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One of the world's first molten salt tower concentrated solar power (CSP) projects that uses a "Stellio" heliostat was grid-connected at the end of December in China's Xinjiang province near the Mongolian border. The 50-MW Hami pilot project developed by Chinese state-owned company China Power Engineering Consulting Group marks a major milestone for the novel heliostat design, which went from concept to construction in a mere five years.
The $226 million Hami project is a central receiver plant that uses molten salts as heat transfer fluid and as a thermal storage system. According to its developer, the project operates with a 43% thermal efficiency under ambient temperatures of 19C, and an air condenser backpressure of 8.5 kPa. When in operation, the thermal efficiency of the thermal storage and heat transfer system reaches 99%—which means the 1,430 MWh storage system can run the turbine at full output for 12 hours.
The Hami project, which was built in roughly two years, is China's sixth large-scale commercial solar thermal power project, according to the China Solar Thermal Alliance, and it brings the country's total CSP capacity to 350 MW. However, development of its innovative heliostat began much earlier.
According to a recent paper authored by experts involved in the Hami project, the design concept took shape when German structural engineering and consulting firm Schlaich Bergermann Partner (sbp) set out to address an increasing interest in solar tower technology in 2010. The firm partnered with South Africa's SASOL Technology to further develop its design, and the partners eventually settled on calling it "Stellio," a name that refers to a sun-loving agama lizard.
2. The Stellio heliostat developed by German firm sbp sonne in collaboration with partners Ingemetal and Masermic features a new axis arrangement. It allows the use of cost-efficient linear actuators for both axes, providing a cost-effective pentagonal structure. Courtesy: sbp sonne gmbh
When SASOL withdrew from renewables to focus on its chemicals business, sbp joined forces with Spanish CSP experts Ingemetal Energias and Masermic. The companies built the first Stellio prototype (Figure 2) at the Plataforma Solar de Almería in Spain in 2014, equipping it with sensors. That project, sbp said, confirmed and allowed for verification of Stellio's "outstanding optical and tracking performance." At least four other prototypes were also tested, each building on lessons learned.
However, the consortium's initial efforts to build a first-of-its-kind plant at Redstone in South Africa's Northern Cape Region collapsed, so it collaborated with Dongfang Boiler Group (DBC), and eventually won a tender in 2016 to build a project at the Hami solar field. As sbp notes, Stellio was especially attractive even then; it won the SolarPACES Technology Innovation Award 2015 and the CSP PLAZA Technology Innovation Award 2017.
Its winning attribute is its pentagonal design, which greatly reduces the subtle but ongoing oscillation from wind load. The design essentially comprises 10 cantilever arms and a central hub, which allows for "a more homogenous stiffness distribution compared to rectangular structures and results in a very efficient structural system, [that is], it provides low deformations and thus high optical performance at low specific weight. Its roundish shape reduces shading and blocking and allows for a compact field layout," the firm explained.
However, the design is also partly derived from well-proven parabolic trough technology. "The cantilever arm [is] welded from hollow box sections—easy to fabricate and with optimum stiffness per weight." It also features five rings of purlins that carry the mirrors; the purlins are made from a cost-effective sheet metal. The hub and the parts of the kinematic system are welded from plates.
"The main advantage of the Stellio kinematic system with two inclined axes is that cost-efficient linear actuators can be used for both axes and that tracking errors due to drive backlash are eliminated for [most] heliostat orientations," sbp added.
The whole structure is then hot dip galvanized to ensure long-term corrosion protection. Finally, it uses 10 mirrors (made from 4-millimeter-thick float glass) as well as a central mirror—which altogether form a 48.5-square-meter reflecting surface. The Hami solar field turned out to be ideally suited to the Stellio design because it features a "slight overall slope" that lends well to a staggered field configuration. The field surrounding the 200-meter-high solar tower can host 14,500 heliostats. So far, "Thousands of heliostats have been installed and the field commissioning is under way. The receiver has been mounted on top of the tower," Fabian Gross, an sbp engineer and physicist, told POWER on March 2.
According to SolarPACES, the International Energy Agency's CSP research arm, how quickly the concept progressed from "lab to commercial" is remarkable. "The biggest obstacle to advancing potential cost-cutting improvements in novel CSP technologies is getting them deployed in commercial projects. Risks are high when every CSP plant must be built at utility-scale and must make money right away," it noted. However, the project also benefited greatly from being built in China, which as Solar PACES noted, "takes a different approach to new technologies that favors giving novel designs a tryout. Its first CSP projects are demonstration projects, yet they are being built at full size to allow real-life engineering issues to show up so they can be resolved at commercial scale."
The 50-MW Yumen project in China, for example, is testing a "beam-down" dish CSP, a technology that promises to cut CSP power costs by 30%. "If beam down works, it could greatly simplify solar hydrogen thermochemistry, because a focal point on the ground is conducive to another innovation to cut renewable hydrogen costs by combining the solar receiver/reactor with thermal storage at ground level, where the thermochemistry for splitting water is best carried out," the organization noted. Another phase of the Yumen project is also testing a silicon-based heat transfer fluid (HTF) for trough CSP in a project spearheaded by Chinese firm Royal Tech CSP, another SolarPACES award winner. That's notable because "Silicon can get much hotter than today's 400C standard heat transfer fluid for trough CSP, so this Si-HTF greatly improves the efficiency of parabolic trough CSP," SolarPACES said.
—Sonal Patel is a POWER senior associate editor.
Correction: This version corrects the height of the solar tower, which stands at 200 meters, not 94 meters.
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The Railway with a Heart of Gold. Filmed at a time of naive innocence and 'fix-it-as-we-go' on the world's first preserved narrow gauge railway in the early 1950's. It was lost for many years in America, until it was eventually copied to VHS and sold at the Talyllyn Railway.
This most charmingly directed film was a gem of a find that day at Tywyn many years ago.


