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When Chris Christie Occupies A Territory, He Really Occupies A Territory
The bigger they are, the harder they fail:
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie apologized to casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, a major GOP donor, for referring to the "occupied territories" in a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition.
Christie met with Adelson privately on Saturday afternoon in Adelson's Las Vegas office in the hotel which hosted the RJC meeting, Politico reported, citing an unnamed source.
During his speech on Saturday, Christie spoke of his family's trip to Israel in 2012. "I took a helicopter ride from the occupied territories across and just felt personally how extraordinary that was to understand, the military risk that Israel faces every day," he reportedly said.
Several news outlets reported that the crowd of Jewish Republicans at Christie's speech noticeably gasped at Christie's use of the loaded term.
Politico reported that the unnamed source, which it called "familiar with the conversation," said that Christie made clear "that he misspoke when he referred to the 'occupied territories.' And he conveyed that he is an unwavering friend and committed supporter of Israel, and was sorry for any confusion that came across as a result of the misstatement."
Big Pussy also personally apologized to Adelson for not referring to online gaming as "the Second Holocaust" during his speech.
Ken Houghton said...
"Big Pussy also personally apologized to Adelson for not referring to online gaming as "the Second Holocaust" during his speech."
For those who wonder why Adelson really denied Gregg Stillson funds.
Why am I reminded of the old joke, "we've already established what you are. Now we're just haggling over price."
Still, the mental image of Christie in stiletto heels, fishnet stockings and red miniskirt is, well, umm, disturbing.
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An officer observed a vehicle traveling above the posted speed limit and failing to maintain a single lane of traffic while northbound in the 5400 block of Buffalo Speedway. A traffic stop was conducted and after further investigation, the driver was arrested for Driving While Intoxicated.
At 1:24 a.m., an officer observed a vehicle traveling with no headlights on when required. Two subjects exited the vehicle on foot and started walking in the roadway where sidewalks are provided, then returning to the vehicle. A traffic was conducted on the vehicle in the 5900 block of Buffalo Speedway. After further investigation, two subjects were arrested for Fail to ID Fugitive.
At 1:24 a.m., an officer observed a vehicle traveling with no headlights on when required. A traffic was conducted on the vehicle in the 5900 block of Buffalo Speedway. After further investigation, the driver (Travonte Neville) was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance.
An officer observed a vehicle traveling northbound, above the posted speed limit, in the 6300 block of Buffalo Speedway. A traffic stop was conducted and after further investigation, the driver was arrested for Driving While Intoxicated.
An officer observed a vehicle traveling northbound, above the posted speed limit, in the 6300 block of Buffalo Speedway. A traffic stop was conducted and after further investigation, the driver (Santiago Naranjo) was arrested for Public Intoxication.
At 7:20 a.m., an officer was flagged down in the 6600 block of Mercer, by a resident wanting to report a Burglary of a Motor Vehicle that had already occurred.
An Officer observed a vehicle fail to yield right of way to oncoming traffic and failing to stop at the designated stopping point at a stop sign in the 3000 block of Sunset. A traffic stop was conducted in the 2900 block of Sunset. The driver was cited for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and was released from the scene.
At 8:05 a.m., an officer conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle in the 6800 block of Brompton for expired registration. During the course of the traffic stop, it was learned that the driver had open warrants with the West University Municipal Court, and was arrested for the warrants.
Officers were dispatched to the 2700 block of Bissonnet in regards to a suspicious activity. Upon further investigation, it was discovered a theft had occurred. A report for theft was generated.
An officer was dispatched to 7800 Katy Freeway to meet with Memorial Village P.D. officer to pick up a subject (Tajinae Wells) in custody with outstanding West University Place warrants. The subject was taken into custody and transported to West University Jail.
At 3:28 p.m. an officer was dispatched to 100 Bass Pro Dr. to meet with an Alvin P.D. officer to pick up a subject (Cornell Washington) in custody with outstanding West University Place warrants. The subject was taken into custody and transported to West University Jail for booking.


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Awards and academic recognitions
W. Apoutou N'DJIN received the M. Eng. degree in Instrumentation from the National Graduate School of Engineering & Research Center of Caen (Ensicaen) in 2004, the M.S. degree in image & signal processing from the Centrale Graduate School of Lyon, France, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Lyon, Claude Bernard Lyon I, in 2008. He worked from 2005 at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, INSERM U556, Lyon, on the development of USgHIFU for intraoperative thermal ablations of liver metastases. From 2009, he joined for 3 years the Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI), Imaging Research, Toronto, Canada, as a post-doctoral research fellow to study conformal MRgHICU therapies for endocavitary/interstitial thermal ablations of localized tumors in prostate and brain. Since 2012, he works as a Research Associate at LabTAU, INSERM U1032, Lyon. His research interests include image-guided HIFU for focal/conformal ablative therapies (localized cancers; dysfunctional tissues), novel ultrasound technologies (CMUTs), mechanisms and applications of ultrasound neurostimulation. Dr. N'Djin is involved in translational research from numerical modeling to experimental development of therapeutic and image-guidance strategies.
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2019: Frederic LIZZI Early Career Award of the International Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) at the 19th International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU 2019, Barcelona, Spain), for his contributions in therapeutic ultrasound (https://istu.org/prizes-and-awards/; http://labtau.univ-lyon1.fr/news/frederic-lizzi-early-career-award-apout... https://twitter.com/hashtag/istu2019)
2017 : Best Paper Award at the 16th International Workshop on Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (MUT 2017, Glasgow, United Kingdom) for their work on the in vivo feasibility of high intensity ultrasound generation with CMUTs for interstitial MR-guided brain ablation in the porcine model
2015 – 2016 : Scholarship from the Mitacs Globalink Research Award – Campus France: 9 675$. Scientific exchange for the PhD student Mr. Jérémy VION with the Department of Physics, Ryerson University of Toronto, Canada (Supervion: Drs. W. Apoutou N'DJIN and Jahan TAVAKKOLI).
2015 – 2016 : Post-doctoral Scholarship from the Whitaker international award: 101 000$. Funding of the post-doctoral fellowship of Dr. Christopher BAWIEC (Supervisor: Dr. W. A. N'DJIN). LabTAU (INSERM U556), University Claude Bernard of Lyon, France)
2006 : Co-laureate of the Antonin Poncet Prize (5000€) for their work on HIFU liver treatments in the porcine model under intra-operative approach for the treatment of liver metastases of colorectal cancers (LMCC). Vascular and biliary tolerance.
