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This week's Top Ten is trends of which we'd like to see either more or less -- I'm doing a combination of both, focusing on the YA genre.
2. Brooding Heroes who Suddenly Become Fawning Admirers: Girl meets guy, guy acts like jerk, girl swoons, guy suddenly becomes Best Boyfriend Ever. These abrupt personality changes give me whiplash. It's unrealistic and makes girls think that if a guy treats her like dirt, he must be REALLY into her. Um, no. (I blame Twilight for this. I loved it when I first read it and was a YA newbie, but I wonder how I'd feel now...)
3. Human Girl, Supernatural Guy: Why does it always work out this way? Why can't the girl be the scary supernatural who must protect the fragile human boy? These human girl scenarios just reinforce outdated gender roles.
4. Cliffhangers: I love a good series as much as the next person, but these days it seems like most series are just one book cut into three parts. Each book should be a self-contained story (a la Harry Potter) that feeds into the larger arc of the series -- not part of a story that abruptly cuts you off so you have to come running back for more. It makes me feel used.
5. Trends Themselves: For a while it was vampires, then it was fey, now it's dystopian and quickly heading into mythology. It's absolutely mind-boggling how many books of the same "type" come out at the same time. Seriously, what are the odds? Diversity, please!
7. Boarding School: I know there are already a ton of these out there, but I love love love them. Throwing teens together in a space that small is bound to stir up plenty of interesting encounters. See: Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins, Wildefire by Karsten Knight, Anna and the French Kiss.
8. Best Friend/Nice Guy Gets the Girl: This isn't a trend, but it so should be. Seriously, why does the angsty, hot-and-cold swoon-bucket always get the girl over the tried-and-true, loyal and sweet boy who's been there all along?
The Hunger Games), Katsa (Graceling), Meghan Chase (The Iron Fey), Evie (Paranormalcy), Lexi Harris (The Near Witch), Karou (Daughter of Smoke and Bone), Ari (Darkness Becomes Her), Ellie (Angelfire), etc etc.
10. Alternating POVs: I love this method of storytelling, but it seems to still be pretty rare. It's so much fun getting more than one perspective, seeing the same situation through multiple eyes. Examples: The Wolves of Mercy Falls by Maggie Stiefvater, Blood Magic by Tessa Gratton, Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers. Daughter of Smoke and Bone also uses free-indirect discourse to get into the minds of multiple characters, without explicitly alternating POVs.
11: College Students: I have an extra one. This is hardly a trend yet, but I would like to see more of it. Love Story by Jennifer Echols and The Ivy by Lauren Kunze both feature college-age students. It's kind of an in-between age that doesn't get much attention from either the YA or adult markets. I'm a college student and adult novels don't really appeal to me, but I'd like to read about someone closer to my own age than 16 sometimes.
What about you? Are you tired of these trends? Can you think of any examples of the good trends I might have missed?

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Another amazing week.
These are all amazing! I sure miss seeing more of Ryan Marshall now that his blog and Instagram have been removed.
I miss seeing Ryan's photos too! Come back Ryan… you are so good at capturing people and writing about your life. I have yet to find a blog to fill the hole you made when you left the blogging world ;)
I appreciate the nice words. Blogging days are long gone :) I am enjoying the privacy a bunch. I keep tinkering around with personal projects that don't involve my family, but keep getting sucked into other work. So who knows, but I did want to jump in here and say hello, and to thank you for the encouraging words.
Such beautiful pics! Taking pics of my own six month old son fills my days now and I have a new appreciation for this work :-) I too miss Ryan's blog and was so happy to see the pic of Tessa T. Guys, don't know if you'll want to answer, but what's the setting of the city behind Tessa, the hilly city pic? Love it, and would love to know where it is!!


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While trying to speak to the audience, the two rock legends didn't realize they broke the venue's sound curfew, causing a bemused crowd to wonder why Macca and the Boss's mics had been cut off.
Live Nation, the festival's promoters, defended the decision, writing on the festival website, "It was unfortunate that the three hour plus performance by Bruce Springsteen was stopped right at the very end but the curfew is laid down by the authorities in the interest of the public's health and safety. Road closures around Hard Park are put in place at specific times to make sure everyone can exit the area in a safety.''
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- Courtesy CSPD
- City helicopters will start making the rounds again in March.
After griping, questioning and self-congratulation, Colorado Springs City Council voted 8-1 Monday to reinstate the police helicopter program for 2008.
The decision came upon a recommendation from Police Chief Richard Myers who a couple months before had first posited the controversial idea of axing the program to trim the city's skintight budget. Virtually everyone seems to now agree that helicopters are important; according to Myers, a single helicopter has the response capabilities of eight to 10 patrol cars.
Perhaps as important: The budget folks will keep them aloft without killing street lights, or cutting elsewhere.
The consensus: Great! And, by the way, um, after all the fuss of the past few months, how'd we get here?
To answer that question, look no further than the newly arrived city manager, Penny Culbreth-Graft. She was about the only silent one Monday, but was likely the most important player in this episode.
"I did have a different perspective about the helicopter unit," she says.
That's because in her previous job at Huntington Beach, Calif., choppers were valuable assets. Three of them patrol that city (with its 11 million annual beach tourists), and leaders there felt air support was vital. Culbreth-Graft, naturally, thought the same might be true here.
So she instructed the police department to create a report detailing why we need our copters.
Turns out the unit has flown 11,674 hours since 1996, responding to 26,894 calls for service and sharing responsibility for 2,641 arrests. Studies have shown teams that include air support and ground units have a much higher felony arrest rate.
The report also listed specific incidents when helicopters helped, as when the Air Unit checked the New Life Church roof during the tragic December shootings. Also, in November, a helicopter hovered over a suspect, causing him to abandon his knife-wielding chase of a woman (in an attempted rape) from a bus stop at the Citadel Mall. That suspect was caught and later charged with other rapes.
"I believe you have to make the business case," Culbreth-Graft says, "and you have to do it with hard-hitting facts and data."
About the money: That came from shrinking the request from $489,409 and 1,100 flight hours to $359,700 and 725 hours, the approximate amount flown last year. Also, some funding will come from gifts, leftover funds from the 2007 helicopter budget and Utilities paying a portion, since helicopters monitor its facilities.
In December, then-interim city manager Mike Anderson had suggested freeing the money by turning off 8,510 streetlights or reducing already-delayed capital improvement projects, among other options.
Culbreth-Graft notes that Anderson didn't have the options she did. Most gift funds, she says, came only weeks ago. And the budget department only recently identified 2007 budget surpluses.
Still, the net effect was dramatic, since Council had heard the copters were possibly unsafe and a money pit for maintenance. Councilor Tom Gallagher said the helicopters are noisy nuisances that people in his neighborhood call "ghetto birds." But now, knowing how many lives they save, he says he'd never support grounding them.
"This was a recommendation that steered us wrong," he told Myers coolly.
Jan Martin, the lone dissenter, preferred to buy a new chopper in '09 instead of funding maintenance.
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My Personal Journey From Faith to Reason
7/29/2011 | Share this article: View CommentsBy Allen J Cavin ~
I was born Saturday March 13, 1965, I was raised in a lower-class Christian home. The first eight years raised as Lutheran and then as a Fundamental Independent Baptist. I attended a Lutheran Kindergarten, Public School for grades 1-3 but from the 4th grade on was again private church-related schools. I am not any different than many children raised up during the late 60's and 70's. Each Sunday morning you were dressed up in your good clothes, attended Sunday school, church service and then to eat at grandma's.
