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/***************************************************************************//**
* \file cy_network_buffer.c
*
* \brief
* Basic set of APIs for dealing with network packet buffers. This is used by WHD
* for relaying data between the network stack and the connectivity chip.
*
********************************************************************************
* \copyright
* Copyright 2018-2019 Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
* SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
*     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*******************************************************************************/

#if defined(CYBSP_WIFI_CAPABLE)

#include <stdlib.h>
#include "cy_network_buffer.h"
#include "cy_utils.h"
#include "lwip/memp.h"
#define  SDIO_BLOCK_SIZE (64U)

whd_result_t cy_host_buffer_get(whd_buffer_t *buffer, whd_buffer_dir_t direction, unsigned short size, unsigned long timeout_ms)
{
    CY_UNUSED_PARAMETER( direction );
    CY_UNUSED_PARAMETER( timeout_ms );
    struct pbuf *p = NULL;
    if ( ( direction == WHD_NETWORK_TX) && ( size <= PBUF_POOL_BUFSIZE ) )
    {
    	p = pbuf_alloc(PBUF_RAW, size, PBUF_POOL);
    }
    else
    {
    	p = pbuf_alloc(PBUF_RAW, size+SDIO_BLOCK_SIZE, PBUF_RAM);
    	if ( p != NULL )
    	{
    	    p->len = size;
    	    p->tot_len -=  SDIO_BLOCK_SIZE;
    	}
    }
    if (p != NULL )
    {
        *buffer = p;
    	return WHD_SUCCESS;
    }
    else
    {
        return WHD_BUFFER_ALLOC_FAIL;
    }
}

void cy_buffer_release(whd_buffer_t buffer, whd_buffer_dir_t direction)
{
    CY_UNUSED_PARAMETER( direction );
    (void) pbuf_free( (struct pbuf *)buffer );
}

uint8_t *cy_buffer_get_current_piece_data_pointer(whd_buffer_t buffer)
{
    CY_ASSERT(buffer != NULL);
    struct pbuf *pbuffer= (struct pbuf*) buffer;
    return (uint8_t*) pbuffer->payload;
}

uint16_t cy_buffer_get_current_piece_size(whd_buffer_t buffer)
{
    CY_ASSERT(buffer != NULL);
    struct pbuf *pbuffer = (struct pbuf*) buffer;
    return (uint16_t) pbuffer->len;
}

whd_result_t cy_buffer_set_size(whd_buffer_t buffer, unsigned short size)
{
    CY_ASSERT(buffer != NULL);
    struct pbuf * pbuffer = (struct pbuf *) buffer;

    if ( size > (unsigned short) WHD_LINK_MTU  + LWIP_MEM_ALIGN_SIZE(LWIP_MEM_ALIGN_SIZE(sizeof(struct pbuf))) + LWIP_MEM_ALIGN_SIZE(size) )
    {
        return WHD_PMK_WRONG_LENGTH;
    }

    pbuffer->tot_len = size;
    pbuffer->len = size;

    return CY_RSLT_SUCCESS;
}

whd_result_t cy_buffer_add_remove_at_front(whd_buffer_t *buffer, int32_t add_remove_amount)
{
    CY_ASSERT(buffer != NULL);
    struct pbuf **pbuffer = (struct pbuf**) buffer;

    if ( (u8_t) 0 != pbuf_header( *pbuffer, ( s16_t )( -add_remove_amount ) ) )
    {
        return WHD_PMK_WRONG_LENGTH;
    }

    return WHD_SUCCESS;
}

#endif /* defined(CYBSP_WIFI_CAPABLE) */


As Americans, we really don't like the idea of authority. As individualists, nobody tells us what to do. So, as we read our Bibles like any other book with ideas and instructions. We read with a critical eye determining if we agree with the ideas and want to do what it instructs. But, what place should the Bible hold as we determine how to live our lives? That answer will come with our belief about the nature and source of the Bible. If the Bible is a good book written by men about God, the then authority lies with the human author, and no more. But, Peter will tell us that the true source of this great books is something much greater, and with the author comes His authority.


What happens when you cobble together dusty old stereotypes, a second hand vhs of sailor moon and a half-arsed stab in the dark at pandering to kids? You get Groove Squad, DiC's only Sunday Movie Toon not to be based on either an existing property or public domain literature. And what a toon it is; this early 2000s relic attempts to mimic what Totally Spies and Kim Possible did so well and ultimately fails on so, so many counts. On a more positive note, we got a new microphone cable and (touch wood) so far, so good!


If you have a child theme enabled on your site simply add the following code in the functions.php file.
That's it! You now have xml-rpc disabled and your site is more secured.
If you don't know how to use child themes or you don't have one activated in your site you can still disable xml-rpc by simply prohibiting access to the file that handles all the related operations ( the xmlrpc.php file which resides in the root of your wordpress installation ) from htaccess . The htaccess file controls access rules for your site and you'll find it in the root of your wordpress installation. This might be hidden by default. Here's a quick guide on how to edit your htaccess file from Hostgator. Add the following code to the bottom or the top of your htaccess file.
That's it! Now your site is more secured than before you are safer from all those nasty, heart breaking brute force attacks!
We'll come back shortly with some more useful tricks and tips on wordpress and other web technologies. Read more articles at our TIPS section. Enjoy!


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Gut Feelings
Early Detection Can Save Your Life
By Cinde Ramirez on April 21, 2009 at 8:04 AM
Submitted by Holly Coyle
Dr. Michael Bay of Gastroenterology Consultants of San Antonio was recently featured on WOAI-TV to discuss colon cancer prevention. Below is a letter to the editor he wrote that I wanted to share with the readers of this blog:
As a practicing gastroenterologist working to stop one of the most preventable forms of cancer, please allow me to share a story with you that may help save the lives of San Antonio Express-News readers:
Nearly eight years ago a lovely woman by the name of Kacenia Archie arrived at my office for a colonoscopy. She was very healthy, showed no symptoms and had no family history of colon cancer, but because of her age – she was sixty at the time – she and her primary care physician understood that it was important she be screened for colon cancer. Her screening revealed a small, early-stage cancerous polyp that would have been life-threatening had it not been treated. Kacenia had the polyp removed and the cancer was prevented from spreading.
Unfortunately for many of our Texas friends and neighbors, the story does not always have such a happy ending. According to the American Cancer Society, more than 3,000 Texans – men and women; whites, blacks and Hispanics; rich and poor – will die from colon cancer in 2009, despite the fact that it is one of the most preventable and curable forms of cancer. Many people are simply not taking the simple preventive steps that could save their lives.
If you are over 50 years of age and have not been screened for colon cancer, you are taking an unnecessary risk. Individuals with a family history of colon cancer need to start screening at a younger age – beginning at age 40. Hispanics and African Americans should also consider being tested earlier. Early detection and treatment of colon cancer can reduce the number of deaths by up to 90 percent. When polyps are detected and removed, lives are saved. In the time it takes you to get your car washed this spring, you could receive a painless and potentially life-saving colonoscopy.
Kacenia's recent five year follow-up visit revealed that she remains cancer-free. She is looking forward to many more years of being active in her church, enjoying retirement, and cheering on her grandchildren in sports. By deciding to share her story, this San Antonio woman has joined us in the battle against the second deadliest form of cancer. On behalf of the American College of Gastroenterology, we ask you to take the first step in preventing this deadly disease: ask your doctor about colorectal cancer screening.
Michael Bay MD FACP FACG
ACG Governor South Texas
Dr. Bay is a gastroenterologist in private practice with Gastroenterology Consultants of San Antonio. Gastroconsa.com
Cinde Ramirez
About Gut Feelings
Holly Coyle believes that, in medicine, open lines of communication are crucial. As a writer for Gastroenterology Consultants of San Antonio, she serves as a link between doctors and patients and writes health stories in order to empower readers. Holly has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. She also studied at the University of Texas at Austin and was a broadcast journalist for 10 years covering health issues and breaking news.

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It is not overwhelming and it is not underwhelming. You leave the production feeling merely whelmed. Thus wrote Michael Phillips in the Los Angeles Times, February 6, 2001. Contemporary writers like Philips sometimes use "whelm" to denote a middle stage between "underwhelm" and "overwhelm." But that's not how "whelm" has traditionally been used. "Whelm" and "overwhelm" have been with us since Middle English (when they were "whelmen" and "overwhelmen"), and throughout the years their meanings have largely overlapped. Both words early on meant "to overturn," for example, and both have also come to mean "to overpower in thought or feeling." Around 1950, however, folks started using a third word, "underwhelmed," for "unimpressed," and lately "whelmed" has been popping up with the meaning "moderately impressed."
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'whelm.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.


This is a partial recording of the talk. Apologies for the incompleteness.
The challenges of our time call us to our deepest practice in order that the touch of suffering might blossom into liberation for others as it flows outward through freedom in our own minds and hearts. This evening's gathering will include a talk and then shared dialogue around manifesting fierce and radical qualities of wholesome presence in our troubled world.


