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Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi's books on creativity and flow make for fascinating reads, whether you're an academic or not. They explain a lot about how creativity happens.
My first encounter with one of his books was most bizarre. I'd read an article in the NAWE magazine which mentioned his idea of "flow". I was in Portsmouth University Library looking of another book – and then I suddenly saw it on the shelf. It wasn't, I didn't think, at that time, pertinent to my studies. I borrowed it anyway as the way I'd found it must mean something. I found it was in fact relevant to what I was studying. Some ideas from it were integrated into the critical commentary within my Critical and Creative Writing Ph D: Peace Child, Towards a Global Definition of the Young Adult Novel. When I had to reduce 80,000 words to 40,000 it disappeared again. On passing my Ph D and having to make minor amendments, I found myself revisiting Csikszentmihalyi's ideas again. Was I in that moment as I saw the book on the shelf in a state of flow?
It's uncanny and yet reassuring (oh is this another paradoxical trait) that I recognise myself when he describes paradoxical traits of the creative person: Physical energy / quietness, smartness / naivety, playfulness / discipline, responsibility / irresponsibility, imagination / reality, introvert / extrovert, humility / pride, rebellious / conservative, passion / objectivity, pain / enjoyment.
He defines "flow" as intense enjoyment and something we experience when fully absorbed in a task. This happens when: there are clear goals every step of the way, there is immediate feedback to one's actions, there is a balance between challenges and skills, actions and awareness are merged, distractions are excluded form consciousness, there is no worry of failure, self-consciousness disappears, the sense of time is distorted and the activity becomes worth doing for its own sake. That is, I think, what happens to me when I am writing. I don't really fear the failure until the rejection slip arrives.
His work is certainly interesting and certainly worth a look.
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Thursday, 23 September 2010
Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi and Flow
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Christmas Projects
Vintage Holiday Underglaze Plate
Begin with properly fired shelf cone 04 bisque. Moisten a clean sponge and wipe bisque to remove any dust.
Find the center of the plate and mark it with a pencil (using a banding wheel helps).
Mix together UG-50 Jet Black and AC-310 Silkscreen Medium to make a paste and apply the ornaments from the DSS-0160 Vintage Holiday silkscreen (save any extra paste because we will screen these images again).
Apply the first ornament by touching the tip to the center mark. Repeat directly across (with the tip touching the center again) and then again perpendicular to the first 2. This should leave you with 4 ornaments evenly spaced around the center. You may want to wash and dry your screen between uses, but keep in mind that this will not be your final lines, so an imperfect transfer is acceptable.
Fill in between the first style ornaments with the second style ornament and repeat, totaling 4 of each ornament.
Apply 3 coats of underglaze to the details of the ornaments and in the background. Once complete add dots of UG-51 China White to the background.
Gather your extra silkscreen paste and line up your silkscreen with the image on the plate. Screen the images again to freshen up the lines.
Apply 2 coats of UG-50 Jet Black to the rim and back of the plate.
Use a damp sponge to wipe off any excess glaze from the foot of the plate.
Allow to dry completely.
Fire to shelf cone 5/6.
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- Chris Jericho was asked on Twitter if he will ever return to WWE. Jericho replied:
"Seriously guys? Let it go "
- The following matches are set to air on tonight's episode of WWE SmackDown:
* Big Show vs. Daniel Bryan
* Brodus Clay and The Usos vs. Heath Slater, Drew McIntyre and Jinder Mahal
* Wade Barrett vs. Randy Orton
* Primo and Epico vs. Hornswoggle and The Great Khali
* Alberto Del Rio vs. Sheamus
Full SmackDown results are here.
- WWE Divas Champion Eve Torres did do limited work at live events over last weekend, due to an elbow injury, and has been working banged up but is medically cleared to wrestle.
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Xenophobia is the fear of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange.[1][2] Xenophobia can manifest itself in many ways involving the relations and perceptions of an ingroup towards an outgroup, including a fear of losing identity, suspicion of its activities, aggression, and desire to eliminate its presence to secure a presumed purity.[3] Xenophobia can also be exhibited in the form of an "uncritical exaltation of another culture" in which a culture is ascribed "an unreal, stereotyped and exotic quality".[3]
The terms xenophobia and racism are sometimes confused and used interchangeably because people who share a national origin may also belong to the same race.[4] Due to this, xenophobia is usually distinguished by opposition to foreign culture.[4] Xenophobia is a political term and not a recognized medical phobia.
Dictionary definitions of xenophobia include: "deep-rooted fear towards foreigners" (Oxford English Dictionary; OED), and "fear of the unfamiliar" (Webster's).[5] The word comes from the Ancient Greek words ξένος (xenos), meaning "strange", "foreigner", and φόβος (phobos), meaning "fear".[6]
A scholarly definition of xenophobia, according to Andreas Wimmer, is "an element of a political struggle about who has the right to be cared for by the state and society: a fight for the collective goods of the modern state". In other words, xenophobia arises when people feel that their entitlement to benefit from the government is being subverted by other people's rights.[7]
The term "xenophobia" was invented by the ancient Greeks, to "describe a reflexive feeling of hostility to the stranger or other."[8] An early example of xenophobic sentiment in Western culture is the Ancient Greek denigration of foreigners as "barbarians", belief that the Greek people and culture were superior to those of others, and the subsequent conclusion that barbarians were naturally meant to be enslaved.[9] Ancient Romans also held notions of superiority over other peoples, such as in a speech attributed to Manius Acilius, "There, as you know, there were Macedonians and Thracians and Illyrians, all most warlike nations, here Syrians and Asiatic Greeks, the most worthless peoples among mankind and born for slavery."[10]
South Africa
Xenophobia in South Africa has been present in both the apartheid and post–apartheid eras. Hostility between the British and Boers exacerbated by the Second Boer War led to rebellion by poor Afrikaners who looted British-owned shops.[11] South Africa also passed numerous acts intended to keep out Indians, such as the Immigrants Regulation Act of 1913, which provided for the exclusion of "undesirables", a group of people that included Indians. This effectively halted Indian immigration. The Township Franchise Ordinance of 1924 was intended to "deprive Indians of municipal franchise."[12]
In 1994 and 1995, gangs of armed youth destroyed the homes of foreign nationals living in Johannesburg, demanding that the police work to repatriate them to their home countries.[13] In 2008, a widely documented spate of xenophobic attacks occurred in Johannesburg.[14][15][16] It is estimated that tens of thousands of migrants were displaced; property, businesses and homes were widely looted.[17] The death toll after the attack stood at 56.[18]
In 2015, another widely documented series of xenophobic attacks occurred in South Africa, mostly against migrant Zimbabweans.[19] This followed remarks by Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu stating that the migrants should "pack their bags and leave".[20][21] As of 20 April 2015, 7 people had died and more than 2000 foreigners had been displaced.[22]
See also
- ↑ "Xenophobia - definition of xenophobia in English from the Oxford dictionary". oxforddictionaries.com.
- ↑ "Xenophobia - Define Xenophobia at Dictionary.com". Dictionary.com.
- 1 2 Guido Bolaffi. Dictionary of race, ethnicity and culture. SAGE Publications Ltd., 2003. Pp. 332.
- 1 2 "Xenophobia". United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
- ↑ Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, Dorset and Baber, Simon & Schuster
- ↑ Oxford Standard English Dictionary' (OED). Oxford Press, 2004, CDROM version.
- ↑ Wimmer, Andreas (1997). "Explaining xenophobia and racism: A critical review of current research approaches". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 20(1).
- ↑ Fredrickson 2009, p. 6.
- ↑ Harrison, Thomas (2002). Greeks and Barbarians. Taylor & Francis. p. 3. ISBN 9780415939591.
- ↑ Isaac, Benjamin H. (2006). The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity. Princeton University Press. p. 317. ISBN 9780691125985.
- ↑ Giliomee, Hermann (2003). The Afrikaners: Biography of a People. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. p. 383. ISBN 9781850657149.