2005 – 2008 : Doctoral scholarship from the French Ministry of Education: 60 000€. Funding of the PhD student Mr. W. Apoutou N'DJIN. LabTAU (INSERM U556), University Claude Bernard of Lyon, France
Selected publications :
Vion-Bailly J, N'Djin WA, Mauricio Suarez Castellanos I, Mestas JL, Carpentier A & Chapelon JY. A causal study of the phenomenon of ultrasound neurostimulation applied to an in vivo invertebrate nervous model. Scientific Reports 2019; 9: 13738 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50147-7)
N'Djin WA, Gerold B, Vion J, Canney M, Sénégond N, Roy M, Carpentier A, Chapelon JY. Capacitive Micro-machined Ultrasound Transducers for Interstitial High Intensity Ultrasound Therapies. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control 2017; 64(8): 1245-1260 (https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2017.2707663)
N'Djin WA, Burtnyk M, Lipsman N, Bronskill M, Kucharczyk W, Schwartz M, Chopra R. Active MR-temperature feedback control of dynamic interstitial ultrasound therapy in brain: in vivo experiments and modeling in native and coagulated tissues. Medical Physics 2014; 41(9): 093301 (https://doi.org/10.1118/1.4892923)
Chopra R, Colquhoun A, Burtnyk M, N'Djin WA, Kobelevskiy I, Boyes A, Siddiqui K, Foster H, Sugar L, Haider M, Bronskill M, Klotz L. MR imaging-controlled transurethral ultrasound therapy for conformal treatment of prostate tissue: Initial feasibility in humans. Radiology 2012; 265(1):303-313 (https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.12112263)
Melodelima D, N'Djin WA, Parmentier H, Chesnais S, Rivoire M, Chapelon JY. Thermal ablation by high-intensity-focused ultrasound using a toroid transducer increases the coagulated volume. Results of Animal Experiments. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology 2009; 35(3):425-435 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.09.020)
Parmentier H, Melodelima D, N'Djin WA, Chesnais S, Chapelon JY, Rivoire M. High Intensity Focused Ultrasound ablation for the treatment of colorectal liver metastases during an open procedure. Study on the pig. Annals of Surgery 2009; 249(1):129-136 (https://dx.doi.org/10.1097%2FSLA.0b013e31818c70b6)
N'DJIN William Apoutou
Tel. : 04-72-68-19-38
Mail : apoutou.ndjin@inserm.fr


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Fiji: New report reveals systemic human rights violations since April military crackdown
The deteriorating human rights situation in Fiji after the military crackdown which began in April 2009 demands international action, particularly from China, now one of Fiji's biggest foreign donors, Amnesty International said in a report released today (7 September).
Based on Amnesty International's research in Fiji during the crackdown, the report, 'Fiji: Paradise Lost', documents a pattern of government interference in the judiciary, severe censorship of the media and the harassment and arrests of government critics. Repressive tactics used by the interim military government to stifle any protests and intimidate critics include beatings, arbitrary arrests and detention, harassment of human rights defenders, and severe limitations on the rights to freedom of expression, opinion, and association.
Between 10 April and 20 May 2009, the police, military and other government officials arrested approximately 40 people, including journalists. Although all were subsequently released, Amnesty believes the authorities are using short-term arrests and intimidation as a tactic to suppress freedom of expression.
Police arrested 60-year-old politician Iliesa Duvuloco and five other men under sweeping emergency powers laws (the Public Emergency Regulations, passed 10 April) and detained them on 17 April for four days for distributing pamphlets highly critical of the leaders of the interim government. Military officers beat the six men and forced them to undertake military-type drills.
Amnesty International is calling on President Ratu Josefa Iloilo to repeal the Public Emergency Regulations (PER) when he abrogated Fiji's constitution and reappointed Commodore Frank Bainimarama as Prime Minister. The PER gives Fiji's military and security forces absolute control over the country's population; soldiers and police enjoy complete immunity from prosecution for their actions, including serious violations of human rights.
Apolosi Bose, Amnesty International's Pacific Researcher who was in Fiji at the time of the coup said:
"Security forces in Fiji have become increasingly menacing towards people who oppose the regime, including journalists and human rights defenders. Fiji is now caught in a downward spiral of human rights violations and repression. Only concerted international pressure can break this cycle.
"The ongoing harassment and arbitrary detention of journalists, lawyers, clergy, community leaders and critics by the authorities under the broad and sweeping provisions of the PER is a tactic used to suppress any form of dissent."
Amnesty International called on Fiji's international donors and investors to press the government to return to the rule of law. In particular, China, which has massively increased its financial assistance to Fiji since the 2006 coup, should use its influence to resolve the constitutional crisis.
Donna Guest, Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific Deputy Director, said:
"China has long claimed that it doesn't interfere in other countries' affairs, but, in Fiji, China has clearly favoured one side of a long political dispute—and in the process ignored the country's human rights situation."
On 5 December 2006, following a protracted public stand-off between the Laisenia Qarase-led multi party government and the military, the Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) led by Commodore Frank Bainimarama executed a military coup d'etat against Qarase's government.
One of the direct consequences of the military takeover in 2006 was extensive human rights violations by the security forces. Prominent political figures including critics of the military government were arbitrarily detained and subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment by the military. In February 2007, the military admitted to taking more than 1,100 people to the military barracks, who were then beaten, otherwise treated inhumanely and forced to do military type drills such as running and being forced to carry heavy loads.
Fiji's coup culture began in May 1987 when then Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka overthrew the Indian dominated government of the Labour and National Federation Party Coalition. The Rabuka coup and subsequent moves by the interim government set up afterwards saw the rise of ethno-nationalism, culminating in a constitution which preserved political leadership and other constitutional positions for indigenous Fijians only. These changes marginalised the Indian community, descendants of those who had been brought from India by the then British colonial government.
Apolosi Bose, Amnesty International's Pacific Researcher and author of the report, was in Fiji at the time the constitution was abrogated on 10 April. He conducted wide-ranging research and interviewed more than 80 people including representatives of various organisations and members of the public. He and Amnesty International colleagues have continued to monitor the situation closely and to maintain records of human rights abuses in Fiji as they are reported.


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Air Malta and Network Airline Services extend Total Cargo Management Agreement
Mediterranean ObserverSeptember 1, 20213min501
Air Malta and Network Airline Services (NAS) are pleased to announce that they have extended their Total Cargo Management (TCM) Agreement for a further two years.
Whilst NAS has provided a TCM solution to Air Malta over the last few years, it has assisted the airline to vastly expand its cargo business as well as establishing itself in the global air freight marketplace, whilst increasing distribution channels. This has allowed the partnership to build a strong platform for future growth of its cargo business as an important revenue contributor.
