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Magellan Announces the Initiation of a Feasibility Study for the Coringa Project, Brazil
January 15, 2013 (Source: Marketwire) — Magellan Minerals Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:MNM)(OTCQX:MAGNF)("Magellan") is pleased to announce that it has engaged a group of prominent mining industry consultants led by Ausenco to complete a feasibility study on the Coringa gold project in northern Brazil.
- Ausenco Solutions Canada Inc. (Ausenco), was chosen to lead the study based on their vast process and infrastructure capabilities worldwide, including projects in Brazil, such as the Tucano Gold Project and the Suraca project. The Ausenco office in Vancouver will be responsible for the work, supported by staff in Belo Horizonte.
- Also included as part of the team:
- Snowden Mining Industry Consultants (Snowden) of Vancouver, who will be responsible for Resource and Reserve estimates and mine design.
- Terra Meio Ambiente (Terra) of Belem, Brazil, who will manage the environmental components and permitting aspects of the study. Terra has been involved in previous environmental and permitting work for this project, providing continuity in this critical area.
- Kovit Engineering Limited (Kovit) of Sudbury and Belo Horizonte, who will design and cost the tailings and backfill components of the project.
- Deswik Mining Consultants (Deswik) of Vancouver, who will be responsible for mine layout and scheduling, using their industry leading mine design software, which may ultimately be used at the Coringa operation should a construction decision be made.
The above group will be supported by Magellan staff in Vancouver and Brazil, and it is expected that the study will be complete near the beginning of Q4 2013.
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John Kiernan P.Eng, Magellan's VP Project Development and a "qualified person" within the definition of that term in NI 43-101, has reviewed the technical information contained in this news release.
Magellan Minerals (TSX VENTURE:MNM)(OTCQX:MAGNF) is a TSX Venture Exchange listed exploration and development company with two advanced gold properties in the Tapajos Province of northern Brazil. The Coringa project contains Measured and Indicated resources of 561,000oz of gold (3.2Mt @ 5.5g/t gold) and Inferred resources of 534,000oz of gold (5.5Mt @ 3.0g/t gold); see news release dated March 22, 2012. The Cuiu Cuiu project contains 100,000oz of gold in the Indicated category (3.4Mt @ 1.0g/t gold) and 1,200,000oz of gold in the Inferred category (31Mt @ 1.2g/t gold); see news release dated March 8, 2011.
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Cautionary Note to U.S. Investors Regarding Reserve and Resource Estimates:
This press release uses the terms "measured resources", "indicated resources", and "inferred resources" which are defined by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, and are required to be disclosed in accordance with Canadian National Instrument 43-101 (NI 43-101). The disclosure standards in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Industry Guide 7 normally do not recognize information concerning "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" or "inferred mineral resources" or other descriptions of the amount of mineralization in mineral deposits that do not constitute "reserves" by U.S. standards in documents filed with the SEC. In addition, resource that are classified as "inferred mineral resources" have a great amount of uncertainty as to their existence and great uncertainty as to their economic and legal feasibility. It cannot be assumed that all or any part of an "inferred mineral resource" will ever be converted into reserves. Under U.S. standards, mineralization may not be classified as a "reserve" unless the determination has been made that the mineralization could be economically and legally produced or extracted at the time the reserve determination is made. Disclosure of "contained ounces" in a resource is permitted disclosure under Canadian regulations; however, the SEC normally only permits issuers to report mineralization that does not constitute "reserves" by SEC standards as in-place tonnage and grade without reference to unit measures. The requirements of NI 43-101 for identification of "reserves" are also not the same as those of the SEC, and reserves reported by the Company in compliance with NI 43-101 may not qualify as "reserves" under SEC standards. Accordingly, information concerning mineral deposits set forth herein may not be comparable with information presented by companies using only U.S. standards in their public disclosure.
This news release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements address future events and conditions and therefore involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements. Particular risks applicable to this press release include risks associated with achieving production on the project within the parameters identified in the economic assessment, the ability of the project to generate significant cash flow to the company and earnings to the shareholders of the company. These statements are subject to risks due to regulatory, technical, economic and other factors. In addition there is no guarantee that additional exploration work will result in significant increases to resource estimates. The reader is referred to the Company's most recent annual and interim Management's Discussion and Analysis for a more complete discussion of such risk factors and their potential effects, copies of which may be accessed through SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
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Reading Went Swimmingly
Well, I freaked out a little, but only because I like to set up things in advance. Way in advance. And that just wasn't going to happen.
We had a pretty good crowd:
Since it was a party celebrating the release of the first IPRC Audiozine, we had food and drink out in the hallway. They're all eating chili.
I borrowed a video projector from work, and it worked just great. Two days before the reading, I emailed one of the other readers to see if she wanted to do any projections, and she sent me a PowerPoint presentation to test. I tested it, and it seemed to work fine, but when she arrived, she said it was missing about five slides. So we had to frantically run around and burn a CD, load it, test it, etc. Now, I don't really suffer from stage fright, but I do get kind of wound up when I have to do stuff at the last minute, so I was a bit frazzled...
Ariel Gore, of Hip Mama read first:
She's standing in front of the IPRC library, which consists of about 5,000 donated zines.
Krissy read next from the back of the room, so she could change her PowerPoint slides as she spoke.
I did live narration for my short film about the Futurama ride at the 1939 New York World's Fair. It went much better than I thought it would, and I actually may have to re-edit the film a bit to ride the laughs better. Laughs! I am so obsessed with the subject of rides, and I spend so much time structuring and re-writing jokes, that I actually forget that my writing is supposed to be funny! It's kind of rewarding to hear an audience laugh out loud.

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It's alleged that in early May 2009, the man befriended the teen at a southwest Calgary art supply store and studio where he worked as an instructor and she frequented as a student and customer.
Police believe the man sexually assaulted the teen over a period of seven months. These assaults are alleged to have occurred at the studio as well as at the accused's Okotoks home.
The teen eventually stopped going to the studio and the two were no longer in contact.
In December 2010, the teen came forward to the Calgary Police Service and reported the incidents. An investigation was launched and on Thursday, April 28, 2011, police arrested Terrence Lee ANDREWS, 64, at his home in Okotoks.
ANDREWS is charged with sexual interference with a child under 16, invitation to sexual touching with a child under 16 and sexual contact with a youth by person in authority.
Police continue to encourage anyone who has been the victim of a sexual assault to come forward, regardless of how much time has passed.


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CONVERSATIONS: What is Independence Day for the OFW?
MANILA, Philippines – On June 12, the Filipino nation will celebrate 117 years of Philippine independence.
On June 12, 1898, the Philippine revolutionary government led by Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed the nation's independence from Spain in Aguinaldo's Cavite el Viejo residence.
While the Philippines has officially been independent since 1946, some have argued that this independence has been titular, given the economy's heavy dependence on other countries.
Netizens joined MovePH's Independence Day conversation and keyed in on what independence means to OFWs.
Is the meaning of Independence Day different for Filipinos living outside the Philippines? What does being independent ultimately mean for an OFW? Is the country truly free or not? And given all of this, what kind of leader do OFWs want to be elected in 2016?
Check out online sentiment on #PhilippineIndependenceDay below:
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Since its foundation in 2011, GREEN INDIA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION has undergone a process of steady growth. This growth has been reflected in increase of the number and scopes of projects implemented by our Organization. In order to facilitate this, GIIF has formed partnerships with a number of local and national organizations. Regular and effective collaboration with these organizations have enabled GIIF to enter new areas of activity and enlarge the capacity of the organization. below are some projects/programs implemented by Green India International Foundation.
1. Citizens awareness programmes:- we have successfully implemented this programme in Biswan Tehsil of Sitapur district where the people were made aware of their rights and encouraged them to activity communicate with the officials frankly and without fear about problems faced by them and as to needs of development in the area. This programme was a grand success as people activity and effectively communicated with concerned authorizes.
