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WooHoo!!!!!!---11 more to meet my goal of 20 lbs by my cruise--Can I do it in 38 days? I would love to lose a total of 30 but Im trying to be realisticIts now 11 lbs!!!
Ok-I made it through Thanksgiving and didnt gain any weight but I didnt lose any either and then I guess it took a few days for my metabolism to kick back in cause now I have lost another 3 so Im minus 15 lbs--plus at the moment, being a female I am retaining some extra fluid for a few days so by next week it should be even less with the extra water weight gone and Im still dieting. We leave in 8 days so I hope to lose about 5 more. Good luck to you all in reaching your weight loss goals.I did it!!! down 20 lbs and 3 days to go!! Yeah... i hope I ca keep up the good dieting when I return --I plan on eating what I want o the ship-its a vacation! Spark people is great--doing my eating journal was the biggest plus for me-I had to FACE everything I was eatinf or drinking-it made a big difference


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Ethnic Groups: Baya 33%, Banda 27%, Mandjia 13%, Sara 10%, Mboum 7%, M'Baka 4%, Yakoma 4%, Other 2%
Religion: Indigenous beliefs 35%, Protestant 25%, Roman Catholic 25%, Muslim 15%
GDP: $2.855 billion (2014 est.)
GDP per capita: $600 (2014 est.)
Unemployment: 8% (2001 est.)
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Since gaining independence from France in 1960, four of its five presidents have been ousted through unconstitutional means.
Despite natural resources, including gold, timber, diamonds and uranium, the Central African Republic (CAR) is among the poorest nations in the world.
CAR is a possible hideout of Joseph Kony, the brutal leader of the Lord Resistance Army (LRA).
Since March 2013 when President Francois Bozize was ousted by a coalition of rebels, CAR was plunged into chaos. Seleka, a predominantly Muslim coalition, has since been forced out of power, but Christian militias, known as the anti-balaka (translates to anti-machete), fought back to counter the attacks on Christian communities. Rights groups have warned of ethnic cleansing.
According to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, as of April 14, 2015, there were 436,300 internally displaced persons in CAR.
1894 – The territory of Ubangi-Shari (Oubangui-Chari) is brought under French colonial rule.
1910 – Ubangi-Shari joins with three other dependencies to form French Equatorial Africa (AEF).
December 1958 - Becomes an autonomous republic within the French Community, with Barthelemy Boganda serving as prime minister until his death in 1959.
August 13, 1960 - Achieves full independence from France as the Central African Republic. David Dacko becomes the first president.
1962 – President Dacko declares Social Evolution Movement of Black Africa (MESAN) the only legal political party.
1964 - Dacko runs unopposed and is formally elected president.
December 31, 1965 – President Dacko is overthrown in a military coup led by Jean-Bedel Bokassa, commander of the armed forces.
January 1966 – CAR's constitution is rescinded, and the legislature is dissolved.
1972 – Jean-Bedel Bokassa makes himself president for life.
1976 – Bokassa proclaims himself emperor of the newly-renamed Central African Empire.
September 20, 1979 - Bokassa is deposed in a coup by David Dacko, with French backing.
September 1, 1981 - General Andre Kolingba leads a coup removing Dacko from power and establishes a military government.
November 29, 1986 - Kolingba is sworn-in as constitutional president.
October 1992 – Multiparty presidential elections are held, but the results are later annulled by the Supreme Court due to voting irregularities.
1993 – In the rescheduled multiparty presidential elections, Ange-Felix Patasse is elected president, defeating Andre Kolingba and David Dacko.
October 1999 - President Ange-Felix Patasse is re-elected, with 51.6% of the vote.
March 2003 - Francois Bozize, backed by Chad, seizes power while Ange-Felix Patasse is abroad. Bozize is elected president in 2005.
September 25, 2007 – The United Nations Security Council passes Resolution 1778, which establishes the peacekeeping operation MINURCAT, the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad. The mission's mandate ends on December 31, 2010.
January 23, 2011 – President Francois Bozize is re-elected despite allegations of fraud by election observers.
October 14, 2011 – In a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, President Barack Obama says he is sending about 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to provide assistance in hunting down Joseph Kony, the head of the Lord's Resistance Army.
December 2012 – Seleka, a coalition of predominantly Muslim rebel groups, stages attacks on several cities as they advance towards the capital Bangui.
January 11, 2013 - An agreement signed in Gabon's capital, Libreville, sets up a unity government headed by President Bozize. Under the agreement, the Seleka and opposition party members will pick a prime minister, and legislative elections will take place in a year.
March 2013 – Seleka accuses President Francois Bozize of reneging on the peace deal and ousts him. Bozize flees to Cameroon and Michel Djotodia, a Seleka leader, declares himself president.
April 13, 2013 – The National Transitional Council confirms Djotodia as interim president.
August 18, 2013 – Michel Djotodia is sworn in as interim president. He is considered the first Muslim head of state and the first from the northeast.
September 2013 - Djotodia officially disbands the Seleka coalition.
December 5, 2013 - The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopts Resolution 2127, which authorizes MISCA, the African-led International Support Mission in the Central African Republic, and the French peacekeeping troops already on the ground to take all necessary measures to protect civilians and stabilize the country.
December 2013 – The African Union announces it will temporarily boost its troop levels in CAR to 6,000 soldiers.
January 2014 – According to the UNHCR, the United Nations' refugee agency, as a result of the violence that gripped CAR since March 2013, more than 935,000 people are internally displaced and nearly 60% of them are children.
January 10, 2014 – Interim President Michel Djotodia and Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye resign amid pressure from African regional leaders.
January 20, 2014 - The National Transitional Council (CNT) elects Catherine Samba-Panza as interim president.
