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Thor: Ragnarok / Justice League / Crisis on Earth-X
Posted on November 30, 2017 December 1, 2017 by DJ Doena
I'm currently on a vacation at home – or as it called now: staycation – and on Monday I had lunch at one of my favourite Italian restaurants (Actually, it's an Italian deli that also serves warm food and it's soo good!). Upon driving home in the early afternoon I thought to myself: what a wonderful world what now to do with the rest of the afternoon. And it just so happened that I drove past a local movie theatre. So at 3 in the afternoon on a Monday I decided to check out what was playing (I had a decent enough idea going in though). And what have you: At 3.15 an airing of Thor: Ragnarok. And at 6.00 an airing of Justice League. Quick calculation: Is Thor done when JL starts? Probably. OK, so both tickets were bought. Both movies were in German dubbing because watching O-Ton as we call it would have required a bit more planning (not every theatre shows them and only on specific times).
At the Thor airing we were three people in the theatre. A mom with her kid and I. Which is not suprising considering it was the afternoon of a regular workday in week 4 of the movie. Justice League at 6pm was also only watched by six people (including myself) in week 2 at a bit more accessible time.
Then two days later I had also caught up with the episodes of Supergirl, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow to watch the big crossover event (Arrow being the fourth show to cross). And so I watched Crisis on Earth-X.
And here's what I thought about all of them:
Plot: Thor's long-lost sister Hella comes back and wants to destroy Asgard. Thor gets banished to an intergalactice waste disposal and has to find his way back.
I liked the first Thor movie. I don't remember much about the second one. But nor do I remember much about the second and third Iron Man movies. To be honest, I don't remember much about any MCU movie that doesn't have Loki in it, except maybe for the Norton Hulk movie.
That's one of the issues of the Marvel movies. They are great fun while you watch them (and that's where and how they make their money) but they are not for the ages. They're like a good rollercoaster ride. You remember the thrill but you don't remember the details.
The same will be true for Ragnarok. The villain was once again pretty forgettable and to be perfectly honest not really needed at all for the movie. Because the best parts of the movie took place on the waste planet. Especially all the interactions with Jeff Goldblum's Grandmaster (Gamemaster? Whatever.).
I did have a problem with the jokes. Not any one in particular, most of them were at least amusing. More with the frequency of them. Sometimes this felt like it tried to be a laugh-track comedy were every sentence had to have a punchline. IMHO, that was a bit too much. In this regard I loved the more sporadic approach of the first movie where he'd just randomly smash his glass after he'd emptied it, praising the brew within.
As for CGI, Marvel has this part down. Although I could have sworn that the Hulk looked different than before, even a bit smaller. This nagged at me for a bit. Also, I noticed that for the sake of the plot the pathway to the Bifröst was changed, especially what's supposed to be – or not be – under it.
I loved that Thor wised up for once and predicted Loki's inevitable betrayal. When I saw that scene, the opening scene of Firefly sprung to my mind:
When I saw Karl Urban, I just thought: You're in this, too? Considering how small his part was, it was astounding – or depressing depending on the point of view – how much more developed his character was in comparison to Hella's. And at least he had a part to play in comparison to the disposal of the Warriors Three.
All in all it was once again an enjoyable ride but again no deeper meaning to be gained from it.
Plot: Steppenwolf was once defeated by the united tribes of Earth and has now returned to turn Earth into a Hell-like planet. For this he needs to collect three motherboxes that are hidden. Batman assembles a team and resurrects Superman to stop him.
Out of the DCEU I've only watched Man of Steel so far. I skipped both Batman v Superman as well as Suicide Squad even though I own both on Blu-ray. I just couldn't bring myself to watch them – yet.
I did not like MoS that much. It had a very confusing message transported by both of Clark's fathers: Never reveal yourself but you will be the beacon to shine the way to the future! What now: Never reveal yourself or be a beacon. These are fundamental opposites.
But moving on. Here's where the Justice League gets a head start: I've known these characters for a while. Having grown up behind the Iron Curtain, I did not read US comics as a child. And while we did watch western television in the 80s in Germany that meant public broadcasting. They did air stuff like The Fall Guy and Riptide but not much beyond that. And then at the end of the 80s private broadcasting started as well as the Wall coming down. In the early 90s while being a young teen I was then exposed to the 60s Batman series, the Superboy series and the 1990's The Flash. Marvel series like the X-Men also aired on Saturday mornings but then I rather watched Rawhide. Then came 1993's Lois & Clark and almost a decade later Smallville.
