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Antecedents and consequences of consumers' trust in electronic intermediaries: An empirical study of hotel booking websites
- Qingyun Jiang1Email author,
- Xun Huang2 and
- Zhuohao Chen3
© Higher Education Press and Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2009
- Published: 12 November 2009
Electronic intermediaries are recognized as one of the most significant B2C business models in the Internet era. A trustworthy intermediary website functions as both an information intermediary and a credibility intermediary. Given the critical role of trust in driving online purchase behaviors, the technology acceptance model (TAM) has been applied to investigating the impact of technology on online trust from the perspective of users' perception of Web interface. However, consumers' trust in an electronic intermediary derives from not only technological factors, but also factors of brand reputation and consumers' individual experiences. We conducted an experiment in the context of hotel booking websites. Results based on structural equation modeling indicate that the impact of an intermediary's reputation exceeds that of technology acceptance. Besides, reputation sum and reputation distance, which stand for synthesis effect and the cask effect respectively, are the two mechanisms of trust transfer.
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Indonesia Government launches Sulawesi railway construction
Indonesia Government launches Sulawesi railway construction :On 12.08.2014 the government of Indonesia has officially started the construction of the first phase of Sulawesi railway. This project is the first railway project outside Java and Sumatera and is being implemented as a part of National Railway Master Plan.
The 145 km line planned to be constructed is estimated to cost about 770 million US$. This price includes the procurement of rolling stock.
The first phase is planned to start from the coast of Makassar, the provincial capital of South Sulawesi and will run north up to the port of Parepare.
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Oh my~ this is a great day for the Groovy Inclinations Etsy Shop! She's A Betty sifted through Etsy's World and found some nifty items! (no surprise, since the site is booming with creatives poppin' off incredible items nearly every second of ever hour! Okay, so don't quote me on that but go to the front page and see for yourself! And, do it after you've seen She's A Betty's site.
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In the Dutch income tax, a substantial interest is, among other things, the situation in which you as a taxpayer, whether or not together with your partner:
- Are a shareholder of at least 5% of the issued capital (or of a particular type) in a domestic or foreign company (consider the private company with limited liability or the public limited company).
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By: Shefki Hysa
Notes about the volume of short stories "An ordinary night" of the writer Namik Mane
The writer Namik Mane (born in Filat Of Chameria in 13 March 1942) after the publication of the poem book "Filled with tears" (Pjergulla a lotëve), comes in front of the reader with the summaries of stories "An ordinary night" (Një natë e zakonshme). Social themes and issues prevail in the stories of this book.Thus, the author appears to us as the spokesman of the time he lived, brings it artistically reflected, with love and pain, that characterizes potential creators. The stories are an autobiography of the author and a biography of his contemporaries through the years. They distinguish for a realistic display of life, for truthfully and poetic breath, in the events presentation, in their subjective intuitive knitting, in the discovery of the character's relatioship and in their carving with vivid and prominent lines that made the reader to remember most of these characters.
Through conversational style, without invention, fiction, tricks and artificial. Namik creates a short prose, that is fluently read, arouse the reader's interest and curiosity on how social relationship are interwined, quite often strained, of vicissitude, surprises of life and the influence of today policy on the author's spiritual world and the people who sorround.
Namik Mane, contemporary, close friend and friends in letters, of the desident known writer Bilal Xhaferri, is appeared in the Albanian press with hist first creativities in poem and in short prose since '60. His name in those years, was in the rows of creators like: Bedri Myftari, Bardhyl Agasi, Moikom Zeqo etc, however for the fact that he came from a Chameria tribe, economically powerful, with patriotic and anticommunist traditions, time censorship abolished the right of publishment.
In these conditions, Namik Mane struggled a lot to survive, as a writer and along with real literary values, that his pen has taken out, sometimes for the sake of the publishment in the contemporary newspapers, he was also subjected to their demands for creativity with common themes of the day. This is seen in any story with the theme of the work, whose the author, aware of the weaknesses, has included in the book with the desire to give as full the time of dictatorship mirror, when he went for a couple of years in exile in Hamalla of Durres ( a period beautifully described in the story "The third"), together with the known writer Bilal Xhaferri.
The book "An ordinary night" (Një natë e zakonshme) is a nice conversation of the author with the reader. The stories are written with a rich artistic language, short sentences, that express feeling and energy, popular phraseology, especially of Chameria region. It scar the fact that the author of this stories is a really formed and completed prose writer and what is the most important, now his creativity is at the peak of artistic maturity. There is no way not to recognize this phenomenon in the original conception of stories, in the manner of the subject disclosure, in drawing the characters up to the finding of special expressive details and minuteness which definitely add value to the stories of this summary. In this sense Namiku ranks of the best prose writer we have today, although his creativity is low and till now not so far rated as it deserves. His stories are distinguished for kindness and nobility, as the author own soul, but they simultaneously are a hope message for reconciliation and peace between people of all stratum regardless of religion, race and colour. (Carefully read the story "Grekia", whose character the author describe with love, without even the slighest rancor, although as violently expelled from Chameria, could allow himself any negative emotional burden)
We wish the writer Namik Mane further successes in creativity and you dear reader, a good reading!
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I had to wait till in my 30's to get it due to divorces. I actually had to figure a way to steal it from moms safe, when she sent me to get something out I found it and copied it and put it back after that she had to give it to me.
Legend goes, the Blankenship Clan, my grandfathers name would sit in thier cabins in Oklahoma and cook the best Chocolate fudge ever made, the recipe has been strickly guarded for ever and even my ex husbands have begged for the recipe and even tried to get my kids to steal it for themselves.
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My son is already asking when we are going to cook it.. and I always wait for the coldest night, as is tradition and make the fudge. In yesteryear the recipe called for Walnuts available in England but in TExas / Oklahoma. Pecans are the nuts of choice. Ive already started hand shelling my nuts as is called for in the recipe. No store bought nuts.. Crunch / Crack and shell .. repeat a million times and Ill have enough for one batch.
It is the most delicous Fudge.. I did give some away years ago but could not keep up with requests and its expensive to make. People that dont like nuts or chocolate love this fudge.
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Join Vegas Connection for a unique night of song and dance as they premier their new show A Night in Las Vegas at the Arden Theatre, Faversham, on Saturday 28th October.
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The bread-slicing machine on display in Chillicothe is more than a slice of American history. For Patricia Marble, of Minneapolis, Minn., it is piece of her own history.