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"This skillful demonstration of the disease known as being alive, as diagnosed by a master playwright, is one I would recommend to any actor, student of literature or fan of tragedy and comedy. [Bill Irwin's] On Beckett, which was conceived and staged by Mr. Irwin as an (almost) one-man show, carefully peels back the skin on an actor's fascination with, and interpretation of, its title subject."
Interviews News Quotes September 26, 2018
Writer and academic John Samuel Bolin on Samuel Beckett
"I first encountered Beckett through two novels that are not widely read, even in the university: Watt and Molloy. Simply put, these books forced me to reconsider what serious writing might look like. (I was then completing an M.Phil. thesis on T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets and wisdom literature.) Beckett and the Modern Novel was written out of a desire to come to terms, if I can put it that way, with what was happening in those books.
You know that Beckett reluctantly gave a series of lectures in 1930 to students at Trinity College, Dublin, and that two main sets of notes taken by Beckett's students survive. Re-reading Beckett's early fiction, guided by cues drawn from the lecture notes, I demonstrated that his take on what he called 'The Modern Novel' was largely cribbed from a pre-existing body of theory, French in origin, and in particular from work by an unacknowledged influence: André Gide. Further, Beckett then began to deploy and extend such theory in his early novels, which generated the fragmented form and 'tripartite' characters that have often puzzled commentators. From the beginning then, Beckett's thought should be read alongside a body of Continental experimental writing of the pre-war period; and it was from this context that he also drew key paradoxes culminating in his mature theory of an art of 'failure'. It seemed to me that Gide would be the last major influence on Beckett's novelistic theory and practice that we would likely discover (so far I have been proven correct).
The monograph also allowed me to spend time with some of Beckett's fictional interlocutors and inheritors, particularly in the French context: Sade, Bataille, Robbe-Grillet, and others." — John Samuel Bolin
"What was it about Samuel Beckett? In addition to writing fiction and plays that continue to absorb audiences and tease the imagination, the Nobel Laureate attracted collaborators in life and continues to extend his influence today. Writers from Harold Pinter to John Banville have acknowledged their debt to him, but it's also a legacy that goes beyond words."
— The Irish Times
Events News Quotes August 4, 2018
"Soft Border. Hard Beckett."
"This latest Godot is part of the Happy Days: International Beckett Festival, now in its sixth edition, which shares August with the somewhat newer Lughnasa Frielfest, dedicated to another famous Irish playwright and located further up the Brexit frontline, at venues in Derry and Donegal. " Frank McNally, The Irish Times
Events Quotes July 28, 2018
An Irishwoman's Diary on Samuel Beckett in Roussillon
Lara Marlowe: "The village of 1,300 will commemorate Beckett's 1942-1944 stay in Roussillon with its 19th annual Beckett Festival from July 30th until August 1st. The actor Jacques Frantz will read from The Unnamable, the third book in Beckett's trilogy. The festival will close with a performance by Denis Lavant of Worstword Ho."
Archives News Quotes February 12, 2018 February 7, 2018
Eimear McBride on Beckett's Development as a Writer
"Of all I've read in my life, and all that's yet to come, what's going to count? How much of it has changed me? How much has even marked me? How much has done both but I don't know it yet? Readers get to make these discoveries in the privacy of their own heads. Writers must make them in public and then wear them in their back catalogues for as long as they have a readership who cares."
Events News Quotes February 5, 2018 January 31, 2018
Toronto Production of Krapp's Last Tape is "rich and resonant"
J. Kelly Nestruck: "Nasmith's performance is exquisite – the pathos not overplayed, the humour stinging but still funny. When he holds a peeled banana in his mouth, it is the epitome of the word "absurd." When he listens intently and then gets lost in memory, you see that boat moving gently, up and down, and from side to side."
News Quotes January 31, 2018 January 31, 2018
Samuel Beckett: Style Icon?
Here at the Samuel Beckett Society, we're not sure what to make of Robert Armstrong's recent piece in the Financial Times about the end of the male style icon. Armstrong is wistful for a simpler time, when male celebrity figures were supposedly emulated and celebrated for their sartorial choices. What do you think? Does Beckett's dress code influence the way we think about him as a writer and public figure? Or are these things irrelevant to the books and plays that we love?
Remembering How It Was: Anne Atik, Avigdor Arikha, and Samuel Beckett
Aysegul Savas has written about her experience of knowing the poet Anne Atik as a neighbour. The piece also discusses Anne's late husband, Avigdor Arikha, and touches on the couple's friendship with Samuel Beckett
RESOLUTIONS COLON ZERO STOP PERIOD HOPES COLON ZERO STOP BECKETT
— Samuel Beckett's 1984 telegram to The Times


This is a set of variations on a folksong said to be George Washington's favorite.
Theme: In E major, although accompanied laconically by a series of pitches which, in another composition and under different methods, might be a tone-row. But it would be a dull tone-row in a serial piece, because of the limited intervalic content — it arranges the twelve pitches of the octave into a series of melodic major seconds (interval class 2): [A,G] [C,D] [A#,G#] [F,D#] [E,F#] [C#,B] [G,A]. Another reason why it is not strictly a tone-row is, it comes back to the first dyad at the end; but part of the structural game of the piece is playing with the tension between a lovely, tonal melody, and materials which pull away from tonality.
Variation [i]: Very simple; melody restated verbatim in E major. TWD (The Wayward Dyads) accompanies, in a different transposition, and registrally separated.
Variation [iii]: ... melody in RH is in G major, rhythmically forced to 5/8. Left hand is a kind of inversion, one note staggered, at transpositions chosen to irritate G major. Brief variation, this.
Variation [v]: The soprano voice at the end of [iv] sets the tune up in E major, and the general tenor of the Variation is romantic, the chords are all common practice, but they're wrong (by common practice principles). This variation doesn't take the musical world by storm, but I like it.
Variation [vi]: A furious toccatina consisting essentially of arpeggiated chords which, some other day, might be used to creatively harmonize the tune.
Variation [vii]: I wrote this quasi arpa variation just because I like the sound of the piano strings up there; the left hand is a free mirror of the tune in F major. There are added "trillo" remarks from TWD down in the basement.
Variation [viii]: Even by common practice standards, the melody is schizoid here ... first half is in B-flat, second half in E-flat. TWD appears as "blippy" grace notes.
Variation [ix]: Just a fragment of the tune appears against rapid arpeggi which loosely recall [vi].
Variation [x]: This was the variation I wrote with the thought, What if Copland used this tune in, say, Billy the Kid?
Variation [xi]: The melody wavers between e minor and e phrygian in high register; fifths plod down below.
Variation [xii]: A variation of [xi]; the tune is exploded registrally, tempo is faster, and there are some repeated notes.
Variation [xiii]: A deliberately jarring return to (some echo of) traditional harmonic syntax. The tune is in g natural minor (aeolian mode). Apart from the ornamentation, the left hand is a strict canon at the octave.
Variation [xv]: In an abrupt recantation, the tune comes back in simple G major (and 7/8); the left hand confirms all your mother's warnings about the excesses of Alberti bass.
Variation [xvi]: Wrote this with the englishry of Holst and Vaughan Williams in view; in D major.
Variation [xvii]: Yet another mishandling of that by-now-worried-to-distraction tune, in d aeolian, with TWD moving slowly in the left hand.
Variation [xviii]: The tune here returns to E major, in a manner suggestive of Couperin, or rather, in an exaggeration of that manner, though there is affection even in the exaggeration. TWD in the bass are gruff yet reserved.
The Theme, in a not-perfectly-literal return.


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Трансформа́тор (від  — перетворювати) — пристрій для перетворення параметрів (амплітуд і фаз) напруг і струмів.

Трансформатор — статичний електромагнітний пристрій, що має дві або більше індуктивно зв'язані обмотки і призначений для перетворення за допомогою електромагнітної індукції однієї або кількох систем (напруг) змінного струму в одну або декілька інших систем (напруг) змінного струму без зміни частоти системи (напруги) змінного струму.

Трансформатори широко застосовуються в лініях електропередач, в розподільних та побутових пристроях. На високій напрузі й з малою силою струму передавання електроенергії відбувається з меншими втратами. Тому, зазвичай лінії електропередач є високовольтними. Водночас побутові й промислові машини вимагають великої сили струму й невеликої напруги, тож перед споживанням електроенергія перетворюється на низьковольтну. Трансформатори знайшли застосування також у різних випрямних, підсилювальних, сигналізаційних та інших пристроях.

Коефіцієнт корисної дії сучасних трансформаторів, особливо підвищеної потужності, вельми високий і досягає значень 0,95…0,996.

Історична довідка
1831 року англійським фізиком Майклом Фарадеєм під час проведення ним основоположних досліджень було відкрите явище електромагнітної індукції, що лежить в основі принципу роботи електричного трансформатора.

Вперше трансформатори, як такі були продемонстровані в 1882 році, хоча ще в 1876 році Яблочков П. М. запатентував (патент Франції № 115793 від 30 листопада 1876 року) аналогічний пристрій для створених ним освітлювальних пристроїв — «свічок Яблочкова»
. Це був трансформатор з розімкнутим осердям, у вигляді стрижня, на який намотувались обмотки.

У 1885 р. угорські інженери фірми «Ganz factory» Отто Блаті, Каролі Зіперновскі і Мікша Дері винайшли трансформатор із замкнутим магнітопроводом, що зіграло важливу роль у подальшому розвитку конструкцій трансформаторів.

Велику роль для підвищення надійності трансформаторів зіграло застосування масляного охолодження (кінець 1880-х років, Джордж Свінберн). Свінберн розташовував трансформатори у керамічних посудинах, заповнених оливою, що суттєво підвищувало надійність ізоляції обмоток..

Винахід трансформатора був важливим фактором у так званій війні струмів — конкурентній боротьбі за те, який електричний струм, постійний чи змінний ефективніший для масового користування.

З винайденням трансформатора виник технічний інтерес до змінного струму. Електротехнік польсько-російського походження, випускник одеського реального училища (1878 рік) — Михайло  Доливо-Добровольський 1889 року розробив для німецької фірми «Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft» перший трифазний трансформатор. На електротехнічній виставці у Франкфурті-на-Майні 1891 року пан Доливо-Добровольський представляв дослідне високовольтне електропередавання трифазного струму на відстань 175 км. Трифазний генератор мав потужність 230 кВт за напруги 95 В.

У 1891 році Нікола Тесла винайшов резонансний трансформатор для вироблення високої напруги на високій частоті.

Будова й спосіб дії

Найпростіший трансформатор складається з двох обвиток на спільному осерді. Одна з обвиток під'єднана до джерела змінного струму. Ця обвитка називається первинною. Інша обвитка, вторинна, служить джерелом струму для навантаження. Створений струмом у первинній обвитці змінний магнітний потік викликає появу е.р.с. у вторинній обвитці, оскільки обидві обвитки мають спільне осердя. Співвідношення е.р.с. у вторинній обвитці й напруги на первинній залежить від кількості витків у обох обвитках. У зразковому випадку
 ,

де індексом P позначені величини, що стосуються первинної обвитки, а індексом S — відповідні величини для вторинної обвитки, U — напруга, N — кількість витків, I — сила струму.

