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"Words have the power to change us" -Tess Gray
This quote is just one of my many favorite quotes. I love quotes because they can be so inspiring and they tend to make a mark in my heart. It's amazing how many I have memorised. In my spare time, I love to just search up quotes because of how touching and inspiring some are. My three favorite books /series with some of my favorite quotes are The Infernal Devices (by Cassandra Clare), Looking for Alaska (by John Green) and Delirium Series* (by Lauren Oliver). So, I'm gonna show you my three favorite quotes from three inspiring and touching books/series!
The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare
If you guys didn't know already, this is one of my favorite book series ever. I love the character development, the love triangle and the way it is set in a different era. Coming into this book, I thought I wouldn't like it because of the era it was set in (London Victorian Era) but after reading I came to understand love and family a lot more.
Three Favorite Quotes:
1) "Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I am character from a book. Its easier to know what they would do,"
I love this quote so much because it is really relatable and in a sense, inspiring. Whenever, I find myself in a position where I am pushed to my limits I imagine that I am in the mind of one of my favorite character and think of what they would do if they were in my position and by doing that it tends to past the time or push me to do better
2) "He wanted to make her laugh, he wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off, but all these were things he could not want and wanting what you could not have lead to misery and madness"
This broke my heart when Will said this but what really hits me is the end phrase where he states, "Wanting what you could not have lead to misery and madness,". It never really occur to me that wanting something you could never have could lead to misery, but after a lot of contemplation it makes a lot of sense. Dwelling on things you can't have is no use, so get over it but in Will's case it was completely different and he got what he wanted. Will and Tessa's relationship really inspired me to find someone who would sacrifice as much as Will did for Tessa and love the same things as I do, like Will and Tessa's love for books.
3) "It is better to know the truth and painful as it is, it is better than being lied to. It is better than going on loving someone who cannot love me back. Better than wasting all that feeling."
I really like this quote because of the meaning behind it. It is better to know the truth and even though it can be painful it is better than being lied to and knowing the truth is better than loving someone who doesn't love them back so that they don't need to waste all their feelings.
Looking For Alaska
I read this book about a month ago and I fell in love with the witty lines and the true inspiring quotes. I loved Alaska's story and her personality. I liked the way the used The Labyrinth as an analogy for life because a maze is exactly like life- you take to wrong turns and you spend your whole life wondering how you'll get out of this maze and where you will be when you do get out of it.
Three Favorite Quotes:
1) "Thomas Edison's last words were, "It's very beautiful over there," I don't know where there is but I believe it's somewhere and I hope it's beautiful"
This quote kind of sheds light to the future. A place where somewhere after we die is far away and beautiful, we will never be able to find out about it but at least we can hope it's somewhere and that it is beautiful- a place we won't regret going to.
2)"You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day and how awesome it will be and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present"
I love this quote because of the reality behind it. It's so true we spend so much time trying to predict our perfect future, dreaming about it and planning it but in the end that goes to waste because it will never be the same as what you thought of. We think of perfect futures to just escape the present- to give us hope. Kind of similar to a book, we use books to escape our lives into other lives.
3)"Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, something you're afraid to love or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters."
I kind of live by this quote- it pulls me through a lot of things. I love it a lot because like the previous quote there is a lot of reality in it that many of us are scared of admitting, in a sense. It reminds me of the saying,"Everything happens for a reason." You may be blocked by a hurdle (For example something you are afraid of) but it is only put in your way to hurt you or to scare you because in the future it will matter and shape you to become a better person. That's why whenever I am set back by a challenge or I am sad, I always remind myself that it will all matter in the future and that I will change to become someone better.
Delirium may not be something inspirational as a whole, but some of the quotes in there are definitely inspiring. Lena is a fairly strong character who overcomes a lot of challenges and loses through the book but she always manages to bounce right back up to keep going.
Three Favorite Quotes:
1) "You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist,"
I love this quote a lot, it gives me a lot of courage. When someone is hurting me or demeaning me or if I am faced by a challenge I repeat this quote in my head and I try to retaliate. It's really inspiring to me and it's funny how often I remind myself of it.
2) "Love, the deadliest of all deadly things. It kills you both when you have it and when you don't"
This quote is so true- when you have love you tend to dwell on it and it gives you more to be scared about, like:if they actually love you, but it can also be deadly because everyone needs love- it gives a sort of barrier or protection net for someone.
3) "He who leaps to the sky may fall it's true but he may also fly,"
Like the first delirium quote it is very inspiring- you must risk things and take chances because in the end you may "fly". You have setbacks and failures but there is a chance of having a success. It also a quote I tend to remind myself of, especially when I am frustrated that I can't do something.
Quotes are one of my favorite parts about a book, they shape you, change you and inspire you to become the person you are today. Like one of my favorite quote from The Infernal Devices, "Words have the power to change us," and they really do. They change me so much. Now, instead of breaking down and crying in hard situations I try to be brave and remind myself that, "It hurt because it matters," In my opinion, I think I've become a more brave, daring and positive person and it's all thanks to the quotes in my books.
I highly recommend the books mentioned in this post- for all you know you may be changed and inspired. Share your favorite quotes in the comments:


text: A good number of industrialists from Gulf nations,Malaysia and Singapore have evinced interest in starting industries in Puducherry as it is a 'safe haven' for them,as also tourists, Chief Minister V Narayanasamy said. He stated this today while declaring open a three-day food festival, conducted by the Pondicherry Heritage Round Table 167 (PHRT 167). "Very soon there will be a buzz in industrial activities and the tourism sector," he said. The Chief Minister said the Round Table had launched an important initiative as food festivals would attract tourists to Puducherry. The government had already launched several schemes to ensure increase in tourist inflow, he said. Narayanasamy said around 15 lakh tourists had visited the union territory in the 2016-17 fiscal. "We are keen that the tourists flow should increase to 20 lakh in the current fiscal", he said, adding that the peaceful ambiance, existence of heritage buildings and the French connection Puducherry had were among important features to lure tourists. Stating that the Tourism Ministry had already recognised Puducherry's importance in tourism development, he said the Centre had sanctioned Rs 108 crore to conserve heritage buildings, promote pilgrim tourism, conserve the structures of places of worship of all religions and also to ensure that the unique features of Puducherry are maintained. The Chief Minister said a Rs 20 crore project was being implemented to lay roads in coastal pockets to link the town with the Kuruskuppam and other coastal stretches. Narayanasamy said the SMART city project sanctioned for Puducherry involving Rs 1,850 crore outlay and which included French government aid, would help augment Puducherry's image. Puducherry was a former French colony for more than two centuries and became free in 1954 de facto. Narayanasamy said that the French government owned Financial Corporation in Paris had also agreed to provide Rs 1,400 crore to Puducherry as soft loan to augment drinking water supply and for underground drainage in all four regions of Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam. Health and Tourism Minister Malladi Krishna Rao and the local legislator A Anbalagan were among those present. PHRT 167 Chairman N Venkataramani said the Puducherry government was playing a pro-active role to ensure expeditious implementation of the PHRT 167`s social welfare projects. The Chief Minister later went round some of the stalls and appreciated the initiative to hold the festival.