The bread-slicing machine on loan from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has been an attraction at Grand River Historical Society Museum in Chillicothe since its arrival in 2013. The machine is more than a slice of American history for Patricia Marble, of Minneapolis, Minn. It's a piece of her own history. At 105 years of age, Patricia recalls witnessing the demonstration of one of the first bread-slicing machines ever put into use. When she learned that an original bread slicer was on display in Chillicothe, Mo., she made plans with her daughter, Peg Wiklund, to view it in person. Patricia learned about the slicer on display after reading an article in the March 25 Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper with the headline "Greatest town since sliced bread." The focus of the article, which first appeared in the Washington Post, was Chillicothe having been the first place in the world to sell commercially-sliced bread. That event took place in 1928. "When I read the article, I said, 'Oh, I'd like to go and see that,'" Patricia told the Constitution-Tribune during her visit. "My whole family said it was time we got out and went someplace. So, we are going." Patricia got her first glimpse of a bread-slicing machine as a teen-ager in South Bend, Ind., when she and her mother and sister witnessed a special demonstration in 1928. Immediately following its introduction in Chillicothe, bakeries near and far clamored to get their own slicers. "I was about 15 years old when I saw it," Patricia recalled. "It was in front of the store... either Kroger or A&P... I don't remember which one. It was right in front of the store and people were gathering all around." The slicer belonged to nearby bakery and was brought to the grocery store for public viewing. The town's morning and evening newspapers had advertised the demonstration as an event for all to see. "Momma said, "Look, we have to go get groceries. Let's go and look at the bread machine," Patricia said. "My sister and I walked around it with our mouths open," she recalled. "There was a man standing right next to it, talking about it. He told all of these housewives how safe it was to have bread sliced that way and how convenient it would be." After being sliced, the loaves of bread would go down into the waxed paper bag, she recalled. "This was a big invention for industry... like cars," she added, noting that automobiles hadn't been on the market for very long when sliced bread was introduced. The demonstration, she added, "was as nice as going to the circus." Patricia recalled the bread-slicing machine she saw being shinier than the one on display in the museum, perhaps with more aluminum exposed. The one on display in Chillicothe is the second bread-slicing machine ever installed in a bakery. It is believed that the original bread slicing machine which was put to use at Chillicothe Baking Company was used until it fell apart. Patricia's mother was not unlike most mothers and housewives at that time in history. She baked all the bread her family consumed. "We lived in town but very few housewives ever bought bread at the store," Patricia stated. "That wasn't nice. You weren't a good housewife if you bought bread." But, once sliced bread was introduced, her mother gave it a try. Although her mother thought it was "heavenly" to purchase bread already sliced, her father was less impressed. "The first time she brought some home to my father (he always came home at lunch), he looked at it, he put it in his hand and he went like this," Patricia said, as she squeezed her hand tightly. "He opened his hand and said 'what on earth is this?" In his had was a compressed ball of bread. Homemade bread has a different consistency and reacts differently when squeezed. She said that her father never did learn to like store-bought bread. While making this trip to north Missouri, Patricia decided to visit Hamilton, the birthplace of James Cash Penney, businessman and entrepreneur who founded the J.C. Penney stores in 1902. Patricia worked for J.C. Penney's at the country's first indoor mall near Minneapolis for 27 years until company policy forced her to retire at age 65, some 40 years ago. Although she wanted to continue working and was even angry that she was forced to retire, she enjoyed her time with the department store and recalled meeting the founder. "I'm a very big fan of J.C. Penney," she said. "I sat at the breakfast table with him and shook his hand." After traveling to Hamilton, Patricia planned to take the back roads to Tampa, Fla., and visit the cemetery where her parents are buried. Having had milk delivered by a horse-drawn wagon, helping her mom scrub laundry on washboards and run clothes through a wringer, Patricia reflects on her past. "Now, that I am getting older, my children and grandchildren, great-grandchildren are bringing it all back to me," she said. "When I think all of what I experienced in my 100 years, I wonder how things will be in a 100 years from now." At 105 years age, Patricia stays active by volunteering in her community, regularly baking bread and pies, and also crafting stained glass lamps. She credits her longevity to having a big family background of strong people, including strong-minded, strong-willed and strong women. Her advice: "Smile everyday. If someone smiles at you, what do you do? The next person you see, you smile at them." Patricia was born August 27, 1912.


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1925 Santa Barbara earthquake
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|1925-06-29 14:42:16
|ISC event
|Local date
|June 29, 1925
|Local time
|6.8 Mw [1][2]
|34°18′N 119°48′W / 34.3°N 119.8°WCoordinates: 34°18′N 119°48′W / 34.3°N 119.8°W [1]
|probably left-lateral reverse
|Areas affected
|Central Coast (California)
United States
|Total damage
|$8 million [3]
|Max. intensity
|IX (Violent) [1]
|13 [3]
The 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake hit the area of Santa Barbara, California on June 29, with a moment magnitude of 6.8 and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of IX (Violent). It resulted in 13 casualties and destroyed the historic center of the city, with damage estimated at $8 million (about $111 million in 2017).
Although no foreshocks were reported felt before the mainshock, a pressure gauge recording card at the local waterworks showed disturbances beginning at 3:27 a.m., which were likely caused by foreshocks.[4] At 6:44 a.m. the mainshock occurred which lasted 19 seconds.[5] The epicenter of the earthquake was located in the sea off the coast of Santa Barbara, in the Santa Barbara Channel.[3] The fault on which it occurred appears to have been an extension of the Mesa fault or the Santa Ynez system.[6] The earthquake was felt from Paso Robles (San Luis Obispo County) to the north to Santa Ana (Orange County) to the south and to Mojave (Kern County) to the east.
Major damage occurred in the city of Santa Barbara and along the coast, as well as north of Santa Ynez Mountains, including Santa Ynez and Santa Maria valleys.[3]
Though thirteen people died, it may have been far worse without the actions of three heroes, who shut off the town gas and electricity preventing a catastrophic fire.[5] Most homes survived the earthquake in relatively good condition, although nearly every chimney in the city crumbled. The downtown of Santa Barbara was destroyed. Only a few buildings along State Street, the main commercial street, remained standing after the earthquake. The City Cab building and The Californian and Arlington garages, all large and fully occupied parking structures, collapsed full with cars. Many other vehicles were crushed in the downtown area. At least one death resulted when a driver near the San Marcos building was crushed as walls of buildings fell onto cars parked there.[7]
In the business district, an area of about 36 blocks, only a few structures were not substantially damaged, and many had to be completely demolished and rebuilt.[4] The facade of the church of the Mission Santa Barbara was severely damaged and lost its statues. Many important buildings, including hotels, offices, and the Potter Theater, were lost. The courthouse, jail, library, schools, and churches were among the buildings sustaining serious damage. Concrete curbs buckled in almost every block in Santa Barbara. Pavement on the boulevard along the beach was displaced by about 20–36 centimeters (0.66–1.18 ft), but the pavement in the downtown generally was not damaged.[3]
The earthen Sheffield Dam had been built near the city in 1917. It was 720 feet (220 m) long and 25 feet (7.6 m) high and held 30 million US gallons (114 million liters) of water. The soil under the dam liquefied during the earthquake and the dam collapsed. This was the only dam to fail during an earthquake in the US until the Lower San Fernando Dam failed in 1971.[8] When it burst, a wall of water swept between Voluntario and Alisos Streets destroying trees, cars, three houses and flooding the lower part of town to a depth of 2 feet (0.61 m).[9]
The Southern Pacific Company Railroad tracks were damaged in several places between Ventura and Gaviota. In particular, a portion between Naples and Santa Barbara was badly damaged and displaced.[3] Seaside bluffs fell into the ocean, and a slight tsunami was noted by offshore ships. The town was completely cut off from telephone and telegraph, and news from the outside world arrived by shortwave radio. The absence of post-earthquake fire permitted scientists to study earthquake damage to various types of construction.[5]
The American Legion and the Naval Reserves from the Naval Reserve Center Santa Barbara helped provide order amidst the chaos and manned posts and provided patrols throughout the town to inhibit looting of the damaged businesses and homes. Additional fire and police personnel arrived from as far as Los Angeles to assist the sailors and soldiers in maintaining order.[7]
Three strong aftershocks occurred in the next few hours, though none causing any additional damage, with events occurring at 8:08, 10:45, and 10:57 am, and many smaller shocks continued throughout the day. An aftershock on July 3 caused additional cracked walls and damaged chimneys.[3][7]
Since the downtown of Santa Barbara suffered irreparable damage, there was a large-scale construction effort in 1925 and 1926 aimed at removing or repairing damaged structures and constructing new buildings. This development completely altered the character of the city center. Before the earthquake, a considerable part of the center was built in the Moorish Revival style. After the earthquake, the decision was made to rebuild it in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. This effort was undertaken by the Santa Barbara Community Arts Association, which was founded in the beginning of the 1920s and viewed the earthquake as the opportunity to rebuild the city center in the unified architectural style.[10]
Many architects were invited to design the building facades, among them James Osborne Craig, George Washington Smith, Carleton Winslow, Bertram Goodhue, and Winsor Soule. Lionel Pries spent a year in Santa Barbara. As a result, many buildings later listed on National Register of Historic Places were designed in the late 1920s, among them the Santa Barbara County Courthouse and the front of the Andalucia Building.[10]
Building codes in Santa Barbara were made more stringent after the earthquake demonstrated that traditional construction techniques of unreinforced concrete, brick, and masonry were unsafe and unlikely to survive strong temblors.[11]
See also[edit]
- List of earthquakes in 1925
- List of earthquakes in California
- List of earthquakes in the United States
- ^ a b c Stover & Coffman 1993, p. 77
- ^ ISC (2014), ISC-GEM Global Instrumental Earthquake Catalogue (1900–2009), Version 1.05, International Seismological Centre
- ^ a b c d e f g Stover & Coffman 1993, pp. 125, 126
- ^ a b "Significant Earthquakes and Faults, Santa Barbara Earthquake". Southern California Earthquake Data Center. Archived from the original on January 3, 2015. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
- ^ a b c Graffy, Neal (June 27, 2010). "1925 Earthquake – Day 1, Part 1". edhat.com. Archived from the original on January 16, 2017.