Таким чином, перетворення напруги й сили струму в трансформаторі визначається кількістю витків у первинній та вторинній обвитках. Напруга пропорційна кількості витків, тоді як сила струму обернено пропорційна їй.

Втрати енергії
У звичайних трансформаторах енергія передається від первинного кола до вторинного з втратами. Існує низка фізичних причин, що їх зумовлюють.

Однією з причин втрат є активний опір обвиток. Під час протікання струму крізь трансформатор, він нагрівається і віддає тепло навколишньому середовищу. У разі збільшення частоти опір обмоток збільшується через скін-ефект та ефект близькості, які зменшують площу перерізу провідника, крізь який протікає струм.

Ще одна причина втрат — перемагнічування осердя внаслідок гістерезису. Ці втрати для відповідної речовини осердя, пропорційні частоті й залежать від пікового значення потоку магнітного поля крізь осердя.

Інша причина втрат — струми Фуко. Змінне магнітне поле в осерді породжує змінне вихрове електричне поле, яке викликає додаткові вихрові струми, що теж призводять до нагрівання. Для зменшення струмів Фуко осердя виготовляють із тонких сталевих пластинок, оскільки втрати, пов'язані зі струмами Фуко, обернено квадратично залежать від товщини матеріалу. На високих частотах для виготовлення осердь використовують феромагнітні матеріали, які завдяки більшому опору, мають значно менші втрати.

Частина енергії втрачається на механічні коливання. Феромагнітний матеріал осердя розширюється і стискається у змінному магнітному полі завдяки явищу магнітострикції. Цим пояснюється гудіння трансформатора, що супроводжує його роботу. Додатково, первинна й вторинна обвитка притягаються й відштовхуються у змінному магнітному полі, змушуючи також коливатися і корпус трансформатора.

Магнітний потік, що виходить за межі осердя, сам по собі не призводить до втрати енергії, але він може призводити до появи вихрових струмів Фуко в металевих деталях корпусу й кріплення, що теж зумовлює невеликі втрати енергії.

Загалом, великі трансформатори мають коефіцієнт корисної дії до 98%. Трансформатори з надпровідних матеріалів можуть збільшити цей коефіцієнт до 99,85%.

Втрати у трансформаторах залежать від навантаження. Втрати без навантаження (холостий хід) зумовлені здебільшого опором обвиток, тоді як причиною втрат при повному навантаженні зазвичай є гістерезис та вихрові струми. Втрати за відсутності навантаження, можуть бути значними, тому навіть, якщо до вторинної обвитки нічого не увімкнено, трансформатори повинні задовольняти умовам економної роботи. Виготовлення трансформаторів із малими втратами вимагає великого осердя, високоякісної електротехнічної сталі, грубіших провідників, що збільшує початкові затрати, але окупається впродовж експлуатації.

Режими роботи трансформатора

Режим холостого ходу
Трансформатор може працювати в режимі холостого ходу, коли вторинне коло розімкнене (навантаження відсутнє), тобто . За допомогою дослідження холостого ходу можна визначити ККД трансформатора, коефіцієнт трансформації, а також втрати в осерді.

У режимі холостого ходу для трансформатора з сердечником з магнітом'якого матеріалу струм холостого ходу визначає величину втрат в осерді (на вихрові струми і на гістерезис) та реактивну потужність перемагнічування магнітопроводу. Потужність втрат можна обчислити, помноживши активну складову струму холостого ходу на напругу, що подається на трансформатор.

Для трансформатора без феромагнітного осердя втрати на перемагнічування відсутні, і струм холостого ходу визначається опором індуктивності первинної обмотки, який пропорційний до частоти змінного струму та величини індуктивності.

Режим короткого замикання
Режим короткого замикання можна отримати в результаті замикання вторинної обмотки накоротко. Це аварійний режим, що може призвести до виходу з ладу трансформатора. При цьому струм у вторинній обмотці може бути у 20…30 разів більшим за номінальний. Тому слід відрізняти режим короткого замикання від досліду короткого замикання. За допомогою останнього можна визначити втрати корисної потужності на нагрівання проводів у колі трансформатора.

При дослідженні режиму короткого замикання, на первинну обмотку трансформатора подається змінна напруга невеликої величини, виводи вторинної обмотки закорочують. Величину напруги на вході встановлюють такою, щоб струм короткого замикання дорівнював номінальному (розрахунковому) струму трансформатора. За таких умов величина напруги короткого замикання визначає втрати в обвитках трансформатора, втрати на омічний опір. Потужність втрат можна обчислити помноживши напругу короткого замикання на струм короткого замикання.

Даний режим широко використовується у вимірювальних трансформаторах струму.

Режим навантаження
Режим роботи трансформатора за якому вторинна обмотка замкнена на опір називається режимом роботи трансформатора під навантаженням. У такому режимі роботи, вторинною обвиткою протікатиме струм IS, який створить власний магнітний потік ΦS, який за правилом Ленца має зменшити зміни магнітного потоку в осерді. Це призводить до одночасного збільшення сили струму в колі первинної обвитки. Збільшення сили струму в колі первинної обвитки відбувається згідно із законом збереження енергії:

  або .

Це означає, що підвищуючи за допомогою трансформатора напругу у кілька разів, ми в стільки ж разів зменшуємо силу струму (та навпаки). Отже, трансформатор перетворює змінний струм так, що добуток сили струму на напругу приблизно однаковий у первинній і вторинній обвитках.

Різновиди

Силовий трансформатор

Силовий трансформатор — стаціонарний прилад з двома або більше обвитками, який за допомогою електромагнітної індукції перетворює одну систему змінної напруги та струму, на іншу систему змінної напруги та струму, переважно, різних значень з тією ж частотою задля передавання електроенергії на відстані без зміни її потужності.

Силовий трансформатор використовується для перетворення параметрів електричної енергії в електричних мережах і устаткуванні, що застосовуються для приймання та споживання електричної енергії. Силовий трансформатор застосовується у складі комплектних трансформаторних підстанцій для пониження напруги заради подавання електроенергії населеним пунктам.

Термін «силовий» вказує на роботу даного виду трансформаторів з великими потужностями. Необхідність застосування силових трансформаторів зумовлена різною величиною робочих напруг ліній електропередач (35…750 кВ), міських електромереж (здебільшого 6…10 кВ), напруги що подається кінцевим споживачам (0,4 кВ, вони ж 380/220 В) та напруги, потрібної для роботи електромашин і електроприладів (у досить широких межах — від одиниць вольт до сотень кіловольт).

Силові трансформатори поділяються на сухі, найчастіше використовуються в електромережах і в джерелах живлення різних приладів, і масляні, що працюють при напругах від 6кВ і вище. Оливні трансформатори відрізняються від сухих тим, що як ізоляційне та охолоджувальне середовище застосовується спеціальна трансформаторна олива. Силові оливні трансформатори переважно призначаються для пониження напруги електромереж.

Автотрансформатор

Автотрансформатор — трансформатор, дві або більше обвиток якого мають спільну частину. Це є варіант виконання силового трансформатора, в якому первинна і вторинна обвитки сполучені безпосередньо, і мають завдяки цьому не лише електромагнітний зв'язок, а й електричний. Обвитка автотрансформатора має декілька виводів (щонайменше 3), у разі приєднання до яких, можна отримувати різні напруги.

Перевагою автотрансформатора є вищий ККД, оскільки лише частина потужності піддається перетворенню — це особливо суттєво, коли вхідна і вихідна напруги відрізняються незначно. Вадою є відсутність електричної ізоляції (гальванічної розв'язки) між первинним і вторинним колом. У промислових мережах, де наявність заземлення нульового проводу обов'язкова, цей чинник значення не має, натомість суттєвою є менша витрата сталі для осердя, міді для обвиток, менша вага і габарити, і зрештою — менша вартість.

Застосування автотрансформаторів економічно виправдане замість звичайних трансформаторів для сполучення ефективно заземлених мереж з напругою 110 кВ і вище з коефіцієнтами трансформації не більших за 3…4.

Узгоджувальний трансформатор
Узгоджувальний трансформатор () — трансформатор, призначений для вмикання між двома колами з різними імпедансами з метою оптимізації потужності сигналу, що пересилається. Одночасно узгоджувальний трансформатор забезпечує створення гальванічної розв'язки між ділянками схем.

Узгоджувальні трансформатори за особливостями використання поділяють на вхідні, вихідні та проміжні.

Вимірювальний трансформатор

Вимірювальний трансформатор () — трансформатор, призначений для пересилання інформаційного сигналу вимірювальним приладам, лічильникам, пристроям захисту і (або) керування. Вимірювальні трансформатори поділяються на трансформатори струму і трансформатори напруги.

Трансформатор струму — вимірювальний трансформатор, в якому за нормальних умов роботи вторинний струм майже пропорційний первинному і зсув фаз між ними близький до нуля.

Вимірювальний трансформатор струму — трансформатор, який призначений для перетворення струму до значення, зручного для виміру. Первинна обмотка трансформатора струму вмикається послідовно у коло зі змінним струмом, що вимірюється. А до вторинної приєднуються вимірювальні прилади. Струм котрий протікає вторинною обвиткою трансформатора струму, пропорційний струму, що протікає у його первинній обвитці.

Трансформатори струму широко використовуються для вимірювання електричного струму й у пристроях релейного захисту електроенергетичних систем, через що на них накладаються високі вимоги по точності. Трансформатори струму дозволяють дотримуватися безпеки вимірювань, ізолюючи вимірювальні кола від первинного кола з високою напругою, яка часто складає сотні кіловольт.

Зазвичай, трансформатор струму виготовляється з двома і більше групами вторинних обвиток: одна використовується для приєднання пристроїв захисту, інша, точніша — для увімкнення засобів обліку і вимірювання (наприклад, лічильників електроенергії).

Трансформатор напруги — вимірювальний трансформатор, у якому за нормальних умов використання вторинна напруга пропорційна первинній напрузі та за умови правильного вмикання, зміщена відносно неї за фазою на кут, близький до нуля.

