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"What does it mean to live for sociology, today?" Michael Burawoy asks in his timely essay, "Sociology as a Vocation." Drawing on insights from Max Weber's classic lectures on science and politics, Burawoy argues that sociology is uniquely positioned to reinvigorate civil society and the university in the face of the relentless growth of marketization across the globe.
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Washington, DC — Increasingly, social scientists use multiple forms of communication to engage broader audiences with their research and contribute to solutions of the pressing problems of our time. Yet, in academia, it is unclear whether these efforts to communicate with the public should count when colleges and universities are evaluating scholars.
Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World invites papers for a special issue on gender in the 2016 elections. We invite contributions on all topics relevant to gender and politics. Potential topics could include (but are not limited to): gender and the executive; women, social policy, and state legislative elections; intersectionality and the media; gender and public opinion; and women in changing political institutions. Informative papers on trends or cross-national comparisons are welcome as long as they are framed in relation to the 2016 U.S. election.
The fight over campus speech has a long history, but recent events suggest it is at least as vitriolic as ever. Headlines are illustrative of how volatile campuses can be with mass protests leading to cancellations of speeches by invited speakers and threats made against academics such as Johnny Williams, a sociology professor at Trinity College. What constitutes acceptable speech on campus? When does it become hate speech? What rights should and do professors, students, and invited speakers have?
Race and white supremacy - topics many sociologists devote a great deal of research to and know well - have, again, become front page topics after violence broke out in Charlottesville last month. On Monday, September 18, the American Sociological Association, American Historical Association, American Anthropological Association, and Society for Applied Anthropology
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Today, race and ethnicity scholars generate a wealth of important research that documents the parameters of racial and/or ethnic inequality, how such inequality persists, and how it relates to, or intersects with, other dimensions of social life. Here we argue that these scholars should devote their abundant intellectual energies not only to illuminating the parameters and causes of racial injustice but also to producing work that might shift popular understandings and stimulate change.
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I like Boing-Boing, I've read it for years. I've met Cory several times as part of my work to help the Open Rights Group. I am generally sympathetic to a lot of the posts which are posted there.
I like the blog.
So yesterday there was something in the BoingBoing twitterfeed – a Disney Winnie-the-Pooh, meant to mock Richard Dawkins for having posted something about the TSA doing the pointless things that the TSA do, viz: taking away harmless things from you at airports:
EXCLUSIVE: Photograph of Richard Dawkins at TSA screening point. pic.twitter.com/iMJAUpZAAa
— Boing Boing (@BoingBoing) November 4, 2013
Yes Richard's a brusque character and a pain in the arse as far as some people are concerned; but still this is a notable, useful and blatant piece of security theatre, about which BB has written at length.
I feel that the war on the war on terrorism should win over nerdy character assassination, so I tweeted my – relatively modest – thoughts about this, to be met with a reaction which I'd describe as "apparently puerile":
Amazed that one moment @BoingBoing can be raging against "security theatre" and the next ridiculing someone for… http://t.co/shyxzfbdua
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@AlecMuffett aw, that's an unnecessarily harsh interpretation of a Winnie the Pooh JPG.
— Boing Boing (@BoingBoing) November 4, 2013
@BoingBoing how would you describe and justify your intentions, then, please?
— Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) November 4, 2013
@AlecMuffett a Winnie the Pooh JPG needs no justification.
— Boing Boing (@BoingBoing) November 4, 2013
@BoingBoing Concur. Mocking a prime example of a victim of security theatre might do, though?
— Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) November 4, 2013
Being ignored would have been more mature response than this, I'd even half expect that.
But that's not the weird thing.
The weird thing is that I checked my Google Docs this evening to find that Mark Frauenfelder has shared with me a "public" Google Doc entitled:
"People who are disappointed with Boing Boing"
My name is not on it, there is no explanation why he has shared it with me. Does he expect me to edit myself onto it? Am I supposed to see it and understand that I and a handful of others are "alone" in our criticism? Is this some sort of shit-list? A list of uncool people?
I can only suppose in the light of the childishness of the exchange last night that to understand the intent I would have to reach into my memory of pre-pubescence.
What the fuck, Boing-Boingers? You're meant to be the cool people – and, mostly, the hip ones too? Perhaps you're a collective rather than an organisation, but this action of whomever many speaks ill of your brand.
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What is the heart? We know it as not only the beating thing in our chests that sustains life, but as the wellspring of all faith, hope, and love. In this remarkable book, critically acclaimed author Gail Godwin takes us on a breathtaking journey that spans the history of human civilization, combining myth, art and religion to understand how humans have conceived of the heart through time. From the first valentine to the first stethoscope, from the Ancient Egyptians to the Buddha, from the heart of darkness to heart-to-heart talks, Godwin weaves her own stories of heartbreak and hope through it all.
Inspired by the richest of lore, Godwin ultimately arrives at what every culture must discover anew: we cannot let the head alone rule our lives. In this colorful history of the organ of life itself, she discovers a template for a more heart-filled life.
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Microsoft's Windows operating system is often mocked for its blue screen of death, the dreaded error message that appears on an all-too-often basis when attempting to work the computer too hard. And now it seems the company's Windows Phone platform has a nasty error message of its own.
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Here's more on the Real Rudy controversy, with this one video showing the radios that malfunctioned for the firefighters on 9/11, all thanks to Rudy "America's Mayor" Ghouliani.
(Note: some of the actors in the video also appeared in the IAFF video exposing Rudy as a fraud. Some new people who had ties to the NYPD and to the city were also interviewed.)
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The week in review
Most convictions by a City Council candidate: Republican Kenneth Jackson has four for assault & battery– the last in 1995– and he wielded a knife in three of those, report Elizabeth Nelson and Reed Williams in the Daily Progress.
Best spin: Jackson admits he had a bad temper, but says he's changed, and that his run-ins with the law have helped him "relate to authorities and understand the criminal-justice process," according to the Progress.
Worst torched car: Two bodies are burned beyond recognition late February 22 near Batesville, and at press time, police have not identified the occupants.