When I was around nine years old and sometime in 1974 the film The Burning Hell was shown at Bethany Baptist Church where my family was a going to at the time. The film depicted how people died and ended up in hell and how those that do not accept Christ as their Savior would be left behind after his return. Very shortly after seeing it, I had a vivid dream, a terrible dream of the Rapture happening.
In this dream, I was awakened by a loud sound, I jumped from my bed, looked out my window to see the moon had turned to blood, meaning I was left behind. I could not find my parents or anyone I knew, only that I was left behind to suffer the tribulation and to more than likely burn in hell for all eternity. I remember awaking from that dream drenched in sweat, tears streaming from my eyes. I scrambled from my bed, rushed to the bedroom window, threw the curtains back to check if the moon had indeed turned to blood. You can imagine how thrilled I was to find it had not and that like Scrooge in a Christmas Carol I had a second chance.
The very next church service, when the invitation was given I went forward and prayed the sinner's prayer to be saved. As I grew up, I was involved in the bus ministry, children's church, and more. Some time while in my early 20's, I stopped attending Church for reasons I now have no memory of. For about 20 years I never stepped foot inside a church, while a service was being held but still believing what I was taught, just not living it.
As the years passed, I met a wonderful woman, fell in love and two years later we were married on June 30, 1991 at our home we had moved into just a month or so before. My wife worked one mile from our home and the house was 2 1/2 miles from I-85 so it made it nice being that at the time I was on the road as a Contract Photographer, traveling anywhere from Maine to Florida and as far west as Mississippi. When my wife could join me we would travel and enjoyed being able to visit places. We took trips to the mountains of NC, TN and the NC & SC Coast as well. During those years my wife and I lived a good life and enjoyed it as much as we could.
Then in my early to mid 30's, I began not being able to stay awake while on the road. A few years later when in my late 30's I began feeling drained of energy, always tired and hurting all over. I went to Doctors and had test after test, exams, MRI's, CT scans, saw Specialist, Psychiatrist, took numbers of medications to help but none ever relieved my pain or being so tired all the time. I was treated for chronic pain, sleep apnea, depression, carpal tunnel syndrome and a few others I just do not recall. Finally I was told to file for disability and did, but even with lawyers and medical records saying they could not help me nor had any hope to. I was still denied three times and cannot refile due to the time I have been out of work.
During this time my wife had talked of wanting to go to church for a few years, so we went to church in late 2003. Not just any church either, It was the remnants of the church from my childhood. After a year or so after getting right with god, I became involved in church work again, was ordained and even began an online ministry named Global Web Mission, building web sites for Missionaries, Churches, Preachers etc. I witnessed online in chat rooms, sent out thousands of emails telling all that Jesus SAVES! I have seen many people accept Christ as their savior while online.
Even though I had some doubts here and there during my 40 some years of Christian life, as most believers have been at times, if they would be honest, I kept believing that god cared for and loved me. When the church I was a part of began falling apart after the Pastor passed away March 9 th 2006, I remember the date because it was just 4 days before my 41 st birthday. The members kind of rallied together in the beginning but after a year or so it had begun to come undone, All my 'quote' "friends, brothers and sisters in the church" left instead of keeping their word they turned away and left. I finally removed myself from that place, leaving it to the other members, which was by then only two families that showed up.
Even though I had some doubts here and there during my 40 some years of Christian life, as most believers have been at times, if they would be honest, I kept believing that god cared for and loved me. When the church I was a part of began falling apart after the Pastor passed away March 9 th 2006, I remember the date because it was just 4 days before my 41 st birthday. The members kind of rallied together in the beginning but after a year or so it had begun to come undone, All my quote, "friends, brothers and sisters in the church," left instead of keeping their word they turned away and left.
Nothing.... no answers... no doors of opportunity ever opened... just deafening silence...
Some time in early 2009 I stopped going to church, no longer read the bible and no longer prayed. This was mostly in part to me being in a lot of pain due to my health. I stopped doing any work with Global Web Mission. During this time I was, at first, mad at "god" and my past "friends" for forsaking me. I began to search for the hows and why's to my beliefs. Then, around Xmas of 2009, I had one of those light click on moments. I finally understood, I cannot be upset at "god", how silly and stupid is that? Mad at "god" why that is just preposterous, especially when there is obviously no "god" in which to be upset at.
The past friends, now that is a different story and they can all kiss my ass and are dead to me. "god" I am not longer upset with because if I were that would be like being upset that the Great Pumpkin did not visit my pumpkin patch.
I have deleted almost all of the many websites I built, a few others I gave the passwords to the people I built them for and it is up to them to keep up with them but my name has been removed or will be. I have now renamed Global Web Mission to "GOD" Went Missing. I have now renamed Global Web Mission to "GOD" Went Missing. http://www.orgsites.com/nc/gwm/index.html
I am now an Atheist, I base this on that there is no evidence that a "god" has ever existed in the past, see no viable data to prove one exist today or will in the near or distant future. I am an informed intelligent free thinking person that needs no one to live my life for me. I do not need a "bible", Religion or "god" in order for me to be a morally sound person or to treat the human race with humanity. I am an Atheist because I see no other reason not to be and I am proud of that fact. I choose to live, love and die free from the slavery of religion and to not bow down to worship an imaginary being that some call a "god".
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I don't remember how long it's been since the Girl Scouts were selling cookies, but it's been a while. We were approached after morning church services today and advised that there were still a couple of boxes of unclaimed cookies that my daughter-in-law had ordered way back when. No problem, we made arrangements to pick them up at evening services. I thought to myself "I hope they're not Samoas. I hate Samoas."
Just before leaving for the evening service, I checked my glucose level and noted that it was unusually high…so I gave myself a shot of insulin, a bit higher than my usual dose.
We arrived at church and got the cookies, Samoas, of course. Following the worship service, we had a special showing of a movie that was based on a book that had been written by one of our church members so we stayed later than usual. About fifteen minutes into the movie I started sweating and feeling light-headed, a sure sign that my glucose level is going low. I had apparently given myself too much insulin. So…about 10 stale Samoas later, I started feeling somewhat better. I'm not sure how low it went, but two hours later when I got home it was only 101 which is base-line normal. After that many cookies, it would usually be way over 200. I'm guessing it was probably down into the low 50's.
Normally I would not have had something handy with enough carbs to bring my glucose level back up so quickly. Some folks might say "coincidence," but I don't look at it like that. God knew I would need something and made provisions for it to be there when I needed it.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Are Contests for Non-published Manuscripts a Waste of Time?
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- Cari Hislop said...
You're right. That's way cheap for three unbiased opinions. When I started self-publishing I didn't know there were any contests (nearly ten years ago), but when I did find them I found I'd unwittingly unqualified myself. It's so bizarre how the publishing industry has changed in nine years. When I decided to risk the "vanity press" label I'd come to the conclusion (which was correct at the time) that my books wouldn't sell to a publisher because they didn't fit into the genre (as it was defined at the time). Today is a different story and that's been an interesting lesson. I don't regret my self-publishing for my Regencies. Over nine years I've probably made as much money as if I'd sold them all to a smaller publishing company. However, I'm working on stories in other genres and I think having contest feedback would be really helpful. This past year I've become friends with a fellow writer whose work I really admire and having that feedback has increased my writing speed. Sometimes we don't know our weak areas until someone points them out. With hindsight I should have done a few "contests" just for that!