- ↑ "Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959". South African History Online. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
- ↑ "Xenophobic violence in democratic South Africa". South Africa History Online. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
- ↑ "South Afrians Take Out Rage on Immigrants". The New York Times. 20 May 2008. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
- ↑ "Thousands seek sanctuary as South Africans turn on refugees". The Guardian. 20 May 2008. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
- ↑ "Thousands flee S Africa attacks". BBC NEWS. 19 May 2008. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
- ↑ "Analysis: The ugly truth behind SA's xenophobic violence". Daily Maverick. 28 May 2013. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
- ↑ "Xenophobic violence in democratic South Africa". South Africa History Online. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
- ↑ Kazunga, Oliver (20 April 2015). "Xenophobia death toll climbs to 7". The Chronicle. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
- ↑ "Xenophobic violence in democratic South Africa". South Africa History Online. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
- ↑ "Deaths in South Africa as mobs target foreigners". Al Jazeera. 15 April 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
- ↑ Kazunga, Oliver (20 April 2015). "Xenophobia death toll climbs to 7". The Chronicle. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
- Fredrickson, George (April 30, 2009). Racism: A Short History.
External links
|Look up xenophobia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- Media related to Xenophobia at Wikimedia Commons
- Quotations related to Xenophobia at Wikiquote


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Archive for the 'Climate Change' Category
Diversification – New Realities Facing Fossil Fuel Based Energy
In my previous Diversification Chronicles post I covered some of the high level reasons why the time is right for fossil fuel and electric utilities to pursue profitable diversification into the renewable energy industry. Below, I outline recent events and news that further highlights the legal, regulatory and market drivers that should create urgent diversification strategy development or expansion for companies with large CO2 and GHG negative externalities as a result of their business operations.
On August 9th, the federal 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the first time on the legality of the Obama administration's estimated social cost of carbon (SCC). SCC was determined by federal agencies who worked together starting in 2008 to create an accurate SCC, a metric that represents the long-term economic damage to society, in U.S. dollars, from each incremental ton of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. The latest estimate placed the SCC at $36 per metric ton of CO2.
The recent ruling upheld the Department of Energy's use of the SCC metric in its analysis of standards for commercial refrigeration equipment. DOE used them for issuance of 2 rules in 2014: one of the rules set energy efficiency standards for 49 classes of commercial refrigeration equipment, while the other stipulated test procedures for the standards.
The refrigeration industry challenged DOE's use of the social cost of carbon, but DOE's use of the SCC metric, "was neither arbitrary nor capricious" according to senior federal judge Kenneth Ripple, who was appointed to the bench by President Reagan. The ruling was definitive in its entirety.
While this ruling only applies to the refrigeration industry in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, the implications are enormous for the oil & gas and electric utilities. The SCC metric as established by the US government is now a benchmark going forward. This may well be the first domino falling which would affect all CO2 & GHG emitters in near term.
For the first time ever, CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants will drop below those from natural gas in 2016, according to a new analysis from the federal Energy Information Agency. Renewable energy, energy efficiency, historically low prices for natural gas, and other factors have driven coal use down by >30% while natural gas has been replacing that fuel for generation.
It was always assumed that natural gas would be a solid 50-year bridge fuel combined with renewables, energy storage and other technologies. But with its rapid rise in use, less energy density, and methane issues, natural gas is becoming a larger CO2 & GHG contributor with projections putting it past coal emissions in its heyday.
In addition to overproduction, very low oil prices, and legal challenges surrounding potential prior knowledge of the impact of their industry on climate change, the oil & gas industries are facing a potentially game changing problem of how Wall Street will value each company's fossil fuel reserves.
Typically, an oil & gas company's stock market valuation is weighed heavily on proven reserves and ability to extract. With many countries looking at putting a price on CO2 and limiting extraction of oil & gas as a result of the COP 21 Paris Agreement, this becomes a crucial data point for both the investment community and the operating companies themselves.
Industry observers believe that it's only a matter of a few years before the investment community significantly reduces the value of oil & gas companies and limits their equity positions. Additionally, the Securities and Exchange Commission is coming under pressure to change its rules to require energy firms to be more clear on what their material climate change risks are.
Combined with climate change symptoms seemingly accelerating over the last few years, these market and regulatory challenges make diversification into renewables an imperative. Short-term and weak green-washing strategies of the past will not stand up to public or government scrutiny going forward. The time is now for government and corporations to lead the transition to renewable and clean energy.Share this:
Diversification Into Renewable Energy Chronicles – How About Now?
First post in a series looking at the fossil fuel segment diversification into renewable energy.
Consider the current energy industry situation:
- For the first time in the last 100 years of the electric utility industry, revenue from sales of electrons did not go up after the US economy emerged from the recent great recession. Energy efficiency, renewable energy and behind-the-meter generation schemes are part of the reason.
- Oil and gas industry revenue and margins are suffering from very low prices as a result of overproduction, regulatory tightening on negative externalities and other factors.
- The coal industry is at a point that prompted the CEO of one the largest coal producers to state publicly that coal as a dominant generation fuel is in significant decline. Natural gas at historically low prices is rapidly replacing coal for base load generation. Coal is also impacted by strict limits on emissions as a result of the EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards(MATS). International markets, long thought to be a lucrative export valve for US coal, are in decline. China and other large coal burning nations have enacted new laws to wind down their coal generation, as the reality of climate change sets in and the cost-competitiveness of renewable energy continues to rise.
- The future energy picture, broadly speaking, is generally viewed through an electric industry lens. "Electricity is the energy of the 21st century," according to Patrick Pouyanné, CEO of the large French oil company Total, which has been making initial strategic investments in renewable energy and energy storage over the last six years.
- The majority of the world's countries (174) have come to agreement on slowing down climate change at the United Nations COP21 in December 2015, which attempts to limit warming to 2° C compared to pre-industrial levels. With energy generation contributing average of 35% of emissions, the implications for the energy sector is clear.
In this era of market turmoil and low prices across all fossil fuel energy sectors, renewables are highly cost-competitive AND gaining ground. The recent BNEF 2016 Outlook verifies what renewable energy cheerleaders have been saying for many years – renewables with energy storage and next-generation grid technology are ready to lead the imperative global transition away from carbon-intensive generation.
So why is the fossil fuel industry still sitting on the sidelines? Renewable energy companies and assets throughout the supply chain are relatively inexpensive now, due to the low cost of the gas and oil it competes against. The timing to present a diversification effort to shareholders has never been better. The timeline for return on investment for renewable diversification is significantly shorter than building fossil fuel assets. This would appear to be a first-mover's diversification market.
The renewable energy industry represents a natural, highly profitable diversification strategy given the fossil fuel industry's large balance sheets, synergistic services and capabilities, very low cost of capital, leverage with regulatory agencies and built-in customers in many cases. Yet many fossil fuel companies continue to dig in deeper on their traditional extraction-and-burn model, even as a Deloitte survey of oil and gas executives back in
2009 uncovered major concerns about the sustainability of their industry. The majority of these executives also expressed strong support for, and confidence in, the future of renewable energy.
There are signs that a tentative transition by some entities is underway. Major electric utilities such as Duke Energy, Georgia Power, NRG Energy and Exelon domestically have their toe in the renewable energy water, and the large European utilities Enel and E.ON have announced long term transitions to 100% renewable energy. Other smaller electric utilities are testing renewable generation, and decoupling their profitability from electron-only sales into energy efficiency and other services. The oil & gas sector is increasing their involvement in renewables with recent announcements from Shell, Total, and Statoil, as well as a number of smaller firms that service the large multinationals.
However, with the exception of Total and few others in the electric utility industry, diversification capital investment budgets are small, generally under 0.6% of the total. And there is always the lingering suspicion, based on past pronouncements, that these latest diversification efforts are merely green-washing to counter urgent climate change action calls.
To be sure, diversification from a core competency is not simple for any company who has shareholders to satisfy on a quarterly basis. Patience for executing a diversification strategy is not something the investment community is good at, as witnessed by the removal of electric utility visionary David Crane from the electric utility NRG last year. And E.ON in Germany is an example of the difficulty in maintaining profitability while crossing the diversification chasm.
