would imply lower revenue overall.
The underlying problem, as exemplified by Iran and shale, is that competition has intensified on the supply side -- which is precisely why Saudi Arabia has been maximizing production in the first place. Cutting supply would simply cede market share, and dollars, to Iran, U.S. oil firms, and any other producer that might otherwise choke off investment in new wells.
The math shows that a 5 percent reduction just wouldn't cut it when it comes to rebalancing the market quickly. And a bigger cut, even harder to pull off, would likely provide rival producers the relief they needed to keep adding barrels of their own. The real flaw in the Russia rally is that it demonstrates just how much weaker the traditional behemoths look in today's global oil market. Unlike the old days, when they gather now to decide their next move, they must ask themselves: "Do we feel lucky?"
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UNION, N.J. (3/13/10) – Senior C.J. Gannon (Morris Plains, N.J.) scored six goals to lead the Kean University men's lacrosse team to a 14-2 win over Mount Ida College in wet and windy conditions on Saturday afternoon.
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The software came bundled with my laptop so can I get it from a website to reinstall it?
Thanks I'll try and see if it works. Very helpful.
i can not email my you cam video
I can't seem to find a free download for cyberlink youcam. The one I have now was in my new laptop. I can record but can't email it.
i have a compaq c785tu notebook.i have an inbuilt cyberlink youcam .whenever i record the video in the playback there is no sound and the video plays very fast..
same issue with the avatar option
Cyberlink youcam avatar problem.
everytime i go to use the avatars in the cyber link youcam program the program freezes and comes up with and error message and shuts down. how do i fix this please help.
I deleted youcam and went to reinstall it and its not working!
My cyberlink youcam just stopped recording with sound or playing out sound even on videos that were already on there any played fine before...I checked the settings and it said there was no sound devises but media player runs fine. help please :)
Posted on Sep 09, 2009
My cyberlink youcam has stopped working, my computer got covered in viruses and so i cleaned off my whole laptop and installed windows again but now my cam isn't working. But when i got my laptop it worked straight away? But now it's not working but my laptop is a netbook and i never had a disk to upload it an now i cant get it bak on cuz i ent got a cd drive in my comp :S so what do i do to fix it?? :) please help
Posted on Dec 22, 2009
No video device detected please plug in a video device into your computer if you use a intergrated camera please make sure the camera is swithched on....
this is what iam getting when i click on my cam i got my note pad for xmas and i have messenger i cant cam because of this can you help me.
Posted on Feb 14, 2009
This a a problem with the software. Uninstall and reinstall the Cyberlink software and you will be good to go. Also make sure that before reinstalling the software you disable your antivirus and firewall program.
Posted on Jan 02, 2009
If it was already preinstalled you can reinstall it from the recovery manager. If that option is not there you can always go to www.downlod.com and reinstall the software from there.
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Carrie Murray Carpenter of the Harvard School of Public Health, who led the study, says the documents reveal that the tobacco industry's targeting of women goes far beyond marketing and advertising, and their study of tobacco company documents show a clear effort to find out what might make women want to smoke. She said at one point the companies considered putting appetite suppressants into cigarettes so they could promote them as weight control products.
Carpenter says it is unfortunate that the industry used these findings to exploit women and not help them. The team said tobacco companies' efforts to attract women included the creation of "slim" cigarettes in the 1970s.
Jack Henningfield of Johns Hopkins University and colleagues comments that the companies manipulated cigarette designs and ingredients in an effort to make cigarettes more palatable to women and to complement advertising allusions of smooth, healthy, weight-controlling, stress-reducing smoke.
The study demonstrates that marketing strategies adopted by the tobacco companies, especially for female brands, have contributed to the association of smoking with appealing attributes including female liberation, glamour, success and thinness.
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"Love us or hate us, we have to be an effective instrument to look after our customers and to lend," Mr. Waugh said. "With all that capital, the quality, there are some warning signs that it could go too far and have implications on growth."
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By morning the beauty of London under snow was everywhere. Negative was turned positive, black turned to white. Streets were white, pavements white, roofs white, trees outlined in white. Even London stucco looked grubby in comparison. Such modern excrescences as yellow lines, black signs and motor vehicles lay under a blanket of snow. Above all, London looked astonishingly, incomparably clean.