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text: hey everyone, I just got back from playing my Pedulla Thunderbass T5 (which was on the classifieds for the past week but I just had my sanity return) and wow, I'm loving it even more. Originally, I put it up for a possible trade, because I wanted to try out the Thunderbolt on gigs to see if I'd like the punchier sound and sacrifice some sustain (assuming the genreal trends of neck-through/bolt on are true for these basses) but after tonight, this bass is a keeper for a long time. I had previously only activated the Thunderguts preamp (switch down) for the louder, and rockier songs with light overdrive for an aggresive tone. and switched back to the regular preamp for everything else. However tonight I was on the verge of pushing my amp to the limits for some louder songs in this big room, so I switched on the trusty ol' Thunderguts for some more volume, and wow! in the mix, with my Workingmans 15 combo (didnt use the rack in my sig tonight) with the EQ slightly scooped, and Aural Enhance around 11 o'clock, it sounded awesome for a sort of focused, but warm and smooth grooviness. I usually hate the sound of thunderguts when i'm just playing alone or for quiet songs, but i was really surprise at how good it sounded tonight in the mix of a loud but medium tempo song with me doing occasional slurred notes and slides. Add to that the long sustain from the bass (i'm guessing from the neck-through) and I really am starting to appriciate the bass a lot more. Now if only someone would tell me if its worth it(or not) to add on the Bass and Treble controls to this bass, because I'm pretty darn happy with how it sounds without that upgrade and EQing from my amp/preamp. too bad the back of the neck isn't satin finished, but i've gotten used to it, and don't mind it much anymore, even though i miss the smoother feel of satin. Maybe I just need to find an ET