But with the continual and rapid lowering of the installed cost and levelized cost of energy, as well as plunging cost reductions in the energy storage sector, diversification into solar and wind and other renewables can be achieved with a well timed diversification plan and lower risk. There's money to be made, jobs to be created and the urgent health of our planet to consider. How about now?Share this:
Limiting to 2º C – Its Not Just Energy Production
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) held its twenty first Conference of Partners (COP21) in Paris in 2015.
The conference negotiated the Paris Agreement, a global agreement on the reduction of climate change, the text of which represented a consensus of the representatives of the 196 parties attending it. The agreement will enter into force when joined by at least 55 countries which together represent at least 55 percent of global greenhouse emissions. On 22 April 2016 (Earth Day), 174 countries signed the agreement in New York, and began adopting it within their own legal systems.
The key result was an agreement to set a goal of limiting global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (°C) compared to pre-industrial levels. The agreement calls for zero net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions to be reached during the second half of the 21st century.
This is all a very large challenge given the many sectors, beyond energy, contribute massively to climate change.
The great visualization below from the UN explains why the 2 degrees Celsius target is so important to stabilizing the earth's atmosphere. (click on the play button in middle of graphic)
URL: http://www.cop21.gouv.fr/en/why-2c/
According to the IPCC (get to know more about IPCC), global warming of more than 2°C would have serious consequences, such as an increase in the number of extreme climate events. In Copenhagen in 2009, the countries stated their determination to limit global warming to 2°C between now and 2100. To reach this target, climate experts estimate that global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions need to be reduced by 40-70% by 2050 and that carbon neutrality (zero emissions) needs to be reached by the end of the century at the latest.Share this:
The Golden Age of Natural Gas Cancelled?
It's fitting for me to return to blogging right after the release of the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Outlook 2016 report. While I have always been an optimist that solar energy and renewables generally would eventually disrupt the centralized fossil fuel paradigm, this report exceeds even my optimistic thinking.
What is astounding about this report is that as solar and wind continue their steep cost declines to the point that even with coal and natural gas generation costs at historic lows, renewables are, and will continue to be, the preferred choice for new generation through 2040. In fact, the report states that zero emissions renewables will be over 60% of all new electricity generation by 2040, requiring $7.8 trillion investment (coal & gas will require $2.1 trillion). Natural gas has always been assumed to be a long term "bridge fuel" until renewables, storage and intelligent grid infrastructure could mature but that maturation is happening significantly faster than most analysts thought.
In addition, capacity factors are forecast to go through the roof for renewables as better technology, supply forecasting and
smart grid technology enable large jumps in capacity gains. This makes renewables much more desirable. Once the generation asset construction is completed, the marginal cost of the electricity it produces is essentially zero, while coal and gas have ongoing cost-variable fuel requirements for every watt produced. The choice is clear for the power utilities, IPP's and commercial and industrial customers like Amazon, Apple and others even before factoring in the environmental benefits.
The report also forecasts Energy Storage becoming ubiquitous by 2040, with total behind-the-meter energy storage to rise dramatically from around 400MWh today to nearly 760GWh in 2040, representing a $250b market. PV+ storage, in the near and future terms, will be come the norm, not the exception.
On a more sobering note, coal use in India other countries will still be expanding, which in turn means that the world will exceed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 'safe' limit of 450 parts per million and the 2⁰C scenario agreed upon at COP 21 in 2015. While China (long demonized as the mega coal offender) is on a massive and rapid transition from coal to renewables, India has a long way to go. As a result, in addition to the $7.8 trillion capital investment for renewables through 2040, another $5.3 trillion investment in zero-carbon power by 2040 is required to prevent CO2 in the atmosphere rising above the COP 21 goal.Share this:


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Large group Holiday Accommodation in Haute-Loire
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Conference Paper
"Advanced Signal Processing Techniques for Fixed and Mobile Satellite Communications", in 8th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference 14th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop, 2016. 1570262450.pdf (477.63 KB),
"Adjacent Beams Resource Sharing to Serve Hot Spots : A Rate Splitting Approach", in 36th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC), Niagara Falls, Canada, 2018. ADJACENT_BEAMS_RESOURCE_SHARING_TO_SERVE_HOT_SPOTS_A_RATE_SPLITTING_APPROACH.pdf (756.71 KB),
"An Adaptive Tree Search Algorithm with Application to Multiresolution-based Perceptive Audio Coding", in IEEE-SP International Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis, Paris, France, 1996, pp. 117–120.,
"Adaptive Transmission Techniques for Mobile Satellite Links", in 30th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC), Ottawa, Canada, 2012. mobile_adptv_tx_arnau_rico_mosquera_final.pdf (1.32 MB),
"Adaptive self-interference suppression for full-duplex relays with multiple receive antennas", in IEEE 13th Int. Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2012), Çesme, Turkey, 2012. stfs.pdf (563.86 KB),
"Adaptive Self-interference Cancellation in Wideband Full-Duplex Decode-and-Forward MIMO Relays", in IEEE 14th Int. Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Darmstadt, Germany, 2013. 1569729637.pdf (259.49 KB),
"Adaptive one-bit compressive sensing with application to low-precision receivers at mmWave", in IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. (GLOBECOM), , 2015.,
"Adaptive hybrid precoding and combining in mmWave multiuser MIMO systems based on compressed covariance estimation", in IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP), 2015.,
"On achievable security levels for lattice data hiding in the Known Message Attack scenario", in ACM Workshop on Multimedia and Security (MMSEC), Geneva, Switzerland, 2006, pp. 68-79.,
Book Chapter
"Stable estimates in equation-error identification: an open problem", in Open Problems in Mathematical Systems and Control Theory, Springer-Verlag, 1999.,
"The Simultaneous Strict Positive Real Problem: Similarities with the Simultaneous Stability Problem and Applications in Adaptive Recursive Algorithms", in Mathematics in Signal Processing, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 139-148.,
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"Expectation–maximisation based distributed estimation in sensor networks", in Data Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks: A statistical signal processing perspective, London, UK: The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), 2019, pp. 201-230.,
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"Digital Satellite Communications", New York: Springer, 2007, p. -.,
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Comunicaciones Digitales. Pearson - Prentice Hall, 2007.,


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Green Job Training 80 WATT SOLAR PANEL Grid Tie Inverter Direct Monocrystalline
Green Jobs Training. www.greenpowerscience.com SOLAR PANELS This is a Monocrystalline Solar panel rated at 80 watts. This panel in direct sunlight can power a GTI Grid tie inverter providing 63 watts AC alternating current supplementing the power consumption from the electric company grid. The GTI is a 200 watt version. 3 panels would be needed in parallel to run direct at full power.
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Beautiful Castles in Denver, Colorado
There are a number of castles and castle-like buildings and homes located in Denver, Colorado. Most of these castles in Denver were built for wealthy millionaires and a number of them were designed by noted Denver architect William Lang.
Some of these castles remain in private hands are not open to the public but can easily be seen from the streets they are located on. Two of the castles are hotels that can also be rented out for weddings and special occasions and one of the castles is a museum open to the public. All of these castles are great tourist attractions in Denver.
Dunning-Benedict Castle
Located at 1200 Pennsylvania Street in Denver is the Dunning-Benedict Castle. Built in 1889 for real estate millionaire Walter Dunning the Dunning-Benedict Castle is also known as Graystone Castle. Today the castle is home to a Denver law firm and not open to the public but is worth a visit for an outside photo.
Eppich Castle in Denver
Located at 1266 Emerson Street in Denver, Colorado is the Eppich Castle. Built in 1909 for businessman Louis Eppich the Eppich Castle is an apartment building today that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Castle Marne or the Wilbur S. Raymond House
Located at 1572 Race Street is Castle Marne which is also known as the Wilbur S. Raymond House. Built in 1889 for millionaire investment banker Wilbur S. Raymond by noted architect William Lang today Castle Marne is an elegant bed and breakfast hotel that is also available for weddings, parties and special occasions. Castle Marne is also open to the public for Afternoon Tea.