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Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 specs
Car type Coupe
Introduced 2013
Origin country United States
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Laptimes
Non-dry laps
Barber Motorsports Park 1:36.17
Buttonwillow West Loop (config 24) 1:05.18
Chuckwalla Valley Raceway 1:59.03
GingerMan Raceway 1:41.80
Hockenheim Short 1:10.80
Laguna Seca (post 1988) 1:37.82
Milford Road Course 1:53.71
Motortrend Figure-8 0:23.60
Motown Mile 0:54.66
Nürburgring Nordschleife 7:37.47
Sachsenring 1:35.20
Thermal Club Raceway 1:26.10
Virginia International Raceway Grand East Course (post 01/2014) 2:50.90
Willow Springs 1:28.40
0 - 50 kph 2.1 s
0 - 100 kph 4.4 s
0 - 200 kph 13.5 s
0 - 40 mph 2.3 s
0 - 100 mph 8.8 s
0 - 150 mph 20.0 s
Est. 1/8 mile 8.6 s @ 99.4 mph
1/4 mile 12.2 s @ 118.7 mph
More acceleration times
Top speed 277 kph (172 mph)
Est. 100 - 200 kph 9.1 s
Est. max acceleration 0.67 g (7 m/s²)
Lateral acceleration 1.08 g (11 m/s²)
60 mph - 0 30 m (100 ft)
Engine type V8 LS7
Displacement 7.0 l (427 ci)
Power 507 ps (500 bhp / 373 kw)
Torque 637 Nm (470 lb-ft)
Power / liter 72 ps (71 hp)
Power / weight 298 ps (294 bhp) / t
Torque / weight 374 Nm (276 lb-ft) / t
Transmission 6-Speed Tremec
Layout front engine, rear wheel drive
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Inline 6 rules 3y ago
Please correct the top speed! 301 km/h is just an estimation by automobile catalog. The Autobild Sportscar test writes 275 km/h. https://www.germancarforum.com/attachments/e01805defac0ed84e223179c471e53c7-jpg.306576/
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JasonM 4y ago
2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R vs. 2015 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 - Head 2 Head Ep. 71
As a reminder.
Cheers and enjoy ;)
jackson 5y ago
Camaro Z/28 improved its lap time at Willow Springs International Raceway's "Big Track" from 1:29.72 to 1:28.40 (1.32 seconds) thanks almost entirely to a composite flap literally screwed to the back of the rear spoiler.
2015 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 Track Retest - Motor Trend
http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/coupes/1504_2015_chevrolet_camaro_z28_track_retest/
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saxy 5y ago
That was a first gen of the car and by a different driver. Same driver, the Nismo version was 2.5s faster?
Ha1 5y ago
Wow this car even blew away the Gtr at Willow, go figure.
fake_killer4 5y ago
0-50 kph: 2.1 s
0-100 kph: 4.4 s
0-200 kph: 13.5 s
AutoBild Sportscars 10/2014 - http://www.germancarforum.com/attachments/e01805defac0ed84e223179c471e53c7-jpg.306576/
BR2+ 6y ago
Well...He did come back after a month.
Should i get him a meal?...
lafars 6y ago
@saxy
he explained in detail that a drivers car has to be balanced and challenging at the same time while still connecting the driver to the chassis and give good feedback
NOT that it had to be bad to drive, just rewarding
lol, coolshirt, the most ridiculous person who tries to win arguments by name calling.
when someone points out your inability to argue your own point, you call it "twisting" your words. Write them correctly and there won't be any other interpretation.
You wrote something borderline stupid, and I point it out. Don't, and I won't.
CoolShirtGuy 6y ago
@BR2
Osmium is a Platimum-like metal that's generally recognized as the densest known naturally occurring element. The only things denser are some man-made metal alloys, and apparently the bone that makes up saxy's skull.
Ohh Snididap! Shite just got a real like an egg sandwich!!
Wtf is Osmium?...
LOL, saxy, you've pointed out nothing but your own idiocy and inability to construct a legitimate point without twisting words. There are no holes in my argument, at all. The only holes are the ones YOU dream up with your ass-backward "logic" and laughable reasoning.
Has anyone, anyone at all, said anything about poorly setup cars, except for you? No. All those cars I mentioned before? They're all known as cars that are a challenge to drive hard, yet they've all be virtually universally praised as great machines that are a joy to drive as well. There's this thing called a "learning curve"; those cars have it, and so do cars like the Z/28. The GT-R, 911, etc? Not so much, but they're still phenomenal cars and fast as all hell. It's just my OPINION that they aren't true Driver's Cars. You can't seem to get it through that osmium-like cranium of yours that there's a difference between "challenging" and "dangerous", "difficult" and "impossible".
Pagani? Their Huayra is regarded as a car that behaves itself very well, when the T/C is on. Switch it off, and it becomes a handful real fast. A car that requires concentration and skill to drive fast. A REAL Driver's Car. Don't believe me? Then believe Chris Harris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIcGHY_Al_I
I know I said I was done, but seeing you all smug like that just made me want to smack you off your high-horse. Please, come back with another lame "point", so I can mock you and tear it apart again. I'm having fun now!
LOl coolshirt, I simply pointed holes in your argument, and if you can't deal with that, don't argue.
The whole idea of "difficult car to drive" = good drivers car doesn't work. Cuz obviously the F-type R would be that. And yes, you'd have to work REALLY hard to drive it.
My argument was always a well set-up car that gives great feedback to the driver and you can completely drive at the limit IS a good drivers car because that means you're involved and that you can really fly past other similar but less well-sorted cars. And guess what? the Z/28 is quite really that!! (oh gosh)
Pagani goes out to do 1 million KM of test driving to make sure their car is well ballanced and sorted out. Another manufacturer may do nothing and create a dangerous car that's not fast nor does it have a sorted chassis. So BR2 Coolshirt, you rather manufacturers save money and do nothing to refine and sort their cars properly?
A challenging car that's difficult to drive MAKES you drive the car?...I d say that makes it quite a drivers car no?
I have to write "all that blabber", because nothing else seems to get through your thick skull. If I'm not incredibly specific and detailed, it leaves you room to twist my words and add your own special brand of nonsense, which you did anyway with your "vandalizing safety systems" bullshite. Just like your previous crap about putting on crappy tires and bad brakes.
Once again, you've latched onto a single thing I've said and ignored everything else. As expected from you. That's what you argued? Then you were arguing against nothing, because I never said I wanted a car that caused mistakes in the first place. It was your failure at reading, or your need to start shite, that caused you to think I said something that I didn't.
Hell, I started this off by pointing out how the definition of "Driver's Car" has changed over the years, then gave my OPINION as to what a Driver's Car is to me. You took issue with that and went after me, doing nothing but parroting what I already said, with your own short-bus leaps of logic thrown in to twist it around into irrelevant crap. Is this how you get your jollies? I swear, you're more annoying than some of the trolls around here sometimes. I'm officially done with this, you may have the last word if you want it, which I know you do.
lol all that blabber. you don't want a car that CAUSES mistakes which is exactly what I argued the whole time. It's you that u failed to defrentiate the difference till now. It is ridiculous to say a good drivers car is just a car that is difficult to drive which I can do to any car by vandalizing the safety systems.
It's all about leaving the computers out of it and still being very drivable and competitively fast, and involving. Simple nothing to do with being "challenging" or needs respect. Any fast car will need to be respected. Says nothing about the car
@Lafars
What does my personal car have to do with what i think a "Drivers Car" should be?..
I dont buy a car for maximum involvement, If that was the case id buy an Atom 3. I bought it because i love the R3x series, plain and simple. Fun is always nice to have in a car, But i wouldnt buy a car strickly for that reason. And yes, Im for clutching of any type, Double, Single, Triple, Quadruple whatever, Using clutch pedal is nice.
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However, that's only if you're trying to throw down a good lap. If you're just looking to hoon around, it's phenomenal. From what I saw, while you can't prevent the slides from happening, you can still control them while they're happening. Also, you obviously don't get my opinion, benchracer, so don't put words in my mouth.
So, because I said I want a car to expose MY mistakes, you take that as me wanting a car that will CAUSE me to make mistakes. No. Logic fail. Reading comprehension fail. Common sense fail. A ZR1 will expose your mistakes in a second, but does it have bad brakes/suspension/setup? Uh, no. The GT2RS was given the nickname "Widowmaker" by Porsche themselves, but was it a "bad" car? Nope. Early generation Vipers were notorious for having a bite just as bad as their namesake, but were they "awful"? Yes, actually.
I've driven a G1 and a couple G2s, and they're terrible in all honesty. There's a difference between exposing a mistake, and punishing you for it. Old Vipers punished mistakes; do something wrong and you'll suddenly find yourself backwards in the grass, if you're lucky. If you're not, you'll be a red smear on a tree. I've driven a G4 Viper and it's so much better. Less Fer-de-Lance, more Western Diamondback; it'll still bite you, but you'll at least get a warning first.
Get it now? I'm talking about cars that have all the tools needed to be incredible, but need someone who knows what they're doing behind the wheel.