February 14, 2014 – The European Union commits to sending 500 troops to the Central African Republic, a number that the coalition is planning to double, according to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. The EU's announcement follows France's statement that it will send 400 additional troops to join the 1,600 French personnel already deployed there.
April 1, 2014 – The European Union launches EUFOR RCA, a military operation to help restore stability to CAR.
April 10, 2014 – The U.N. Security Council unanimously approves the creation of a United Nations peacekeeping force for the Central African Republic, where competing militias have been fighting for months. The council approved the deployment of 11,800 peacekeepers to the country, where about 6,000 African-led peacekeeping forces and about 2,000 French troops already have been operating. Additionally, the European Union is planning to deploy up to 1,000 troops.
April 30, 2015 - French soldiers forced minors in the Central African Republic to perform sex acts on them in return for food or money, according to Paula Donovan, co-director of AIDS-Free World, citing a confidential United Nations report. The abuses were allegedly committed against a dozen hungry, vulnerable children at a displaced persons camp at M'Poko International Airport in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, between December 2013 and June 2014.
May 7, 2015 - The Paris prosecutor's office announces "a judicial investigation against unnamed persons accused of charges of rapes on minors" aged under 15 years, or complicity in this, "by people abusing the authority conferred by their functions."
August 12, 2015 - A day after Amnesty International details allegations of the rape of a 12-year-old girl and indiscrimate killings by U.N. peacekeeping forces in CAR, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon requests and accepts the resignation of Babacar Gaye, head of U.N. peacekeepers in the Central African Republic.
August 19, 2015 – A U.N. spokeswoman says three additional people, including a minor, have accused U.N. peacekeepers working in the Central African Republic of rape. Since the United Nations established a force in the country in April 2014, there have been 14 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers, including the three new accusations.
September 15, 2015 – The United Nations announces it has received a new allegation of sexual abuse against a U.N. peacekeeper working in the Central African Republic.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
I have this proposal I'm working on. That's not accurate in the strictest sense, as I'm not proposing this book with the hope someone will buy it. It's already sold. So maybe it's more accurate to say it's a synopsis, so my editor will give me the green light to go ahead and write it. The good news? I don't need pie charts or graphs.
The bad news? Well...
Trying to write a synopsis before the book is written is hard for me. I've gotten better at it. I can generally put together 2-3 pages that make it sound like I know what's going to happen, but I never do. It gives me a headache to think too long about unwritten books. That's where I am, though, career-wise, and I'm certainly not unhappy with that.
The funny part is, I can take almost as long to write a synopsis as it would take me to bang out the first 15K of the novel. To me it seems like time ill-spent, but that's the process, and I understand the reason they want some idea of what I'll be handing in. It would totally suck if I wrote the thing and they were like, "Hm, our demand for psychic ninjas just is not very high right now..." (I'm not writing a book about psychic ninjas by the way.)
In order to make this work, I have to do a lot of thinking about the characters and their emotional journey. That way, I can give them life in the synopsis without focusing too much on the actual plot. Sometimes I do that via backstory, which gives my editor a sense of what kind of people they are. Then just a general arc of where the story headed will usually suffice.
All told, I can't decide whether this or waiting after a pitch is my least favorite part of the job. What's your peeve? (If you're not a writer or an aspirant, you can list a general one.)
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- azteclady said...
(No internet connection since around 10AM = azteclady going crazy. We internet junkies do need our fixes, you know! So I'm using a neighbor's computer to touch base)
Have you considered a psychotic ninja, by the way?
Peeves: a phone/DSL service provider marketing itself as "the reliable one" which has left me incommunicado all day.
- November 19, 2008 at 4:32 PM
- MaryK said...
If it's already sold, why do you need a green light? And may we know which series it's in?
My peeve is that no one wants to pay me to sit at home and read.
- November 19, 2008 at 11:09 PM
- Angie Fox said...
My peeve is when my lovely husband feels to the need to interrupt while I'm writing to tell me what he had for lunch. I care that the turkey he had was wonderful, just not during a multiple demon attack.
- November 20, 2008 at 7:52 AM
- Ann Aguirre said...
Glad you're back, Az!
MaryK, I sold a nebulous second book by Ava Gray. It's a book in the same vein as SKIN GAME (contemporary with light paranormal elements) but I sold it without any detail on it.
So I must turn in a proposal to make sure they like the idea enough to let me write this book. Otherwise it has to be another idea in the vein of the firs one. Make sense?
Hehe, Angie, I can so relate!
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The United States Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in the much-watched Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez, No. 14-857, case. The two questions presented in Gomez that are of importance to class action practice are:
- Whether a case becomes moot, and thus beyond the judicial review power of Article III, when the plaintiff receives an offer of complete relief of his claim and
- Whether the answer to the first question is any different when the plaintiff has asserted a class claim under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, but receives an offer of complete relief before any class is certified.
The petitioner, Campbell-Ewald Company (CEC), was the defendant at the district court level. Before the plaintiff, Jose Gomez, filed a motion for class certification, CEC made him offers of full relief. CEC then argued to the district court that its offers mooted both Gomez's individual and class claims under basic Article III principles and that, therefore, Gomez's action must be dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Gomez, and the Ninth Circuit, said the offers did not moot the claims.
The dispute reached the United States Supreme Court. During oral arguments on October 14, Gomez, and the United States as amicus curiae, argued that a defendant cannot unilaterally "moot" a case and deprive a district court of jurisdiction by making an offer that the defendant characterizes as one for complete relief.
