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FILTER, an arrangement for the separation of impurities from liquids, by passage through porous material. The filtering process is common in nature. The clearness of spring water is due to it ; for such water generally comes from a considerable depth in the ground (as appears, e.g., from its equable temperature throughout the year) ; and having traversed a variety of porous strata, it lies undergone a straining action, producing the beautiful transparency we observe. This does not, of course, represent absolute purity, for the liquid retains in solution various substances acquired by contact with the strata through which it has percolated. The operation of filtration is extensively practised in purification of water, on a large scale for supply of towns and cities (now an important branch of civil engineering), and on a small scale for domestic purposes, and for the use of ships on a long voyage, &c. It is also a valued method in chemistry and the arts.
The mechanical action of straining, by which all particles larger than the interstices of the porous material are arrested, is one important function of filters, and it used to be commonly represented as their only function. They-may act, however, in other ways to purify water. Not to speak of the further mechanical actions of subsidence on upper surfaces of particles of the filtering medium, and lateral attraction and adhesion of suspended matter (which doubtless occur in some measure), it is an important fact, now well ascertained, that a filter may separate from water a portion of the matter held in solution. On the other hand, it is often precisely such matter, when of organic origin and putrescent (and minute invisible disease-germs may here be included with the matter in solution), that it is specially desirable to remove from drinking water, as being prolific of mischief when taken into the system. In numerous instances an outbreak of virulent disease, such as typhoid fever, has been clearly traced to water so contaminated. The danger is the greater that such water may be bright and sparkling, and peculiarly palatable.
That even sand has the power of removing dissolved matter from water was shown by Mr Witt's valuable experiments at Chelsea, described in 1856. In one of these, e.g., water containing 1.42 grains of chloride of sodium per gallon (70,000 grains) was deprived of 22 per cent. of that substance by filtration through a depth of 1 foot 9 inches of sand. The sand had no appreciable action on dissolved organic matter, as charcoal had, but the quantity of such matter originally present was small. It is probable that all finely porous material has such action, more or less. The efficiency of charcoal in this respect, and especially fresh animal charcoal, has been well demonstrated and utilized. The mode of the disappearance of dissolved organic impurities has been a disputed point. Some say they are retained and accumulated in the pores of the charcoal ; but the experimental evidence seems to leave little doubt that they are mainly oxidized, so as hardly to impair the activity of the filter. In fact, the value of a filtering material will be found to depend chiefly on the power it has of bringing oxygen, stored in its fine pores or otherwise provided, into chemical union with the dissolved organic matter and destroying it. At the same time it is obvious that, chiefly by the mechanical action of straining, organic matter may accumulate in a filtering medium, and in course of time, through decomposition, render the water which passes through more impure and less wholesome than in its unfiltered state.
We may remark here that river water and shallow well water, while extensively used for water supply, are in general the most largely polluted. Rivers commonly receive large volumes of sewage, impure surface water from cultivated land, and other contamination. The water of shallow wells, especially in large towns, or when near churchyards, stables, cesspools, &c., is often contaminated with organic matter of the worst kind, in large quantity. While rain water, collected from the roofs of houses in butts, no doubt contains organic matter, this hardly bears comparison in amount to the organic impurity in rivers (thus Dr Hassall found it a hundredfold less). Deep spring water, again, is freed from much of its organic impurity through natural filtration. The advantages of a good lake-supply for large towns has been amply demonstrated in these days, notably in the case of Glasgow, which draws its water from Loch Katrine.
Though the arrangements for water supply of most of our large towns include filtering processes by means of which, as a rule, excellent drinking water is abundantly provided, so that in the opinion of some chemists a domestic filter may be superfluous, while it is sometimes a source of harm (owing to lack of proper attention), it is generally thought a wise additional safeguard to employ one of those instruments, in view, more especially, of some of the possible consequences of epidemics and floods, and the necessity of house-storage of the water received. In country places, and in various other circumstances, their use is often quite imperative if the laws of health are to be respected.
The Japanese and Egyptians seem to have used water filters at an early period. These consisted of sandstone or unglazed earthenware, and were of bowl or egg shape, with small projections at the top resting on a wooden frame.
The water poured into this vessel filtered through to a vessel below. About the middle of last century, slabs of a lias found in Picardy were used as a filtering agent, being fitted as a false bottom in water cisterns ; the water was drawn off through a tap from the space below. A porous filtering stone of Teneriffe was at one time imported largely into England. The " alcarrhazas " are filter vessels of porous biscuit stoneware made in Spain.
One of the earliest filters in England was that patented by Mrs Johanna Hempel in 1790. It was a supported basin made of tobacco pipe (or similar) clay and coarse sea, river, drift, or pit sand, and hardened in the furnace. In the following year (1791) the ascending principle was first applied by Mr James Peacock. Water from an upper reservoir was admitted through a pipe to the bottom of a box containing strata of sand, gravel, and a mixture of charcoal and powdered calcareous stone. Passing up through this, it was drawn off by a pipe at the top. The filter was occasionally cleaned with an exhausting and condensing pump, which sucked up water rapidly through the filtering material and then sent it back with force, washing out the dirt.
The construction of filters is a matter on which inventiveness has been largely exercised. All sorts of porous substances have been called into requisition, as may be seen by a glance at the patent records. Thus, to mention some of these, we have various kinds of stone, sand, gravel, powdered glass, clay, porous sulphur, preparations of iron, charcoal (vegetable and animal), cloth, felt, horsehair, skins, paper, silicated carbon, sponge, wood, wool, cane, capillary threads, and so on. Vegetable charcoal, we may note, was first employed in 1802, animal charcoal in 1818, and solid carbon blocks in 1834.
It is impossible here, and it would be tedious, to give anything like a detailed account of the changes that have been rung on the filtering principle for domestic filters. In the simplest and most familiar forms, of course, the water passes down by its own gravitation through the filtering medium to a reservoir below. The force of downward pressure has sometimes been augmented by a head of water, sometimes by a force pump, and sometimes by means of air condensed above the water to be passed through the filter. Or the air has been extracted from the vessel containing the filtered liquid, thus adding force to the atmospheric pressure above. The ascending principle has appeared in various applications ; and in some cases the water has been caused first to descend and then to ascend through filtering material (a vertical partition, e.g., being fixed in a vessel so as to reach nearly to the bottom, and layers of sand and vitrified limestone being placed on either side of the lower part ; the water is poured in on one side of the partition and drawn from the other side near the top). Lateral filtration has also been tried. Filters have been arranged to act in the cistern, or in connexion with the service pipe between the cistern and the water tap, or independently, and, in the latter case, either having the unfiltered water poured into them, or being placed in a vessel of it, and giving filtered water through a tube. Sometimes a series of separate connected vessels have been employed ; and for very dirty water it is often advantageous to have one system of filtration for the coarser, and another for the finer impurities. Once more, filters have been rendered self-supplying by means of a ball-cock. These are some of the general forms which the filter has taken.
The application of pressure to filters cannot as a rule be pursued very far, for it tends to derange the apparatus and render the filtered liquid muddy. Enlargement of surface is a better means of obtaining rapid filtration. Upward filtration, while it offers some advantages over downward, has not hitherto come very much into use. It is open to objection in that the water sent upwards has a tendency to force a passage through certain channels, without being uniformly disseminated in the material ; and the deposit of any filth is excluded from view, and mostly also from smell, instead of being exposed and giving us warning.