Every time with you. Every time I talk to you, I have to explain the tiniest little details of things that anyone with a lick of common sense would understand right away. But you just go out of your way to cherrypick my posts and focus on one little thing, blow it way out of proportion, while glossing over everything else.
Why did I bring them up? Why don't you go back and read my other posts. I'm not explaining this to you again.
Playstation? I do have a PS3, but guess what else I also have? A C6 Z06 built by Katech. You know what else I also have? Thousands of hours of track time under my belt, an not just in my own car. Plus more than a little experience on winding back roads and canyons. So don't talk down to me, benchracer.
Exposing mistakes doesn't mean fishtailing into a guard rail, pal. It's taking a corner too aggressively and having the tail step out when you didn't want it to. A bit of drama, some opposite lock, and you're back in business. That's the car telling you something. Brake sooner, don't turn in as hard, try again. Randy took the Corkscrew too hot in the Z/28, and it exposed his mistake by going sideways, but he still pulled it out. THAT is what I'm talking about. I've told you before, there's a difference between "challenging" and "impossible". The F-Type R is leaning more towards the latter, because it's poorly set up. It's going to oversteer no matter what you do, unless you granny drive, which defeats the purpose of driving it hard.
BUT why do you drive a car with synhro-rings in the gearbox, they take away some of the involvement seeing how they synchronise the gears for you
i just turned your argument against you and i haihly doubt you support double-clutching when changing gears in this day and age
Umm why did u bring those cars up? Did they all win the "drivers car award"? A 458 is such an easy car to drive despite the many electronics, so not sure how you are trying to argue this.
Dude that's too much dribble and bull crap. You want a car to expose your mistakes and watching your mistakes is fun? You're typing on your computer and playing playstation too much dude. In the real world for a car that has fat tires and lots of hp a mistake is exposed by deaths in a family. It may be fun on the playstation but not in real life.
exposing mistakes have many reasons. Bad driver, bad car, bad suspension, bad set-up. I mean in your opinion, the F-type R that skidded around like a maniac would be "the best drivers car" this year.
One of the easiest ways to make a car difficult to drive and to cause you to have a lot of mistakes is zero steering feel. A car with NO steering feel will definitely keep you on your toes and make you worry every time you go fast on a track (that is if you do). So is that a good thing to you?
IMO, The single most critical thing one needs, In order to be a "Real Drivers Car"...Is
Maximum INVOLVEMENT....period!.
The main focus is YOU DRIVING the car, Not the other way round, Everything else is is a secondary concern to me, If YOU cant be involved in driving your car, How can one call it a "Drivers Car"?...
So now the Carrera GT, GT2RS, Viper, Z06, ZR1, Exige, LFA, F40, etc, are "bad cars"?
A real driver WANTS to push the car they're in, no matter what it is. The challenge is part of the fun. Hell, for people like me, it IS the fun. If there's no challenge, there's no point. That's not to say I'd want a car that's like that all the time, but when I'm going for it, want the car to expose my mistakes, so I can learn from them and make myself a better driver.
I'm not taking anything away from today's cars. They are superior in every meadurable way, and that can't be denied. It's never been a better time to be an enthusiast, nearly every manufacturer around the world is bringing something awesome to the table year after year, and there's something new to drool over every other week. But the basic definition of a "Driver's Car", as in what it was when the term was first created, is a car that requires a driver to appreciate it and master it. And "driver" doesn't mean whatever yuppy happens to be behind the wheel. It means someone who has some actual talent and can drive performance machines the way they were meant to be driven.
That used to be obvious, but now the waters are muddied, IMO, by manufacturers catering to people with more money and ego than sense and skill. They can't make cars like that anymore, because the mouth breathers would be dying in droves, and sometimes not alone. And also because they wouldn't turn a profit.
Same point I'm going to rephrase. A drivers car is not a bad car. Anyone can make a dangerous car. It's difficult to make a Great car. So I couldn't care less of what yesteryear was, it's only right to recommend cars you WANT to push and are good. Rather than cars you never dare to push and are a danger to everyone
Shaggy 6y ago
@Lafars: I agree, I think the best car for you is the one that you can connect with. When you get behind the wheel, you become a part of it, it becomes a part of you, an extension of your own body. You know what your car can do, and it knows what you want. I think that's one reason people get attached to their cars like they did to their horses in the 19th century.
@coolshirtguy
partially agree but i think you misunderstood my quote, in which case re-read hammonds quote
also one contradiction made to your statement is the fact that the LFA was nowhere near the top 3 when it entered despite randy saying it was like flying a plane that's out of control, thereby forcing you to stay sharp
(see tiff needells review)
taking it to the logical extreme here:
in a formula 1 car you can feel every vibration from the road, engine, gearbox and steering so that you know everything that's going on (if your not shocked by the assault of power), and due to the placement of the center of gravity you feel like you're a part of the car
that's a drivers car
@saxy, lafars
According to Motor Trend in the past, that's exactly what it was about. They outright said it about the Audi R8, 458 Italia, GT-R and the 911 Carrera S/4S. They coddle you and cover your mistakes, making you look like a hero around the track even if you're a novice.
Also, the only place you want your car to feel like a racer is on the track. On the road, or just at lower speeds, all that "predictability" goes right out the window and they become ultra twitchy hazards to everything else on the road. They're horrible. That's why the STI was rated down, not because it felt like a race car, but because it felt like one EVERYWHERE. Too stiff, too twitchy, too aggressive when it doesn't need to be.
But now MT is changing their tune. The Z/28 was the only car that Randy nearly spun out in(or at least the only one they showed), yet it still won. It's predictable to a certain point, but when you make a mistake, it'll let you know, just like the driver's cars of yesteryear. It's a car that takes talent to drive fast.
i agree with saxy here, it's not about which cars is closest to a race car or which car has a manual gearbox, it's about how well it connects to you
to quote hammond driving the sesto elemento:
"people often talk about being in one with the car...i've grown a car out of my hands and feet"
quoting carlos:
"the 4C is the EMBODIEMENT of what a drivers car should be, lightweight, nimble, fun" (which makes me question why the Z/28 won after that statement)
No it's not about cars that cover up your mistakes. it's about cars that behave predictably and well so that you can push the limits and use the maximum of the potential of the car.
hell if the definition of drivers car was "difficult to drive" just change all your tires to different makes, pull out some engine management systems, ABS, etc.
I think a good drivers car should be a true "sports car." ie similar to a racing car. Predictable, nimble, race-able for a 1 hour pedal to the metal race. Likely to punch above its class. The Z/28 faster than many cars that have more power to weight. The F12, totally demonstrates NOT to be a drivers car because it's so difficult to drive that even 731hp it's slower than a 500hp camaro... clearly Randy was able to use 90% of the camaro, but maybe less than 70% of the F12
tbh, i think the best drivers car is like a racing touring car. A Mclaren NLN car can lap Nurburgring under 6:30, something not even a Zonda R or P1 can do on slicks. Simple fact is, it's got much less power... similar downforce, but just very well set-up to allow the driver to take a few MPH faster every corner without killing himself. Those race cars don't have "driver aids" to help them cover their mistakes. They are just well set up.
What I find funny about this year's BDC is the fact that the definition of "Driver's Car" has changed once again. Originally, a Driver's Car was something that was difficult to drive fast and demanded respect and talent from those behind the wheel. Cars like the Exige, Carrera GT, GT2, Viper, Z06; back "in the day" they were all hailed as true driver's cars.
And then the age of electronic nannies and superhumanly fast transmissions came. It became less about driver talent, and more about the car itself picking up where your talent left off. It became less about cars that demanded respect, and more about cars that coddled you and covered up your mistakes. Cars that were easy to drive at any level.
And now, suddenly, we're going "old school" again! I don't know if Motor Trend listened to the complaints, or they just found their testicles again, but I hope the trend continues(pun not intended).
Just to highlight how much things have changed: In 2011, the Corvette Z06 Centennial Edition came in 6th place, even though it utterly dominated everything on the track(and still remains the fastest car in BDC history, since the ZR1, Viper TA and 918 were never part of the event), and was criticized for being too track-focused and not very good on the road, despite having the magnetic dampers that made it ride like a GT. But now the Z/28, which is pretty much the same thing, only 500lbs heavier, comes in middle of the pack in lap times, and wins the whole damn thing.
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Sonia Sotomayor
U.S. Supreme Court Justice discusses her first book, My Beloved World. Houston, Texas, Wortham Center, January 22, 2013.