2.Seminars and workshops:- we are regularly organizing seminars/ workshops throughout the state at district level which pertain to promotion of literacy, creation of awareness about health and hegira, sanitation, mal-nutrition, environment, water conservation, energy savingimportance and necessary of provision clean drinking water as also on eradicates of social evils.
3.we have focused our attention on education of children between the age group of 6 to 14. The education of children of weaker sections of the society. Especially of daily wage earners and lower income people of the society having very-very low income and below the poverty line. it may be not worthy that we have successfully provided free "Pre- Primary Education" to the children of Laborers most of which belonged to down trodden classes (dalit parivars).
4.Awareness programme on health:- we have organised eye camps, awareness programme for pulse polio campaign, flood donation camps, we have created awareness among people about family welfare programme. Created awareness about the menace of drug addictions and the ill effects of AIDs as also the propogation of measures to control and prevent its occurrence by properly educating people on this aspect.
5.We have effectively and successfully conducted the "Matdata Jagrukta abhiyan" (Awareness campaign for electors) during 2012 Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha elections throughout district by means of distribution of campaign material and through the touring of folle song troupes and by urging people to exercise their voting power properly and elect only the able and deserving candidates which may be represent them with due integrity in those Panchayat Raj Institutions
6.Socials welfare programmes :- Water harvesting/ conservation- storing and conserving rain water in Talab (Tank) in many critical villages of Sitapur district, we provided employment to the people belonging to lower income of the society in excavating self from the tank and deepening the same. By this measure more water could be stored in the talab during raining season which way suitable recharge the underground water of the area and the stored water may serve the needs of the community for various other purposes.
7. Women empowerment: Green India International Foundation through its project "Gramin Mahila Swarojgar Karyakram" aims to facilitate the critical concern of livelihood among the deprived women population in the country.Nation wide network of centres extends support to the livelihood skill seeking women. The objective of these centres is to empower the women population especially from the deprived backgrounds with effective professional skills leading to appropriate livelihood opportunities.These centres provide appropriate skill development training programmes in the high demand services in various fields. The courses offered by us are between 3 – 6 months, providing the students adequate knowledge to facilitate livelihood opportunities at the end of the training programme.Technically sound trainers help and motivate the students to understand the smallest but critical technical know how of the desired skill development programme. The students are also provided tips on kick starting their livelihood through self employment opportunities.The foundation boasts of successfully training and providing livelihood opportunities to more than 10,000 women across the country since its time of inception in the year 2012.
8.skill Development & Employment Generation: GIIF providing vocational training & self employment trining to under-privileged, unemployed youth through its project "Learn & Earn". The objective is to effectively instill skills in the youth so they can join the mainstream society and break through the circle of poverty in which their families have been entrenched for generations. The training program assures employment in reputed organizations at course completion. Less educated and unemployable youth with or without formal education might be even school dropouts are handpicked for the training.
9. ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION & AWARNESS: Green India international Foundation is strategically conducting mass awareness programs like Green India Campaign, and Paryavaran Bachao Yatra. Besides awareness creation programs, Green India International Foundation is engaged in education, training and capacity building in environment and sustainable development areas and publishes resource materials. to equip the participants and readers with adequate knowledge and skills to act as better green practitioners for today and tomorrow.We are sure that organizations like GIIF with active support from the public, the corporate world and the government, can once gain bring back that pristine natural glory of our planet through sustainable practices.


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Doctor insights on:
My Joints Crack When I Move Am I At Risk For Arthritis
My joints crack when I move. Am I at risk for arthritis?
Not just from noises: Cracking a joint moves the parts of the joint, with the cracking noise coming from cartilage surfaces sliding, from movement of a little air-space from one place in the joint to another, or from some other non-traumatic event. A person with no joint pains before or after cracking a joint is probably not damaging the joint. However, making it a frequent habit has uncertain long-term effects. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Painful Joints (Definition)
That term is not really a specific diagnosis, but rather somewhat of a general term. The medical term is arthralgias, which implies pain in multiple joint possibly coming from a single cause. Don't hesitate to be seen and evaluated for ...Read more
I am 31 and i think I have arthritis in my knees and in my hands my knees hurt every night how can I find out that it is arthritis?
SEE YOR DOCTOR: YOU WILL BE EVALUATED WITH AN EXAM POSS BLOOD TESTS AND XRAY OF PAINFUL JOINTS WILL ALSO HELP. ...Read moreSee 2 more doctor answers
All my joints crack when i start walking, should I be worried?
No: Not unless it is associated with pain. ...Read more
I am 23 weeks pregnant and I can't sleep at night, walk, or barely sit down because my hips dislocate and I can't move. Is this normal?
Not Normal: I assume being 23 weeks into your pregnancy you are already under the care of an obstetrician. Have you seen your OB recently, ? If not need to be seen soon. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
When i extend my joints they crack. As in i extend my arms and legs i hear a crack from the joint but I have no pain at all.
Normal if nonpainful: Joint cracking or popping is not an abnormality aslong as it is nonpainful. There are a variety of reasons why a joint can 'pop'. The most common reason is that there is a negative pressure inside your joint in relation to atmospheric pressure. Certain movements can create a acute reduction in the joint pressure in relation to joint volume and a 'pop' results. ...Read more
33Male plumber i always on my knees i think i have arthritis they crack pop and hurt all the time i were knee pads now so can i have arthritis at 33?
Arthritis: It is good that you are wearing knee pads. There are other factors that contribute to the pain and can include meniscal issues or weak thigh muscles, previous trauma, overuse. 33 is young to have only arthritis. ...Read more
For years both my knees crack when moving past a 45° angle or when starting to bend my knees while stretching. Should i be concerned?
No: Cracking is normal except if it is associated with pain. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
I am 17 .a week ago i was cracking my knuckles but now the cracking does whenever i make a fist.Slight pain in upper knuckle of mid finger .athritis?
No: There is no disorder in your knuckles. Cracking sound on bending a joint is benign. For good health - Have a diet rich in fresh vegetables, fruits, whole grains, low fat milk and milk products, nuts, beans, legumes, lentils and small amounts of lean meats. Avoid saturated fats. Exercise at least 150 minutes/week and increase the intensity of exercise gradually. Do not use tobacco, alcohol, weed or street drugs in any form. Practice safe sex. Get HPV vaccine. ...Read more
My knees hurt when it rains and gets cold, and at times i can't bend them, they also crack really loud what should I do? I banged my knees of sidewalk when i was 2, I've also had fluid in the knees constantly, i tore a muscle in my leg about 4 years ago,
SEE KNEE SPECIALIST: Knee pain is common. Stiffness, cracking and locking may mean that you have a cartilage injury in your knee. A thorough evaluation including xrays and mris, and perhaps blood tests is indicated. See you local knee doc. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
I always crack my knuckles. Am i going to get arthritis?
Most certainly not!: No link has been found!Get a more detailed answer ›
Hi I have osteoarthritis in my hips and now when i stand up too long my lower back really hurts could it be osteo I have too bend forward for relief?
Arthritis?: Your are quite young to have osteoarthritis of the hips. If you now have low back pain as well, a visit to your primary physician would be a good idea to evaluate for other causes related to other arthritic conditions or immune-related disorders, as well as spinal stenosis or disc disease of the lower spine. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
I am 53 years old. I have pain in my left shoulder and both knees. I carry heavy objects at my job. Is this arthritis or muscle pain?
Could be both! Or it: Could also be rotator cuff issues in the shoulder. See your pcp for some pain meds and an orhtopod for proper diagnoses of the knee and shoulder's problems. Steroid shots, pt, exercises etc can also help. Good luck. ...Read more
Joints hurt when I exercise. My knees and wrist make clicking sound. I'm 23 and have been experiencing this since forever, even when I was stick thin!