Трансформатор напруги використовується для перетворення високої напруги на низьку в колах релейного захисту та контрольно-вимірювальних приладів і автоматики. Застосування трансформатора напруги дозволяє ізолювати логічні кола захисту і кола вимірювання від кіл високої напруги.

Імпульсний трансформатор
Імпульсний трансформатор — трансформатор з феромагнітним осердям, для перетворення імпульсів електричного струму або напруги з тривалістю імпульсу до десятків мікросекунд з якнайменшим спотворенням форми імпульсу. Імпульсні трансформатори в радіолокації, імпульсному радіозв'язку, автоматиці і обчислювальній техніці служать для узгодження джерела імпульсів з навантаженням, зміни полярності імпульсів, розділення електричних кіл по постійному і змінному струму, додавання сигналів, запалювання імпульсних ламп тощо.

Робота імпульсного трансформатора істотно відрізняється під час утворення фронту і вершини імпульсу. Для кращого передавання фронту і спаду імпульсу необхідно, щоб міжвиткова ємність обвиток, паразитні ємності монтажу і індуктивність розсіяння імпульсного трансформатора були якнайменшими. Зменшення міжвиткових ємностей досягається використанням осердь малих розмірів, відповідним намотуванням і взаємним розташуванням обвиток, а також зменшенням числа витків (водночас знижується коефіцієнт трансформації). В імпульсних трансформаторах застосовують осердя з пермалою, кремнистої трансформаторної сталі, феритів та інших матеріалів з високою магнітною проникністю.

Резонансний трансформатор
Резонансний трансформатор — трансформатор, що працює на резонансній частоті коливального контуру утвореного однією або декількома із його обвиток, приєднанням до електричного конденсатора. У резонансного трансформатора зазвичай вторинна обвитка виконує завдання індуктивності у коливальному контурі, утвореному разом із конденсатором. Коли на первинну обвитку подати періодичний струм у вигляді прямокутних чи пилкоподібних імпульсів на резонансній частоті, кожен імпульс струму дає поштовх коливанням індукованого струму у вторинній котушці. Завдяки резонансу, можуть досягатись великі значення напруги, поки вона не буде обмежена якимось процесом, таким як електричний пробій. Такі пристрої використовуються для створення високої змінної напруги, що не може бути досягнутою на таких електростатичних машинах, як генератор Ван де Граафа чи електрофорна машина.

Приклади:
 трансформатор Тесли;
 котушка Удена;
 котушка запалювання або індукційна котушка, що використовуються в системі запалювання з бензинового двигуна;
 вихідний трансформатор рядкової розгортки електронно-променевої трубки кінескопа;
 трансформатори пристроїв для випробування ізоляції високовольтного устаткування та кабелів на електричний пробій.

Застосування трансформаторів

Найчастіше трансформатори застосовуються в електромережах та в джерелах живлення різних приладів.

Застосування в електромережах
Оскільки втрати на нагрівання дроту пропорційні квадрату струму, що проходить крізь дріт, при передаванні електроенергії на великі відстані вигідно використовувати дуже великі напруги і невеликі струми. З міркувань безпеки та для зменшення маси ізоляції в побуті бажано використовувати менші напруги. Тож для найбільш вигідного постачання електроенергії в електромережі багаторазово застосовують силові трансформатори: спочатку для підвищення напруги генераторів на електростанціях перед передаванням електроенергії, а потім для зниження напруги лінії електропередач до прийнятного для споживачів рівня.

Оскільки в електричній мережі три фази, для перетворення напруги застосовують трифазні трансформатори, або групу з трьох однофазних трансформаторів, з'єднаних за схемою зірки або трикутника. У трифазного трансформатора осердя для всіх трьох фаз загальне.

Попри високий ККД трансформатора (для трансформаторів великої потужності — понад 99%), у дуже потужних трансформаторах електромереж виділяється велика потужність у вигляді тепла (наприклад, для типової потужності блоку електростанції 1 ГВт на трансформаторі може виділятися потужність до декількох мегават). Через це трансформатори електромереж використовують спеціальну систему охолодження: трансформатор поміщається у вмістище, заповнене трансформаторною оливою або спеціальною негорючою рідиною. Олива обертається під дією конвекції або примусово між баком і потужним радіатором. Іноді оливу охолоджують водою. «Сухі» трансформатори використовують при відносно малій потужності.

Застосування в джерелах електроживлення

Для живлення різних вузлів електроприладів потрібні найрізноманітніші напруги. Блоки електроживлення у пристроях, які потребують кілька напруг різної величини, містять трансформатори з декількома вторинними обмотками або містять у схемі додаткові трансформатори. Наприклад, у телевізорі за допомогою трансформаторів отримують напруги від 5 вольт (для живлення мікросхем і транзисторів) до декількох кіловольт (для живлення анода кінескопа через помножувач напруги).

У схемах живлення сучасних радіотехнічних та електронних пристроїв (наприклад в блоках живлення персональних комп'ютерів) широко застосовуються високочастотні імпульсні трансформатори. В імпульсних блоках живлення змінну напругу мережі спершу випрямляють, а потім за допомогою інвертора перетворюють на високочастотні імпульси. Система керування за допомогою широтно-імпульсної модуляції (ШІМ) дозволяє стабілізувати напругу. Після чого імпульси високої частоти подаються на імпульсний трансформатор, на виході з якого, після випрямлення і фільтрації отримують сталу постійну напругу.

У минулому мережевий трансформатор (на 50-60 Гц) був однією з найважчих деталей багатьох приладів. Річ у тому, що лінійні розміри трансформатора визначаються його потужністю, водночас виявляється, що лінійний розмір мережевого трансформатора приблизно пропорційний потужності в степені 1/4. Розмір трансформатора можна зменшити, якщо збільшити частоту змінного струму. Тому сучасні імпульсні блоки живлення при однаковій потужності є значно легшими.

Трансформатори на 50-60 Гц, попри свої вади, продовжують використовувати в схемах живлення, в тих випадках, коли треба забезпечити якнайменший рівень високочастотних перешкод, наприклад для високоякісного звуковідтворення.

Див. також

 Магнітопровід
 Індуктивність розсіювання
 Силовий трансформатор
 Трансформатор струму
 Магнітне коло

Примітки

Джерела

 Монтаж, наладка і експлуатація електрообладнання. Конспект лекцій (для студентів 5 курсу денної і 6 курсу заочної форм навчання спеціальності 7.0906003 — «Електричні системи електроспоживання») / А. В. Хитров — Харків : ХНАМГ, 2009. — 328 с.
 Трансформатори. Монтаж, обслуговування та ремонт / М. В. Принц, В. М. Цимбалістий. — Л. : Оріяна-Нова, 2007. — 184 c. — (Професійно-технічна освіта України). — ISBN 978-966-2128-03-1

Література
 Захист трансформаторів та автотрансформаторів : Навч. посіб. для студ. напрямів «Системи упр. вир-вом та розподілом електроенергії», «Електр. системи та мережі», «Електр. станції» / В. П. Кідиба, Т. М. Шелепетень ; Нац. ун-т «Львів. політехніка». — Л. : Вид-во Нац. ун-ту «Львів. політехніка», 2004. — 177 c. — Бібліогр.: 26 назв.

Посилання

 Капітальний ремонт трансформаторів
 Випробовування трансформаторів і реакторів

Трансформатори
Електротехніка
Теоретичні основи електротехніки

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Roberto Gabriel Parra Vallette (Temuco, 21 de septiembre de 1955) es trabajador social, fundador y coordinador de centros de rehabilitación, activista por los derechos humanos, de fe cristiana evangélica y figura política.

Biografía

Roberto Parra nació en 1955 en la ciudad de Temuco, allí vivió hasta alrededor de los 5 años de edad. Su padre era pastor bautista y su oficio le llevó a viajar a diferentes partes del país para levantar nuevas iglesias. Por este motivo, Roberto terminó viviendo gran parte de su juventud en San Felipe. En el año 1974, luego de terminar la enseñanza media en esta localidad, decidió volver a Temuco para estudiar electrónica.

Luego de estudiar electrónica por alrededor de 3 años, decidió cambiar de profesión, e ingresó a la carrera de Trabajo Social en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, por lo que viajó a aquella ciudad. Previamente, Roberto Parra se había integrado al movimiento Grupo Bíblico Universitario y posteriormente comenzaría a asistir a una iglesia bautista. En paralelo, Roberto Parra también se integró al movimiento de Izquierda Cristiana.

Derechos Humanos y causas sociales

En el año 1982, Roberto Parra lideró una iniciativa para ayudar a rehabilitar a personas drogadictas en Viña del Mar. En ese entonces, Roberto aún era estudiante, por lo que en sus inicios, para el proyecto usaron de sede las dependencias de la Iglesia Bautista de Nueva Aurora, en Viña del Mar. Así, el 5 de diciembre de 1982, se creó oficialmente la Comunidad Terapéutica Hogar La Roca. Este proyecto tuvo inicialmente un carácter autogestionado y una inspiración cristiana. Posteriormente, el 29 de diciembre del año 1988, se conformó la Corporación Comunidad La Roca, como un organismo privado sin fines de lucro.

En el período de la dictadura, Roberto Parra también fue un activista y defensor de los derechos humanos. Fue uno de los fundadores del movimiento Evangélicos por el No, en el contexto del plebiscito de 1988.

El año 2017 funda la Fundación Martin Luther King, plataforma desde la cual realiza diversas charlas y conferencias de interés social y espiritual. Ese mismo año realizaron una jornada de prevención del suicidio adolescente, que contó con la participación del abogado y sociólogo Humberto Lagos Schuffeneger, en ese tiempo director de la Oficina Nacional de Asuntos Religiosos.

En abril de 2020, Roberto Parra, a través de la Fundación Martin Luther King, organizó junto a los movimientos Fe y Justicia]y la iglesia Ministerio de Fe, organizaron la  Jornada de Reflexión Martin Luther King, un foro virtual para conmemorar la muerte del activista bautista por los derechos civiles.