Since the TCM agreement began, NAS has secured income for Air Malta month on month, year on year, whilst allowing a better synergy shared between NAS and Air Malta including important functions such as sales, marketing, pricing and revenue management, cargo reservations, revenue accounting, back-office administration, IT systems, cargo handling and interline contracts.
The TCM solution is becoming increasingly popular by several global airlines as it represents opportunities to generate additional cargo revenues from the maximization of aircraft cargo hold capacities. Network Airline Services has proved this solution generates new business opportunities from various sources, whilst Air Malta concentrates on its core business of being a passenger airline.
John Vella, Air Malta's Head of Cargo Sales and Marketing explained, "We are proud to extend our agreement with NAS, as our preferred global cargo General Sales Agent. With over 35 years of air cargo management experience, NAS are strategically positioned, globally, to assist Air Malta with its ever-expanding cargo operation."
Air Malta's vision is to strategically strengthen its position as well as retain a global cargo footprint and presence through NAS' network. Locally, Air Malta has grown their market share and is a leading carrier of choice for cargo in Malta.
John Gilfeather, Sales Director of Network Airline Services added, "We are very proud to be extending the TCM agreement with Air Malta. We are all looking forward to continue working with the Air Malta staff, suppliers and customers to further our relationship with them. Air Malta provides excellent customer service to companies and individuals, sending goods to and from Malta.
"NAS has a proven track record of growing airlines cargo revenues through its global network of offices and IT teams to build a carrier's cargo brand as well as target new revenue streams on their behalf. NAS looks forward to diversifying Air Malta's product range and global coverage even further, the extension of this TCM agreement allows us to do so. We will continue to develop further relationships with other carriers and listen to our customers to gauge how we can further tailor our service around their individual needs."
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HR managers can stem workers' mounting dissatisfaction, but they say they need better tools to do it.
You'd be forgiven for feeling a little burned out from hearing about burnout. For years, experts have been sounding alarms that modern workers are struggling with career-sinking levels of chronic exhaustion and other issues.
So when Charlie DeWitt, vice president of business development at Kronos, a workforce management software company, declares that "employee burnout has reached epidemic proportions," you may think you've heard it all before. But according to new research by Kronos and Future Workplace, burnout really is getting even worse and more widespread, and so are the consequences of it. This time around, there are some surprising reasons why—and a few steps employers can take right away to turn things around.
Kronos and Future Workplace surveyed 614 U.S. human resources professionals at organizations with 100 to over 2,500 employees. The result: 46% of respondents blame burnout for up to half of their staff quitting each year.
The survey also found that the bigger the company, the more likely it is to burn you out. Larger organizations are more likely to have exhausted employees. Fifteen percent of HR leaders at companies with more than 2,500 employees say burnout causes 50% or more annual turnover, as opposed to 10% turnover at smaller firms with less than 500 on staff.
The consequences by now are clear. Burnout, according to this and other surveys, leads first and foremost to lack of engagement (another HR crisis many of us have grown fatigued of hearing about). No wonder that Gallup's most recent survey on the issue found only 33.1% of respondents reporting that they're engaged at work, while a 2015 study by the Marcus Buckingham Company, a management consultancy, found only 19% of U.S. employees saying they're involved, enthusiastic, and committed to their jobs.
Nowhere has this so-called (forgive me for this one) epidemic of burnout been clearer than in health care. Fast Company previously reported on the results of a survey of nearly 9,000 registered nurses, more than one-third of whom said they wanted to quit their jobs. The nurses listed a variety of reasons, including not enough time spent with patients, inadequate pay, long hours, an unmanageable workload, not enough staff, and lack of support from management. This prompted Marcia Faller, RN, PhD, chief clinical officer at AMN Healthcare, to tell us at the time, "The harm to the health care industry goes beyond the numbers. The loss of this intellectual asset may be acutely felt in terms of quality of care and patient satisfaction."
Faller's assessment could apply just as well to any employer, no matter the industry. All those bad feelings—whether workers feel taken for granted or overworked and underpaid, or any combination of similar grievances—certainly back up findings from yet another recent study, by Oregon State, in which the majority (52.1%) of people who quit their jobs burn bridges in the process—by walking out without notice, trying to harm the company, or some other display of ill will.
The Kronos/Future Workplace survey found that while burnout due to too much work and too little pay is a problem, those are not the only contributing factors. There are some others that HR professionals can control, without having to pump more money into everyone's paychecks.
Among them: poor management, employees seeing no clear connection of their role to corporate strategy, and a negative workplace culture. Fast Company recently reported that corporate culture and values are becoming ever more important, both in terms of making a workplace inspiring and how much it resonates based on how much a person earns.
In both instances, culture can make or break retention efforts—especially if a company's core value (explicitly or otherwise) is rewarding working long hours or being on call all the time.
In a 2015 survey of nearly 9,700 full-time workers by the professional services firm EY, some 50% of managers worldwide reported working over 40 hours per week, and four in 10 say the hours they put on the clock have increased in the last five years. And managers with kids at home may be faring worse: Those who are full-time working parents (41%) have seen their hours increase more in the last five years than those who don't have children (37%).
"Advances in technology are keeping employees working around the clock without additional pay incentives, causing them to burn out and quit their jobs," Dan Schawbel, research director of Future Workplace, tells Fast Company. "Leaders need to start having conversations around work flexibility with their employees or will otherwise have to suffer high attrition rates as a consequence."
But not all technology is contributing to burnout, according to the Kronos/Future Workplace survey. Nineteen percent of HR professionals believe their current work is suffering from a lack of automation. More specifically, they reported their current technology requires them to tackle repetitive administrative tasks manually. That takes away time from coming up with ways to fix bigger issues like retention.
The good news is that artificial intelligence and automation are already at work in this arena, almost exclusively in recruiting and hiring. We're only now seeing startups taking on more daily challenges. The question now is whether the pressure that technologies take off of human workers will be passed onto the workers themselves.
On that question, some are optimistic. Glassdoor's chief economist Andrew Chamberlain believes that 2017 will be the year human resources transforms itself into "people science," in part by tapping into workforce data and analytics. Chamberlain says that metrics tracking every stage of an employee's progression through a company, from onboarding through training and promotions, can prove to be major assets in accomplishing this makeover.
The additional challenge the Kronos/Future Workplace survey uncovered was the lack of budget to spend on automated tools to make HR professionals' jobs easier, or to spend on programs to boost engagement and retention. This includes the 16% of respondents who cite lack of funding as the primary obstacle for retention efforts over the next 12 months, and the 27% who say limited resources are holding back much-needed HR-related tech efforts.