Go gentle...: Improve your diet...increase protein intake, slow start and gradually escalate exercise programme. Get you stool examined for ova and parasite. Get Vit D level checked if you stay mostly indoor. ...Read more
How can i stop my joints from cracking, my leg cracked this morning and now i have pain all down my leg, wasnt even doing anything, i take extra d's?
Possible arthritis: When you mention your leg cracked are you referring to your knee? If so knee cracking or creditable can be a symptom of osteoarthritis. With mild OA regular activity and maintenance of an ideal body weight can help. Tylenol (acetaminophen) arthritis, Aleve, and Motrin can be taken. If the cracking continues or if the joint becomes unstable you might need further medical treatment. ...Read more
I been having knee problems for the past year. When I am bending my knees and try to lift myself up again, i feel like i don't have the spring I use to?
Muscle weakness !? : Sounds like yours knees are getting better but the fact that's you have trouble to get up may be quadriceps ( tight muscle ) weakness ! this muscle is very important for knee function and strengthening may help ! recommended distance of physical therapist ! ...Read more
I have been having pain half way between my hip and knee, in the bone, becoming worse when I am sitting almost unbearable at times.
Plan: The proper way to figure out what the problems it's evaluation: exam, possible XRay, and US or MRI. Please make the appointment. It's can not be solved on line. ...Read more
I'm 17, I have a severe aching pain in my ankles and knees at night to the point where I can't fall asleep, i play sports and am constantly on my feet?
It sounds like you: r putting a lot of mechanical stress on your ankle and knee joints.To reduce the pain,you may have to stop the activity that is causing the pain.Acute joint pain is treated with R.I.C.E.( rest,ice,compression( for any swelling with an ace bandage),elevation(also for swelling)).If there is any redness or swelling,you need to c a doc to examine these joints and order x-Rays,labs,meds,excuse to coach ...Read more
I have hip pain in my right hip and at times i feel, what seems, like the bones grinding when i walk.. How can I fix this?
Get diagnosis: The first step in treating any problem is to know the cause. You should see a doctor to get a diagnosis. At your age this should not be occurring and could be due to hypermobile joint , prior injury, muscle disease, or arthritis. You should see a doctor with experience in this type of problem. If you have not had a prior injury consider a rheumatologist. ...Read more
My joints crack a lot for an ex. Sometimes I have my legs apart while lying down and when i put them together the joints near my tailbone crack?
Cracking joints: Joint cracking noises is common and usually normal. Gentle exercises e.g. Yoga may help you stretch your joints and feel more comfortable. ...Read more
I've been running for years with no problems, but lately I can hear crackling in my knees when I climb stairs. Does this mean I have osteoarthritis?
Yes: The answer is that the articular cartilage in your knee, particularly behind the knee cap is rough and irregular. That is why it makes noise, particularly when loading the knee in flexion (going up and down stairs and squatting). However, just because the knee makes noise does not mean surgery is required. Usually a low impact quadriceps strengthening program can help offload the knee joint. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
My joints crack when I move. Am I at risk for arthritis?
Not just from noises: Cracking a joint moves the parts of the joint, with the cracking noise coming from cartilage surfaces sliding, from movement of a little air-space from one place in the joint to another, or from some other non-traumatic event. A person with no joint pains before or after cracking a joint is probably not damaging the joint. However, making it a frequent habit has uncertain long-term effects. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Why might someone's joints crack/pop when they move?
Probably normal: Joint cracking is normal and is often caused by bursting of nitrogen bubbles. ...Read more
Constant Painful joints, all Rheumy blood tests normal. No visible redness or inflammation. Started years proceeding childbirth. Audible crack, poppin?
Exercise: You may be simply deconditioned form inactivity. The good news is your rheumatolgy workup is negative. If not active, begina program of burst interval high and low impact aerobics. Consult a physicial therpay and/or a personal trainer. Use Advil (ibuprofen) ( low dose) until joint pain resolves. BioFreeze is another excellent product for joint pain. ...Read more
All my joints crack all the time, why is this and what to do?
Many theories. ..: ...Such as nitrogen bubbles popping in the synovial fluid is 1, what 2 do, nothing. U will never b a good catburgler as u will announce ur presence by the noisy joints. ...Read more
My joints crack so much. How can I prevent this?
Joints crack : Strengthening the supporting soft tissue structures (muscles, ligaments, tendons) is the key. ...Read more
Why do my joints crack so much? I drink a lot of water.
Benign: Joint cracking is almost always benign, reflecting pressure changes in the joints. Since we humans are all different in our own ways, it appears that your body has a tendency to have joints that crack. Nothing to worry about, unless you begin to notice persistent associated pain, in which case you should have it checked out. ...Read moreSee 3 more doctor answers
Could use expert help with why do your joints crack after you sprain them?
Exact reason is unk-: Nown. It doesn't happen in everyone who has had injury to a ligament. Some people are just able to crack their joints. ...Read more
My child has JRA and her joints crack all the time and is painful when they crack. Is this from her JRA? Cracking in new joint now
See details: It is impossible to say for certain without being able to examine your child. However, pain associated with cracking is often a sign of inflammation. You need to address this issue with the doctor who is treating the child's JRA. ...Read more
What to do if my joints crack?
Nothing: Cracking is normal and related to bursting of nitrogen bubbles. If there is no pain associated with the cracking, forget about it. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
My joints crack all the time why is this?
See details: The sound is caused by bursting of nitrogen bubbles which are formed as the result of normal metabolism in the synovial fluid in the joint. Other causes include, rapid stretching of ligaments and cavitations in the joint which form a partial vacuum and then rapidly collapse. ...Read more
Why do my joints crack so much and can I help prevent this?
Ear muffs: typically a 'pop' in a joint is a nitrogen bubble coming out of suspension. Avoid negative pressure within the joint. At your age don't worry about it. A good treatment would be some earmuffs! ...Read more
All my joints crack when i start walking, should I be worried?
No: Not unless it is associated with pain. ...Read more
Child has JRA and her joints crack and cause much pain when they crack. Is this from her JRA?
Joints cracking: Joints that pop or crack with movement is very common and although it is sometimes uncomfortable, most people do not characterize it as being very painful. The fact is we don't know exactly why joints pop but usually it does not require any treatment. You child needs to be followed by a doctor more because they have JRA than the cracking itself. Good luck :) ...Read more
My shoulder joints crack/snap every time I do a full rotating of my arm, I'm only 16 is this anything harmful?
NO: You are feeling the "Rotator Cuff" (the tendons which surround the shoulder allowing THE MOST MOTION of ANY JOINT in the whole body! At your age this tendon tissue and the CARTILAGE of the joint itself are PLIABLE ..can stretch and make the sound you"hear". If you are otherwise HEALTHY this is all NORMAL!\ Hope this helps ! Dr Z ...Read more
Im only 20, but my joints crack, what please tell me what is wrong with me now?
See below: This is a common phenomena---it is due to Nitric Oxide bubbles popping in your joint and it is benign---but if it continues to bother you see your doctor. ...Read more
I feel 6w baby's joints crack all the time, especially during diaper changes & holding her. Sounds like cracking knuckles. Is this normal? Scared!
Joint "popping" is: not anything to worry about, except if the popping is of the hip joints. Pediatricians routinely check for congenital hip dysplasia with ;dislocation. Grunting & turning red in the face to expel gas or normal stools is because the smooth muscle of the gut does not yet work in a coordinated manner. Learn the "football hold" or "colic carry" for the next few weeks. This,too, shall pass. ...Read more
Can allergies make your joints crack?It seems when i don't eat as much they don't do it as much, I have food allergies and wondered if it was a reaction
Food allergies: They do not make your joints crack, this is a symptom not related to allergies. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Why do my joints crack? (Specifically my knee and foot)
Normal joint: Some individuals have joints that "crack" and is usually an inherited trait. It is usually a normal and benign condition that results from Nitrogen dissoved in the joint fluid (called synovial fluid) suddenly escaping with pressure developing within the joint with normal motion. With rapid escape of Nitrogen, you can hear a popping or cracking sound. ...Read more
Hurts when my joints crack and also muscle weakness. Could I have a disease?