- ^ "California Earthquake History". U.S. Geological Survey Southern. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
- ^ a b c Albert F. Nathan (June 30, 1925), "Southland Unites in Dispatching Relief to Earthquake victims by Train and Auto", Los Angeles Times
- ^ http://www.usbr.gov/ssle/damsafety/Risk/BestPractices/27-SeismicEmbankmentPP20121121.pdf
- ^ Lindley, Grant; Sylvester, Arthur Gibbs (February 21, 2006). "The 1925 Santa Barbara Earthquake: The Dam Break". Santa Barbara Earthquake History. UC Santa Barbara. Retrieved April 14, 2012.
- ^ a b "Andalucia Building". National Park Service. Retrieved April 14, 2012.
- ^ Campbell, Colin. "Santa Barbara Has Its Faults". Retrieved 8 March 2017.
- Stover, C.W.; Coffman, J.L. (1993), Seismicity of the United States, 1568–1989 (Revised), U.S. Geological Survey professional paper 1527, United States Government Printing Office
- Willis, Bailey (1925), "A Study Of The Santa Barbara Earthquake Of June 29, 1925", Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Seismological Society of America, 15 (4): 255–278
External links[edit]
- 1925 Santa Barbara Earthquake Survivor interview
- Views of Earthquake Damage in Santa Barbara, California 1925, finding aid and online photo collection, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
- M 6.8 - 14km SSE of Isla Vista, CA – United States Geological Survey
- The International Seismological Centre has a bibliography and/or authoritative data for this event.


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Impressing critics in the early Seventies with their fusion of rock, and classical music, and a classic trademark of memorable songs and beautiful harmonies, Barclay James Harvest created seminal albums like Once Again (featuring the classic Mockingbird) and Barclay James Harvest And Other Short Stories and made their mark with stunning live performances. Barclay James Harvest began to enjoy greater commercial success in 1974 with Everyone Is Everybody Else and Barclay James Harvest Live, a double LP which became their first chart album. Founder member Woolly Wolstenholme left in 1979 to pursue a solo career and the band continued as a trio until 1997 when musical differences led to the creation of two splinter groups led by the principal songwriters, Les Holroyd and John Lees. Both bands have continued to be active since 1997, each focussing on that songwriter's music.
John Lees had recruited Wolstenholme back into his band, which started with the monicker Barclay James Harvest Through the Eyes of John Lees, but soon became John Lees' Barclay James Harvest. After the tragic death of Wolstenholme in December 2010, the band honoured his memory with a moving sold-out tribute show; later in 2011, they went on to play a triumphant series of headline festival slots in Germany, Switzerland, France (with Status Quo) and the UK, including a headline spot at the High Voltage Festival in Victoria Park, London, which was their last UK performance to date. Following the release of the Live at Metropolis Studios CD/DVD set, in August 2012 John Lees' Barclay James Harvest made their first appearance in Japan, playing a sold-out show in their own right and performing on the bill at the Open Air Progressive Rock Fest in Tokyo to an enthusiastic reception. The band have now announced their most extensive UK tour in recent years, which will take place in October 2012
The band line-up is: John Lees on vocals, guitar and recorder; Craig Fletcher – vocals and bass guitar; Jez Smith – keyboards, vocals and acoustic guitar, and on drums, Kevin Whitehead.
DPRP reviewer Alex Torres had a chance for a short conversation with band founder John Lees, as he prepares for the tour.
Alex: Would you like to tell me a little bit about the forthcoming tour?
John: Well, it's more extensive than we've done for a long time: we're visiting seven cities throughout Britain. It's going to be a celebration of Barclay James Harvest's music, as written by myself, from the beginning right through to some more contemporary stuff, so really it's a chance to see where we are.
Alex: So, as well as more recent Barclay James Harvest material, will you also be playing material from the forthcoming album that I understand you are recording at the moment?
John: We have trialled some of the material and some of the songs are already recorded, but others have yet to be done and we are continuing recording with a projected release in April. We will need to support the album's release around that time and so the feeling was that it was best leaving the new album's songs out of this tour, and supporting it in the Spring. The contemporary stuff is taken from the post-Woolly [Wolstenholme] era.
Alex: Ok, so from the 80s and the 90s, songs up to the River of Dreams album?
John: Yes, there'll be a few things from that period.
Alex: Last year you surprised the fans when you played Taking Some Time On [from the band's first album released in 1970, and not played live since that time] at the High Voltage festival: will there be any more surprises in the autumn set-list from the band's Woolly-period?
John: Yes, there will. What we're going to do is that we're not using a support band for the tour; we're going to have an intermission, so we are thinking of using the first half to include a few "surprises".
Alex: I've seen John Lees' Barclay James Harvest playing several times now and it seems to me that this latest version of the band play with a lot of joy and a lot of fun, which I guess must make it easier for you to continue.
John: Yes, first of all I've had real support from these guys who are all fantastic players from the local area [Oldham, UK]. When Woolly and I got this band back together back for Nexus, I wanted it to be like the original band's [early days]; like a partnership with everybody sharing equally, and we've achieved that. That's the way we work and that's the way that the new material has been recorded as well with everyone contributing to the arrangements. That's one of the reasons that we are such good friends. There's no competition within the band, it's a great atmosphere and it's nice that you say that comes across on stage because it's very much happening on the stage as well.
Alex: As a guitarist you've not been recognised in any "best of year" polls or stuff like that which I've seen, but your fans always look forward to your guitar playing, especially during the live performances as a major highlight of the music. How did you develop your guitar style, John?
John: I think some of the songs call for those guitar parts: I think the solo parts are probably the classic rock/progressive rock element in what is quite often pastoral music really. I've gone through quite a few differences in songwriting over the period of time I've been doing it.