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Edited by John Twidell and Gaetano Gaudiosi
Publication date: April 2009 ISBN 978-0906522-639 xii + 358pp £89
This is the most authoritative single volume on offshore wind power yet published. Distinguished experts, mainly from Europes leading universities, have contributed a collection of peer reviewed papers on the interfaces between wind power technology and marine engineering. The range of issues covered by the book include: wind as a resource; wind power generation; connection to the grid; the marine environment and engineering issues particular to it.
This book is essential for academic departments of mechanical engineering/energy engineering/ renewable energy. Offshore wind power generation will be the driver of the offshore industry for the foreseeable future: all organisations involved in offshore engineering should have this book.
John Twidell and Gaetano Gaudiosi
Ch 1 Offshore wind power: A review of progress
Poul Erik Morthorst, Jørgen Lemming and Niels-Erik Clausen
1. Introduction 2. Development and investment costs of offshore wind power 3. The cost of energy generated by offshore wind power 4. Offshore Windfarms under Construction and in planning stage
5. Future technological development 6. Scenarios for the future offshore development of wind power 7. Long-term cost perspectives for offshore turbines 8. New offshore concepts 9. Conclusions
Ch 2 Basics of wind turbines
John Twidell
1. Introduction 2. Wind power growth 3. How wind turbines function 4. Offshore or on land? 5. Environmental impact
Ch 3 Wind & waves in the Mediterranean Sea
Luigi Cavaleri and Corrado Ratto
1. The meteo-oceanographic characteristics of the Mediterranean Sea 2. The sources of wind and wave data in the Mediterranean Sea 3. Combining the different data into a consistent data set 4. Results
Ch 4 Climatology
Rebecca Barthelmie, S.C. Pryor and S.T. Frandsen
1. Introduction 2. Resource estimation 3. From resource to wind energy: impacts of wakes 4. Windfarm power output at short time scales: is offshore different? 5. Summary 6. Acknowledgements 7. References
Ch 5 Electrical aspects of wind turbines
Zhe Chen and Frede Blaabjerg
I. Introduction 2. Turbine power control 3. Generators for wind turbines 4. Modern power electronics and converter systems 5. Electrical power conversion systems of wind turbines 6. Control of wind turbines 7. Network topologies of windfarms 8. Integration of wind turbines into power systems 9. Improvement of wind turbine performance in power systems 10. Conclusion
Ch 6 Windfarm power connection
Thomas Ackermann
1. Introduction 2. The offshore collector system 3. Offshore substations 4. Transmission to shore 5. Reliability assessment 6. Economic evaluation of the transmission system 7. Conclusions
Ch 7 Grid Integration
Carlo Degli Esposti
1. Introduction 2. Regulation of renewable energy 3. Support schemes for electricity production 4. Integrating rese into the electricity market 5. System costs 6. Technical integration of renewables
Ch 8 Turbine dynamics and fatigue
Jan Van der Temple
1. Introduction 2. General terminology 3. Stochastic random processes 4. Waves and currents 5. Wind 6. The turbine 7. Dynamics of offshore wind turbines 8. Basic fatigue considerations
9. Foundations
Ch 9 Offshore floating turbines
Andrew Henderson
1. Introduction 2. History 3. Benefits of deepwater windfarms 4. Design drivers for concept design 5. Candidate concepts 6. Conclusion and final challenges
Ch 10 Access to windfarms
Goran Dalen and Mikael Jakobdsson
1. Introduction 2. Requirements for good access 3. Components of an access system 4. Experience and systems analysis 5. Further technology 6. Conclusion
Ch 11 Standards and Certification
Axel Andreä, Kimon Argyriadis, Peter Dalhoff, Christian Nath and Silke Schwartz
1. Introduction 2. Standards 3. Certification of wind turbines and windfarms 4. Risk evaluation 5. Summary and conclusions 6. References
Ch 12 Foundation design in deep waters
Franco Cesari
1. Introduction 2. Structural Solutions 3. Substructure design 4. Construction and transportation 5. Installation and dismantling 6. Weight and cost evaluation 7. Concluding remarks 8. References
Ch 13 Turbine materials
Lorenzo Battisti and Alessandra Brighenti
1. Introduction 2. Rotor component materials 3. Nacelle component materials 4. Supporting structure materials 5. Cold climate issues 6. Offshore wind turbines materials selection process 7. Conclusions
John Twidell works independently as an academic consultant and writer in renewable energy and sustainability, and as Director of the AMSET Centre Ltd. He previously held the Chair in Renewable Energy at De Montfort University and was Director of the Energy Studies Unit of Strathclyde University. He has also held appointments at Universities in Africa and the South Pacific. He has served on the Boards of the British Wind Energy Association and the UK Solar Energy Society, on committees of the Institute of Physics and as an adviser to the UK Parliamentary Select Committee on Energy. Practical experience in wind power has included management of a 3 MW (60 m) wind turbine and other smaller wind turbines on Orkney, northern Scotland. He is a Board member of Westmill Windfarm Co-operative. Presently, he is Editor Emeritus of the academic journal Wind Engineering, having been General Editor from 1998 to 2007. He is a visiting lecturer at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford (MSc in Environmental Change, Energy Module), and the School of Aeronautics and Engineering, City University, London (MSc in Energy, Environment, Economics and Technology). His co-authored textbook with A.D. Weir, Renewable Energy Resources (second edition 2006, published by Taylor Francis) sells worldwide, mainly on postgraduate courses. He has written ~ 100 published papers on renewable and sustainable energy, and chapters in 9 other books.
Gaetano Gaudiosi graduated in Naval Engineering at Naples University in 1959, and now works independently as a consultant on offshore and onshore wind energy and other marine renewable energies. From its foundation in 2006, he has been president of the not-for-profit association OWEMES, emphasising the Mediterranean and Southern European seas. He is a Board member of ATENA (Associazione di Tecnica Navale) Rome Section and ANIV (Association Nazionale Ingegneria del Vento, 2001-2007). Previously he was an officer in the wind energy programs of ENEA (Project Manager 1980-1987 for MEDIT 300 KW and GAMMA 1.5 MW wind turbine; senior consultant and E.C. Italian project leader 1990-2001), Italian Member in the IEA Wind R& D Implement Agreement 1984-1990) and European Commission Expert for the evaluation of wind and ocean energy project proposals. From 1961 to 1980, he worked in nuclear energy, with experience in testing thermal critical phenomena in the reactor core (BWR and PWR) in Italy, USA and Sweden. From 1984, he has chaired the triennial European Seminar OWEMES in Italy (Rome 1994; La Maddalena 1997; Siracusa 2000; Napoli 2003; Civitavecchia 2006). He is author of papers on nuclear energy and wind energy, with particular attention to the offshore wind power applications presented in international conferences since 1992. He co-edited a special issue of the journal Wind Engineering, reviewing offshore wind energy. Teaching activity in Wind Energy has been carried out for many years in Italy and other countries, recently including the e-learning ENEA-UNESCO course on offshore wind energy.
Chapter 1. Poul Erik Morthorst, Jørgen Lemming and Niels-Erik Clausen,
Poul Erik Morthorst is a Professor at Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, the Technical University of Denmark. He has worked in the Department for Systems Analyses at Risø for more than 30 years. His main activities cover the assessment of the economics of renewable energy technologies; especially wind power, evaluation of policy instruments for regulating energy and environment and development of long-term scenarios for energy, technology and environmental systems. He has participated in a large number of projects within these fields and has extensive experience in international collaboration. He has taken part in several national and international committees. He is member of the board of the Danish TSO, Energinet.dk, and appointed to the Danish Research Councils on Sustainable Energy and Environment and on Transport. Recently he was appointed member of the Danish Commission on Climate Change set up by the Danish Government. The main task of this commission is to analyse national and international proposals of how to reduce significantly emissions of greenhouse gases.
Jørgen Lemming is Chief Consultant at Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, the Technical University of Denmark. Dr Lemming joined the Department for Wind Energy at Risø in 2005, after many years in the Danish Energy Authority as an expert on wind power. He has extensive experience in national and international collaboration within the wind energy field and is much involved in the IEA annexes on wind energy.
Niels-Erik Clausen is Senior Adviser at Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, the Technical University of Denmark. Dr. Clausen joined Risø DTU in 2000, where he has worked with research as well as consultancy for private and institutional clients within application of wind energy. Research areas include Climate Change and renewable energy potential; design of wind turbines in areas with tropical cyclones; development of wind energy projects; environmental impact assessment of wind power projects. Presently he is responsible for a course on planning and development of windfarms at DTUs MSc degree programme in wind energy.
Chapter 2. John Twidell
see above.
Chapter 3 Luigi Cavaleri
Luigi Cavaleri received his Degree of Mechanical Engineer from the University of Padua, Italy, in 1965 and his Master of Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology, Cal, USA, in 1969. Since then he worked for the Institute of Marine Science, CNR, In Venice Italy, firstly in 1969 as a researcher, then in 1992 as Director of Research, and finally in 2006 Director. Presently retired, but continuing as a Senior Scientist at the same institute. His main professional interest have always been wind waves, with connected activities in wind modelling and air-sea interaction processes. Author of almost 100 refereed papers and 3 books.
Chapter 4 Rebecca Barthelmie
Rebecca Barthelmie holds the Ewart Farvis Chair of Energy System at the University of Edinburgh and Professor of Atmospheric Science and Sustainability at Indiana University. Prior to this, she worked as a consultant and researcher in offshore wind energy at Risø National Laboratory, Denmark. She is a workpackage leader in two European Union funded projects; Flow in UPwind and Wakes in POWWOW. She is author/co-author of more than 80 international journal articles and more than 200 conference papers. She is an elected member of the European Union Technology Platform on Wind Energy and an editor of the journal Wind Energy.
Chapter 5 Zhe Chen and Frede Blaabjerg
Zhe Chen received the B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees from Northeast China Institute of Electric Power Engineering, Jilin City, China, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Durham, U.K. He was a Lecturer and then a Senior Lecturer with De Montfort University, U.K. In 2002, he became a Research Professor and is now a Professor with the Institute of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark, where he is the coordinator of the Wind Power System Research program. His background areas are power systems, power electronics and electric machines; and his main current research areas are wind energy and modern power systems. He has more than 170 publications in his technical field. He is an Associate Editor (Renewable Energy) of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (London, U.K.), and a Chartered Engineer in the U.K
Frede Blaabjerg received the M.Sc.EE. from Aalborg University, Denmark in 1987, and the PhD. degree from the Institute of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, in 1995. He was employed at ABB-Scandia, Randers, from 1987-1988. During 1988-1992 he was a PhD. student at Aalborg University. There he became an Assistant Professor in 1992, in 1996 Associate Professor and in 1998 Full Professor in power electronics and drives. He research expertise is especially in power electronics, static power converters, ac drives, switched reluctance drives, modelling, characterization of power semiconductor devices and simulation, wind turbines and green power inverter. He is the author or co-author of more than 300 publications in his research fields, including the book Control in Power Electronics (series editors. M.P. Kazmierkowski, R. Krishnan, F. Blaabjerg) 2002, Academic Press.
Chapter 6 Thomas Ackermann.
Thomas Ackermann has the degree of a Diplom Wirtschaftsingenieur (M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering combined with an MBA) from the Technical University Berlin/ Germany, an M.Sc. in Physics from Dunedin University/ New Zealand and a Ph.D. from the Royal University of Technology in Stockholm/ Sweden. He is the editor of the book Wind Power in Power Systems. In addition to wind power, his main interests are related to the concept of distributed power generation and the impact of market regulations on the development of distributed generation in deregulated markets. He has worked in the wind energy industry in Germany, Sweden, China, USA, New Zealand, Australia and India. He is CEO of energynautics, a research and consulting company in the area of sustainable energy supply and lecturer at the Royal University of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden.
Chapter 7 Carlo Degli Esposti
Carlo Degli Esposti received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1999 from the University of Bologna. He is presently a Project Manager and Technical & Economical Adviser for ETSO, the European Transmission Systems Organisation.
Chapter 8, Jan van der Tempel
Jan van der Tempel received his MSc in Civil Engineering, section Offshore, in 2000 at the Delft University of Technology. Worked at Royal Boskalis Westminster after graduating, focusing on installation methods for Horns Rev and sub-sea cable installation and protection. Went back to DUT for a PhD on design of support structures for offshore wind turbines, defining a frequency domain fatigue calculation method (April 2006). He designed the Ampelmann, a system for safe access to offshore structures, even in high wave conditions. Currently working as project manager and assistant professor at the DUT teaching offshore wind energy courses and CEO of the spin-out Ampelmann Company.
Chapter 9 Andrew Henderson
Andrew Henderson is an Offshore Wind Engineer at Garrad Hassan, responsible for Offshore Wind Technical Due Diligence. Previously Andrew worked for Spanish offshore wind farm developers, leading technical development in shallow and deep waters. He held the position of Assistant Professor in Offshore Wind Energy at the Technical University of Delft, where he was involved in major European and Dutch research projects including Design Methods for Offshore Wind Turbines at Exposed Sites and the CA-Offshore Wind Energy information dissemination project. As a Research Fellow at the University College of London, he undertook the research project on The Development of Research Tools for Offshore Wind Farms Implementation including detailed modelling of the performance of offshore wind turbines and the floating support structures.
Chapter 10, Göran Dalén
Göran Dalén received his M.Sc degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1978. He has worked with Wind Energy for many years for the manufacturing industry as well as for developers and utilities such as Vattenfall and E.ON. He has also been involved in various EU projects including the coordination of the R&D part of the Downvind project. He has also been the Swedish head delegate in IEC TC 88 and representative in different steering committees for the Swedish Energy Board as well as for different working groups within the European commission such as the Technology Platform for Offshore Wind Energy. He is currently working for wpd Scandinavia as a project manager developing offshore projects in Germany and other European countries.
Chapter 11 Christian Nath, Axel Andraea, Kimon Argyriadis,
Peter Dalhoff, Silke Schwartz,
Christian Nath received his degree as a Diplom-Ingenieur for Naval Architecture from the Technical University of Hannover in Germany in 1976. Upon his graduation, he received a research fellowship for a year at the University of California in Berkeley, where he worked as a Visiting Scholar in nonlinear Finite Element Analysis. After his return, he worked for Germanischer Lloyd in the structural analysis group. The time at GL was interrupted by a two-year research project with employment at the University of Hamburg. In the early eighties, he worked in the approval of wind energy as a structural engineer. From 1989-1992 he was project manager of a project of the Federal Research Ministry to install a test site for wind turbines in China. Since 1993 he was been responsible for wind energy at Germanischer Lloyd. He is now Global Head of Practice for Certification and Inspection within the Renewables Segment. Also from 1993, he has been chair of the German Wind Turbine Standardisation Committee and was member in several Working Groups of the IEC. He has contributed to several national and international research projects and is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the European Technology Platform TP Wind. His first offshore wind involvement was in the Study on Offshore Wind Energy in the EG carried out by Germanischer Lloyd and Garrad Hassan.
Axel Andreä received his degree as a Dipl.-Ing. from the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg in 1989. He worked in the field of measurements at Windtest-Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog GmbH for two years. After that he was engaged at aerodyn Energiesysteme GmbH and worked in load analysis, component and tower design. In 1995, he joined Germanischer Lloyds Wind Energy Department where he stayed until 2008. The time at GL was interrupted by a one-year-leave for REpower Systems AG. At GL he held the position of the Head of the Department for Load Assumptions. He left GL in 2008 to work for support projects in developing countries in Southern America.
Kimon Argyriadis has a Naval Architect Degree (Dipl. Ing.) from Hamburg University. After a period in marine engineering consultancy, he joined Germanischer Lloyd (GL) in 1994. His field of activities covers load analysis for onshore and offshore wind turbines, and he is responsible for ocean-energy device certification. He is Expert-in-Charge for load assumptions and is involved in software and guideline development. He participates in national and international standardisation and is member of IEC Technical Committee 114 marine energy, and Working Group 3, developing offshore wind turbine standard IEC61400-3. He has contributed to several national and international research projects and is currently a member of the European Technology Platform TP Wind.and the International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC) specialist committee Ocean wave and wind energy utilisation.
Peter Dalhoff is Head of the Projects Department, Business Segment Wind Energy, at Germanischer Lloyd. His involvement in wind energy began as a mechanical engineer in 1996 with GL. He performed design reviews and on-site inspections on wind turbines focusing on machinery and drive trains. As a project manager Peter Dalhoff was responsible for certification projects of different turbine manufacturers and wind farm developers. Since 2000, he has been engaged in Offshore Wind Energy and has led several offshore wind related projects, including project certifications, development and maintenance of offshore wind standards and participation in international research projects. He has been a team member in a number of technical due diligence processes as a technical advisor on behalf of banks and investors. He has organised wind related seminars and is a funding member of the Hamburg Offshore Wind conference (HOW), being responsible for its organisation.
Silke Schwartz has a degree in Naval Architecture from the technical University in Hamburg. Her engineering experience with Germanischer Lloyd had earned her a position as Expert-in-Charge for load assumptions for onshore and offshore wind turbines from January 2001, and Deputy Head of the load assumption department from 2004. She has worked with developing guidelines for load assumptions, research of ocean energy concepts and supervision of final thesis and performance of research concerning offshore loads. Since 2006, she has worked in Australia for Hydro Tasmania Consulting, a leading consultancy in the renewable energy sector.
Chapter 13 Lorenzo Battisti.
Lorenzo Battisti is currently Fluid-Machinery Associate Professor by the Mechanical and Structural Engineering Department, University of Trento, Italy and Head of the Turbomachinery Laboratory. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1988 and post-graduated- at the von Karman Institute of Bruxelles- Belgium following the 40th (AGARD-NATO) Postgraduate Diploma option Turbomachnery. The scientific activity is focussed on heat transfer in gas turbine and wind energy conversion, where a wide experimental and numerical activity on high temperature heat-transfer mechanism in gas turbine components and anti-icing de-icing systems for wind turbines has been carried out. He was member of the Technical Option Committee Refrigeration, AC and Heat Pumps of United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and co author of the 1998 Protocol, and member 2005-2007 of the IEA XIX ANNEX Wind Energy in Cold Climate. Former member of the ETN (European Turbine Network). Lorenzo Battisti is author of many papers and international patents on gas turbine cooling and anti-icing systems. (The kind assistance of Alessandra Brighenti is acknowledged in the final preparation of the text).


