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Pinos Altos, then and now
Last updated on Monday, January 13, 2003
Pinos Altos (Tall Pines) is located about six miles north of Silver City on NM Highway 15. The townsite is located along the Continental Divide at an elevation of 7,067 feet at the southern end of the Pinos Altos Mountains. Pinos Altos is a very old mining town; it was Grant County's first county seat.
Photo by Bob Wilson
Gold was first discovered by the Spanish and Mexican miners. The Americans discovered gold in 1859/60. Hank Smith, a German immigrant, described how a placer deposit was found on Bear Creek in 1859, and other prospectors of the Col. Snively party talk of the big find on Bear Creek in 1860 and the naming of Birchville, Pinos Altos' first name, after the prospector who found the first "color."
Pinos Altos' history includes a short time under the flag of the Confederacy when the Confederate States of America invaded the Union Territory of New Mexico. The Confederate legacy was a brief period from February, 1861 until June of 1862. The Southerners were defeated at the Battle of Glorieta Pass east of Santa Fe in March of 1862. The Confederate soldiers were routed back to El Paso by the Union forces from Colorado.
The miners and the mining camp at Pinos Altos were under constant threat from the Apaches and an occasional band of Navajos. The miners and the Indians were not good neighbors. In the spring of 1860 Chief Mangas Coloradas was invited for a "friendly" visit to the Pinos Altos mining camp. The treacherous miners tied him to a tree and lashed him unmercifully with their bullwhips. When the chief recovered from his wounds he enlisted his son-in-law's help. His son-in-law was Chief Cochise, and revenge was an important factor in Chiricahua Apache warfare.
Captain Thomas Marston of the Arizona Scouts led a company of volunteers in defense of Pinos Altos in the revengeful Apache War of September 27, 1861. Captain Marston and many others on both sides died in this battle. The combined forces of the Apaches some 400 strong under the leadership of Cochise and Mangas Coloradas convinced most of the miners that gold was not worth living in fear of the Apaches, and Birchville was nearly abandoned.
Main Street in
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The California Volunteers of the Union forces known as the "California Column," under the command of Brigadier General James H. Carleton arrived in June 1862. Upon arriving General Carleton learned that Pinos Altos was under siege and surrounded by Apaches, being slowly starved out. He immediately sent two wagon loads of provisions with soldiers to relieve the beleaguered town. Realizing the importance of the mines at Pinos Altos, General Carleton ordered General Joseph West to establish a military fort near the Gila River. Fort West was established on January 24, 1863 (about two miles south of Cliff) with four companies of troops to protect Pinos Altos from hostile Indians.
Before Captain Thomas Marston's death he had sold his share of the Pacific Mine to his brother Virgil in the spring of 1861. Virgil never left Pinos Altos with the other miners; he continued mining and developed the Pacific lode. In 1866, he charted the Pinos Altos Mining Company under the laws of the Territory of New Mexico. A stamp mill of 15 stamps, each weighing 700 pounds, were hauled by ox-drawn wagons from St. Louis, Missouri, and erected on site by the company. The Pacific lode crosses the Continental Divide and is rich in silver, gold, lead, zinc and copper. The Pacific Mine alone produced over a million dollars in copper and gold. Sometime after the miners left in 1861 and returned in 1866 the town was renamed Pinos Altos, the original Mexican village name. After the Legal Tender silver mine in San Vincente de La Cienaga was discovered in 1870 Pinos Altos soon lost the county seat to the town renamed Silver City.
The mines at Pinos Altos and the smelter at Silver City, which had belonged to the estate of Senator Hearst, were sold to the Comanche Mining and Smelting Company in 1903. In 1905 it was announced that the company would build a railroad between their smelter in Silver City and the mines in Pinos Altos. A 24 inch narrow-gauge Shay locomotive railroad (about two-thirds of the normal width of a narrow gauge) was completed in April of 1906 between Silver City and Pinos Altos a rail distance of 12 miles. The rail operated only for a short time; the company went bankrupt in the fall of 1907.
Present Day Pinos Altos
The present day Pinos Altos includes an adobe Methodist-Episcopal church built with Hearst money in 1898 and now houses the Grant County Art Guild. One of the many interesting things that you can find there is the funeral hearse of Pat Garrett, a famous western lawman, who killed the outlaw "Billy the Kid."
The Opera House captures the flavor of the Old West. It is an excellent replica of an Old West Victorian frontier theater. It was built in 1969 of salvaged old buildings and fixtures. Inside are displays of Old West photos and artifacts. Year round, Sean O'Hare & Jillian Graves hysterically present an Old West melodrama every Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.. A show worth seeing!
Photo by Bob Wilson
The Buckhorn Saloon is located just east of the Opera House on Main Street and is an refurbished authentic building from the 1860s. The inside is decorated "tastefully" with bar room paintings, mannequin representing 'ladies of the night' and "Regular" Joe, a mannequin bar patron. There are also many artifacts and early photos of the area. Excellent food is served in the dining room as well.
The Pinos Altos Museum, an old family log cabin built around 1866 with later add-ons, was Grant Counties first school house. Mrs. George Schafer and her son, Bob, run a very interesting museum of old mining artifacts and a gift shop. It is open seven days a week year round. The museum is located on Main Street across from the Buckhorn Saloon.
The McDonald Cabin was built about 1851 before the gold discoveries of 1859/1860. It is probably the oldest cabin in Grant County and is located on Spring Street directly behind the opera house.
The Santa Rita del Cobre Fort and Trading Post is a 3/4 scale of the original fort built at the Santa Rita copper mines in 1804 by the Spanish to protect the miners from Apache attacks. Inside the fort and trading post are many interesting mining and other artifacts of the era along with a replica of an old miner's cave. The actual fort at Santa Rita was renamed Fort Webster in 1851 by the American Army.
Santa Rita del Cobre Fort and Trading Post Photo by Carla DeMarco
The Bear Creek Motel and Cabins are located at the intersection of Main Street and State Highway 15. The cabins are very rustic and shaded by tall pines, with a very serene ambiance.
The old Judge Roy Bean general store site was located next to the present day Post Office. The Judge's store was built in the early 1860s during the gold rush and was run by Roy and his brother Samuel. Trappers Cafe is now located on the site.
The site of the first Grant County Seat and Court House of 1871 is located east of Bear Creek on Main Street. The "hanging" tree in front of the old Court House is said to have brought Western justice during troubled times in Pinos Altos.
The Pinos Altos cemetery, just north of Saint Alexis Catholic Church, dedicated on July 17, 1888, is where Captain Marston and his brother Virgil are buried next to each other. The miners erected the cross on Cross Mountain north of town after an agreement with the Indians - no more killings as long as the cross remained.
Bear Creek Cabins Photo by Carla DeMarco
The Continental Divide RV Park is located across from the Gold Rush Cafe and offers many spaces.
The Gold Rush Cafe is the site of an earlier Post Office and a place to get a good meal for a good price. It is located on the way into or out of town depending on which way you are going.
The present day Pinos Altos Post Office and Ice Cream Parlor was built as the Norton Store around 1890. The Norton Store was built on the site of a two-storied log structure known as the Occidental Hotel. When Gary MacGrumbley became the proprietor of the Ice Cream Parlor and postmaster of Pinos Altos a few years back, his true forte came to the forefront. He enjoys customer relations to the utmost. He asks everyone from out of town the where, what, when, and how they are doing. Not to be nosy, but to be helpful with local sites to see and things to do.