Worst way to get a date: By using AOL Instant Messenger to offer single mothers money if they have sex. Nathaniel Hollis Lam is arrested February 17 and charged with solicitation of prostitution, according to Reed Williams in the Daily Progress. The Albemarle resident showed up carrying a stun gun to his tryst but finding an undercover cop– and no cash.
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Worst week for Jeffrey Skilling: The former Enron CEO does a perp walk February 19 after being indicted on 42 counts of fraud, conspiracy, and insider trading that carry sentences of up to 325 years if he's convicted.
Worst week for Adephia's founding family: John Rigas and two of his sons head to court February 23 to face their own criminal charges for allegedly using the cable company as their own personal "piggy bank."
Most dubious proposed House of Delegates resolution: One that criticizes Janet Jackson's bare breast at the Super Bowl– coming from a state with a bare-breasted goddess on its state seal.
Biggest gap in budget proposals from the General Assembly: The Senate offers a $3.6 billion tax increase to make ends meet; the House of Delegates proposes to raise $520 million by ending tax breaks for businesses.
Worst unrest in Haiti: Rebels seize the nation's second largest city, Cap-Haitien, and the U.S. sends in Marines to protect Americans.
Biggest grand jury indictment: Former UVA student Andrew Alston, accused of stabbing 20-year-old volunteer firefighter Walker Sisk, will face second-degree murder charges in August, after receiving a true bill of indictment from a February 17 grand jury hearing.
Best get for the UVA Law School: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will address the school's Conference on Public Service and the Law February 28.
Worst disappointment for Deaniacs: The doctor from Vermont drops out of the presidential race February 18, following a third-place finish in Wisconsin.
Worst disappointment for Democrats: Ralph Nader, largely credited with siphoning off the votes that would have assured Al Gore's election in 2000, announces he's running for president.
Best reason to not mouth off to Canadian officials: Six busloads of Howard County, Maryland, teens on a ski trip to the great white north are held up for hours at the border when a student taunts an officer. Police confiscate 46 fake identification cards, three ounces of marijuana, and a small amount of hallucinogenic mushrooms, but no arrests are made, the Washington Post reports.
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"The pace of change expected in 2014 will put incredible pressure on technology professionals in the workplace with a focus on keeping IT risk in check while at the same time delivering value to the business," said Bhavesh Bhagat, CEO of EnCrisp, co-founder of Confident Governance and member of ISACA's new emerging business and technology committee.
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Prepare for privacy 2.0: Attitudes toward data privacy are unlikely to reach a consensus in 2014. Instead, be prepared to accommodate both those with little expectation of privacy and those who view their personal data as currency and want to control how that currency is spent.
Slim down big data: Explosive data volumes were the No. 1 issue posed by big data in ISACA's 2013 IT Risk/Reward Barometer. Unmanageable data creates redundancies and is difficult to secure. In 2014, eliminate the excess and consolidate what remains, to promote sharing and protect using better controls.
Plan to compete for cybersecurity and data analytics experts: The need for smart analytics people and cybersecurity defenders with the right certifications is only going to grow in 2014. Businesses that plan on hiring in the new year need to make sure their compensation package and job descriptions are competitive.
Rethink how your enterprise is using your information security experts: With some elements of IT security operational responsibility (including malware detection, event analysis and control operation) increasingly being outsourced to cloud providers, smart leaders are enabling their internal security experts to become hunters instead of just defenders. This allows them to proactively seek out the most hard-to-detect threats, build internal intelligence capabilities, construct better metrics and invest in operational risk analysis.
Ramp up for the Internet of (even more) Things: With past research showing 50 billion devices expected to be connected to the Internet by 2020, start working now on a policy governing connected devices — many of which are invisible to the end user — if your enterprise doesn't have one now.
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On Saturday night, the cast, executive producers and author of the books that started it all gathered 'round to discuss the cultural phenomenon (and guilty pleasure) that is Gossip Girl at the Paley Festival in Los Angeles. Lucky for us, all the women on the show — Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Taylor Momsen, Jessica Szohr and Kelly Rutherford — showed up ready to chat and dressed to impress. (The menfolk were there, too, but let's face it: I only have eyes for "Hot Dan" Penn Badgley, left.) The full Good, Bad and Ugly of the Gossip Girl panel, after the jump.
The Good:
Damn you, Blake Lively: How do you always look so good, even when you're just wearing jeans and a blazer?
Kelly Rutherford: I can haz yur dress and luks az I ages?
Dear Taylor Momsen: Why did I not have your polished looks and pretty flapper dress when I was a mere 15-years old?
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Blair Waldorf would never have let Leighton Meester out of the house in a color that fails to flatter and in a cut that does not flatter.
The Ugly:
Dear Jessica Szohr: Why must you insult us by wearing American Apparel?!
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PlayStation Vita Firmware Updates to Be Less Annoying
Just yesterday I went to nab the very last trophy I need for a Platinum in Resistance 3. I only had about 20 minutes to play, if that. But instead of getting my game on, I was greeted with a mandatory System Software update, PS3 firmware v3.72.
Normally, I don't mind firmware updates; they bring new features. But this update in particular, was a insignificant update providing only extra stability for PS3 games that…. weren't stable enough? Although, it didn't bring new features, it still took about 15 minutes in total to download and install, which just so happened to be all the time I could afford.
I couldn't even play the game I wanted. You know, the entire reason for owning a video game console in the first place.
This annoyance is prevalent on both the PS3 and PSP. But when it comes to the upcoming PlayStation Vita, Sony wont be wasting our time any longer.
Sony's Shuhei Yoshida told GameInformer:
I agree, it's very annoying when you only have one hour in your busy life to play a game, and when you have to spend 30 minutes out of that one hour to update the hardware.
I cannot talk about specific plans, but we are very aware of the issues, and we'd like to address those issues on PS Vita going forward.
He must have heard my bitching about it. Or maybe everyone bitches about it. Hopefully the bitching ends with the PlayStation Vita.


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Meetings between a troubled child and the fairy godmother who lends a hand don't get much more woeful than sassy, redheaded Glenda (Blake Lively) nearly urinating on 13-year-old Luli (Chloe Grace Moretz of "Dark Shadows" and "Hugo") as the young girl lies in a ditch on the side of the road.