Richthofen Castle
Located at 7020 East 12th Street in Denver, Colorado is Richthofen Castle. Built from 1883-1887 by Baron Walter von Richthofen who was the uncle of Manfred von Richthofen the Red Baron WW I flying ace Richthofen Castle has 35 rooms and was the scene of a famous murder in 1911 when Gertrude Patterson shot and killed her husband Charles. Richthofen Castle is rumored to be haunted today.
Treat Hall at Johnson & Wales University
Located at East 18th Ave and Pontiac Street on the campus of Johnson & Wales University in Denver is the Treat Hall Castle. Treat Hall was built in 1890 for the Colorado Women's College and today Johnson & Wales is converting the building into a luxury hotel that will be run by students of the culinary college.
Denver Art Museum Castle
The North Building of the Denver Art Museum located in the Civic Center Cultural Complex on 13th Ave between Broadway and Bannock Streets in downtown Denver was built to somewhat resemble a castle in a modern way. The castle like building and art museum are certainly worth a trip by anyone staying at the nearby hotels in Denver.
Keating House Castle
Located at 1207 Pennsylvania Street is the Jeffrey and Mary Keating House Castle. Built in 1891 in Richardson Romanesque architectural style for lumber and real estate millionaire Jeffery Keating and his wife the Keating House is just down the street from the Dunning-Benedict House listed above.
Frank I. Smith House Castle
Located at 1435 Stuart Street in Denver is the Richardson Romanesque style Frank I. Smith House Castle that was built by architect William Lang in 1891.
Adolph J. Zang House Castle
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the evergreen myth
written by Shreya at in category Social with 4 Comments
The evergreen myth
To great chagrin of the regressive population of India, live-in relationships are reaching heights of popularity. It provides the youth an opportunity to know their partner without engaging into a legally binding relationship with them. These easy-in easy-out relationships exclude the abhorrent mess of family drama and lengthy court procedures in case the couple decides to break up. Despite such on-the-face benefits, live-in relationships have been despised by a great majority of our country. It is palpable that the crowd which pronounces death penalty for pre-marital sexual intercourse would be wary towards the concept of live-in relationships as well.
The rights and duties of a individual are very important when it comes to fighting for your own right especially when it comes to woman, the women is regarded as the weaker sex in the society even though it not true but we need a strong uplifting laws for the woman. So before we get in a living relationship with need to be aware of the laws that preserve our rights as a woman.
In new delhi , there was a landmark judgment that can reduce the stigma of living in a live-in-relationship, the Supreme Court ruled out that couples living in live-in-relationships will be presumed legally married. The apex court also said that in case if the man dies, then his property will be inherited by his partner. Since 2010, the Supreme Court has ruled in favour that women should get the rights as that of a wife, in case of live-in couples. On November 28, 2013, the Supreme Court had held that live-in relationship is neither a crime nor a sin, while asking Parliament to frame law for protection of women in such relationship and children born out of it.
A woman under DV Act is entitled to claim remedy in case of physical, mental, verbal or economic abuse. In addition, remedies are conferred for alienation of woman's property and restriction from use of facilities to which the abused is entitled. The abused has been granted several rights and protections under this legislation. If the Magistrate is convinced of domestic violence taking place, he can pass orders prohibiting the accused of any act of violence on the victim. In addition, Magistrate can pass restraining orders, order accused to provide monetary reliefs to the abused, which includes medical expenses, reimbursement for loss of earnings or property and maintenance. The woman, in such cases is also allowed custody of her kids, and a right to claim compensation for any harm caused.
The Delhi high court has refused to keep live-in relationships outside the purview of rape under the IPC, saying it would amount to giving them the status of matrimony, which the legislature has chosen "not to do".
A Madras High Court judge recently courted controversy after he projected sexual relationship as evidence of marriage in a bid to ensure equal application of law to live-in and married couples.
But this was not an isolated case of the judiciary making an all out effort to dole out maintenance to women unable to maintain themselves after a break-up.
The unequal treatment of two similarly placed women merely on account of the nature of relationship has often troubled judges who have tried innovative methods to ensure justice but there has been little move in this regard on part of the executive or the legislature.
In new delhi ,there was a landmark judgment that can reduce the stigma of living in a live-in-relationship, the Supreme Court on Monday, April 13, 2015 ruled out that couples living in live-in-relationships will be presumed legally married. The apex court also said that in case if the man dies, then his property will be inherited by his partner.
Though co-habitation without marriage was a rarity at the time, the Privy Council in 1927 held that marriage would be presumed if a woman was living with a man as his wife.
Thus, a man denying maintenance would have to rebut the presumption to escape the liability.
Under personal laws, father is given the first right in case of a legitimate child, whereas mother is given the first preference in case of illegitimate child. However, this position has been overruled by the Supreme Court, and both, mother and father have been accorded equal rights over the child. Custody will be decided on the basis of facts and circumstances of each case.
It is trite that although widely considered immoral, live-in relationships do not constitute an illegal act.
Though Courts have sympathized with live-in couples and conferred certain rights over them, there is no legislation explicitly recognizing the legal rights of such couples. Thus, a couple, at any given time will have to prove in great length the consistency and seriousness of their relationship to avail of the rights accorded to them by the Courts..
So, if you are okay with the law as it is (or, as it not is) with respect to live-in relationships, ask your partner to move in today!
Comment by Akhil Premji
Well Shreya!! Live in relationship is acceptable by the society now, as honourable supreme court approved it. Still different minds have different views on it. Now you can google and will find many sites offering sex in the name of live in relationship "CALL GIRL FOR LIVE IN RELATIONSHIP". I am sure, these things now destroy the society and social values.
No one can live happy, if he or she goes against parents, I am in favour of openness, but with consent of parents. Parents have more experience and only they are your best mentors. keep a side the present life of metro cities in India, still rest of Indian's mind are not so open and frank to accept these relationships.
Where marriage is a social binding and commitment to each other.
The Beauty Of Internal Marriage
© Amanda Madyosi
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It's sealed by love
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Reply by Shreya
thank you for your kind words sir, parents do serve as the most intregal part of child's life. no one can succed without thier blessing. but change is constant, we all need to adapt different thinking and prespective, if that doesnt happen the youth will be doomed, the openness is important in order to stop any activies in youth, the more open u will be the more open they will be with u and they will talk to you about stuff. and many a times parents are afraid to let loose thier there children because they think they might live them , but that not true, the more u push the more they come close.
happy reading.
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Comment by Mohit
A little confusing but nice article, something to think over. Few words to describe; We love western culture more than Indian culture in some aspects of life, just because it gives us more freedom and a belief to trust ourselves, and the Indian culture helps use western culture carefully and sensibly.
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Reply by Shreya
rightly put up sire. we must learn something from the west but in our own limits and culture.
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rightly put up sire. we must learn something from the west but in our own limits and culture.
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Comment by Anuja
Hi Shreya... big appreciation for your another blog Nowadays more young people wish to experiment rather than get married, and as such live in relationships are becoming quite common. Live in relationships in India though not illegal are considered as moral or improper. However, many couple choose to live together in metro cities like Pune, Mumbai, Delhi etc Many of us object to this kind of relationship I think religious reasons are a primary factor that oppose live in relationships. living together before marriage is a violation of their moral beliefs on the sanctity of a sexual relationship between a man and a woman outside of marriage. However Live in relationships are still being preferred by the modern youth. And this is preferred for several benefits like Live in couples also enjoy spending more time with each other which might not be possible in a marriage because of time constraints In third the couples respect each other as they might have some insecurity or concern in the back of their head that they may lose the partner if they don't behave right. While a marriage requires a lot of time and effort to dissolve because it a strict and unassailable arrangement, it is easy to break up with each other in a live in relationship One more , Live-in relationships guarantee immense financial freedom for both parties involved This is the main benefit of live in relationships over marriage. Couples don't have to give up any rights nor accept any duties or responsibilities. Couples are free of any obligations and can choose to live their life as they please. Commitments ki koi tension nahi...
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Reply by Shreya
you are extremly right Ma'am. there is no fear of commitments in living relantionship. they are like walk in interview of marriage.
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Comment by Parshvi
I'd say that even after we have laws regarding live in relationships, there are lots of people who are unaware of the same. And even after having live in based judgements in favor of the women, the traditional Indian society does not accept the same.