Plan a trip to the mountains to visit Pinos Altos. Enjoy a trip back in time when life was simpler and friendlier. While you are there, enjoy a piece of homemade fudge and the best coffee either side of the Continental Divide at Gary Mac's Ice Cream Parlor, or belly up to the bar at the Buckhorn Sal


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The first 5S principle is Seri or "Sort" that advocates elimination of unnecessary tools, parts, and instructions by retaining only the essential items.
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- 5Sbestpractices.com 5S Sustainment Assignment Chart
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LBERRY = [logical]
Default: LBERRY =.FALSE.
Description: This tag is used in the the evaluation of the Berry phase expression for the electronic polarization of an insulating system.
As of VASP.5.2, calculating the macroscopic polarization and Born effective charges along the lines of the following example (using LBERRY=.TRUE. etc) is unnecessary. The use of LCALCPOL or LCALCEPS is much more convenient.
Setting LBERRY=.TRUE. in the INCAR file switches on the evaluation of the Berry phase expression for the electronic polarization of an insulating system, as modified for the application of USPP's and PAW datasets. In addition, the following keywords must be specified in order to generate the mesh of k-points:
IGPAR = 1|2|3
IGPAR tag specifies the socalled parallel or direction in the integration over the reciprocal space unit cell.
NPPSTR = number of points on the strings in the IGPAR direction
NPPSTR specifies the number of k-points on the strings (with ).
DIPOL = center of cell (fractional coordinates)
DIPOL specifies the origin with respect to which the ionic contribution to the dipole moment in the cell is calculated. When comparing changes in this contribution due to the displacement of an ion, this center should be chosen in such a way that the ions in the distorted and the undistorted structure remain on the same side of DIPOL (in terms of a minimum image convention).
An example: The fluorine displacement dipole (Born effective charge) in NaF
First one needs to determine the electronic polarization of the undistorted NaF.
Caluclation1: It is usually convenient to calculate the self-consistent Kohn-Sham potential of the undistorted structure, using a symmetry reduced Monkhorst-Pack sampling of the Brillouin zone. Using for instance the following INCAR file:
PREC = Med ISMEAR = 0 EDIFF = 1E-6
6x6x6 0 Gamma 6 6 6 0 0 0
NaF 4.5102 0.0 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.0 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.0 1 1 Direct 0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000 0.5000000000000000 0.5000000000000000 0.5000000000000000
and LDA Na_sv and F PAW datasets.
Calculation 2: To calculate the electronic contribution to the polarization, along the reciprocal lattice vector (i.e. ), add the following lines to the INCAR file:
LBERRY =.TRUE. IGPAR = 1 NPPSTR = 8 DIPOL = 0.25 0.25 0.25
Setting LBERRY=.TRUE. automatically sets ICHARG=11, i.e., the charge density of the previous calculation is read and kept fixed, and only the orbitals and one-electron eigenenergies are recalculated for the new k-point set. This is advantageous, since the number of k-points used to evaluate the Berry phase expression can be quite large, and precalculating the charge density (ICHARG=11) saves significant CPU time.
The OUTCAR will now contain the following lines:
e_ev=( 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 ) e*Angst e_bp=( 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 ) e*Angst
Total electronic dipole moment: p[elc]=( 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 ) e*Angst
ionic dipole moment: p[ion]=( 2.25510 2.25510 2.25510 ) e*Angst
Calculations 3 and 4: The procedure mentioned under Calculation 2 now has to be repeated with IGPAR=2 and IGPAR=3 (again using the charge density obtained from Calculation 1), to obtain the contributions to the electronic polarization along and, respectively.
Calculations 5 to 8: To calculate the change in the electronic polarization of NaF due to the displacement of the fluorine sublattice, one should repeat Calculations 1 to 4, using the following POSCAR file:
NaF 4.5102 0.0 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.0 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.0 1 1 Direct 0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000 0.5100000000000000 0.5100000000000000 0.4900000000000000
This corresponds to a displacement of the F ion by along the direction. The output of the Berry phase calculation using IGPAR=1 should now look similar to:
e_ev=( 0.00000 0.00000 0.00004 ) e*Angst e_bp=( 0.00000 0.18028 0.18028 ) e*Angst Total electronic dipole moment: p[elc]=( 0.00000 0.18028 0.18031 ) e*Angst
ionic dipole moment: p[ion]=( 2.25510 2.25510 1.93939 ) e*Angst
Collecting the results: The change in the electronic contribution to the polarization due to the F-sublattice displacement should be calculated as follows:
- Take the average of the terms obtained in calculations 2 to 4. Lets call this
- Add the terms obtained in calculations 2 to 4. Lets call this
- The electronic polarization of the undistorted structure is then given by:
- Repeat the above three steps for the results obtained using the distorted structure (Calculations 6 to 8), to evaluate,, and
- The change in the electronic contribution to the polarization due to the F-sublattice displacement, is then given by
To calculate the total change in polarization,, one should account for the ionic contribution to this change. This contribution can be calculated from p[ion] as given above from Calculations 2 and 5:.
is then given by. In this example we find electrons. Considering that the moved F-sublattice was displaced by 0.045102, this calculation yields a Born effective charge for fluorine in NaF of.
N.B.(I) In the case of spinpolarized calculations (ISPIN=2),the Berry phase of the orbitals is evaluated separately for each spin direction. This means a grep on "" will yield two sets of and terms, which have to be added to oneanother to obtain the total electronic polarization of the system.
N.B.(II) One should take care of the fact that the calculated "Berry phase" term along is, in principle, obtained modulo a certain period, determined by the lattice vector (), the spin multiplicity of the orbitals, the volume of the unit cell, the number of k-point in the "perpendicular" grid, and some aspects of the symmetry of the system. More information on this particular aspect of the Berry phase calculations can be found in references.
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- ↑ a b R. D. King-Smith and D. Vanderbilt, Phys. Rev. B 47, 1651 (1993).
- ↑ a b D. Vanderbilt and R. D. King-Smith, Phys. Rev. B 48, 4442 (1993).
- ↑ a b R. Resta, Ferroelectrtics 136, 51 (1992).
- ↑ a b R. Resta, Rev. Mod. Phys. 66, 899 (1994).
- ↑ a b [R. Resta, in Berry Phase in Electronic Wavefunctions, Troisième Cycle de la Physique en Suisse Romande, Année Academique 1995-96, (1996).]
- ↑ [D. Vanderbilt and R. D. King-Smith, in Electronic polarization in the ultrasoft pseudopotential formalism, Unpublished report, (1998).]
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music videos, young women might dance and sing in a sexually aggressive way that suggests experience beyond their years. At all ages, we use reference groups to help guide our behavior and show us social norms. So how important is it to surround yourself with positive reference groups? You may not recognize a reference group, but it still influences the way you act. Identifying your reference groups can help you understand the source of the social identities you aspire to or want to distance yourself from.
College: A World of In-Groups, Out-Groups, and Reference Groups
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Which fraternity or sorority would you fit into, if any? Sorority recruitment day offers students an opportunity to learn about these different groups. (Photo courtesy of Murray State/flickr)
For a student entering college, the sociological study of groups takes on an immediate and practical meaning. After all, when we arrive someplace new, most of us glance around to see how well we fit in or stand out in the ways we want. This is a natural response to a reference group, and on a large campus, there can be many competing groups. Say you are a strong athlete who wants to play intramural sports, and your favorite musicians are a local punk band. You may find yourself engaged with two very different reference groups.