With the Smith & Wesson .45 she received for her birthday, Luli has left her drunken mother (Juliette Lewis) behind in Nebraska and set off for Las Vegas, where she hopes to discover a world of excitement and opportunity. Or at least a sugar daddy. Written by Andrea Portes from her novel, "Hick" depicts a rambling, contrived society that teeters on the edge of pedophilia as if it were a cautionary tale about a harsh, confusing world of possessiveness and hidden agendas.
Featuring Eddie Redmayne ("My Week with Marilyn") as an inconsistent shadeball and bit parts for Alec Baldwin, Rory Culkin ("Scream 4") and Anson Mount ("Hell on Wheels," "Safe"), "Hick" populates itself with thinly drawn characters played by pros expected to carry the load while the script naps.
Too bad the story can't decide if it's a fantasy or a nightmare, allowing Luli to learn the value of street smarts but protecting her from any consequences of her actions. This nasty movie recognizes that kids can't expect the grass to be greener but comes too close to suggesting that you can expect others to mow your lawn.
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After growing up in the Gramercy Park area of Manhattan and attending Haverford College briefly before attending Northwestern University for 2 ½ years, Manheim left to volunteer for the U.S. Army peace-time draft between the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
Next he went to the Columbia Undergraduate School for General Studies and moved to Brooklyn Heights in March of 1960.
"I wanted college to be like a nine-to-five job," he said, "so I moved to Brooklyn Heights because it reminded me of Gramercy Park, where I grew up."
Manheim went on to join several local civic organizations – he became president of the Brooklyn Heights Association, along with Chair of the Planning Committee and vice chair of the Parks and Transportation Committees at Community Board 2.
That's when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey approached him about a plan to shut down piers one through six under the Brooklyn Bridge.
"We thought the best thing to do with [the land] was to make a park," he said.
However, Manheim's idea of a park follows that of turn-of-the-Century landscaper and public administrator Frederick Law Olmsted, which is not always the same as the city's vision.
"There's been a great momentum to create an urban waterfront park and we're yet to see that happen," Manheim, who now sits on the community advisory council for the city-owned Brooklyn Bridge Park entity, said. "Lawns and running tracks and bike paths are really not what an urban park was intended to be."
One of the greatest challenges while working with the park, he said, is fighting the city's push use the area's fertile land for housing purposes.
"A respite from the noise and stress of the manmade environment by having a natural place of quiet or poise or sort of things you can find in nature," are qualities a park should have, Manheim said – which is what he fights for.
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As the MLS Cup playoffs begin on Wednesday, the MLSsoccer.com series "Playoffs In Profile" will take a look at the players and personalities who will each play a crucial role in their teams' hopes of winning the MLS Cup.
In the second installment, Columbus Crew beat writer Craig Merz examines the role of technical director Brian Bliss in the team's dramatic makeover this season, and what the future holds for one of the men who took the brunt of the discontent from the team's fans. Check back with MLSsoccer.com to read the latest story as the "Playoffs in Profile" series continues this week
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The derisive e-mails stopped coming to Columbus Crew technical director Brian Bliss around May.
That, or maybe the messages were instead directed toward his partners in crime – club president and general manager Mark McCullers and head coach Robert Warzycha.
Their heinous acts? Getting rid of popular and talented players such as the incomparable Guillermo Barros Schelotto, captain Frankie Hejduk and fan favorite Steven Lenhart in an offseason makeover for the ages.
The message was simple.
"Just basically, 'You don't know what you're doing. This is going to end badly. Player selection has been an abomination,'" Bliss said.
While it's too early for the group's "I-told-you-so" moment, the Crew certainly haven't been the disaster many predicted, and Bliss can take some satisfaction knowing many of the moves paid off.
The Crew went 13-13-8 and held first place in the Eastern Conference for more than two months before a late swoon – including a 0-5-1 stretch – and a loss to the Chicago Fire in the regular-season finale dropped them into a one-game wild card matchup to stay alive.
Columbus meet the Colorado Rapids on Thursday (10 pm ET, streamed live on MLSsoccer.com; TSN2 in Canada).
The reason the club's supporters backed off almost certainly coincided with an educational process of sorts on the field. Along the way, the Crew introduced their fans to the steady play of Chilean right back Sebastián Miranda, the versatility of midfielder/defender Josh Gardner, a new favorite in bushy-haired forward Tommy Heinemann and a rookie class that has made an impact.
They brought in an underappreciated journeyman in Julius James in February, then signed him to a contract extension and shipped incumbent center back Andy Iro to Toronto FC in July. And they got 13 goals this season from Andrés Mendoza, despite some mercurial play and behavior from a Designated Player who finally made good on the club's investment.
"I can laugh at it now because things have kind of worked out," Bliss said. "If we had been out of the playoffs three weeks ago, we probably wouldn't look back and chuckle."
A Change of Scenery
Former Crew player Duncan Oughton moved into the role as the assistant to Bliss this season and had a first-hand look at how Bliss handled the heat. And it didn't come from just the fans.
"He's very even keel," Oughton said. "There's a lot behind the job people don't know about. It's not always easy. Sometimes guys on the team are mad about certain things, guys are looking for certain things. It's a tough position."
It helps that Bliss, 45, has experienced both sides of management, as a player as well as a coach.
He played professionally across in the US and the German second division, and for the 1990 US World Cup team. He was also a finalist for the '94 squad before a knee injury ended his quest. He joined the Crew for the inaugural season of MLS in 1996, and spent one-and-a-half seasons in Columbus, where he was Warzycha's teammate.
Bliss also played for the New York MetroStars, and retired from the Kansas City Wizards in 1998.
His head-coaching career began in 1999 with the A-League's Connecticut Wolves, and he joined the Wizards staff as an assistant coach ahead of the team's MLS Cup championship season in 2000.
He remained in that position until becoming interim head coach of the Wizards for the latter part of the 2006 season. After not being retained, he spent a year as director for coaching for the Kansas State Youth Soccer Association before returning to MLS the following year.