- March 18, 2015 12:42 PM
- Heather said...
Great post. I agree with all your points. I worry that the growing sentiment among some authors that contests are a waste of time is really a symptom of impatience. Writing is a long process, and it takes time to perfect the craft. Contests are incredibly helpful with that process. Unbiased and honest feedback (which you may not get from people who know you) is essential.
I am unpublished across the board. It would not deter me from entering a contest to know that my work would be competing against an unpublished work by a published author. You only get better through strong competition. And if I were to final - WOW! I would love to see more contests using the model of being open to unpublished works as opposed to unpublished authors.
- March 18, 2015 2:53 PM
- Carla Swafford said...
Oh, Cari, you're so right. I wrote for years and when I finally got up the nerve to submit, don't I wish I had someone to say what I was doing wrong. Between my writing chapter mates and contests, I've improved tremendously.
No matter how good an author is, there's always room for improvement. :-)
- March 18, 2015 6:06 PM
- Carla Swafford said...
Thanks, Heather. I agree. People are rushing their work out there before they've developed their writing skills.
- March 18, 2015 6:08 PM
- Suzanne Johnson said...
Great post! I also think these contests have a lot of merit and LOVE the idea of opening them up. i know if I'd had contest feedback when I started a new genre I might have been able to avoid some missteps. And unless we're able to change and adapt, the contests won't survive.
- March 18, 2015 8:25 PM
- Cari Hislop said...
I think people are rushing their work these days. I think to some degree the impulse to rush is innate in a writer...you work on something for months (or years) and you get to that last page and you want to shove it hard out into the world.
When someone says "I've written a book" I always think...I hope there were other books because it's so hard to judge one's first born. I thought mine was brilliant. I was so excited to have finished a whole freaking book (this must have been about '99), but it was a mess. I had two or three stories in my head and I only allowed myself to work on one so of course I kept forgetting which one I was writing. :/
It took me five novels to even figure out how I write (and then several more before I finished a book that was well formed). Every time I finished one I'd think "This one is publish worthy!" only it wasn't. It would have been SO helpful to know about contests. It would have sped up my writing skills. We often can't spot our weaknesses (they're like blind spots). I've recently been guilty of...chapters that go on too long (because I'm ranting through the characters - a friend pointed it out and she was right - it was so much better after I chopped it)...not enough description (leaving the reader in the dark)...trying to rush a story and nearly missing an important chapter... I roll my eyes at myself!!! If they were to open up contests to "unpublished manuscripts" I agree that would be brilliant. I don't think there's ever never room for improvement! :)
- March 19, 2015 3:27 AM
- Louisa Cornell said...
47 Finals, baby. 47! And I have lost count of the contests I entered and didn't final in. Yes, ladies, I am a Contest Slut. (Or as Anna Campbell calls me "A Contest Courtesan.")
I count myself so fortunate that I discovered the availability of contests early in my writing career. I learned so much and the most important thing I learned was finishing the book is just the beginning.
Some of the very best writing advice I've ever received has come from judges' comments via writing contests. I cannot count the "aha" moments the score sheets and comments have produced.
I probably tend to err on the opposite side of many writers venturing into self-publishing. I am so paranoid about sending something sub standard out there for readers to pick to pieces I have hesitated to put anything out there.
My debut novella (and the only thing I have out there so far) and the anthology it is in has done very well. But I had the advantage of three very savvy previously published authors going over it with a fine toothed comb before we sent it out.
Too many books are being self-published, especially in romance, without the benefit of oversight by someone who is not vested in the author or the outcome.
We are gradually garnering the respect a multi-million dollar industry deserves. It would be a shame to slip back into the status of cliched mommy porn because writers are in such a hurry to become published they don't bother to become polished.
Contests have helped me at every phase of my writing career. I truly believe they are a necessary step in any romance writer's career. Whatever we have to do to make contests an attractive and viable option for writers, I am all for it.
I've dipped my toe into self-publishing and I like it, but that does not mean I have given up on traditional publishing. Hybrid is the way to go for me and I am actively looking for a traditional publisher and an agent to help me become a successful not working at Walmart hybrid author!
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It made me look back at my day job career...it took me 20 years to build that career. Why in the world would I think I could just write a book in a few months and publish it? Well, because so many people said that's what they were doing-and doing successfully.
But, we are not all the same. The advice I got (especially about GMC) has been something I've used ever since. And the Linda Howard judges were soooo awesome...I felt like I had mentors.
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Discrete Field Model
Discrete Field Model (DFM)
The DFM was constructed to allow testing of the concepts in Albert Einsteins 1952 paper Relativity and the Problem of Space (Translated to English 1954), where he wrote; "The concept of space as something existing objectively and independent of things belongs to pre-scientific thought, but not so the idea of the existence of 'an infinite number of spaces in motion relatively' to each other."
"This latter idea is indeed 'logically unavoidable', but is far from having played a considerable rôle even in scientific thought."
It is a conceptual model of space as consisting of real and discrete quantum fields, related to all mass in the same way as a magnetic field. Each inertial frame of reference, or 'system of co-ordinates', has the real physical representation of a local field in relative motion with all others. It provides a falsifiable model based on Einstein's attempts to formulate a Unified Field Theory in his later years.
The model uses the postulates of the Special Theory of Relativity (SR), and data from space exploration and particle accelerators not available in 1905 when SR was derived. The speed of light, and all EM wave propagation in a vacuum 'c', is constant with respect to all of the "infinite number of spaces." The generalised concept of spaces in relative motion conflicted with SR which had removed from space any single absolute quality of motion to achieve equivalence. For GR a background field was essential again and he said "...space without ether is unthinkable." (see GR below).
The model uses the limited known field qualities of resistivity, permittivity and 2.7° temperature. (See 'WMAP'). Its development built on the broad work of ex UK NPL head David Whiffen including spectroscopy, superposition and light-mass interaction research. Its stated aim is to test a method of combining locality with reality in a physical process. This has been suggested as a method of enabling the unification of Relativity with Quantum Field Theory (QFT).
Einstein said in 1940:
"For the time being, we have to admit that we do not possess any general theoretical basis for physics, which can be regarded as its logical foundation. The field theory, so far, has failed in the molecular sphere. It is agreed on all hands that the only principle which could serve as the basis of quantum theory would be one that constituted a translation of the field theory into the scheme of quantum statistics. Whether this will actually come about in a satisfactory manner, nobody can say." His focus in field theory was mainly on General Relativity (GR). In the 1952 paper he also said; "one should not desist from pursuing to the end the path of the relativistic field theory." The DFM re-appraises the apparent discord between the conceptual basis of GR and SR by considering the assumptions following from the postulates of SR alone.