In passing now to examine more closely some of the approved forms of domestic filter at present in use, it should be borne in mind that while any of these filters will doubtless purify water both mechanically and chemically, more or less, it is only on condition of their being properly attended to, and the filtering material renovated at intervals depending on its nature and the nature and amount of impurity in the water. The term " self-cleansing," applied to some filters, may have a (limited) true sense, but if understood to imply that a filter, let alone, will go on ad infinitum giving pure water, it is quite inapplicable ; solid impurities must accumulate and call for removal. The statement, occasionally made, that a filter is "warranted to remove all impurities" from water is absurd and hardly deserves notice. Absolutely pure water is a thing almost unknown ; careful distillation alone will give an approximation to it. Again, the claim that a filter will remove all lime from water is often false ; filtration is capable of removing only a small quantity of lime. It must be allowed that sundry points in the process of filtration still remain in some obscurity, and it is matter of regret that the action of some common filtering agents has not been so fully cleared up by scientific experiment as others. Still enough has been ascertained probably to guide to the construction of a filter on rational principles.
In a large proportion of filters, as already indicated, some form or other of carbon is the chief filtering agent. The well-known filters of Lipscombe are cylindrical-shaped covered vessels of glazed earthenware, in which the filtering medium, a mixture of vegetable and animal charcoal, in granular form, is enclosed between two slabs cemented in the case. The upper (glazed earthenware) slab has a central aperture with raised border, and a small perforated basin immediately below it ; into this is inserted a sponge to Rrrest the grosser impurities, which is taken out and cleaned at short intervals. The filtered water passes through the lower (and porous) slab to the reservoir below, which communicates above with the outer air by a narrow tube passing up within to the top of the apparatus, and delivers its water through a tap.
Charcoal in the form of solid finely porous blocks, which can be conveniently brushed and cleaned externally, is now often moulded for filters. The convenient decanter filter, in which the water passes through the block to a central tube, forms an elegant addition to the sideboard. The annexed figure (1) represents one of these as made by Atkins, who also furnishes earthenware filter vessels having a division across the inside wherein a carbon block is fitted water-tight, which can readily be taken out and cleaned and replaced, or a fresh one substituted. Sometimes the block is fitted in a movable pan. Again, in the filter shown in fig. 2 a double filtration is effected, the water passing first through loose charcoal B, then through a charcoal block C, supported as shown. The block in this case is said to last longer without cleaning. The movable and perforated earthenware plate A, which is placed above the charcoal (see fig. 3), allows of easy renewal of the latter. The charcoal used in these filters is chiefly of vegetable origin. They are found to remove more or less of organic and inorganic matter dissolved in water.
It may be useful here to call attention to some of the conclusions arrived at regarding charcoal in the sixth report of the Royal Commission on Rivers' Pollution a short time ago. Fresh animal charcoal has been proved to act powerfully in the removal of organic impurity (considerably more so than vegetable charcoal), as well as of mineral matter. Put, according to Dr Frankland, its reduction of the hardness ceases in about a fortnight, the removal of organic matter continuing even after six months, though to a much less extent, especially if the filter be much used. It was found necessary to renew the charcoal every six months when used for filtering the comparatively pure water of the London New River Company, whilst the water of the Thames required re newal of the charcoal every three months. If this be not done, myriads of minute worms, we are told, are developed in the material passing out with the filtered water. Other statements, of scientific weight, regarding animal charcoal are more favourable to it, and seem to show that under certain conditions, perhaps imperfectly understood, it may give better results.
In Major Crease's system, which is adopted in the British army and navy, loose animal charcoal is compressed between plates by means of a screw, the amount of compression being determined by the degree of impurity in the water to be filtered.
The silicated carbon of Mr Dahlke's filters is obtained by mixing animal or vegetable charcoal with the residue of distillation of Boghead coal. By adding a little clay to the latter product, and saturating the whole with oily matter, it can be moulded, after which it is burnt. In one form of the filter, two carbon blocks are sealed into the interior of earthenware vessel, granulated carbon being placed between them ; in another, a double action is obtained by placing a. carbon block over the entrance to a second carbon medium. These filters have been highly commended for their chemical properties, attributed to magnetic oxide of iron present in the medium. We give (fig. 4) a representation of the silicated carbon siphon filter with its case. Water may be slicked through it from a stream directly into the - - mouth, or passed siphon-wise from one vessel into another. These and similar pocket filters of Atkins's were supplied to the Ashantee expedition.
A very powerful filtering medium was discovered and introduced many years ago by Mr Thomas Spencer. It is called magnetic carbide, and consists of protoxide of iron in chemical combination with carbon. It is obtained by roasting hematite iron-ore with granulated charcoal for twelve to sixteen hours at a drill red heat. Mr Spencer considers the purifying property of the oxide to be due to its power of attracting oxygen to its surface, without the latter being acted upon, the oxygen attracted being then granular form. This filter gained prize medals at the last London and Paris exhibitions, and its efficiency was demonstrated by the Lancet Sanitary Commissioners' report on filters in 1867.
The only other system we shall here notice is that in which spongy iron is used. This substance is metallic iron which has been reduced from an oxide without fusion. It is in a spongy or porous state of extremely fine division. Its remarkable purifying action on water was discovered by Professor Gustav Bischof of the Andersonian University, Glasgow; and experiments made with Ids filters by the Royal commissioners already 7eferred to showed that heir power both of removing organic matter snd reducing the hard-less of water even in;reased during upwards if eight months' constant use. The general form of the filter s represented in fig. 5. An inner vessel containinc, the spongy iron is supported in a ease, which, below, contains some prepared sand, a regulator A, and a receptacle C, for filtered water (with tap, not shown). The unfiltered water B is in this form supplied from a bottle which is inverted into the upper part of the inner vessel (a method familiar to chemists). After passing through the spongy iron, the water ascends through an overflow pipe in the direction of the arrows ; the object of this is to keep the spongy iron, when once wet, constantly under water, as otherwise it is too rapidly oxidized. The object of the prepared sand (which is generally in three layers, viz., pyrolusite at the top, then sand, then gravel) is to separate traces of iron retained in solution. The regulator A consists of a tin tube, cemented in the position shown ; it is open at the inner end, which is below the perforated bottom supporting the sand, and closed by a screw cap at its outer end. It has also a small lateral perforation, through which alone the filtered water passes into the reservoir. Should the perforations get choked, the screw cap is removed, and a brush inserted ; on starting at first, too, the • cap is unscrewed, that the materials may be well washed out without soiling the lower reservoir. With a ball-cock and constant supply of water, the inner vessel is dispensed with.
The nature of the action of the metal on organic matter is rather obscure. Mr Bischof considers there are both reducing and oxidizing agencies constantly at work, and that the oxides of iron, being present in their nascent state, must be very energetic in their action. Probably ferric hydrate, the last product of oxidation, takes an active part in separation of the organic matter, transferring oxygen to it. Again, spongy iron is known to be very energetic in precipitating any lead or copper. Its reduction of the hardness of water presents some difficulty.
This filter, we may add, recently gained the prize medal for general excellence given by the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, and has been otherwise commended.
The subject of cistern filters (of which there are many varieties) need not detain us long here. The arrangement adopted by Lipscombe, shown in fig. 6, may be taken as an example. The impure water passes through the inlet When the filter is in action, the grosser impurities are stopped by the porous stone, while the finer pass into the charcoal and are chemically acted on. Each time the unfiltered water tap is opened to obtain water, unfiltered water enters the inlet and scours out the impurities in the chamber. To clean the filter, once every six months or other period, a plug is drawn up by means of a galvanized chain (attached as shown) from the top of the filter and dropped into the inlet. The unfiltered water tap is then turned on several minutes, so that the cistern water rushes down through the filter and out of the tap, carrying out impurities from the filter.