All justices but Justice Clarence Thomas extensively questioned counsel and presented several hypotheticals in challenging counsel to plug holes in their respective positions. Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared to be aligned; they directed the vast majority of their questions to CEC. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel A. Alito and Antonin Scalia also appeared to be aligned and directed the vast majority of their questions to Gomez and the United States. Justice Anthon M. Kennedy played devil's advocate during the arguments of both CEC and Gomez and, along with Justice Stephen G. Breyer, likely represent the swing votes. For his part, Justice Breyer posed tough questions to Gomez, but suggested that "mooting" a claim may require more than "offering" full relief; in so doing, he posed a hypothetical way to "tender" full relief that may dispose a claim.
Procedural and factual history
The US Navy, in 2005, contracted with CEC for the provision of recruitment-related advertising services. Under this contract, CEC sent Navy-branded text messages to individuals' cell phones, including to Gomez. Gomez, the plaintiff, alleged that neither he, nor members of the putative class, consented to receive the texts and, therefore, CEC violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending the texts to him and the putative class.
Before Gomez moved to certify the putative class, CEC made an offer of judgment pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 68 that offered Gomez (1) more than the maximum statutory damages to which he was entitled; (2) all "reasonable costs " that Gomez would recover if he were to prevail; and (3) a stipulated injunction prohibiting CEC from engaging in the alleged wrongs. CEC also made a separate offer (i.e., outside of Fed. R. Civ. P. 68), which it characterized as a "tender," for the same relief.[1] Both offers stated that CEC would "arrange for" prompt payment.
Gomez did not accept the offers and filed a motion for class certification. CEC moved to dismiss the action for lack of jurisdiction, arguing that its offers of complete relief mooted both the plaintiff's individual and class claims under basic Article III principles.
The district court refused to dismiss the claim for lack of jurisdiction. Although it expressly found that CEC's offers would have "fully satisfied" Gomez's claims, it believed that Gomez's motion for class certification related back to the filing of the class complaint, before CEC had made the offers of complete relief. The district court, however, granted summary judgment in favor of CEC after concluding that in sending the text messages, CEC was acting as a Navy contractor and was, therefore, "immune from liability under the doctrine of derivative sovereign immunity."
Gomez appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. A month after Gomez filed his appeal, the Supreme Court decided Genesis Healthcare Corp. v. Symczyk, 133 S. Ct. 1523 (2013), in which it held that an unaccepted offer of full relief mooted a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Relying on Symczyk, CEC moved to dismiss Gomez's appeal for lack of jurisdiction.
The Ninth Circuit denied CEC's motion to dismiss and reversed the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of CEC. First, on the jurisdictional question, it held that neither the plaintiff's individual claim nor the class claim was mooted by CEC's offer of complete relief because an unacceptedoffer that would fully satisfy a plaintiff's claim is not sufficient to render either an individual or class claim moot. On the merits, the Ninth Circuit concluded that the doctrine of derivative sovereign immunity was not applicable. CEC appealed to the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court oral argument: CEC
CEC's counsel opened his argument with two propositions he said the Court must accept to conclude that the district court retained jurisdiction after CEC made its offers for full relief: (1) "a plaintiff can force a court to adjudicate the merits of his claim simply by refusing the defendant's offer of capitulation and complete relief" and (2) "a plaintiff has what amounts to a substantive right to class litigation that applies as soon as the complaint is filed and that entitles the case to proceed even if his individual claim drops out."
Justices Kagan and Sotomayor suggested that what constitutes "complete relief" is a merits question and involves "critical liability determinations that were not made by the court below," such as the scope of an injunction and entitlement to attorneys' fees. Justice Kagan pointed out that CEC's offers did not offer everything that the plaintiff asked for in his complaint, such as certification of a class and declaratory relief. Even though CEC contended that Gomez was "not entitled" to such relief, Justice Kagan proclaimed, "there's a dispute about whether he's entitled to these things," which must be adjudicated. The "measure of complete relief," she said, "has to be, at this stage, about what his complaint asks for."
Further still, Justices Kagan and Sotomayor each espoused their view that a Rule 56 judgement is the only appropriate mechanism for a court to determine to what a plaintiff is entitled. Accordingly, Justice Kagan stated, where it is clear that the "defendant has offered everything that the plaintiff himself has asked for, the appropriate thing to do, in order to prevent wasteful litigation, is not to dismiss the case for mootness, but to grant judgment in favor of the plaintiff."
CEC's counsel countered by arguing that that "complete relief" means "everything that [the plaintiff] could receive if he were to win a judgment." He further stated that in the context of determining whether an offer moots a case, courts are empowered to determine to what relief a plaintiff is entitled. Justice Scalia added that the plaintiff "could ask for the keys to Fort Knox" and that "if it's a frivolous claim, I don't see why the Court can't dispose of that initially . . . in connection with the mootness [determination]."
Justice Kennedy expressed his concern that CEC was arguing that a settlement offer is equivalent to a judgment. Justice Kennedy tacitly accepted CEC's statement that it is an "accepted principal [that] a settlement moots the case and requires the court to dispose of the case," but suggested that to end the case after settlement one must move the court to enter judgement, something CEC did not do in the case below. An opinion that says "a settlement offer is the same as a judgment," Justice Kenney warned, "just doesn't equate with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or with [Supreme Court precedent]."
CEC's counsel responded to Justice Kennedy's point first by clarifying CEC's position as follows: "when the offer of complete relief is made and when a court has determined that it is, indeed, for complete relief, then the case has to come to an end." It is no matter, he suggested, "whether you say . . . it's moot at that precise moment or whether you say it starts the ball rolling down the hill toward as dismissal or judgment for the plaintiff based on the terms of the offer, the point is. . .when the defendant has offered everything, the courts can't go ahead and expound on the law." To this same point, CEC's counsel argued that "once a case has come to an end, the court has ancillary jurisdiction to dispose of it" and, therefore, can enter judgment even after the court has determined the case is moot.