The Crew were about to embark on their third year of rebuilding under coach Sig Schmid when Bliss took the job as technical director in January 2008. Nearly 10 months later, the Crew won their only MLS Cup.
McCullers said he has differed with Bliss on occasion, "but that's healthy."
"If there weren't disagreements, I would be concerned," McCullers said. "We talk through them. I appreciate candidness and honest opinion. We lay it out there when there's a disagreement. It usually works itself out."
Warzycha, meanwhile, said he and Bliss get along as well as they did when they were teammates.
"I don't think the relationship changed," he said. "The place we are sitting is different."
Staying Put
Bliss knows the relative quiet from disapproving fans will return if the Crew do not win the MLS Cup this year, but they shouldn't expect another massive turnover in personnel.
"We like the players we've got," he said. "We're maybe a player or two short to be considered an upper-echelon team and that's being in the top four. And second, we won't have the resources in the cap or allocation money to be going crazy after international players."
As for his future, Bliss makes no secret that he wants to return to coaching. He coached the Crew's U-19s and U-20s to national youth titles in 2010 and the latter repeated this year, but he wants more.
He was in discussion with the expansion Montreal Impact for the head-coaching vacancy there and has also talked to new US coach Jurgen Klinsmann about a position.
"At this time, there's nothing there, but they said maybe down the road in a part time role there might be something," Bliss said. "I would like to get on the field, but it's got to be right."
Meanwhile, though, he's happy where he is, and with an inbox he's no longer afraid to face.
"We've got a good thing going here with Mark and Robert and the rest of the coaches," Bliss said. "It's not easy to say I'm going back into coaching because this thing is working pretty well.
"I enjoy working for the Hunts [the ownership of the Crew], to be honest with you. I've been here for 11 years, and value that time."


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Over the next three years, AT&T plans to spend $14 billion on capital improvements to its wired and wireless networks, including an expansion of 4G LTE service to 300 million people by the end of 2014.
The carrier said that its wireless investments will add up to $8 billion, and its outlays for wired technology will total $6 billion.
AT&T previously said that its LTE network would reach 250 million people nationwide by the end of 2013. To hit that goal, it plans to buy more wireless spectrum for its LTE service. In the 22 states where it offers wired voice and data services, AT&T plans to have its LTE network cover 99% of all customer locations.
The carrier also plans to deploy small-cell technology, macro cells and distributed antenna systems to improve the quality of its wireless service.
The initiative, called Project Velocity IP (or Project VIP), is part of the company's plan to spend $22 billion per year on capital improvements over the next three years.
On the wired side, AT&T said it will expand its U-Verse system for broadband Internet, adding 8.5 million customer locations for a total of 33 million. Also, U-Verse speeds will be improved to up to 75Mbps.
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How to Integrate Functions Without Knowing the Limits of the Integral
We all know that COMSOL Multiphysics can take partial derivatives. After all, it solves partial differential equations via the finite element method. Did you know that you can also solve integrals? That alone shouldn't be very surprising, since solving finite element problems requires that you integrate functions. The COMSOL software architecture allows you to do a bit more than just evaluate an integral; you can also solve problems where you don't know the limits of the integral! Here's how.
Integrating a Function
Consider the problem of taking the integral of a quadratic function:
The integral is the area of the shaded region.
We can evaluate this integral within COMSOL Multiphysics by using the integrate function, which has the syntax: integrate(u^2,u,0,2,1e-3). Here, the first argument is the expression, the second is the variable to integrate over, the third and fourth arguments are the limits of the integration, and the optional fifth argument is the relative tolerance of the integral, which must be between 0 and 1. If the fifth argument is omitted, the default value of 1e-3 is used. We can call this function anywhere within the set-up of the model.
Here, we'll use it within the Global Equations interface:
The Global Equation for Integral computes the integral between the specified limits.
There aren't any big surprises here, so far. We can solve this problem in COMSOL Multiphysics or by hand. But suppose we turn the problem around a bit. What if we know what the integral should evaluate to, but don't know the upper limit of the integral?
Let's look at how to solve the following problem for the upper limit, u_b:
We can solve this by changing the Global Equation such that it solves for the upper limit of the integral:
The Global Equation for u_b solves for the upper limit of the interval for which the integral evaluates to 6.
There are a few changes in the above Global Equation. The variable is changed to u_b and the expression that must equal zero becomes: 6-integrate(u^2,u,0,u_b). So, the software will find a value for u_b such that the integral equals the specified value.
Note that the initial value of u_b is non-zero.
Since we use the Newton-Raphson method to solve this, we should not start from a point where the slope of the function is zero. After solving the problem, we find that u_b = 2.621.
Now, let's complicate things a bit more and solve the following problem for both limits of the interval, u_a and u_b:
Since we have two unknowns, we clearly need to have one more equation here, so let's additionally say that (u_b-u_a)-1=0
An additional equation is added to specify the difference between the upper and lower limits of the interval.
Solving the model, shown above, will give us values of u_a = 1.932 and u_b = 2.932. It would actually also be possible to solve this with a single Global Equation, by writing 6-integrate(u^2,u,u_b-1,u_b) as the equation to solve for u_b, but it is interesting to see that we can solve for multiple equations simultaneously.
An Example From Heat Transfer
Next, let's put the above technique into practice to determine the operating conditions of a heat exchanger. Consider the Model Library example of the geothermal heating of water circulating through a network of pipes submerged in a pond.
Water pumped through a submerged network of pipes is heated up.
In this example, the Pipe Flow Module is used to model water at 5°C (278.15 K) pumped into a network of pipes and heated up by the relatively warmer water in a pond. The temperature of the water in the pond varies between 10°C and 20°C with depth. The computed temperature at the output is 11.1°C (284.25 K). If the mass flow rate of water is specified to be 4 kg/s, then the total absorbed heat is:
where \dot m is the mass flow rate and C_p(T) is the specific heat, which is temperature dependent.