I do love the first two X-Men and the first two Spider-Man movies (Which coincidentally along with Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are about the only superhero movies I can watch over and over again. Not even Deadpool gets that privilege.), but deep down I just know the DC characters better because I've followed them for years on the small screen.
That being said: I liked Justice League. From their Smallville outings I even knew who Cyborg and Aquaman were going in. So, to me, any failing to properly introduce these characters went right over my head and I did not notice them. Not watching BvS probably helped in the regard that I never saw what actually happened after Clark's outing. Here he was already dead and apparently beloved. From what I read this clashes with what actually happened, but since I didn't see that: Yay for me!
What I did notice was that the villain (which I had not heard of or can't remember ever seing) was about as forgettable as his counterpart just two hours before. Evil does evil things because Evil is evil. Bleh. There was nothing remarkable about this guy or his minions and the "parts of an artefact are separated and hidden all over the world" as a story has been done to death. It's even so done to death that in Doctor Who the Master was actually expecting it and Martha and the Doctor could play him because he was expecting it. But at least this time the collecting of the MacGuffins was done by the villain and it was rather quickly over.
Here's what else I noticed and didn't notice: I didn't actually notice Affleck's weight fluctuations due to the re-shoots. I did notice the digital removal of Cavill's beard which especially in the flashback photo-op scene looked like this:
In one of the early scenes when Batman is interrogating the parademon the background skyline looks totally computer generated. I also noticed that parts were filmed in Chicago, as this particular building was visible which was already there in Lois & Clark's Metropolis days:
The final battle was once again a CGI slaugherfest that did not stand out in any direction and did not get me emotionally invested at all. This too, has become par for the course of superhero movies and something I'm going to mention in the Crisis review below.
However, what did bother me about this battle was the rescue of the family from the Not-Chernobyl-Site. The Justice League diverted on third of their resources to rescue one family. Here's the problem: If this diversion of manpower had resulted in their defeat, their rescue would have meant zilch. The family just would have died ten minutes later. I know it's a superhero staple to recue everyone and their dog. But when your primary objective is to protect your one player (Cyborg) so he can prevent the destruction of the world, it is a really stupid idea to send 40% of the protection squad including your "main tank" to do some side quest. This only worked out because the script said so, not because it was reasonable.
BTW: The plot. Bad guy is defeated by an unlikely alliance in a distant past and an item that brings him power is hidden for generations. Now a new alliance must be forget. That does sound a bit Fellowship-y, does it not?
But all in all, as I said in the beginning, I enjoyed it for what it was. What would a pure Zach Snyder cut look like? Don't know, don't care.
Crisis on Earth-X
This is the first true crossover between all four The CW shows. Last year Supergirl had just changed channels from CBS to The CW and their episode only served as an entry point to the crossover. This year they used something they've hinted at in the (back then) cross-station crossover when The CW's Barry visited CBS's Kara: An Earth where the Nazis rule.
The multiverse has existed for the long time in the DC universe to explain when certain stories didn't fit into the narrative of previous stories. The title also reflects the real-world clean-up of these storytelling messes, which were named Crisis on Infinite Earths and Infinite Crisis.
Plot: On Earth-X (aptly named: Erde-X) the roles are reversed. Heroes are villains and vice versa. Evil-Arrow and Evil-Supergirl come to Earth-1 to steal Earth-38's Supergirl's heart because Evil-Supergirl is dying. They also bring an army of Nazi soldiers.
It was OK. It wasn't great. It wasn't bad either. I'm just not sure why the Xers selected Earth-1 which does not naturally have a Supergirl (not one that has gone public that is). Luck?
The battles were all like old-school Command & Conquer: Red Alert tank rushes. Throw everything that you have at the enemy and wait how it turns out. You just get numb after a while.
The most emotional moment that I had was during Steins death. I actually did not see it coming until the firefight in the hangar. Then it dawned on me. I knew that Victor Garber wanted to leave for Broadway and his departure was prepared for within Legends of Tomorrow. But somehow I was still surprised that they went with the Retirony trope.
But they also should have ended the episodes with his funeral. The West-Allen wedding felt tacked on and even more so did the Olicity wedding. I've stopped following Arrow mid-season 3 so I don't know what's going on there but it just felt like a weird thing to do.
However what this scene did bring to the forefront was this: A story so concerned with Nazis and everyone expressing how they hate Nazis it was kind of weird that a good chunk of the black characters only had cameos: James Olsen of Erde-X was killed in the beginning. The "real" James did not make an appearance. Joe and Wally West disappeared after the failed wedding and John Diggle was just there to vomit once more and ordain the two impromptu weddings. So in the end the world was defended by good white people against evil white people.