Alex: Yes, the band's music has progressed over the many years you've been playing but the guitar style, certainly in live performance, has stayed reasonably constant wouldn't you say? How did you develop it?
John: Well, I think it was just a natural progression really. I must admit that over the last ten years I've played a lot more than in the previous ten. I'm playing all the time now, which I didn't do before. I've taken influences from certain people over that period but it's never been anything conscious: essentially, it's developed and I play like I play, without trying to emulate anyone particular individual or style.
Alex: Does it upset you personally that you're not – other than by the band's own fans – generally more widely recognised as a guitarist?
John: No, not at all! Less pressure! (laughs)
Alex: What is it that keeps you playing after all of these years?
John: Well, it's the desire to have a celebration of the music that has been created over all that time. I mean, for me personally, revisiting and reworking some of the older material, because some of that material was written so long ago, I get a totally different "rocket burn". I really love technology; I've always been trying to keep in with everything that's current and everything that's new, so that's something that also keeps me interested in music: the "toys", if you like. It's something you can't put down: it applies if you were an artist or painter, you'd always do it, wouldn't you; and I'm fortunate that I've got the opportunity to still keep doing it with younger people who are every bit as enthusiastic about it as I am.
Alex: Pressing on this point of the band carrying on though: there was a bit of a lull after the 2006 Legacy tour, almost as if the band was saying "this is what we want to be remembered for" and the fans were perhaps surprised – but also pleased – when you returned to regular activity. Now that you've got the tour coming up and the new album in the Spring, can we expect the activity to continue?
John: Yes. There's a very good reason for that hiatus, which is that I went into education. I actually went and worked in a sixth form at a school helping children to study music technology. I did that for five years and I've just retired from that with a view to spending more time on Barclay James Harvest. To be honest, what we were doing before had to be concentrated around half-terms and school holidays, which is quite restrictive. I've done my five years and I really thoroughly enjoyed it, I enjoyed helping the kids and I've come back to concentrate on Barclay James Harvest while I've got the time to do it.
Alex: Has the new album got a working title?
John: No it doesn't.
Alex: And the music itself, what kind of Barclay James Harvest period would you put it into, John?
John: A continuation of the later albums really; probably a continuation of Nexus [released in 1999 under the Barclay James Harvest Through the Eyes of John Lees brand], which was the one with Woolly. Very much "John Lees" style, and the new guys. It's a stage further on from that.
Alex: Have the new guys written any songs towards it?
John: Yes, everybody's contributed.
Alex: I look forward to hearing it. You said you were going to support the album in the Spring, so does that mean plans to tour again and perhaps play some dates further across Europe?
John: The plan is – in late April I think it is – we've got some dates pencilled in for Switzerland, Germany, Holland and Belgium, but that will be the first phase. I suppose we'll look at what the state of play is after we've done these seven concerts here with a view to maybe doing some more next year.
Alex: It certainly seems as if the band – unlike decades ago – seems to have a reasonably high profile in the music press that covers this type of music.
John: Yes, which is somewhat down to Eclectic [Esoteric Recordings] and Mark Powell [the band's manager and director of Esoteric Recordings]. He's been very supportive in his work in keeping the music going. It's great; they've been really good for us. We've just been to Japan, where we'd never done a performance, and we got a great reception there!
Alex: Thanks John, good luck with the tour.
John Lees' Barclays James Harvest October 2012 UK dates are:
19th Manchester – The Ritz 0843 221 0976 hmvritz.com
23rd St Albans – The Alban Arena 01727 844488 www.alban-arena.co.uk
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I'm in Denver this week for 360|Flex. It's my first time at this conference, and so far I'm a little disappointed.
This morning I saw James Ward present an "Into to Building Mobile Apps." The session didn't get as deep as I'd hoped, but I did learn a few things. For one: the reason iOS is sort of a second-class citizen right now (you can only compile Actionscript projects to iOS and you have to do it from the command-line) has less to do with Apple<->Adobe politics and more to do with the fact that the cross-compiling hasn't been optimized, yet. Compiling for Android just means making use of the AIR runtime. That's a bit easier, it turns out, than writing an optimized cross-compiler. Word is, though, that the next AIR runtime and Flash Builder will bring iOS publishing the click-to-publish attention it deserves. Oh, and I might have possibly gotten to use and app published in unannounced AIR and Flex SDK that performed very well on an iPod Touch (scrolling lists, screen transitions, and all looked native). No word on feature parity with AIR (there were some AIR features missing in the last Packager for iOS I used). Also, James has ported Tour de Flex to mobile! The app is in the Android Market, he's hoping to submit it to the iOS App Store soon, and even if it gets rejected (it is technically a demo) he's releasing the source code, so you could build and install it yourself. Very cool.
The afternoon session "Introduction to Away3D" was pretty awful. I don't think I fault presenter Dan Florio. He was friendly, helpful, and approachable. He was, however, simply opening example projects, reading the code and/or comments aloud, and then executing the projects. It was clear he only uses 3D rendering for tinkering with mathematical visuals and building example projects for training. He couldn't explain why you would manipulate the zoom property of a camera rather than it's z property, nor exactly what the focus property does. At one point we built and rebuilt a project (which drew a simple square mesh and rotated it on all three axes) 5 or 6 times simply changing the color of the material applied to it. I did not stay for the whole session. Downloading the example code from any tutorial on Away3D is the functional equivalent of having attended this session. Thank you, Dan, for preparing all these examples and for documenting the code with plentiful explanatory comments. Shame on you, 360|Flex, for thinking this should be a whole afternoon hands-on session.
Tonight I skipped off to downtown Denver to check out some live music. I found that a band called Elliott Brood, from Ontario, was playing at a place called Hi Dive. After having a fantastic grilled cheese (asiago, cheddar and spinach pesto) next door at Sputnik I grabbed a Lucky U IPA and headed to the back of the bar, catching the tail end of Brothers O'Hair's set. I guess you'd call them power-pop? They were fun. Elliott Brood was quite fun, too. I guess you'd call them alt country. Excellent drums, and combinations of acoustic guitar (often overdriven), electric guitar, banjo, harmonica, and vocals. Sometimes raucous, sometimes shoe-gazery.
It really felt to me like Denver appreciates music more than Austin. People were obviously into the music, rather than affecting the indifferent or slightly annoyed look I'm used to seeing back home. Maybe Austin is spoiled. Maybe we take live music for granted.
Adobe just announced CS 5.5 and 3 iPad apps, I see. Interesting timing. They're delivering a Keynote at 9 AM. I'm looking forward to this.


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The impact of anxiety on intraoperatve pain in patients undergoing cataract surgery under topical anaesthesia
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to evaluate the effect of preoperative anxiety on intraoperative pain and patient's cooperation in patients undergoing cataract surgery under topical anaesthesia.
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This study included 150 patients. The state and trait anxiety in cataract surgery was measured by State- Trait Anxiety Inventory scale. The pain intensity in the immediate postoperative period was measured by The visual analog scale (VAS).In order to monitor the patient's behavior during cataract surgery was used by Patient Cooperation Scale. Phacoemulsification was performed with quick chop technique using Alcon OZiL IP system. Spearman correlation analysis was used to assess the relationship between anxiety scores and introperative pain or patient's cooperation scores. In addition to, cataract firmness, axial length, total surgical time were assessed. P<0.05 was considered statistically significant.