SHORT. "Yes, she's an ordinary person just like me. And if that ordinary person can do it, so can I." 4:54
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Presentation part 1. Books, a rocket ship to new worlds. 15:16
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SHORT. What's behind your phrase "wise Latina woman?" 3:55
Justice Sonia Sotomayor is often described as an example of the American dream. Her memoir is a story of self-discovery and the possibilities of America as seen through her "still astonished eyes." Justice Sotomayor was born in 1954 in the Bronx in New York City. Her parents came to New York City from Puerto Rico during World War II. Her father was a factory worker who died when she was only nine. She and her brother were raised by her mother, a nurse, in a public housing project. Justice Sotomayor graduated as valedictorian of her class at Cardinal Spellman High School. She went to Princeton University on a full scholarship and attended Yale Law School. Justice Sotomayor has worked in nearly every level of the judicial system, beginning her career as an assistant district attorney of New York. Nominated by President George H.W. Bush, she served six years on the U.S. District Court for the Southern New York. In 1997, President Bill Clinton nominated her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit where she served 11 years. President Barack Obama nominated her to the Supreme Court in May of 2009. She is the first Hispanic and third female justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. This past speaker page shares her podium presentation as well as the Q&A.
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SEC Lowdown: Quarterbacks, running backs in the spring spotlight
By Chris Low
Updated: March 5, 2008, 1:14 PM ET
BATON ROUGE, La. -- LSU coach Les Miles took particular delight in reminding the media last week that his was the only vote that counted in whether or not suspended quarterback Ryan Perrilloux returned to the team.
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LSU is practicing without suspended QB Ryan Perrilloux.
This much we know: Perrilloux is serving his third suspension in less than a year. The Tigers don't have any experience behind him at quarterback, and most of his teammates have voiced optimism that he will be back.
The Tigers opened spring practice on Friday, and Miles has remained mum on the subject. But there is a plan in place for Perrilloux to return provided he does all of the things Miles has laid out for him.
Will he do those things? Only time will tell, and it's a long ways to the Aug. 30 opener against Appalachian State. But Perrilloux's teammates are staying on top of him.
Senior receiver Demetrius Byrd said he talks to Perrilloux every day and that Perrilloux is going to class and taking care of his business.
"I think everything is going to work out," Byrd said. "I'm hoping he comes back and [we] would welcome him back. I talk to him all the time. I get on him all the time. I ask him, 'How are classes going, man?' just to keep him going. He's like, 'I'm going. I'm going. I'm good. Don't worry about it.'
"He's going to be all right. He's going to do what he needs to do to get back on this team, and we're going to welcome him. Until then, we've got to make sure we take care of our own business and keep growing as an offense."
Senior center Brett Helms acknowledged that there were some mixed feelings on the team concerning Perrilloux, and rightfully so. After all, if he can't be counted on to make it to team functions and meetings and to make it on time, how can he be counted on to lead this team?
No wonder Miles is having second thoughts about whether or not he wants to hand over the keys to the Tigers' offense to a guy who's been anything but a beacon of responsibility.
Still, Helms doesn't think Perrilloux has crossed the point of no return as a teammate and deserves another chance.
"I hope he'll be back, and I think he should be back," Helms said. "I don't think it's anything too bad that he did. But that's between him and Coach Miles. Whatever Coach says, we'll go along with it. You block for whoever's back there, and that has to be the mentality of everybody on this team."
With Perrilloux not taking part in spring workouts, redshirt freshman Jarrett Lee and junior Andrew Hatch have been sharing the quarterback duties.
Miles said Hatch, who began his career at Harvard, was probably ahead in the management of the offense. But the Tigers' receivers have been impressed with Lee's ability to get rid of the football. The Brenham, Texas, product was one of the top quarterback prospects in the state when he came out of high school last year.
"He throws a nice ball and has a nice release, not a Ryan Perrilloux release, but a good one," Byrd said.
Sounds like some subtle lobbying, doesn't it?
"I'm not the coach," Byrd said. "Coach Miles makes those decisions. But if I were the coach, I'd give him another shot."
Playing The Percentages
Georgia junior quarterback Matthew Stafford showed steady improvement in each of his first two seasons as a starter. The goal for Stafford's third season is to improve his completion percentage to 65 percent or better.
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Matthew Stafford hopes his spring work results in an improved completion percentage in the fall.
Stafford completed 55.7 percent of his passes in 2007, while throwing for 2,523 yards, 19 touchdowns and 10 interceptions.
"I just need to be more consistent with the easy throws, the underneath and short throws," Stafford said.
Stafford said he spent the offseason watching film of all the incompletions he threw during the 2007 season.
"I felt like I never completed a ball all year," he said.
Georgia coach Mark Richt said Stafford showed better decision making and patience in Georgia's first spring workout on Monday.
"I don't know if he's better or not," Richt said. "I think everybody around him is, too. If you protect better, then you'll be able to hold the ball longer. You'll be able to put the ball exactly where you want it without being under duress. Plus, I think that Matthew is more willing than ever to take what a defense gives him. I saw that [Monday] more than I saw in a long time. He was just as apt to zip it out in the flats instead of going for the curl or deeper route."
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After the departure of running backs Thomas Brown and Kregg Lumpkin, Georgia hopes to find a backup to sophomore Knowshon Moreno during spring practice.
Redshirt freshman Caleb King is probably the next player in line. King ran for more than 900 yards and 13 touchdowns before breaking his leg during his senior season at Greater Atlanta Christian School in 2006.
"He's quicker right now than he was a year ago," Richt said. "Maybe a year ago, it was just a little indecision. I've seen him break a lot of tackles, and he changes direction really well. Some guys, they run as fast as they can and just slam it up in there. I think Caleb has good patience and good vision."
King, who is No. 2 on the depth chart behind Moreno and ahead of freshmen Dontavius Jackson and Richard Samuel (both enrolled in January), said Moreno is probably a more powerful runner than him.
"I think he's a stronger runner than I am, but I think I'm a little quicker to the outside," King said.
Once upon a time, one of the deepest positions on Auburn's team was running back.
But that was before spring practice opened last month for the Tigers. The only healthy tailback right now is senior Brad Lester, who was Auburn's second-leading rusher last season with 530 yards after being suspended the first six games.
Ben Tate, who led the Tigers in rushing last season with 903 yards, is sidelined with a sore hamstring. Tristan Davis, who was plagued by foot problems last season, is having similar problems this spring.
The Tigers are also concerned about Mario Fannin's separated shoulder. Fannin was scheduled to meet with noted orthopedist Dr. James Andrews in Birmingham and is likely out for the rest of the spring.
Fannin's absence doesn't help new offensive coordinator Tony Franklin, either, as he tries to install his new spread offense. Franklin was hoping to use Fannin as both a tailback and slot receiver. Franklin got a glimpse of Fannin in the Chick-fil-A Bowl and liked what he saw. Fannin caught a team-high five passes for 53 yards, including a touchdown.
Until a couple of guys get back, Franklin has to use walk-ons at running back to avoid overloading Lester with snaps.
New Florida running backs coach Kenny Carter has a clearly defined job: Generating more production out of the Gators' running backs. Heisman Trophy quarterback Tim Tebow was Florida's running game in 2007, and the Gators haven't had a running back rush for 700 yards or more in Urban Meyer's three seasons in Gainesville.
Carter, who was previously the running backs coach at Vanderbilt, has been impressed by what he's seen from USC transfer Emmanuel Moody in offseason workouts, particularly Moody's strength. Kestahn Moore is the returning starter at tailback, and Mon Williams also should be a factor after missing last season with a knee injury.
• Tennessee junior center Josh McNeil will miss the spring after undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery. He injured his left knee back in February and should be able to return in time for offseason conditioning and workouts.
• One of the key battles for Mississippi State this spring will be at tight end. The Bulldogs lost all three of their tight ends from last season, and sophomore Brandon Henderson is the only returnee. Freshman Nelson Hurst will be one to watch. He was a midterm enrollee and has already turned some heads this spring.
• LSU, which couldn't get Texas Tech to sign off on a home-and-home series, will play a nonconference schedule in 2008 that doesn't include one team from a BCS conference: Appalachian State, Troy, North Texas and Tulane. LSU will pay Appalachian State $750,000 to come to Baton Rouge for the opener.