In the filtration of water for supply of towns, galleries of masonry are often constructed in the sand and gravel forming the river bed or banks ; the water percolates through and enters these tunnels at the bottom and by side channels ; it is thence pumped to the town. Genoa, Toulouse, Lyons, and Perth present examples of this system, which is apt to prove rather costly. The system of artificial filter-beds of sand resting on gravel, &c., is now more generally adopted. It was first introduced into London by Mr Simpson, in 1839, after a study of various works in the north, and especially of the costly experience of Glasgow. For the Chelsea Water Company he had a series of tunnels built of brick without mortar ; these were covered with a layer of fine gravel 2 feet thick, then a 2-feet stratum of fine gravel and coarse sand, and lastly 2 feet of fine sand, or 6 feet in all. The sand was periodically removed to the depth of about half an inch. To the filter bed, covering I acre, were attached two reservoirs, slightly higher ; into these river water was pumped, which, after time for subsidence, was admitted to the filter beds through small pipes.
The eight Water Companies of London all use similar beds, increasing in coarseness downwards, of various depth and proportion of materials. A sharp siliceous sand is preferred for the upper bed (the true filtering agent), and the stratum is seldom made less than 2 or more than 3 feet thick. Sometimes this bed is laid immediately on a bed of small shells.
It is considered that filtration through sand, to be effective, should not proceed more rapidly than 6 inches of descent per hour (in the London beds the rate varies from 2•5 to 10.7 inches), and that there should be about II,- square yards of filtering area for each 1000 gallons per clay. The depth of water maintained on filter-beds varies between 1 foot and 7 or 8 feet. The inlet arrangements should be such as to produce little disturbance of the sand in charging ; thus the water may be admitted into a long trough from which it gently overflows, or through an inlet pipe carried to the centre of the bed and turned upwards (at Chelsea the water enters through a wall of gravel between two horizontal concentric arches of brickwork with vertical joints). The beds are drained variously, e.g., by means of perforated stoneware pipes, or pipes with open joints, sometimes leading into a brick culvert which traverses the bed. A good method of draining is that of Mr Muir, adopted by the New River Company. It consists of two courses of bricks laid flat and dry ; in the lower, the bricks are placed end to end in series alternating with half-brick spaces which serve as drains leading to a central culvert ; in the upper course, the bricks are laid close together, forming a floor, on which a thin layer of flue gravel supports a bed of sand.
Filter beds require to be cleaned, at intervals varying from one week to six or eight, by removal of about half an inch of sand. The clean sand remaining is loosened with a rake and exposed to the air some time, then smoothed over. The filter bed may be made with several compartmeats, some of which may remain in action while others are being cleansed. There are various contrivances for washing sand previous to its replacement. Filter beds are sometimes arranged to be cleansed by a reverse current sent upwards with force, - an operation which may be aided by stirring the surface sand after the water has conic above it. Such a system is practiced, e.g., in the Greenock, Paisley, and Dunkirk water works. At the last-named place, washed coke is among the filtering agents used. (For an account of the works at Dunkirk see Engineering, vol. xiv. p. 206.) In the system of M. Maurraz the water is filtered both per ascensum et descensurn, the two portions of water, which flow in opposite directions, uniting at the middle. The sand is retained in closed and perforated boxes. This filter also permits of cleansing by reversal of the current. Mr Spencer's carbide system has been applied successfully on a large scale at Wakefield and other places, the carbide layer being combined with others of sand and gravel. With carbide, the total thickness of bed may be considerably reduced.
Filtering is frequently practised by the chemist. And whereas in the ordinary filtration of water above described the purified liquid is the object of the process, while the matter retained is merely to be got rid of and destroyed, the reverse may be the case in the laboratory, the retained matter being sought, while the " filtrate," as it is called, is disregarded. For most laboratory preparations the material used is unsized paper. Swedish filtering paper (which is prepared with very pure spring water) possesses the advantage of filtering very rapidly, and of being singularly free from inorganic matter. Cloth is employed in the case of viscid liquids such as syrup or white of egg ; while corrosive liquids may be filtered through pounded glass. Asbestos is a valuable filtering material, since, by making it red hot, all organic matter may be destroyed, and acid and alkalies have scarcely any action in it. Being nearly indestructible, it can be repeatedly used. Glass-wool has also of late years been recommended.
Paper filters, to be placed in a funnel, are sold ready cut of circular shape. The paper is folded twice to the form of a quadrant, and this, when half opened, forms a cone, whose edges meet at an angle of 600. To facilitate passage of the filtered liquid, small folds are sometimes made in the filter all round. In a filter devised by Bunsen, the neck of the filter is inserted in the eaoutehouc stopper of a lower vessel, and through this stopper also passes a tube connected with an exhausting apparatus. The production of a partial vacuum below accelerates the filtering process. Sometimes substances have to be filtered under the influence of heat, as they solidify at ordinary temperature. In such cases the funnel may be surrounded by a sleeve containing water, which is heated with a lamp.
In Robinson's oil filter, oil is forced up from a cask into and through the filtering apparatus (containing charcoal or other medium) by water entering below from an upper reservoir. Sundry modes of filtration practised in the arts (sugar-refining, &c.) will be referred to elsewhere. In some of them centrifugal force is employed.
Circumstances are not uncommon in which it is very desirable to remove impurities from air by a process of filtration. Cutlers and other grinders use respirators to arrest the small particles which would otherwise find their way into the lungs. For steel particles magnetic gauze is an efficient protective. Professor Tyndall's respirator for firemen consists of an iron cylinder, attached to a mask, and containing charcoal, and three layers of cotton wool, one moistened with glycerine ; the ends of the case are of wire gauze. With this respirator it is possible to cnt.e:an atmosphere of dense smoke and remain in it over a quarter of an hour. The disinfecting properties of charcoal have been turned to good account by Dr Stenhouse for purifying air, the substance being used in the construction of respirators, or at the outlet of sewers, &c. An interesting application of the principle was made in the justice room of the Mansion House, London, in 1854, where offensive smells originating just under one of the windows were effectually removed. There are various devices in existence for purifying the air admitted to railway carriages and other inclosed spaces. Thus the air may be passed through wire screens, or through a spray of water, &c. In connexion with biological research and the germ theory of disease, the removal, by filtration, of minute foreign particles from air is a matter of great moment.
For further information see, among other works, Ifnmber's Water Supply of Cities and Towns, 1876; Sixth Report of the Royal Commission on Rivers Pollution (published in 1875); Lancet Sanitary Commissioners' Report on Filters, 1867 ; Wanklyn and Chapman's Water Analysis ; Philosophical Magazine, 4th series, vol. xii. p. 30 (Witt) ; Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, May 1867 (Byrne); Paper by Mr Pearse, on Water Pun cation, Sanitary and Industrial, to Society of Engineers, March 4, 1878 ; Paper by M. llisehof, on The Purification of Water, to Society of Arts, April 25, 1878 ; Registrar-General's Returns for 1876, &c. ; Chemical Neuw, vols. xxxiii. and xxxiv. (Wanklyn, Hildebrand) ; Dictionaries of LTre, Knight, Tomlinson, Watts, &c. (A. B. M.)
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The Group 3 Schweppervescence Trophy (1600m) is the final Group race running at Flemington this Saturday, set to run at 5:10pm (AEDT), with 12 fillies and mares set to tackle the mile trip.
Seven of the 12 runners are offering single figure odds in the betting market at Ladbrokes.com.au, led by Noble Protector at $4.
The Robert Smerdon-trained mare will enjoy a jump from barrier five with Craig Williams to ride and carry the minimum weight of 54kg.
Noble Protector is resuming in the 2015 Schweppervescence Trophy, having last run in the Group 3 Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2600m) at Flemington on November 8 where she finished just outside the placings in fourth.
The five-year-old mare last won the Listed Aphrodite Stakes (2400m) in England last year and finished runner-up in the Group 3 David Jones Cup (2000m) on her first start in Australia.
Following Noble Protector in the Schweppervescence betting are Bonaria and Set Square, both paying odds of $5.