Now, in fact, the network of pipes we have here is a closed-loop system, but we simply aren't modeling the part of the system between the pipe outlet and inlet. This model contains an implicit assumption that as the water gets pumped from the outlet back to the inlet, it is cooled back down to exactly 5°C.
So, instead of assuming that the temperature of the water coming into the pipe is a constant temperature, let's consider this closed-loop system connected to another heat exchanger that removes a specified amount of heat. Suppose that this heat exchanger can only extract 10 kW. What will the temperature of the water in the pipes be?
Clearly, the first step here would be to write the integral for the extracted heat, in terms of the unknown limits, T_{in} and T_{out}:
The second condition that we need to include is the relationship between the input and output temperatures. This is computed by our existing finite element model. The model uses a fixed temperature boundary condition at the pipe inlet and computes the temperature along the entire length of the pipe. Therefore, all we need to do is add a Global Equation to our existing model to compute the (initially unknown) inlet temperature, T_in, in terms of the extracted heat, and the temperature difference between the inlet and outlet.
The Global Equation that specifies the total heat extracted from the pond loop.
Let's look at the equation for T_in, the inlet temperature to the pipe flow model, in detail:
Starting from the right, T_out is the computed outlet temperature. It is available within the Global Equation via the usage of the Integration Coupling Operator, defined at the outlet point of the flow network. That is, T_out=intop1(T), which is defined as a global variable within the Component Definitions.
T_in is the temperature at the inlet to the pipe network, which is the quantity that we want to compute; T is the temperature variable, which is used within the material definitions; and mat1.def.Cp is the expression for the temperature dependent specific heat defined within the Materials branch.
The closed-loop solution. 10 kW is extracted at this operating point. Note how the water heats up and cools down within the pond under these operation conditions.
Closing Remarks
You can see from the techniques we've outlined here that you can not only take an integral, but even solve for the limits of that integration, and make this equation a part of the rest of your model. The example presented here considers a heat exchanger. Where else do you think you could use this powerful technique?
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Yaohui ChenMay 14, 2014
It is interesting.
In earlier versions, I have tried to incorporate some spatial integral operators directly into equations.
I had some impression that this makes the equation extremely heavy. And for some reason, I observe that the integral operation tends to use only one CPU core and leave others idle. Maybe it has been improved since.
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Anyone Can Win Vicious Part 2: Dragon Isles
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People often see vicious dungeons as above and beyond. Yes, they are much tougher, but with the right strategy and planning anyone can win a vicious dungeon. The object of my mini-series of annotated playthroughs is to prove to you that you can beat vicious, no matter who you are. I plan to prove this by going through and beating every vicious dungeon with a human fighter. The reason is with a fighter, you have to have a good strategy and know little tricks to make dungeons easier, as they themselves have very little leverage. I do not recommend you do this. One last important note: to beat most vicious, you will need top notch preparations. Make sure you have upgraded all of your buildings as high as you can.
In the second part of this collection we will look at Dragon Isles. With less blackspace than normal and one of the fattest groups of monsters, leveling up here is a challenge. On top of that, it has two of the highest hp bosses in the game! Still, no matter how daunting, every dungeon is beatable. We'll start off by looking at my preparations.
Tri-Sword: This is a wonderful all-round preparation, second only to the Dragon Shield, which just so happens to be the reward for beating this dungeon.
Black Market: This is more of a personal preference. Still, it helps because I'll be prepping elites.
Dracul: While normally I would select +1 altar and just scum for Dracul, I'll prepare him to avoid scummming.
Magnet: Fireball: This is essential for classes that need leverage early, and the fighter needs as fast as he can get it.
Slayer Wand: While this prep is usually mediocre, it is incredible for Dragon Isles.
Elite Items: I'm really hoping for Elven Boots, because most monsters and both bosses deal magic damage.
Potion Kit: Health and Mana Potions are always useful. Whupaz is essential for every vicious dungeon. Reflex is always helpful. Strength combos with the tri-sword to help get me off my feet.
Transmutation Seal: This is an okay prep normally, especially for nabbing a secret subdungeon, but if I don't find ENDISWAL, this will be essential.
Let the run begin!
So much for not finding ENDISWALL. Oh well, I might as well use the seal for gold.
Time to start off right! I'll worship Dracul and then pick a target. This level 3 snake has 36 hp and does 16 damage. I can survive because I used ENDISWAL a little, which gives me stoneskin. As for the damage, I have used a strength potion and the BYSSEPS glyph. That left me a little short, so I used the reflex potion as well. Time to kill.
Time to reveal the one weak block in Dragon Isles wall of tough monsters: the druid. They have less than normal hp and damage, one death protection and magic damage. The great thing about death protection is you can get rid of it, fully regenerate and then go in for the kill. Using BURNDAYRAZ to help me regen fight, this guy is a piece of cake. Note that I converted BYSSEPS for GENTINDARE.
Time to take out this druid with the power of GETINDARE. GETINDARE is probably the most underrated glyph in the game. It can grant up to three extra shots against a monster. You can set up a dodge by attacking weak monsters so you can recast GETINDARE until the prediction says !DODGE!. If you're lucky or the fight is long, you can pull off another dodge if you cast GETINDARE mid-fight simply for the dodge chance. Lastly, you can use it for first strike on the finishing blow.
For the druid I will dodge, attack, fireball, uncover one tile and fireball. That gets rid of his death protection and leaves him with one stack of burning. If you've read part 1 of my mini-series, you'll know that burning can be discharged to deal one damage per stack. He has one stack and one hp, because that's how much a losing a death protection leaves you with. This discharge trick is huge if you are fighting anything with death protections, because it lets you take out two death protections per fireball or one death protection and the kill.
This is a very cool subdungeon. I'm glad I got it.
Oh no! He wants to kill me! I guess I'll have to kill him first. The snakes blink, are bloodless, do not grant exp, deal 10 damage and have so much exp you shouldn't waste time trying to kill them. The real tough part is that when you hit Cha'Dylan, everything blinks. Him and his snake friends. I won't attempt this combat yet. First, I need to be able to survive two hits from him.
Perfect! A health booster is just what I needed. Time to kill that blinking jerk and get a ton of bonus exp!