Supreme Court oral argument: Gomez
Gomez's counsel attempted to focus his argument on the technical difference between a mootness dismissal, which is a dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, and a forced judgment entered in favor of the defendant that has capitulated. The two remedies, he argued, are "mutually exclusive. If the case is moot, a court cannot enter a judgment ever, under any circumstances." He went on to argue that even if a judgment is entered in favor of a plaintiff providing him his full individual relief, he still has an interest in representing a class. Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Scalia, and Kennedy challenged both of these propositions.
Seconds after Gomez's counsel began his argument, Chief Justice Roberts focused in on the "live case or controversy" requirement for subject matter jurisdiction. He asked: if the plaintiff is getting everything it wants "[w]hat is the live dispute in which you have a personal stake toward the terms we used under Article III?" The "live dispute" Gomez's counsel identified "is in obtaining a court judgment that incorporates that relief that's been offered." Justice Alito followed up with a hypothetical in which a plaintiff in an individual action was offered everything he requested and stated that there could be no live case or controversy in that circumstance. Gomez's counsel responded that the defendant would have a "defense on the merits," but there is still a controversy because "there's a past injury that has been allege[dly] caused by the defendant that could be redressed, in theory, with judicial relief." Justice Kennedy summarized Gomez's position as: "a plaintiff has an interest in the judgment." Gomez's counsel confirmed.
Justice Kennedy went on to point out that Article III requires adversity, and stated that if the plaintiff has actually been paid what he requests (instead of merely offered it), "there's no adversity." Gomez's counsel responded that there would be adversity if the plaintiff came into the court and said he wanted more, even if the defendant said the plaintiff was not entitled to it. "Redressability under Article III," he argued, "does not ask whether the plaintiff is legally entitled to the relief he demands. He could be making an utterly meritless claim for relief."
To this, Chief Justice Roberts reminded Gomez's counsel that aside from the plaintiff's interest, the court has an interest. He questioned whether it was appropriate to take up the court's time where the defendant has capitulated and there is nothing more that they can give. He told Gomez's counsel, "You won't take 'yes' for an answer." Gomez's counsel claimed that Gomez had not been offered all the relief requested. Chief Justice Roberts pointed out, however, that the district court found that the defendant's offer "would have fully satisfied the individual claims asserted." Even if that were true, Gomez's counsel argued, "[i]t may justify a forced entry of judgment, but it does not moot the case."
Justice Scalia jumped in to question whether there was a meaningful technical difference between a forced entry of judgment and a dismissal for mootness. He stated that a forced entry of judgment is one of the remedies for mootness and asserted that there are circumstances in which a court can enter judgment after a case is moot, such as when the parties settle. Gomez's counsel disagreed and stated that "[i]f the case is moot, a court cannot enter a judgment ever, under any circumstances." "A jurisdictional dismissal," he argued, "sends the plaintiff home empty-handed, with nothing. No judicial relief at all. This unaccepted offer of judgment is just out there. It hasn't been accepted. It can't be enforced in any way."
Justice Breyer seized on the distinction between an offer of relief and a tender of relief. He pointed to the AFL-CIO's amicus curiae brief, filed in support of Gomez, wherein it suggested that the proper way to end a case when the plaintiff will not accept an offer of full relief is to tender the relief to the court. According to Justice Breyer, "The judge at that point should say, 'the [plaintiff] has all he wants. The case is over. Goodbye.'" He went on to state that "of course, if that person now has all he wants, he can't certify this as a class because he isn't harmed."
Gomez's counsel explained that in such situation the plaintiff may get judgment on the merits, but he has not gotten all he asked for because he hasn't gotten class certification and the case is not moot. In support of this position, he argued that "[t]he case is not over if you're talking about class certification because [Deposit Guar. Nat'l Bank v.]. Roper[, 445 U.S. 326 (1980)] holds specifically that the representative plaintiff can continue litigating the class certification . . . because he had a financial stake in the class certification decision.
Chief Justice Roberts expressed his opinion that the refusal to accept an offer of judgment offering complete relief is "all about class certification" and meant to benefit class action lawyers. He questioned whether that was a legitimate interest for an individual plaintiff to be able to maintain an action. Chief Justice Roberts went on to extensively question Gomez's counsel on what Gomez's continued financial stake in the litigation would be if the defendant had offered him, or paid him, the monetary damages he sought plus attorneys' fees. Gomez's counsel identified the "incentive award" that Gomez could recover if the class is certified.
Supreme Court oral argument: United States
The United States presented argument in support of Gomez's contention that although a court may enter a forced judgment in favor of a plaintiff when the defendant capitulates, the case is not moot. Justice Scalia quickly pointed out during the US argument that Article III also requires "adverseness" and contended that once the defendant capitulates there is no adverseness and, therefore, the action is moot. As they had during Gomez's argument, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Scalia challenged the assertion that courts may never enter judgment after a case is determined to be moot. Justice Sotomayor rephrased Gomez's and the government's argument as saying that a case is not moot when a defendant claims to offer full relief because a court has to say that it is in fact complete relief and enter judgment for that relief. This is a point she made during CEC's argument.
Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Ginsburg appear aligned in the position that an unaccepted settlement offer cannot end a case. Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito and Scalia appear to agree that in making a mootness determination, a court can consider whether a settlement offer offers complete relief and, if so, can dismiss a case as moot or enter a forced judgment enforcing the offer. Justice Breyer found the method presented by the AFL-CIO to be "practical" and may believe that simply "offering" complete relief, without actually tendering it, may not be sufficient for a court to conclude that a case should be ended. But he does not appear to be concerned that the tender of full relief would prevent the plaintiff from representing a class. Whichever way Justice Kennedy is leaning, he kept it close to the vest. The justices' conference sessions on this case will no doubt be as spirited as the oral argument.