These reference groups can also become your in-groups or out-groups. For instance, different groups on campus might solicit you to join. Are there fraternities and sororities at your school? If so, chances are they will try to convince students—that is, students they deem worthy—to join them. And if you love playing soccer and want to play on a campus team, but you're wearing shredded jeans, combat boots, and a local band T-shirt, you might have a hard time convincing the soccer team to give you a chance. While most campus groups refrain from insulting competing groups, there is a definite sense of an in-group versus an out-group. "Them?" a member might say. "They're all right, but their parties are nowhere near as cool as ours." Or, "Only serious engineering geeks join that group." This immediate categorization into in-groups and out-groups means that students must choose carefully, since whatever group they associate with won't just define their friends—it may also define their enemies.
Short Answer
 2. Compare and contrast two different political groups or organizations, such as the Occupy and Tea Party movements, or one of the Arab Spring uprisings. How do the groups differ in terms of leadership, membership, and activities? How do the group's goals influence participants? Are any of them in-groups (and have they created out-groups)? Explain your answer.
people who share similar characteristics but who are not connected in any way
expressive function
a group function that serves an emotional need
any collection of at least two people who interact with some frequency and who share some sense of aligned identity
a group a person belongs to and feels is an integral part of his identity
instrumental function
being oriented toward a task or goal
a group that an individual is not a member of, and may even compete with
primary groups
small, informal groups of people who are closest to us
reference groups
groups to which an individual compares herself
secondary groups
larger and more impersonal groups that are task-focused and time limited
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Indonesia, blessed with abundant natural resources, is on its way creating new materials that are natural and more environmentally friendly for eco-friendly applications including bio-automobile, organic electronics, and structural building materials. Utilizing cellulose nanofibers, researchers in Indonesia are developing bio-nanocomposite materials that are flexible, transparent, mechanically strong and thermally stable. This research is in collaboration with a Japanese university and automobile industry and targets at automobile body weight and construction materials application. Attempting to preserve nature, laminated veneer lumber (LVL) has been developed from old rubber tree whose strength is equivalent to second class lumber such as teakwood. Prof Dr Bambang Subiyanto, Director of Center for Innovation of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), gave us more insights about his on-going projects and center's activities.
February 7th, 2010
Indonesian Researchers Developing Bio-Nanocomposite from Cellulose Fibers
Impressed by nanotechnology related presentation delivered by Prof Dr Bambang Subiyanto, Director of Center for Innovation of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), in United Nation APCTT-ESCAP Consultative Workshop last December, NanoGlobe team recently interviewed Dr Subiyanto to learn more insights about Indonesia's R&D activities and especially about bio-nanocomposite materials development.
Under the Ministry of Science and Technology of Indonesia, there exist a few of research institutes and one of them is Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (the Indonesian Institute of Sciences) or commonly known as LIPI. Established in August 1967, LIPI currently encompasses 22 Research Centers including Research Center for Physics, Metallurgy, Biotechnology, Chemistry, and Biomaterial, as well as Center for Innovation. Center for Innovation was established in June 2001 with two main objectives:
- to conduct studies and to develop and support the cooperation activities undertaken by various LIPI's research centers and technical implementation units with external parties, especially with industry, which attempt to commercialize the results of LIPI's R&D
- to examine the possibility of intellectual property protection of LIPI's R&D results and implement a process to obtain such protection
Besides being the Center Director, Dr Subiyanto together with his team of researchers at LIPI dedicate much of their time researching and developing bio (nano) composite from natural fibers and the waste of agrobusiness (such as rice husks) especially for structural materials application. It is one of his interests and dreams to be able to construct earthquake friendly buildings with the materials his team is developing. His team has developed laminated veneer lumber (LVL) from old rubber tree for panel/partition and structural building materials. This LVL has been characterized to possess strength equivalent with second class lumber such as teakwood, miranti and keruing. A factory has been built to scale up the production of his LVL and they are currently searching for industry partnership to commercialize their research in construction materials application. Another material based on bamboo composite is also being developed to substitute nails and bolts for earthquake friendly building application.
Another interesting on-going project collaborated with Kyoto University is the development of cellulose nanofiber reinforced composite. It is believed to be as strong as steel, as thermally stable as glass and as flexible as plastics. Together with Kyoto University in Japan, the team has developed a transparent polymeric nanocomposite using a web-like bacterial cellulose nanofiber network as the mechanical reinforcing agent. Eventually, this material can be used for many applications including OLED and other electronic components, building materials, as well as automotive. The team has targeted to reduce the fuel consumption by 20% when cellulose nanofiber composite is used as reinforcement for the automobile body. This automobile application is also being developed together with prominent automotive manufacturer in Japan.
It is encouraging to know that developing countries such as Indonesia are actively pursuing nanotech R&D and application development in collaboration with developed countries such as Japan to accelerate the commercialization of nanotechnology. Japan offers advanced R&D capability and commercialization experience, while Indonesia provides natural and human resources. This partnership will accelerate Indonesia nanotechnology development and advancement of Indonesian R&D capabilities.
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- To develop regulations and standards in system integration (e.g. EEDI definitions and implementation rules).
The Working Group will ideally consist of engine builders, engineering companies, research organisations, system component suppliers such as electrical equipment & automation, controls, batteries, gears, propulsors and thrusters, heat exchangers, steam turbines, and system integrators including engine users, shipyards, and Classification Societies.
- To input and engage the component industry for shipping and land based applications
- To develop hybrid system design principles
- To input on the development of the internal combustion engines in diesel-electric installations
- To discuss development drivers for energy efficiency optimisation concepts in ships or land based applications
- To contribute to the development and promulgation of multi-source energy system design optimisations for ships and land based power plants
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Eovations's mineral/thermoplastic composite has a modulus of elasticity between 500,000 psi and 800,000 psi, but a modulus of rupture of zero. It can flex extremely well, but does not have a catastrophic failure mode. (Source: Eovations)
_USER_: Okay, apparently you learned some highly non-standard definitions. According to Instron's glossary of materials testing, modulus of rupture is synonymous with flexural strength. If you Google "modulus of rupture," you'll see that this is the most commonly used definition. Clearly, "the flexural strength is zero" would not be a correct statement.
The derivation of the most widely-used modulus of rupture formula assumes that the material deforms in a linear and elastic way, so the formula no longer applies after the yield point. However, this doesn't mean that "the modulus of rupture is zero"; it just means that the formula no longer correctly predicts the stress.
As far as "catastrophic failure" goes, the most common definition seems to be "(sudden) failure from which recovery is impossible."
Give me any material, and I guarantee I can find a way to make it fail such that you'll never get it back into its original shape. Hit it hard enough, and it will fail catastrophically.
_USER_: The fact that something bends before it breaks doesn't mean that it doesn't have a catastrophic failure mode -- it just means that it bends first. If you continue to load it, it will fail catastrophically, sooner or later. (Steel bends before it breaks, too, but you can point to any number of catastrophic failures of steel structures).
And "the modulus of rupture is zero" is just plain wrong. As I said, modulus of rupture is a measure of the load-carrying capacity of a beam. If the load-carrying capacity were zero, it would be useless.
Modulus of rupture just isn't a useful number for something that yields before it breaks, since the equation assumes no yielding.
TJ, thanks for the clarification. Determining that would probably take a detailed lifecycle analysis. Although these are now voluntary, and not nearly as common as many of us would like, I hope that someday they'll be required as an item on the data sheet.
The original question was worse for the environment - structural members made from wood or the composites described in the article.