In the present study, 150 eyes from 150 patients were evaluated. Mean age was 69.7±9.4 years (range: 46—92 years), and 73 men and 77 women were included.When the relationship among preoperative anxiety scores , intraoperative pain scores and patients' cooperation scores were evaluated, there were significant correlations between preoperative anxiety scores and intraoperative pain scores (r=0.784; P<0.0001) and patients' cooperation scores (r=0.776; P<0.0001).
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text: Wanted to share the rest of the pages I have completed for my heritage album. The first and third ones are from my grandparents wedding and the second is my mom when she was a child. I used the same technique on the "True Love" layout as the one from yesterday, cutting out the flowers from a large patterned piece and adding some glitter, then adhering them with foam dots. The wedding layouts are Graphic 45 papers and the one of my mom is Bo Bunny's Olivia collection. Have a great Thursday!


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At 12 months, the mean angiographic in-segment late lumen loss was 0.14 mm for the everolimus-eluting stent versus 0.28 mm for the paclitaxel-eluting stent (P≤0.004), Gregg W. Stone, M.D., of Columbia University, and colleagues reported in the April 23/30 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
There was also a 42%, statistically significant reduction in major adverse coronary events (P=0.02). "As such, the present study is the first pivotal randomized trial to demonstrate enhanced event-free survival with a new stent," the authors wrote.
But because the event rate was not a primary endpoint of the trial, the authors said that the finding "cannot be considered definitive until prospectively verified in an adequately powered randomized trial."
They said, too, that because the trial was designed as a noninferiority trial, it was "underpowered to examine whether an everolimus-eluting stent reduces target lesion revascularization, target vessel revascularization, and target vessel failure as well as the occurrence of low-frequency safety events, compared with a paclitaxel stent."
Everolimus is an analogue of rapamycin, which inhibits cell cycle progression and smooth muscle proliferation.
The SPIRIT III trial enrolled 1,002 men and women at 65 participating centers in the U.S. from June 22, 2005 through March 15, 2006. Patients were randomized to the paclitaxel-eluting stent (N=333) or the everolimus-eluting stent in a trial that was designed to evaluate both the safety and efficacy of the investigational stent.
Patients were instructed to take aspirin (>80 mg daily) indefinitely and clopidogrel (75 mg daily) for at least 6 months. Approximately 70% of patients continued taking dual antiplatelet therapy at one year.
All patients had lesions of 28 mm or less with a reference vessel diameter between 2.5 and 3.75 mm.
The primary endpoint was noninferiority or superiority of late lumen loss and the secondary endpoint was target vessel revascularization at nine months.
Major adverse coronary events at nine and 12 months was added as another secondary endpoint, mainly as a response to reports of late and very late stent thrombosis with drug-eluting stents.
The results published in the current issue of JAMA closely track preliminary results reported at TCT 2007 last October, with minor changes in P values (See: TCT: Fewer Peri-Procedural MIs With Xience (Everolimus-Eluting) Stent).
Among the findings reported today:
- Nine-month target vessel failure in the everolimus arm was 7.2% versus 9% in the paclitaxel stent arm, for a difference of -1.9% (95% CI -5.6% to 1.8%); relative risk was 0.79 (95% CI 0.51 to 1.23, <0.001 for noninferiority).
- The nine-month major adverse coronary events rate was 4.6% in the everolimus-eluting stent group versus 8.1% in the paclitaxel-eluting stent arm, (RR 0.56, 95% CI 0.34 to 0.94, P=0.03).
- The 12-month major adverse coronary events rate was 6% versus 10.3% favoring the everolimus-eluting stent (RR 0.58, 95% CI 0.37 to 0.90, P=0.02).
In an accompanying editorial, Manesh R. Patel, M.D., and David R. Holmes Jr., M.D., of Duke University, wrote that "these data are encouraging and would qualify as demonstrating biological plausibility and mechanistic effect at the level of a phase II study. The current data from the SPIRIT III trial are analogous to the initial comparisons of drug-eluting versus bare metal stents."
But, they noted, a safety determination "to an existing device with regard to infrequent events such as stent thrombosis will still require randomization, but in larger populations undergoing follow-up for a longer period."
The Academic Research Consortium, they said, has proposed death, MI, and repeat revascularization procedures as outcomes.
"These outcomes measured over time will provide both efficacy and safety measures for currently available and future interventional devices. These are the outcomes that practicing interventional cardiologists must demand prior to widespread use of a new device," the editorialists concluded.
| The SPIRIT III trial was sponsored and funded by Abbott Vascular.
Dr. Stone reported receiving research support from Abbott Vascular and Boston Scientific and honoraria from Medtronic.
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Journal of the American Medical AssociationSource Reference: Stone GW, et al "Comparison of an everolimus-eluting stent with a paclitaxel-eluting stent in patients with coronary artery disease: A randomized trial" JAMA 2008; 299: 1903-1913.
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Journal of the American Medical AssociationSource Reference: Patel MR, Holmes Jr. DR "Next-Generation Drug-Eluting Stents" JAMA 2008; 299: 1952-1953.


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LONDON (Reuters) - The euro rose on Friday, regaining some ground after two days of losses as some market players took a more optimistic view of the European Central Bank's stance on sovereign bond buying that cold help tackle a three-year-old euro zone debt crisis.
Many investors had piled into bets against the euro on Thursday when the ECB dealt it a major setback by not immediately reviving its bond buying program to curb high borrowing costs in Italy and Spain.
The ECB indicated any intervention would not come before September and President Mario Draghi also said intervention would come only if governments activated the euro zone's bail-out funds to join the ECB in buying bonds.
But growing expectations the ECB would ultimately intervene helped the euro, with investors who earlier bet against the single currency being squeezed out of short positions.
Analysts said further near-term gains would depend on U.S, non-farm payrolls data, due at 8:30 a.m. EDT (1230 GMT). The euro was also vulnerable to renewed selling with the euro zone debt crisis unresolved.
"There are a lot of people out there taking a reassessment of what Draghi said yesterday," said Lutz Karpowitz, currency strategist at Commerzbank. "It's rather difficult to believe they will really refrain from stepping into the market."
The euro rose 0.8 percent to $1.2285 after triggering stop loss buy orders at $1.2250, traders said.
It pared losses from a near three-cent dive on Thursday but many market players said the single currency could come under renewed pressure after the U.S. jobs data and test recent two-year lows below $1.2050 in coming days.
A weak number would be likely to increase speculation that the U.S. Federal Reserve would ease policy further and hurt the dollar, while a stronger number would give the greenback a lift and drive the euro lower.
"The euro is headed lower, there is no doubt about that. People are probably waiting for U.S. payrolls and an OK number could see the euro fall towards $1.2040," said Geoff Kendrick, currency strategist at Nomura.
"The ECB's decision was bad for the euro and it will grind lower. We will see more pain before there is more action."
A break below the euro's two-year low of $1.2042 could see it test the 200-month moving average of around $1.2020. Traders cited option barriers at $1.2000 and a drop below that could take the euro to its 2010 low of $1.1876.
Recent highs around $1.2390/2406 were expected to be strong resistance for the euro with speculators and long-term investors, such as reserve managers looking to sell the euro on any bounce.
The euro held near a record low against the Australian dollar hit on Thursday, around A$1.1597.
It recovered against the yen ,however, rising 1 percent on the day to 96.238 yen to move further away from a 11-1/2-year low of 94.12 yen hit last month.