But even if budgets don't suddenly balloon in 2017, allowing AI-powered solutions to take work off employees' (and HR managers') plates, a little extra investment may go a long way. In his report on future workplace trends, Chamberlain argues, "There are many low-hanging fruits today for better data science in HR," and they don't cost much.
This article was written by Lydia Dishman from Fast Company.


Blimey! It doesn't seem five minutes since we were trundling up the M1 on the way to the start of our spring getaway and now we're back here in Sunny (thankfully) Saltdean.
The first school bus run of the term couldn't have gone more smoothly – I suspect not all schools are back yet – and no overtime has allowed me to get stuck into the washing and ironing. And more importantly bring you the last blog of our trip away and our final stop, in Nottinghamshire.
The tow from Kilnsea was easier than expected. Fears that the A63 might have been at a standstill as it was when we went into Hull were unfounded. So, as usual we arrived at our final site early. Reception was closed for lunch but we didn't have long to wait before we were pitching up.
Thornton's Holt sits about five miles east of Nottingham and we chose it mainly because of the proximity of a bus stop which would make for easy access to the city. A new shower block was under construction and given our experience it can't come quick enough, given the frequent lack of hot water in the showers. Once set up we pointed Rosie in the direction of the nearest supermarket thinking that it was about time we started having some meals in the 'van again. The fact that the nearby pub was closed for redevelopment had no bearing on this whatsoever….
The city centre was the destination for a rather casual wander on Tuesday via the excellent bus service from the site. Sports fans will be interested to know that the journey takes you past Trent Bridge cricket ground and close to both Nottingham's Football clubs – Forest and County – too.
There was no itinerary or plan, just a walk around to get a feel for the place – we have been before, a couple of years ago – and I didn't even bother with the proper camera this time. To be honest I was not feeling inspired – which was weird after really loving it last time we visited. Nothing much had changed so it must have been me. The day wasn't improved by deciding on lunch in Wetherspoons. Don't get me wrong – I'm a fan of cheep beer and love that they champion real ale. I just wish they'd train their staff to serve people in order, but when the Duty Manager can't do it properly. Oh well.
We were back in the car Wednesday to an attraction listed in the site leaflet. Wollaton Hall and Park is a short drive from the site although on the other side of the city and is really worth a look, not least because, bar a couple of quid for parking, it's free.
Whilst the grounds are impressive, inside the hall itself is interesting too. Since 1926, when the hall opened to the public, the city's Natural History collection has been housed here.
There's a café to replenish reserves although on a nice day, bring some chairs and a picnic and make the most of the lovely surroundings. You might get to see some of the deer that roam the park too.
Nottingham's Industrial Museum is also here – housed in the stables but opening hours are more limited and sadly we didn't get to have a look but it was still a great place to visit.
On a week's holiday I never get out of the habit of waking at silly o'clock, but on longer ones such as this, the body does start to adjust and longer lie in's become the norm. So it was nearly lunchtime when we arrived In Melton Mowbray – about a 40 minute drive from the site.
We had the usual wander around town. The impressive St Mary's church was undergoing extensive restoration both inside and out but at least some of the exterior was scaffolding free. Elsewhere in the town there were signs that times were not so good – closed up hotels and shop units up for let.
The gardens and river Wye provided some more lens clicking opportunities though.
If there is one thing Melton is famous for is pork pies, and one shop that was certainly doing ok was the butchers. We came away with a pie and some of their sausages and I can tell you now – the sausages were divine and I've not tasted a better pork pie. Delicious.
Good Friday saw us back in Nottingham and catching up at last with friends Chris & Pat who we hadn't seen for far too long. 'Lunch' lasted most of the afternoon, so needless to say there was some extensive er, 'research' carried out too. We had a great chinwag and catch up, trying – and clearly failing by the looks of it – to put the world to rights. Oh well, another time!
Friends and food were on the menu again (sorry!) on Saturday as we had been invited to lunch with Peter & Pam up near Sheffield. An hours drive but if you've ever get to taste Pam's cooking you'll know it was worth it. Beautiful melt in the mouth roast lamb followed by home made cheesecake. I even got to take home what was left of the cheesecake. It didn't last long!
And that was it for another trip. A nice early start on Easter Sunday and a trouble free trundle home. The Easter getaway is always my favourite and this one didn't disappoint. Longer days, better weather – usually, but the pollen levels haven't risen sufficiently enough to try and make the lives of us hay fever sufferers a misery.
Right, what's next? Cambridgeshire and Suffolk for the next half-term, then the continent beckons in the summer. Exciting times ahead!
Thanks, as always, for reading. I hope you enjoyed it.


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The Laughing Monsters
Author: Denis Johnson
Eleven years since my last visit and the Freetown airport still a shambles, one of those places where they wheel a staircase to the side of the plane and you step from European climate control immediately into the steam heat of West Africa. The shuttle to the terminal wasn't bad, but not air-conditioned.
Inside the building, the usual throng of fools. I studied the shining black faces, but I didn't see Michael's.
The PA spoke. Only the vowels came through. I called over the heads of the queue at the desk—"Did I hear a page for Mr. Nair?"
"No, sir. No," the man called back.
"Mr. Nair?"
"Nothing for such a name."
A man in a dark suit and necktie said, "Welcome, Mr. Naylor, to Sierra Leone," and helped me through the mess and chatted with me all through customs, which didn't take long, because I'm all carry-on. He helped me outside to a clean white car, a Honda Prelude. "And for me," he said, with a queasy-looking smile, "two hundred dollars." I gave him a couple of one-euro coins. "But, sir," he said, "it's not enough today, sir," and I told him to shut up.
The driver of the Honda wanted in the area of a million dollars. I said, "Spensy mohnee!" and his face fell when he saw I knew some Krio. We reached an arrangement in the dozens. He couldn't go any lower because his heart was broken, he told me, by the criminal cost of fuel.
At the ferry there was trouble—a woman with a fruit cart, policemen in sky-blue uniforms throwing her goods into the bay while she screamed as if they were drowning her children. It took three cops to drag her aside as our car thumped over the gangway. I got out and went to the rail to catch the wet breeze. On the shore the uniforms crossed their arms over their chests. One of them kicked over the woman's cart, now empty. Back and forth she marched, screaming. The scene grew smaller and smaller as the ferry pulled out into the bay, and I crossed the deck to watch Freetown coming at us, a mass of buildings, many of them crumbling, and all around them a multitude of shadows and muddy rags trudging God knows where, hunched forward over their empty bellies.
At the Freetown dock I recognized a man, a skinny old Euro named Horst, standing beside a hired car with his hand shading his eyes against the sunset, taking note of the new arrivals. As our vehicle passed him I slumped in my seat and turned my face away. After we'd passed, I kept an eye on him. He got back in his car without taking on any riders.