Pat Hyland's Bonaria will carry the topweight of 58.5kg as the six-year-old jumps from barrier four with Dwayne Dunn. The mare is a winner at the highest level of racing after beating home 16 rivals in the Group 1 Myer Classic (1600m) on November 1. She resumed three months later for a second placing in the Group 3 Bellmaine Stakes (1200m) before finishing just one and a half lengths off winner Tycoon Tara in the Group 3 Mannerism Stakes (1400m) two weeks later.
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- #5 Marianne ($9) – the four-year-old mare last won the Listed Alexandra Stakes over a mile in March last year but has failed to win any of her four subsequent starts. The Peter & Paul Snowden-trained mare will enjoy a start from barrier two with Mark Zahra.
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In a wide ranging interview with the Belfast Telegraph, Davis admitted that during the 2014 World Cup qualifiers when Northern Ireland struggled and lost to little Luxembourg and Azerbaijan, as skipper he took the defeats personally and was badly hurt by the experience.
Fast forward to the present day and Davis (pictured) is relishing the prospect of leading Northern Ireland in the Euro finals having delivered a series of superb performances to help take the team to France. "When Michael took charge and gave me the armband and we had that poor run of results in the World Cup qualifiers it wasn't easy," said Southampton midfielder Davis.
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When Ben's sister, Alice and her doll try to join Ben's games, Ben says, "No dolls allowed. This is a robot game." That's why Alice asks for a robot for her birthday. Not just any robot. The exact robot Ben has been wanting forever! Ben is very, very jealous. He wants that robot. Now. Maybe he could sneak it out of its wrapping during Alice's birthday party and play with it for awhile. Nobody will know. Right? But Ben's bad idea goes very wrong and he feels terrible. Now it's up to him to show Alice that a sister is more important than even the best robot toy in the world.


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Responsible for assisting the Head Coach in all aspects of running an intercollegiate football program. The Assistant Coach assists in teaching/coaching student athletes all aspects of the sport in a manner that supports the quality and integrity of the program and the overall mission of Bentley University.
Bachelor's degree, or a combination of education and coaching experience, equivalent to 0-2 years, and participation in the sport itself at the varsity level. Demonstrated knowledge of innovative and proven football coaching strategies and techniques.
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Saudi Aramco inks deal with Japan Sumitomo Chemicals
Saudi Aramco has signed an agreement with Japan's Sumitomo Chemicals over a feasibility study for a $3 billion
petrochemical and refining project at Rabigh, 130 kilometers north of Jeddah, according to Arab News.
The project is part of plans to expand Aramco's refinery there. Sumitomo was one of three companies shortlisted as a potential partner to carry out the studies. The other two were Saudi Basic Industries Company (SABIC) and US' Dow Chemicals. The project, one of the largest private
investments in the Kingdom, will be Aramco's first foray into the domestic petrochemical sector.
The facility is expected to produce an annual 1 million tons of ethylene, a basic ingredient for petrochemical products. The ethylene would be processed from ethane extracted from natural gas. The plant would also produce such plastics as polyethylene used in packaging. (menareport.com)
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Ransacked Indian School Reopens
"Too young to understand what really happened in their school, [students] know something is amiss as they tip-toe past Father Varghese Kunnath who is managing the school. Also missing are the familiar faces of two nuns who — traumatized by the experience — have shifted to their mother house nearby," said the paper.
She continued, "The presence of police personnel within nearby St. Theresa's Mission and some other Catholic institutions in Kosi Kalan is reassuring to the missionaries, but their presence speaks about the sense of insecurity that has gripped the missions in the wake of what the district magistrate has described as 'three unrelated attacks' in less than a fortnight."
Maintaining that the attack on St. Theresa's School was a "purely criminal act" and just a case of robbery that turned violent, government officials said there was no evidence to suggest that the assailants were motivated by religious fundamentalism.
"Because of the absence of concrete evidence pointing to involvement of fundamentalist organizations in the three incidents, even the archbishop stops short of pointing an accusing finger at anyone," the Hindu reported. The paper added, however, that what has not been lost on the Church and many others is the fact that these incidents began less than a month after a Kosi Kalan-based religious group called for an "awakening" against "the conspiracy of conversion" by Catholics in the town.
Irish Bishops Say Religion Teachers Must Embrace Faith
The bishops said religion classes should be entrusted to "those who are committed to the faith" and professionally qualified, the Times reported. "The teaching of religion is not a soft option," they said.
These and other views on education are included in a new set of guidelines from the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference.
The bishops state that teaching religion "requires a competent knowledge and understanding of the scriptures, systematic and moral theology, liturgy and the ability to communicate these from the perspective of the teacher's own faith commitment."
Catholic schools should "phase out" the practice of getting "non-formally qualified personnel" to teach religion, the bishops said. They added that the teaching of religion should be given a minimum of two hours a week in the school timetable. "It is not acceptable for any reason that this requirement be reduced in schools where the education of Catholic students takes place."
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Fang, H., Whitacre, S., Yamaguchi, E., and Boons, M., "Biodiesel Impact on Wear Protection of Engine Oils," SAE Technical Paper 2007-01-4141, 2007, https://doi.org/10.4271/2007-01-4141.
Pure biodiesel fuel (B100) is typically made of fatty acid methyl esters (FAME). FAME has different physical properties as compared to mineral diesel such as higher surface tension, lower volatility and higher specific gravity. These differences lead to a larger droplet size and thus more wall impingement of the fuel during injection in the combustion chamber. This results in higher levels of fuel dilution as the oil is scraped down into the crankcase by the scraper ring. The lower volatility also makes biodiesel more difficult to evaporate once it enters the crankcase. For these reasons, levels of fuel dilution in biodiesel fueled engines are likely to be higher compared to mineral diesel fueled engines. When in-cylinder dosing is applied to raise the exhaust temperature required for the regeneration of Diesel Particulate Filters (DPF's), biodiesel dilution in the engine oil may be elevated to high levels. Besides changing the viscometric properties of the lubricant, biodiesel and its degradation products could also interact with the lubricant additives and impact their performance. The partially oxidized biodiesel components may compete with ZDDP antiwear additives on metal surfaces. In this study, the wear characteristics of the biodiesel contaminated oil are evaluated by Electrical Contact Resistance (ECR), High Frequency Reciprocating Rig (HFRR) and four-ball tests. The formation of a complex between oxidized biodiesel components and ZDDP is studied with FTIR and 31P-NMR techniques. Based on wear bench test and model compound studies, it is concluded that biodiesel fuel can lead to increased engine wear caused by the interaction of oxidized biodiesel compounds and ZDDPs.


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Nevada County is a county located in the Sierra Nevada of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 98,764. The county seat is Nevada City.
Nevada County comprises the Truckee-Grass Valley, CA Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Sacramento-Roseville, CA Combined Statistical Area. It is located in the Mother Lode Country.
Nevada County was created in 1851 from parts of Yuba County.
The county was named after the mining town of Nevada City, a name derived from the term "Sierra Nevada." The word nevada is Spanish for "snowy" or "snow-covered."
Nevada City was the first to use the word "Nevada" in its name. In 1851 the newly formed Nevada County used the same name as the county seat. The bordering state of Nevada used the same name in 1861. The region came to life in the Gold Rush of 1849. Many historical sites remain to mark the birth of this important region in California's formative years. Among them are the Nevada Theatre in Nevada City, the oldest theater built in California in 1865. It operates to this day and once hosted Mark Twain among other historical figures. The Old 5 Mile House stagecoach stop built in 1890, also operates to this day as a provider of hospitality spanning three centuries. This historical site still features "The stagecoach safe" that is on display outside the present day restaurant and is the source of many legends of stagecoach robbers and notorious highwaymen in the California gold rush era. The gold industry in Nevada County thrived into the post WWII days.
The Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad was built in 1876, and was the only railroad in the West that was never robbed, even though its primary freight was gold. (Builder-owner John Flint Kidder's reputation made it clear that he would personally hunt down and kill anyone who tried.) The rail line closed in 1942 and was torn up for scrap.
In Grass Valley the historic Holbrooke Hotel opened in 1851 and housed Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and four U.S. presidents (U.S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, and James A. Garfield).
The Community of Rough and Ready seceded from the Union for a time and became the Great Republic of Rough and Ready.
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James Cameron has a lot riding on Avatar, it appears. There is always the possibility that he'll be immolated by ardent critics if it doesn't work out. Opinions, like mileage, may vary, and so it's important to see the progress that's being charted.
In the feature below, via Coming Soon, you can see the progress that he has made on the film, which offers a tantalizing look at some measure of the finished product. It has gotten very ambitious, obviously, although the quality isn't great: it's hard to see just how good it looks. You can blur the differences between Space Invaders for the Atari and Uncharted, too, if you try hard enough. Fortunately, there are high def trailers if you're concerned about how the film looks. The more pertinent part of the feature contains interviews with cast and crew that give an idea about how it's all coming together.


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AN ISRAELI BORDER police officer prepares to throw a stun grenade at Palestinians at the Kalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah, Wednesday. A West Bank militant detonated a bomb near the checkpoint, killing two Palestinian men and wounding 13.
AP Photo KALANDIA CHECKPOINT, West Bank -- A West Bank assailant detonated a large bomb near a busy Israeli military checkpoint Wednesday, killing two Palestinian men and wounding 16 people, mostly civilians, in an attack that prompted rare Palestinian complaints about militants responsible for scores of bombings over the past four years.
The Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a violent group that has carried out scores of attacks on Israelis, claimed responsibility for the attack, but apologized for the Palestinian casualties. The 16 wounded included 10 Palestinians and six Israeli border policemen.
Al Aqsa said the intended target was Jerusalem and the assailant hastily set off the 44 pounds of explosives by remote control near the Kalandia checkpoint north of the city when he felt Israeli security forces were closing in on him.
The blast went off between two cars, sending a cloud of black smoke into the air as a large crowd of Palestinians was waiting to cross Kalandia. Thousands cross the checkpoint every day, and the bomber's apparent disregard for Palestinian civilians touched off an emotional confrontation in a West Bank emergency room where some of the wounded were being treated.
Zakiyah Abu Sneineh, whose 60-year-old husband, Salah, died in the blast, refused to acknowledge that he was killed by Palestinians. "Arabs couldn't have killed him, only Israelis," she said, sobbing in the emergency room of a Ramallah hospital. In an adjacent room, her 6-year-old grandson Mahdi, who was critically wounded in the blast, was fighting for his life.
The Abu Sneinehs were in their car, waiting in a line of vehicles, when the blast went off.
A Palestinian man hurt in the attack said it was too early to judge the militants. "I don't want to blame them," said Rateb Abu Fkhaideh, 47, who had a leg injury.
His comments angered several Palestinians in the emergency room. "Why are you defending them (the militants)?" 35-year-old Nader Omar asked Abu Fkhaideh. "They are wrong. We should raise our voice against them. These guys don't use their minds." Two others nodded in agreement.
In four years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting, support for the militants in Palestinian society has remained high, despite the hardships from Israeli retaliation for scores of bombings and shootings. From time to time, criticism of the militants is voiced. However, while Palestinians may complain in private, they rarely express their misgivings openly.
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how to know the remote machine is Virtual machine or physical machine
Hi All,
when i see the out put of cat /proc/cpuinfo
48bit for vm
38bit for physical
or their is any way to identify that this is a vm or physical machine
Hi there,
[X] Doc CPU
Usually there is a specific set of tools on a box that is a vm client. It would vary depending virtual system used. For instance VMware has a VMware-toolkit on its clients.
AND - What he/she is referring to is address sizes
which in this case really has no reference to a "virtual machine"
The virtual aspect there refers to memory.
CPU cores can be virtual as well as physical. For instance usually w/an 8 core processor 4 of them are physical and other 4 are virtual.
That just specifies how many bits can fit in each address or "memory slot"
Below is a good image on wikipedia that shows dataflow in an 8 core processor
its not a lottery numbers & focus on my machine out put this could be a ESX or vm on ESX ????
I am getting the access from ssh (putty) & i need to fill some inventory sheets so that,s why i needed these information
I just ran this command in one of my virtual system, and found several /proc files that contained virt inside them.
find /proc -type f -exec grep -l virt '{}' 2>/dev/null ';' 2>/dev/null
Perhaps a check for virtio_balloon.*Live in /proc/modules would do the trick. :scratch: That one is alive in my virtual systems but not in the host system. (virtio_net is live in the host and the virtuals.) If you've accessed the system over a network, I think that the virtio net access stuff needs to be running. But I'm not a virtual developer, and one of them might have a better answer.
That line in the output has nothing to do with running in a vm, it's part of Physical Address Extensions.
Detecting if a host is running within a virtual machine is tricky because you have to rely on specific odd behaviours in each virtualiser.
Have a look at Detect if you are Running a Virtual Machine | CodeHill or How to detect virtualization or any number of other pages for some ideas and some scripts you can examine.
Anyway, 48bit virtual addressing should be standard across all X86_64 CPUs regardless of physical machine vs. virtual machine, while physical addressing will vary by CPU, 38bit is a reasonable amount and I can't think of any reason virtualization software might want to pretend the physical addressing is different from that of the real CPU.
The words "virtual" and "physical" in computer systems have many different meanings. Maybe you did a blind search on those words. "Virtual machine" is a specific computer concept that is quite different from the many other things that "virtual" means.
The links SecretCode provided look plausible to me. I'm not at all expert in how to detect a virtual machine. I'm only saying that /proc/cpuinfo is not likely to be a good place to try to get that answer.
Thanks to all(johnsfine,renholme,SecretCode,kbscores,Doc CPU)
now i found the simplest command
dmidecode by itself I found virtual mentioned a few times
dmidecode | grep -i "Virtual"
Version: VirtualBox
Product Name: VirtualBox
Family: Virtual Machine
I don't think that dmidecode | grep -i vm is (close to) infallible.
On my host system I get
$ sudo dmidecode | grep -i vm
$ sudo dmidecode | grep -i vm
I got the same output on my VPS which is a virtual machine.
[root@localhost ~]# dmidecode | grep -i "vm"
dmidecode | grep -i vm
it works the same way.
Hi All,
So is their is any better way to find that this is a physical or virtual machine.
When i am looking for the difference between the VM or physical machine i notice that virtual machine have all most same output
this is the output which i am getting from the vmware workstation 8 rhel5.5 & ESX Virtual machine
That is true because you were (obviously) using VMware as your virtual manager. Not every virtual system uses VMware.
In fact, I have my virtuals running under qemu-kvm using Fedora's virtual manager, and, as I noted above, the suggested "test" does not produce any output when run on a Fedora 17 virtual system.
The virt-what script (in the first reference of post 6 by Secret Code) returns KVM for that virtual system.
Hi PTrenholme,
"Thanks for view"
yes that's right every virtual system doesn't uses VMware so their out put dmidecode | grep -i "vm" also not same.
but i have to differentiate between the vm & physical so that's why i do that.
A thought: If you use the converse of your original question to ask "How can I tell if I'm running on a non-virtual system?" would the reply of "VME (Virtual mode extension)" be sufficient? (Assuming, of course, that anyone offing a server of which would want to ask the question would be using a modern processor.) :scratch:
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Each assortment of Russian chocolates contains only original and most delicious imported chocolaty sweets and consists of a wide range of chocolate covered caramels, nuts, and candies. We also offer soft and hard variants, all nutty delicacies, as well as, praline and wafer crust. You will have the experience to taste the difference between a combination of dark and white chocolate dressed caramels, dark only, or if you prefer, all milk chocolate. You also have the option to choose the most delicious blend of creamy chocolate covered candy.