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October 27, 2014 - IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung participated in a special meeting focused on "Revisiting Critical GIS" in Friday Harbor, WA. from October 17 to 20. This meeting re-examined theories and practices of critical GIS, which were originated from the Friday Harbor meeting between critical human geographers and GIS practitioners two decades ago. It drew a particular attention to new developments in the field, including the rapid development and dissemination of digital geospatial technologies, Big Data, the Geographic Web, and the spatial humanities.


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Blank Canvas in Stonebow House
City Centre landmark building, Stonebow House, purchased earlier this year by Wetherby based property company, Oakgate Group for redevelopment has been put to good use, by the Skippko Arts Team's Blank Canvas project, whilst plans are prepared.
The deal brokered by Hammond Associates as part of their temporary property use scheme was very straight forward due to previous collaborations with Oakgate, themselves keen supporters of the Arts.
Blank Canvas held an open day and invited artists in the area to visit and work from the one of the floors in the building. They were amazed at the response and now have all the floors in use.
Floor 1 – 81 Zombie; special effects makeup. Gobbledegook Theatre, 6 Lips theatre, Sore Thumbs costumes and performance area.
Floor 2 – Art Barges; illustrators, designers, painters, textiles, ceramics, photography and more….
Floor 3 – Plastic Fortunes Films
Floor 4 – St John's Art College