The lumber industry sells itself as renewable because the companies plant trees to replace the ones harvested, and the renewal process is pretty straight forward - Cut down a forest, make lumber, plant seedlings in the now-cleared area, come back in 20 years or so and repeat.
IF the composites are made from organic feedstocks, they may be the equal of wood's impact on the environment. If they're made from petrochemicals, one would probably have to say they have a larger impact.
Lou, I thought the hurricane-resistance use was one of the most intriguing and unique about this material, aside from the more mundane uses like deck replacement. Chuck, this is not aimed at high load-bearing structural components such as bridge beams: as we state, it's for lighter construction uses such as decks and pontoons.
Interesting development. Nice to see these sort of efforts moving forward. They may not always be the most cost effective, but it's a step in the right direction. I wonder if this is one of those "we can do it in the lab, so let's see if we can sell it" sort of things or if they actually had a specific market in mind.
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Deposits in Martian Trough Point to Complex Hydrological Past
This false-color image shows dozens of beds within a light-toned deposit located within a trough in the Noctis Labyrinthus region of Mars. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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Variations in composition of light-toned deposits in troughs on Mars suggest a diversity of water-related processes, based on analysis of observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Re: Grice and conditionals (long, no Greek)
From: Jonathan Robie (
Date: Mon Sep 21 1998 - 12:38:39 EDT
At 12:07 AM 9/21/98 EDT, wrote:
>Thank you Jonathan for the nice summary of Grice's book. I apologize for the
>question up is that all the other EI MH clauses in the NT are conditional.
>have to work with the logical tranformation of If not B, then not A in
order to
>understand most of them because they have negatives in the protasis and the
In formal logic, the following are all equivalent:
 if A then B
 if not B then not A
 not B or not A
 A or not B
There may be others. At any rate, "if not B then not A" is one of the
standard transformations. However, I'm a little bit worried about using the
"if not B, then not A" transform as a general device for understanding "if
A then B" sentences that contain negations. In order to make that work
properly, I agree with Grice that you have to bring in a number of
propositions that are implied but not stated, and that some of these things
may be implied by the context in which the statement is made. The result is
that you need many more propositions, not just A and B, if you want to use
formal means to understand conditionals. If Grice is correct - and he is at
least brilliant, whether or not he's correct, and in spite of his
impenetrable writing style - then bringing in all of these propositions
would give you a framework in which formal logic could be used effectively
to understand such statements.
My formal logic is *extremely* rusty, but let me try to use some examples
to illustrate what I mean:
Statement: If he does not come on time then we will wait for him.
A = he does not come on time
B = we will wait for him
If not B then not A = if we will not wait for him then he will come on time.
I'm skeptical that the propositional value of the original statement and
the transformation are the same in this case. Grice says that the reason
for this is that there must be some reason the person is telling us this,
which implies a number of propositions that are implied, but not stated,
1. There is a likelihood that he will not arrive on time
2. We need a plan for dealing with the contingency that he arrives late
(perhaps we were all planning to go somewhere together, and he wanted us to
give him a ride)
3. His tardiness is beyond our control, or if it is within our control,
there is some reason that we prefer not to negotiate with him in order to
get him to come on time, or perhaps there has been negotiation and it was
agreed that we would wait if he comes late
If we do not take these into account, then our formal analysis of the
statement will not be adequate. (If our formal analysis *is* adequate, then
we took it into account (grin!)) In this particular case, I think the
proper analysis requires an understanding that the statement is really
intended to be limited to a plan for handling the contingency that he is
late, and is not intended to be applied if he arrives on time. The "if not
B then not A" transformation took the statement out of context and
broadened its scope. Within the right scope, incidentally, the
transformation might make sense - e.g. perhaps we are formulating a policy
of leaving on time even if some people are not yet there, and we expect
that the result of this policy will be that people arrive on time.
You say that the "if not B then not A" is a good general tool for
understanding conditionals with negatives in both the protasis and the
apodosis. Consider this statement, which is similar to the first, but has
negatives in both the protasis and the apodosis:
Statement: If he does not come on time then we will not leave before he
A: he does not come on time
B: we will not leave before he arrives
if not B then not A = if we leave before he arrives he will come on time
Again, the result of the transformation is a little surprising, and seems
to have a different propositional value than the original statement.
I think that Grice is pretty important for understanding conditionals in
human language. He's also very hard going. I'm not sure who else is
important to read (perhaps Wittgenstein? but I'm not sure which works), but
perhaps some of the linguists on the list will know. At any rate, I think
that there's a fair amount of literature on the treatment of human language
conditionals, written largely by philosophers and linguists, and I know
that I haven't read much of it except for Grice and a little Wittgenstein.
>only correct if the unnegated protasis is true according to the author and is
>clause is preeminently true, not exclusively true, so the rendering of
>"except" or "but" changes the meaning of the passage.
This is too brief for me to agree or disagree with. I'll give you my
off-the-cuff responses to each of these verses, and perhaps you can tell me
how *you* analyze them.
EI MH occurs twice in Matt 11:27 - nobody knows the son EI MH the father,
and nobody knows the father EI MH the son, and those to whom the son
chooses to reveal him. At least some translations (the first few I looked
at) translate this with "except" or "but". Why do you think this changes
the meaning?
In Matt 13:57, Jesus says that a prophet is not without honor EI MH in a
home game. Now I assume your point is that this statement, taken as literal
truth, is false if a prophet is also dishonored outside of his home town.
Your solution is probably to interpret EI MH as something other than
"except". My solution (off the top of my head) is to bring in the larger
context in which the statement was made, and probably to treat this as a
hyperbolic statement - and I do think that Jesus uses hyperbole on other
occasions as well. Of course, hyperbole and other figures of speech are
pretty rough on formal logical analysis, but I'm sure that someone
somewhere has written on this in a useful way.
In John 3:13, the statement is that nobody has ascended into heaven EI MH
him who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. I assume your point is that
there are a couple of people in the Old Testament who ascended into heaven.
In this case, I think you need to look at the scope of the statement -
Jesus is saying that there is only one person who can tell Nicodemus about
heavenly things, the one person who has been to heaven and has descended
from heaven. Now if you want to be strictly literal, yes, there are a
couple of prophets sitting in heaven who have ascended into heaven, but
they aren't on earth anymore, and are not available to explain things to
Nicodemus. If you want to be that literal, Jesus has not yet ascended into
heaven at that point either. (I think there are a lot of uses of "everyone"
and "nobody" in the NT that only make sense with the right scoping.)
Jonathan Robie
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Calculation of the Day of the week: Enter or set a date and the day of the week for this date will be shown according to the Gregorian calendar. In China the calendar is standard since 1929, Japan uses the calender from 1873, and Korea since 1896. This calendar is used in the UK since 14 September 1752 until now.
Pope Gregory XIII left out ten days because the calendar was in delay in comparison to the course of the year. The reform was a daring step for him and an ambitious goal for the world. It took centuries until all regions of the world followed.
The Gregorian calendar adjusts the difference to the solar year by adding more leap days. It was introduced initially in continental Europe. The first valid date is 15th October 1582. The Julian calendar, which was used before, showed a divergence of ten days to the solar year (the duration the earth turns around the sun).
The Julian as well as the Gregorian calendar start from the premise that the year one is the first year after the birth of Christ, i.e. the first year anno domini. This means that the third millennium has started on New Year 2001.