Horst … His first name was something like Cosmo but not Cosmo. Leo, Rollo. I couldn't remember.
I directed Emil, my driver, to the Papa Leone, as far as I knew the only place to go for steady electric power and a swimming pool. As we pulled under the hotel's awning another car came at us, swerved, recovered, sped past with a sign in its window—SPLENDID DRIVING SCHOOL. This resembled commerce, but I wasn't feeling the New Africa. I locked eyes with a young girl loitering right across the street, selling herself. Poor and dirty, and very pretty. And very young. I asked Emil how many kids he had. He said there were ten, but six of them died.
Emil tried to change my mind about the hotel, saying the place had become "very demoted." But inside the electric lights burned, and the spacious lobby smelled clean, or poisonous, depending on your opinion of certain chemicals, and everything looked fine. I'd heard the rebels had shot it out with the authorities in the hallways, but that had been a decade before, just after I'd run away, and I could see they'd patched it all up.
The clerk checked me in without a reservation, and then surprised me:
"Mr. Nair, a message."
Not from Michael—from the management, in purple ink, welcoming me to "the solution to all your problems," and crafted in a very fine hand. It was addressed "To Whom It May Concern." Clipped to it was a slip of paper, instructions for getting online. The desk clerk said the internet was down but not always. Maybe tonight.
I had a Nokia phone, and I assumed I could get a local SIM card somewhere, but—the clerk said—not at this hotel. For the moment, I was pretty well cut off.
Good enough. I didn't feel ready for Michael Adriko. He was probably here at the Papa in a room right above my head, but for all I knew he hadn't come back to the African continent and he wouldn't, he'd only lured me here in one of his incomprehensible efforts to be funny.
The room was small and held that same aroma saying, "All that you fear, we have killed." The bed was all right. On the nightstand, on a saucer, a white candle stood beside a red-and-blue box of matches.
I'd flown down from Amsterdam through London Heathrow. I'd lost only an hour and I felt no jet lag, only the need of a little repair. I splashed my face and hung a few things and took my computer gear, in its yellow canvas carrier-kit, downstairs to the poolside.
On the way I stopped to make an arrangement with the barman about a double whiskey. Then at a poolside table in an environment of artful plants and rocks, I ordered a sandwich and another drink.
A woman alone a couple of tables away pressed her hands together and bowed her face toward her fingertips and smiled. I greeted her:
"How d'body?"
"D'body no well," she said. "D'body need you."
I cracked my laptop and lit the screen. "Not tonight."
She didn't look in the least like a whore. She was probably just some woman who'd stopped in here to ease her feet and might as well seize a chance to sell her flesh. Right by the pool, meanwhile, a dance ensemble and percussionist had all found their spots, and the patrons got quiet. Suddenly I could smell the sea. The night sky was black, not a star visible. A crazy drumming started up.
Off-line, I wrote to Tina:
I'm at the Papa Leone Hotel in Freetown. No sign of our old friend Michael.
I'm at the poolside restaurant at night, where there's an African dance group, I think they're from the Kissi Chiefdom (they look like street people), doing a number that involves falling down, lighting things on fire, and banging on wild conga drums. Now one guy's sort of raping a pile of burning sticks with his clothes on and people at nearby tables are throwing money. Now he's rolling all around beside the swimming pool, embracing this sheaf of burning sticks, rolling over and over with it against his chest. It's a bunch of kindling about half his size, all ablaze. I'm only looking for food and drink, I had no idea we'd be entertained by a masochistic pyromaniac. Good Lord, Dear Baby Girl, I'm at an African hotel watching a guy in flames, and I'm a little drunk because I think in West Africa it's best always to be just a tiny bit that way, and the world is soft, and the night is soft, and I'm watching a guy
Across the large patio, Horst appeared and threaded himself toward me through the fire and haze. He was a tanned, dapper white-haired white man in a fishing vest with a thousand pockets and usually, I now remembered, tan walking shoes with white shoelaces, but I couldn't tell at the moment.
"Roland! It's you! I like the beard."
"C'est moi," I admitted.
"Did you see me at the quay? I saw you!" He sat down. "The beard gives you gravitas."
We bought each other a round. I told the barman, "You're quick," and tipped him a couple of euros. "The staff are efficient enough. Who says this place has gone downhill?"
"It's no longer a Sofitel."
"Who owns it?"
"The president, or one of his close companions."
"What's wrong with it?"
He pointed at my machine. "You won't get online."
I raised my glass to him. "So Horst is still coming around."
"I'm still a regular. About six months per year. But this time I've been kept home almost one full year, since last November. Eleven months."
The entertainment got too loud. I adjusted my screen and put my fingers on the keyboard. Rude of me. But I hadn't asked him to sit down.
"My wife is quite ill," he said, and he paused one second, and added, "terminal," with a sort of pride.
Meanwhile, two meters off, by the pool, the performer had set his shirt and pants on fire.
To Tina:
I saw a couple of US soldiers in weird uniforms at the desk when I checked in. This place is the only one in town that has electricity at night. It costs $145 a day to stay here.
Hey—the beard's coming off. It's no camouflage at all. I've already been recognized.
With the drumming and the whooping, who could talk? Still, Horst wouldn't let me off. He'd bought a couple of rounds, discussed his wife's disease … Time for questions. Beginning with Michael.
"What? Sorry. What?"
"I said to you: Michael is here."
"Michael who?"
"Michael Adriko?"
"Have you seen him? Where?"
"He's about."
"About where? Shit. Look. Horst. In a land of rumors, how many more do we need?"
"I haven't seen him personally."
"What would Michael be here for?"
"Diamonds. It's that simple."
"Diamonds aren't so simple anymore."
"Okay, but we're not after simplicity, Roland. We're after adventure. It's good for the soul and the mind and the bank balance."
"Diamonds are too risky these days."
"You want to smuggle heroin? The drugs racket is terrible. It destroys the youth of a nation. And it's too cheap. A kilo of heroin nets you six thousand dollars US. A kilo of diamonds makes you a king."
To Tina I wrote: Show's over now. Everyone appears uninjured. The whole area smells like gasoline.
"What do you think?" Horst said.
"What I think is, Horst—I think they'll snitch you. They'll sell you diamonds and then they'll snitch you, you know that, because around here it's nothing but snitches."
Maybe he took my point, because he stopped his stuff while I wrote to Tina:
I'm getting drunk with this asshole who used to be undercover Interpol. He looks far too old now to get paid for anything, but he still sounds like a cop. He calls me Roland like a cop.
At any point I might have asked his first name. Elmo?