Carrera política

Candidato a Concejal por Viña del Mar (1992-1996)

Roberto Parra postuló al cargo de concejal en Viña del Mar por medio de una candidatura independiente sin integrar ningún pacto o subpacto político. Su candidatura reunió 3.215 votos, no siendo electo por insuficiencia de votos.

En el año 1996, Roberto Parra volvió a postularse como candidato a concejal por Viña del Mar, esta vez como independiente dentro del pacto de la Concertación y ocupando un cupo de la Democracia Cristiana. En esta oportunidad, Roberto Parra obtuvo 2.713 votos, sin lograr resultar electo, pero siendo el candidato más votado de los que no resultaron electos.

Alcalde de Viña del Mar (2000)

El 1° de septiembre del año 2000, el político Rodrigo González es destituido por el Tribunal Electoral por notable abandono de deberes. Debido a esto, el concejo municipal debía integrar al candidato que fue más votado en la elección de 1996, para que ocupara el cargo de concejal. Así fue como Roberto Parra, habiendo sido la primera mayoría de los no electos del pacto concertacionista. Una vez estuvieran todos los integrantes del Concejo, se debía elegir entonces al que sería alcalde interino. Así, el jueves 7 de septiembre se realizó la sesión extraordinaria del Concejo, a la que asistieron 9 de los 10 concejales, los cuales eligieron como alcalde a Roberto Parra.

En su breve gestión como alcalde, Roberto Parra permitió a las autoridades indicadas, que iniciaran un proceso de auditoría y fiscalización al interior del municipio, a razón de la destitución del anterior alcalde.

Tercera campaña para concejal y accidente cerebrovascular (2004)

El año 2004 se volvió a presentar como candidato a concejal, en el mismo pacto y ocupando un cupo de la Democracia Cristiana. Las elecciones municipales de ese año, tendrían lugar el 31 de octubre, pero el día 14 de septiembre, Roberto Parra sufrió un accidente cerebrovascular que lo dejó hospitalizado varios días y en un grave estado de salud. Este accidente le provocó perder gran parte de la movilidad en sus piernas, lo que le ha obligado a desplazarse en silla de ruedas hasta hoy. Posteriormente, el día de la elección, los votos que Roberto Parra recibió no fueron suficientes para resultar electo como concejal.

Candidato Constituyente por el Distrito 6 (2021)

El año 2021, Roberto Parra vuelve a la política, esta vez como candidato a la Convención Constituyente. Debido a la pandemia, su campaña fue principalmente digital, aunque también estuvieron en terreno y en programas de radio y en canales cristianos. Recibió $400.000 CLP en aportes para realizar la campaña electoral. Su programa se sostuvo principalmente en la inclusión, en la integración de las personas con discapacidad, una fe cristiana progresista y una nueva constitución para Chile.

Roberto se postuló como candidato independiente dentro del pacto electoral de Apruebo Dignidad en un cupo de Revolución Democrática por el Distrito 6, que integra las comunas de Cabildo, Calle Larga, Catemu, Hijuelas, La Calera, La Cruz, La Ligua, Limache, Llay-Llay, Los Andes, Nogales, Olmué, Panquehue, Papudo, Petorca, Puchuncaví, Putaendo, Quillota, Quilpué, Quintero, Rinconada, San Esteban, San Felipe, SAanta María, Villa Alemana y Zapallar.

Tras las elecciones del 15 y 16 de mayo, de los nueve candidatos de Apruebo Dignidad en el Distrito 6, sólo 2 candidatas resultaron electas con una amplia mayoría de los votos. Roberto Parra fue el candidato menos votado de la lista y no resultó electo.

Pensamiento cristiano

Roberto fue miembro de la iglesia bautista durante gran parte de su vida, desde el año 2006 hasta la fecha, es miembro activo de la iglesia Ministerio de Fe. Su visión cristiana ha estado fuertemente influenciada por el pensamiento de René Padilla, el cual se sostiene principalmente en la idea de la misión integral. Este concepto considera que el mensaje de Jesús integra tanto la búsqueda espiritual, la predicación del evangelio, pero de la misma forma incluye el activismo social y la búsqueda activa de justicia.

En el año 1984, Roberto escribió un manifiesto donde expresó sus ideas sobre el necesario vínculo entre política y fe. Este texto fue tomado y publicado en una edición de bolsillo de mil ejemplares en el año 1995. Esta obra se llamó "La política: Una perspectiva evangélica". A continuación un extracto del documento:

Historial electoral

 Elecciones municipales de 1992, Viña del Mar.

Roberto Parra postuló al cargo de concejal en Viña del Mar por medio de una candidatura independiente sin integrar ningún pacto o subpacto político. Su candidatura reunió 3.215 votos, no siendo electo por insuficiencia de votos.

 Elecciones municipales subpacto PRSD-PDC-IND de 1996, Viña del Mar.

 Elecciones de Convencionales Constituyentes del pacto Apruebo Dignidad, Distrito 6.

Referencias

Nacidos en Temuco
Alcaldes de Viña del Mar
Concejales de Viña del Mar


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Track: Alter Bridge – Last Rites taken from upcoming EP
Craig Young — November 6, 2020
Alter Bridge have released a lyric video for their original, new song 'Last Rites' taken from their upcoming EP Walk The Sky 2.0. The video has a dark and mystical aesthetic utilising a fortune teller making a prediction based on the song's lyrics. The song was born from an idea that band members Myles Kennedy, Mark Tremonti, Brian Marshall, and Scott Phillips began sharing after the cancellation of their entire 2020 touring schedule and was written, recorded, and completed entirely during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Heavy guitars and Kennedy's cracking vocals make this a stomping track that batters its way out of the speakers. These guys have always cracked out the solid tracks and with 'Last Rites' they step it up a notch.
Check it out, here
Find out more about the band via their Website or Facebook
The new EP 'Walk The Sky 2.0' is set to be released on November 6th via Napalm Records – is comprised of "Last Rites", along with live versions of "Wouldn't You Rather," "Pay No Mind," "Native Son," "Godspeed," "In The Deep", and "Dying Light" all recorded during the band's US tour at the beginning of the year.
The EP is available for pre-order in various configurations including a Jewelcase CD (available worldwide), Jewelcase CD + t-shirt (Napalm Records exclusive worldwide except North America), and cream-coloured Vinyl Gatefold LP (available worldwide).
The album will also be available in a digital bundle with the original Walk The Sky album and Walk The Sky 2.0 EP together as well as a limited edition 2-CD Earbook with both versions included (Napalm Records mailorder only).
All versions of Walk The Sky 2.0 can be ordered here
The tracklisting for 'Walk The Sky 2.0':
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3) Pay No Mind (Live)
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5) Godspeed (Live)
6) In The Deep (Live)
7) Dying Light (Live)
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Home/Australia/Kyle Chalmers breaks 13-year-old world record
Kyle Chalmers breaks 13-year-old world record
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Australia's Kyle Chalmers has broken the world record in the men's short-course 100 metres freestyle, a mark that had stood for 13 years.
Chalmers swam a time of 44.84 seconds to win the 100m freestyle in Kazan
The 23-year-old says it is a just reward after recovering from a shoulder surgery
Chalmers won Olympic silver at the Tokyo Games earlier this year
Chalmers — competing at the FINA World Cup meet in Kazan, Russia — stopped the clock in 44.84 seconds.
He took 0.10 off the previous world record, which was set by France's Amaury Leveaux in 2008.
Chalmers's victory in Kazan was his fourth at a World Cup meet this year.
"It was definitely a dream. I am not sure if I was planning it, but I knew exactly what I had to do to swim that fast," Chalmers told FINA.
"To deliver this performance was rather a big challenge, to be performing better every single time I dive into the pool."
The 23-year-old later took to Instagram, describing his pride in his achievement after recovering from injury.
"If you had of told me 10 months ago that I would break the world record, I would have laughed," Chalmers wrote on Instagram.
"At that stage I was in hospital after having shoulder surgery, and just being able to swim again was my main goal.
"It's been a long journey back! But I would not have it any other way, the challenges, sacrifices and bridges I have had to climb to get to this point make it all that more special."
Chalmers won silver in the men's long-course 100m freestyle at the Tokyo Olympics earlier this year.
He claimed the gold medal in the event at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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You're Welcome, Universe
Whitney Gardner
A vibrant, edgy, fresh new YA voice for fans of More Happy Than Not and Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, packed with interior graffiti.
Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award!
When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural.
Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a "mainstream" school in the suburbs, where she's treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art, and not even Banksy himself could convince her to give that up.
Out in the 'burbs, Julia paints anywhere she can, eager to claim some turf of her own. But Julia soon learns that she might not be the only vandal in town. Someone is adding to her tags, making them better, showing off—and showing Julia up in the process. She expected her art might get painted over by cops. But she never imagined getting dragged into a full-blown graffiti war.
Told with wit and grit by debut author Whitney Gardner, who also provides gorgeous interior illustrations of Julia's graffiti tags, You're Welcome, Universe introduces audiences to a one-of-a-kind protagonist who is unabashedly herself no matter what life throws in her way.
"[A] spectacular debut...a moving, beautifully written contemporary novel full of quirky art and complicated friendships...this book is a gift to be thankful for."—BookRiot
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY MAR 27, 2017
Gardner's debut novel opens with high school junior Julia Prasad getting expelled from the Kingston School from the Deaf after getting caught spray-painting an elaborate graffiti mural on the building. Julia, who is deaf herself, struggles to let people in and is suspicious of everyone around her, instead devoting her time and attention to her art, specifically the graffiti she paints on whatever public space she can get away with. Gardner's glimpse into the world of a deaf teenager is fresh and compelling. Julia's drawings pepper the story, the images representing her graffiti (which feature her tag, "HERE") and the ASL signs she teaches a new friend, whom she nicknames YP (for Yoga Pants). Julia's willingness to trust YP unfolds little by little, hitting bumps major and minor, in a satisfying story about trust, forgiveness, hard work, and friendship. Less central but equally rewarding is Julia's relationship with her mothers, both of whom are deaf, and who do their best to support their daughter at every turn. Ages 12 up.
Penguin Random House LLC
More Books by Whitney Gardner
Chaotic Good
The Silence Between Us
It's Not Like It's a Secret
Tell Me How You Really Feel
Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit
Annie on My Mind