A ruling from the Court that the offers made by CEC mooted the case and deprived the district court of subject matter jurisdiction would provide defendants facing class actions involving small-dollar products a powerful weapon to avoid the potential high costs and damages associated with class actions. However, since the case currently before the Supreme Court involves only offers made prior tothe filing of a motion for class certification, to prevent a "pick-off" of the named plaintiff, putative class representatives around the country have begun to routinely file a bare-bones motion for class certification at the time they file their complaint, which they amend or supplement after the record is developed. If the Court rules in favor of CEC, we are sure to see the Supreme Court in the future have to answer whether an offer made after the filing of a bare-bones motion for class certification, but prior to certification, also moots the case.


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Calculation of Reynolds Number In CFX
Hi all
I simulated a steady flow in a pipe. Mean velocity at inlet of pipe is 0.02 [m/s]. The pipe diameter is 20 [mm]. The following data has been taken from CFX solver output file.
Global Length = 5.4614E-02
Minimum Extent = 1.9994E-02
Maximum Extent = 5.4000E-01
Density = 1.0600E+03
Dynamic Viscosity = 3.7100E-03
Velocity = 2.0012E-02
Advection Time = 2.7290E+00
Reynolds Number = 3.1227E+02
When I calculate the Reynolds number with above information. It becomes 114 while as it shown above, CFX calculated 312 for Reynolds number. Does anybody know how CFX calculated the Reynolds Number?
CFX use Volume^(1/3) to calculate the length scale, that why you dont get the same Reynolds number.
From your data:
((0.02^2*pi/4)*(5.4e-1-2e-2))^(1/3)*1060*2e-2/3.7e-3 = 313
mean Velocity at Inlet
In my output file the Velocity is shown to be 70 but if i caluculate it in CFD -Post as ave(Velocity)@Inlet then it is much higher than that.It is 129.Can anyone please tell me what is the problem.I want to know this to calculate Reynolds number manualy in CFD-Post.
Have you tried areaAve(Velocity)@inlet ?
yup...Its showing 150.659 which is more higher
Does anyone know how to calculate Reynolds number manually in CFD-Post using an expression??
If you want to calculate the Reynolds number you are comparing against literature values, you need to use the same definition of Reynolds Number.
These are my guesses:
Velocity scale = areaAve(Velocity)@inlet
Length scale = the diameter of the cylinder or chord length or whatever the geometry is
density scale = areaAve(Density)@inlet
Viscosity scale = areaAve(Viscosity)@inlet
Then you can define Re number using these numbers.
Dear Ashton,
I am aware that it is a long time since you have posted here,but I need a help .I cannot find Reynolds number in CFX outputs in CFD post. I normally calculate Reynolds number by hand. As you have mentioned here; there is way how to get Reynolds number from cfx itself. Could you give me some information in this field?
Write a CEL expression which calculates it and send it to a monitor point. Easy.
But don't be fooled by the Reynolds Number reported in the output file.
Dear Glenn,
Thanks for your replay, The problem is that different part of a problem have different length scale. Are you suggesting that there is a built-in length scale function in CFX?
There is some built in functions. The turbulence transition model has some functions in the Gamma-theta model. There is the wall distance function for the SST turbulence model.
But usually you have to write your own function appropriate for your geometry.
Any CFD textbook can define you how to get the hydraulic diameter. Then it is usually straight forward to implement it in CFD-Post.
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Buddhist proselytizers from northern China and Central Asia first entered the Korean peninsula in the final decades of the fourth century. In the centuries that followed, Korean Buddhists developed their own traditions of ritual practice and systems of philosophical thought, but they were also in constant dialogue with their monastic counterparts in China, exchanging both texts and images. Icons were frequently presented as gifts among the rulers, merchants, and monks of China, Korea, and Japan, which led to a high degree of stylistic cross-pollination across the three cultures. Private, portable icons like these gilt bronze images—which, though crafted in Korea, share many visual traits with similar objects from China and Japan—provided an ideal medium for intercultural artistic and religious exchange. Such images are likely to have been worshipped on small altars in domestic settings. The portable shrine displayed here, from the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910), helps us to imagine the original display contexts for the images that surround it. A mobile, self-contained setting for icon worship, it differs little in form, material, or concept from the portable shrines that devotees first brought from India to Central Asia and China centuries before.
- Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.53.71
- Title
- Portable Buddhist Shrine with Two Removable Standing Bodhisattvas, a Lotus Base for a Seated Buddha Image (now missing), a Repoussé Panel Depicting the Buddha Amitabha (Amit'abul), and Repoussé Panels on the Doors Representing Guardian Figures
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- Work Type
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- Date
- 14th century
- Places
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- Period
- Koryŏ dynasty, 918-1392
- Culture
- Korean
- Location
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- Dimensions
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- [Yamanaka & Co., New York, 12/7/1934] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (1934-1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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Kristin A. Mortimer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums/Abbeville Press (Cambridge, MA; New York, NY, 1985), no. 46, p. 45
James Cuno, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, Harvard University Art Museums/Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 68-69
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I might know I'd missed something off the "do you believes"
- although aliens might not be all that fitting within a faith/religion questionnaire anyway.
I must say, you make fascinating reading, Terri. Thank you for opening up to us about your path!
I knew some, but not all, of your story and it's wonderful to be witness to your blossoming.
Some questions for Friday:
What was the "breakthrough moment" for you on your current path?