Chocolates, caramels, chocolate gift boxes, kvas, caviar and other Russian food delicacies.
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:lol :lol :lol Cali and Sher!
i can't imagine joining FORT just to post that one message saying you wouldn't be posting! :laugh
people wig me out! :)
:) Geez Lobeck, between the Whoop Whoop dawg's and the aight, you are absolutely killing me today... I don't know why the above post has me laughing, but it does!
You've chosen RTVT as the better site, yet your still hanging around our Music Competition Shows forum?:shrug
Just curious...
well, at least The One was appropriately named... as we only received the pleasure of his/her company for that ONE post.
on with the show! :D
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Hmm, how clever of another site to "break" a story that had already been featured on Yahoo and at least three differnet entertainment sites :shrug
Good point, Fluff... :lol
I was thinking that fluff. I stumbled onto it while looking for Wolverine pictures :lol
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International star Demis Roussos will perform a concert at the Aida Theatre in Cairo on October 19. Preparations are underway for the event, which coincides with Aida Opera 2001.
The head of the theatre, Samir Faraj, told the Qatari daily Al Raya that Roussos had agreed to perform after modifications were made to the venue's entry and exit doors.
"The preparations coincide with Aida Opera 2001, which 6,000 people from all over the world are expected to attend. To date, reservations for the opening and closing ceremonies have reached 27 percent," added Faraj.
Cairo is also preparing to hold the 10-day Al Qala'a Music Festival, which will be held at Saladdin Castle next Friday with the participation of 55 musical groups – Albawaba.com
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I'm a new Pentaho user and have to integrate it into my company's infrastructure. My current goal is to replicate our current, simple, reporting that consists of basic queries and calculations. After playing around with Action Sequence I can do basic things such as populate a drop down list with a result set from our db and use the selection as input for another query... however certain things i haven't cracked yet because there's no documentation or examples that would show me how to do basic things. here's what i need to do and if somebody can point me to a right wiki, demo, or explain what needs to be done it would be highly appreciated!
1) need to prompt user to select a clientID ( no problem with that step)
2) based on the clientID, query DB and fetch all serviceIDs for that client. (no problem here either)
3) loop over all serviceIDs, and query for each serviceID another table to get service data. (problem here!)
3a)for every service, perform statistical calculations(means, totals, etc) that would go into report.(don't know how to do this...)
i attempt to accomplish step 3 by using a Loop Action on the result-set of step 2. however, the loop seems to only return the last row of the result-set... i get that when i create a brand new Action Sequence with only steps 1,2 and 3. step 3 has a query: select COUNT(*), serviceID from services where serviceID='{serviceID}' group by serviceID. The output is one row containing the last serviceID of the result-set from step 2 and its counter result. Am i doing something wrong with the Loop action? I tried to get around this problem with a nested query which works directly against our MySQL db, but takes forever through Pentaho.
step 3 i just haven't figured out yet. how can i pass the results from 3 to 3a and perform calculations for each service?
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A badger that ate through a wall to escape after being locked in a shed and a dog which jumped into a television screen to find a mate are among a list of successful insurance claims filed by homeowners.
One man received more than £400 when he made a claim for a new laptop after his new baby grandson vomited over his computer as he attempted to show him off on Skype.
And in another incident insurers paid for repairs after a quick thinking squirrel smashed a window to get out of a garage owned by an 86-year-old woman in Exeter, where it had become trapped.
Animals and children were the most common causes in the list of strange claims.
However, nature, and bad luck, also played a part.
A 62-year-old man received £469 after a gust of wind blew his glasses off his face and into the road, where they were promptly run over by a passing car.
And a family received £8,000 to repair their home after a pigeon flew down their chimney and wreaked havoc, destroying carpets, ornaments and furniture.
The list of strange incidents was among 400,000 successful insurance claims dealt with by RIAS in 2012-13.
Peter Corfield, managing director at the company, said: "While we go out of our way to ensure that our homes and gardens are safe and secure, sometimes it's the most unlikely events that can end up causing real damage.
"Not all claims are straightforward and sometimes we do see some bizarre scenarios. "But, saying that, babies and animals are often the culprits."
The top 10 strange claims
- A 71-year-old woman from Bath locked a badger in her shed which then managed to make a hole in the wall to escape.
- After seeing a dog on the TV screen, a dog in Galashiels decided to jump into the screen after it.
- A small child spilt a glass of coke on his grandad's laptop. Drying it with a hairdryer melted the keys, causing £239 worth of damage.
- A snail ate £78 worth of carpet in the home of a 73-year-old man from Preston.
- Wind blew a 62-year-old's glasses off his face, which were then immediately run over by a car, resulting in £469 worth of damage.
- A trapped squirrel in the garage of an 86-year-old woman from Exeter managed to crack a window and escape.
- A grandfather in Guildford held his baby grandson up to show him off over Skype. The baby then threw up on the laptop causing "437 worth of damage.
- A pigeon fell down a chimney and flew into a house, damaging the carpet, ornaments and sofa, leading to more than £8,000 worth of damage.
- A seven-month-old puppy in Cardiff stole a one litre bottle of oil from the kitchen, dragged it to the living room and chewed it on the sofa, causing £953 worth of damage.
- A deer fell into the swimming pool of a 74-year-old man from Guildford, damaging the cover.


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Channing Tatum, Jeremy Renner, Jenna Dewan, Sofia Vergara, Heather Graham, Josh Hartnett at Ischia Film Festival
Channing, Jenna, Josh and Jeremy Juggle Beach and Festival Time in Italy
Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan joined Heather Graham, Jeremy Renner and Josh Hartnett for the third straight night of partying during the Ischia Film and Music Festival in Italy on Tuesday. Channing, Jenna and Jeremy showed off their tans after spending the previous evening partying on the beach. Modern Family's Sofia Vergara is also in town for the cinematic event.
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UMBC Visits Ridley For Tuesday Night Men's Lacrosse Game
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Maryland Visits Ridley For Nationally Televised Men's Lacrosse Game
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Towson Hosts Men's Lacrosse In 55th Meeting Between Teams
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2013 Season Opens Saturday For Men's Lacrosse At Delaware
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Patriot League Men's Lacrosse Championship Game - Loyola vs. Lehigh
Loyola men's lacrosse won the Patriot League Championship with a 16-7 victory over Lehigh.
Loyola Men's Lacrosse vs. Maryland
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Loyola Men's Lacrosse vs. US National Team
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He spent 20 years as an assistant coach, offensive coordinator and goalie coach at Princeton University, the final seven as the Tigers' associate head coach. Metzbower helped the Tigers win six NCAA Championships and 230 games during his tenure in New Jersey.
"We are very excited to welcome David, his wife, Mimi, and his daughter, Jordan, and son, Derek, to the Loyola family," Toomey said at the time of Metzbower's appointment. "It is not often that you are able to bring someone onto your staff who is such a quality coach and a man of outstanding character who also has a Jesuit education background.
"David has a tremendous amount of experience at the offensive end of the field with his work at Princeton, and in recruiting in the Ivy League, something that is going to help us tremendously as we transition to the Patriot League."
Metzbower added, "I am excited to get back to college lacrosse, especially at Loyola. I looked at this as a great opportunity to be a part of Charley's staff and work with a team that is coming off a national championship. Loyola has a lot of returning talent, and I look forward to being on the field with the players and working with them."
Originally form the Baltimore area and a graduate of nearby Loyola Blakefield High School, Metzbower graduated from the University of Delaware in 1986 after a standout career as an attackman.
He quickly joined the Blue Hens' coaching staff and spent 1987-1989 on the sidelines in Newark.