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Part of every significant construction project and major renovation should be the commissioning of the electrical systems (or recommissioning for renovations) along with the heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC); mechanical; fire alarm; and other systems in the facility. Two excellent sources for information about commissioning are the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 70B Recommended Practice for Electrical Equipment Maintenance (2010 Edition) and U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Building Commissioning Guide, July 30, 1998.
NFPA defines commissioning as a qualitative and quantitative process used to accomplish the following:
- Develop procedures to verify and document functional system-level and component-level requirements
- Develop a testing and operational tune-up (system and component final adjustment) plan
- Determine and record baseline information for operation and maintenance procedures
- Evaluate initial system performance results and measurements
The GSA/DOE definition is simpler: "a process for achieving, verifying and documenting that the performance of a building and its systems meet the design intent and the owner and occupant needs."
Both definitions highlight the two important aspects of commissioning—verifying the system is working correctly as built and providing a baseline to check if it is still working correctly in the future. The GSA document states that electrical systems commissioning adds approximately 1 to 1.5 percent of system cost with these costs being recouped many times over in deferred or avoided future costs.
But what about commissioning with regard to the power quality characteristics of the facility, its electrical infrastructure, the electrical loads and the electrical supply? Just like the GSA/DOE definition being concerned with the performance relative to the owner/occupant needs, power quality is concerned with the quality or performance of the electrical supply with regard to the needs of the electrical loads that use it. The overall process is similar to those found in the aforementioned documents but with a slightly different focus.
First, the initial tests should be done without any of the facility's systems energized so that the baseline voltage characteristics, including steady-state magnitude, frequency and distortion, can be measured without influence from the facility's loads. This test should be performed for a week or longer, so other typical power quality phenomena, such as sags, swells and transients, may also be assessed. Of course, the test doesn't provide a true benchmark, as there are seasonal effects that it wouldn't capture, but it is a start.
For example, there may be a power factor correction capacitor bank that switches on every morning at 6 a.m., causing a transient to be a problem for the facility once operational. Ideally, this test would be run before even the first shovel of dirt is overturned, but that isn't often practical without electric utility support.
As individual facility loads are energized, the monitoring should continue with the addition of the current characteristics (inrush or peak values, steady-state magnitude and distortion) to the data collected, as well as power-related parameters of volt-amperes, watts, volt-amperes reactive and power factor. Notes of what was turned on and when can draw correlations to the effect and characteristics of the various loads.
Ideally, multiple power quality monitors should be used at the point of common coupling, the distribution panel of the loads being energized, and the point of utilization (the load). It is invaluable data for the future when a problem arises or when new equipment is added or replaced.
A common complaint is "we had no problems with the old equipment." Was the old equipment not susceptible to power quality phenomena, or has the quality of the supply changed? Suppose turning on one large load produces a 5 percent reduction in voltage for a couple of seconds. What will happen to other equipment if several of those loads are energized at the same time?
Where either the utility or facility provide redundant power sources (such as with uninterruptible power supplies), each of the operational combinations also must be verified. In most operations, it is risky to assume the backup generator is powering only the loads it is supposed to run and can run off it properly, especially with critical operation power systems, as defined by NFPA in the National Electrical Code.
The test plan and the results should be stored in a reliable and retrievable location, so future test data can be included as the facility and equipment evolves and ages. NFPA 70B provides a good selection of forms in the annex that can help decide what should be recorded.
The Electric Power Research Institute states that U.S. businesses lose $119 billion in revenue per year from power quality-related issues. So, it would seem wise for a power quality commissioning process to verify that the electrical supply, infrastructure and loads are all power quality-ready now and in the future. Your customers would be paying a little now or a lot more later.
BINGHAM, a contributing editor for power quality, can be reached at _PHONE_.


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Spring has sprung! This is the season of rebirth and reinvention. While some organizations are beginning their new fiscal year, others may be reviewing their Q1 performance or gearing up to start their budget process. Regardless of what category your hospital or health system falls into, it is essential to remember the impact productivity has on sustained improvement and continued fiscal strength. Like so many things, productivity should follow a traditional "life cycle" and be a routine focus of operational and management strategies year-over-year. Here are some ways to kick-start the productivity life cycle in your organization:
- Refresh Targets and Benchmarks – Healthcare is a highly dynamic industry. Pandemic aside, care delivery models, billing/reimbursement practices, and compliance requirements are perpetually changing. To keep your workforce optimization and performance improvement strategies effective, it is essential that productivity goals and comparisons be updated annually. This will ensure that any and all changes to operations have been properly accounted for and new industry or service-line standards are being used to shape staffing practices based on patient demand.
- Reinvigorate Staff – Communication and accountability are the key to positive results from any improvement initiative. No one knows an organization and its operations better than the employees. Engage them! Include department leaders in regular strategy sessions surrounding productivity efforts and related goals. Reiterate that productivity is not a one-time solution, but an ongoing tool for effective management. By continuously educating staff on how to be better stewards of their resources, reaffirming their buy-in on the process, and frequently recognizing their contributions, lasting efficiencies are gained.
- Revitalize Your Bottom Line – With personnel expense comprising more than half of most hospital's operating costs, maintaining proper staff/volume alignment is often the easiest way to see black. Carrying out this strategy does, however, come with its own set of challenges. The best approach is to start small. Set realistic and achievable goals, sending your organization on a journey to improved performance over a 12 to 18-month period. Provide leaders with the tools necessary to track performance and realize success. Once initial goals have been achieved, reevaluate workflow and performance, eliminate waste, and identify means for continued improvement. The cost-savings generated can then be reinvested back into the staff and the organization before beginning the process again.
Productivity should be viewed as a "living" solution to sustained performance improvement. It needs to be nurtured and given proper attention to produce the desired results. By instilling a productivity "life cycle" in your organization, you establish a means for these principles to take root and bear "fruit" year after year.
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Issue date: 27 November 2001
The University of the West of England is using innovative materials and processes in a new purpose-built facility for Architecture and Planning students and researchers at the Frenchay Campus of UWE.
The new A& P Studio building is designed to be sustainable and to meet high standards of environmental performance. It has been specifically designed to be economical to run with no heating; heat will be generated by the people in the building and lots of natural light.
The new building uses a range of innovative techniques and materials. It is believed to be the first building in the UK which uses a construction method known as thin-bed masonry – where the bricks are glued together instead of using cement. The technique is quicker than conventional methods and the glue is strong enough to allow large spans without lintels. The bricklayers on the project had to travel Belgium to learn the technique – which has been used more commonly on the continent.
The new building will make maximum use of natural daylight, have a natural ventilation strategy and use rainwater collected on the roof for flushing toilets. It will also have changing rooms and showers for cyclists.
Head of Architecture at UWE, Richard Parnaby says, "As well as meeting the highest possible environmental standards the new building will also provide a valuable learning resource for students and researchers in the Faculty of the Built Environment. The progress of the construction is being recorded by a series of webcams which can be viewed by the public, students and staff at _URL_
In addition a series of 'research panels' will allow new materials and processes to be tested by researchers at the University. In the initial construction these will be 'modular cellular' panels which incorporate compressed straw bales as the core insulation medium. But at a future date these can be replaced with different materials for testing by University research staff.
The Project Manager at UWE, John Fell, says, "We are delighted to be moving forward with this exciting new project. It is appropriate that the new Architecture and Planning Studio Building should demonstrate innovative features and seek to highlight the importance of sustainability while providing a teaching and research resource for students and staff at UWE."