And he dies. When you kill him, all of the snakes disappear and he leaves a LEMISI glyph behind on his corpse. Unfortunately, this combat took a lot more tiles than I expected, due to bad luck with blinking snakes. I even had to use three mana potions. Still, losing three mana potions isn't huge in this dungeon, because they have very little use and fuel my tri-sword.
Now you see what I mean by too many tiles. My secret subdungeon is the one with 20 gold piles, but it doesn't end up mattering. Oh yeah, I forgot to take a shot of it, but I'm about to kill that level nine druid using the same tactics that I used on my previous level five one.
I was going to buy this Wicked Guitar, but I don't have enough space. In retrospect, I should have converted BURNDAYRAZ for it, as it would have been great for my fight against The Firstborn. I've also taken a level of Lifesteal. Now my popcorn is both an exp and a health resource. I really wished I had pumped it with the guitar.
Converting to Tiki Tooki now would be ideal if he had spawned. The quicksilver and reflex potions combo quite well with both the tri-sword and my lifesteal.
Now I have to kill The Firstborn. This boss is harder than the final boss of this dungeon, so whupaz him. The tough thing about my current situation is that I don't have enough max hp to survive a hit.
To kill him I've taken 2 blood tithes, killed most of my popcorn, drunk most of my blood and used my last mana potion. I even bloodswelled once. Well, the cavern is open. I must descend.
Uh oh! This is why I have ENDISWAL. These dragon guards are some of the most annoying monsters in the game, and ENDISWAL lets me bypass two of them. I use it and convert it.
More guards. Well, now you know why I've been lugging around a slayer wand. You do not want to fight these guys.
I've fireballed twice. Now I'll level up, fireball twice and use my higher level for free first strike.
Here are the elites. These guys are a joke to me. If I attack and then first strike, I will end up with more hp than I started with, because lifesteal is twice as effective against lower level monsters. I'll kill both and then...
Be scolded by the mother of all dragons. If you can call that a scolding. Whatever.
She's weaker than The Firstborn for melee characters. The punishment for preparing Dracul is that 25% of the monsters are bloodless. That means two things: Lifesteal is not effective and they do not drop a blood pool. Unfortunately, my life steal is useless against the matron. In the meantime, I bought that guitar to prepare for the fight. It's a shame my elven boots never showed up. I've also cleared away all of my stacks of curse.
Here's why you need to watch the guards and elites. They all are curse bearers. 90% of reliable strategies here need resistances, not even mentioning they make the Matron a joke, and curse removes them. You also usually don't have much popcorn by the time you get to the guards and elites, so it may become impossible to remove all of your curse stacks. That's why I put so much stress on ENDISWAL and the slayer wand.
Using my resources, I can easily defeat her. My remaining blood pools and potions could even have kept me going a little longer. We have beaten the dragons. If you want to see the story screens, win it yourself.
Here's my final screen. That's just incase you want to fill in the blanks of what I killed when and so forth. Just to drive home the point of how beatable vicious is, I made quite a few mistakes as a human fighter and I still won.
Key points: Whupaz the Firstborn, not the Matron. Get ENDISWAL or a translocation seal for the wall below, and then a slayer wand for the first dragon guard in your way. Avoid curse as much as possible and get magic resistance as much as possible. Dracul and The Glowing Guardian are the best god choices, although you should use Taurog for berserkers. KILL DRUIDS TO LEVEL.
One last note: If this is your first try in Dragon Isles, try an easier class like the Berserker, Thief or maybe even Priests for the extra hp. The fighter is not actually a good pick for this dungeon.
Goodbye, good luck, and happy monster killing!


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NORFOLK, Va. - The Colonial Athletic Association announced today that Old Dominion University's Kimberley Rashleigh has been named the CAA Swimmer of the Week. This is the second time in three weeks that Rashleigh has won this award.
The Lady Monarchs are coming off a split weekend after crushing George Washington (198-84) and losing to Rutgers (170-120). Kimberley Rashleigh continued her recent success in the water by setting a new J.C. "Scrap" Chandler Pool record in her victory in the 200 yard IM race with a time of 2:06.25. Rashleigh also took first in the 100 yard backstroke (57.53) and placed second in the 200 yard backstroke. In the 200 yard medley relay, Rashleigh along with Amber Wingfield, Jessica Hubert, and Savannah Bowers finished in third.
Two weeks ago at the Nike Cup in Chapel Hill, N.C., Rashleigh was part of another record breaking performance. Rashleigh won the 200 yard backstroke with a time of 1:59.53. She set a school record in the 200 freestyle when she swam the first leg of the 800 yard freestyle relay in 1:49.62. Rashleigh also posted a time of 2:01 in the 200 IM final that qualified her to be eligible for the NCAA Championship in March. Rashleigh finished her weekend by winning the 400 IM with a time of 4:14.26 on the second day of competition. Her times in the 200 free, 400 IM and 200 IM were the fastest times recorded in the CAA this season.
Old Dominion's next competition isn't until Jan. 12 when ODU will take on UMBC in Baltimore, Md.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Dairy farmers sprayed thousands of litres of fresh milk at the European Parliament in Brussels on Monday in protest at what they say are excessive milk quotas and prices below the cost of production.
Hundreds of farmers and tractors from across Europe took up position in a park near the European Commission and a square in front of the parliament in the early afternoon, after blocking traffic along several of Brussels' busiest streets.
They then turned their hoses on parliament, a collection of vast marble, glass and steel buildings on a Brussels square, and unleashed torrents of milk, some of it raining down on police and passers-by.
Afterwards they set alight barrels of hay and a pile of tyres, sending plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky. They plan to stay put outside parliament until Tuesday afternoon.
The European Milk Board, which coordinated the two-day protest, said prices with current quotas were putting small farmers out of business.
In Belgium, for example, the board said the wholesale price for a litre of milk was 0.26 euros, but the cost of producing it is 0.40 euros.
The EU is the world's largest milk producer and spends more than 40 percent of its annual 130 billion euro budget paying subsidies and other forms of financial support to farmers, including those in the diary industry.