In 1990, Metzbower joined the Princeton staff as the top assistant to then-Head Coach Bill Tierney and helped create dynamic offenses that averaged 181.6 goals per year over a 20-season span.
Metzbower helped the Tigers win six NCAA Championships, reach the NCAA Semifinals 10 times and the NCAA Quarterfinals on 16 occasions, win 14 Ivy League titles and achieve a cumulative 230-65 record.
He helped develop the top five goal scorers in Princeton history, the top four in career points, 22 All-Ivy attackmen, seven Ivy League Players of the Year, 27 first-team All-Americans and 74 All-Ivy First Team members. Under Metzbower, Kevin Lowe (1994) and John Hess (1997) won the Lt. Col. J.L. Turnbull Award as the outstanding attackman in Division I, and Sims twice won the Lt. Donald McLaughlin Award as the top midfielder in Division I (1998 and 2000).
As Princeton's goalie coach, he directed three players - Scott Bacigalupo (1992-1994), Trevor Tierney (2001) and Alex Hewitt (2006) - who won the Ensign C. Markland Kelly Award as the top Division I goalkeeper a combined five times.
Metzbower left the program in June 2009 as associate head coach after turning down an offer to be the Tigers' head coach and served as an assistant coach at the Haverford School in 2010.
Most recently, he was the head coach at Malvern Preparatory School in suburban Philadelphia.
Metzbower and his wife, Mimi, have two children, a daughter, Jordan, and a son, Derek.
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Edinburgh centre Nick De Luca was sent off for a dangerous tip tackle as the Ospreys secured a comfortable win.
Last Updated: 22/02/13 10:53pm
De Luca saw red four minutes from time to add misery to the Scots as they slipped to their 10th straight defeat in all competitions.
Two tries from No 8 and man of the match Morgan Allen and one from scrum-half Rhys Webb were enough to see the Ospreys home. The Edinburgh try came from flanker Hamish Watson.
The win saw the Ospreys climb back into the play-off places even though they failed to gain a bonus point.
The Ospreys got on the scoreboard after only seven minutes when some good momentum up field ended with lock Jonathan Thomas putting over Allen for a try converted by Matthew Morgan.
Edinburgh's cause was not helped that fly-half Harry Leonard missed a penalty from 30 metres out and then De Luca knocked on just short of the left corner.
And with the visitors continuing to give away penalties the Ospreys scored a second try through Allen, who went over following pressure from a line-out. Fly-half Morgan converted to make it 14-0 after the first quarter.
The Ospreys continued to dominate and the only surprise was that they failed to add to their lead ahead of half-time.
Even more of a surprise was that Edinburgh scored a try in the final minute before half-time when openside flanker Hamish Watson went over after the Scots created an overlap on the left. Leonard added the extras.
Both Leonard and Morgan missed kickable penalty shots at the start of the second half. But in the space of three minutes the Ospreys extended their lead to 24-7.
First Morgan kicked a penalty after Edinburgh centre Ben Atiga had been sin-binned before scrum-half Webb crossed for the third try, converted by Morgan.


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Annual Meeting and Reception: Delta Omega hosts an annual reception for all members. These receptions are an excellent opportunity to not only meet colleagues from your chapter, but others as well. The next Delta Omega reception will be held this fall in Chicago, IL.
National Day of Service: In 2012, the Delta Omega Honorary Society hosted its inaugural Day of Service in conjunction with National Public Health Week. The Delta Omega Day brought members together through connected chapter events and service activities. In 2013, the Delta Omega National Office organized a group of volunteers to prepare dinner at the Ronald McDonald House in the DC area. Everyone had a great time volunteering!
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Play the most addictive golf game on the App Store! No. 1 Sports Game in over 100 Countries! "Impossible to put down" - EUROGAMER
No clubs. No rules. Flick, spin and curve your shots to sink the perfect hole in one.
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• Full HD resolution on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Retina Display.
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2013 IEEE 14th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (2006)
Nara, Japan
May 10, 2006 to May 12, 2006
pp: 57
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MDM.2006.101
Shinichi Yamada , University of Tsukuba, Japan
Hiroyuki Kitagawa , University of Tsukuba, Japan
Yousuke Watanabe , University of Tsukuba, Japan
Toshiyuki Amagasa , University of Tsukuba, Japan
Recent developments in network and sensor device technologies enable us to easily obtain real-world information, such as locations of moving objects and environment information including brightness and temperature. These data are continuously supplied as they change over time, and they are regarded as data streams. The requirements for online processing of such data streams are increasing. In this demonstration, we present location-based information delivery using StreamSpinner, our stream processing engine. StreamSpinner achieves efficient stream data processing based on novel multiple continuous query optimization techniques. Using the StreamSpinner API, we built a location-based information delivery system for exhibition visitors. Locations of exhibition visitors are continuously monitored and supplied as data streams. Useful information about nearby exhibits and the availability of exhibition hall facilities is provided by the system to visitor terminals. Online integration of streams and database contents is achieved in the demonstration system.
Shinichi Yamada, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Yousuke Watanabe, Toshiyuki Amagasa, "Location-Based Information Delivery Using Stream Processing Engine", 2013 IEEE 14th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, vol. 00, no. , pp. 57, 2006, doi:10.1109/MDM.2006.101


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Here's how Anonymous chose to take the UK Conservative party down a peg.
One Tory politician insulted the lower class, but hacker group Anonymous is making the whole party pay for it.
It started with "Plebgate," England's current political scandal. Andrew Mitchell, one of the Prime Minister's senior ministers and Party Whip, called the police entrusted with guarding his life "[expletive-deleted] plebs." That's short for "plebians," a term meant to deride the lower class.
The Tories are notoriously uptight. Stuffy. Boring. But overnight, one of their websites has become downright playful. The list of board members of the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom's money-raising arm, the Conservative Foundation, has undergone a subtle makeover:
"Lord Feldman. Baroness Bottomley. Lord Saatchi. David Ord. Mark Bamford. Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover. Lord Fink. < script > alert ("test") < / script >. Anonymous."
Needless to say, those last two are not the names of actual board members.
If this doesn't answer for sure the question of whether Anonymous is far left or far right, it at least resolves the question of who hacked the Conservative Foundation's website early Thursday, after the Tory national conference drew to an anticlimactic close.
Twitter user Patrick Torsney managed to Twitpic the main hack and defacement, which didn't last long. "Looks like V's in town," he tweeted.
"Your government has failed you," it wrote. "The resistance is here. Greetings Tories. We are Anonymous. You are arse holes. With all your fuckery you should have expected the shit out of us."
The defacement states this action is part of Operation Vendetta, a sub-project of Project Mayhem, announced last year. It's a project in which Anonymous more or less declared war on all established governments it decided were corrupt.
Operation Vendetta is to culminate Nov. 5 in London in a live reenactment of the final scene in V for Vendetta (though, presumably, without the movie's climactic explosions).
That same date is supposed to mark the release of TYLER, an Anonymous peer-to-peer file sharing system that claims to be completely extra-governmental and without restrictions of any kind. Both the name "Project Mayhem" and "TYLER" were taken from Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, which gives a hint of the spirit of the thing.
The Conservative Foundation's sysadmins have so far either not noticed or not been able to counter Anonymous' addition to the list of Directors. When clicked, instead of a bio of worthy, Conservative accomplishments, the familiar mask and taunting message appear.
And as for this "script" guy, he looks entirely untrustworthy. Probably a pleb from Java.
With the recent changes to immigration laws, Tories should have expected him.
Images via Patrick Torsney, Twitpic, and The Conservative Foundation
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Microsoft Touts OLAP Strides For Yukon, Renames Mobile Database
March 26, 2004[From CRN]
When the next generation of SQL Server ships, it will sport enhanced reporting services and controls designed to allow easier distribution of report processing talents, Microsoft said Friday.