The A&P Studio Building is to be located at the North end of the Frenchay Campus linked by a bridge to the adjacent Q block which houses the Faculty of the Built Environment. The building has a central 'street' which runs east-west, the full length of the building. As well as being an exhibition space this provides natural light and allows the building to be naturally ventilated. This space acts as the 'lungs' of the building removing the need for air conditioning and reducing the building's energy use by two-thirds over that of a similar building. The landscape around the new building will also enhance the use of natural features with the addition of trees and extensive planting.
The three storey building will contain eight studio spaces, a 200 seat lecture room and a specialised GIS (Geographic Information System) studio as well as several other areas dedicated to teaching and services.
1.Construction started on the building in September 2001. The steel frame, external shell and floors are all now in place. The roof is expected on before Christmas. Final completion is expected by May 2002. The use of the innovative brick work technique (thin-bed masonry) is now underway.
2. A visual in jpeg format of the new building is available by emailing _EMAIL_
3. The design Team for the building is as follows:
Buro Happold - Lead Consultant and Structural and Building Services engineers
Turner & Townsend – Quantity surveyor
Wilmott Dixon - Main contractor
White Design - Architecture
4. The Architecture and Planning Studio is part of the Faculty of the Built Environment – one of UWE's largest Faculties with 2100 students and 221 staff. The Architecture and Planning course is a new undergraduate award which brings together these two disciplines for the first time. The award also leads to appropriate professional qualifications and is recognised by The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and the Architects Registration Board (ARBA).
5. Additional notes on the building:
The orientation of the building will take advantage of the prevailing wind direction to assist ventilation and maximise daylight. The building will be cooled at night by a series of automated windows opening to drive air through the building. This cooling at night will allow the building to absorb more heat during the day thus lowering peak temperatures. A vacuum solar collector on the roof will supplement conventionally heated domestic hot water.


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Valentin's GeoT*SOL allows users to choose between different heat sources and system configurations specific to their location. A key feature is the integration of solar thermal systems for domestic hot water or space heating. Requirements, losses and consumption are determined as a result of a dynamic minute-by-minute simulation. These form the basis on which electricity consumption, the annual coefficient of performance and costs are calculated, taking into account off-periods and tariffs. Given these parameters, GeoT*SOL evaluates the efficiency of the system. Heating cost and yield are calculated for the heat pump and a comparison system.
One other useful feature is an interface to Valentin Software's photovoltaics planning tool PV*SOL: This can be used to directly determine the power supplied by a PV system to the heat pump system or to dimension the PV array needed to power a specific heat pump. (mfo)
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Landscaping With Color
Posted by Tammy Sons on Jul 14, 2014
When it comes to landscaping, everyone has their style and preference. After all, that's what gardening and landscaping are about, making it one's own!
Some homeowners choose to place their plants by colors, similar heights, and compatibility. While some homeowners want to just random plant flowers wherever they feel the need strike. Is there a right way versus the wrong way?
Most designers would suggest that it is better to have a theme, that by mixing too many colors and too many different varieties, you will end up having a cluttered mess. If one would look at images, one will see that many homeowners adapt to the same theme of planting similar colors near each other for a more bold impact or look.
Blazing Starflowers are unique and colorful.
Can one have too many colors? Yes, planting too many colors will again give one a messy look or a cluttered look.
It will look as if one doesn't know which plants they prefer, so they plant them all. While in some instances and yards such as extensive yards, this look of many plants mixed with many colors will work, in a small garden or landscape, it will look too cluttered. If you choose to plant colors together, one doesn't have to plant all the same flowers. For example, violets come in white and blue so that you can use both varieties. Lilies also would work. Using the same flower that can bloom in various colors will work well and create a more uniform, dynamic look.
There are many different plants out there to choose from, so why not let your imagination go wild! Black-Eyed Susan flowers make a grand statement. Your yard is your yard and no one else's. It's all about color preference and what look you choose to go if one prefers to create a mixed look with many different colors and plants that will work, while if one decides to go out there and stick to a more uniform look with similar patterns, it's all up to the homeowner!
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Run Model Advisor Checks for HDL Coder
The Model Advisor checks a model or subsystem for conditions and configuration settings that can result in inaccurate or inefficient simulation. The Model Advisor produces a report that lists the suboptimal conditions or settings that it finds, and proposes better model configuration settings where possible. HDL Coder™ integrates the checks in the HDL Code Advisor with the Model Advisor.
Open the Model Advisor Checks
You can open the Model Advisor in either of these ways:
In the Modeling tab, select Model Advisor. In the System Selector dialog box, select the model or Subsystem that you want to analyze, and click OK.
To run the model advisor checks for the Subsystem that you want to analyze, right-click that Subsystem, and select Model Advisor > Open Model Advisor.
At the command line, enter
systemis the name of the model or Subsystem that you want to analyze. For more information, see
When you open the Model Advisor in Simulink®, you see the checks in the HDL Coder subfolder of the By Product folder. Each subfolder in the HDL Coder folder represents a group or category of related checks. Expanding the folders display available checks in each folder. From the left pane, you can select a folder or an individual check. The Model Advisor displays information about the selected folder or check in the right pane. The content of the right pane depends on the selected folder or check. The right pane has a Result subpane that contains a display area for status messages and other task results.
To learn more about each individual check, right-click that check, and select What's This?.
Run Checks in the Model Advisor
In the Model Advisor window, you can run individual checks or a group of checks. To run a check, Select that check, and then click Run This Check.
To run a group of checks within a folder:
Select the checks that you want to run.
Select the folder that contains these checks and then click Run Checks
For example, to run the checks in the Checks for blocks and block settings folder, select the folder, and then click Run Checks.
You can also right-click the folder Checks for blocks and block settings, and select Run Selected Checks in the Model Advisor.
Display Check Results in the Model Advisor Report
To display an HTML report of the check results, click Report from the toolstrip. You can use the Report drop-down to change the report format to PDF or WORD.
This report shows typical results for a run of the Checks for blocks and block settings folder.
The report displays a run summary of the checks in the folder that you generated the report for. As you run the checks, the Model Advisor updates the reports with the latest information for each check in the folder. When you run the checks at different times, timestamps appear at the top right of the report to indicate when checks have been run. Checks that occurred during previous runs have a timestamp following the check name. You can filter checks in the report to show checks that display a Warning, or show checks that Passed, and so on.
Fix Warnings or Failures
When a model or referenced model has a suboptimal condition, checks can fail. After you run a Model Advisor analysis, indicates checks that have warnings. A warning result is informational. You can fix the reported issue or move on to the next task.
To fix warnings or failures, in the Result sub-pane, review the recommended actions to make changes to your model. When you fix a warning or failure, to verify that the check passes, re-run the check.
Some checks can use the Fix option from the toolstrip. Note that this option is available for selected checks that display violations with input parameters. This example displays the incorrect Reciprocal block settings that caused the check to display a warning.
When you select Fix, the Action Report window shows the changes that were applied. To verify that the check passes, rerun the check. If you use the Model Advisor dashboard, you see that the analysis is faster when you rerun the check because the Model Advisor does not reload the checks before executing them.