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Reply by Shreya
it is true Ma'am the society resist to the change.. they are happy living in the traditional oblivion.
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Aquaman #1 grapples with how the real world would react to Atlantis…
The first thing that automatically springs to mind when reading the issue, is how human they're trying to make Arthur Curry seem. And whilst obviously yes, he's half-Human and half-Atlantean – the way he chops and changes between the two identities is almost like being two separate people. When he's with Mera he's at ease and his normal self. But when he's surrounded by others, it's as if he's someone completely different. Which is easy to deal with considering he's a King, but the way it reads on the page feels very odd.
It almost feels like that might be part of his character arc throughout this current series, figuring out who he is as a person rather than a King. We certainly hope so, otherwise his issues are going to feel very mismatched and strange in terms of dialogue and storylines. Maybe we're just looking too far into it, but we hope the writers know what they're doing with the character. He's a tricky one, purely because of the stigma around him. If they get it wrong, he could almost end up being a parody of his former self. No one wants to see that.
The rest of Aquaman #1 deals with the Atlantean embassy coming under a terrorist attack, and it feels like something out of a spy movie. With someone infiltrating the embassy and letting all hell break loose on innocent ambassadors from around the world. Apart from the odd style of dialogue, it's a good issue and it has the potential to get a lot better. If it wasn't obvious from the Aquaman: Rebirth issue, Black Manta is the primary antagonist for the King of Atlantis once again and does make for a compelling villain.
The issue does suffer from the 'Superhero v Villain with similar powers' trope, but considering Black Manta's motivations, it does make for an interesting read. In terms of it's art and design, it's nothing out of the ordinary and it sticks to the colourful, vibrant style that we're used to. Aquaman #1 isn't the worst book out there, but it's not exactly the best either. Hopefully they gather some more compelling villains and situations for the King of Atlantis to deal with across the series.
We'd love to see some other heroes cross over into Aquaman's story, especially someone like Wonder Woman, who has her own experiences with dealing with lost civilisations. We're intrigued as to where Aquaman #1 will lead to, but we're not exactly captivated like we have been with other #1 issues.
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Whilst it's not the greatest issue of the Rebirth comics, it's not the worst either. With a compelling storyline, and a villain we've seen a few times before, it's an easy read. Even if the dialogue is a little choppy occasionally.
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World War 3: What would REALLY happen in a nuclear war, by experts
Rob WaughRob Waugh for Metro.co.uk
Wednesday 25 Nov 2015 5:04 pm
The words 'World War 3' trended on social media worldwide as tension rose over Turkey shooting down a Russian jet over its airspace.
Just to keep everything calm and civilised, Russian military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer said that nuclear war was now 'likely'.
There are still a huge number of nuclear weapons in active service – the Arms Control Association estimates that Russia has 7,700 weapons in service, of which 4,500 are stockpiled, and 1548 are deployed on missiles and at air bases.
But what would actually happen?
1) We wouldn't hear a 'four-minute warning'
The four minute warning system, a national system of sirens which would have gone off during a nuclear attack was retired in 1992 – one of the reasons being that more people now have double glazing.
2) Instead, you will probably get a text message
An Apple Inc. iPhone 6S smartphone is held for an arranged photograph in Hong Kong, China, on Friday, Sept. 25, 2015. The latest models, following last year's hugely popular design overhaul that added bigger screens, may not match the success of previous releases, according to analysts.
The government has tested technology which would deliver a text message warning of disasters such as nuclear attacks.
The system, drawn up by the National Security Council, was tested in Glasgow and Yorkshire in 2013.
3) By the time you get the message, there may be little you can do
As yet, there is no technology which can stop an intercontinental ballistic missile – so the most many of us could hope for would be time to get indoors.
Even during the time of the 'four minute' warning, the warning would probably have offered just three minutes.
4) If you're near the bomb, there won't be much left of you
Witnesses of the Hiroshima attack said that people near the centre of the blast 'vanished'.
William Burchett said, 'Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes – except that there were no ashes.'
The bomb dropped on Hiroshima was a fraction of the size of the hydrogen warheads now used by Russia and the U.S.
5) Hydrogen bombs could devastate entire cities
Nearly six million people dead, homes flattened and millions more poisoned by a huge plume of radioactive poison which would spread for 130 miles.
An app by Alex Wellerstein at the Stevens Institute of Technology, Nuke Map, shows what could happen if the largest Soviet hydrogen bomb ever detonated was dropped on London.
Destruction would spread from Horsham in the South to Luton in the north – and casualties would spiral after the initial blast killed and injured nearly 10 million people.
6) Large-scale nuclear war could devastate the entire world
In 1979, the U.S. Congress's Office of Technology published a report called The Effects of War, which envisaged the impact of an all-out nuclear attack.
The consequences would be disastrous – with hundreds of millions of people dead, and more facing cancer and radiation sickness.
The OTA envisaged up to 80% of the population of the U.S. being killed immediately, with further casualties from radiation.
7) The first impacts wouldn't be the worst part
A British government broadcast, recorded to be broadcast in the event of nuclear war, said, 'This is the Wartime Broadcasting Service. This country has been attacked with nuclear weapons… Remember there is nothing to be gained by trying to get away. By leaving your homes you could be exposing yourself to greater danger.If you leave, you may find yourself without food, without water, without accommodation and without protection. Radioactive fall-out, which follows a nuclear explosion, is many times more dangerous if you are directly exposed to it in the open….'
Longstanding advice from various government agencies includes:
Seeking shelter (ideally below ground and surrounded by thick concrete)
Rationing supplies of food, water, fuel, medicine and clothing
Wearing hats and goggles and exposing as little skin to the air as possible
Following the news and evacuating if ordered
8) The environment would be devastated for decades afterwards
'Doomsday' predictions of all life on Earth being exterminated are probably over-stating the impact of nuclear weapons – but it would have a huge impact on life on our planet.
A serious nuclear conflict would also leave the world far worse off than depicted in games such as Fallout 4, says science magazine Smithsonian.com.
Carbon thrown into the air would cause a huge drop in worldwide temperature, and could hit global rainfall and the growing seasons for crops.


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LIVERMORE, California — Thirty years ago, half the core of a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear complex melted down, but government officials and the utility running the place didn't know that. And they wouldn't know for six more years.
In fact, as the crisis extended from its start on March 28, 1979, the amount of information available about the nature of the accident remained slim. Key pieces of data were missing. Nobody knew exactly what was happening inside the containment vessel and, more importantly, what was coming out of it. The sensors designed to measure radioactive release were overwhelmed.
The limitations of data collection and computation made precise predictions and good decisions difficult to make. As intermittent emissions of radioactive gas tumbled into the sky, the uncertainty about how severe the accident had been rose with them.
The information vacuum didn't just impact what was happening on the ground during that frightening week. It has rippled down through time as the debate over what the Three Mile Island accident meant to society became clouded with doubts over what actually happened out in the Susquehanna River. Both pro- and anti-nuclear groups used the accident to illustrate their points, but material facts about the reactor's core were still coming out six years after the partial meltdown.
"The instrumentation that was put in that plant and in several other plants at the same time, was not designed to handle the scope, the scale of the release that happened at that plant. Even though it was small, it was beyond the range of the instruments that were in the containment vessel," said Tom Sullivan, a former Livermore scientist who helped respond to the disaster. "So, what happened is that the accident moved into the realm of the unknown and as soon as that happened people started to imagine things."
If a Three Mile Island-like accident happened today, we have a datacenter-full of new capabilities to assess any damage. The accident, in part, called into being a new force within the Department of Energy: a group of meteorologists whose sole job is to model how dangerous particles from anything from nuclear fallout to chemical explosions will cross a landscape. Headquartered at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center is an under-appreciated link in our chain of defenses against nuclear and chemical accidents or attacks.
We only truly built its capability in the aftermath of the worst nuclear power accident in American history. In one of the most underrated outcomes of the disaster, Three Mile Island confirmed the value of having better data, and the geeks who could understand it.