What made you decide to convert to Catholicism as a young woman?
Do you and Brian share the same spiritual views?
What's the most valuable lesson your spiritual teacher has taught you?
What has been your favourite moment with each of your kids?
What can you see them deciding to do when they grow up?
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You Should Practice Swallowing Your Words or Maybe Not Talking At All
Oh word vomit what a bittersweet relationship we have. On the one hand, I don't have much of a filter and severely lack the ability to bite my tongue, so I can appreciate when other people are brutally honest or don't sugar coat things. On the other hand, most people abuse you. Word vomit isn't supposed to be obscenely foolish or full of incompetence and yet so many humans don't grasp that their word vomit is just that. I guess once they vocabularily puke on someone who isn't able to suppress the innate desire to kick their teeth in, they'll start to catch on.
But I won't hold my breath.
We're used to people around us, most of the people we know/talk to, being (sometimes unintentionally) insensitive and just all around clueless about a lot of the things we have going on in our lives. We realize that multiple lost pregnancies, infertility, military life, and my rape are all kind of heavy things people will treat like landmines. Trust me, we grasp that fully.
Some people's excuse is that they just don't know what to say or do or how to act.
Answer: NORMAL.
To us, its just routine life, the life we've had for 5 years. There is no need for our conversations with you to be centered around the crappy things we've had happen. The last thing we ever wanna do is make people feel uncomfortable or be constantly rehashing the sometimes harshness of our past/present reality. We don't expect anyone to be fully educated or sound insanely cultivated on any of those subjects but most of the word vomit that abounds defies the normalcy of common sense. More often than not Mr. Superman and I will exchange glances that expressly involve the single thought of, "REALLY?!" and the more people tip toe around us and try to make conversations with us 'normal' the more dumb stuff falls out of their brains and off of their tongues. Its like the harder you try to be perfect at something, the more you'll find yourself making little mistakes but the minute you let yourself chill out and be the regular you, things will start to flow.
Unless you're a special brand of dim-wittedness a la Jessica Simpson or just flat out mean spirited, the conversations that seem to have been recycled for the last 5 years regardless of who we're talking to, need to stop.
I get FB messages, emails, texts, and people telling me all the time about how sharing my story about being raped is disrespectful to my husband and I shouldn't be talking about it.
We get told ALL the time that if we just relax, pregnancy and viable birth will just happen when the time is right.
We are incessantly and without fail asked by friends and family when we plan on becoming parents.
WTF? Again, REALLY?!
The first one I never even dignify with a response because that is just flat out, pure ignorance.
The second one is full of stupidity because trust me, if relaxing is all it would take for us to have a baby, I'd be more zen that Buddha. A) I no longer have the body parts and organs required to get pregnant on our own and all the relaxation in the world won't make those things grow back. B) Shut up unless you wanna get slapped.
Lastly, the hardships and facts about our issues with having children are far from secret. In fact, people I've never even met know all the nitty gritty because its been all over this blog for years. Oh, and Facebook. And every time you ask us, we give the same answer. We'll have kids when we either win the lottery, someone dies and leaves us a fortune, someone decides to donate the insane amount of mula our situation will require, or someone's 16 year old sister/daughter/niece/friend/cousin gets knocked up and gives us their kid. The one option I haven't tried is dedicating my life to becoming the best gosh-darn coke head street walker I can possibly be. Word is those lucky yatches get knocked up about as often as Charlie Sheen says, "WINNING!"
Really though...
When someone talks to us like they know how it feels to be more barren than the Sahara while holding 3 babies on their hips, I want nothing more than to stop them and ask them how stupid they're capable of sounding because I do indeed have a limit of how much I can tolerate before I just turn and walk away.
When someone complains about how annoying their kid is or how lucky we are to be childless and then drones on about how 'doing the whole mommy thing' is the hardest thing anyone could ever do I want to correct them and say the hardest thing anyone could ever do is not strangle you while you're rambling on like a world class dumbnut.
Now I'm not going to say this isn't directed at anyone personally (because I don't LIE) and because it is. I have to chuckle whenever I read someones blog or FB rant where they go off on something but then say, "Now no one take offense because its not directed at anyone." Why do I let out a jolly old "Ha Ha!"?
Because its a fib and everyone knows its a fib.
The person who reads that and believes you is probably the person you are dedicating that slice of vent heaven to. You're writing it for a reason and its directed at someone.
I will say that this isn't directed at just one person. Its a whole slew of these word vomit users and abusers that this goes out to. If you have to think in your pretty little head if you've ever made me wanna flick you in the nose and walk away, you probably have but hey, we're all human and it happens. I know I bug the beejeebeez out of some people and that is just dandy because I have the peace of mind that I don't toss my verbal cookies in someones face over sensitive issues and I know I'm not mean, I'm honest. I can't give offense, you can only take it and that too sweetcheeks, is your prerogative.
5 comments:
- Team Mama said...
I am just so sorry that you felt that you even need to write this. I hear the hurt and it just about breaks my heart. I'd give anything if I could fix it all for you. I can't make the idiots any smarter but I do hope you know that the two of you have my full love and support and empathy and all that you need or want from me. <3 <3 <3
- December 18, 2011 at 1:02 AM
I have a question. Do you get annoyed/mad at someone for posting anything about their kids or just when they complain about them? I struggled with infertility and the day I finally became a mother was the greatest day of my life. However, even though I feel like I appreciate motherhood more than many other women do, I still have days when my child drives me crazy. If I vent on FB or my blog, then am I one of "those people"? Motherhood is very hard at times, regardless of whether or not becoming a mother was easy for you or if it was a long, painful journey. Given your situation, (and I'm asking you this plainly and without accusation) do you think motherhood will be easier for you than for someone who didn't struggle as much to become a mother?