"There are structural flows out of the euro to other currencies," said a trader at a Japanese bank. But he added the prospect that the ECB would eventually step in to buy bonds would offer the euro support at lower levels.
The dollar was flat against the yen, trading at 78.26, off Thursday's high around 78.54, though wariness about Japan intervening would keep the yen in check.
Traders said markets were bracing for the U.S. jobs data. Analysts polled by Reuters generally expect the economy to have created 100,000 jobs in July and the jobless rate to stay at 8.2 percent.
A stronger number could temper hopes of more stimulus from the Federal Reserve, which earlier this week signaled it was prepared to act unless the economy staged an unlikely comeback in the next six weeks.
Additional reporting by Anirban Nag, editing by Nigel Stephenson


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Olympics TV Coverage at a Glance
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TV coverage of the Salt Lake City Olympics:
FRIDAY'S RATINGS:@ The 15.8 national rating for NBC's 8-10:45 p.m. coverage was a 10 percent dip from Thursday night and the lowest prime-time rating of the Salt Lake City Olympics. Still, it's 7 percent higher than the Day 8 rating for the 1998 Nagano Olympics on CBS. Friday night's rating sampling was cut off at 10:45 p.m. _ the show lasted another 45 minutes _ because that's when the network stopped showing nationally aired commercials (in favor of local affiliates' ads). The national rating probably would have been lower otherwise; ratings began slipping at 10 p.m., and they dropped 10 percent from 10:30-10:45. Friday night's rating lowered the eight-day average from Salt Lake City to 18.8 _ still 13 percent higher than the ratings to this point for Nagano (the lowest-rated Winter Games since 1968). An estimated 160 million people have seen at least part of NBC's Salt Lake City coverage.
HIGHLIGHT:@ Breaking into live _ gasp! _ coverage of the U.S. women's hockey team's game against Finland on Saturday for an update on the pairs figure skating saga.
LOWLIGHT:@ NOT breaking into anything to tell viewers what happened in the men's Super G Alpine skiing race (Kjetil Andre Aamodt won the gold, his record seventh Olympic Alpine medal, while American Daron Rahlves was eighth) or that both the U.S. and world records were broken in the men's 1,000-meter speedskating, because NBC was holding coverage of those events for Saturday night.
WHEN TO WATCH SUNDAY (TIMES EST; SUBJECT TO CHANGE):@ NBC: 7-7:30 p.m.: two-man bobsled final (taped). 7:30-8:15 p.m.: women's Super G Alpine skiing (taped); 8:15-9 p.m.: women's 1,000-meter speedskating (taped); 9-9:30 p.m.: men's 40-kilometer cross-country skiing relay (taped); 9:30-11 p.m.: ice dancing (live); MSNBC: 9-11 a.m.: review of first week; CNBC: 6-9 p.m.: Sweden vs. Czech Republic men's hockey (live); 9-11:25 p.m.: Canada vs. Germany men's hockey (live); 11:25 p.m.-12 a.m.: U.S. vs. Finland men's curling (live).


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Now booboo is eighteen pounds got a whole new shed of hair and cherry fixed
But here is the problem booboo was not healthy because booboo is addicted to something.
He also has sired pups but they are not in the best of shape.
Here is a picture of boo boo
Please for sake the living please don't
Over populate gods creatures . Don't abuse exploit neglect. We are fortunate to have such beautiful animals that can co exist with mankind. But beware even a small dawg can bite and hurt people . Leaving terrible marks and if you see a maimed animal in the road don't touch them they will bite even their owners when cornered. This is their nature and it cannot be abstracted from their nature it's just the way they were born into society . God loves them yes he does but humans are definitely loved as well. Usually it's not the dawgs fault it's usually our fault for the way they behave and it's more likened into their engineering to love you back.


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How did you get started?
Government evening classes when I was 15
What genre do you consider your work to be?
Ceramic Art and Functional Art
Describe your work in less than 10 words.
Modern, Decorative, Functional, Tactile. Wall pieces, Functional ware for everyday use.
Where was your first exhibition held?
Society of Arts Collective Naxxar
How long have you been practising your art?
I did paint at a younger age – Ceramics for 20 years plus 3 years when I was 15
Which is your favourite from among your own artworks?
Rockpool series
Whose artist's work are you most inspired by?
Locally – George Muscat. Others – Jane Jermyn and more
If you weren't an artist, what would you be?
An innovator
What is the epitome of happiness for you?
Expressing an idea in clay and being in the sea.
What are you working on at the moment?
Decorative plates.
Are you a morning person or do you come alive at night?
Morning, definitely.
How many coffees a day? Don't embellish.
1 – 2.
Sundays can be very productive for some and very unproductive for others. How do you spend yours?
Studio; catching up with other work
Wine and cheese. Yes or no?
If you were given a million euros, what would you indulge yourself with?
A dwelling somewhere right on the sea.
Favourite place to holiday?
Anywhere near the sea for swimming


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Global Self-Service Kiosk Market is set to grow at a CAGR of 10.7% to register $35.14 billion by 2023
Global Self-Service Kiosk Market
The APAC market is expected to maintain its dominance for the forecast period of 2018-2022.HYDERABAD, TELANGANA, INDIA, June 14, 2018 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In the Report "Self-Service Kiosk Market: By Type (ATM, Vending Machine); By Implementation (Point-of-Information, Product Dispensing, Internet Commerce, others); By Industry Vertical (Retail, Hospitality, Medical, others); By Geography - (2018-2023)" published by IndustryARC, the market is driven by self-service technologies in the retail sector, playing an essential role in propelling growth.
Asia-Pacific dominating with major share and growth in the Self-Service Kiosk Market
Asia-Pacific countries which comprises of India, China and Japan are the leading kiosk providers till 2022, followed by American countries such as the U.S., Canada, Mexico and others. Last year, APAC Market generated maximum value of $6.71 billion and became the leading market holder. The APAC market is expected to maintain its dominance for the forecast period of 2018-2022. The American market is to retain its dominance from 2023, growing at a CAGR of 10.9% to reach value of $12.29 billion by 2023. The continuing dominance of APAC is expected to end by 2022, and will reach value of $12.26 billion by 2023. Europe is seen growing at a faster pace of 11.1% CAGR and to reach a value of $9.15 billion by 2023.
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The market is segregated based on types such as point of information, product promotion, service/transaction, and product dispensing and internet commerce self-service kiosks. In type of segments, Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) are self-service kiosks that allow customers to make monetary transactions, without the help of any representative. The ATMs is the leading type among Kiosks and Vending Machines. The ATM market witnessed revenue of $12.44 billion in 2017 in self-service kiosks models market. Findings say that the market is projected to reach $18323.6 million by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 6.7% throughout the forecast period 2018-2023. APAC is the dominant region for ATMs market. Vending Machines are the next leading segment utilized for dispensing products such as tickets, food items among others.
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Adopting advanced advertising portals, POS terminals, and intelligent kiosks and so on helps to save the time of the customers, enhance customer interaction, explores buying patterns to build a strong customer relationship. This is set to drive the self-service kiosk market.
A significant increase in the arrival of visitors in shopping malls, especially in developing countries, has been seen. Functions like POS kiosks, information terminals, vending systems and many others, attract more customers. The latest hosting of advertisement and information assistance are influencing the buyer decisions. This gradually says the retail sector is set to propel the market in future.