Joints crack: Typically joints crack due to weakened soft tissue supporting structures (muscles, ligaments, tendons). If the muscles are already known to be weak, a cause for the weakness should be sought. Aging and deconditioning of the muscles could be a cause but evaluation by a doctor is advised to rule out other causes. ...Read more
My joints crack so much all over my body? Why does this happen and is there any way to prevent it? Ex vitamins?
Cracking joints: There aredifferent reasons why joints make the cracking sound. it has to do with the degeneration of the joints which is common in older people w/ arthritis. it may be due to an injury. they crack simply because of the build up of gas pressure from the exchange of nutrients from your bloodstream. cracking sound is not a problem. If you're having joint pain you should see your doctor. ...Read more
Joints (Definition)
Joints are parts of the body, formed by the cartilage-covered ends of bones plus the strong, flexible ligaments that attach the bones to one another. Movements at the joints in the body allow the different parts of the body to move in ...Read more
Arthritis (Definition)
A severe illness caused by bacteria named bacillus anthracis. Anthrax disease can result in pneumonia, ...Read more
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Does Wonder Woman look like that? Is she really that skinny? Really?
No, but she is now. Behold Gal Gadot, the woman who will play Wonder Woman in the next Superman movie.
First Ben Affleck…now this…
David says
Going back through your old posts and commenting for the fun of it….
I still can't get over this casting. Should've been Gina Carano. That woman was built to play Wonder Woman.


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I replied more calmly than I imagined I could, "Yes, it is true."
My daughter began to sob, "Mom, you have to come back!"
"I won't be coming back," I heard myself say.
She hung up the phone and I knew the shunning had begun.
My children had been notified and I was officially cut off from any further association. Why didn't I try to "save" myself? I knew about the elders' meeting. I was invited via telephone. An elder left a message on my answering machine, "We have arranged a meeting at (such-and-such a date and time) to conclude this matter."
The word "conclude" in the message indicated to me that a decision had already been reached, without even hearing my side of the issue. Based on that comment, I realized that there would be no point in attending. I was not up for that nonsense. They already knew what their judgment would be whether I was in attendance or not — and I didn't need the drama. I didn't want to explain myself or my actions to these men who had no clue what I was going through — men without compassion or heart.
I did not reply to the message on my phone, nor did I attend their judicial meeting. They were not prepared to hear my defense, but only to judge and condemn me — my faith was found to be defective.
I was disfellowshipped without my attendance at the elder's judicial committee meeting.
Excuse me...?
Other humans can judge my faith as defective? ...Something did not ring true.
This news came as I was still grieving over my mom's death. She died quite suddenly without warning a month earlier. I wasn't sure what the evidence against me was. Perhaps an elder's wife had seen my partner and me leaving a dance—together. I had been "disobedient" in following their explicit instructions to leave the dance world and come back to their meetings. I was unrepentant. There was nothing left to do except discipline me to the fullest extent.
I did the only thing I knew how to do in a crisis — I prayed.
Now, according to the beliefs of the religion, once a person is disfellowshipped, they are completely cut off from God. To the patriarchal way of thinking, the disfellowshipping took place because there was something seriously defective about my faith. I was spiritually unclean and God would turn himself away from me, a dangerous unrepentant sinner.
My experience with prayer, however, demonstrated to me instantly that their belief in blanket condemnation was unwarranted. I felt a strong spiritual connection immediately. Something inside me knew I was safe. I felt more peaceful and calm than I could ever imagine. In that moment, I was deeply consoled. The comfort I felt was truly amazing—and so contrary to what my belief system had been up to that point. I realized what my parents' religion taught about an external, cruel, unforgiving God could not possibly be the truth. I was always taught that when you leave God, he will leave you—a punishing belief system.
I had not left God, though — a detail the elders did not consider during their hasty decision to extricate me from the congregation. God meant a lot to me. Maybe just a different God than the one they worshiped.
I was cut off — like a tree being cut down to its stump.
I could have lay down and died — and many members who find themselves on the "wrong" side of a tribunal of elders actually do kill themselves.
But I lived. Why did I live? — When others in my shoes have died? Fortunately for me I had an existing support system in place. I had a therapist with whom I had established a deep trust over a period of several years. I had my dance world, including my very concerned dance partner who prayed with me as I sobbed and grieved for my children.
So I was able to survive yet another trauma.
When I moved to Vancouver, I sensed I had come to work with a woman who could help me heal from the religious dogma inflicted upon me since birth. After about a year or so of visits, she told me she had discovered — she could see with her second sight — I had begun to grow a new spine. She consulted with one of her students, who confirmed what the healer saw. The spine looked to her like "a twig with some new green growth appearing along my old spine. The old spine was disintegrating."
I was amazed. Out of my "stump," emerged some new growth, a baby tree had come forth. The tribunal of elders who judged me could not — ever — destroy my faith. I was going to be okay. I was healing because perhaps I believed in myself enough. If a tree stump could regenerate itself, so could I.
I was jubilant!
It is true. The pain in my body is gone. I now stand straight and tall. I have a coat that tells the story. I used to wear the same coat as a member of the religion, where the belt used to tie just under my chest. The belt is now situated in a new area of my coat. The belt now sits four inches lower. My chest has opened up. I stand upright now, and the belt now sits at my waist. My waist is now separated from my chest by a bodice.
I now thank the tribunal of elders for giving me the boot. "Kicking me out" was just what I needed to get away from the family religion and become self-directed and independent — get on with my life. And the coat tells the whole story.
Is it a miracle? Some might think so. I say, "maybe, but not necessarily." No matter what I or anyone else thinks, the entire situation still leaves me with a curious question: "Why is my health improving — now that I am disfellowshipped?"
I am grateful that I can trust myself — finally. I can believe in myself. My own life experiences have demonstrated to me that I am able to heal when I let go of rules and dogma that no longer serve my best interests.
More About Shunning:Kindness of a Stranger
Obedience or Free Will
Dichotomy of Religion
Religious LiesPlease feel free to follow along:
Do You Need Religion?
Fear-based belief of Armageddon
Did Jesus Really Die for Me?
More Related Topics of Interest:Depression, Suicide, and Religion
Abortion: Right or Wrong?
Visit website "Phoenix of Faith" the memoir. Follow on Twitter: _Phoenixoffaith Copyright © 2010. Permission is granted to copy and re-distribute this transmission on the condition that it is distributed freely.


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Here is the debut English trailer for Cross Edge on the Playstation 3.
But it has a very interesting concept. For some reason, however, it seems a bit like a fighting game.
I'll definitely be keeping my eye on this one.
My...ears...are....bleeding. Damn I hate english dubs. Grown women trying a little to hard to sound like young girls.
You'd think with 5 liscensis involved they could have uped the overall look of the game. This could have been released as a PSP title from the look of it. The real question being..."Why didn't they?"
Still dont know much about it yet but the cast looks good, the gameplay looks familiar and friendly, just have to wait. Please give the option for Japanese dialog. I will go out and buy any game that supports the practice of JP/EN dual audio.


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You can thank Obamna who pledged that your rates would necessarily skyrocket under his plan. Also thanks to Eigenkeit above and others in Europe who have convinced Obama and the elites that we must suffer and pay more to allegedly save the world from thermageddon.
Oh, I DO. Trust me.