Arriving on the music scene in the late 19th century, Mariachi Bands brought an upbeat yet traditional sound to Mexican culture. With a blend of guitars, violins, trumpets, the guitarron, and the vihuela, Mariachi music can truly liven up a party! The upbeat authentic Mexican folk music is the perfect accompaniment for wedding receptions, Cinco de Mayo parties, and so much more. Search for Mariachi Bands in Fremont, Nebraska above.
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"If you say abortion is a crime or abortion is murder, you have to deal with it under the law," Matthews said during the exclusive interview with the GOP front-runner.
Trump later posted a clarification on his campaign website that said doctors should be held legally responsible if they violate a state or federal ban on abortion.
"The woman is a victim in this case as is the life in her womb," it said. "My position has not changed — like Ronald Reagan, I am pro-life with exceptions."
During the discussion, Trump attempted to turn the tables on Matthews, asking him about his Catholic faith and whether he thinks abortion is wrong.
"I'm not the one running for president," said Matthews, who asked Trump several times whether he believed a woman should be punished if abortion is considered murder. Matthews also asked how women would be stopped from having abortions and whether it was fair to punish just women.
When asked if men also should be punished for their role in an abortion, Trump seemed unsure, but leaning against it, "I would say not."
Trump also led the conversation to the nomination of a U.S. Supreme Court justice, saying the next president would nominate either a conservative or liberal judge, which could impact the legality of abortion.
Several audience members shook their heads when Trump discussed the idea of punishing women who have abortions.
Earlier in the broadcast, Trump said, "Nobody respects women more than I do."
The town hall will be broadcast on MSNBC at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
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CHICAGO – The Illinois chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, part of Everytown for Gun Safety, released the following statement in response to the shooting death of a transgender woman in Chicago yesterday. According to reports, Dejanay Stanton, originally identified as Jane Doe, was found with a gunshot wound to the head Thursday afternoon. She was later identified by friends through social media.
There have been at least 17 transgender people killed nationwide this year; with 12 being killed by gun violence. Of the trans victims killed with a gun, nearly two-thirds were women of color. 2017 was the deadliest year on record for the transgender community in the United States, with at least 28 trans homicides. 20 trans people were killed with a gun last year, 17 of those shot and killed were trans women of color.


"Hi again, Andrew. I've really enjoyed the guided Past Life Regression. I've discovered 2 different lives – the first in 1860's England and one in 1511 (not sure where that one was). I'm working now on trying to figure out how they relate and influence my current life.