Without it, the authorities found themselves scrambling. The utility was trying to figure out what had gone wrong. The public was fearful and angry. The government was in damage-control mode. Everyone wanted to know the thing that no one could provide: Exactly how much of the tasteless, odorless, invisible radiation was released and where was it heading? The impact of the confusion would have much longer-lasting impacts than anyone could have imagined.
Walter Cronkite led off the CBS Evening News broadcast by delivering the bad news to the world.
"The world has never known a day quite like today," he said from beneath his bushy eyebrows. "It faced the considerable uncertainties and dangers of the worst nuclear power plant accident of the atomic age."
Those words reflected the terror that a fundamentally new kind of danger had entered the world, one that we manifestly were not prepared to measure. Into the data vacuum rushed fear and DOE staff.
Marv Dickerson, another former Livermore scientist, got the call in the United Red Carpet Room at O'Hare Airport.
"We cleared out an area and started work right there in the airport," Dickerson said. Shortly thereafter, he was on a plane bound for Harrisburg, where he'd become intimately involved in the response to the accident, briefing decision makers.
Meanwhile, Sullivan headed back to Livermore to crank out calculations based on the data that was beginning to flow into the system. They pushed everyone else off the Lab's computers and started working. The setup back then was crude.
"The big computers were at the other end of the lab, and we had no electronic connections. People would run back and forth with a big reel of tape," Sullivan said, recalling a time when memory was stored in BPI, or bits per inch of tape. "We would run it from the big computers to the little computers we had that would then make [a map] that we would make a hard copy of, hand label, and put in a fax machine. Talk about primitive."
Even with that '70s setup, which is about as foreign to us now as a polyester leisure suit, they were able to produce a rudimentary model of the release in Harrisburg, but it was missing some key details.
"When we first responded to Three Mile Island, we didn't even have topography in the model," Sullivan said. "Basically it was a Flat Earth Society model. We were very worried about that. The first 48 hours, we probably put in 24 man hours trying to get the topography into the little grid."
There was no accounting for turbulence, and the resolution wasn't too high, either. But their projections were still immensely valuable in guiding the measurement taking of helicopters and ground crews.
At Livermore's modern NARAC facility, they are several orders of magnitude more precise in their calculations now, and they've responded to more than 150 events. What used to take hours now takes minutes. Real-time data availability might not have headed off the divisive clash over what happened at Three Mile Island, but it would have helped protect citizens while providing a common basis for argument over the atomic energy's risks.
As it was, the confusion made having a real conversation about the meaning of the accident at Three Mile Island's second reactor impossible. While the accident was certainly not as bad as the darkest fears of some, it turned out to be considerably worse than industry and government officials believed (or let on) at first.
Richard Lyons, reporting on the front page of The New York Times, wrote that John G. Herbein, Metropolitan Edison vice president, said "that the mishap was not all that unusual in his eyes since similar accidents had happened 'two or three times' to the first reactor unit at the plant that opened in 1974. But he conceded that there was one major difference: the leak of contaminated water into the building next to the reactor this time."
It's clear, in retrospect, that Herbein didn't really understand what had happened in the three-month old reactor.
"It was a bit of an engineering nightmare because they didn't understand how the plant was functioning at that time," Sullivan said.
At first, utility and government officials contended that only 180 or maybe 360 of the 36,000 containment rods had melted. Those numbers were up to 9,000 rods shortly after the accident, but the cooler heads prevailed a little too well in this case. For a while in the early 1980s, nuclear power industry officials maintained that no melting had occurred — and that was a major reason for claiming the coverage of the affair was overblown.
"Little, if any, fuel melting occurred, even though the reactor core was uncovered. The safety systems functioned reliably," said D.B. Trauger, a nuclear engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, at an engineering conference eight months after the accident. "Based on the conservative licensing analyses, the core was subjected to conditions that would have produced a total melt…. This accident has revealed that reactors are orders of magnitude safer than previously assumed."
In fact, it took excavation of the containment vessel in the mid-'80s to glimpse the true extent of the damage. What workers found was shocking. The Washington Post's Three Mile Island timeline summarized the new severity estimates, "Core temperatures reached 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit; as much as 50 percent of the fuel melted."
Today, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission recognizes that half the core melted.
On the other hand, fears of massive radiation releases and increased cancer, though they continue to surface, have not played out. No one died from the initial accident and the official line is that no deaths can be statistically attributed to the radiation released in the area.
In other words, both sides got pieces of the story right, but neither of them could have known exactly what was happening at the time of the event. What's more unclear was the impact that TMI had on the nuclear industry as a whole. The public reaction to the accident was clearly real, but Three Mile Island's importance could be overestimated.
While it's true no new nuclear plant has been built since the accident, the industry's problems began years earlier, and the chief reason for its declining momentum in the United States was economic.
The myth continues, though, because it serves everyone to blame the nuclear industry's problems on the meltdown and subsequent increased anti-nuclear power protests. Environmental groups get to claim victory in slowing nuclear construction projects and the nuclear power industry gets to blame their failure to fulfill the promise of "the nuclear age" on the irrational response to a "minor" accident.
But the industry was showing major signs of weakness before the accident. Plants were turning out to be expensive and taking exceedingly long times to build. There was (and remains) no solution for the long-term storage of radioactive waste. And the public had already begun to lose trust in the government-industrial complex to regulate itself adequately.
On Feb. 27, 1979, two months before the accident, influential New York Times columnist, Tom Wicker, noted the trouble the industry was having, particularly with the credibility of its safety assessments.
"Now the industry is paying the price in reduced public support and confidence and a nuclear energy construction program slowed almost to a standstill," Wicker wrote.
Regulators had touted a landmark 1975 safety study, which Marcus Rowden, a Nuclear Regulatory commissioner said showed "the risks from potential nuclear accidents would be comparable to those from meteorites." But as doubts continued to surface about the report's methodology and intellectual independence, the NRC was forced to back away from the report. Later, a 1982 report found that the old safety study had underestimated the risk of a nuclear accident by a factor of 20.
Perhaps, if there is a nuclear renaissance, the increase in our computational power and the commitment to transparency that the Obama government espouses will create a more rational national discourse about the atomic age. The New York Times opinion page, in the wake of Three Mile Island, actually struck exactly the right tone in its critique of the industry, "Credibility Meltdown."
"For years, the industry and its supporters in Government and elsewhere have insisted that nuclear energy is safe. Relatively speaking, they are right. But under the pressure of emotional protests, the nuclear spokesmen have gone further. Nuclear power, they have proclaimed, is The Answer; it is not just reasonably safe but comfortingly so; a serious accident is a million-to-one shot," they wrote.
"Then what are people to think when a Three Mile Island comes along? This event may turn out to be not so serious, but when safety is oversold, even the smallest accident delivers an exaggerated blow to industry credibility. As a result, a public that has been educated to think that there are virtually no risks involved in the use of nuclear energy will find it that much harder to take reasonable ones in its pursuit."
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How do you advance query in Muti tenant app
I have like a simple query:
INSERT INTO {Entity1} ([Attribute1],[Attribute2])
SELECT 'ABC123','Demo'
But gave the error below
The attempted insert or update failed because the target view either specifies WITH CHECK OPTION or spans a view that specifies WITH CHECK OPTION and one or more rows resulting from the operation did not qualify under the CHECK OPTION constraint.
Hello David,
For the INSERT on advanced queries over multi-tenant entity, you must specify the TENANT_ID:
INSERT INTO {Entity1} (TENANT_ID,[Attribute1],[Attribute2])SELECT @TenantId, 'ABC123','Demo'
And pass @TenantId as input parameter, setting it value to Site.TenantId.
why use a query for this?
J.: Because those Create/Update/Delete Action aren't enough for what we do. We use a lot of JOINS,Aggregated Functions,GROUP BY, ROWNUMBER etc...
Rui Coutinho: Seems like still producing the same error when I do the test query
Try this:
David Chen wrote:
I dont have that in my menu, im using version 22.214.171.124
So I published it. Ran the insert action using a button action. No error, however when i check the entity. No data inserted
Here it is
Seems like its working showing up on screen, but do you know why its not showing up here?
As I mentioned before, you need to configure which tenant you want to use during test queries. On your Service Studio version I don't know how to configure it.