Horst gave up, and we just drank. "Israel," he told me, "has six nuclear-tipped missiles raised from the silos and pointing at Iran. Sometime during the next US election period—boom-boom Teheran. And then it's tit for tat, that's the Muslim way, my friend. Radiation all around."
"They were saying that years ago."
"You don't want to go home. Within ten years it will be just like here, a bunch of rubble. But our rubble here isn't radioactive. But you won't believe me until you check it with a Geiger counter." The whiskey had washed away his European manner. He was a white-haired, red-faced, jolly elfin cannibal.
In the lobby we shook hands and said good night. "Of course they'd like to snitch you," he said. He stood on his toes to get close to my left ear and whisper: "That's why you don't go back the way you came."
Later I lay in the dark holding my pocket radio against the very same ear, listening with the other for any sound of the hotel's generator starting. A headache attacked me. I struck a stinky match, lit the candle, opened the window. The batting of insects against the screen got so insistent I had to blow out the flame. The BBC reported that a big storm with 120-kilometer-per-hour winds had torn through the American states of Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio, and three million homes had suffered an interruption in the flow of their electricity.
Here at the Papa Leone, the power came up. The television worked. CCTV, the Chinese cable network, broadcasting in English. I went back to the radio.
The phones in Freetown emit that English ring-ring! ring-ring! The caller speaks from the bottom of a well:
"Internet working!"
Working!—always a bit of a thrill. My machine lay beside me on the bed. I played with the buttons, added a PS to Tina:
I drew cash on the travel account—5K US. Credit cards still aren't trusted. Exchange rate in 02 was 250 leones per euro, and the largest bill was 100 leones. You had to carry your cash in a shopping bag, and some used shoeboxes. Now they want dollars. They'll settle for euros. They hate their own money.
I sent my e-mails, and then waited, and then lost the internet connection.
The BBC show was World Have Your Say, and the subject was boring.
The walls ceased humming and all went black as the building's generator powered down, but not before I had a short reply from Tina:
Don't go back the way you came.
Suddenly I had it. Bruno. Bruno Horst.
Around three that morning I woke and dressed in slacks, shirt, and slippers, and followed my Nokia's flashlight down eight flights to the flickering lobby. Nobody around. While I stood in the candle glow among large shadows, the lights came on and the doors to both elevators opened and closed, opened and closed once more.
I found the night man asleep behind the desk and sent him out to find the girl I'd seen earlier. I watched while he crossed the street to where she slept on the warm tarmac. He looked one way, then the other, and waited, and finally nudged her with his toe.
I took an elevator upstairs, and in a few minutes he brought her up to my room and left her.
"You're welcome to use the shower," I said, and her face looked blank.
Fifteen years old, Ivoirian, not a word of English, spoke only French. Born in the bush, a navel the size of a walnut, tied by some aunt or older sister in a hut of twigs and mud.
She took a shower and came to me naked and wet.
I was glad she didn't know English. I could say whatever I wanted to her, and I did. Terrible things. All the things you can't say. Afterward I took her downstairs and got her a taxi, as if she had somewhere to go. I shut the car's door for her and heard the old driver saying even before he put it in gear: "You are a bad woman, you are a whore and a disgrace…" but she couldn't understand any of it.
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Adriko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune and...
Adriko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune and who claims to have served, at various times, the Ghanaian army, the Kuwaiti Emiri Guard, and the American Green Berets. He's probably broke now, but he remains, at thirty-six, as stirred by his own doubtful schemes as he was a decade ago.
Although Nair believes some kind of money-making plan lies at the back of it all, Adriko's stated reason for inviting his friend to Freetown is for Nair to meet Adriko's fiancée, a college girl named Davidia from Colorado. Together the three set out to visit Adriko's clan in the Uganda-Congo borderland-but each of these travelers is keeping secrets from the others. Their journey through a land abandoned by the future leads Adriko, Nair, and Davidia to meet themselves not in a new light, but rather in a new darkness.
A high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world, Denis Johnson's The Laughing Monsters shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game.
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Time to replace Grandpa's Oldsmobile and Arizona's school finance formula
Iranian militants held American embassy staff hostage for the entire year. The United States boycotted the Olympics. Ronald Reagan became the 40th President of the United States in the November election. These were some of the memorable events of 1980.
The youth of America were still a year away from hearing the phrase "I want my MTV," and the Oldsmobile Cutlass was the nation's best-selling automobile. This was also the last time Arizona policymakers substantially updated the K-12 finance formula.
The time has come to modernize the formula again.
Arizona educators have accomplished a great deal under the 1980 formula. The K-12 student population has grown from less than 500,000 in 1980 to more than 1.2 million in 2020. During the past 40 years, our state has simultaneously improved the quality of the education system and quantity of high performing schools.
But similar to the Oldsmobile Cutlass, however, Arizona's school finance system has become increasingly antiquated. By enrolling in different public schools, an Arizona student can generate wildly different K-12 funding amounts. The same student could change public schools in Arizona but receive only a fraction of the public funding his or her previous school received. It is time for Arizona policymakers to finish the job of equalizing education funding.
Formula Served an Important Purpose at the Time: Advancing Equity
Arizona largely equalized school funding in 1980 by mandating an equal level of local property taxes in every school district and creating a single operational formula built around weights for individual student needs. Previously, both tax rates and operational spending levels were discretionary and differed significantly based on the wealth of the local school district. Arizona was one of many states compelled by court actions to reform their finance formulas to ensure the learning opportunities for poor students were not shortchanged by virtue of their zip code.
Inequities Crept Back In After 1980
The 1980 effort went a long way toward equalization, but because it kept open multiple avenues for local jurisdictions to add to their school budgets through additional primary and secondary tax levies, inequities in district resources have persisted and grown over time.
Article 2, Section 13 of the Arizona Constitution states: "No law shall be enacted granting to any citizen, class of citizens, or corporation other than municipal, privileges or immunities which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens or corporations." Despite this provision and the 1980 reforms, today the best funded Arizona district generates six times as much revenue per pupil as the lowest funded district. With no automatic or mandatory review of the formula required of the state Legislature, these inequities have continued to grow. This state of affairs does not adhere to the constitutional principle of equal privileges and immunities.
Formula Was Created for a Different System
The 1980 formula revisions sought to replace local discretion for school taxing and spending with a state equalized effort centered on individual students. It was a massive, two-year effort and disrupted a great deal of tradition and ease of practice for wealthier school districts but resulted in an outcome closer to the "general and uniform" requirements of the state constitution.
However, that formula was created to serve a school system where the vast majority of students attended the local school assigned to them. Students today are far more mobile, and public- school enrollment relies far more on attracting students than simple proximity.