Hyde Park was adrift with tiny figures so perfect it might have been laid out by Lowry, and St James's Park by Breughel. Gstaad had come to Parliament Hill and Klosters to Brockwell Park. Who needed St Moritz when they had Primrose Hill, its packed enthusiasts in best ski fashions? No outline jarred. No thing went fast. Wordsworth's city wore its garment well and "dull would he be of soul who could pass by/A sight so touching in its majesty".
Yet what filled the morning's airwaves? There was a "snow event" crisis at the BBC. "John from Clapham" whinged about the gritting machines. "Rebecca from Harrow" moaned about no trains. "Tom from Camden" trotted out the old line about "a bit of snow and we grind to a halt". London had failed safe, especially its useless buses. The machine had sputtered and gone to pieces. Its zombified spokesmen howled at their impotence and reached for their excuses.
It is obvious that severe weather can gum up any outdoor public service and any indoor one dependent on people getting to work. There is a limit to how far public spending should go on guarding against infrequent extremes of weather.
We cannot realistically heat every pavement on the off-chance that it might save a few twisted ankles, or salt-spray every road throughout winter should a cold snap occur overnight. I was impressed yesterday that my paper still managed to arrive on my doorstep before breakfast and that the church footpath was shovelled clear by lunch.
Rather than accept that nature will sometimes get the better of us, we complain. I am sure some underemployed bean-counter has calculated that yesterday's snow will have "cost" London millions in irrecoverable product. This will be in days lost at work, cars bumped, pipes frozen, building delayed and, our old friend, accidents caused by a negligent pavement.
Where there is an accident there must be a claim and where there is a claim there must be a blame. I am sure the lawyers were out with the gritting lorries yesterday. When we are snapped from the daily round and forced back on our own devices, there is usually a tort in the offing. When schools close, buses fail to leave their garages and offices go on short time, someone somewhere can surely be sued.
In a godless world there are no longer acts of God, not even the snow falling from the sky. We are so ingrained to act as cogs in the urban machine that when the machine ceases to run smoothly, we are convinced it must be someone's fault and someone must be made to pay.
I therefore cry plague on all these negatives. Outside my front door, residents were shovelling, smiling and joking. They commented on the sheer loveliness of the scene and took pictures of it. They never do that normally. Children threw snowballs and, with no school, dragged sledges and trays to the park. Near the Evening Standard offices, surely London's biggest snowball fight was taking place in Kensington Gardens, with more than 50 people having the time of their lives.
Health and safety went to hell and enjoyment was on every face. There may have been misery aplenty somewhere, but for once it stayed indoors. My London yesterday seemed incorrigibly happy.
In other words the city did something it rarely does. Forced by circumstance to stop working properly it could only look itself in the face and see that face in a new light. With mobility reduced almost to zero - how blessedly empty the streets looked - London had to go local, retreating to its component streets and neighbourhoods. It might have been celebrating a jubilee of nature, with every park given over to some midwinter ritual.
As far as I could see those Londoners who ventured out liked what they saw, a bleached and muffled place where, said the poet of London snow, Robert Bridges, "the ear hearkened to the stillness of the solemn air". They discovered what wanderers, shirkers, buskers, artists and tourists already knew, that this is not a bad city in which to be footloose and fancy-free. Lucky those who can afford the time or money for it.
So take the day off and thank the gods of nature. Give the world a shove and see your part of town with fresh eyes. This will not last. The thaw will come and with it the slush and the dirt. The great thunder will resume and roll us all back on to the rack of work. Black will take the place of white. What they laughably call normal will regain its former rhythm.
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But after weeks of investigation, the unremarkable offices of Elgone Driving Academy, on Horn Lane, can be exposed as the home of another company, one accused of exporting a cocktail of British-made drugs to the US for use in executions.
The Independent revealed yesterday that the three drugs used in the lethal injection process in Arizona had been shipped to the American state by the small business in London.