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Life is full of nice surprises which come at the right moment in order to give us testimony that God has his eyes set on us. And even if the life we are living is not the best one, we must not doubt that the God of miracles and wonders will surprise us in such a way that it makes possible what we thought impossible.
We must not fear. We only have to believe and wait for our God to intervene and put an end to what we are going through. These experiences will make us grow spiritually and increase our faith, while they change our lives in order for us to be bearers of what He does, through the visible testimony He has allowed us to experience. Because when the doors were closed and the heavens were bronze, at a moment, everything was changed by Him.
Just as it happened to the widow from Zarephath, who was going through a very difficult situation and, at a moment, God sent Prophet Elijah to release a blessing over her life and definitely break away from everything she was living through.
So, do not look down because there is an Elijah who has been sent to bless you, and whatever you are going through today will be joy tomorrow due to the divine intervention of your Creator.


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Proton Waja — переднеприводной среднеразмерный седан малайзийской марки Proton Edar Sdr Holding, производимый с мая 2000 по июнь 2011 года. В Соединённом королевстве, Иране и Пакистане автомобиль назывался Proton Impian. Вытеснен с конвейера моделью Proton Inspira.

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Серийный выпуск автомобилей Proton Waja был налажен 8 мая 2000 года. До 6 октября 2001 года автомобили не были оборудованы подушками безопасности и антиблокировочной системой, а сиденья были покрыты тканью.

С 6 октября 2001 года на малайзийском рынке появился автомобиль модификации Proton Waja 1.6 X с четырёхступенчатой автоматической трансмиссией. Автомобиль оборудован системой кондиционирования Proton Air, антиблокировочной системой, системой распределения тормозных усилий, подушкой безопасности, рулевым колесом и интерьером в деревянной оправе. Сиденья в салоне и двери покрыты кожей. На заднем сиденье присутствовал подстаканник.

В 2002 году стартовало производство автомобиля Proton Waja 1.8 X с бензиновым двигателем внутреннего сгорания Renault F4P от французской модели Renault Laguna.

В 2005 году было налажено мелкосерийное производство Proton Waja 20th Anniversary (P20Y) с бензиновым двигателем внутреннего сгорания японского производителя Mitsubishi модели 4G18 и кожаными сидениями с логотипом 20th Anniversary. Такое название автомобиль получил в честь 20-летия производства автомобиля Proton Saga. Радиаторная решётка была в U-образной хромированной оправе, колёса были в стиле CPS. В конце 2005 года было налажено серийное производство автомобиля Proton Chancellor с бензиновым двигателем внутреннего сгорания Mitsubishi 6A12 V6 и 4-ступенчатой автоматической трансмиссией.

Начиная с января 2006 года, автомобили Proton Waja были в значительной степени обновлены. Теперь на автомобили ставили бензиновые двигатели внутреннего сгорания CamPro S4PH. Из внутренних отличий, были переработаны кожаные сиденья, салон окрашивался в бежевый или коричневый цвет, полностью были переработаны вентиляционные отверстия, добавился CD-плеер double-DIN mp3. Более дешёвые модели оснащались бензиновым двигателем внутреннего сгорания Mitsubishi 4G18. В июне 2006 года автомобиль прошёл фейслифтинг — получил новую радиаторную решётку, фары, задние фонари, колёсные диски, надпись Waja сзади была размещена над местом государственного номера. В августе 2006 года был выпущен спортивный автомобиль Proton Waja MME Edition (Merdeka Millenium Endurance). Второй феслифтинг автомобиль Proton Waja прошёл в 2007 году. С 2008 года и до снятия с производства автомобиль оснащался бензиновым двигателем внутреннего сгорания CamPro CPS.

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The urban sprawl in the agrarian territories of Sassari started more than twenty years ago, even if the urban development is disciplined by urban planning. In the essay we read the evolution of land use and land government, according to the plans at different scales; furthermore, a diachronic analysis of land use transformations is done, to underline the trends toward a sort of urban "dispersion" or "diffusion" (Indovina 1990), both residential and commercial. Such urban phenomenon is articulated in different areas, characterized by different ways of interaction between residential (or commercial) and (residual and marginal) agrarian land uses. This forms of interaction oscillate between two conditions: one is a sort of "olive trees and residential landscape", a unicum of interaction between the trees matrix and the settlement. This landscape – in which the relationship with the environmental structure of the territory (the valleys system, Monte Bianchinu, Monte Oro) is privileged– is opposed to the settlements superimposed to the historical agricultural matrix (Li Punti, Predda Niedda), which dim it and determine non-structured hybrid edges. Between these situations, intermediate forms of interaction can be recognized; these need planning rules ad hoc, that choose the most suitable "devices" to govern the urban phenomena and to maintain the original landscape matrix.


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Using a tripod is as easy as shooting handheld with the Model A035. A thoughtfully designed grip makes it easy to handle. Plus Arca-Swiss release compatibility and an easily detachable tripod mount improve speed and flexibility. An optional tripod lets you choose the most suitable way to shoot the subject and help to express your creativity.
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With a minimum object distance of 59 in. (1.5m) and a maximum image magnification of 1:3.6, the Model A035 can zoom in on a subject smoothly, resulting in close-up shooting with a soft, blurred effect.
Reduce flare and ghosting with eBAND and BBAR:
Two highly developed lens coating technologies, eBAND (Extended Bandwidth & Angular-Dependency), which uses nanotechnology, and BBAR (Broad-Band Anti-Reflection) combine to increase light transmission and to reduce flare and ghosting to imperceptible levels. The lens delivers high contrast, sharp and clear images.
Moisture-Resistant Construction protects your lens:
For greater protection when shooting outdoors, leak-proof seals throughout the lens barrel help protect your equipment.
Compatible with the TAMRON TAP-in Console:
The optional TAP-in Console provides a USB connection to your personal computer, enabling you to easily update your lens's firmware as well as customize features including fine adjustments to the AF and VC.
Fluorine Coating for protection and safe cleaning:
The front surface of the lens element is coated with a protective fluorine compound that is water- and oil-repellent. The lens surface is easier to wipe clean and is less vulnerable to the damaging effects of dirt, dust, moisture and fingerprints.
Electromagnetic diaphragm system compatible with Nikon cameras:
An electromagnetic diaphragm system, which has been a standard feature for Canon-mount lenses, is employed in Nikon-mount lenses. More precise diaphragm and aperture control is possible because the diaphragm blades are driven and controlled by a motor through electronic pulse signals.
Two exclusive new teleconverters:
Two exclusive teleconverters, which match the optics of the new 100-400mm F/4.5-6.3, offer 1.4x and 2.0x magnification, and provide a maximum zoom range up to 800mm. These new teleconverters extend the focal length of the master lens, making it possible to take pictures in farther ultra-telephoto ranges.
1 accessory found for Tamron 100-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di VC USD Zoom Lens (for Nikon Cameras)
Tamron 100-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di VC USD Zoom Lens
Focal Length: 100-400mm
Maximum Aperture: f/4.5 - 6.3
Dust / Moisture Resistant: Yes
Maximum Magnification Ratio: 1:3.6
Image Stabilization: VC
Weight: 39.3 oz. (1,115g)
Compatible with any Nikon digital SLR camera, including:
**D5300, D5200, D5100, D5000, D3500, D3400, D3300, D3200, D3100, D3000 will work without Autofocus.**


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Тренчанска Турна (, ) — село в северо-западной Словакии, входит в состав района Тренчин, Тренчанского края.

Расположена к северу от горного массива Поважски-Иновец, на левом берегу среднего течения р. Ваг, самой протяженной реки Словакии, левого притока Дуная.

Население Тренчанской Турны — 3 125 человек. (2011).

История
В исторических документах село впервые упоминается в 1269, 1281 и 1331 годах. В районе села 3 августа 1708 состоялась битва между габсбургской армией австрийского графа, генерала Зиберта Хайстера и войсками венгерских мятежников под командованием Ференца II Ракоци.

В 1976 году с. Тренчанска Турна была объединена с соседней деревней Гамре.

Известные уроженцы
 Тимон, Самуил (1675—1736) — иезуит, историк словацкого происхождения, основатель современной венгерской и словацкой историографии, педагог, географ.