The DFM is a dynamic barycentric field model. It tests the proposition that all mass will behave, or be affected, in the same way as an electron or a bunch of protons in a particle accelerator, developing a growing quantum cloud of rapidly and increasingly oscillating spin particles during acceleration through the vacuum chamber. At 7Tev some 10 particles per proton are produced and at close to 'c' the cloud, with help from secondary emissions from collisions with the pipe walls, can attain effective 'saturation' of the accelerator pipe at 10 particles/m . This synchrotron radiation can use up to 6.7 keV of the applied energy per proton at each 'turn' in the LHC. The model says that this both limits maximum speed and meets with the Law of Conservation of Energy as the protons require exponentially increasing energy to be accelerated. It tests an assumption that the physics should be the same at all scales. At the macro scale this leads to the prediction that a galactic dark matter halo will prove to include similar particles, propagated from the surrounding field by motion of the mass through it. These would be generated proportionally to the motion of the galaxy, as a local region of space or 'discrete field', through a surrounding or background field. The planetary bow shock, and the Bow and Termination shocks of the Heliosphere are modelled as the same phenomenon, a dynamic magnetospheric plasma, similar to the bow pressure wave of a ship generating phosphorescence in sea water. (The Earth's bow shock is about 100-1000 km thick and located about 90,000 km from the Earth). A standing wave of oscillating particles leads the planetary bow shock and magnetosphere. Contrary to previous belief, the shock wave is oriented principally on the ecliptic polar, (direction of orbit - see below) with solar massive particle activity acting asymmetrically.
Many interplanetary shocks also exist with similar signatures. and the vast dark matter halos of galaxy clusters would also define the boundaries of discrete areas of space. The effective increase in the Fine-structure constant mass with acceleration conserves input energy in accordance with the Law of conservation of energy. The model proposes that 'c' is constant within these quantum particle clouds and considers the consequences of combining reality with the locality of all inertial frames.
The model supports the Dark Matter and Newtonian theory for the flat gravitational curve of galaxies. It is therefore not consistent with MOND, and does not have the same issues with observed cluster rotation and observed dark matter flows in collisions such as that of the Bullet Cluster. The field proposed is not given limits, but is consistent with the tensor-vector field of 'Einstein Aether Theory', extending the GR spacetime metric tensor with a dynamical unit time-like vector field. The original additional step is the strict relative locality, and provision of a quantum mechanism of wave particle interaction. (see FM below) This gives each frame a complete quantum reality and real relative motion. Equivalence emerges naturally, free of paradox, as no mass can ever be reached by EM waves at anything other than 'c' in its local frame. It is proposed that there is effectively no Lorentz violation within any inertial frame, but there are "infinitely many" inertial frames, so non invariance at the smallest modulation scale creating the Doppler mechanism during frame transition.
Frequency modulation of Electromagnetic (EM) waves for FM radio is normally carried out by single oscillators. A similar real physical process for the Doppler shift of all EM waves, including visible light, is modelled, using the dense zone of oscillating particles that forms at the boundary zone of a 'dragged' field around all mass in motion. In a particle accelerator the thickness, oscillation rate and density are closely proportional to velocity through the background field. At close to 'c' the oscillation rate approaches maximum frequency (Gamma). Using the principle that the constancy of 'c' includes the region of space formed by the cloud itself, whatever the relative vector of the discrete fields the waves would be Doppler shifted by FM when they meet the cloud, shock or halo, by exactly the correct frequency, to allow them to remain at precisely 'c' within each new field in relative motion. In FM, the modulated waves can only 'depart' the oscillator at 'c', which is what returns them to original frequency. Moving between discrete fields EM waves may therefore approach an oscillator at a different relative speed but frequency will be modulated to change the speed back to 'c' locally. This seemingly simple logic is the heart of the model and can explain Equivalence within the SR postulates but without the need to dispense with a background 'ether' field.
The correlation of frequency, cloud density and velocity is found to be exceptionally close and is described as 'elegantly symmetrical'. As the process would allow a 3rd privileged frame, an observer within it may view the wave velocity changing to produce the Doppler shift that maintains 'c' in each local field. Comparable radiation signature correlations are predicted as similarly symmetrical. Multiple fields in columnar structures would allow such increasingly common phenomena as the observed apparent extreme Superluminal motion of gas jets in Messier 87 and many other galaxies (see below).
Signal velocity
The model identifies a difference in information contained within an EM wave 'pulse' in motion, and within the observed waves emitted laterally by that pulse. It is proposed that as a pulse crosses an observers view frame he is provided only with limited information, including it's rate of change of position. The pulse signal information is not contained therein, and it propagates to the observer at 'c'. If the same pulse is directed AT the observer, or is part of a wavefront sphere, it will contain that information and will also be observed at 'c'. The DFM logically identifies that rate of change of position, like the edge of a shadow on a curved surface, may be observed at apparently less or more than 'c' from a background frame if the pulse is propagated within a moving medium (a different inertial frame). This is consistent with all Sagnac effect observation without Lorentz violation. It is also cited as similar to the relative separation velocity of galaxies at either end of the observable universe where each is receding at significantly over 0.5c, which does not break invariance or the second postulate of Special Relativity.
The model considers the situation, related to the equivalence principle, that two astronauts floating in space in relative motion are each equally justified in saying one is at rest and the other is in motion. With a background field/third inertial frame they would be in motion with respect to that field so could not be equivalent. The background 'Aether' had to be removed for SR to explain this. 'c' could only be constant to both by using the mathematical infinity of Lorentz transformations, time dilation and length contraction. This gave rise to continuing controversy over paradoxes and the divide with quantum physics. The adjusted solution offered by the DFM is that, along with all mass, each astronaut has a dense fine structure 'cloak' of oscillators, with their density and frequency varying proportionally to his speed through the field. This invisible oscillating particle layer physically Doppler shifts the light to keep the propagation rate at 'c' whatever his velocity. Any massive body would therefore observe all EM waves arriving as travelling at 'c'. The waves will also have approached him at 'c' with respect to the quantum field they travelled through. An emitter will also emit waves at 'c', but, if in motion through a background field, once in the particle boundary with that field the wave velocity will immediately change to 'c' with respect to that field. This simple balanced symmetrical solution appears to match all observation without paradox. It provides a physical mechanism, adjusting and simplifying SR to allow both SR and GR to work with the quanta. Wave-particle duality is also better explained as the background field allows longitudinal pressure fluctuation waves and wave superimposition at all scales, derived from the Louis de Broglie solution and without needing long term particle conservation, and is consistent with Young's double slit experiment results.
Two questions are asked: If any velocity can only be relative, 'light is propagated irrespective of the velocity of the emitter,' and a photon from a Schrodinger sphere wavefront travels across space without meeting any mass; What is it travelling at 'c' 'with respect to'?
The same is asked of momentum. If a particle moves in the atmosphere is has momentum. If we remove the planet and all mass from the region how can we tell if it has momentum?, and would it be entirely equivalent to a second nearby particle which was at rest with the planet's frame before it was removed? It is suggested that without the 2.7° third frame 'dark energy' field this is not consistently resolvable.
Historical Basis
The Fresnel Aether drag hypothesis of an ether 'entrained' by the planet was supported and refined by Oliver Heaviside, George Stokes and others, and anticipated the present Discrete Field Model by almost two centuries. Aether drag was consistent with the Fizeau and Sagnac Experiments, Michelson-Morley, and the later Dayton Miller interferometer results, including the low ether drift rates found. It was argued at the time, well before space exploration, to be contrived, and to conflict with Stellar Aberration, but the understanding of the latter was later proved misguided. The evidence offered against it was the telescope filled with water, which did not account for the field of the telescope ensuring the true focus of the image on the axis would not be affected in either case. The physical mechanism of the DFM supports the ether drag hypothesis. The degree of drift estimated by interferometer experiments has been more accurately studied using a geostationary satellite.