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Giacomo Bruno
Eduardo Cortina Gil
Christophe Delaere
Andrea Giammanco
Vincent Lemaitre
Fabio Maltoni
Krzysztof Piotrzkowski
Research scientists
Jérôme de Favereau
Pavel Demin
Andres Tanasijczuk
Marco Musich
Master students
Meriem Ben Meslem
Domitien Bertrand
Advanced Multi-Variate Analysis for New Physics Searches at the LHC
With the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider, LHC, the Standard Model of particle physics has been completed, emerging as a most successful description of matter at the smallest distance scales. But as is always the case, the observation of this particle has also heralded the dawn of a new era in the field: particle physics is now turning to the mysteries posed by the presence of dark matter in the universe, as well as the very existence of the Higgs. The upcoming run of the LHC at 13 TeV will probe possible answers to both issues, providing detailed measurements of the properties of the Higgs and extending significantly the sensitivity to new phenomena.
Since the LHC is the only accelerator currently exploring the energy frontier, it is imperative that the analyses of the collected data use the most powerful possible techniques. In recent years several analyses have utilized multi-variate analysis techniques, obtaining higher sensitivity; yet there is ample room for further improvement. With our program we will import and specialize the most powerful advanced statistical learning techniques to data analyses at the LHC, with the objective of maximizing the chance of new physics discoveries.
We are part of a network of European institutions whose goal is to foster the development and exploitation of Advanced Multi-Variate Analysis (AMVA) for New Physics searches. The network offers extensive training in both physics and advanced analysis techniques to graduate students, focusing on providing them with the know-how and the experience to boost their career prospects in and outside academia. The network develops ties with non-academic partners for the creation of interdisciplinary software tools, allowing a successful knowledge transfer in both directions. The network studies innovative techniques and identifies their suitability to problems encountered in searches for new physics at the LHC and detailed studies of the Higgs boson sector.
External collaborators: University of Oxford, INFN, University of Padova, Université Blaise Pascal, LIP, IASA, CERN, UCI, EPFL, B12 Consulting, SDG Consulting, Yandex, MathWorks.
Angular asymmetries in ttW production
We take advantage of the large statistics being recorded by the CMS experiment in Run 2 to launch a systematic study of angular asymmetries in the ttW process, which have a potentially large sensitivity to non-SM effects.
In synergy with the CP3 phenomenology group, we aim at reporting our results in a form that can be easily translated in EFT constraints.
CMS Tracker commissioning and performance assessment
The CMS silicon strip tracker is the largest device of its type ever built. There are 24244 single-sided micro-strip sensors covering an active area of 198m2.
Physics performance of the detector are being constantly assessed and optimized as new data comes.
Members of UCL are playing a major role in the understanding of the silicon strip tracker and in the maintenance and development of the local reconstruction code.
External collaborators: CMS tracker collaboration.
Fast Simulation of the CMS experiment
A framework for Fast Simulation of particle interactions in the CMS detector (FastSim) has been developed and implemented in the overall simulation, reconstruction and analysis framework of CMS. It produces data samples in the same format as the one used by the Geant4-based (henceforth Full) Simulation and Reconstruction chain; the output of the Fast Simulation of CMS can therefore be used in the analysis in the same way as data and Full Simulation samples. FastSim is used in several physics analyses in CMS, in particular those requiring a generation of many samples to scan an extended parameter space of the physics model (e.g. SUSY) or for the purpose of estimating systematic uncertainties. It is also used by several groups to design future sub-detectors for the Phase-II CMS upgrades.
Related activities at UCL include the integration with the Full Simulation in the simulation of the electronic read-out ("digitization") and of the pileup of events from other proton-proton collisions, both in-time and out-of-time; the performance monitoring; and the overall maintenance and upgrade of the tracking-related code. Matthias Komm is current L3 convener of Tracking in FastSim, and Andrea Giammanco has been main responsible of the FastSim project from 2011 to 2013.
High energy photon induced interactions at the LHC
High-energy photon-photon and photon-proton interactions at the LHC offer interesting possibilities for the study of the electroweak sector up to TeV scale and the search for processes beyond the Standard Model. After in-depth exploratory studies, we performed using the CMS data first measurement of two-photon muon pair production as well as first ever observation of W boson pairs produced by photon fusion. Now our group is leading unique investigations of quartic couplings between photons and W and Z bosons.
External collaborators: CMS FSQ analysis group and the group of A. Szczurek (Krakow).
Luminosity calibration of the CMS detector
We contribute to the offline absolute calibration of the luminometry system of the CMS detector, by analysing the dedicated "Van der Meer scan" data at different center-of-mass energies and collision types (p-p, p-Pb, Pb-Pb).
As a related task, we also contribute to the data-driven inference of the true amount of "pile-up" collisions.
External collaborators: CMS Luminosity Physics Object Group.
Particle Identification with ionization energy loss in the CMS experiment at the LHC
The CMS detector at the LHC can be used to identify particles via the measurement of their ionization energy loss. The sub-detectors that have provided so far useful information for this experimental technique are the silicon strip tracker and the pixel detectors. Identification of low momentum hadrons and detection of new exotic massive long-lived charged particles have all benefited from this experimental method. Members of UCL pioneered this technique in the early LHC times and have been developing the tools for its use and calibration. Since 2010 particle identification with ionization energy loss has been the basis of the CMS inclusive search for new massive long-lived charged particles, which has been providing the most stringent and model-independent limits existing to date on any model of new physics predicting such particles.
External collaborators: CMS collaboration.
Search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson to a pair of new light bosons with two muons and two b jets in final states
We search for exotic decays of a Higgs boson to a pair of new light bosons, H->a1a1, where one of the light bosons decays to a pair of muons and the other one decays to a pair of b quarks. Such signatures are predicted in a number of well motivated extensions of the standard model, including the next-to-minimal supersymmetry and generic two Higgs doublet models with an additional scalar singlet.
Search for Higgs boson(s) in CMS at the LHC in the llbb topology
Search for Higgs boson(s) within the Standard Model and beyond and also withing a minimal extension of the scalar sector (2HDM).
The final state under study is a Z decaying into a lepton pair associated with two b-jets. This topology is sensitive to a light SM Higgs via the associate ZH production, as well as a middle mass range SM Higgs boson via the inclusive Higgs production followed by its decay into ZZ with one Z decaying into a lepton pair and the other into bbar.
It is also very sensitive to the production of a non standard heavy Higgs boson decaying into Z plus A (pseudo scalar Higgs boson).
Similar selection (but outside of the Z window) is also sensitive to H->aa->llbb, with "a" a generic light scalar.
External collaborators: CMS collaboration.
Search for Higgs bosons in the ll tau tau final state with the CMS experiment at the LHC
A resonance consistent with the stanadard model Higgs boson with mass of about 125 GeV was discovered in 2012 by the CMS and ATLAS experiments at the LHC. Using the available dataset (2011+2012 LHC runs) evidence was later found of the existence of the SM-predicted decay into a pair of tau leptons. The CP3 Louvain group has been involved in the channel where the Higgs boson is produced in association with the Z boson and decays into a pair of tau leptons.
A search for additional Higgs bosons in the general framework of models with two Higgs doublets (2HDM) was then performed by the same CP3 group using the same final state and the full Run-1 data. Models with two Higgs doublets feature a pseudoscalar boson, A, two charged scalars (H+-) and two neutral (h0 and H0) scalars, one of which is identified with the 125 GeV SM-like Higgs resonance. In some scenarios the most favored decay chain for the discovery of the additional neutral bosons is H0-->ZA-->llττ (or llbb). The search was carried out in collaboration with another group in CP3 who looks at the llbb final state.
An update of both the SM search and the exotic one is expected using the Run-2 dataset using more advanced techniques and by adding the llee and llmumu channels.
Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons with CMS
Many well motivated new physics extensions of the SM include new particles whose decay width is very small and hence have a decay length which is macroscopic. One very attractive and minimal extension of the standard model is one with right-handed neutrinos with Majorana masses below the electroweak scale (low scale see-saw). This addition is able to generate both the light neutrino masses and the baryon asymmetry of the universe via low scale leptogenesis. In what is probably the most studied model that invokes the low scale seesaw, the Neutrino Minimal Standard Model [2], one of the three right-handed neutrinos is a dark matter candidate. A large allowed region of phase space for right handed neutrinos spans masses between 1 and 50 GeV with corresponding lifetimes (cτ) ranging from 10^3 to 10^-4 m. For higher masses the right handed neutrino basically decays promptly and for lower masses the probability that it decays within the detector volume is virtually zero thus giving rise to missing transverse momentum in the detector. These latter two extreme cases can be captured experimentally by standard searches at the general purpose LHC experiments, while the intermediate case is the natural target of the so-called displaced searches, which are highly peculiar and challenging analyses at the LHC in high demand for dedicated data reconstruction tools in order to extend their sensitivity. We intend to search for long-lived sterile neutrinos decaying at displaced vertices into a charged light lepton and hadrons. A fundamental ingredient of this search is the identification of charged tracks emerging from highly displaced vertices.
Search for massive long-lived charged particles with the CMS detector at the LHC
The CMS detector at the LHC is used to search for yet unobserved heavy (mass >100 GeV/c$^2$), long-lived (lifetime > 1 ns), electrically charged particles, called generically HSCPs.
HSCPs can be distinguished from Standard Model particles by exploiting their unique signature: very high momentum and low velocity. These features are a consequence of their high mass and the relatively limited LHC collision energy. Two experimental techniques are used to identify such hypothetical heavy and low-velocity particles: the measurement of the ionization energy loss rate using the all-silicon tracker detector and the time-of-flight measurement with the muon detectors.
UCL members have developed the ionization energy loss identification technique and have lead the CMS HSCP search since 2010, when the first HSCP paper became one of the first published LHC search papers. Updated results, using the 2011 dataset, were then published followed by a comprehensive paper including also searches for fractional and multiply-charged particles published using the full CMS Run-1 dataset. The results obtained by analysing the 2015 Run 2 data at 13 TeV have also been published.
The analysis, which is very inclusive, doesn't find evidence of HSCP. It currently excludes, among various models, the existence of quasi-stable gluinos, predicted by certain realizations of supersymmetry, and Drell-Yan-produced staus with masses lower than about 1.3 TeV and 350 GeV, respectively. These and the other limits set by the analysis are the most stringent to date. The CMS HSCP papers total to date more than 300 citations.
Search for non-resonant new physics in ttbar production
The lack of observed resonances produced at the LHC motivates finding new ways of searching for BSM phenomena. This project aims at discovering possible non-resonant New Physics affecting the production of Top quark pairs, by means of a dedicated analysis of data recorded by the CMS experiment. The New Physics effects are modeled using an effective field theory (EFT), whose parameters are to be measured or constrained in a global fit.
The analysis is conducted in close collaboration with phenomenologists to ensure the approach is theoretically sound and future-proof.
Search for nonresonant Higgs boson pair production in the llbb+MET final state
The discovery of a Higgs boson (H) by the ATLAS and CMS experiments fixes the value of the self-coupling λ in the scalar potential whose form is determined by the symmetries of the Standard Model and the requirement of renormalisability. Higgs boson pair production is sensitive to the self-coupling and will play a major role in investigating the scalar potential structure.
This project consists in a search for nonresonant Higgs boson pair production via gluon fusion in the final state with two leptons, two b jets and missing transvere energy gg → H(bb) H(WW) asking for the leptonic decay of the W's. The analysis is conducted in close collaboration with phenomenologists to ensure the approach is theoretically sound and future-proof.
Search for resonant Higgs pair production in the llbb+MET final state
The recent discovery of a scalar boson compatible with the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson opened new windows to look for physics beyond the SM (BSM). An example of newly accessible phenomenology is the production of resonances decaying into two SM Higgs bosons (h) predicted by several theory families such as additional Higgs singlet/doublet or warped extra dimension.
This project consists in a search for spin-0 or spin-2 resonances produced via gluon fusion in the final state with two leptons, two b-jets and missing transverse energy gg → X → h(bb) h(WW) asking for the leptonic decay of the W's. In particular, we are probing a mass range between 260 GeV and 900 GeV.
Single top studies at LHC
The electroweak production cross section of single top quarks is an important measurement for LHC, being a potential window on "new physics" effects.
Past achievements of this group include the very first measurement at 7 TeV (in t channel) with 2010 data, followed by the most precise inclusive cross section measurements of t-channel cross section at 7, 8 and 13 TeV, and the first differential measurements at 13 TeV; the most precise |Vtb| extraction from single top in the world; the first measurement of W-helicity fractions in a single-top topology; the first observation of the tW production mode; the first measurement of single-top polarization in t channel; stringent limits on anomalous tWb, tgu, tgc couplings.
External collaborators: CMS collaboration.
Study and optimization of b-tagging performances in CMS
We are involved in the activities of the btag POG (performance object group) of CMS, in release and data validation and purity measurement. We are also interested in btagging in special cases like for colinear b-jets. Furthermore, we are involved in the re-optimization and improvement of the Combined Secondary Vertex (CSV) tagger for the 2012 analyses.
External collaborators: Strasbourg CMS group, CMS collaboration.
Testing the sign of the coupling of the new H(125) boson to top quarks with the CMS data
During 2012, the CMS and ATLAS collaborations independently reported unambiguous evidence of the existence of a new particle of mass around 125 GeV.
Several analyses are ongoing to challenge the hypothesis that the new particle is the SM Higgs. We focus on the search for its production in association with a single top quark. Due to an effect of quantum interference, this process is strongly suppressed in the Standard Model while it gets enhanced if its couplings to the top quark and to the W boson have opposite sign. An observation of this production mode would therefore be a convincing proof that this new particle does not belong to the Standard Model.
We published the first search for this process using 8 TeV data, and we expect to achieve sensitivity to anomalous values of the top Yukawa phase during the LHC Run-II.
External collaborators: CMS collaboration.
The CMS silicon strip tracker upgrade
Development of the "phase II" upgrade for the CMS silicon strip stracker.
More precisely, we are involved in the development of the uTCA-based DAQ system and in the test/validation of the first prototype modules. We take active part to the various test-beam campaigns (CERN, DESY, ...)
This activity will potentially make use of the cyclotron of UCL, the probe stations and the SYCOC setup (SYstem de mesure de COllection de Charge) to test the response to laser light, radioactive sources and beams.
The final goal is to take a leading role in the construction of part of the CMS Phase-II tracker.
External collaborators: CRC and CMS collaboration.
Top quarks in Heavy Ion collisions and other non-standard LHC datasets
The top quark, being the heaviest known elementary particle, is a powerful tool to test QCD.
The study of top quark pair production in Heavy Ion collisions at the LHC, making use of the dedicated Pb-Pb and p-Pb runs, will open a new road in the investigation of the Quark-Gluon Plasma.
This research project started with the first measurement of top-pair cross section in pp collisions at 5.02 TeV, taking advantage of a "reference run" in Nov.2015. This measurement, in addition to being useful as a reference for measurements in Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions at the same center-of-mass energy per nucleon, also provides a significant broadening of the lever arm for global PDF fits making use of top-quark data.
More recently we reported the first observation of top quark production in p-Pb collisions, using the data at 8.16 TeV taken in Nov.2016, testing the models of nuclear modification of the gluon PDF at high Bjorken-x.
We are now preparing future analyses in PbPb collisions. We are also interested in differential analyses in pPb collisions (to constrain nuclear PDFs) and in searches in central exclusive production pp events.
External collaborators: David D'Enterria, Pedro Silva and Marta Verweij (CERN).
World LHC Computing Grid: the Belgian Tier2 project
The World LHC Computing GRID (WLCG) is the worldwide distributed computing infrastructure controlled by software middleware that allows a seamless usage of shared storage and computing resources.