An invoice, retrieved from US court documents, reveals that the company facing these allegations is Dream Pharma Limited, run from the Acton property by the man listed in company accounts as its director, Mehdi Alavi. He described his job as "wholesaler".
The invoice indicates that on 28 September 2010, Dream Pharma charged the Arizona Department of Corrections £4,528.25 for the supplies of sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride. The chemicals were dispatched to Carson McWilliams, the warden of the Arizona State Prison Complex.
Sodium thiopental is used to render the inmate unconscious. Pancuronium bromide is then administered to cause paralysis of the respiratory muscles. Potassium chloride is then given in a high dose to stop the heart, causing a massive heart attack. (Supply of these drugs was not illegal at the time.)
Confronted by The Independent yesterday, Mr Alavi, 50, said he did not wish to comment about any of the allegations he faced. "It does not matter what I do, I am not even going to comment on anything," he said. When presented with the Dream Pharma invoice, he declined to comment on whether he had supplied the drugs.
Just a short drive from the grounds of Hampton Court Palace, the curtains were drawn at Mr Alavi's large home in the leafy village of Hampton, in Richmond-upon-Thames. Neighbours were unaware of the nature of Mr Alavi's business interests. One said the entrepreneur was friendly but private.
The latest accounts for Dream Pharma Limited, filed in January 2010, show it had an annual turnover of £844,229. Mr Alavi was listed as the director and main shareholder. It made a net profit of around £95,000 during the year.
US states have had to look abroad for supplies of the drugs because domestic manufacturers have been unable to source the necessary raw materials. This combination of drugs has already been used to kill one prisoner in the state: Jeffrey Landrigan, a convicted murderer, was put to death in October.
Emails secured under the Freedom of Information Act also show that Arizona agreed to supply its neighbouring state, California, with the same drugs. Some British nationals are facing the death penalty in California. Dream Pharma is not thought to have made the drugs. Instead, it is alleged that it acted as a middle man by purchasing them from British manufacturers and selling them on to the US. The only British supplier of sodium thiopental, the Reading-based Archimedes Pharma, has always denied shipping the drug to US states.
The Independent has learnt that potassium chloride supplied to Arizona under the Dream Pharma invoice originated from Hameln pharmaceuticals, based in Gloucester. The firm immediately contacted all its suppliers when it learnt its product, designed to help patients with a potassium deficiency, could have been used in the lethal injection process. It has now tightened its supply guidelines to ensure it does not happen again.
"This is misuse of our product," said its managing director, Stephen Watkin. "It is primarily designed for saving and improving lives. We are one of five suppliers of this product in the UK and our absolute first concern is the safety of our medicines and our patients."
Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, tightened the rules on the export of sodium thiopental when suspicions emerged it had been supplied to the US by a British firm for use in the lethal injection process. It can no longer be exported for that use.
However, no such restrictions exist for the export of pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride. A spokeswoman for the Department for Business said: "No action is currently being considered against Dream Pharma because it has not broken any laws in selling the chemicals to the US."
Campaigners urged Mr Cable to take urgent action last night. Clive Stafford Smith, head of the Reprieve charity which opposes the death penalty, said that pharmaceutical firms also had to do more to ensure their products did not end up being used in executions.
"It is not sufficient that a business should avoid being irredeemably evil. Rather, it should be ethical," he said. "Recently, we have all learned to despise bankers and their bonuses. Yet when we criticise venal corporations, we tend to forget to demand more than minimally reprehensible behaviour."
The spokeswoman from the Department for Business said that the Government was taking note of the export of the drugs. "Vince Cable has already made clear his personal and the Government's moral opposition to the death penalty. He has already taken decisive action by placing a control order on the export of sodium thiopental and the department is considering a request to place controls on two other pharmaceuticals that are currently used in the execution process in the US."
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A fast-working anaesthetic often used in veterinary operations. It is the first drug injected into a prisoner, bringing about unconsciousness in seconds.
Pancuronium bromide
The next drug administered to the inmate, causing paralysis. Recommended in the protocol for euthanasia in some European countries.
Potassium chloride
Often given to patients suffering from potassium deficiencies in small amounts. Causes cardiac arrest and death when administered at the end of the execution process.
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