My recommendation is to download and install the 220.127.116.11. The OML I sent you was published in 220.127.116.11 and you were still able to run it.
Hope this helps.
I took your oml and it works as expected.
Please find my version, where I simply add a Table Records to see on the same screen the contents of the entity.
Do you want to share the OML so I can have a look?
I don't have that version installed, only 22.214.171.124, that already has that setting available. You can upgrade your developer studio. If I recall correctly, for your version the tenant set is available in popup for the advanced query, next to the TEST button there should be a small arrow.
In any case, have you test it on runtime?


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Surgical Sperm Retrieval
One of two things can be responsible for the absence of sperms in the ejaculate:
1. The testicles do not produce enough sperm to be be found in the ejaculate.
2. Sperm are unable to reach the seminal fluid because of congenital absence of the tube that carries sperm from the testes to the seminal fluid.
Sperm may be obtained from the epididymis or the testis directly, in cases such as those mentioned previously. The acquired sperm may then be used in an IVF cycle employing ICSI, if the sperms are suitable.
Surgical sperm recovery is performed under local or general anesthesia.
Three techniques are commonly practiced:
I. Percutaneous Epididymal Sperm Aspiration (PESA):
If a blockage in the epididymis or congenital absence of the vas deferens (the drainage tube of sperm from the testis to the penis) is the cause for Azoospsermia (no sperm in the semen), then this procedure is indicated for obtaining sperm. A very fine needle is inserted into the epididymis (the sperm collecting tube outside the testis) and sperms are aspirated. This procedure is performed under local or short general anesthesia, requires no incision, and the patient can get back to work the same day.
II. Testicular Sperm aspiration (TESA):
In some men the production of sperms in the testis is very low and no sperms are seen in the semen. TESA is a way of obtaining the few sperms that are available in the testis. Using local anesthesia, a needle is inserted into the testis to obtain some tissue. This tissue is carefully dissected in the laboratory and the sample is examined under a microscope to detect sperm. The sperms obtained may be useful for ICSI or frozen for later use.
III. Testicular Sperm Extraction (TESE):
In some cases tissue is obtained directly after a small incision is done to open the scrotum covering the testis. Tissue is incised and given to the IVF lab for dissection and preparation.
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David M. Hickman, Fire Marshal for the Midland Fire Department, will be retiring on January 12, 2018 after 30 years of service with the Department.
Hickman began his career with the Big Lake and Reagan County Volunteer Fire Department before moving to Midland as a career Fire Fighter in 1988. He was promoted to Driver in 1991, Fire Inspector in 1999, and Fire Marshal in 2013.
Hickman was known to many young Midlanders as "Fireman Dave", for his dedication to fire safety and prevention programs in schools.
Hickman holds Master Certifications as Arson Investigator, Inspector, Hazardous Materials Technician, Peace Officer, ARFF and Fire Fighter. He also holds certificates as Fire Officer I and II, and Licensed Paramedic. In 2009 Hickman was named the Midland Fire Department Fire Officer of the Year and is a 6-time recipient of the City of Midland's Exceeding Expectations Award. Hickman was also an active member of the Midland Sheriff's Department Mounted Patrol Division.
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Important Things That You Have To Look Out For When It Comes To Pregnancy Planning
If there is one thing about pregnancy planning that you should know about, that would be the fact that there are lots of vital and necessary things that you must look out for during its stage. Pre pregnancy planning is very important, most especially if you want to have a healthy baby and also, if you want to remain as cool and as calm as you can possible as well. Getting pregnant and being pregnant is not an easy thing to do as you have to monitor you and your baby's condition while making sure that you are in the best shape possible that is why, with regards to this matter, it is of utmost importance and essentiality on your end to make sure that you are taking food that are nutritious and are reach in vitamins and minerals to sustain both you and your baby's needs. And also, there goes the fact that you have to ensure as well that you are making a chart of the intake that you have every single day. Since you and your baby will need the right and proper nutrition to maintain your good health and condition, instead of eating outside (you do not know the content of the food being prepared there), it would be best for you to choose eating at your home, at least you know what kind of ingredients are used and what type of food is beings served to you.
If you are using some of the family planning methods and you decided to stop as you want to have a child, the very first thing that you should do is to stop at the clinic of you family physician and have yourself as well as your partner be checked if both of you are fine and fit to bear a child.
There is no surprising by the fact that women get pregnant as there body constitution is designed by the almighty one to bear children. The health of child begins from the moment the mother started carrying them in her womb and will remain until he is old enough to stand on his own. Now, to make sure that this will be the case, one very important thing to do is to make sure that the mother is being taken care of since taking care of the mother means taking care of the baby in her womb as well. Getting rid of negative influences, living a healthy and peaceful life, exposure to a calm and serene environment, eradicating negative vibrations and thoughts and eating healthy meals rich in vitamins and minerals are just some of the important things that must be included on your pregnancy planning.
There are so many doctors and physicians whom you can approach during your pregnancy but, if you want to secure yourself with one that can be with you from the very beginning till your delivery and will monitor your condition on a regular basis, we want you to meet Dr. Stanley Angus, MD, an ob/gyne who works under AWS or Atlanta Women's Specialists.


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It is essential for any individual who has a van to own a van insurance. On top of being mandated by law, it is very necessary for unexpected and well, expected, turn of events that might affect the vehicle. Although this is not always the case, most van owners have their families aboard wherever they go, be it for business or for pleasure. A van insurance can definitely make sure that whatever happens in the course of day to day driving, untoward incidents will be taken care of, without any inconvenience on the part of the owner.
Whereas individuals making vehicle purchases oftentimes have specific details in mind, buyers usually buy a van because they need one. More often than not, it is for family reasons. A sedan is perfect of anybody but it would not be comfortable if the whole family tags along. Surely a van insurance that has a better and more comprehensive coverage that can be fully customized to suit the number and various personal needs of each family member has leverage.
Some van owners use their vehicles as a simple means of transport but for some, it is more than that. Businesses that need to drop or pick-up goods to and from various locations use their vans more often and because of this, they need a van insurance as well. Moving merchandise from one point to another needs a vehicle that can fill the part and because of the nature of this business, oftentimes, a van insurance for a vehicle that is used commercially is charged with premiums that are slightly higher and more expensive than those of regular private vehicle insurance. This is primarily because of the high risk that it entails in terms of the goods that are in the van that are moved from one point to another.
The chances of meeting accidents while transporting merchandise from one place to another are high. Broken merchandise due to sudden collision or delayed delivery because of some engine trouble, name it, and most likely, such unfortunate events have already befallen on most businesses that transport goods.
While we will understand the causes of delay and other problems that have been encountered along the way, the driver still has to be paid for the services that he has rendered and the goods that were supposed to be delivered in good shape are still going to be delivered anew. Adding all that up, you will find that the bill gets longer by the minute because you have to add the cost of repair of the vehicle and many other things that, perhaps, a simple bump, has triggered. These are the determinants for the higher premiums for van insurance. Due to the exorbitant costs associated with accidents involving commercial vans, business owners should place priority in the subscription of insurance for their vans.
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After three months of excitement, intrigue, heartbreak and elation, Arese from team Waje emerged as the first ever winner of The Voice Nigeria. Arese walks away with a recording contract withUniversal, an SUV from Africa Magic worth 7 million naira and a 4-day all expense paid trip for two to Abu Dhabi courtesy Etihad Airways.
Sunday's finale began on a high note and the audience was treated to individual and group performances, as the coaches graced the stage with their charges. The ensemble performances of the evening opened with Timi Dakolo, Cornel and Dewe performing Timi's song, Heaven Please.
Chike, from TeamPatoranking, followed with a memorable rendition of Bob Marley's No Woman No Cry and the hunky Nonso Bassey also stirred the audience's emotions with a bass laden performance of Impossible.
Petite but powerful voiced Viveeyan from Team2baba was next for the evening, and she got a standing ovation from the audience with an amazing performance of Miley Cyrus' Wrecking Ball.
Everyone's favorite stage performer, Brenda followed with an energetic medley of Rumour Has It and Someone Like You. Waje, ably assisted by Arese and Patrick, performed the hit single Ominiknowest as TeamWaje thrilled the audience with an amazing display of stage mastery.