About 10 PBytes of data are produced every year by the experiments running at the LHC collider. This data must be processed (iterative and refined calibration and analysis) by a large scientific community that is widely distributed geographically.
Instead of concentrating all necessary computing resources in a single location, the LHC experiments have decided to set-up a network of computing centres distributed all over the world.
The overall WLCG computing resources needed by the CMS experiment alone in 2016 amount to about 1500 kHepSpec06 of computing power, 90 PB of disk storage and 150 PB of tape storage. Working in the context of the WLCG translates into seamless access to shared computing and storage resources. End users do not need to know where their applications run. The choice is made by the underlying WLCG software on the basis of availability of resources, demands of the user application (CPU, input and output data,..) and privileges owned by the user.
Back in 2005 UCL proposed the WLCG Belgian Tier2 project that would involve the 6 Belgian Universities involved in CMS. The Tier2 project consists of contributing to the WLCG by building two computing centres, one at UCL and one at the IIHE (ULB/VUB).
The UCL site of the WLCG Belgian Tier2 is deployed in a dedicated room close to the cyclotron control room of the IRMP Institute and is currently a fully functional component of the WLCG.
The UCL Belgian Tier2 project also aims to integrate, bring on the GRID, and share resources with other scientific computing projects. The projects currently integrated in the UCL computing cluster are the following: MadGraph/MadEvent, NA62 and Cosmology.
External collaborators: CISM (UCL), Pascal Vanlaer (Belgium, ULB), Lyon computing centre, CERN computing centre.
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CMS Collaboration
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Public experimental note. 6th July.
CMS Collaboration
[Full text] Physics Analysis Note CMS-LUM-17-002, Presented at the XXXIX International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP 2018, Seoul, South Korea, 4-11 July, 2018
Public experimental note. 6th July.
CMS Collaboration
[Full text] Physics Analysis Note CMS-LUM-17-004, Presented at the 6th Annual Conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics, LHCP18, Bologna, Italy, 4-9 June, 2018
Public experimental note. 6th June.
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Music Spotlight: Christian James
October 30, 2013
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When did you start playing music?
Started buying records in the mid-90's but I didn't start playing out until around 1998.
What inspires you?
Anything that's got soul.
What kinds of music do you most enjoy?
Techno and House music for sure, but I listen to a lot of old New York-style hip hop and jazz
Favorite performance moment:
There are far too many to pick just one. Big ones that stand out in my mind are a party in 1999 in Iowa at Waterloo Civic Center where I played to about 1200 people. Another would have to be at a Furthur Festival in Wisconsin playing in the morning when the sun was coming up and it was raining.
Song that you trust to get the crowd dancing:
Den Ishu- "High You Gunna Feel"
Favorite event to play in Minneapolis and why:
Communion Sundays. It's outside, it's bangin, always a killer vibe, great people and it's the collaboration of Centrific and I that make it happen the way it does. It's our thing.
Most memorable artist you have seen here and why:
Prince – Seeing him in his hometown, on his turf, and his stage presence… hard to describe unless you've seen him play.
Local musicians you admire:
My crew at HUSH (DVS1 and Ghetto aka Daniel Paul) and Intellephunk (Centrific)
Pet peeves:
Messy kitchen and bathrooms….Drives me nuts!
Current obsessions:
Drinking juice and buying records.
How you deal with Minnesota winters:
Two words… Long Underwear.
Random fact about you:
I love funny pictures/videos of cats.
Halloween plans:
Intellephunk Party at Desseo next to Sound Bar with the famous Dan Bell!!!!
Upcoming events:
Intellephunk presents: Dan Bell, Halloween night at Desseo, 400 3rd Ave. N, in downtown Minneapolis 10pm- 2am
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Photo: Christian James with DVS1 and Ghetto aka Daniel Paul, provided by artist


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Another bit of concept work for the RPG. Here we have a Kantori Deathmage Assassin (a suitable profession for the death-magic-inclined nobility) about to take down an Anwar fop. You can tell he's a fop by his coifed hair, which I think is quite stylish.
Violet's fashion sketches, of course) and the look of the necrotic flavor of magic present in our world.
If you're curious what the whole magic/tech deal is, it will be addressed in a post later this week that I'm working on right now: The Big Picture Part 2: Basic Concepts of Ireta.


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Alex Morgan not in US starting lineup for World Cup opener against Australia
WINNIPEG, Manitoba – Forward Alex Morgan is not the starting lineup for the United States' Women's World Cup opener against Australia.
The speedy 25-year-old, who has 51 goals in 84 international appearances, has a bone bruise in her left knee and hasn't played in a match since Portland's National Women's Soccer League opener on April 11.
Morgan is listed as a substitute for the No. 2 U.S. against the 10th-ranked Matildas in Monday night's lineups. Abby Wambach and Sydney Leroux were down to head the attack.
The U.S. is seeking its third World Cup title but first since 1999 after losing the 2011 final to Japan on penalty kicks.


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Also, over the last few decades, biological and genetic arguments have been on the rise to explain "social problems" like student achievement.
Because of a recent conversation with a friend, I have been thinking a bit lately about the relationship between "the biological" and "the social." What is the appeal of such biological and social scientific explanations to discourses on race? Can the sway of "scientific" explanations be attributed to their power to explain and predict effectively? To the extent to which they tap into a certain set of affective structures widely held in civil and political society? What else might explain the adoption of, say, Prof. John D'Iulio's superpredator theory that continues to underwrite laws concerning the incarceration of juveniles? What crisis is induced, if any, when theories like superpredator theory are proven to be bunk?
Here is another breakdown of the explanatory power of both social sciences and medical sciences. Why would college-educated black American women have higher likelihood of low-birth-weight babies than both white high school dropout women (a control for socioeconomic status explanations so popular in the social sciences) AND African immigrant women (a control for the genetic explanations so popular in the medical sciences)?
Source: Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
http://www.unnaturalcauses.org/resources_video.php?res_id=210 (accessed 8/11/09)
I'm curious about what the waxing influence of genetic and biological explanations in scientific and even humanistic discourse bodes for black bodies and blackened spaces.
First, we should remember Fanon's admonition that it is pointless to seek out what Blackness signifies (as the Negritudists had done then, as the Afrocentrists, cultural nationalists, and canon formationists do now). Attempting to do so is an attempt to engage in what Wilderson calls "the ruse of analogy"-- an analogy with whiteness. And that just won't do for blackness.
By way of illustration, in mathematical terms blackness/Africanness wouldn't be a zero or a negative term on a graph in which whiteness/europeanness was a positive term. (If it was such, Hegel's Master-Slave dialectic would work for Blacks because negation would be conceivable.) Instead, Blackness is a null set. We recall from math that even zero has a place on the graph; here we should think of a baseball player who has been at bat once and struck out during that time at bat-- her/his batting average would be 0. A null set (written as a zero with a crossbar over it) is the absence of positionality on the graph altogether-- as though the baseball player had never even been at bat to begin with.
This is the often-overlooked radical meaning of Fanon's statement:
For not only must the black man [sic] be black; he [sic] must be black in relation to the white man [sic]. Some critics will take it on themselves to remind us that this proposition has a converse. I say that this is false. The black man [sic] has no ontological resistance in the eyes of the white man [sic] (BSWM 110).
In the curious way that social realities reflect back onto math, we should take note that without the concept of the null set, mathematics as we know it would be impossible. The null set in relation to mathematics, like the death-bound subject (to quote janMohamed)-- the black-- in relation to modernity, is a condition of possibility, existing as absence so that Presence may have coherent meaning. "No one knows yet who [the Negro] is," Fanon tells us (BSWM 139). Even the Negro him/herself.
Among those whose psyches are most destabilized by the unknowability of blackness are white folks. In this sense, one could read the scientific tendencies to chart blackness as hegemonic moves to make blackness signify something. The sciences become the final arbiter in chains of signification-- the Name of the Father, what Christianity may once have been.