It sets an annual milk quota - which sits at around 130 million tonnes, too much for EU-consumption - but has agreed to phase that out by 2015.
Farmers have held similar protests in the past, including one in 2009 which led to a small increase in wholesale prices.
On Monday, tractors came from across Belgium as well as neighbouring France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Among a total of nearly 2,500 farmers, around 100 came from Poland, with many other nationalities also present. ($1 = 0.7713 euros) (Reporting By Philip Blenkinsop and Madeline O'Leary; Editing by Luke Baker and Alison Williams)


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It's been some time since I've participated in Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, started and hosted by Carol Michel of May Dreams Gardens. But with us having one of the earliest springs I can ever remember, with so many lovely things blooming in the garden already, I just had to share them this month.
Our Little Acre is situated in USDA Zone 5b, surrounded by 6a, here in Northwest Ohio. Why we're in this little cold pocket, I haven't a clue, but my gardening experience has taught me that we can't reliably grow plants that are rated for Zone 6a, even if those around us can.
Now, on with the show!
|Crocus, with an early pollinator!
Crocus sieboldii 'Tricolor'
Crocus chrysanthus 'Prins Claus'
Crocus tommasinianus 'Ruby Giant'
Helleborus x hybridus 'Red Lady'
Helleborus x hybridus 'Red Lady'
Helleborus x hybridus 'Pippa's Purple'
Helleborus 'Ivory Prince'
Helleborus xericsmithii 'Winter's Bliss'
|Reticulated iris
Iris reticulata 'Harmony'
|Reticulated iris
Iris reticulata 'Spring Time'
|Japanese Andromeda or Japanese Lily-of-the-Valley
Pieris japonica 'Passion Frost'
|Winter Aconite
Eranthis hyemalis
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Eranthis hyemalis
|Cornelian cherry
Cornus mas
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Cornus mas
Crocus chrysanthus var. fuscotinctus
Galanthus nivalis 'Flore Pleno'
It will be just a few days before a few other things are also blooming, including the first daffodil...
Narcissus 'Jetfire'
. . . and one of the lungworts . . .
Pulmonaria longifolia 'Raspberry Splash'
These unusually early warm days have caused plants to emerge so fast you could probably grab a chair and plop yourself down in it and watch them grow. We always long for these days, when winter has worn out its welcome, but now that they're here, we wish they'd slow down a bit. These joyous first days when spring begins to show color just zip by too fast.


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Forefeast of the Theophany of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - Troparion & Kontakion
Troparion — Tone 4
Prepare, O Zebulon, / and adorn yourself, O Naphtali; / river Jordan, cease flowing / and receive with joy the Master coming to be baptized. / Adam, rejoice with our First Mother / and do not hide yourself as you did of old in Paradise; / for having seen you naked, / He has appeared to clothe you with the first garment. / Christ has appeared to renew all creation.
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Today the Lord enters the Jordan and cries out to John: / "Do not be afraid to baptize me. / For I have come to save Adam, the first-formed man."


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Amazon is offering its Kindle Fire HD tablet, an 8.9-inch Android device that competes with the Apple iPad, for $50 less on Monday only as a Deal of the Day.
NEW TWIST ON LAPTOPS: Purebred tablets vs. hybrid PCs
This means you can get the 16GB Wi-Fi-only version for $250 and the 32GB Wi-Fi/4G edition for $450.
Apple's 16GB Wi-Fi-only iPad costs $500 and the 32GB version with Wi-Fi and 4G costs $730, though some holiday deals can be found where retailers are tossing in gift cards to help defray the cost. Retailers aren't technically allowed to sell the Apple products for less than the standard price.
Amazon introduced the Kindle Fire HD in September, boasting of its screen resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels and cloud storage options. The new devices have an HDMI port so they can be connected to high-definition TV sets, and they include Microsoft Exchange integration. A new email client offers support for Google's Gmail, Microsoft's Exchange and Hotmail.
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After the cathartic experience of last week's election, the comic industry is obviously looking to move onto new beginnings this week, if the raft of new series is anything to go by. We have supernatural forensic teams, superheroine envy, a beautiful art book and even a comic version of a novel that will make many of you happy amongst this week's New Comics We Crave.
For once, let's get the superhero stuff out've the way first: Marvel have two hardcover collections out this week that are worth a look. First up, Hulk Vol. 1: Red Hulk collects the first six issues of former Heroes writer/producer Jeph Loeb's weirdly enjoyable comedy about a brand new, psychopathic Hulk running around shooting bad guys and punching good guys, while Mythos Vol. 1 brings together some dully-written, but beautifully-painted retellings of the origins of Spider-Man, the X-Men, Captain America, the Hulk and Ghost Rider. Image Comics launches I Hate Gallant Girl, a new series about what happens to the girl who lost the superhero version of the Miss America contest (Clue: Bitterness). Little beats DC's superhero haul for the week, though; besides the paperback edition of the wonderful Darwyn Cooke anthology Batman: Ego And Other Tails, there's also the first issue of Kevin Smith's new Batman mini-series, Cacophony and, only five years later than you'd expected, a paperback edition of the more-enjoyable-than-it-has-any-right-to-be JLA/Avengers crossover series. However, there's more to life than capes, you know, as the song almost goes. Dark Horse are leading the non-superhero charge this week with the first issue of The Cleaners, about a forensic clean-up team in LA that has to deal with deaths caused by somewhat supernatural sources... something that Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden would know about; sadly, he's busy in his own first issue of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files: Storm Front, a four issue adaptation of the novel that makes its debut this week (Somewhere, everyone who told me to read the novels is cheering). Urban fantasy of a particularly weird kind can be found in two collections from Image Comics: Bill Sienkiewicz's psycho-serial killer drama Stray Toasters and Ted McKeever's Ted McKeever Library Vol. 1: Transit both return some classic 1980s weirdie comics to print that are well worth your time and money.