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Volume 3, Number 1 (2018) pp 1-5 doi 10.20448/8220.127.116.11.5 | Research Articles
Olive trees are subjected to attack by many insect pest species that affect yield quality and quantity. Among the most common olive pest species surveyed in Egypt is Palpita unionalis. The fungus, Metarhizium anisopliae (Metschnikoff) Sorokin produces some cyclic peptide toxins, destruxins, Destruxin which may play a role in its pathogenicity in insect pests and decreases the infestations of many harmful pests. The present study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of this two solated Destruxin (Destruxin A-760 and Destruxin A- 724) against P. unionalis under laboratory and field conditions. The results obtained showed that the LC50 of Destruxin A-760 on the third larval instars was 151 ppm. However, when Destruxin A- 724 was applied on the target pest, the LC50 reached to 185 ppm. Under field conditions, both isolated Destruxin declined the rate of infestation by P. unionalis with the least infestation in case of treatment with Destruxin A- 724 compared to untreated olive trees. The yield of harvested olive fruits increased due to treatment with isolated Destruxin the highest yield in case of trees treated with Destruxin A-760.
Keywords: P. unionalis, Destruxin A- 724, Destruxin A-760 Toxicity.
Citation Sabbour M.M (2018). Toxicity of Two Extracted Destruxin Against Palpita unionalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) under Laboratory and Field Conditions. American Journal of Chemistry, 3(1): 1-5.
Copyright: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
Funding : This research was supported by National Research Centre Project No. 11030139.
Competing Interests: The author declares that there are no conflicts of interests regarding the publication of this paper.
History : Received: 5 February 2018 Revised: 20 February 2018/ Accepted: 23 February 2018/ Published: 27 February 2018
Publisher: Online Science Publishing
Palpita unionalis , is one of the most important pests of olive nurseries and olive orchards. Ti is also very important in modern olive plantations in Egypt and also in the other Mediterrean country Basin generally. In Olive has become one of the important economical crops in Egypt (Esmat et al., 2012). Their cultivated areas have been expanded largely in the last decade, particularly in new reclaimed arid areas (Western side of the Nile) reaching 49000 hectares in 2010 with productivity of 6327 Kg/ hectare. Olive trees are subjected to attack by many insect pests that affect yield quality and quantity (Esmat et al., 2012).
Metarhizium spp. produce a wide array of small molecules including destruxins (DTXs), cyclic and plant pathogens. The effects of DTXs on insects include: tetanic paralysis, inhibition of DNA and RNA synthesis in insect cell lines, inhibition of Malpighian tubule fluid secretion, blocking H+ ATPase activity (James et al., 1993) and Muroi et al. (1994) and suppression of insect defense responses. DTXs also have antifeedant and repellent properties. The insecticidal potential of these toxins has been confirmed in numerous reports of acute toxicity . The fungus, Metarhizium anisopliae (Metschnikoff) Sorokin produces some cyclic peptide toxins, destruxins, which may play a role in its pathogenicity of insects and causes a paralysis, and eventually death. Destruxin is widely used for controlling agricultural insect pests; it can be applied by injection of soil and trees, applied on plant surface, foliar broadcasting, ground application as a granular or liquid formulation, or as a pesticide-coated seed treatment. Additionally, it is applied to foundations to prevent termite damage, to control pest gardens, to treat domestic pets for flea control, and to protect trees from boring insects (James et al., 1993; Muroi et al., 1994).
Nanotechnology is a promising field of interdisciplinary research. It opens up a wide array of opportunities in various fields like insecticides, pharmaceuticals, electronics and agriculture. The potential uses and benefits of nanotechnology are enormous. These include management of insect pests through the formulations of nanomaterials-based insecticides. Traditional strategies like integrated pest management used in agriculture are insufficient, and application of chemical pesticides have adverse effects on animals and human beings apart from the decline in soil fertility (Sparks et al., 2012). Therefore, nanotechnology would provide green and efficient alternatives for the management of insect pests in agriculture without harming the nature. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of Destruxin against Palpita unionalis under laboratory and field conditions.
2.1. Biological Material
Olive leaf moth larvae were obtained from infested olive orchards in (El-Esraa farm ) Nobaryia regions during 2015 and 2016 season. Egypt. They were reared for about 10 generations on olive leaves, Oleae europaea (Yılmaz and Genç, 2012) at 24 ± 1 °C, 65% RH and 16:8 h L:D in the growth chamber. The adults were fed a 10% honey solution. The eggs were collected daily and placed in a sealed petri dish for 3-4 days before hatching. Neonates from these eggs were used throughout this study
Destruxin was prepared according to Guan et al. (2008). Six aqueous concentrations of Destruxin were prepared: 2.000, 1.500, 0.750, 1.000, 0.500, 0.250, 0.125 ppm. Olive leaves were dipped in each concentration for 10 seconds and left to dry at room temperature. Treated leaves were offered to third larval instars (20 flies /concentration). A parallel control of non-treated insects fed on olive leaves dipped in distilled water was run. Each treatment was replicated five times. The percentage of mortality was recorded after seven days of treatment and corrected against that of the control according to Abbott's formula (Abbott, 1925). Corrected mortality was subjected to probit analysis (Finney, 1971) to estimate the LC50 value. All experiments were run under laboratory conditions mentioned above.
2.2. Field Experiments
Field experiments were carried out at El Esraa farm (Nobaria )during two successive seasons 2015,2o16 starting from the first of July to end of August. Three random patches of olive trees were selected; each consisted of 12 trees for Destruxin A- 724 application, 12 trees for Destruxin A-760 application and 12 trees for control. Both two isolated -Destruxin (Destruxin A-760 and Destruxin A- 724 ) were applied at the rate of 2.00 and 0.12 ppm, respectively. Three applications were made at one week interval at the commencement of the experiment. Treatments were performed at sunset using a ten liter sprayer. Percentage of infestation/sample was calculated after 20, 50, 90 and 120 days of application. Each treatment was replicated four times. Four plots were treated with water and used as control. Random samples of olive leaves and fruits were weekly collected from each treatment and transferred to laboratory for examination. The infestation percentage of P. unionalis was estimated in each case. After harvesting olive fruits, the yield of each treatment was weighed and expressed as Kg/Feddan.
2.3. Statistical Analysis
Data were statistically analyzed by F-test; LSD value was estimated, using SPSS statistical program software.
Table 1 show that Destruxin A-760 toxic by 1.2 than Destruxin A- 724aginst the 3rd larval nstar of P. unionalis the LC50 recorded 185 and 151 ppm for both tested Destruxin , respectively., the sam finding recorded by Sabbour (2013;2015a;2015b). The LC50 of Destruxin tested against the olive pests, Ceratitis capitata and Pryas oleae, were 221 and 200 mg/L, respectively (Sabbour, 2015a).
Field studies revealed that the rate of infestation of olive trees by P. unionalis was significantly (P ˂ 0.05) declined due to treatment with Destruxin A-760 and Destruxin A- 724 compared to control insects with the least infestation in case of treatment with extracted nano-Destruxin at (El-Esraa farm ) Nobaryia regions during 2015 and 2016 season (Table 2). The least infestation was attained after 20 and 120 days of treatment with Destruxin A-760 and Destruxin A- 724, respectively. Interestingly, the infestation decreased with the increase in time after treatment with Destruxin A-760 . Similarly, Sabbour (2015a) reported that Destruxin and nano-Destruxin reduced the rate of infestation by C. capitata and P. oleae in olive trees. Again, Sabbour (2015b) recorded decreased infestation rate by potato tuber moth, Phthorimaea operculella,in plants treated with nano-fungi Isaria fumosorosea and Metarhizium flavoviride. Similar findings were also attained by Sabbour (2013) against B. oleae, C. capitata and P. oleae in olive trees treated with spinosad. Sabbour and Nayera (2017) controlled the Bactrocera oleae by Beauvaricin under laboratory and field conditions.
The weight of harvested olive fruits was significantly (P ˂ 0.05) enhanced after treatment olive trees with Destruxin A-760 and Destruxin A- 724 at (El-Esraa farm ) Nobaryia regions during 2015 and 2016 season. compared to control trees (Table 3). Destruxin A-760 and Destruxin A- 724 increased the crop yield by about 1.9 and 1.8 fold relative to control, respectively (El-Esraa farm ) Nobaryia regions during 2015 . Also the corresponding treatments increased by 2.1 and 2 to control during 2016 season such increase was in case of treatment with Destruxin A-760 and Destruxin A- 724, respectively. These results are in consistence with those obtained by Sabbour (2015a) for olive trees treated with Destruxin and nano-Destruxin and infested by C. capitata and P. oleae. Also, treatment of potato plants, infested by P. operculella,with nano-fungi I. fumosorosea and M. flavoviride increased the yield (Sabbour, 2015b). Similar results were obtained by Sabbour (2013) for spinosad-treated olive trees that were infested by B. oleae, C. capitata and P. oleae. Sabbour (2017) found that the olive weight increased after bioinscticid applications.
In conclusion, isolated two Destruxin tested (Destruxin A-760 and Destruxin A- 724 ) causing a protection to olive trees against P. unionalis under laboratory and field conditions.
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Whitewater Christmas here. The beat-and-retreat of driving rain on the roof and and stained glass punctuated this morning's liturgy. The playground was a swimming pool; we sprinted to and from the car. (But not cold! Barefeet, very happy, taking the compost out after breakfast during a break in the rain. Window-fogging warm — very nice.) The grooves on the interstate were full of water — had to drive a foot to the left of usual to avoid hydroplaning.
We closed the Christmas Mass with "Joy to the World": Let fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains repeat the sounding joy. I've been singing those lines my entire life, but I'm afraid I've always given more attention to the hills and fields. Today the floods finally got their chance. Hopefully they will not get carried away in their repeating.
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Iceland's best dressed will be out in force for the first ever flagship store to be launched by Nikita Clothing. Nikita's heritage has grown, lived and been nurtured in the rugged and magnificent realm of Iceland. It makes sense that the premier spot for the flagship clothing and lifestyle shop be situated in the stylish and independent city of Reykjavik.
The papers have been signed and the transformation is underway. From what is currently a four story house with back garden right in the heart of the city will be a Nikita lifestyle oasis. With two floors dedicated to retail space, a shoppers paradise will include the Nikita streetwear collection, style focused extension Nikita Selekzion and in winter, the best snow outerwear available, all for the girls. To compliment the collections other select labels and brands offering something different, fitting in with Nikita's own style, will have a place. The third floor will be an extra work space for the designers at Nikita HQ. The final floor will be for own use, offering accommodation when team riders and friends come to town. In the back yard, surrounding walls will display artwork by featured street artists, there will be a custom built mini ramp and places to take a seat. Special events and launches will be held there with enough space for bands to play.
The initial open house party launch will take place 22nd August 2009 during the annual Culture Night in Reykjavik, all are welcome.
"It feels like we're closing the full circle. Nikita was founded 10 years ago in our own store just a few blocks away from where we are opening the first flagship store now 10 years later. We could have done it earlier, but we have just been too busy! Everybody at Nikita is super excited about the launch, but nobody more than us." – Runar and Heida
Nikita Flagship Store Address: Laugavegur 56, Reykjavik 101, Iceland