Although needing to remove an 'immobile' ether for SR Einstein seemed convinced a real field still existed in space, saying in his 1952 paper; "Space-time does not claim existence on its own, but only as a structural quality of the field. ..there exists no space 'empty of field." and also; "the state of the is at every place determined by connections with the matter and the state of the ether in neighbouring places." A background field was an essential basis for GR and it appears that his conceptual thoughts, even without current knowledge, were close to discrete fields 'in relative motion', related to matter, where the connections, or boundaries, were the critical elements.
Later Evidence
Other evidence appears consistent with the model. The additional time that light would take to traverse galaxies moving away from the observer compared to light lensed around them would explain the exceptionally anomalous Shapiro effect/Einstein lensing light delays of over 3 years. Significantly longer lensing delays are predicted by the model. This is considered as jumping on one end of a bus, or perhaps Einsteins favourite train, walking through it and jumping off the other end. The walking speed never changes, but subject to the vector of the train the arrival time will be well before or after anyone who walked along the track. The Pioneer anomaly, was also experienced by the Voyager programme and is simply explained by the dense shock mass and relative field motion. The additional accelerations of the Flyby anomaly may be explainable in the same way. NASA reports the Voyagers found a dramatic increase in frequency of the solar polarity change wave, as predicted by the model, at the Heliosphere's shock boundary. This was previously considered as simply the termination point of the solar winds.
The Wang et al. experiment confirmed the Sagnac effect is applicable longitudinally as well as rotationally. This confirms light travels at 'c' with respect to the inertial frame of the medium it's moving within not the frame of the observer if different. This is described as meaning that if a pulse is sent along a fibre optic cable wave guide fitted to the side of Concord the cable would not have to detach itself to contract in length to avoid Lorentz violation. Such violation is increasingly fashionable in advanced physics The results of the Keating experiment of atomic clocks on jet planes counter rotating the planet, where the clock rates did show variation, would be explainable without the issues of SR domain and incorrect application of the Sagnac effect. It appears the model is logically consistent and has yet to be scientifically refuted in any way but more testing is needed.
Lunar Laser Ranging
At the end of 2009 unexpected results arose from the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment. Two papers by NASA's Dan Gezari included a more rigorous analysis of the GPS system data than has previously been given. The results were in clear disagreement with unmodified SR but were as predicted by the DFM modification. The papers thoroughly reconsider and correct the previously erroneous application of the Sagnac Effect as 2nd order. As is sometimes the case it seems this had reflected expectation. The 'anomaly' matched the position change of the observatory during the experiment, clearly confirming the Saganc effect as real and 1st order, and not consistent with the previous most common view of SR. The WMAP mission is cited with others as having confirmed asymmetric background field characteristics consistent with the model (see addition below). Other testable predictions are made. As the shock oscillates and changes only this close dual satellite penetration could give an accurate profile. The most active areas at solar particle frequencies occurred close to the solar plane but radiation profiles varied according to relative velocity with the dense macro condensed particle wave In March 2010 the ESA's preliminary Planck mission CMB release confirmed; "Part of the analysis process involves peeling away the foreground emission arising from a number of 'contaminants' (principally) the cosmic dipole, a signal due to our motion relative to the microwave background." This is focussed on the orbital ecliptic polar shock rather than solar vector and is used as a principal calibration tool. The Synchrotron radiation is consistent with that from the LHC. It's existence is cited by the model as clear evidence of absolute rather than relative motion, through an interplanetary medium or dark energy field.
SR Postlates
The Postulates of special relativity are followed, with the constancy of 'c' being maintained down to the Planck scale and locally in all regions of space "in motion. relatively to each other." Time dilation due to gravity and the curved space time basis of GR appear not to be affected but dilation due to acceleration and length contraction, not yet observed, are not essential to the model. This would allow removal of potential paradox. The model identifies a subtle difference between acceleration due to gravity and that due to change of rate of motion as the essentially temporary and 'energy building' nature of the latter, not present with gravity. The key Equivalence of inertial and gravitational mass is apparently not affected. The paradox of the Light clock is explained from two viewpoints. It is suggested the light pulse will behave in one way in a closed box and another if the mirrors are set well apart. A box will form a discrete field which will move with the box. In this case the pulse may be observed through a glass side wall from a third, rest, frame as moving superluminally, but the light reaching the observer with that information moves at 'c' with respect to him. i.e. it does not carry the same signal. If the two mirrors are separated the space between them is in the observers background frame; When the mirrors move off in unison the perpendicular light pulse will be left behind. The mirrors would have to be angled in the direction of travel to keep the pulse between them. The observer would only ever observe the pulse as moving at 'c'. Careful consideration shows this does not breach the Postulates of special relativity. It does modify an assumption which is inconsistent with relevant experimentation. This is often forgotten leading to misunderstanding in simplistic interpretations of Relativity. The specific problem he identified in the Leiden address was that a single 'preferred' velocity was not satisfactory. "Infinate spaces" however, with no preferred velocity, ceased to be an issue. This would allow the unified tensor-vector field, with dynamic local vectors, proposed the model, also consistent with the current 'Einstein Aether Theory'.
Other consequences.
The model would allow the Unification of special relativity and QFT by providing a physical mechanism conceptually consistent with both. Each would require limited modification of assumptions. It relies on dark matter particles being propagated from a dark energy field by the shock pressure of another field moving through it. It suggests the mysterious oscillating 'photoelectrons', termed 'parasitic', around accelerated protons are a major constituent of Dark matter and are there for good reason, for frequency modulation. This suggests the Higgs Boson may not exist, and that dark matter has already been found. It would throw new light on the dark energy field, and the route to unifying QFT with GR, presently termed Quantum gravity.
In identifying the mechanism for apparent Superluminal motion it also points the way to the possibility of superluminal information transfer in the future by use of multiple projected fields within fields, maintaining Lorentz invariance.
The unresolved problems between relativity and QFT identified by Einstein are also recognised by present eminent physicists such as Sir Roger Penrose and Lee Smolin, but not all, as science needs stable ruling paradigms. Karl Popper considered it was essential for the survival of humanity that ruling paradigms are challengeable. Despite continued controversy over claimed inconsistencies SR and GR have resisted all challenges, due to the non existence of a consistent alternative theory. The DFM conceptually addresses a basic assumption of SR, and appears to be the first falsifiable physical model which matches observation and may prove to be fully consistent. It's mathematical basis is the simple non relativistic Doppler equation but it opens the way to new mathematical models and more rigorous testing. The model would not overthrow relativity but use 100 years of advances in scientific knowledge to simplify and explain it, assisting GR. It seems to meet the aim of allowing it's Unification with quantum physics by combining the concepts of Locality and Reality. Classic and quantum physics. If proven over time it would seem to open the way to progress for many fields.
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New quantum theory
Proper Interval Locality
Rotational symmetry of quantized space-time
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November 18, 1986
March 21, 1985
Bohme; Rolf C.
(Midrand, ZA)
Lazerson; Max M.
(Johannesburg, ZA)
General Mining Union Corporation Limited
(Johannesburg, ZA)
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Howell; Janice A.