And now back to our regularly scheduled programming after the holidays.
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Wow what a month it's been! As you all New York Fashion Week just passed. It was amazing! Check out all the photos here to see what happened at the Boy Meets Girl® show from bts to the runway to the red carpet and all the incredible press coverage! Also stay tuned because in the next few weeks I will be giving my FULL NYFW recap(from What I wore and much more)!
Today, I wanted to talk about "de-stressing". I'm constantly on the go and working a mile a minute and to say that my life is stressful at times is an understatement. So when times get particularly crazy I have a few go to things that I do to get through the stressful times. Check them out below!
I love love love watching documentaries even when I'm not stressed (see here)! I find it so interesting to learn about other people's lives and how they came to be where they are today. Two of my favorites that I recently watched are Katy Perry and Justin Bieber's. I also watched the Beyonce documentary and liked it a lot but recommend seeing Katy's and Bieber's first :) I took my nice to Katy Perry's and I think I enjoyed it more then her lol!
2. Reading Biographies and Autobiographies!
Just like I mentioned above I find it fascinating to learn about other designers and/or artists and musicians and how they got to be where they are today. My latest Biography I read was on one of my favorite designers Coco Channel(see past post here) and Autobiography was Purpose by my friend Wyclef Jean.
3. Working out(Yoga/Pilates/Soul Cycle/Core Fusion/Physique57)!
This is when you can really release all that stress. You might not have the best voice but it doesn't matter when you sing Karaoke!


With Louis Vuitton comes images of embossed leather luggage, monogramming, a recent (successful) Jacobs to Nicholas torch passing, and its notorious status of having the world's most copied bag in the Chinese faux-luxury goods market. Yet a remarkable few know that within the impressive Louis Vuitton headquarters perched along the Champs Elysées in Paris, is a contemporary art space featuring an ever changing flow of internationally renowned artists.
It is known as L'Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton. While Louis Vuitton holds an eminent place in the history of fashion and luxury goods, it also occupies a notable position of influence within the art world, and even more so as a patron of spoken knowledge through its fostering of the fading art of intellectual discussion.
"Cosmic Lodge": Inspired by the sweat lodges of the Inipi tribe and their ritual divided into four symbolic doors. The ritual is an initial step to communicating with the spirit world. The forms on the glass are shadows of intertwined bodies.
In conjunction with the ebb and flow of the exhibitions, L'Espace Culturel hosts bi-weekly "conversations" for its invited members. These conversations take place around a large oval table, and essentially occur between two individuals while the rest of the attendees listen in. It is a meeting of two brilliant minds from disparate fields. The conversation unfolds, morphs, and expands, and by the end, has fueled everyone in attendance with such an energy of reflection and questioning that the apéritif reception that follows is saturated with ripples of the discussion which preceded.
The first time I was invited to attend, the conversation took place between a hair stylist John Nollet and astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau. And what transpired was nothing short of a thought provoking philisophical discussion which cleverly wove together the mystifying beauty of the unknown with the relation to the Self as conveyed through one's hair style.
This week's discussion centered on the invisible and passed between the minds of Charley Case, one of the artists on exhibition, and Stéphane Allix, founder of l'Institut de Recherche sur les Expériences Extraordinaires (INREES, a research institute devoted to the study of strange human experiences, such as near death encounters and communicating with the spirit world.
Although he understood his brother was dead, lost, Stéphane describes not being able to shake off the feeling that there was somehow still a connection, one which is invisible to the eye. He describes having visited shamanist tribes throughout the world and having experimented with peyote in ritual ceremonies. About a quarter of the way through Stéphane's one sided conversation, Charley Case, his other half, showed up, and the discussion quickly turned to a recounting of their different, increasingly intense, drug trips that took place deep in the amazon rainforest, including Charley's experience of having licked the back of a psychoactive toad, whose trip-inducing back secretion is considered one of the must powerful in the world.
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Guide wavelength and their relationship with
Wavelength in waveguide is different from wavelength in free space. Relation between cutoff frequency and guide wavelength: The. corresponding wavelength, called the guide wavelength, is denoted by λg. =2π/β . The precise relationship between ω and β depends on the type of waveguide. The frequency may then the read from the dial of the meter. For dominated mode TE 10 mode rectangular wave guide the following relation is in use:1/ λ 0 2= 1/.