In 1994, the Arizona Legislature enacted two policies that have greatly accelerated the move away from assigned schools: the creation of public charters schools and an open enrollment system.
Public charter schools do not operate with any particular jurisdiction; in effect, their "local district" is the state of Arizona. Public charter schools are unable to levy local property taxes; their public funding for maintenance, operations, and capital comes exclusively from the state. Arizona's Joint Legislative Budget Committee calculated that the average charter student in Arizona received $1,273 less than the average district student in total public funding.
Arizona lawmakers also required districts to pass an open enrollment policy, enabling students to attend the public school of their choice within or outside of their assigned school district, tuition free.
Today, Arizona charter schools serve approximately 20% of public-school students and have taken the lead in accommodating state enrollment growth. Attendance in "out of boundary" public schools, however, is the most common form of school choice, with district schools both gaining and losing students through open enrollment. A study of public-school enrollment in Maricopa County found that open enrollment students outnumber charter students nearly two to one.
The combination of district open enrollment, charter enrollment and private/homeschooling has resulted in a majority of students attending schools other than their zoned district school. As the percentage of students attending the school in their assigned district declines, the justification for local tax support versus statewide tax support erodes.
After nearly 30 years, charter schools are an integral part of Arizona's public-school system and their funding should be integrated into the overall school finance formula.
Arizona policymakers should consider the successful practice of other states in funding students with special needs, such as those with disabilities and English Learners, to reflect the level of services required rather than an arbitrary amount of funding associated with a diagnosis. Weights relating to schools, such as additional funding for rural communities and rewards for academic success should be incorporated into the funding formula and provided to schools on a neutral formulaic basis.
Outmoded Formula Creates Inequities for Taxpayers, Too
Zip codes no longer determine a child's public school but still heavily influence the level of resources their school receives.
In the past, both homeowners and local businesses were taxed to support the education of students in their neighborhoods. Now, they increasingly find themselves being taxed to pay for the education of students attending schools elsewhere, or who are receiving their education online. Place-based taxes for mobile students have made less and less sense over time.
For example, the formula for school transportation only applies to students who attend district schools. This means Arizona households pay school transportation taxes, but many students, including the majority of students in Maricopa County, receive no benefit from it.
Arizona school buses still largely transport children within their zoned attendance boundary as they did in 1993. Families using other public-school options must currently fend for themselves. Governor Doug Ducey's Executive Budget proposal recognizes the importance of this long-neglected equity issue by providing transportation assistance to district open enrollment students and charter students.
Similarly, the disconnect between school district construction bonding and student attendance patterns has contributed to a glut of underutilized space in many districts — even while excellent district and charter schools with high parental demand and waitlists remain starved for facilities. This effectively stunts the growth of our most-in-demand schools and leaves many waitlisted students shut out of their first-choice school.
Modernization Essential to Improve Equity
A school finance system suited to Arizona's needs would collect all school taxes and distribute them on an equitable, per-student basis according to a single statewide formula. The tax obligation for education should be shared equitably among taxpayers, and revenues should be allocated to the public school that students attend, rather than to a local taxing authority. Inequities for taxpayers and schools alike would be minimized by replacing district bonds and override elections with a system of increased state funding. Districts carrying facility debt should retain a local tax for the purpose of retiring preexisting debt during a transition period.
With individual success tied to greater levels of attainment, the state's economic future is tied to education. Arizona's fundamental interest in educating its children does not vary by which public school they attend.
We cannot expect Arizona to be competitive today using the 1980s playbook. The time has come to address funding inequities squarely and to modernize Arizona's outdated funding formula for the needs of the 21st Century.
Public funding systems for public education should arise from statewide support and be focused directly on students. Arizona made a strong start in this direction in 1980, charting a pathway followed by many states thereafter. What was once a visionary formula has gone the way of the 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass. We can – we must – set a new and better standard in student funding once again.
Dr. Matthew Ladner is the director of the Arizona Center for Student Opportunity
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Welcome back. In this lesson, I'll provide a quick review of Snowflake pricing, making sure that you understand where and how cost is incurred, and how it is paid for through the use of Snowflake credits. Let's begin. For starters, Snowflake builds you on a monthly cycle, with bills being generated towards the end of each month. There are three main types of costs associated with running a Snowflake account. They are data storage, virtual warehouses or compute time, and cloud services, the running time associated with the cloud services layer. Regardless of how cost is incurred, it's important to know and acknowledge that Snowflake's architecture has been purposely designed in a way that works for you to reduce and minimize expenditure.
A quick example of this is the auto suspend feature on virtual warehouses which automatically kicks in when an activity is detected. Beyond the three main types of cost highlighted here, there are other residual types of cost, such as those involved with data transfer and all costs attributed to, say, the serverless features of Snowflake, for example, automatic clustering and/or Snowpipe, and/or database replication. Having just said that, the majority of costs that you incur will still likely be due to the three main cost types discussed earlier. I'll now review these individually in more detail.
Drilling into virtual warehouses, when a virtual warehouse is running, it does so at a cost to the account owner. Billing is measured in seconds with a default 62nd billing period for any launch or resumed launch. To minimize the amount of compute costs associated with running a virtual warehouse, ensure to set up auto suspend policies to kick in when idle time is detected. The exact rate at which you are billed is set in credits per hour and is dependent on the size of the virtual warehouse. Snowflake provides a range of predetermined virtual warehouse sizes, starting with the x small and going all the way up to the largest, the 6x large, currently only available on AWS. Each successive size of a virtual warehouse is a doubling in terms of its compute power and cost. Credits are nothing more than a unit of virtual measure used to pay for the consumption of resources within Snowflake, including compute resources associated with running a virtual warehouse.
Now, when it comes to purchasing Snowflake credits, the actual real dollar cost in doing so, again, depends on the specifics of your Snowflake account, such as the cloud provider and region it is deployed within and which Snowflake version you're actually running. Choices being standard, enterprise, or business-critical. To give you an idea of how the USD dollar cost per credit fluctuates, consider the following two scenarios. Scenario 1, Snowflake deployed and AWS in the US East region. The USD cost is $2 per credit for the standard edition, $3 per credit for enterprise, and $4 per credit for business-critical. Scenario 2, Snowflake deployed in Asia and the Australia East region. The USD cost is $2.75 per credit for the standard edition, $4.05 per credit for enterprise, and $5.50 per credit for business-critical. With this in mind, you should carefully consider which version of Snowflake you require and the cloud provider in region you provision your Snowflake account into.