text: UCI Gran Fondo World Series Final - Perth 2016 - Course Analysis 08/28/2016 What can you expect from the UCI Gran Fondo World Series Final course in Perth, 2016? The race starts in the centre of Perth city, and heads straight onto the freeway. The first 40km are on freeway and highway, so the road quality will be good and there is nothing too technical in this section. The road has a few undulations but for the most part is pretty flat. Wind direction may play a factor, so this is a good time to sit in and conserve energy. After 40km, you turn off the highway but


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Download PSP ROMS
Sony has announced that they will release PlayStationPortable in 2004 right before Christmas (That's so that you can buy it as a present for your loved ones). PlayStation Portable or PSP PlayStationPortable.com
A couple of years ago there was a home made Portable Playstation that used PS1 as the base platform. No the new playstation portable (PSP) handheld gaming console will have the processing and graphics that are more like the ones you see on PlayStation2. Some technical specs are even better than the ones PS2 has. Portable PSP unit will use UMD discs as the rom media for games, audio, mpeg4 video and other applications. Also Play Station Portable.com reports that you will be able to use regular Memory Sticks for game saves and storing digital photos / mp3 files and so on. Via USB 2 you will be abe to connect portable to PS2 PSX and in future to PS3.


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A displaced hedgehog is a figure - or rather an image - from Tove Jansson's Moomin books. This is how I can best describe myself. This blog is mostly about being displaced.
Monday, 1 December 2014
Lost allusions
3 comments:
- Pani Zorro said...
I'm new to this blog, but have read your book "How Picturebook Works", just writing it as a sort of short introduction and an awkward way to say "hello". There is something in this text about lost allusions that triggered memories from my childhood. I'm bilingual, half Polish, half Russian, but more Polish, than Russian (born & raised in Poland); an amazing "slavic theory of unequal halfs. I had many arguments with my Russian father years ago, as a teenager. Now I almost know: there was a language gap between us, not a generation one. Polish and Russian are so similar and so distant. We were cheated by appearances. In fact, I think that the word of images was the only one that we more or less shared on the same ground.
Best from Warsaw,
Monika Obuchow
/University of Social Sciences and Humanities/
- 5 December 2014 at 22:18
- Pani Zorro said...
"How Picturebooks Work", of course, sorry. I was too fast.
- 5 December 2014 at 23:03
- Maria Nikolajeva said...
Tnank you for your comment, Monika. I believe it is a feeling many people share.
- 9 December 2014 at 19:34


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Creamy Crab and Sweet Pepper Bisque
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
4 large stalks celery, finely chopped
2 large red bell peppers, cored, seeded, and finely chopped
4 tablespoons chopped pimientos
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
16 ounces clam juice
1/2 cup dry sherry
2 cups heavy cream
2 cups half-and-half
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
12 ounces lump crabmeat, well picked over
Fresh chives for garnish
Step 1:
In a large saucepan, over moderate heat, heat butter. Add celery and sauté 7
minutes. Add red pepper and pimiento and cook until pepper is softened, about 12
minutes more.
Step 2:
Blend in flour, then gradually whisk in clam juice, stirring constantly, until
smooth. Add sherry and cook, stirring, 3 to 4 minutes.
Step 3:
Add heavy cream, half-and-half, salt, and black pepper. Reduce heat to
moderately low, and cook, uncovered, 30 minutes. Do not overheat or soup may
curdle. (Can be made up to 1 day ahead to this point and refrigerated. Reheat
gently over low heat.) Add crab, simmer another 2 minutes, and serve.
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Does your office suffer from any of these "Feng Shui maladies"? If so, your work life may be suffering unnecessarily.
Let's take a look.
#1 – "I love to look out the window as I work."
A desk that faces toward the window instead of the door creates at least two Feng Shui difficulties for you:
- Your energy needs to be directed at your work when you're at the office. If you face a window, your Chi energy will be attracted towards the view instead, distracting you from your Primary Purpose.
- A desk that faces a window is likely to be facing away from the doorway, almost by definition. This is another cause for distraction since you will always be wondering what's going on behind you.
Eliminate distractions and take charge of your business life by turning your desk around into Feng Shui's Command Position.
Can't turn your desk around? Don't despair! Install a small mirror like this one instead.
#2 – "Storing things behind the door is perfect! Out of sight, out of mind, right?"
Storing a few things behind the door is fine, but an excess of stuff there will block healthy Chi energy from fully entering your office.
Clear the clutter and make sure your office door opens all the way to 90 degrees to get the benefit of as much auspicious energy as you can.
#3 – "Everyone knows who I am and what I do, and I don't mind being a little bit anonymous anyway."
Success at work flows to you more easily when good Chi — not to mention colleagues, vendors and clients — can find you easily. To attract the attention you deserve, put your name on the door and make it clear just who occupies your unique space.
When you let your light shine you'll soon discover that success and prosperity can find you much more easily and abundantly.
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text: Starting from the Bottom... 06/25/2017 My parents immigrated to Bronx, NY when they were 41(dad) and 35(mom). They were not in dire straits situation in Korea where they had to look for better opportunities for their survival. My dad was a prolific and popular comic book artist since 1960's. He confided that he suffered anxiety attacks here and there worrying about his next story, but he was rather well established financially. Every time I visited Korea, his sisters reminded me for the longest time that if my father did not sell READ MORE