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Noise generator
A Noise generator is a circuit that produces electrical noise (i.e., a random signal). Noise generators are used to test signals for measuring noise figure, frequency response, and other parameters. Noise generators are also used for generating random numbers.[1]
There are several noise generation methods. For example, heated resistors, temperature-limited vacuum diodes, zener diodes, and gas discharge tubes.[2] A source that can be switched on and off ("gated") is beneficial for some test methods.
Thermal noise can be a fundamental standard. A resistor at a certain temperature has a thermal noise associated with it. A noise generator might have two resistors at different temperatures and switch between the two resistors. The resulting output power is low. (For a 1 kΩ resistor at room temperature and a 10 kHz bandwidth, the RMS noise voltage is 400 nV.[3])
Shot noise
If electrons flow across a barrier, then they have discrete arrival times. Those discrete arrivals exhibit shot noise. The output of a shot noise generator is easily set by the current. Typically, the barrier in a diode is used.[4]
Vacuum diode
One common noise source was a thermally-limited (saturated-emission) hot-cathode vacuum tube diode. These sources could serve as white noise generators from a few kilohertz through UHF and were available in normal radio tube glass envelopes. Flicker (1/f) noise limited application at lower frequencies; electron transit time limited application at higher frequencies. The basic design was a diode vacuum tube with a heated filament. The temperature of the filament sets the anode (plate) current that determines the shot noise. The anode voltage is set large enough to collect all the electrons emitted by the filament.[5][6] If the plate voltage were too low, then there would be space charge near the filament that would affect the noise output. For a calibrated generator, care must be taken so that the shot noise dominates the thermal noise of the tube's plate resistance and other circuit elements.
Gas-discharge tubes
Long, thin, hot-cathode gas-discharge glass tubes fitted with a normal bayonet light bulb mount for the filament and an anode top cap, were used for SHF frequencies and diagonal insertion into a waveguide.[7] They were filled with a pure inert gas such as neon because mixtures made the output temperature-dependent. Their burning voltage was under 200 V, but they needed optical priming (pre-ionizing) by a 2-Watt incandescent lamp prior to ignition by an anode voltage spike in the 5-kV range.
One miniature thyratron found an additional use as a noise source, when operated as a diode (grid tied to cathode) in a transverse magnetic field.[8]
Forward-biased semiconductor diode
Another possibility is using the collector current in a transistor.
Reverse-biased semiconductor diode
Reverse-biased diodes in breakdown can also be used as shot noise sources. Voltage regulator diodes are common, but there are two different breakdown mechanisms, and they have different noise characteristics. The mechanisms are the Zener effect and avalanche breakdown.[9]
Zener diode
Reverse-biased diodes and bipolar transistor base-emitter junctions that breakdown below about 7 volts primarily exhibit the Zener effect; the breakdown is due to internal field emission. The junctions are thin, and the electric field is high. Zener breakdown is shot noise. The flicker (1/f) noise corner can be below 10 Hz.[10]
Avalanche diode
For breakdown voltages greater than 7 volts, the junction width is thicker and primary mechanism is an avalanche. The noise output is more complicated.[10] There is excess noise (i.e., noise over and above the simple shot noise) because there is avalanche multiplication.
For higher power output noise generators, amplification is needed. For broadband noise generators, that amplification can be difficult to achieve. One method uses avalanche multiplication within the same barrier generating the noise. In an avalanche, one carrier collides with other atoms and knocks free new carriers. The result is that for each carrier that starts across a barrier, several carriers synchronously arrive. The result is a wide-bandwidth high-power source. Conventional diodes can be used in breakdown.
The avalanche breakdown also has multistate noise. The noise output power randomly switches among several output levels. Multistate noise looks somewhat like flicker (1/f) noise. The effect is process dependent, but it can be minimized. Diodes may also be selected for low multistate noise.[10]
A commercial example of a diode noise generator is the Agilent 346C that covers 10 MHz to 26.5 GHz.[11]
See also
- ^ "World Power Systems, PDF, Sylvania Type 6D4". Retrieved 6 November 2010.
- ^ Motchenbacher & Fitchen 1973, p. 289
- ^ Google Calculator result for 1 kΩ room temperature 10 kHz bandwidth
- ^ Ott 1976, pp. 208,218
- ^ Motchenbacher & Fitchen 1973, pp. 289–291
- ^ "Standard noise sources K81A, K50A, K51A"Philips: (PDF). Retrieved 14 June 2013.
- ^ Hewlett-Packard 1981 Catalog, page 437, "The 347A waveguide sources are argon gas discharge tubes carefully mounted in waveguide sections for frequencies from 3.95 to 18 GHz. Model 349A also uses an argon tube in a coaxial configuration for frequencies from 400 to 4000 MHz."
- ^ data sheet"6D4 Miniature triode thyratron"Sylvania: (PDF). Retrieved 25 May 2013.
- ^ Motchenbacher & Fitchen 1973, p. 180
- ^ a b c Motchenbacher & Fitchen 1973, p. 181
- ^ http://www.home.agilent.com/agilent/product.jspx?nid=-536902744.536880071.00&lc=eng&cc=US also Operating and Service Manual, also HP Journal article describing noise diode design
- Motchenbacher, C. D.; Fitchen, F. C. (1973), Low-Noise Electronic Design, John Wiley & Sons,
- Ott, Henry W. (1976), Noise Reduction Techniques in Electronic Systems, John Wiley,


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Google Scholar has the potential to attract our users with its ease, speed, and relevance-ranking using cited references. Although it is still in a beta phase, it has already had a profound effect upon our world. Two recent developments related to Google Scholar involve UC-eLinks and the metasearch project.
First, thanks to Peter Brantley, CDL Director of Technology, a small group of academic library technologists have begun working informally with Google to encourage the development of information services that work in an academic setting.
One of the fruits of continuing conversations between academic librarians and Google was the support for open URL resolution services in Google Scholar. Last week, Google added UC's open URL link resolver, UC-eLinks, to Google Scholar. As a consequence, faculty and students who use Google Scholar and are on the UC network can link from references to full text (where available) via the UC-eLinks page.
The group is now exploring the possibility of Google utilizing the journal data that drive the linking process. If this happens, it could enhance users' experiences by permitting full-text access with only one click from Google search results.
However, we believe that many of our users will continue to need more specialized information environments than Google will likely supply. Although Google Scholar may evolve to contain a large number of information resources, it will not likely present them in a manner that emphasizes authority, integrity, and selectivity, as well as ease and speed of access.
Although we expect that Google Scholar will fundamentally change the way in which we build and present scholarly digital libraries, we do not anticipate that it will mitigate the need for them.
Accordingly, the CDL will continue experiments with metasearching using Ex Libris' Metalib product. The approach is different from, and complementary to, Google's approach. Rather than seeking to search all sources at once, we are testing the value of creating more focused subsets of targets to search together. These may be based on a particular audience, subject area, or format.
The CDL is also testing tools to bring in sources of relevant information via techniques such as RSS feeds, OAI-harvested content, and crawled web sites. These methods are part of the broader set of site building tools that we are developing for libraries so they can select and present focused, curated sets of resources for their users.
These are exciting times for all of us and they continue to hold as many opportunities for our continued innovation.


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SNP starts annual conference on a tide of voter goodwill
The Scottish National Party goes into annual conference today on a wave of euphoria and optimism.
After more than two years in power in Scotland, the party is still surfing a tide of voter goodwill which sees them well ahead in opinion polls north of the Border for both Westminster and Holyrood elections.
As a minority government in Edinburgh, the SNP has taken much flak from opponents over broken manifesto promises such as the failure to abolish the council tax and limiting primary class sizes to 18.
However voters in Scotland appear ready to forgive the party for these sins. The key to the SNP's continuing success is that they are able, because of devolution, to present themselves as in government and opposition at one…