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Thomas Bernhard's Women
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Miguel Sáenz is Spain's foremost translator of German literature, with some forty books to his name by authors ranging from Dürrenmatt to Handke to Christa Wolf. I had the honor of being published alongside him in an issue of literatur/a devoted to Josef Winkler. In addition to translating the entirety of Thomas Bernhard's major works, Sáenz published a biography of the Austrian writer in 2004. While Bernhard still awaits a definitive treatment in the Leon Edel / Richard Ellmann style, Sáenz's book is meritorious and an enjoyable read; I hesitate to say it should be translated, as it becomes clearer to me by the day that I am profoundly alienated from whatever criteria other people employ in the adjudication of worthwhile literature; regardless, it is nearly twice as long as its predecessor by a decade, Hans Höller's Thomas Bernhard, and it brings to its considerations the special kind of feel for an author that derives from a lifetime spent wrangling intimately with his works. I translated this selection two years ago and have only made perfunctory attempts at publishing it, and now I am too busy to try too much to send it around, so I am putting it up here.
In the Kirchenwirt, a Gasthaus in Ohlsdorf, during the days dedicated to Thomas Bernhard in March of 1994. After various lectures, a group of Germanists sips beer serenely. "I have the feeling," someone says, "that we're repeating ourselves, that we are always saying the same thing… Why doesn't anyone talk, for example, about what we all know, that Bernhard was gay?" Objections follow.
It was, of course, a provocation; but the question has been stated numerous times. Was Bernhard homosexual? I doubt it. Nor even bisexual, if one can even speak of preferences. As to whether he ever engaged in homosexual relations, I will hold my tongue, but there is nothing to impede my laying out the following:
In his untrustworthy conversations with Kurt Hoffman, Bernhard expresses himself ambiguously: "I have had every imaginable sort of relation possible with woman and with men… Whether it's a woman or a man, in the end, it's all the same. It would be better if more men did it, in that case we'd likely suffer less from overcrowding."
The narrator of Woodcutters, on whose identification with Bernhard (though not one hundred percent!) there is no need to insist, says, with respect to the marriage of the Auersbergers (that is—though not one hundred percent!—the Lampersbergs): "They talk over and over about the things they have…They mention their fish hatcheries and their windmills and sawmills, but not their beds, and we let ourselves be impressed by them and we fall into their traps and into their beds." Later he says: "At one time, you loved this man, more or less, I thought, observing him from off to the side, in another time, as it may be said, you were completely ensorcelled by this man." And in another passage, even more directly: "Auersberger has always had young writers in his vicinity and in his bed, I was the first he invited up to Maria Zaal, I now thought. One of the first to fall into his trap, I said to myself."
For his part, Gerhard Lampersberg published in 1987, in a costly limited edition, the book Perturbation (a title which, almost certainly, coincides with that of the French translation of Gargoyles), a kind of macaronic in German, French, English, and Latin. Only the cover, which reproduces the book Woodcutters hacked to pieces, permits one to know that it is a kind of rebuttal to Bernhard. It has three characters: a and c are two men between whom an amorous relation sparks up, and b a suffering woman. Years later, Lampersberg would publish another book—diarium—with three drawings, two musical scores, and a date: 1962. The story is the same (although more explicit), but this time it is only in German and the characters are named anton, joseph, and anna.
In any case, there is a fact that supports my convictions that, whatever his relations with Gerhard Lampersberg may have been, Bernhard was not homosexual. In one of his conversations with Hoffman, Bernhard tells him that, in reality, he would have to be constantly engaged in lawsuits: they had just published a collection of his theatrical works in Spanish with a prologue "in which Lampersberg appears and … moreover, there is talk of a homosexual relation." It appears Bernhard was badly informed, as this prologue, which I myself wrote, does not state that such a relation existed, but his reaction would make no sense if he were in fact homosexual.
Nevertheless, it is certain that, as Reich-Ranicki has said, in the world of Bernhard, women play "a subordinate role and are, particularly in his early books, monstrous and malevolent beings, often patently terrifying and repulsive." In the rest of his works—Reich-Ranicki recognizes—there is another sort of woman, but divested of physical presence (Joana in Woodcutters, Maria in Extinction)… In brief, "for Bernhard, women were either repugnant or fairy-tale figures."
Ria Endres entitles one of the chapters of her doctoral thesis (which irritated Bernhard enormously) "La femme n'existe pas." In Bernhard's writings—she says—"the woman is almost always absent." "Women do not have a name. In the novel The Lime Works, Konrad's wife is simply called, 'the Konrad woman.' She is subordinated to her husband. In the other texts she is spoken of as the sister, the innkeeper, and so on. In most cases she lacks a bodily presence. Her spectral character is most evident in the novel Correction. This beloved figure of the sister is stripped of all sensuality." Endres's thesis, very feministic, arrives at certain indisputable conclusions: "The fear of contact with the female is great. For this reason, she appears only as a stereotype: saint or whore. The fear of any possible sexual desire toward women is frequently projected as a rejection of images of corrupted filthiness."
In his works, Bernhard occasionally alludes to intimate relations with women. His first sexual experience—he says—took place in Traunstein. "When I was eight years old, Inga, from the Winter family, the youngest of the daughters of the saddler, opened my eyes on the balcony of the Winters' saddlery, or tried to do so, in any case." In Woodcutters he insinuates having had relations with Jeannie Ebner (ten years his elder) and says that he read her "poems by Éluard, at the same time tickling the soles of her feet… while she, more or less nakend…" But the truth is that Jeannie Ebner denies having ever been his lover. In regards to the alleged relation between Bernhard and the suicide Joanna Thul, described in the same book ("Naturally, a naked princess, I had said to Joanna, laid out in bed. And you the naked king, she had responded."), the shopkeeper Marielies Felnhofer, a friend of the latter, finds it impossible to imagine that she ever had any sort of "relation" with Bernhard.
In his conversaions with Hoffman, Bernhard refers to the count and countess of Stolberg and their castle (in reality a Kasteel or country manor) near Aachen; he relates having gone to mass at the cathedral with the countess and her children and adds, referring to one of the latter: "I was there because of her. And then, suddenly, everything came to an end…" Nevertheless, as Huguet has demonstrated, the tale of this alleged relation between Bernhard and Ludmilla Stolberg and his visit to Kasteel Puth in 1961 or 62, with the intention of visiting his birthplace in nearby Heerlen, is far from reliable.
On the Mountain, his first important narrative text (written in 1959 but published posthumously, thirty years later) in clearly autobiographical: a sort of mixture of writer's notebook and diary (court reporter, pneumoperitoneum, Salzburger). But most interestingly, it contains murmurings of accounts of love affairs that never show up again in Bernhard's ouvre (if I am not mistaken, it contains the only, if very chaste, kiss in his published work: "I kiss her on the neck.").
In brief, there appears to be no firm evidence that Bernhard ever had a lover. The Lampersbergs state that he "knew no other women in his life [besides Hedwig Stavianicek]" and Gerhard Lampersberg speaks funnily of the young Bernhard's naivety: "He once kissed a cousin of my wife's [Annemarie Siller] and (laughing) thought he had to marry her!" Hennetmair says that Bernhard liked women, but always older ones, mothers, really, rather than women, and adds, with little conviction: "From time to time, when he was young maybe, there was a girl from out in the fields, of the kind you'd want to throw out the window afterward…" (He seems simply to be repeating something Bernhard said toward the end of his interview with André Müller, when asked, definitively, if it were necessary to have someone: "There's always some milkmaid somewhere who shows up at the right time. No, it's not necessary.") And in his diary of 1972, Hennetmair confesses to knowing nothing firm in this connection; asked by a journalist if Bernhard had a female companion, he says he imagines that Bernhard does what many priests do, enjoys the favors of well married women so that no problems might arise." Regarding Bernhard's relation to Hedwig Stavianicek, when Maria Fialik asks Franz Josef Altenberg, who knew him well, whether his "so-called Aunt" was Bernhard's lover, he responded, "I believe so. I also believe that, in another time, there was a real relationship. Anyway, he always said that."
In his interview in Majorca with Krista Fleischmann, Bernhard says: "In my case, sexuality was very limited because, in the moment when it began to arise, no?… I fell deathly ill. And I was therefore, for years, very restrained and limited… But between the ages of twenty-two and thirty, everything was there, I believe, as it should have been and as is normal, no?" And he says something similar to André Müller: "The sexual has never interested me. Nor was it possible, simply on account of my illness, because during the time when all that should have been naturally and was supposed to begin, I was in no shape to do it." Nevertheless, Bernhard recognizes that sexuality was important: "Without eroticism, there is no life… Sexuality plays an enormous role in every human being, regardless of how it is expressed… There is no human being without sexuality."
Gerhard Lampersberg affirms that Bernhard was "asexual," and, finally, an anonymous party interviewed by Gemma Salem in Vienna in 1991 asserts: "Bernhard had what is called the sexuality of the angels. Nothing to do with women, nor with men. None of that interested him."
It remains the case that Bernhard preferred the company of women. In his long interview with Krista Fleischmann in Majorca, he speaks his mind at ease, recurring to all the traditional stereotypes of feminine inferiority…., but it seems evident that he is not speaking seriously.
Who were the women Bernhard regarded highly?
Much has been said and written about Hedwig Stavianicek (1894-1984), Bernhard's "aunt," probably the only person he ever really loved and the only one to whom he was eternally faithful. Nevertheless, she seems not to have been the object of any exhaustive research and there is only diffuse testimony, often somewhat contradictory, from those who knew her as Bernhard's companion. A few antique photos of Stavianicek (née Hofbauer) show her to have had an attractive countenance in her youth, but this had certainly faded by the time she met Bernhard in Gravenhof, and in the published photos, always wrapped in furs, shawls, or cloaks, she seems rather Bernhard's grandmother than his aunt.
The first time Hedwig Stavianicek appears in print in most likely in Bernhard's interview with André Müller in 1971. Later, in their 1979 encounter, she flits in and out of the conversation as if it were rehearsed: "His aunt sits down. I am a spectator at a theatrical performance. It appears to be, I think, an erotic spectacle. In place of contact are words, and the words are embraces…" To Müller's question, "To what degree is your aunt important for your life and work?" Bernhard replies without hesitation, "She is, since the time I was nineteen, absolutely the most important being in my life."
Ingrid Bulau describes her as "extraordinarily energetic, intelligent, cultured and very well mannered," and says moreover that it was she who assured that Bernhard worked in a "hard and disciplined way." Franz Josef Altenberg states that she was "extremely intelligent" and that Bernhard "learned a great deal from her. That is indisputable. She had such intelligence and a very sharp tongue, she was undoubtedly an enormously sardonic woman." And Bernhard himself confesses: "I have never been content in my life. But I have always had a great need for protection. With my friend, I have found this protection. She has always made me work. She was happy when she saw that I was doing something. And that was wonderful. We have taken trips. I carried her heavy bags, but I learned a great deal."
Annemarie Siller states that Hedwig Stavianicek "was truly his life partner. I mean to say that, when we were young, she was always the aunt, or later, the doctor. She was always a very distant person, much older than Thomas Bernhard, but she truly pulled him up from the mire and was always there at his side." And Gerda Maleta writes to Bernhard: "If you ever loved anyone in your life, it was only your "life partner," whom you called Aunt or Hede, a person much older, who was your example and your friend… That friendship of nearly forty years marked you, and you learned from her certain life-experiences, certain refinements in your dealing with different people and different situations. She also gave wings to your thoughts, as you said numerous times. That life partner accompanied you down many roads, and we, your friends, had to accept her and recognize her. You stayed beside this woman until her last breath… Your dedication, fidelity, and altruism toward your life partner were admirable."
Their relations, of course, were not always idyllic. In fact, though they lived together in Vienna for years, and although Stavianicek, when she went to Ohlsdorf, naturally stayed in Bernhard's house, and although they took innumerable trips together, they could not bear more than a few weeks in a row. She tyrannized him, but Bernhard avenged himself, as he did with every other woman, by standing her up for long waits.
In any case, the pages he devotes to her death in Old Masters are among the most moving he ever wrote, and his wish to be buried alongside her (and her husband!) arouses alarm, but also respect. When Hedwig Stavianicek died, Bernhard's despair was immense. Ingrid Bülau says that "He was absolutely crushed and felt himself so miserable that, personally, I cannot but believe that really, he was never able to get past this loss. She was truly … the dominant force in his life." And Hilda Spiel seconds her: "I believe that, after the old woman's death, who was for him his life's partner, he put an end in reality to all human relations." There is no doubt that if Bernhard had any "love" in his life, that love was Hedwig Stavianicek.
Nonetheless, as has been said, Bernhard appreciated women's company in general. He could be charming to women, he found it funny that they would fall in love with him, and, on his journeys, his ideal was to have a woman at his side taking care of him, accompanying him… and leaving him in peace when he wanted it. His friends the O'Donnells speak of the "ladies" that hounded him, fighting amongst themselves, and say that "it diverted him a great deal to confront these ladies with one another. In an innocent way, obviously." Some of these ladies wrote to him and, at times, showed up at his house uninvited, which he did not at all care for. Franz Josef Altenberg asserts that it enchanted Bernhard to sow a bit of discord in marriages. "He liked that a great deal, it interested him." Maja Lampersberg, nonetheless, believes there was always something strange in his relations with women, as though he feared going too far…
When the journalist Asta Schieb leads Bernhard to notice that, in his books, with few exceptions, women are rather disagreeable and asks whether this corresponds to his personal experience, Bernhard replies: "I can only say that for a quarter of a century, the only relationships in my life have been with women…Everything I have learned has been only from women… After having learned from my grandfather… I have always sought refuge and protection from women who in many ways were far beyond me. Above all, women leave me rather tranquil. Around women, I can work."
Be that as it was, after Bernhard's death, many women have appeared who had more or less close relations with him and who, at times, have felt themselves obligated to divulge them. The depth of friendship seems to have varied greatly. Among the closest friends of Bernhard, the following can be cited:
Ingrid Bülau, the pianist Bernhard met when the two of them studied together at the Mozarteum. Later, in Hamburg, they played music together frequently, and they also took numerous trips oversees. Their friendship was lifelong and she was among the few people put up by Bernhard in his home in Ohlsdorf. About Thomas Bernhard, she states: "In reality, he had a very timid way of being. It was there early on, this inner shyness, and it never left him, it was always there." According to Wieland Schmied, when Hedwig Stavianicek died in 1984 and Thomas Bernhard felt himself to be irrevocably alone, he considered the possibility of marrying Ingrid Bülau.
Annemarie Siller (later Countess Hammerstein), choreographer and costume designer, met Bernhard at the Lampersbergs (she is Maja Lampersberg's cousin and, by marriage, that of the Countess Üxküll) and designed set-pieces for his early plays. They traveled together to Poland in 1963 and 1975, and he always introduced her as his "childhood friend." Nevertheless—according to her—Bernhard was a very sick man and the only thing that interested him was being famous, having his monument in stone. And "when someone says to a girl that the only thing that interests him is having his monument in stone, there is no greater romantic disappointment."
Gerda Maleta, widow of an Austrian politican. In her villa in Oberweis, near Gmunden, Thomas Bernhard carried out—he says—sociological research. Gerda Maleta accompanied Bernhard on journeys to Italy, Portugal, and Spain, as she has recounted in a book written as a long letter to the writer. Her testimony is important because, according to her, the Hunting Party actually takes place in her home and The President is a portrayal of her family. On the other hand, there is no doubt that the trip to Sicily in the company of monsignor Spadolini that Bernhard relates in Extinction was in fact undertaken with Gerda Maleta and monsignor Cesare Zacchi, papal nuncio in Cuba (and described discreetly by Maleta in her book as Enrico).
Gerta Maleta and Thomas Bernhard never addressed one another with the informal "du": "You preferred distance, both verbal and physical." And, by her account, Bernhard was, "in reality, a moralist." Of his peculiar relations with women, Gerda Maleta gives an explanation that rings true in spite of its triteness and sentimentality: "As a child, he did not experience maternal love. For that reason, perhaps—this is my opinion, it may not be correct—he saw in every woman his mother." Gerda Maleta is a fount of interesting information: "Many affirm or have affirmed that you preferred married women to single ones. On that theme I cannot speak. One thing is certain: you detested the word "friend" and avoided it in many ways. Only your aunt Hede was the center of your life and thus, your life partner. To everyone else, you doled out parts to play."
Hilde Spiel (1911-1990), the writer, a very close friend of Bernhard's, said that "he was one of the kindest people I have ever known," and that her relationship with him was "strange, not always easy, but very beautiful."
Concerning the actress Marianne Hoppe, a theatrical legend and a great interpreter of numerous works of Bernhard's (The Hunting Party, Destination, Heldenplatz), their relation is known almost exclusively from her own declarations on television and in newspapers: "Everything is love, that's what Bernhard always said…" She accompanied him on several journeys as well as in his last Christmas holidays in Torremolinos.
There were other women in Thomas Bernhard's life: Grete Hufnagl, former vocal student at the Mozarteum, always ready to help or accompany him; Christa Altenberg (princess Altenberg), who had met him when she was a student under Gerhard Lampersberg; Agnes, the Baroness von Handel (the widow of Teufl) who said once to André Müller, in reference to Bernhard: "Affairs? Him? Never."
The relations between Bernhard and Ingeborg Bachmann deserve a more detailed study. Bachmann is, without the least doubt, the Maria of Extinction (though there are probably traces of her in the Persian woman in Yes as well) and the page suit that Bernhard describes in the protagonist's dream is documented perfectly in a photograph (and is probably the same that Hilde Spiel speaks of on a certain occasion). Bernhard admired Bachmann's poetry, but also her intelligence: "I loved Bachmann a great deal, she was a very intelligent woman. A strange combination, no? Most women are stupid but acceptable, and agreeable in the right circumstances; intelligent as well, but rarely." In The Voice Imitator, he dedicates a very felt page to her: "In a Roman hospital… century… I took trips with her… The news of her death… completely empty."
Bernhard also loved Christine Lavant (1915-73), the sick poet, full of compassion for humanity, whom it was impossible not to love, and prepared an anthology of her verses as "a fundamental testimony of a human being mistreated by all well-thinking persons, as a great poetry still not known in the world as it should be."
In any case, from a strictly literary point of view, can it be said, with Reich-Ranicki, that of the two great themes of literature—love and death—the first was unknown to Bernhard? (Reich Ranicki compares him in this connection to Kafka, who at least, he says, felt nostalgia for love). Everything depends on the concept of love brought into play. According to Bernhard, "love is completely different for every person. Love is everything, no? Love can be everything, because everything in the world can be loved right now…The word love can be written, but love cannot be described." For Karin Kathrein, "there are always love stories in Bernhard. Wittgenstein's Nephew is a quite beautiful love story." Concerning his theatrical work, Peymann affirms: "If I think of Bernhard as probably the greatest writer of the present day, it is because he expresses so much about amorous relations… Bernhard presents the truth and the contradictions of those relations, because he understands love for what it is: a struggle for power." According to Krista Fleischmann, the novel that Bernhard planned to write before death cut it short was to have been a bona fide love story, with the strange title Breaking One's Head.
Still… "I don't need a sister, nor do I need a lover" Bernhard said to Kurt Hoffman; and once, when André Müller asked him, "And if tomorrow you encountered your great love?" Bernhard's reply was, "There would be nothing I could do to avoid it."
Miguel Sáenz: Thomas Bernhard: Una Biografía, © Editorial Siruela, 2004
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Chem Res Toxicol. 2008 Jan;21(1):70-83. Epub 2007 Dec 6.
Cytochrome p450 and chemical toxicology.
Guengerich FP1.
Department of Biochemistry and Center in Molecular Toxicology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine,, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-0146, USA. f.guengerich@vanderbilt.edu
The field of cytochrome P450 (P450) research has developed considerably over the past 20 years, and many important papers on the roles of P450s in chemical toxicology have appeared in Chemical Research in Toxicology. Today, our basic understanding of many of the human P450s is relatively well-established, in terms of the details of the individual genes, sequences, and basic catalytic mechanisms. Crystal structures of several of the major human P450s are now in hand. The animal P450s are still important in the context of metabolism and safety testing. Many well-defined examples exist for roles of P450s in decreasing the adverse effects of drugs through biotransformation, and an equally interesting field of investigation is the bioactivation of chemicals, including drugs. Unresolved problems include the characterization of the minor "orphan" P450s, ligand cooperativity and kinetic complexity of several P450s, the prediction of metabolism, the overall contribution of bioactivation to drug idiosyncratic problems, the extrapolation of animal test results to humans in drug development, and the contribution of genetic variation in human P450s to cancer incidence.
10.1021/tx700079z
Animals, Genetically Modified
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System/genetics
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System/metabolism*
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System/physiology
Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions
Inactivation, Metabolic
Polymorphism, Genetic/genetics
Toxicology*
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est un manga de type shōnen créé par Hiro Mashima. L'histoire a été publiée dans le Comic BonBon de  à . En  débute le "second stage" qui se termina en .