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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
I got an unexpected phone call a few nights ago that made me really happy. Alethea was already in bed and I was telling Peregrine a story when the phone rang. Erik answered it and I heard him talking in that tone of voice like you do when you're happy to hear from someone unexpected. It was "Christy from Santa Cruz" on the line so I kissed my boy goodnight and traded him to Erik for the phone. Christy is a friend that was in Asia with me. I love her because she's sweet and we share so many wonderful memories and Erik loves her because she nursed me back from the brink of death in Nepal. (Slight exageration perhaps but Erik does give her credit for saving my life so that he could fall in love with me.) We haven't seen Christy since her wedding last December and have emailed just a few times. I was surprised to hear from her out of the blue. It turned out she was just down the road so of course I gave her directions and invited her to come stay. An hour later she arrived; we stayed up talking and saw her off the next morning. Thanks for coming Christy; it was great to see you!
I'm always so thankful when people "stop by". It's part of what I miss about living in Community- the weaving in and out of each other's days and lives. When I was in high school we had the sort of neighbors that you could go borrow a cup of sugar from if you needed to. I remember being sick once when my parents were gone and one neighbor had me come over and lay on her couch so I wouldn't be alone. And when I was in Bible school I can't remember how often I would run over to my friend Dar's house for some little thing- a carrot or to do my laundry or a bowl of her yummy lentil soup. (Which was made and given with such love that on more than one occasion it actually brought me to tears.) I love being in the home of a friend with whom I'm totally comfortable- where I can raid the fridge if I'm hungry or curl up on their couch and sleep if I'm tired. (You know who you are!) And even more than that, I love it when people feel that at home at our house. We're family after all, and isn't that the way it should be?
I'm so thankful for the example my parents gave me in this. They have always made room in their home and around their table for friends, and strangers too. We lived in some pretty ramshackle little places but I remember people coming in and exclaiming how much they loved our home. Even as a child I knew that what they loved was not the house but the warmth of welcome they received, the opportunity to be part of a family who loved one another. For this reason my parents' family is a lot larger than just the five children that were born to them.
So Christy's call made me really happy- happy to hear from an old friend and so pleased that she was comfortable to drop in like that. My prayer is that our home will always be warm and inviting and a place where a soul can find rest, just as my parents' home has been for so many. So if you're ever in the neighborhood feel free to stop by, okay? We have an extra room now with a bed made up just for you. If you're lucky I might have a big pot of lentils simmering on the stove. And I'll make sure to season them with lots of love.
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I was one of the strangers you welcomed into your home. I had only been around a family like yours once before. Remember trying to thicken that potato soup?ReplyDelete
I can think of quite a few meals that I have received from you with such love and care. And I can think of a few where Chinua leapt up with shouting over how good they tasted...ReplyDelete
Oh Beca, sometimes I long for those days where we would cook, bake, quilt, and eat ice cream. (I guess I've forgotten the not so fun times.) Remember when a spider crawled down Christopher's cloth diaper when we were putting in our first garden at GCS? Please feel free to stop by for a bowl of lentil soup and fresh bread. (Really, I'd love for you to come by.)ReplyDelete
awww! those were the days eh Beca? I miss it! Maybe we should go visit Dar together sometime! my house is in between yours and Dar's. It would be cool to see all of our kids play together!ReplyDelete


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Actually, Erlandson was kidding--I think. I ran into him at L.A.'s red-hot lunch spot, Red. I wanted to know if all this Hollywood hype about his chic chanteuse would hurt Hole.
"No, I don't think so," said the string strummer. "I mean, she's still with the band, and besides, she was really good in the movie. I mean, she was a lot better than that other guy."
As in, Woody Harrelson? "Yeah. I mean, come on."
Hey, it wasn't my idea to cast him!
I asked Eric if he was still dating Drew Barrymore, and suddenly that sandwich he was eating became irresistible. Suffice it to say, he no longer finds Drew delicious.


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Adventure "Nervous (Shams' Relaxed Mix)"**
Not that we want to belittle the quality work that 100% Silk affiliate Shams (pictured above) has done on his remix of Adventure's "Nervous," but it is hard to imagine how the New York-based producer could have done anything other than take the hyperactive tune into more "relaxed" territoy. Pulled from Adventure's recent, Carpark-released Weird Work LP (which can still be streamed in full here), the original version of "Nervous" pushes restless melodies atop a rush of distorted drums and a ceaselessly morphing chord progression; in the hands of Shams, however, the tune is transformed into a mellow bit of groove-heavy house. Interwoven with bits of crisp hand percussion and a cool, almost tropical vibe, this fresh remix serves as a balanced companion to Adventure's energetic original. (via Dummy)
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text: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote: > on 4-17-2009 9:33 AM Lanny Marcus spake the following: >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:25 AM, William L. Maltby >> <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 11:13 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: >>>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Michael A. Peters <mpeters-ee4meeAH724 at public.gmane.org> wrote: >>>> <snip> >>>>> My experience is that when browsing on any OS and you come across an >>>>> error message stating that your computer is infected and you need to >>>>> install such and such software, the web site I was visiting has an XSS >>>>> exploit that was taken advantage of to try and get you to manually >>>>> install a piece of malware. >>>>> >>>>> Install the FireFox extension "noscript" and be very careful about what >>>>> domains you authorize scripting from. >> >> I now have NoScript installed. >> >> <snip> >>> You might want to also check your preferences. FF has settings about >>> warning about fraud sites etc. You also can affect the things that >>> javascripts can do and suppress pop-ups. I've encountered those things >>> that you mentioned and gotten no ill-effects since I just leave the site >>> immediately. >> >> Bill: I will double check the Firefox configuration settings, since I >> upgraded from CentOS 5.2 to 5.3, last Friday night. I need to be able >> to visit that web site, so if anything bad is coming from it (without >> the knowledge of the webmaster) I will hopefully avoid it, with the >> NoScript Firefox extension which I just installed. Lanny > > Noscript will give you an idea of just how many sites run a script of some > kind. You will see a large part of sites just look different when the scripts > don't run, and some don't function at all. Not that it is a bad thing, it will > just make you think a lot. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Remember the NeXT step days (for me, mid 90's) when a single executable binary file contained both intel and PowerPC/Motorola code. When clicked, it would execute the intel code on the intel platform and the PowerPC/Motorola code on the PowerPC/Motorola platform. I think it would be cool to have Portable App executables that run under both Linux and Windows because life would be easier, but the security problem would be too much of a downside -- a single binary that roots both Linux and Windows. It is easy to write an executable binary for Linux that ends in .exe - so that is don't think that is any protection at all. Clicking "Cancel" on these dialogs or X could still launch the executable - safest thing to do would be to kill firefox. Further recommend NoScript and SiteAdvisor simultaneously. Recommend against wine and even more so against the Internet Explorer whatchamacallit for Firefox including on wine.