When it comes to data storage costs, Snowflake uses a simple pricing model charged monthly based on the average amount of compressed data stored each day in your Snowflake account. Pricing is then set at a flat rate per terabyte. The exact flat rate per terabyte that you pay is dependent on the characteristics of your Snowflake account such as the cloud provider platform you are running it within in the region it is deployed to. Additional to this, there are two storage billing options you can choose from. Option one, you pay on demand. Here you pay for the usage incurred month-to-month at the end of each month. Option two, you pay for capacity storage; that is, you pay for an expected usage upfront.
The capacity storage option is basically a commitment plan and therefore will be at a discounted or cheaper rate. For example, consider the following two Snowflake storage scenarios. The first scenario involves a Snowflake account hosted within AWS in the US West Oregon region. For this scenario, the cost for on demand storage is set at $40 USD per terabyte per month. For capacity storage, it is set at $23 USD per terabyte per month. The second scenario involves a Snowflake account hosted within Asia and the Australia East Sydney region. For this scenario, the cost for on demand storage is set at $46 USD per terabyte per month, and for capacity storage, it is set at $25 USD per terabyte per month.
The cloud services layer is also a contributor to cost. You are only charged for usage of this layer when your daily consumption of cloud services exceeds 10% of the daily usage of the compute resources. Snowflake runs a daily charge job in the background to calculate and determine accurately how much cost is added to the monthly bill for the usage of the cloud services layer on any given day. When it comes to billing and reporting, as earlier mentioned, Snowflake bills monthly towards the end of the month.
Snowflake's web admin console provides detailed billing and reporting features allowing you to easily understand where and how cost is being generated. Reporting can be performed across a particular time period and for a particular named virtual warehouse etc. Reporting can be broken down for a particular time period and for a particular named virtual warehouse. Likewise, for storage, you can report on the amount of storage cost attributed to data in particular database tables. Storage cost reporting can also be aggregated and viewed either in daily or monthly form.
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Comparison of pressure distribution on a cubical model in boundary layer and tornado-like flow fields
A. R. Mishra, D. L. James, C. W. Letchford
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A Ward type tornado vortex simulator has been modified to simulate the flow inside a tornado-like vortex. The wind velocity was measured inside the simulator and the tangential velocity decay was found to be very similar to a Modified Combined Rankine Vortex. Surface pressure measurements were obtained from the floor of the simulator. A cubical model, 30 mm side, was introduced into the tornado-like vortex and pressure coefficients were estimated at different faces of the cube at three locations within the simulator. The cube was also subjected to similar velocity magnitude and angle of attacks in the atmospheric boundary layer wind tunnel. The importance of using tornado simulators to estimate wind loading on buildings and structures was highlighted by the fact that the cube experienced rapidly changing complex wind loading as compared to the cube placed inside the wind tunnel.
10th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering, ACWE 2005 - Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Duration: May 31 2005 → Jun 4 2005
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05/31/05 → 06/4/05
Modified combine rankine vortex
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Tornado simulator
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Mishra, A. R., James, D. L., & Letchford, C. W. (2005). Comparison of pressure distribution on a cubical model in boundary layer and tornado-like flow fields. Paper presented at 10th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering, ACWE 2005, Baton Rouge, LA, United States.
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abstract = "A Ward type tornado vortex simulator has been modified to simulate the flow inside a tornado-like vortex. The wind velocity was measured inside the simulator and the tangential velocity decay was found to be very similar to a Modified Combined Rankine Vortex. Surface pressure measurements were obtained from the floor of the simulator. A cubical model, 30 mm side, was introduced into the tornado-like vortex and pressure coefficients were estimated at different faces of the cube at three locations within the simulator. The cube was also subjected to similar velocity magnitude and angle of attacks in the atmospheric boundary layer wind tunnel. The importance of using tornado simulators to estimate wind loading on buildings and structures was highlighted by the fact that the cube experienced rapidly changing complex wind loading as compared to the cube placed inside the wind tunnel.",
keywords = "Modified combine rankine vortex, Pressure coefficient, Tornado simulator, Wind loading",
author = "Mishra, {A. R.} and James, {D. L.} and Letchford, {C. W.}",
note = "Copyright: Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.; null ; Conference date: 31-05-2005 Through 04-06-2005",
Mishra, AR, James, DL & Letchford, CW 2005, 'Comparison of pressure distribution on a cubical model in boundary layer and tornado-like flow fields', Paper presented at 10th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering, ACWE 2005, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, 05/31/05 - 06/4/05.
Comparison of pressure distribution on a cubical model in boundary layer and tornado-like flow fields. / Mishra, A. R.; James, D. L.; Letchford, C. W.
2005. Paper presented at 10th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering, ACWE 2005, Baton Rouge, LA, United States.
T1 - Comparison of pressure distribution on a cubical model in boundary layer and tornado-like flow fields
AU - Mishra, A. R.
AU - James, D. L.
AU - Letchford, C. W.
N2 - A Ward type tornado vortex simulator has been modified to simulate the flow inside a tornado-like vortex. The wind velocity was measured inside the simulator and the tangential velocity decay was found to be very similar to a Modified Combined Rankine Vortex. Surface pressure measurements were obtained from the floor of the simulator. A cubical model, 30 mm side, was introduced into the tornado-like vortex and pressure coefficients were estimated at different faces of the cube at three locations within the simulator. The cube was also subjected to similar velocity magnitude and angle of attacks in the atmospheric boundary layer wind tunnel. The importance of using tornado simulators to estimate wind loading on buildings and structures was highlighted by the fact that the cube experienced rapidly changing complex wind loading as compared to the cube placed inside the wind tunnel.
AB - A Ward type tornado vortex simulator has been modified to simulate the flow inside a tornado-like vortex. The wind velocity was measured inside the simulator and the tangential velocity decay was found to be very similar to a Modified Combined Rankine Vortex. Surface pressure measurements were obtained from the floor of the simulator. A cubical model, 30 mm side, was introduced into the tornado-like vortex and pressure coefficients were estimated at different faces of the cube at three locations within the simulator. The cube was also subjected to similar velocity magnitude and angle of attacks in the atmospheric boundary layer wind tunnel. The importance of using tornado simulators to estimate wind loading on buildings and structures was highlighted by the fact that the cube experienced rapidly changing complex wind loading as compared to the cube placed inside the wind tunnel.
KW - Modified combine rankine vortex
KW - Pressure coefficient
KW - Tornado simulator
KW - Wind loading
Y2 - 31 May 2005 through 4 June 2005
Mishra AR, James DL, Letchford CW. Comparison of pressure distribution on a cubical model in boundary layer and tornado-like flow fields. 2005. Paper presented at 10th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering, ACWE 2005, Baton Rouge, LA, United States.