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Key players of the Self-Service Kiosk Market
The self-service kiosks market has numerous large and small vendors present. Companies like NCR Corporation, Diebold Inc., Wincor Nixdorf, Nautilus Hyosung, Hitachi-Omron and others have various products that impact the market dynamics. Diebold Inc. has a set of products such as BEETLE /iSCAN EASY eXpress, which is a Self Service Checkout Kiosk. Wincor Nixdorf is known for its product Wincor Nixdorf W1000 with functionalities like 2D scanner Motorola DS457 and 80mm Thermal Printer. NCR Corporation is another renowned organization known for its products like SelfServ 90 Kiosk. Hitachi Omron is another major shareholder helped by the launch of Cash Recycling ATM named as HT-2845-SR. These major products are helping globally, towards transforming itself into a digital world.
Self-Service Kiosk Market report is segmented as below
A.Self-Service Kiosk Market -By Components
3.Application Software
B.Self-Service Kiosk Market -By Type Of Machine
1.Automated Teller Machine (ATM)
2.Point Of Information
3.Ticketing Kiosk
4.Photo Kiosk
5.Patient Self-Service Kiosk
6.Check-In Kiosk
7.Employment Kiosk
8.Product –Dispensing
9.Internet Commerce
C.Self-Service Kiosk Market -By Application
2.Financial Services
3.Health Care
6.Educational Institutions
7.Government Sector
D.Self-Service Kiosk Marketby Geography (covers 10+ countries)
E.Self-Service Kiosk Entropy Market
Manufacturer Citied / Interviewed
1.Azkoyen Group
2.Crane Co.
3.Jofemar Corporation
4.Kiosk Information Systems
5.Sanden Vendo
6.N&W Global Vending SPA
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8.Company 8
9.Company 9
10.Company 10+
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In this thesis we consider errors arising from finite difference operators on summation-by-parts (SBP) form, used in the discretisation of partial differential equations. The SBP operators are augmented with simultaneous-approximation-terms (SATs) to weakly impose boundary conditions. The SBP-SAT framework combines high order of accuracy with a systematic construction of provably stable boundary procedures, which renders it suitable for a wide range of problems.
The first part of the thesis treats wave propagation problems discretised using SBP operators on coarse grids. Unless special care is taken, inaccurate approximations of the underlying dispersion relation materialises in the form of an incorrect propagation speed. We present a procedure for constructing SBP operators with minimal dispersion error. Experiments indicate that they outperform higher order non-optimal SBP operators for flow problems involving high frequencies and long simulation times.
In the second part of the thesis, the formal order of accuracy of SBP operators near boundaries is analysed. We prove that the order in the interior of a diagonal norm based SBP operator must be at least twice that of the boundary stencil, irrespective of the grid point distribution near the boundary. This generalises the classical theory posed on uniform and conforming grids. We further show that for a common class of SBP operators, the diagonal norm defines a quadrature rule of the same order as the interior stencil. Again, this result is independent of the grid.
In the final contribution if the thesis, we introduce the notion of a transmission problem to describe a general class of problems where different dynamics are coupled in time. Well-posedness and stability analyses are performed for continuous and discrete problems. A general condition is obtained that is necessary and sufficient for the transmission problem to satisfy an energy estimate. The theory provides insights into the coupling of fluid flow models, multi-block formulations, numerical filters, interpolation and multi-grid implementations.
We construct accurate central difference stencils for problems involving high frequency waves or multi-frequency solutions over long time intervals with a relatively coarse spatial mesh, and with an easily obtained bound on the dispersion error. This is done by demonstrating that the problem of constructing central difference stencils that have minimal dispersion error in the infinity norm can be recast into a problem of approximating a continuous function from a finite dimensional subspace with a basis forming a Chebyshev set. In this new formulation, characterising and numerically obtaining optimised schemes can be done using established theory.
Incompressible Navier-Stokes solvers based on the projection method often require an expensive numerical solution of a Poisson equation for a pressure-like variable. This often involves linear system solvers based on iterative and multigrid methods which may limit the ability to scale to large numbers of processors. The artificial compressibility method (ACM) [6] introduces a time derivative of the pressure into the incompressible form of the continuity equation creating a coupled closed hyperbolic system that does not require a Poisson equation solution and allows for explicit time-marching and localized stencil numerical methods. Such a scheme should theoretically scale well on large numbers of CPUs, GPU's, or hybrid CPU-GPU architectures. The original ACM was only valid for steady flows and dual-time stepping was often used for time-accurate simulations. Recently, Clausen [7] has proposed the entropically damped artificial compressibility (EDAC) method which is applicable to both steady and unsteady flows without the need for dual-time stepping. The EDAC scheme was successfully tested with both a finite-difference MacCormack's method for the two-dimensional lid driven cavity and periodic double shear layer problem and a finite-element method for flow over a square cylinder, with scaling studies on the latter to large numbers of processors. In this study, we discretize the EDAC formulation with a new optimized high-order centered finite-difference scheme and an explicit fourth-order Runge-Kutta method. This is combined with an immersed boundary method to efficiently treat complex geometries and a new robust outflow boundary condition to enable higher Reynolds number simulations on truncated domains. Validation studies for the Taylor-Green Vortex problem and the lid driven cavity problem in both 2D and 3D are presented. An eddy viscosity subgrid-scale model is used to enable large eddy simulations for the 3D cases. Finally, an application to flow over a sphere is presented to highlight the boundary condition and performance comparisons to a traditional incompressible Navier-Stokes solver is shown for the 3D lid driven cavity. Overall, the combined EDAC formulation and discretization is shown to be both effective and affordable.
Funding agencies: Rosenblatt Chair within the faculty of Mechanical Engineering; Zeff Fellowship Trust
We present a procedure for constructing Summation-by-Parts operators with minimal dispersion error both near and far from numerical interfaces. Examples of such operators are constructed and compared with a higher order non-optimised Summation-by-Parts operator. Experiments show that the optimised operators are superior for wave propagation and turbulent flows involving large wavenumbers, long solution times and large ranges of resolution scales.
In this paper we generalise results regarding the order of accuracy of finite difference operators on Summation-By-Parts (SBP) form, previously known to hold on uniform grids, to grids with arbitrary point distributions near domain boundaries. We give a definite proof that the order of accuracy in the interior of a diagonal norm based SBP operator must be at least twice that of the boundary stencil, irrespective of the grid point distribution near the boundary. Additionally, we prove that if the order of accuracy in the interior is precisely twice that of the boundary, then the diagonal norm defines a quadrature rule of the same order as the interior stencil. Again, this result is independent of the grid point distribution near the domain boundaries.
We introduce the notion of a transmission problem to describe a general class of problems where different dynamics are coupled in time. Well-posedness and stability is analysed for continuous and discrete problems using both strong and weak formulations, and a general transmission condition is obtained. The theory is applied to several examples including the coupling of fluid flow models, multi-grid implementations, multi-block formulations and numerical filtering.


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Asian Champions Trophy: India beat Japan
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In Women's Hockey, India began their title defence of the Asian Champions Trophy with a 4-1 win over Japan in South Korea on Sunday.
Navneet Kaur scored a hat-trick for the defending champions, with Anupa Barla being the other goal scorer in the rain-hit match. Aki Yamada scored Japan's only goal.
The Indian eves will next face China on Wednesday. Besides India, Japan, China and hosts South Korea, Malaysia is the other team taking part in the tournament.


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On Wednesday 20th of April all schools around Melbourne went to Box Hill to remember the brave soldiers who fought on the day now known as Anzac Day.