If we combine Eqs. I that phase velocities greater than light are possible, because it is just the nodes of the wave which are moving and not energy or information. The group velocity of the waves is also the speed at which energy is transported along the guide. If we want to find the energy flow down the guide, we can get it from the energy density times the group velocity. There is also some energy associated with the magnetic field. The driving stub can be connected to a signal generator via a coaxial cable, and the pickup probe can be connected by a similar cable to a detector.
It is usually convenient to insert the pickup probe via a long thin slot in the guide, as shown in Fig.
Then the probe can be moved back and forth along the guide to sample the fields at various positions. A waveguide with a driving stub and a pickup probe. These will be the only waves present if the guide is infinitely long, which can effectively be arranged by terminating the guide with a carefully designed absorber in such a way that there are no reflections from the far end. Then, since the detector measures the time average of the fields near the probe, it will pick up a signal which is independent of the position along the guide; its output will be proportional to the power being transmitted.
If now the far end of the guide is finished off in some way that produces a reflected wave—as an extreme example, if we closed it off with a metal plate—there will be a reflected wave in addition to the original forward wave.
Then, as the pickup probe is moved along the line, the detector reading will rise and fall periodically, showing a maximum in the fields at each loop of the standing wave and a minimum at each node. This gives a convenient way of measuring the guide wavelength.
Then the detector output will decrease gradually as the pickup probe is moved down the guide. If the frequency is set somewhat lower, the field strength will fall rapidly, following the curve of Fig. Although high frequencies can be transmitted along a coaxial cable, a waveguide is better for transmitting large amounts of power.
First, the maximum power that can be transmitted along a line is limited by the breakdown of the insulation solid or gas between the conductors. For a given amount of power, the field strengths in a guide are usually less than they are in a coaxial cable, so higher powers can be transmitted before breakdown occurs.
Second, the power losses in the coaxial cable are usually greater than in a waveguide. In a coaxial cable there must be insulating material to support the central conductor, and there is an energy loss in this material—particularly at high frequencies.
13E41A0442 Guide Wavelength Phase Velocity and Group Velocity
Also, the current densities on the central conductor are quite high, and since the losses go as the square of the current density, the lower currents that appear on the walls of the guide result in lower energy losses.
To keep these losses to a minimum, the inner surfaces of the guide are often plated with a material of high conductivity, such as silver. Sections of waveguide connected with flanges. For instance, two sections of waveguide are usually connected together by means of flanges, as can be seen in Fig.
Such connections can, however, cause serious energy losses, because the surface currents must flow across the joint, which may have a relatively high resistance. One way to avoid such losses is to make the flanges as shown in the cross section drawn in Fig.
A small space is left between the adjacent sections of the guide, and a groove is cut in the face of one of the flanges to make a small cavity of the type shown in Fig. The dimensions are chosen so that this cavity is resonant at the frequency being used. A low-loss connection between two sections of waveguide. Then you must put something at the end that imitates an infinite length of guide.
Then the guide will act as though it went on forever. Such terminations are made by putting inside the guide some wedges of resistance material carefully designed to absorb the wave energy while generating almost no reflected waves.
Waveguide Mathematics
You can see qualitatively from the sketches in Fig. Suppose you want to know which way the waves are going in a particular section of guide—you might be wondering, for instance, whether or not there is a strong reflected wave. The unidirectional coupler takes out a small fraction of the power of a guide if there is a wave going one way, but none if the wave is going the other way.
Each of the holes acts like a little antenna that produces a wave in the secondary guide. If there were only one hole, waves would be sent in both directions and would be the same no matter which way the wave was going in the primary guide. We found that the waves subtract in one direction and add in the opposite direction. The same thing will happen here. This end is equipped with a termination, so that this wave is absorbed and there is no wave at the output of the coupler.
There are many more. So such fields are called transverse magnetic TM modes. For a rectangular guide, all the other modes have a higher cutoff frequency than the simple TE mode we have described.
It is, therefore, possible—and usual—to use a guide with a frequency just above the cutoff for this lowest mode but below the cutoff frequency for all the others, so that just the one mode is propagated.
Otherwise, the behavior gets complicated and difficult to control.
We can do this for the rectangular guide by analyzing the fields in terms of reflections—or images—in the walls of the guide. In the absence of the guide walls such a wire would radiate cylindrical waves. Now we consider that the guide walls are perfect conductors. Then, just as in electrostatics, the conditions at the surface will be correct if we add to the field of the wire the field of one or more suitable image wires. The image idea works just as well for electrodynamics as it does for electrostatics, provided, of course, that we also include the retardations.