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Hannaher; Constantine
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In the logging of a grade characteristic of a borehole core, the core is placed in a trough which is caused to move, in step fashion, through an annular detector. For each step the detector measures a characteristic of a notional segment of the core. The measures are corrected to compensate for contributions due to adjacent notional segments. The correction factor is derived by passing a core segment of known characteristics through the detector under controlled conditions.
We claim:
1. A method of logging a grade distribution of a borehole core which includes the steps of notionally dividing the core into a plurality of contiguous segments, obtaining a measure of acharacteristic of each segment, using a correction factor, derived from measurements taken for a segment of known characteristics positioned in an otherwise barren core, to correct the measure for each segment to compensate for contributions to themeasure due at least to adjacent segments, and recording the corrected measure for each segment.
2. A method according to claim 1 which includes the steps of causing relative stepped movement of the core and suitable measuring apparatus, each step of movement corresponding to the thickness of one segment, maintaining the core stationaryrelatively to the apparatus for a predetermined measuring period, making a measure of the characteristic of a predetermined segment, recording the measurement of the characteristic, and repeating the process as to obtain a measurement of thecharacteristic for each of the segments in succession.
This invention is related to the logging of data obtained from cores produced by the drilling of core boreholes. The principles of the invention are particularly applicable to the evaluation of radiometric data but are equally applicable to themeasurement of emissivity of practically any nature, especially under circumstances where the source of the emission is not easily localized.
In the drilling of core boreholes for exploratory and survey work in uranium mining, the resulting cores are usually evaluated visually and the visual geological and mineralogical features of sections of apparent principal interest are logged indetail. At least some of the sections of the core are split longitudinally and assayed for minerals of interest. In this process the split section of core which is used is destroyed.
The core is often assayed in sections which are approximately 10 cm long and the results are reported in terms of the milling width. The milling width is generally of the order of from 1 m to 1,5 m. The assay thus gives the average mineralcontent over the milling width, this data being required for an economic evaluation of the ore body, but it gives little information on the detailed grade or value distribution of the uranium over the length of the core, for example whether the reef iswide and of a low grade or narrow and of a relatively higher grade. This information may in some cases be indicated by the visual log of the core but this can be deceptive.
In many instances a detailed knowledge of the value or grade distribution over the milling width is not required for certain decisions based on economic considerations of a particular deposit but such knowledge can be of considerable value foroptimum metallurgical processing, and for geologists and sedimentologists. Detailed information on the grade distribution over the milling or mining width does, however, become essential in the evaluation for any ore sorting or ore upgrading operationwhether this be based on radiometric or heavy media techniques.
For example in the case of radiometric sorting of uranium bearing ores a reef which is 1 m wide and which has an average uranium content of 0.1 kg uranium per ton over the 1 m reef and milling width would not be sortable while a reef which is 10cm wide with a uranium grade of 1 kg uranium per ton over the 10 cm reef width, but also having an average grade over the 1 m milling width of 0.1 kg uranium per ton would be eminently sortable, with over 80% of the mined ore being discarded or rejectedin the sorting operation and with about 98% of the total uranium content being recovered.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved method of logging a grade distribution of a borehole core. The expression "grade distribution" is intended to include an indication of the quantity of a given type of material whichis responsible for emission of a particular nature from the core. Generally the source of the emission is not readily localized. For example a core possessing radioactive material displays this characteristic.
The invention provides a method of logging a grade distribution of a borehole core which includes the steps of notionally dividing the core into a plurality of contiguous segments, obtaining a measure of a characteristic of each segment, andrecording the measure for each segment.
The segments may extend in the axial or longitudinal direction of the core.
The characteristic may be a surface characteristic e.g. contrasting colour of the core within each segment, or the like. This may be produced under irradiation e.g. by means of a laser or other energy source. It is envisaged though that themethod of the invention will generally be employed under conditions in which the characteristic will result in emission at a particular wavelength or wavelengths and thus the measure may be of the emissivity of each segment. In these circumstances theinvention preferably includes the feature of correcting the emissivity measure of each segment to compensate for contributions to the measure due at least of adjacent segments, and recording the corrected emissivity measure for each segment.
The method may be preceeded by the initial step of deriving a correction factor which is used in the compensating process. The correction factor may be derived from measurements taken of the emission of a segment of known characteristicspositioned in an otherwise barren core.
The segments may be of any suitable thickness but preferably are all of the same thickness which is selected according to requirement and constraints imposed by the apparatus used for carrying out the method of the invention.
An emissivity measure may be obtained for each segment over a predetermined period of time which may be varied according to requirement.
The method of the invention may be implemented by causing relative stepped movement of the core and suitable measuring apparatus, each step of movement corresponding to the thickness of one segment, maintaining the core stationary relatively tothe apparatus for a predetermined measuring period, making a measure of the characteristic of a predetermined segment, recording the measurement of the characteristic, and repeating the process as to obtain a measurement of the characteristic for each ofthe segments in succession.
The core may be maintained stationary relatively to the measuring apparatus at least while the emissivity measurements are being recorded.
The invention also extends to apparatus for logging a grade distribution of a borehole core which includes means for obtaining a measure of a characteristic of each of a plurality of notional segments of the core and means for recording themeasure for each segment.
The characteristic may result in emission e.g. at a particular wavelength from the segment and the emissivity may therefore be measured. The apparatus may include means for correcting the emissivity measurements of each segment to compensate forcontributions to the measure which are due at least to adjacent segments. The corrected emissivity measure for each segment may be recorded.
Means may be provided for causing relative movement of the core and the measuring means. The relative movement of the core and measuring means may be stepped, with movement taking place in the longitudinal direction of the core, and with thelength of each step of movement corresponding to the thickness of a notional segment in the longitudinal direction of the core.
Thus according to one embodiment of the invention the apparatus may include means for receiving the core, emissivity detection means, and means for causing step movement of the core receiving means together with the core relatively to theemissivity detection means.
The emissivity detection means may include annular detection means through which the core is passed.
Means may be provided for controlling the length of each step of movement, the speed of movement, and for maintaining the core stationary relatively to the emissivity detection means for a predetermined period. The said predetermined period maybe varied according to requirement and may be equal to, but preferably is greater than, the period for which the emissivity of each segment is measured. During the remaining interval in which the core is held relatively stationary data on the emissivitymeasurement may be transferred to the recording means.
The recording means may take on any suitable form but preferably includes a computer.
As indicated the invention finds particular application in radiometric core logging systems. In this particular case the emissivity detection means may include an annular thallium activated sodium iodide scintillation crystal.
The computer program may include a correction factor based on emissivity measurements made of a core segment of known material content located in an otherwise barren core.
If the emissivity which is to be detected is not natural then it may be stimulated and for this purpose the apparatus described may include means for irradiating the core with suitable radiation. The intensity nature and period of irradiationmay be varied according to requirements. For example use may be made of neutron activation, X-rays, lasers, ultraviolet radiation, or the like, depending on the core material and characteristics which are being sought.