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When debtors don't pay, it usually isn't because they can't—it's because they don't know their obligations. This is particularly true in any case involving factor companies.
Working with a factor company is cut and dry, except when it comes to collecting debt. In any factor-related transaction, there are TWO potential debtors to go after—the client of the factor – and the customer of the factor's client—which can make recovering money that's owed a two-dimensional experience. Fortunately, factors are covered by the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), which protects them with very specific provisions that can be immensely impactful for debt collection.
But traditional collections agencies don't know the contents of the UCC, nor do they know how the contents can be strategically applied.
The End Result When Working with a Traditional Commercial Collection Company
The average debt collection agency wastes its time bullying debtors rather than explaining the law and where liability lies according to the law.
That's why it's so important to have an intimate understanding of the laws surrounding factor collection. Familiarity with things like the UCC can make the collections process a smooth, stress-free transaction.
Example of How Misunderstandings Lead to Delinquent Accounts….
Recently, our firm was hired by a factor company to resolve a debt collection situation. The debtor—a freight logistics company—used an outside staffing firm to fill many of their employee vacancies, and these employees were provided at a fixed hourly-rate. Invoices were issued from the staffing firm. The invoices are then paid to the factor at full value.
The contract signed between the staffing company and the freight firm stated the employees were to be paid a fixed hourly wage. The problem arose when the staffing firm orally promised its employees (those individuals currently working for the freight company) a pay bump.
The staffing company began billing at the higher rate and business continued as usual, until one day the freight company took notice of the higher rates on their invoices.
Not only did the freight company immediately refuse to pay its outstanding invoices claiming it had never agreed to the increase, it also wanted to deduct the increased amount it paid from current invoices.
What the freight company didn't understand was that their financial obligation was to the factor company (our client), whereas their rate dispute was with the staffing company. Because of specific provisions within the UCC—provisions our law firm explained in detail to the debtor — the money owed on current invoices could not be deducted, and payment in-full was expected.
Why It Is So Important to Understand the Debtor's Issues and Explain the Letter of the Law in Deta
Once the freight company understood the reality of the situation and where their obligations lie according to the UCC, they had no option but to pay up. They worked out a plan to pay their debt, and paid the factor company the $150,000 over the next two months.
Having intimate knowledge of the UCC, gave our firm the freedom to communicate with the debtor in plain language. We could explain how particular clauses covered their situation, and demonstrate how they couldn't legally deduct money from current invoices.
Bottom line?
Getting confused debtors mired in complex situations to pay monies-owed takes more than skill, it takes a depth of understanding most collections agencies can't provide. If you're a factor company involved in a collections controversy, enlist the help of seasoned counsel—you'll resolve the situation with significantly less stress.
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Read the case study belowto see how we helped a software company collect $20,000 in overage charges due to them plus keep the $100,000 per year relationship intact.
How We Collected $20K for our Client and Kept a $100K Relationship Intact


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THE 2015 General Election saw a number of shocks with political stalwarts up and down the country losing their seats.
While nationalists celebrated unprecedented gains right across the country, virtually sweeping the board by taking 56 of the 59 seats, Labour has been left with just one MP in all of Scotland - with both Scottish leader Jim Murphy and the party's election campaign chief Douglas Alexander losing their seats.
Here we look at the major MPs, most of which are from Scotland, who were voted out of office.
Jim Murphy
Jim Murphy's once safe majority was eliminated as Kirsten Oswald swept to victory with 23,564 votes to Labour's 19,295.
Mr Murphy, who replaced Johann Lamont as Scottish Labour leader late last year, now plans to stand as First Minister in next year's Holyrood election. Following the declaration in his constituency, he admitted that it had been a difficult night for the party.
Vince Cable
Vince Cable, an MP since 1997, says his party has been hit by a "very well-organised national campaign" by the Conservatives,
He lost to Tania Mathias who said Cable had been "an amazing MP who had served Twickenham for 18 years".
Jo Swinson
UK business minister Jo Swinson lost the East Dunbartonshire seat she had held for the Liberal Democrats since 2005 due to a 16.05% swing to the SNP.
George Galloway
The Respect leader stormed to victory in a by-election in Bradford West three years ago but has now lost out to Labour's Naseem Shah, who won by nearly 20,000 votes. He vowed to return to politics.
Douglas Alexander
Labour's general election campaign chief and shadow foreign secretary was swept aside by the SNP's Mhairi Black, a 20-year-old politics student at Glasgow University, with a 26.92% swing from Labour to the SNP in Paisley and Renfrewshire South.
Margaret Curran
Margaret Curran was replaced in Glasgow East,
Ms Curran said: "The Labour party absolutely believes that we need to stand by working people.
"Of course we understand that they have given us a message tonight, but we will never lose that deep belief in the cause of economic and social equality."
Anas Sarwar
One-time Scottish deputy Anas Sarwar lost his Glasgow Central seat.
Mr Sarwar said: "I will always defend the right to fight for Labour values, fighting for solidarity across the UK, for social justice and for redistribution of wealth. Those values haven't changed tonight."
Charles Kennedy
Former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy has said he plans to remain involved in politics despite becoming another high profile scalp at the hands of the SNP.
He was beaten into second place in the Ross, Skye and Lochaber constituency by Nationalist Ian Blackford, who won with 20,119 votes, a majority of 5,124.
Danny Alexander
Danny Alexander lost to the SNP's Drew Hendry by more than 10,000 votes.
Asked about speculation he may enter the House of Lords, Mr Alexander said: "I'm going to go and have a good night's sleep, I don't have any plans beyond that.
"I've lost an election which I'm deeply disappointed by, but there are many many worse things that could happen to people and I'm sure that I'll find something useful to occupy my time in the weeks to come."
Simon Hughes
The Liberal Democrat lost the Bermondsey and Old Southwark seat he had held for 32 years to Labour by around 5,000 votes.
Ed Davey
The Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary lost the Kingston and Surbiton seat he had held since 1997 to Conservative James Berry. Mr Davey won 20,415 votes, almost 3,000 less than the Tory tally of 23,249.


text: Union Jack Punk - Urban Tapestry £49.99 Quantity: at £49.99 each Add To Basket Punk Tapestry Kit (Clive T2007) Contemporary 'Punk' Tapestry kit design by Brigantia Needlework. Brigantia are an english company known for their high quality and accurate hand printed canvases which make them very easy to follow. This is one of their new 'Urban' range of designs with a 'Union Jack' theme. Contents: colour printed 10 count tapestry canvas, Brigantia pure wool tapestry yarn, needle, chart and full instructions. Size: 16" x 16" (40cm x 40cm). RRP £65.99 DELIVERY DETAILS: - Please allow upto 5 working days for dispatch from our supplier. See more Union Jack Tapestry Kits


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March 12, 2015 …It's Almost Here!
Join with us to provide access to high school sports for all of our youths.
Why support underserved High School Sports Programs?
Playing a team sport keeps underserved youths engaged in academics rather than street gangs.
Why does it cost money to join a team?
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What difference does your donation make?
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Why should I care about supporting sports?
The Community benefits exponentially when youths learn basic academics, stay in school and graduate.
65% of Clark County HS sports programs are disadvantaged.


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A lovely outdoor hybrid originally from South Africa. Vigorous growth and extreme hardiness to dry weather make Daddys Girl just perfect for outdoor growers that might not get to see their plants as much as they'd like. This plant has had some amazing results outdoors in Europe and now with the feminised option she's looking to doing even better. Long elongated branches that produce buds all the way up to clumpy tops, that often need tying up or staking in the late summer to avoid breaking under their own weight. Gorgeous citrusy aroma and spicy sativa flavours are what to expect.
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text: Martin Storsj? wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2009, Martin Storsj? wrote: > >> Thanks! This looks like a really good idea. A new patch is attached, which >> uses ff_eval2 to parse the x and y offset parameters. This looks like a >> much more flexible approach, giving the user possibility to align the >> overlay in much more ways. > > An updated patch is attached, rebased onto the latest libavfilter. A few > other minor things are cleaned up, too. Fine by me, but maybe Stefano might want to comment, since he's been working with passing parameters to filters. -Vitor