Ссылки
 Trenčianska Turná

Населённые пункты Словакии


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Q: Invalid geometry in QGIS vs ArcGIS Check validity in QGIS and Check geometry in ArcGIS Desktop 10.0 give me different results on the following shapefile
ArcGIS does not return an error at the following geometry:
but QGIS does when using check validity:
Is there an official name for geometry errors like this? If they are bad, how should I fix it? I tried QGIS v.clean, manually editing the polygon and ArcGIS repair geometry without success.
BTW the polygon depicted is GU 14917 (Vertex 397)

A: It works because it is not a self intersection. That's why you think the repair tools are not working. I checked in both QGIS and ArcGIS and there isn't any self intersection in these features (GU 14917 and GU 15035).
If it was a self intersecting polygon you wouldn't be able to separate the vertices like this:

ArcGIS is not detecting any invalid geometry in your file once converted to gdb feature class so I assume there isn't any
http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/tools/data-management-toolbox/checking-and-repairing-geometries.htm

A: The problem here is that you have two interpretations of a simple polygon and a self-tangency (intersection of parts at a vertex). ArcMap seems to accept it and the QGIS topology checker not.
I did found some word from the ESRI side here and at least for PostGis i found that it is not allowed here. But for the examples from PostGis for the OGC standard validity for figure j and p they should not be valid due to self-tangency but are written as valid.
Also as far as i understand the OGC standard "OpenGIS Implementation Standard for Geographic
information - Simple feature access" the polygons should not be valid because of 6.1.2.2 (IsSimple method).  But again valid because of the definition that they may touch in a finite number of points (6.1.14 b) ).
You might choose as well what you want...

A: It could be that those programs on your machine are set with different defaults for rounding decimals.  If one rounds to the 7th decimal and one to the 8th decimal then you may have occasions where one looks clean and the other show an error.
Another name for these self intersections are reentrancies.  A polygon is reentrant when it enters back onto itself.

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Treat Depression Naturally With St. John's Wort
May 16, 2020 August 7, 2018 by Smart Publications
St. John's Wort has become popular as an effective solution to treat depression naturally.
A 2009 government survey reports 1 in 13 adults (18 and older) experienced at least one bout of major depression annually. The study found that less than one-third of those individuals were treated for their depression.
People are often reluctant to seek medical help for several reasons, including the cost of medication and its side effects. Solutions to treat depression naturally should be considered as an ethical first step in feeling better.
Solutions to Treat Depression Naturally
A concentrated herbal extract made from St. John's Wort has been researched to treat depression naturally . One study, consisting of 23 randomized trials including a total of 1757 outpatients with mainly mild or moderately severe depressive disorders, was published in the British Medical Journal.
The study found that St. John's Wort (Hypericum extracts) were similarly effective as standard antidepressants. Also, there were only two (0.8%) drop outs due to side effects with hypericum and seven (3.0%) with standard antidepressant drugs. And side effects occurred in only 50 (19.8%) patients on hypericum, as opposed to 84 (52.8%) patients on standard antidepressants.
St. John's Wort also contains an inhibitor of serotonin reuptake, which is responsible for the recycling of serotonin back into the "sending" cell. By inhibiting serotonin reuptake, more serotonin is left in the synaptic cleft between adjacent nerve cells, which increases the serotonin stimulation of the adjacent (postsynaptic, or "receiving") cell.
Compared to synthetic pharmaceuticals, St. John's Wort may be a better solution to treat depression naturally. Studies indicate that St. John's wort:
Is a safe and effective way to treat mild to moderate depression over long periods of time
Is similarly effective as standard antidepressants
Has fewer side effects than standard antidepressants
A Swiss study evaluated 440 patients suffering from mild to moderate depression and treated them with 500 mg. of St. John's wort for up to one year. Although mild side effects such as upset stomach were reported—which may or may not have been related to the treatment—the researchers reported that St. John's wort is a safe and effective treatment for mild to moderate depression over long periods of time. They also found that it is especially suitable for preventing a relapse.
An Australian randomized, controlled trial used a combination of St. John's wort and Kava to treat 28 adults with major depression and anxiety disorders. First, the participants were given a placebo for two weeks. Then, over two four week periods, some were given St. John's wort and Kava, and others were given placebo. In the end, the individuals who took the supplements experienced less depression and anxiety.
No serious side effects were observed during the trial, and only two cases of gastrointestinal upset were noted.
With St. John's Wort
Researchers at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran recently published a meta-analysis (an analysis of the results of several studies) comparing St. John's wort to pharmaceutical antidepressants (SSRIs). After analyzing 13 randomized placebo controlled clinical trials they found that, overall, St. John's wort is just as effective as pharmaceutical drugs for the treatment of depression, and that it has an advantage because it doesn't produced any side effects.
A meta-analysis at the Centre for Complementary Medicine Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany analyzed 29 trials (which included 5,489 patients), comparing St. John's wort with placebo or standard antidepressants. The evidence suggests that the hypericum extracts tested in the trials 1) are superior to placebo in patients with major depression; 2) are similarly effective as standard antidepressants; c) and have fewer side effects than standard antidepressants.
SSRIs remain the most popular treatment for depression and anxiety disorders. But fewer than 50% of all patients have total success with these drugs and significant side effects are common.
Based on the latest studies comparing St. John's wort to placebo and SSRIs, it is safe to say that St. John's wort is a proven safe and effective alternative to synthetic SSRIs, and does not produce adverse side effects. St. John's Wort is an ethical solution to treat depression naturally.
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De Peugeot 908 HDi FAP is een auto gebouwd door Peugeot om deel te nemen in de LMP1 klasse tijdens de 24 uur van Le Mans. Deze auto debuteerde in 2007. Peugeot gaat met deze diesel de strijd aan met Audi, dat eveneens deelneemt met een diesel. Peugeot maakte eerder al de "concept car" 908RC, dit is echter niet dezelfde auto.

Technisch
De auto wordt aangedreven door een 5.5 liter, V12 HDi diesel motor. Deze motor levert 675 pk. De auto is voorzien van een elektrisch-pneumatische versnellingsbak met 6 versnellingen. Peugeot heeft technische ondersteuning van Bosch, Total en Michelin.

Prestaties
Peugeot is er tot 2008 niet in geslaagd om Audi te verslaan tijdens de 24 uur van Le Mans. De Le Mans Series worden echter wel gedomineerd door Peugeot.

In 2009 heeft Peugeot de wereld beroemde 24 uur van Le Mans gewonnen door middel van het bezetten van de 1ste en 2de plaats, Audi was hier, met de Audi R15, derde geworden.

Externe link
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908 HDi FAP
24 uur van Le Mans


Will Mountain Water employees be invited to work for the city of Missoula? Attorney Gary Zadick says the issue still has not been decided.
10 year-old boy killed in two-vehicle crash near Three Forks. Three others injured in weather-related crash.
Missoula Police question two juveniles over shooting out a residential window with a pellet gun. This follows dozens of similar incidents over the summer.
Cloudy, windy and a 20 percent chance of rain in western Montana today, highs near 60.