The invention is further described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 illustrates (a) in a continuous curve a radiometric scan of a core taken in predetermined steps, and (b) a histogram generated by assaying core segments cut from the core used to generate the continuous curve referred to,
FIG. 2 is a side view of apparatus according to the invention,
FIG. 3 is a plan view of the apparatus of FIG. 2,
FIG. 4 is an end view of the apparatus of FIG. 2, (the apparatus is symmetrical about a central axis and therefore only half of the apparatus is shown),
FIG. 5 schematically illustrates, in block diagram form, the operation of the apparatus of FIGS. 2 to 4,
FIG. 6 schematically illustrates the manner in which a correction factor is generated,
FIG. 7 illustrates a correction curve derived from the generation of the correction factor referred to, and
FIG. 8 is a deconvoluted histogram derived from the continuous curve of FIG. 1 of corrected radioactive count for a plurality of core segments in a short section of core.
The histogram shown in FIG. 1 was derived by slicing segments approximately 1 cm thick from a borehole core with a 2 mm wide diamond saw and assaying each segment to determine the U.sub.3 O.sub.8 content. The continuous curve was derived beforethe assaying process by radiometrically scanning the core with a suitable detector in steps of 1 cm and for each step deriving a radiometric count over a 10 second interval.
The core section of interest is approximately 40 cm long and a strong correlation exists between the continuous curve and the histogram. The continuous curve is however inaccurate in that the radioactive count taken for each segment isinfluenced by contributions from adjacent core segments.
The apparatus shown in FIGS. 2 to 5 is designed to log the radioactive content of a borehole core while taking into account radioactive emission from notional core segments on either side of the particular notional segment which is under directmeasurement. The apparatus includes a core carriage 10, a detector 12, a computer 14, and control circuitry generally indicated by the reference numeral 16 in FIG. 5.
The core carriage 10 includes a stainless steel semi-cylindrical core receiving trough 18 which is mounted on guide and support rollers 20, and a pinion 22 which is driven by a stepper motor 24, see FIG. 5, which is engaged with a rack cut intothe base of the trough 18. The pitch of the rack determines the resolution of movement and in this example is of the order of 1 mm.
The detector 12 includes an annular thallium activated sodium iodide scintillation crystal 26 which is mounted in lead shielding 28 and which is flanked by two photomultiplier tubes 30 and 32 respectively.
As shown in FIG. 5 the photomultiplier tubes are respectively connected to high voltage supplies and pre-amplifiers 34 and 36 and then to amplifiers and single channel analysers 38 and 40. The outputs of the analysers are applied to a mixer 42which is connected to a counter/timer 44. The device 44 is connected to a stepper motor control unit 46 which controls a motor driver 48. The device 44 is also connected to the computer 14 via an interface unit 50. The driver 48 has a switch 52 forselecting the direction of movement of the motor.
A core 54 which is to be logged is placed in the trough 18 with the trough removed from the interior of the annular detector 12. The semi-cylindrical trough has the advantage that broken sections of core may be easily assembled and positioned inthe trough.
The stepping motor 24 is controlled by means of the circuitry 16. This circuit permits the trough to be moved in steps of from 10 mm to 99 mm through a total distance of up to 1.5 m. The stepping time may also be varied and the trough may beheld stationary relatively to the detector 12 for intervals of from 1 to 999 seconds.
As the trough 18 is stepped through the detector radiation from the core 54 is detected by the crystal 26. High voltage for the photomultipliers 30 and 32 is supplied via the units 34 and 36 respectively which also amplify the pulses produced bythe photomultipliers and then feed the amplified signals to the single channel analysers 38 and 40.
The outputs of the analysers are fed to the mixer 42 and then to counter/timer 44 which effectively adds the signals over a preset period determined by the counter/timer 44. At the end of the preset time an output signal is applied to thecomputer interface 50 and the count is transferred via the interface to a storage device in the computer 14. The computer also records the number of steps advanced which corresponds to the core slice or segment number for the particular segment. Thusfor each segment the computer records the core step number which is equivalent to the identity of the segment, the accumulated radioactive count, and the time interval over which the count is recorded.
The end of count signal is also applied to the stepper motor control unit 46. After a predetermined delay which is of the order of 1 second and which enables the transference of data to take place to the computer without interference from thestepper motor driver 48, the control unit 46 sends a predetermined number of pulses to the driver 48 which then drives the stepper motor 24 to advance the core by the predetermined notional segment thickness. The unit 46 has thumb wheel switches or thelike which enable the pulses which are fed to the driver 48 to be varied and which thereby enable the notional segment thickness to be varied as well. Segment thickness is in this way, in this example, adjustable from 10 mm to 99 mm.
One second after the end of the step advanced the control unit 46 sends a start count signal to the counter timer 44 which then rests to zero. The count for the succeeding core segment is then initiated and the process described is repeated.
The sequence of stepping movement, count recordal, and storage of data is repeated until a predetermined number of steps, set in advance on the control unit 46, is reached. At this stage the sequence is automatically terminated. Micro switchesmay be mounted on the apparatus which are responsive to movement of the trough 18 to sense the limits of travel of the trough to terminate operation of the stepper motor should these limits be exceeded. The switch 52 permits movement of the steppermotor to take place in either direction and thus a core can be logged irrespective of its direction of movement relatively to the detector 12.
When the preset length of core has been stepped through the detector the radioactivity count and time data for each segment or core slice have been stored in the computer 14. This data may be retrieved and printed out to indicate therelationship between each segment and its radioactive count per second. Alternatively the data may be displayed graphically as indicated in the continuous curve of FIG. 1.
The count recorded for each segment is not due to that segment alone but is the sum of the count from that segment and the contributions from adjacent segments on each side of the segment in question. The distance over which the contributionfrom another segment is meaningful depends on the particular installation but the distance involved may be up to about 10 cm on each side of the segment in question.
In accordance with a preferred feature of the invention a correction factor or curve is generated in advance which enables the contributions from adjacent segments to be compensated for. FIG. 6 illustrates the manner in which this is achieved. A high grade core segment 56 is located between barren lengths of core 58 and 60 and then passed through the detector 12. FIG. 7 illustrates a calibration curve produced from a count of radioactivity made by means of the detector 12 in respect of thesegment 56. Generally speaking the curve is symmetrical on either side of a reference plane which passes through the centre of the crystal 26. In this particular example the segment 56 is 10 mm thick and it can be seen from FIG. 7 that the countrecorded by the detector 12 is reduced to about 2% of the maximum when the segment is approximately 10 cm from the reference plane.
Calibration data corresponding to the curve shown in FIG. 7 is stored in the computer 14 and the summed count curve stored in the computer i.e. the continuous curve shown in FIG. 1 may then be deconvoluted using an iterative approximation processwherein the calculated resultant summed data points are repeatedly compared with the actual measured data point to determine the effective net contribution of each segment. In this way the actual or compensated count of each core segment is arrived atand a histogram of the actual count for each segment may be generated as shown in FIG. 8.
The invention has been described with particular reference to the generation of grade distribution curves for radioactive material. Clearly the principles of the invention are equally applicable to the evaluation of cores containing othermaterial which emits radiation either naturally or as the result of a stimulation process.
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Energy-Efficiency vs. Energy Conservation
Which Is It?
Our office sign, designed to produce guilt in people who use the elevator and a certain degree of smugness in those who climb the stairs, has been known to create arguments with our techno staff.
"Take the Stairs–Be More Energy Efficient"
Susan does take the stairs and feels good about it because she wants to be earth-friendly. She argues, "I am getting where I want to go; the elevator is using no energy; I am being energy-efficient."