CHANGES: See CHANGES WWW::Search::Scraper WWW::Search::Sherlock WWW::Search::Scraper::* WWW::Search::Scraper::Request WWW::Search::Scraper::Response DEPENDENCIES - WWW::Search Tie::Persistent Storable These modules scrape data from search engines on the WWW (much like Apple's Sherlock, but these are more capable, complete, and accurate.) Version 2.00 is a major departure from versions 1.xx 1. Search engies are classified by type a. Job b. Apartments c. Auction d. etc. 2. Queries are translated from a single canonical form to each search engine by that engine's Scraper module. For example, a. A single location property is translated to the numerous coding and taxonomy systems of the various engines. b. A single price (or range) is matched to the closest price (range) of each search engine. 3. Post-filtering base on the results page, and on detail pages, via Perl coding. 4. Retains ease of framing the results page, and extends that to framing the detail page. 5. Backward compatible. Complete documentation can be found in WWW::Search::Scraper and WWW::Search::Scraper::Sherlock. Special options for each type of search engine are documented in their respective modules. Examples include: 1. SearchApartments - illustrates how to easily set up and use one search engine. 2. Sherlock - illustrates the ease of adapting any Sherlock plugin. 3. Scraper - illustrates how SearchResult sub-classing can be used to build a more generalized search engine scraper. You can see how this can be extended to build a multi-engine scraper. If you want to write new Scraper modules to access new search engines, see for the current "best practices". Happy Hunting! AUTHOR: Glenn Wood, #---------------------------------------------------------------------# $VERSION = '2.27' See "Changes" file for history of changes. KNOWN PROBLEMS more often than not goes into a loop. keeps saying "Please enable your cookies", so it doesn't work at all.


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Yes, there are numerous laws regarding divorce in Texas, which are important to be familiar with if you're contemplating divorce. Each state has its own divorce legislation and practices, each slightly different. Below we discuss five important legalities specific to Texas.
Texas Residency Requirements
Each state has its own residency requirements, ranging from six months to a year. In Texas, the requirement is six months. In order to file for divorce, you must be able to verify that you or your spouse have lived in Texas for at least six months, and that you have lived in the county in which you filed for at least 90 days.
You can prove Texas residency by:
- affidavit stating the date you moved to Texas;
- driver's license; or
- leases or utility bills in your name.
Texas Allows for Both Fault and No-Fault Divorces
When you file for divorce in Texas, essentially you have two choices. One option is to file a no-fault divorce in which you tell the courts that there are unresolvable issues in the marriage, such as personality differences, and that there is no reasonable expectation of reconciliation.
You can also file a fault-based divorce stating one of the following as your grounds:
- felony conviction;
- living apart for three years; or
- commitment to a mental institution.
Texas is a 50/50 State
Texas is a "communal property" state, which means that all the assets and debts accumulated by the spouses during marriage are "joint" property and subject to a 50/50 split, unless both parties agree or the judge decides differently. Splitting assets and debts, a process known as equitable distribution, is no easy task.
Unless there is little to no communal property, equitable distribution generally necessitates a:
Alimony is Not a Given in the State of Texas
In Texas, not every case involves alimony. Some spouses do not seek it, and some are disqualified for various reasons.
Alimony depends on a number of factors, including:
- each spouse's contributions to the marriage;
- age, education, and earning capacity of each spouse;
- financial dependence;
- length of marriage;
- adultery (which could bar the recipient spouse from receiving alimony);
- criminal activity; or
- other marital misconduct.
If alimony is a factor in your divorce, speak with a lawyer as soon as possible to ensure any proposed payments are fair and accurately documented.
Texas Requires a Slew of Legal Documents for Divorce
Without exaggeration, in order to get a divorce in Texas, you may have to fill out a good 10-20 documents and then file them with the clerk of the court.
Some of the standard divorce forms include:
- verification forms;
- separation agreements;
- financial affidavits;
- child supportworksheets;
- parenting plans(custody arrangements);
- the actual petition for divorce; and
- the decree of divorce.
These are just a few of the forms required. To make sure you have all your paperwork in order and that all important matters are handled with care, seek legal representation.
Get Help from a Divorce Attorney in Dallas
If you need an attorney for your divorce, contact the Law Office of Julie Johnson, PLLC. We provide consultations and can help you navigate Texas divorce laws and handle your divorce expediently. Contact us today at _PHONE_.


Meaning of Donelle
Donelle is an English name for boys and girls.
The meaning is 'lady'
The name is very rarely given inthe United States.
The name Donelle is -as far as we knowonly given to American boys.
Use for the other sex:
Donella, Donald
What do they use in other countries?
Donnie (English)
Donny (English)
The name sounds like:
Similar names are:
Dorelle, Jonelle, Ronelle
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The DNS Resolver for.NET
Current Version: 1.3.1
Simple but Powerful
DnsClient.NET is a simple yet very powerful and high performant open source library for the.NET Framework to do DNS lookups.
It can be used in any kind of application to query the network's DNS server or any other DNS server even on non-default ports.
Cross Platform
Targeting the new NetStandard library of.NET, the DnsClient library can be used on Windows, Mac or Linux!
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Running a query calls DnsClient on the server and uses the public Google DNS Servers (, for name resolution.
The Lookup Client
The LookupClient class is the main tool of this library. It provides configuration options and methods to run DNS queries and reverse lookups.
It is important to note, that it is highly recommended to instantiate the lookup client only once per application and to always use the same reference (singleton).
Otherwise, features like result cache and connection pooling will not have any effect which can decrease the application's performance.
That being said, the lookup client is thread safe, which means it can be used in a multithreaded and/or async context without any problems.
The following code initializes a new lookup client using your local network DNS server(s).
var client = new LookupClient();
client.UseCache = true;
But you can also specify a custom DNS server running on any port:
var endpoint = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Parse(""), 8600);
var client = new LookupClient(endpoint);
For mock friendly and easier to test code and usage with injection (DI), it is recommended to have implementers only consume the interface ILookupClient or IDnsQuery instead of the concrete implementation.
Simple DI example:
Which can be consumed later by some MVC Controller for example:
public SomeController(ILookupClient client)
 if(client == null)
 throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(client));
 _client = client;
Query APIs
The LookupClient's Query and QueryAsync methods can be used to run standard DNS queries for a domain name.
You have to provide a QueryType and optionally a QueryClass in addition to a valid domain name.
The following example queries for all A resource records:
var result = client.Query("domain.name.com", QueryType.A);
Resource Record Specific Types
Each type of resource record transports very specific and different data which needs custom parsing. Therefore, resource records in DnsClient also have very different properties to access the data.
Resource record collections of the LookupClient's query result are typed with the base class of all resource records, which means, to get to the QueryType specific data, each result record must be cast to the actual type.
To make that process a little bit easier, DnsClient comes with some build in extension methods for the most common types.
An A record for example always only provide an IP address. The corresponding ARecord class stores the IP address in the Address property.
The ARecords extension method filters all A records from the answers collection, and casts them to ARecords. Now, the Address property is available and can be used:
foreach (var aRecord in client.Query("google.com", QueryType.A).Answers.ARecords())
This is the same as doing a.OfType() call on the answers collection.
The following is another example for how to manual cast and then access the resource record type specific data.
var record = _client
 .Query("domain.name.com", QueryType.A)
// or
var record = _client
 .Query("domain.name.com", QueryType.A)
 .FirstOrDefault() as HInfoRecord;
if(record!= null)
 Console.WriteLine($"Cpu: {record.Cpu} OS: {record.OS}");
Additional Results
A DNS query result can have multiple sections: The answers, authority and additional records.
Answers are the actually requested resource record(s), if any, while additional records might contain resource records which contain additional information to the answer records.
A good example is the SRV record. The actual SRV record transports the port and domain name of the service. Which can be accessed via Port and Target properties of the SrvRecord class.