Cornel came through with an explosive performance of R-Kelly's The Greatest and Dewe followed suit with a sonorous performance of Lucas Graham's Seven Years Old. TeamPatoranking was next and the team leader, assisted by Chike and Nonso, performed the hit song No Kissing Baby, off the hotly anticipated debut album GOE.
2baba took to the stage with Brenda and Viveeyan as they went 'spiritual', performing his song The Devil is a Liar. The reggae-toned performances continued as Patrick got the studio audience dancing with his reggae-inspired version of John Legend's All of Me.
Arese took to the stage and elicited screams as she literally kicked off her shoes performing 'Freedom'. Following Arese's performance was the nerve wracking unveiling of the top four finalists. Making the cut from Team 2baba was Brenda, while Arese made it through from TeamWaje. Chike made it from TeamPatoranking and Cornel made it through for TeamTimi as the nail biting evening progressed.
Cornel returned to the stage as he raised the roof with Lionel Ritchie's All Night Long. Chike followed and got the ladies swooning with Kiss Daniel's Mama and Arese took to the stage afterwards with an emotional performance of Hallelujah whilst the bubbly Brenda rocked the stage with Wizkid's Ojuelegba.
The climax of the evening came as the host IK announced Arese as the winner, with ladies man Chike coming second. The Voice Nigeria was proudly sponsored by Airtel in conjunction with Coca Cola.


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Manchester United soccer player Ryan Giggs "likely" received "tens of thousands of pounds" by settling his News of the World phone hacking lawsuit, the Guardian reported.
According to the Independent, "There are still 46 active claims in this, the second wave of the litigation" against News International. We wrote in April when there was a set of "nearly 50 new claims" of hacking.
In February of this year, all of the first set of phone hacking lawsuits were settled.
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Month: June 2012
Dead Juniper and Dramatic Clouds
I need to think up more interesting names for photos…lol.
Old Car in a Slot Canyon, Escalante-Grand Staircase Ntl. Mon.
This kinda reminded of Arron Ralston who lost his arm to a boulder in a Bluejohn Canyon out in the remote part of Canyonlands. This right here is a car that been lodged down in this slot canyon since probably the late fifties or sixties… who knows, maybe a massive flash flood wedged it down into there over 30 years ago. The car is now apart of the erosion process, so-to-be-an-artifact!
Juniper Tree in Monument Valley Tribal Park, Navajo Nation
I can take these photos of any landscape you throw at me. This website is my portfolio and I thank Heavenly Father for this privilege to be an artist and take beautiful landscape photos of Mother Earth. If you like my work, please send people to my site. Let people know about my work. I'd like to survive financially doing what I love. It's not easy being an artist but I want to create beauty and want to work in this field. So any and all support is appreciated. Thanks to my friends who come to this site and other places to let me know what they're thinking.
Creation of a Slot Canyon, Left Fork, Zion National Park
Part of the Subway hike in the Left Fork of Zion National Park. It's a primitive hike to get to this location and it's beautiful in the soft light of late afternoon. We were caught unprepared though. We ended up spending the night in the canyon, because we didn't get out before dark.
Landscape Arch Near Moab Utah
Everyone should get out at least once in their lifetime to see this grand arch before it collapses and is gone forever. It still looks like a miracle to me, the fact that it's still standing. There is beauty in this world. Even though it's all scientifically explorable, the heart of spirit still rules these wild places where wind still talks and the raven planes the edges of Navajo sandstone in search of his next find.
Map on a Scarve
I have a map of the Grand Canyon on my bandanna and I sure miss being in Havasupai. I'm in Page tonight, and going to Monument Valley tomorrow.


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By Tony Adams, Sports Editor
The Harker Heights Rangers will be ready for their district tournament starting Monday. Especially after two nail-biting, closing-moment victories over Belton Youth Baseball Association's Belton Reds and previously undefeated Belton Rockies to win the Sophomore Division's Belton Invitational Tournament, held at Jaycee Park last weekend.
The Rangers trailed 2-0 and 5-4 against the Reds and came back to win 6-5.
Belton their first two runs in the second inning when Jared Yost singled in Logan Drake and a bases-loaded walk to Francisco Escobedo scored Zach Guana.
Stellar defense kept the Rangers off the scoreboard before an RBI single and three-run homer gave Heights a 4-2 lead in the bottom of the fourth inning.
The Reds responded with three runs in the top of the fifth inning, Noah Williams singled and stole second on a catcher's error. Alex Saldana singled in Williams to draw the Reds to within a run. Saldana stole second and third to set up Matthew Potter's walk. Potter stole second base during Drake's at-bat. The catcher misplayed a short grounder in front of the plate and Saldana and Potter scored to make the score 5-4.
The Red stopped a Rangers' bases-loaded situation in the bottom of the sixth inning, as two walked and a fielder's choice with one out and time winding down put the Red in a precarious scenario. Saldana got a strikeout and induced a groundout to stop the rally.
However, in the two-hour time limit, it didn't bleed the clock. According to the home-plate umpire's calculation, it missed expiring the clock by under 30 seconds. It forced the sixth inning to be played.
Escobedo and Austin Waldo walked with one out in the top of the sixth, but the Reds could not get them home.
With one out in the bottom of the sixth, Heights got a double, a walk and a single to load the bases. The Reds were able to a get a strikeout for the second out. But a base hit to centerfield had the Rangers running on the ping of the bat and Potter came up throwing. The throw was fielded by catcher Evan Burns just in front of the plate and his tag attempt was a split-second late, giving the Rangers the win 6-5.
The win set up the finals against the Rockies, who had a close, one-run victory over the Belton Kamikaze.
The Rockies trotted out Christian Castillo for the start on the hill. Castillo, a multi-sport athlete for North Belton Middle School and is one of a great number of middle school athletes moving up to Belton High School this fall, started the first inning solidly. He struck out two of the first four Ranger hitters.
Eoin O'Grady walked, stole second base, advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored on Castillo's single to give the Rockies a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first. Castillo stole second and third base, with Eric Rodriguez and Ruben Jiminez getting hit by pitches to load the bases with two outs. The Rangers induced a pop-out to end the inning.
Heights scratched out runs in the second and fourth innings. The Rockies responded in the fourth inning, as Josh Deheart had an RBI single two steals and scored on a wild pitch to give the Rockies a 3-2 lead.
Rodriguez came on in the top of the fifth to relieve Castillo. Rodriguez, with a wicked curveball, walked the first batter he faced, hit the second batter, got the third hitter on a swinging strikeout and jelly-legged the fourth hitter on a bender for a called strike three. An RBI single tied the score at 3-3.
With one out in the bottom of the fifth inning. Castillo gave the Rockies a chance to take the lead with a single. He advanced to third base on a pair of wild pitches, but was stranded when the next two hitters struck out.
After two more Rodriguez curveball strikeouts in the top of the sixth, the Rockies were in position to win the ball game with time winding down in the two-hour time limit game. Jiminez walked and stole two bases, while Payton Wilson walked and stole second. A pair of strikeouts ended the inning.
Following a quick seventh inning for the Rangers, the Rockies had a chance to win the game. With O'Grady on third, Castillo on second with one out and a 2-2 pitch to Dehart, the Rangers hurler uncorked a wild pitch and O'Grady broke for home for a shot at the winning run. O'Grady dove for home plate through the wet clay and was barely tagged out. Dehart struck out on the next pitch, sending the game into a Texas Tiebreaker scenario.
The Texas Tiebreaker scenario is when the last three batters who made outs in the previous inning are put on base and one out is placed on the board.
The Rangers wasted no time taking advantage of the situation, as a two-run double, a groundout and RBI single plated four runs. The Rockies could not score and the game ended with the Rangers winning 7-3.
The Rockies and Rangers will take part in a five-team Texas Teenage District 4 Tournament that starts Monday evening at Jaycee Park. The winner will join the Harker Heights Rangers squad at the 2015 Texas Teen Age 14U State Tournament in Harker Heights starting July 20.


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