There's little consistency among conflict-of-interest policies for state Medicaid drug selection committees, researchers found.
There's little consistency among conflict-of-interest (COI) policies for state Medicaid drug selection committees, researchers found.
Researchers could obtain such policies for only 27 states, and the principles governing these documents varied greatly, according to Nicole Yvonne Nguyen, PharmD, and Lisa Bero, PhD, of the University of California San Francisco.
While two-thirds mandated disclosure of conflicts, for instance, fewer than half set monetary cutoffs for reporting, or required that disclosures be publicly available, they wrote online in JAMA Internal Medicine.
"Current policies are not transparent and not standardized, and no state policy included all model components," they wrote. "Wide variations suggest that some policies may not adequately protect drug selection decisions against COI and industry influence."
Little is known about how financial conflicts are managed among drug selection committees for state Medicaid reimbursement programs, so Nguyen and Bero sought out the disclosure policies for the 47 state committees that were not operated by managed care organizations.
They were able to get policy documents for 27 programs: 14 were available online and 13 were obtained by contacting the committees directly. However, they wrote that the policies were "difficult or impossible to find for many states."
"The absence of publicly available policies illustrates a lack of transparency about how COIs are managed," they added.
There were a total of 12 main disclosure points across policies: disclosure requirement, self-recusal requirement, disclosure frequency, public availability, defined monetary cutoffs, disclosure form availability, enforcement, assigned reviewer, immediate family relationships, reporting window specified, additional management strategies, and banned relationships.
None of the policies included all 12 points, though the most common strategy was simply disclosure, which was found in 67% of the policies retrieved. But Nguyen and Bero noted that disclosure alone "does not mitigate the effect of the COI on decision making."
The next most common strategy was self-recusal for conflicts of interest, captured in 52% of the policies.
After that, 41% had defined monetary cutoffs required for disclosure, and the same proportion required that disclosures be publicly available.
Only a quarter required that a spouse or close family members also report conflicts of interest, and just 15% put an outright ban on certain relationships with industry, including prohibition of panelists with direct company relationships to the drug being evaluated.
Washington and Idaho had the strongest policies, with 9 of 12 model components, but even these states didn't provide disclosure forms or define monetary cutoffs for disclosure. Nor did they ban relationships with companies whose products were being reviewed, the researchers reported.
The study was limited by a low response rate from administrators whose policies weren't available online. Nor could the researchers examine compliance with the policies, or assess actual conflicts among drug selection committee members.
The investigators concluded that the findings suggest the need for a model COI policy for drug selection committees that can be adapted for individual states -- particularly in light of the expansion of Medicaid that healthcare reform is expected to bring.
In an accompanying commentary, New York State Health Department commissioner Nirav Shah, MD, MPH, warned that the sparse evidence base of financial conflict policies leads to subjective decisions on best practices, which "may lead to unintended consequences."
For instance, "burdensome disclosure requirements may discourage highly qualified candidates from serving on unpaid advisory committees, which has been our experience in New York State," Shah wrote.
"Finding the right balance of disclosure and transparency ... is paramount," he concluded, suggesting that new disclosure rules from the National Institutes of Health that lower thresholds for disclosure and transfer responsibility from individuals to institutions could be an ideal model for similar rules for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Neither the researchers nor the editorialist reported any conflicts of interest.
Source Reference: Nguyen NY, Bero L "Medicaid drug selection committees and inadequate management of conflicts of interest" JAMA Intern Med 2013; DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.2522.
Source Reference: Shah N "Managing potential conflicts of interest in state Medicaid pharmacy and therapeutics committees" JAMA Intern Med 2013; DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.4184.


Fernando Valenzuela is a bail bondsman who works from a storefront office called Liberty Bail Bonds.
Mickey Haller is a lawyer better known as "The Lincoln Lawyer" because he operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town car. His clients have included people like bikers, con artists, drunk drivers and drug dealers.
Haller received a call from Valenzuela one day who asked if he was "coming in" for a 9:00 calendar call. He told Haller that he had "something" and asked if he could make it back in time. Mickey agreed to be there.
A Beverly Hills rich boy, Ross Roulet, was arrested for brutally beating a woman. He chose Mickey Haller to represent him. This was a big break for Mickey. It was the first high paying client he had in years. Ross claims he is innocent. Could this be the first client Haller is defending who is actually innocent? Haller assumed his case would be a "slam dunk".
Well, it didn't turn out to be that easy. One of the investigators is murdered for getting a little too close to the truth. Mickey now realizes he has to use all of his expertise to solve this case.
This novel will hold you spellbound. It is narrated in the first person and this does the job of making it captivating. The author has done an excellent job of making the characters appear very real. It's hard to let go once you start reading this book. When we read a novel written by Michael Connelly, the readers have come to expect "the best". This book will not let you down. Michael Connelly just seems to surpass the quality of the last book with each new one he writes! This book is highly recommended.


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Q: Changing display font of WebBrowser control in c#? I'm trying to change the display font of WebBrowser control.
I tried
doc.execCommand("FontName", false, "Arial");

But it seems it works for selected text.
I want exact same effect as setting font inside IE -> Internet Options -> General -> Appearance -> Fonts.
Thanks in advance.
Byoungjo
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Like Mitchell has pointed out, doing the same work as ExeWB is doing in C#.Net is the goal.
Also, changing registry is somewhat overwork for this and might need simpler solution if exists.
Otherwise, I'll just say no to this FR.

A: Actually, you can call the ExecWB method, you just have to do so indirectly.  I have the following code working for zooming up and down (using C# 4.0 makes it a bit easier):
    private const int OLECMDID_ZOOM = 63;
    private const int OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER = 2;

    private void SetZoom(int zoom)
    {
        dynamic obj = webBrowser1.ActiveXInstance;

        obj.ExecWB(OLECMDID_ZOOM, OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER, zoom, IntPtr.Zero);
    }

A: Well, from the looks of this you need to use the execWB command as outlined in this Microsoft article.
Update
however with a further look at the documentation, I'm not seeing the execWB OR the execCommand method that you are currently using as options within the .NET browser control.
Therefore, you might have to futz with the actual IE settings, which more than likely are in the registry..

A: Since the setting is under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer, you should be able to override this setting by implementing IDocHostUIHandler2::GetOverrideKeyPath on your webbrowser site. Because Windows Forms made its IDocHostUIHandler implementation internal, I don't think you can implement IDocHostUIHandler2 on top of your WebBrowserSite. I guess you need to start from scratch, e.g. something like http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/csEXWB.aspx
Another possibility is to override the default css in your IDocHostUIHandler::GetHostInfo implementation.

A: If you don't care about removing the selection, this might work:
web.Document.ExecCommand("SelectAll", false, "null");
web.Document.ExecCommand("FontName", false, "Arial"); // or any desired font
web.Document.ExecCommand("Unselect", false, "null");


In January 2012, the Securities and Exchange Board of India had initiated new guidelines for "know your customers". The same is now expected to take effect from December 1, 2012.
To know more about the news norms you can click here.
If one has initiated the revised KYC before January 1 2012, he has to do it again or else he will not be able to do any new investments. However, if you have done after January 1 this year, there is nothing to worry.
Incase, you don't remember whether you have before or after Jan 1. All you need to do is visit ww.cvlkra.com click on KYC Inquiry and submit your Permanent Account Number (PAN).
If the result shows MF - VERIFIED BY CVLMF then you need to submit new KYC form.However, if it shows MF- VERIFIED BY CVLKRA, means you are already new KYC norm compliant.


Scarlett Johansson to play Courtney Love?
Courtney Love is reportedly keen that she should be played by Scarlett Johansson in a proposed biopic of Kurt Cobain, currently in development.
Love acquired the rights to Charles Cross's biography of Cobain, Heavier Than Heaven, and will act as executive producer for the movie. According to Marie Claire , a pal of Love's said: "Courtney really admires Scarlett and has already sent the contract out for her to sign. She wants the best actors to portray them.
"Kirsten Dunst was rumoured to be in the frame, but Courtney really admires Scarlett. This is a labour of love for Courtney and she is putting her heart and soul into making it an accurate, credible glimpse of her life with Kurt."


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Through Primei Fiduciary Ltd., a company fully licensed to act as Trustees, the firm offers support and assistance with issues related to escrow services, for the protection of assets in a particular given transaction. These assets can vary and may include, but not limited to, goods, cash and documents.
Escrow services are considered to be an effective way to mitigate fraud and other similar risks in commercial transactions. Such services take place in financial arrangements, where a third party collects and holds the payment of funds involved between two principals. These services provide comfort and security as the assets or funds are secured in a designated escrow account and payment is only released once it is assured that the terms and conditions established prior the transaction are in fact carried out prior to any exchange between the principals.
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module Rouge
  module Formatters
    class HTMLInline < HTML
      def initialize(theme)
        @theme = theme
      end

      def safe_span(tok, safe_val)
        return safe_val if tok == Token::Tokens::Text

        rules = @inline_theme.style_for(tok).rendered_rules

        "#{safe_val}"
      end
    end
  end
end

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This is the first part of our My Little Pony: Tales of Equestria game.
I just want to say that I don't consider myself a true my little pony fan, however I have watched several seasons of it with my daughter so I do have some familiarity with the source material. I would, however, prefer not to come across as mocking the show, as it is for little children and that is a weird stance to take for an adult (mocking a children's show).
Music this week is nokbient and attic soul.