I'm saying this because my perspective has changed since my son came into my life.
- December 18, 2011 at 1:46 AM
- Lil Mrs. said...
like! :)
- December 19, 2011 at 1:12 PM
- Jamie said...
I appreciate your honesty.
- December 19, 2011 at 3:29 PM
- Samantha said...
Your blog. Your words.
I don't know what you're dealing with and you don't know what I deal with either.
We all have issues in life that weigh us down.
Throwing snide and snippy remarks to someone who is real enough to share their life with us is a bit cruel. (I'm talking about people that do that to you)
I love your honesty. Even if other people take it the wrong way, at least they know where you stand.
I am an honest person as well. I'd like for someone to tell me when I'm being a pain in the ass and I'd like to be able to tell those insensitive folks when they need to stop talking...like yesterday.
I truly hope and pray that someday you will find all the answers to your questions. Even if they aren't what you want, hopefully they give you some peace and understanding.
Until then, brush your shoulders off and be you. Nobody does it better.
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I know the real reason y'all visit me here. It's not the books (mine or anyone else's.) It sure as heck better not be the sewing tips or y'all are gonna end up naked or in rags. You like the garden, but the truth is, most of you aren't about to dig down into that soil and see if it will grow anything. It's way easier to laugh at me as I try. Now and then, you're tempted by a recipe or two. But in the end, the star of the show is really…Junior. Scamper. Lynx. And now, we have Oreo and Indian Hat.
Welcome to the show. I hope you stay awhile.
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I think I can tell which one is Oreo…
Comment by April — October 24, 2012 @ 1:54 pm
I like to challenge my readers. And I really think Indian Hat should be The Lone Ranger…Ranger for short…
I like Tonto better 😉
Comment by April — October 24, 2012 @ 3:09 pm
OH, I like that too! I'm going to tell dad!!!
I love the pics! As I'm looking them over, I'm wondering if anyone has written a book about a shifter who becomes a horse? A werehorse?
Comment by Michelle Scott — October 24, 2012 @ 5:27 pm
I can't think of any books offhand. These two horses are way too mellow to be even part human. Oh, sure, Indian Hat (AKA Tonto) had a litany of complaints when we went walking, but he is so gentle. I can imagine him shifting to a dog, but not a human. Way too nice for that. 🙂
I don't know about books with a shapeshifter becoming a horse, but in Norse mythology, Loki can become a horse and, as a mare, gave birth to Sleipnir. So there is precedent. However, since Loki is also supposed to be the god of mischief, who knows?
Comment by readerlady/ Dee — October 25, 2012 @ 5:38 am
Close enough! That counts. But yeah, gods did have rather different personalities. Mischief and horse DOES go together remarkably well…
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In a nationwide first, more than 70 law firms throughout England and Wales have pledged to donate a proportion of their fees from personal injury (PI) cases in order to benefit local communities. The Community Claims scheme, launched in May this year, will see solicitors donate £100 for each PI claim they accept.
In a novel arrangement, the money raised has been earmarked for three distinct causes: half of the sum will be donated to a cause nominated by the client, while the remaining portion will be split between schools and charities. £25 will be paid into the firm's local Community Claims school fund, and each time the fund reaches £500 the firm will select a school to receive the payment by drawing lots.
£20 will be paid into a central fund to enable large distributions to be made at the end of each financial year to organisations that have been nominated by the clients of the participating firm, and £5 will go towards administration costs. As an added bonus, everyone who puts a PI claim through a Community Claims solicitor is guaranteed to receive 100 per cent of their compensation.
Mark Hollinshead, senior partner at Taylor Hollinshead and co-founder of Community Claims, said the scheme is for those who genuinely wish to make a PI claim. "The idea is a simple one and includes firms of all sizes and in all areas," he said. "Solicitors have been keen on the idea, especially as the scheme lends a better light to personal injury work, which isn't always favourably perceived."
Only solicitors who have proven expertise in handling expert claims will be eligible to join the scheme – they have to be members of the Law Society Specialist Personal Injury Panel or the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (Apil). Furthermore, only one firm within each parliamentary constituency area is allowed to join the scheme and constituencies are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
The firms will pay a joining fee and a monthly subscription to cover running costs.
To date, 79 firms have signed up for the scheme. Rosemary Escott, a PI partner at Norwich-based member firm Hatch Brenner, commented: "As members of Apil, we received an email from Mark Hollinshead asking what we thought of the idea. As personal injury lawyers, we tend to get sick of the ambulance-chasing image that we're tarred with, and we felt this scheme offered a fresh approach.
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But most of the job consisted of shirking work: An hourlong coffee break in the morning, a lunch break that often stretched to a couple hours, and a huge back room full of stock that I could hide in when I didn't feel like working. It was the kind of work that Republicans think all unionized government work is like: I could foist any customer requests off to a member of the sales team, because I was strictly a stocking employee. As far as minimum wage mall jobs go, it was a dream. I can totally understand why the company is falling apart.


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Analysts and Employers are Watching New Consumer-Driven Health Plans Closely
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Since the Internal Revenue Service issued regulations in June allowing the use of consumer-driven health plans, 7 percent of employers with 20,000 or more workers have offered such plans. Another 14 percent say they are likely to have them in the next two years.
- Consumer-driven plans are variations on Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs) and Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) which analysts hope will help contain the cost of health care.
- But they differ from those arrangements in that they carry considerably higher deductibles, around $3,000 for families -- which employers cushion at the front end by financing individual cash accounts ranging from a few hundred to several thousand dollars.