The additionals section might contain another A or CNAME record which transports the address of the requested service. To find the corresponding record in the additionals section (there could be multiple), we have to match the Target domain name of the answer with the DomainName of the additional record.
Example of how to use additional records:
var result = await _client
 .QueryAsync("_service.domain.com", QueryType.SRV);
if (result.HasError)
 throw new InvalidOperationException(result.ErrorMessage);
var srvRecord = result
if (srvRecord!= null)
 var additionalRecord = result.Additionals
 .FirstOrDefault(p => p.DomainName.Equals(srvRecord.Target));
 if (additionalRecord is ARecord aRecord)
 Console.WriteLine($"Services found at {srvRecord.Target}:{srvRecord.Port} IP: {aRecord.Address}");
 else if (additionalRecord is CNameRecord cname)
 Console.WriteLine($"Services found at {srvRecord.Target}:{srvRecord.Port} IP: {cname.CanonicalName}");
See also the resolve service methods below.
Synchronous and Async APIs
Async and sync API implementations are available for all query API methods.
var result = client.Query("google.com", QueryType.MX);
var host = await client.QueryReverse(ip);
// or
var result = await client.QueryAsync("google.com", QueryType.MX);
var host = await client.QueryReverseAsync(ip);
Extended Query API
Some queries might involve more complex business logic to get the results we actually want, e.g. doing a reverse lookup of an IP address to get the hostname and then querying for all IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of that hostname.
For some of those more commonly used things, this DNS client comes with a default implementation. (If you think that there is something important missing or not working as you expect, feel free to post an issue on GitHub)
The GetHostName or GetHostNameAsync method does a reverse lookup and returns the hostname as string, or null if not found.
var client = new LookupClient();
string hostName = await client.GetHostNameAsync(IPAddress.Parse(""));
This is a shortcut for
var client = new LookupClient();
var result = await client.QueryReverseAsync(IPAddress.Parse(""));
var hostName = result.Answers.PtrRecords().FirstOrDefault()?.PtrDomainName;
Get Host Entries
The GetHostEntry method accepts either an IPAddress or a string which can be an IP address or hostname.
Depending on what gets passed in to the method, it does a reverse lookup of the address first and then tries to populate a IPHostEntry instance. See the documentation remarks of GetHostEntry for more details.
var client = new LookupClient();
var hostEntry = await client.GetHostEntryAsync("mail.google.com");
If we'd run a normal query for an A or AAAA record of mail.google.com, the result would something like this:
mail.google.com. 594243 IN CNAME googlemail.l.google.com.
googlemail.l.google.com. 227 IN AAAA 2a00:1450:4016:807::2005
The entry returned by GetHostEntry in this example would have an IPv4 and IPv6 address, one Alias "googlemail.l.google.com" and the HostName property would be set to "mail.google.com".
Resolve Service APIs
The ResolveService queries for SRV records by using the syntax defined in RFC2782 to resolve available service hosts and ports.
The query syntax defines a special hostname, like _ldap._tcp.example.com which contains the service name, in this case _ldap and optionally a protocol, in this case _tcp.
Same example using the lookup client:
var client = new LookupClient();
var result = client.ResolveServiceAsync("example.com", "ldap", System.Net.Sockets.ProtocolType.Tcp);
Important to note that there should be no underscore prefixing the service name or protocol. This will be appended automatically, if the protocol is set.
One interesting use-case for this is DNS based client side service discovery. Consul for example has a DNS endpoint and supports this syntax. Instead of protocol, we can query for tags defined for the service in the Consul service registry (this is optional again).
In the following example, we'll query for the consul service itself:
var client = new LookupClient(IPAddress.Parse(""), 8600);
var entry = await client.ResolveServiceAsync("service.consul", "consul");
Configuration Options
Use Cache
Setting the UseCache property to true, allows the lookup client to cache all query results depending on the minimum time to live of all returned records.
This setting is enabled per default.
client.UseCache = true;
Minimum Cache Timeout
Setting the MinimumCacheTimeout property to a positive value allows the lookup client to cache query results, even if the resource records do have no time to live defined.
This is useful in performance critical solutions where even a few seconds matter.
Cached results can be accessed with millions of hits per seconds while actual queries might only reach 10 to a few 100 thousand hits per second.
This setting has no default.
client.MinimumCacheTimeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10);
Audit Trail
Enabling the EnableAuditTrail property of the lookup client, adds more information to the returned result.
Beside the collections of resource records, result.AuditTrail will contain a full log of the request and response.
The log format is similar to DNS files or the console output of the dig command line utility.
This setting is disabled per default.
Keep in mind that enabling this feature has a small performance impact and should only be used for debugging purpose.
var client = new LookupClient(NameServer.GooglePublicDns, NameServer


Search Perfect: hitting it off with SearchKey 1.0b1
Most of the time, I put files in logical places. But sometimes what seemed logical at the time is far from logical later, and I do have a few folders which are like basements, where I tuck all sorts of unrelated things away.
Searching for content can be tricky. It works best when you can think of words or a phrase which occurs hardly anywhere else but in the document for which you're looking. It becomes almost impossible when you can't remember much about that document, and start guessing the words that it contains.
I have been developing SearchKey, a little tool which uses extended attributes to greatly improve search. That app is now in its first beta-release, and available here: searchkey10b1
and from Downloads above.
Why use extended attributes, though? What advantages do they have?
SearchKey edits a group of five extended attributes which have been carefully chosen because they are preserved across different versions of macOS, on most file systems including HFS+ and APFS, and are used by Spotlight when it compiles the metadata indexes which it uses.
One simple way to use SearchKey to enhance your searches is to label documents twice.
SearchKey has two modes: batch and single-file. To mark up a folder of documents for a specific project, first go through the whole folder in batch mode, setting common labels, then tweak them for individual key files using single-file mode. This is surprisingly quick to do. The aim is to provide a general marker for each file which belongs to that project, something you can set in the Headline and Keywords, perhaps, then add more specific labels to those files which you will need to locate again.
You might, for example, use the Headline to contain the project name, and add a couple of Keywords to every file, then for the final contract and other key documents you can add extra Keywords such as "final contract", "specification", "milestones", etc.
You can then access the content of those extended attributes in your searches. This is rather clumsy in the normal Spotlight search feature from the 🔍 icon in the menubar, as you have to refer to those attributes by name. To search for files containing the keyword contract, for example, you type in
This is easier and much more powerful in the Finder's Find feature, but needs a little preparation.
Open a new window in the Finder, and select the Find command in the File menu. This changes the window from a normal Finder view to a Find window, in which the lowest row in the top part of the window contains search criteria, by default set to Kind is Any.
Open the popup menu containing the first part of that, Kind, and at the foot of that menu you will see the option Other… Choose that option to open the search attributes, and in that list tick the checkboxes next to Headline, Descriptions, Keywords, and Copyright. This adds them to that popup menu.
Now, you can perform Finder searches using the contents of those four extended attributes. Oddly, there doesn't appear to be any way to add Creator to the search attributes used here, but the other four extended attributes are fully supported. You can, though, search the Creator text which you saved using SearchKey in Spotlight, using a search criterion such as
Design the content of the extended attributes you add to files carefully, and you can ensure amazingly accurate search results.
This version of SearchKey is now feature-complete. If this beta-release proves reliable across El Capitan to High Sierra, and there are no issues outstanding, I intend adding a Help book and taking it to the first full release.
I am now looking at packaging its functions into a Service, to make it more accessible. I hope that it helps you find what you are looking for.