Roger Keeran (or Roger Roy Keeran / Roger R. Keeran) (born in 1944, in Lapeer, Michigan,) is an American historian and university professor who taught successively at Cornell, Princeton, Rutgers and the New York State University (SUNY). A specialist of Labor and Policy studies, he published, in 1980, The Communist Party and the Auto Workers' Unions and, in 2004, with co-author Thomas Kenny, Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union (a book translated into several languages), as well as various articles in history or sociology journals. He is now Professor Emeritus of the Empire State College at SUNY after retiring in 2013.
In the 1960s, Keeran obtained a B.A. at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. To pay for his studies, he worked in a General Motors automobile plant. He was also co-president of the Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam. He next obtained an M.A. and a Ph.D. in history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His published thesis was titled Communists and Auto Workers: The Struggle for a Union, 1919-1941 (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1974).
In September 1973, he began his first teaching job at the ILR School (School of Industrial and Labor Relations) at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Taking a keen interest in the work of Communist Party activists in the US automobile industry from the mid-1920s to the late 1940s (when the Party's forces werev decimated), he published The Communist Party and the Auto Workers' Unions, which has since become a classic on the subject. However, the book's academic approach to the purge of Communists from the United Auto Workers conflicted with US Cold War policies in effect at the time, and he lost his job at Cornell. He went on to teach at Princeton and Rutgers in New Jersey, as well as the Empire State School of the State University of New York (SUNY), where he mentored students in the Labor and Policy studies Master's Degree program, before retiring in 2013 as Professor Emeritus.
In 2004, with labor economist Thomas Kenny, he co-authored Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union, a book which in the ensuing years was to be translated into French, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Persian and Chinese. In the words of journalist Peter Symon in The Guardian, "Socialism Betrayed traces the many circumstances and deviations that undoubtedly contributed to the final overthrow of socialism and the dismemberment of the Soviet Union into many supposedly independent republics." The first English edition was soon to be out of print mainly owing to the favorable publicity it garnered from reviews in left-wing newspapers and journals such as People's Weekly World (U.S.), The Morning Star (Great-Britain), Socialist Voice (Ireland), People's Voice (Canada), The Spark (Canada), The Guardian (Great-Britain), Australian Marxist Review (Australia), Marxistische Blaetter (Germany).
Keeran has been a member of the Communist Party USA for three decades, and is currently a member of the advisory board of the Marxist journal Science & Society.
Besides his two major books, Keeran has published a number of articles in history or sociology journals such as Michigan History, Labor History, Science & Society, Industrial Relations, Policy Studies Journal, Nature, Society, and Thought, and was a contributor to The Encyclopedia of the American Left.
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Congresso Internacional Marx em Maio, 8, 9 e 10 de Maio de 2014, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa: "Roger Keeran - nasceu em Lapeer, Michigan, em 1944. Licenciado em Filosofia pela Wayne State University (Detroit), Mestre de História Americana e Doutorado em História pela Universidade de Wisconsin (Madison). Enquanto estudava, trabalhou na fábrica de automóveis da General Motors e foi co-presidente do Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam. Ensinou nas Universidades de Cornell, Princeton e Rutgers e foi professor e responsável pelo programa de pós-graduação em estudos sobre as políticas laborais do Empire State College (Universidade Estadual de Nova York). É autor de The Communist Party and the Auto Workers Union (Indiana University Press, 1980), e co-autor, com Thomas Kenny, de Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union, International Publishers, 1984 (em Portugal: O Socialismo Traído. Por trás do colapso da União Soviética, Edições Avante!, 2008). Escreveu também diversos artigos sobre a História dos Comunistas nos Estados Unidos. Desde 2013, é Professor Emérito no Empire State College."
↑ H. L. Green, review of Class and Culture in Cold war America: A Rainbow at Midnight by George Lipsitz, J. F. Bergin Publishers, 1982, in Oral History Review, 1983: "labor historians of the period like Joshua Freeman, Maurice Isserman, Roger Keeran, and Nelson Lichtenstein"
↑ Profils du personnel de l'Empire State College: Roger Keeran / [...] / B.A., Wayne State University; M.A., Ph.D. (history), University of Wisconsin}.
↑ Roger Keeran, Clete Daniel: A Remembrance, May 17, 2010, in Memory Book for Clete Daniel: In September 1973, Clete and I began our first full-time, tenure track teaching jobs at the ILR School. We were part of a group of six or seven new faculty that started at the same time.
↑ See the review published in Science & Society, Vol. 45, No 2, Summer 1981, p. 234 & seq.: "In this well-documented and superbly written book, Roger Keeran traces the work of Communist Party activists in the automobile industry beginning in the mid-1920s and ending with the decimation of the party's forces in the aftermath of Walter Reuther's victory in the late 1940s" ; or also Wilbur C. Rich's statement, in Coleman Young and Detroit Politics, Wayne State University Press, 1999, p. 69: "perhaps the most comprehensive look at the role played by the party in the early period of the UAW."
↑ Jerry Limbcke, Labor and capital at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century, p. 11-28, in Berch Berberoglu ed., Labor and Capital in the Age of Globalization: The Labor Processes and The Changing Nature of Work in the Global Economy, Rowman and Littelfield, 2002, 221 p.: "Nonconformity with the Cold War code could, in fact, be risky business for academics. When Roger Keeran broke out of that mold and wrote the first scholarly account of the purge of Communists from the United Auto Workers, he lost his job at Cornell."
↑ New York City Graduate Faculty Profiles, op. cit. : Roger Keeran / mentor, Master of Arts in Labor and Policy Studies.
↑ Roger Keeran, Thomas Kenny, Le socialisme trahi et les causes de la chute de l'URSS, Delga, 2012, p. 5 (Préface): "L'un de nous deux est historien spécialiste des États-Unis, et l'autre est économiste du monde du travail."
↑ See (Marxism) Socialism betrayed: A talk by Thomas Kenny given in Dublin, Eire, on 23 September 2005: The book is being translated in China, and has been translated into Persian.
↑ Socialism Betrayed is in Print Again, in Marxism Leninism Today. The Electronic Journal of Marxist-Leninist Thought: "Since 2004, Socialism Betrayed has been translated into a number of languages: Persian, Bulgarian, Russian, Greek, Portuguese, and Turkish. It will soon be published in French. A Spanish-language publisher is being sought."
↑ Review by Peter Symon, The Guardian, June 23, 2004, posted on the website cpa.org.au.
↑ Socialism Betrayed is in Print Again, op. cit. : "The first edition in English sold out largely due to the favorable publicity the book garnered from such reviewers as Mark Almberg of the People's Weekly World. As well, it was favorably reviewed in Britain by Andrew Murray of the Morning Star, in Ireland by the Socialist Voice, in Canada by the People''s Voice and The Spark, in Australia by The Guardian and Australian Marxist Review, and in Germany by Marxistische Blaetter."
↑ In Roger Keeran's own words: One of us (Keeran) has been a member of the Party for thirty years, in Letter written by Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny to the National Board of the Communist Party, on the website of the National Board of the Communist Party, USA, April 18, 2010.
↑ The Editorial Board, on the website of Science and Society: A journal of Marxist thought and analysis, a quarterly journal founded in 1936.
↑ Referred to as "a good summary of the role of Communist Party Activists in the labor movement" by Michael D. Yates in Why Unions Matter, NYU Press, 2009, p. 280).
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