SQL Server 2005, code-named Yukon, will include updated Reporting Services that let developers send out report-processing capabilities with their custom applications. Bill Baker, general manager of SQL Service Business Intelligence at Microsoft, announced the news at VSLive in San Francisco.
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France has become conspicuously unwilling to stand by and watch as Rwandans murder one another. So on Monday it sought United Nations authorization to send about 2,000 troops into Rwanda to protect civilians imperiled by bloody civil war there.
The French initiative is viscerally satisfying in the way that bold, assertive action often is. The more so in this case, since no other power has proferred a better plan-or any plan-for responding in a hurry to such an awful situation-the genocidal slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people in Rwanda.


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The Doctor's Clinical Tools Group was established to provide a place for Doctors to share clinical insights and techniques for the evaluation and management of our patient's visual system with an emphasis on binocular vision and vision development.
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As Clinicians we all can learn from each other. Have you found a handy tool for evaluating binocular vision? How do you feel when you have a patient in your chair who presents with a non-commitant verticle deviation and you need to run the Park Three Step Procedure to determine the affected EOM?
This Group is here for us all to have a place to not only share information but can serve to give us a quick access via an iPhone or Blackberry app to pull up the discussion group to provide us immediate information so that it is at your fingertips!
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There are many facets of Hillary, and her "momness" is just one of them.
After 15 years of juggling single momness with career, other well known challenges as penned in my book, Held Hostage, and a bit of dating here and there, I sure hope I have learned a thing or two along the way.
And indeed, it turns out that there really is what we like to call "universal momness" that unites so many moms not just around the country, but around the world.
And hells yeah Ali – and whoever else wants to bare their real momness to the world – do it!
When the hockey mom makes her hockey momness a vice-presidential (meaning presidential) qualification, and consequently mom-related phenomena become news fodder, it is evidently a collapse of "respect and deference."
And hells yeah Ali - and whoever else wants to bare their real momness to the world - do it!
Real mom-bloggers like cracking the whip themselves, but this mom-blogger is late to the meme and so must settle for just vaguely brandishing her own whip in the air and insisting that anyone who has not yet exposed their real-momness must do so immediately.
And thanks for reminding me that I have not yet revealed my real momness.
Most recently, once again proving my utter average Americanness or perhaps, in this case, my utter average American momness, I started texting in 2006.
She grabs my hand and the momness of the gesture makes me bristle.


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Jello Salad
Nutritional Info
- Servings Per Recipe: 8
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 119.9
- Total Fat: 2.0 g
- Cholesterol: 6.8 mg
- Sodium: 399.6 mg
- Total Carbs: 11.4 g
- Dietary Fiber: 0.4 g
- Protein: 12.8 g
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Number of Servings: 8
1 package lime sugar free jello
1 can crushed pineapple in juice, well drained
1 24 oz container lowfat cottage cheese
1 container of cool whip lite (8 oz)
Drain pineapple really well then mix in powder jello in with pineapple until mixed well. add cottage cheese and mix well. finally add cool whip and fold in until well mixed and keep refrigrated.
Number of Servings: 8
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user NEE4BUD.
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Texas vets visit WWII memorial
Published 7:19 pm, Friday, October 4, 2013
WASHINGTON - Politics should not stop the country from honoring its veterans, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, declared Friday as he stood at the World War II memorial in Washington on the National Mall.
"There are no politics about this," said Cornyn. "This is about honoring our heroes. It shouldn't be political."
The monument along with national parks around the nation have been officially shuttered because of the failure of Congress and President Barack Obama to agree on a spending plan for the new federal fiscal year that started Tuesday.
Barriers no barrier
Despite black gates acting as barriers surrounding the entrances to the World War II memorial, authorities did not stop the public from entering on Friday. Many of the gates were pushed aside and dozens of tourists walked around inside.
"This park is closed, but I can't do anything to stop you," a park ranger told a visitor.
Throughout the week, many veterans' groups have visited the memorial. Some have been restricted from entering, but with the help of some members of Congress, others have moved the gates and entered, regardless of the shutdown.
Along with other members of the Texas congressional delegation, Cornyn had come to the memorial to welcome the Texas veterans.
Cornyn said the veterans deserved more than to be blocked from visiting their own memorial.
"Hopefully, people will wake up and see that it doesn't make sense to punish the people who we should be honoring," he said.
Political noises
But politics was lurking in the environment.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Houston, soon after stepping off the bus carrying the veterans, immediately raised the issue.
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has "objected to opening these memorials, opening these parks," said Cruz. "I hope he backs off. I hope he's willing to compromise and I hope we can open every national park."
Cruz touted the efforts of House Republicans to approve funding for individual government departments and programs, such as the national parks and veterans benefits.


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I hope Dan wins tonite!! He has worked hard for 500,000.
Janelle Pierzina @JanellePierzina
I'm an emotionless FemBot but if Dan doesn't win tonight I will cry! #BB14 #thanksBB
Julie does too like Dan, at the very very end of the show last night she said right to his face he's the best player of all time
...I can't wait until the first pictures come thru of some other being destroying the Mars Rover
Ralph Macchio @ralphmacchio
Never watched Big Brother but am tuning in tonite to last 10 mins cause twitter has not stopped telling me the Dan guy is biggest fan.
How cool is that! I bet Dan was so happy. Here's a tweet from him:
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Congrats to Ian! Thx to everyone for the support all season & for being nice to @cgheesling! @ralphmacchio watched the finale! Epic news!
When the Power of Love overcomes the Love of Power, the World will know Peace
@DanGheesling If you bottle and sell your 'mist' can I be the spokesperson? Haha.
@KaraMonaco Done - and sales just went up 1400%. Sorry we didn't get to talk more last night. I meant what I said!
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Poetry Reading
American poet Albert Goldbarth will read from his work, 7 p.m. Jan. 23, Room 1124, College of Business Administration, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro. Free and open to the public. Call (912) 681-0739.
Kids' Book Club
4:30 p.m. Jan. 23, Liberty Branch Library. The group will choose a name for the club and discuss which book to read for their next meeting. Open to grades 5-8. Call (912) 368-4003.
American Girl Club
6 p.m. Jan. 23, Barnes & Noble, Oglethorpe Mall. Girls ages 8-13 invited. Featuring games, crafts and stories. Free and open to the public. Call 353-7757.
Striving Authors Group
7 p.m. Jan. 24, Barnes & Noble, Oglethorpe Mall. Join host Trevor Noble for a discussion and critique of works from striving authors. Published guest: Christopher Santoro. All participants encouraged to bring current works to share and copies to distribute. Free and open to the public. Call 353-7757.
Book Signing & Reading
Charles Campbell will read and sign copies of his Savannah-based children's fantasy novels, "The Magic Coin Trilogy," 7 p.m. Jan. 24, The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Free. Visit www.sentientbean.com or www.unmistakablyCKC.com.
Family Fun
5 p.m. Jan. 24, Midway Branch Library. Featuring stories and crafts for the family to share. Open to children ages 5 and older with their families. Call (912) 884-5742.
Book Signing
Author Anna Marlis Burgard and illustrator Richard Krepel will discuss and sign copies of their book "Hallelujah, The Poetry of Classic Hymns." 7:30 p.m. Jan. 26, Richmond Hill Library. Reception will follow. Hosted by the Richmond Hill Friends of the Library.
11 a.m. Jan. 28, Barnes & Noble, Oglethorpe Mall. Special guest: Biscuit the Dog. Free and open to the public. Call 353-7757.
'How Giving Can Change Your Life'
Douglas M. Lawson, author of "Give to Live," will speak at 9 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. Jan. 29, First Presbyterian Church, Hilton Head Island. Call (843) 681-3696 or visit www.fpchhi.org.
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