I found this ceremony very meaningful because we remembering all the things and all the brave soldiers who fought and died for their country.
They also made some connections to the kids at this ceremony like me so we wouldn't get bored and it would be more interesting. They gave out flags of Australia so we could see in our hand what the brave soldiers were fighting for when they went off to war.
Overall this ceremony was pretty good it was very meaningful definitely worth going again and god bless the soldiers who died for this beautiful country.


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We're off to Darwin tomorrow to meet my Brother & his girlfriend Linda who are flying up to visit us from Newcastle NSW. A few days to show them around Darwin then we're all off to see Kakadu National Park - camping, 4 wheel driving and some well earned R&R - cant wait!
Friday, August 24, 2007
Signing off for a while...
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I thought I had a suitable yarn for Lorelei. It's a silk/cotton/cashmere blend by Artisanal Yarns that I picked up at last year's Knit and Crochet Show. I checked the pattern and found it required 1410 yards of laceweight. Uh oh. I only have 1000 yards. Well, cobnuts! Maybe it really doesn't take 1410 yards.* Maybe I should just go for it and hope the amount of yardage listed is a mistake. Danger! Danger! Do not do this! Ok, scratch that thought. What are my options? The first thing that came to mind was to skip down to the local yarn shop and buy 1400 yards of yarn for this pattern. Tempting. Oh.So.Tempting. And I am easily tempted. But I've made a vow to work from stash. For a while anyway. Yes, I'm going to The Knit and Crochet Show in a couple weeks. Yes, there's going to be a yarn market, but I won't think about that. (Quit laughing! I can hear you!)
But back to my problem. I really wanted to use the silk blend yarn. I thought it would make a great summer top. I also still wanted to make something like the Lorelei - a simple drop sleeved pullover. Maybe I could use a different stitch pattern that would require less yarn. So I started leafing through stitch dictionaries looking for prospects. The first one I found was the Stone Trellis stitch in Robyn Chachula's Crochet Stitches Visual Encyclopedia.
Not bad. It's a very pretty stitch, and I like the way it works in this yarn. But I wanted to give myself options so I also swatched another one. This is stitch number 17 from Dora's Tunisian book.
This isn't a flashy stitch, but I really like it. The photo doesn't do it justice. It's mesh-like appearance will also resemble the original Lorelei more than the Stone Trellis would. But do I have enough yarn?
The first step in finding out is to block my swatch and measure its dimensions after blocking. So I lightly blocked the swatch by spritzing it with water and and giving it a gentle stretch to even the stitches then letting it dry. Then I measured it and found it came to 5 in x 4.5 in. Next we need to do a bit a math. Yes, the dreaded "M" word. Don't run away! I'm talking basic arithmetic not high level calculus. I need to find out how many square inches are in my swatch and how many square inches will be in the finished pullover. The first part is simple. I just need to multiply the dimensions of the swatch.
Now, how many of these swatches do I need to make the pullover? I want to stick with the approximate shape of the Lorelei so from the schematics in the pattern, I can calculate the number of square inches in the pullover. This is simple for this pattern because there's no shaping. It's all rectangles. I multiplied the length and width of each rectangle that makes up the pullover (sleeves, front, back) to calculate the square inches of each like I did with my swatch. Then I added these amounts together to get the total square inches for the finished pullover. It came to 1118 sq in. How many swatches will I need?
But how will this tell me if I have enough yarn? I could unravel the swatch and measure the number of yards in it then multiply by 50. Ugh. No thanks. There's an easier way. Or in this case an easier weigh! Simply weigh the swatch. Since yarn labels give us the weight of the skein as well as the yardage, I can use the weight of the swatch to determine if I'll have enough yarn. My swatch weighed 4 g.
I have 5 skeins of yarn at 50 g each so 250 g total. YES! I have enough yarn! I even have extra so I can customize my pullover if I want. I can make it longer or make the sleeves longer. If I didn't have quite enough yarn, I could make either or both of those measurements shorter. But it's always better to have more yarn than you think you'll need. Trust me. Things happen. Maybe that will be the subject of another blog post. In the meantime, here's the first half of my pullover.
*After writing this post, I contacted Dora. She graciously calculated the amount of yarn used in the size small of the Lorelei. It came out to around 1000 yards. The pattern lists 3 skeins of yarn at 470 yards each for the small, but apparently, not much of that third skein is used.


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by Lee Weeks
Most teenagers today who make professions of faith in Christ still do not believe that Christianity is the one true religion, according to an international Christian apologist and youth ministry expert.
"Seventy-five percent of all kids coming to Christ today are not coming to Jesus because He is the way, the truth and the life," said Josh McDowell. "They are coming to Christ because He is the best thing that's come along so far, that they've filtered through their experience. And as soon as something that seems better to them comes along, they're gone."
Speaking during an evangelism and church planting conference in early October, co-sponsored by the North American Mission Board and Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tenn., McDowell said the greatest challenge facing the evangelical church in the twenty-first century is communicating the truth of the gospel in a culture where all truth claims are perceived as equal.
Citing a 1999 survey showing that 65 percent of evangelical teenagers believe there is no way to determine which religion is true, McDowell said the prevailing cultural mindset defines truth according to "personal perspective" and "personal experience."
McDowell assessed the challenges of student evangelism in the new millennium by describing a cultural viewpoint in vogue today that "truth is not there to be discovered, truth is there to be created....
(Today's teens) don't even understand your world," McDowell said, addressing an audience where most in attendance were at least 30 years old. "They don't even understand your language."
For example, McDowell said, many evangelical teenagers today say the Bible is true and historically accurate because they believe it-but this belief system is based on their personal opinion, not the concept that there is an objective standard of truth outside of one's self.
McDowell blamed the propagation of Darwinism in the public schools for society's rejection of absolute truth. "If there is no Creator God, then there is no external truth and all you have left is man," he said. "If there is no Creator God in which dwells truth apart from yourself, then all truth is created, all truth is personal."
Today's generation, he asserted, has replaced John 3:16-the message of salvation-as the most-quoted Bible verse with Matthew 7:1, "Judge not lest you be judged"-a verse, he said, that actually teaches one to judge according to God's standard as evidenced by His character and nature.
A society void of the concept of absolute truth universally acknowledged for all people for all time, McDowell said, stands increasingly vulnerable to the barbaric displays like that of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in April, 1999, at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.
"What they did in killing those kids and that teacher was morally right-according to their own personal value system," McDowell said. He said a 1999 survey which showed that 52 percent of "evangelical church kids say the only intellectual way to live is to make the best decisions you can based on your feelings at the moment," is exactly what Harris and Klebold did.
Dismissing the popular notion that "high-risk" teenagers are the results of broken homes shattered by divorce, McDowell cited a Columbia University study released five months after the massacre at Columbine. The study showed that even in two-parent homes children are 68 percent more likely to get involved with drugs and violence when there is a "fair-to-poor relationship" with the father. Harris and Klebold were raised in two-parent families, McDowell noted.
The answer for reaching the teen culture with the truth of the gospel remains the same now as in the days of the New Testament, when the concept of tolerance was propagated throughout Rome in an effort to keep peace, according to the speaker. "You will not reach this culture if you cannot impart your life," McDowell said.
"Today's culture will not care how much you know until they know how much you care," he said. "I believe a personal testimony of the reality of Jesus Christ alive in his or her life is one of the top attractions to consider truth as truth."
"All over the world, every culture I've been to, they want to hear a daddy's heart and they want it from a daddy who loves them," he said.
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