- Employees can use these accounts to cover medical spending -- and, in some cases, treatments not usually covered by health insurance.
- Those who do not deplete their accounts may roll over the money remaining from year to year.
Experts say that consumer-driven plans are especially attractive to younger individuals and families who typically don't have heavy medical bills.
The question is whether the payback feature will encourage people to think of their accounts as their own money and think twice before spending it on treatments and medicines which are unnecessary.
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Public safety affects the emotional and physical well-being of residents and contributes to quality of life for individuals at home, at work, and in the community. In this section, we highlight the trends for 2 indicators: 1) violent crime rates; 2) domestic violence rates.
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Between 2000 and 2015, violent crime decreased in Dutchess, and also declined in Orange and Ulster counties. Since 2009, domestic violence decreased in Dutchess, contrary to increases in the other regional counties.
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Appropriate for Independence Day, the U.S. manufacturing sector closed the first half of 2011 with a bang.
At least that's what the data concluded.
In the days leading up to the Fourth of July weekend, we saw positive manufacturing numbers issued by the national Institute of Supply Management and ISM Chicago, as well as by the Federal Reserve banks of Dallas, Kansas City and Richmond.
"I think they all really show that there's been a little bit of a rebound in manufacturing," Chad Moutray, chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers, tells IndustryWeek.
Include the U.S. Census Bureau's May data on durable-goods orders (released June 24), and Moutray believes "that clearly we have started to turn around."
The capstone of an upbeat week came Friday, when the national ISM reported that its June purchasing managers index climbed 1.8% to 55.3.
On June 27, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas's latest Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey indicated that factory activity picked up in June.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's June Manufacturing Survey, issued June 30, showed that manufacturing in Kansas, Oklahoma and other Plains states "rebounded solidly after a brief slowdown" in May.
"Producers remained generally optimistic about future activity," Chad Wilkerson, vice president and economist for the reserve bank, said in a news release.
Karen Kurek believes that the recent manufacturing numbers show that the slowdown earlier in the year was merely a symptom of the supply chain disruptions caused by the crisis in Japan.
"I think this is really good news," says Kurek, who is the national manufacturing practice leader for the business consulting firm McGladrey.
A More Fundamental Slowdown Underway
Cliff Waldman, economist for the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI, is far less sanguine about the recent manufacturing data.
Waldman asserts that ISM's June purchasing managers index "provides further evidence that U.S. manufacturing growth is slowing amidst a struggling U.S. expansion and clear signs of moderation in the global economy."
"The overall index rebounded only modestly from a sharp fall in May, indicating that while the supply chain disruptions from the Japanese disaster have impacted manufacturing growth in recent months, a more fundamental slowdown is underway," Waldman says.
Waldman is particularly disheartened by the backlog of orders index — one of 11 indices in ISM's monthly manufacturing report — which slipped from 50.5 in May to 49.0 in June.
Waldman asserts that the drop points to "what will likely be moderate factory-sector activity in the months ahead."
Indeed, there's plenty of reason for manufacturers to be cautiously optimistic — emphasis on "cautiously."
The biggest reason is the specter of rising commodity prices.
In McGladrey's spring survey of manufacturing executives, 90% of respondents said they expected their raw-materials costs to go up, Kurek notes.
With consumer confidence still wobbly, manufacturers are grappling with the difficult decision of whether or not to pass those price increases onto their customers, Kurek says.
Durable-Goods Sector Getting Stronger
Manufacturers, Moutray agrees, will be keeping a close eye on commodity and energy prices, "and inflation in general."
They'll also be watching what happens in Washington, D.C. — where the debt crisis has taken center stage — "with a little bit of wonder."
Still, Moutray is encouraged by what he's seeing, particularly in the comeback of the auto industry and others in the durable-goods manufacturing sector.
In May, new orders for durable goods increased 1.9% to $195.6 billion, after a 2.7% decline in April, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
"The growth in durable goods really is what has helped lead the recovery so far since December 2009," Moutray says. "And if that sector can recover, then obviously that's a good sign for the second half of the year."
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"ISM: U.S. Manufacturing Gained Momentum in June"
"U.S. Stocks End Rocky First Half on a High Note"


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The cosmically-minded, Shabazz Palaces-evoking opening track from Kingdom Crumbs' terrific self-titled album gets a hypnotic visual treatment from Israeli animator Ori Toor, resulting in what they call "a beautifully animated spiritual adventure pondering the idea of collective consciousness and the true nature of our reality." Chuch. Kingdom Crumbs, if you didn't know, represent the lofty soul of the Cloud Nice collective, a real treasure of our soil. You can read more words I wrote about them here. How do you feel?


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Becker Backpack Buddies
Backpack Buddies' mission is to reduce the effects of childhood hunger by providing nutritious, easy- to- prepare meals over the weekends to children in food-insecure homes in the Becker, MN area. The idea is to close the hunger gap that currently exists and to raise awareness that this problem really does exist in the Becker community.
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Currently this program reaches 210+ students weekly in all four Becker schools. Our goal is to ensure that we will have this program running year after year. We cannot do this project alone. We need help from people like you!
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Urban Fruit Trailer (2015)
01 January 2015
This powerful film explores the resurgence of urban farming in America's cities. Three people as diverse as the city of Los Angeles are fighting to reclaim the skill that has been lost to the industrial food complex and reconnect people with the foods they eat every day. Rishi traded a promising career in Silicon Valley for growing food in his backyard. Ron started a movement by fighting the city for his right to grow food in the strip of land between his house and the street. Adam and Jenna, a young couple, are finding a way to grow their relationship together through urban farming. All across the country urban farming is growing as a harbinger of a larger global environmental movement. But it is special in Los Angeles.
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