Book of the week, however, isn't actually a comic. But don't let that put you off Fables: Covers By James Jean, a new hardcover that collects more than seventy-five of the the most gorgeous creations ever to grace the front cover of anything, never mind just comic books. Jean, who's worked for Prada, the New York Times, Knopf, Target and many, many others, has been creating some of the most beautiful images on a monthly basis for the (very enjoyable in its own right) Fables series for years, and this collection pulls them all together, along with sketches, commentary from the artist and others, and yet another brand new, beautiful cover image. It's the holiday gift that you should get for yourself and others, in case you were wondering. (All of the images in this week's column are Jean Fables covers, by the way.) In case you need any other reason to hit your local comic store (found, of course, via the Comic Shop Locator Service), then the complete list of this week's new comic releases should be able to provide many. But, seriously; how can you resist that James Jean book? Have you no eyes?


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REGENSBURG, GERMANY (Sept. 4, 10:55 a.m. ET) — Gerresheimer Regensburg GmbH has expanded its medical injection molding plant in Dongguan, China, adding production of two lancing devices.
The company said moving the work from Europe allows it to keep production costs low and invest less in automation than if the work had stayed in Germany.
"Processes that are only cost-effective in Europe, if they are fully automated, can be performed in a manual or partially automated fashion," said Manfred Baumann, chief operating officer at Gerresheimer Regensburg, in a news release. "This means fewer investments in automation technology."
The project involves injection molding, printing and assembly of two lancing devices that the company described as "price-sensitive products."
Gerresheimer set up production of the devices in Pfreimd, Germany, and then moved the work to its 6-year-old plant in Dongguan in accordance with preset milestones.
The company said it was able to transfer the work thanks to its production coordination unit, which specializes in these kinds of transfers, and because of because of a training program for the Chinese employees.
The Dongguan plant has 15 injection presses, two semi-automatic assembly units including welding installations and six Kent pad printing machines.
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'Pastafarian Noodle Tree' Denied Spot in Holiday Display at Pa. Courthouse
'Pastafarian Noodle Tree' Denied Spot in Holiday Display at Pa. Courthouse
Officials in Chester County, Pennsylvania recently denied a request by local Pastafarian members to have their pasta-covered pine tree displayed on the county's courthouse lawn next to a traditional Christmas tree and a menorah.
"I don't stand in judgement of people's beliefs no matter what they are, God, multiple gods, spaghetti, or lasagna. Whatever you want to worship, there is nothing the government can do to stop you," County commissioner Ryan Costello told the Pastafarians in attendance at a Nov. 27 public meeting.
"I just don't think that this is where our focus should be now. We have something in place and I think we should follow it," Costello added.
Chester County, Pa., currently allows for only county-implemented displays relating to Judeo-Christian beliefs or veterans memorials to be displayed on the Chester County Historic Courthouse lawn for the holiday season.
Before Nov. 2010, county officials allowed any group to display their holiday tribute on the lawn on a first-come basis, but reportedly after much debate the policy was changed to avoid further conflict between the religious and the nonreligious in the community.
Tuesday's ruling came to the chagrin of Pastafarians, a religion recognized largely to be a satire on creationism and based in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
According to its website, Pastafarianism was founded in 2005 after an unemployed physics graduate wrote an angry, mocking letter to the Kansas Board of Education regarding its teaching of creationism in public schools.
The letter included references to Pastafarianism and the worship of a Flying Speghetti Monster in order to mock the Christian belief of God as creator.
Initially, the mock religion then gathered a substantial following. Characteristics of the religion include an opposition to creationism and intelligent design, as well as the worship of their god, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a noodle-armed creature with meatball eyes that flies through the air and, according to the religion's manifesto, holds all humans to Earth using its noodle arms.
Although Chester County's Tuesday meeting ultimately denied the Pastafarian display, one county commissioner, Vice Chairwoman Kathi Cozzone, motioned for the display to be approved, arguing that the county should be open to all religious groups.
"I am not speaking in support or in opposition to any particular display," Cozzone told the crowd in attendance, as reported by the Daily Times of Delaware County. "I just think our policy should be open. It should be an open policy or we should have nothing at all."
In addition to the Pastafarians being denied their holiday display, the atheist group, Freethought Society, also had their motion to display a "Tree of Knowledge" on the courthouse lawn denied.
A similar issue is currently taking place in Loudoun County, Virginia, where officials recently ruled that only county-sponsored holiday displays be allowed on the county courthouse lawn.
In Dec. 2011, the Pastafarians displayed an illustration of their Flying Spaghetti Monster on the Loudoun County lawn.


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Techniques used to create glass sculpture using a blowtorch involve rapid heating and cooling. It is particularly the rapid and uneven cooling that induces significant stress levels in the glass that create cracks and breakage. Each type of glass has a unique temperature range in which it may be fired in a kiln. This process is called "annealing" and eliminates excessive stress in the glass.
As you may have experienced, not all glass is created equal!! Not all hand-blown glass has gone through this process and the result is sometimes seen as cracks and breaks, possibly occurring even years later. To further complicate things, the annealing process, we found, is understood "differently" by various glass artists.
At GlassDharma, we adhere to a formula for annealing our glass art with specifications and guidelines provided by Corning, Inc., (the makers of Pyrex®). I have spent hours on the phone with their technical support staff to ensure that I understood this process thoroughly. This understanding allows us to create works of art with the highest level of durability possible and insures consistency with everything we make. We anneal everything we make under computer controlled conditions.
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Another factor that will affect the strength of a glass object is the fusing technique used by the glass artist. Fusing is the joining of one piece of glass to another (i.e. adding a "Decorative Dot" on a drinking straw). Quality fusing occurs when BOTH pieces of glass are heated to a high enough temperature when joined. If this is not done, (i.e. one or both pieces are NOT hot enough) the result is an inferior joint and subject to break much more easily than when fused properly.
We take great pride in the workmanship of every piece we make. We use exclusively borosilicate glass (Simax®). Occasionally a crack may occur unnoticed before the annealing process takes place. This would significantly weaken the glass. We guarantee all of our work against such rare defects. It is also because these defects are sometimes difficult to detect that we guarantee against ANY breakage. This gives you the benefit of the doubt!
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