Résumé
L'histoire de Monster Soul a lieu sur la terre d'Elfenland, où les hommes et les monstres cohabitent. Ce manga raconte l'histoire de cinq amis : Aki, Joba, Toora, Mamie, et James. Ils forment le groupe des Black Airs. Les Black Airs sont connus comme le groupe de monstres le plus fort dans la grande guerre entre les humains et les monstres. Ces cinq amis, qui n'ont rien contre les humains, doivent survivre dans un monde qui leur est hostile, les humains d'un côté et les monstres de l'autre. Ce groupe aide les personnes dans le besoin. Ainsi, de missions en missions, ils tenteront de ne pas mourir et de rentrer chez eux en un seul morceau…

Personnages principaux
 Type : MonstreEspèce : Diawolf
Héros de cette histoire. Il ressemble à un humain mais sous la capuche de sa veste se cachent deux cornes sur sa tête. Il est capable de bouger à très grande vitesse et possède une force assez importante. Néanmoins, sa principale force réside dans le fait qu'il est capable de se changer en diawolf (« démongarou » : sorte de loup-garou avec de grosses cornes), un monstre de type S lorsqu'il se laisse submerger par ses émotions.

 Type : MonstreEspèce : GolemTouran est née de l'union d'un golem et d'une humaine. Son pouvoir lui permet de changer son corps en sable et ne craint pas la pluie. Elle peut ainsi créer une harpe ainsi qu'un écran de fumée. Elle s'est auto-proclamée idole du monde des monstres.

 Type : MonstreEspèce : FrankensteinIl s'agit d'un androïde à l'allure de Frankenstein. Plusieurs armes sont cachées dans son corps et ses yeux renferment un détecteur infrarouge, pour détecter les monstres et les êtres invisibles. Il est capable de lancer ses poings et peut se changer en une armure blindée que Mamie appelle "James Striker System". Son visage tombe facilement et il doit souvent "courir" après.

 Type : MonstreEspèce : MomieC'est la "grande sœur" du groupe. Son corps est enroulé de bandages qu'elle contrôle librement afin d'attaquer ses ennemis. Elle possède une seringue géante dont le contenu est inconnu. Le groupe est très soudé autour d'elle et ils l'appellent "Mamie-onee-san". Elle se plait à se considérer comme leur grande sœur. Elle a tendance à se "déshabiller" sans aucune raison. Dans sa jeunesse, alors qu'elle tente d'échapper à ses poursuivants, elle fait la rencontre de James dans un laboratoire. Mamie l'aida et lui permit de se trouver un but dans la vie. C'est ainsi qu'ils développèrent une forte amitié. Elle s'inquiète souvent pour Aki.

 Type : MonstreEspèce : Oignon''
Il s'agit d'un petit démon avec une tête en forme d'oignon. Cette espèce est très rare et très recherchée par les chasseurs. Habituellement, ses seules paroles sont "kyupi" et "Joba".

Volumes et chapitres du manga
 First Stage (Volume 1) :
 01. Apparition des Black Airs !
 02. La rébellion des monstres !
 03. La force peut modifier votre manière de penser !

 Second Stage (Volume 2) :
 01. Hell Race
 02. Hell District One
 03. Gentle Weapon
 04. Soul

 Anecdote : Hiro Mashima cultive l'art du clin d'œil en faisant apparaitre les cinq personnages principaux dans le chapitre 115 de Fairy Tail, en tant que poupées de Bixrow.

Voir aussi

Lien externe
  Site de Comic BonBon

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Manga d'action
Manga d'aventure
Manga d'heroic fantasy
Manga humoristique
Série manga
Manga paru dans le Comic BonBon
Manga des années 2000
Manga publié par Pika Édition


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Published 12:55 pm Monday, June 10, 2013
Bruce Andrews and George Dudley, members of 2Blu and the Lucky Stiffs, perform and talk about music with the kids at the Shelby County Juvenile Detention Facility on June 4. (Reporter Photo/Jon Goering)
By LINDA LONG/For the Reporter
COLUMBIANA – Musical notes escape from behind a heavy locked door, filtering down an austere hallway. Rounding a corner, the music becomes louder, in whimsical contrast to its somber surroundings
"Hey Bo Diddley…" familiar lyrics follow the unmistakable wail of a bluesy harmonica.
"Now to get this sound you need to pucker up like you're gonna kiss your grandma," explains the T-shirted, blue jean clad instructor, who obviously can play one mean harmonica, though he admits the instrument sometimes get little respect.
Not so on this day as a group of about 30 teenagers, ranging in age from 13 to 18 years old, each clutch a harmonica and bring it in unison up to their mouths.
They look like any group of typical teens gathered for an impromptu jam session, but these young people aren't typical. Assembled in casually arranged chairs in the crowded room, they are all dressed exactly alike, grey sweatshirts, khaki pants, white socks and brown sandals. They are meeting behind a locked door; the kind that requires voice activation, and must be opened by remote.
These young musicians are all inmates at the Shelby County Juvenile Detention Center. They're attending a first of its kind class at the facility called Roots Blues, a therapy of sorts for kids at a cross roads. The program is sponsored by the Shelby County Arts Council (SCAC) and funded through a license tag program appropriated by the Alabama State Legislature to help fund the arts.
Bruce Andrews and George Dudley, local musicians of the band 2 Blu and the Lucky Stiffs, are teaching the youngsters. Andrews said he approached the SCAC with the idea for this program over two years ago.
"We just started thinking, 'Wouldn't it be cool to get this in front of kids who are more at a cross roads, who are at a kind of place they can either turn their lives around or not?' I was thinking, 'Wow, these kids could really benefit from something like this,'" he said.
Andrews, with tongue firmly in cheek sees only one minor road block.
"Once they get over 'the uncoolness of the harmonica, this little tin sandwich that I'm embarrassed to hold', they experience a break-through, a sense of accomplishment."
Andrews sees a parallel between people steeped in the roots of American music and the kids sitting in his classroom.
"All of those early people with influence on our music today figured out really simple lasting ways to say something profound and it affected society. Maybe I'm being optimistic, but maybe there is in here a musician, a preacher or poet," he said. "Creativity and imagination don't cost anything. How many very creative people came from nothing? Every one of these kids could catch the creative spark and go with it. Unfortunately, for me I don't have anything to offer but a harmonica and a guitar. I don't know, but what we're doing just feels right."
Oh, and about that harmonica. It's theirs to keep. Each kid gets to take it home when he or she leaves the detention center. Program coordinators don't expect a single one to be left behind.
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