Mike likes the easy life. He always takes the elevator. He opines, "If I take the stairs, I am not getting where I want to go with the same degree of ease. I am using less energy but at a reduced level of service because I have to walk rather than ride. It's energy conservation, not energy efficiency."
When is it energy efficiency and when is it energy conservation?
Energy efficiency is the relative economical use of energy to provide goods or services as opposed to a more extravagant use of energy to provide the same goods or services.
The less energy that is used to perform a certain service, the more energy efficient it is.
The more service that is given for the same amount of energy, the more energy-efficient it is.
Energy conservation is the reduction in the amount of energy used to provide goods or services through sensible use, economy, or elimination of waste.
The difference between these two terms is better understood with examples.
1. Energy-efficiency increases when energy inputs are reduced for a given level of service. In 2002, you moved from Bedford to Waco. You bought a home there and installed a new and improved HVAC system. Both homes were 2500 square feet. The new system used less energy than the system in your former home while keeping both homes cooled to 80° in summer. Your new system is more energy-efficient.
2. Energy-efficiency increases when there are increased or enhanced services for a given amount of energy inputs. In 2006, you were given an enormous raise (why not–after all, this is fiction) and transferred back to the Grapevine office. You built a new home in Grapevine the same size as your home in Waco but with lavish appointments and expensive systems. Your new HVAC system is top-notch. It actually allows you to cool your home to a more comfortable temperature (76°) while using the same or less energy than your former system used. It is more energy-efficient.
3. As utility prices continued to rise, you decided to keep your home in Grapevine the same temperature as the home in Waco (80°). You are now using your more energy-efficient system to conserve energy.
There is also behavior change to conserve energy, which is sometimes called energy efficiency.
Your office in Waco had an old, slow elevator that creaked from floor-to-floor, gobbling energy as it went. If four people in your Waco office took the stairs instead of the elevator, they were conserving energy. Less energy was used but less service was given.
When you moved to Grapevine, however, your company installed a new elevator and almost everyone prefers to use it now. The new elevator actually uses less energy than the old Grapevine elevator and much less energy than the creaking antique in Waco. The new elevator is more energy efficient.
Four people in Grapevine continue to take the stairs. They are still conserving energy in Grapevine but they are not conserving as much energy as the four stair-climbers in Waco conserve.
Because the elevator in Grapevine actually uses less energy than the elevator in Waco does for the same amount of service.
Clear as mud???
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Sunday, November 23, 2014
Three Ways to Begin Almost Anything...Plus One
Those are the big 3 components of most start-up plans, whether we're starting a business or beginning a new book. I agree, but in my case I do need one more:
A small itch, to start...then the son of an itch...All the rest amount to nothing till I have that inner itch. I can nurse Ideas and play with Plans until the cows come home. But it won't make a damned bit of difference. I need the itch to get in gear. And the itch is the one thing that cannot be forced.
The itch manifests in several ways: the desire to find a new notebook, something a little bit different this time, in which to lay the groundwork...scheduling possibilities for writing daily while I work...a growing need to spend time with my characters...more and more questions about them...
This is quite different, for me, than sitting one day like a calm, controlling pro. As the itch progresses, in fact, I grow more and more controlled until I really can't resist scratching the itch as I must.
So yesterday I found the just-perfect notebook for the new Boss MacTavin mystery. I passed a slew of Moleskines to snatch a 9x12 stiff-covered, 80 sheet Cambridge notebook. What grabbed me was the 2" bordered column on the outside of each page. I could make special notes there, memos to myself, etc.
Within the next few days, after I've finished preparing Red Champagne for its December launch, I'll begin to scratch with pages of questions and notes...which, I'll know from memory, will quickly multiply. Questions breed questions and notes breed more notes. And this could be a dangerous thing--as the wannabe writers in bars will tell you between beers--if the scratching didn't generate an even fiercer itch one day:
To try out some opening sentences. No plan to really start writing--not yet! But one of those opening sentences will lead us to try out a second...then a third...
And then we're lost as well as found. We're into perpetual scratch mode...and loving every second...as our confidence grows while the happy itch goes wild.
What the hell. At least we're not suffering from this dread affliction:
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Open Primary Trial in Idaho
The three-day federal trial in the Idaho Republican Party's lawsuit against the state-mandated open primary[1] concluded on October 15. The Republican Party wants to be able to enforce its rule that says that only Republicans may vote in GOP primaries. According to Ballot Access News:
"A last round of briefs will be filed in the next few weeks. The decision, when it comes down, will be a landmark. This is the first case in which either major party has submitted empirical evidence that it needs to close its primary because persons not in sympathy with the party have been voting in its primaries."
The Republican Party presented evidence that 41 percent of the voters in the 2008 GOP primary were non-Republicans.
"The Mississippi Democratic Party case [against the state-mandated open primary] had lost on a legal technicality..."
The technicality was that the Democrats had not adopted a party rule for a closed primary. The U. S. district court declared the open primary law unconstitutional, but in May 2008, the 5th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed the district court (Mississippi Democratic Party v. Barbour, 07-60667).
Dennis Mansfield attended the Idaho trial and produced several blog posts on it, starting on October 13. Another interesting post is here (Dennis's other posts on the trial are commingled with posts on different topics).
If the state-mandated open primary is ultimately struck down, each party will have the option of inviting independents to vote in its primaries (Tashjian v. Republican Party of Connecticut, 1986).
Unless the state prohibits it, each party will also have the option of inviting members of opposing parties to vote in its primaries-- which the Idaho Republicans obviously won't do (Clingman v. Beaver, 2005).
[1] Each voter chooses a party on primary day.


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After arriving on Monday we met Irish's friend Chris for lunch at the Shake Shack, where we had to fight for a table. Chris works at MTV just around the corner from our apartment, so he squeezed through the crowds of tourists to meet us. After lunch we went to the Toys r Us on Times Square because the kids could not miss the enormous Despicable Me sign across the front of it. Everyone got a toy and August spent the rest of the trip carrying around Iron Man. Monday night, we met up with Leila, went swimming at her gym because it was unmercifully hot, and then we went to her father's restaurant for diner.
Grace let us know it was the nicest restaurant she has ever been to, and I think she was right. It's pretty remarkable that it has been open for more than 35 years, people going to Studio 54 could stop in to eat there. Leila's parents came by when we were finishing and August had a bowl of ice cream with her dad, George. August is a very charming 3 year old when he wants to be, I think they enjoyed each other's company.
|Grace, Riley and Ruby
|George and August
|How much could we get if we sold this picture to People magazine?
From there we went up to see the dinosaurs, and then my children's attention spans were used up, and it was time to go get lunch.
|acting like dinosaurs
|Irish told me to look like I was learning things.
|boyhood dream being fulfilled
|August holding hands with Penny
|I set the timer on the camera, and almost made it in time. (Amanda, Chris, Irish, me)
|Riding the tram back
And then we met George to drop off the keys and headed back to Pennsylvania. My miles in the minivan this summer got closer to 3000, by the time we drive back to Denver next week it will be over 4000 miles. If the three hour drive to NYC is any indicator the 24 hour drive to Denver will be challenging- Grace was very very curious about how close we were to our destination. Now Irish and I are ready for a few days alone- so we are off to Niagara Falls today. Then Hershey Park. Then a very long drive, and a very long plane ride back to Korea!