We know that is true because we have often seen a mirror producing an image of a light source. The walls can be replaced by the infinite sequence of image sources. We call the direction of the current in the wire positive. It is, in fact just what you would see if you looked at a wire placed halfway between two parallel mirrors. For the fields to be zero at the walls, the polarity of the currents in the images must alternate from one image to the next. The waveguide field is, then, just the superposition of the fields of such an infinite set of line sources.
We know that if we are close to the sources, the field is very much like the static fields. Here the average source strength is zero, because the sign alternates from one source to the next.
Any fields which exist should fall off exponentially with distance. Close to the source, we see the field mainly of the nearest source; at large distances, many sources contribute and their average effect is zero. So now we see why the waveguide below cutoff frequency gives an exponentially decreasing field. At low frequencies, in particular, the static approximation is good, and it predicts a rapid attenuation of the fields with distance. Now we are faced with the opposite question: Why are waves propagated at all?
That is the mysterious part! The reason is that at high frequencies the retardation of the fields can introduce additional changes in phase which can cause the fields of the out-of-phase sources to add instead of cancelling. We'll let you do the math on this multiply lower cutoff frequency by two Thus for WR, the cutoff is 6.
Remember, at the lower cutoff the guide simply stops working. See our page on waveguide loss for more information. Guide wavelength Guide wavelength is defined as the distance between two equal phase planes along the waveguide. The guide wavelength is a function of operating wavelength or frequency and the lower cutoff wavelength, and is always longer than the wavelength would be in free-space.
Here's the equation for guide wavelength: Guide wavelength is used when you design distributed structures in waveguide. The guide wavelength in waveguide is longer than wavelength in free space. This isn't intuitive, it seems like the dielectric constant in waveguide must be less than unity for this to happen Here is a way to imagine why this is The waves are coming in at an angle to the beach New for December !
We now have a video of waves breaking sideways that illustrates phase velocity.
Hopefully soon we will figure out how to embed it on this page for your enjoyment and education, stay tuned! The content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player. Phase velocity and group velocity Phase velocity is an almost useless piece of information you'll find in waveguide mathematics; here you multiply frequency times guide wavelength, and come up with a number that exceeds the speed of light! Be assured that the energy in your wave is not exceeding the speed of light, because it travels at what is called the group velocity of the waveguide: The group velocity is always less than the speed of light, we like to think of that this is because the EM wave is ping-ponging back and forth as it travels down the guide.
Group velocity in a waveguide is speed at which EM energy travels in the guide.
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With Machu Picchu closed to tourists Peru's GDP suffers
Peru's government will help repair the privately owned rail line that takes tourists to the Machu Picchu ruins in a bid to limit economic losses for the country that could reach $800 million.
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The government is providing manpower to help rehabilitate the flood-damaged tracks, which may not be operating normally for seven to eight weeks, Deputy Transport Minister Hjalmar Marangunich said. Ferrocarril Transandino SA, a unit of Orient Express Hotels Ltd., manages the rail line to Machu Picchu.
The decrease in tourism could cost Peru's economy as much as $800 million, equivalent to 0.63 percent of gross domestic product, according to Jose Marsano, a researcher at the Lima- based Tourism Observatory of Peru. The government is looking at ways to use more helicopters to ferry tourists to the site until the rail line reopens, Marangunich said in an interview.
"Machu Picchu is central to the regional economy so we have made the railway repairs a priority," Marangunich said from Lima.
The Inca hiking trail about 7,700 feet above sea level, closed after torrential rains trigged landslides last month, will be reopened when the weather improves, he said. The trail serves as the second major access point to the ruins.
About 4,000 tourists were evacuated by helicopter from Machu Picchu last week after the longest period of heavy rain in 20 years in Peru's southern Andes triggered landslides. An Argentine tourist and her Peruvian guide were killed Jan. 26 after a landslide on the Inca trail.
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"[As an entrepreneur] you have to be out there every day pounding the pavement, finding the new customers, figuring out what you can do to increase your sales, and also always looking at what's next," says Debra Raviv, Co-Owner of Toasted, LLC.
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Innovation Destination Hartford Website Curator Nan Price and MetroHartford Alliance Director of Economic Development John Shemo enjoyed meeting the team and touring Broad Brook Brewing Company in East Windsor, CT.
Broad Brook Co-Founders Eric Mance (left) and Tom Rossing (right) with Sales/Promotion Coordinator Jackie Lanagan (center).
Co-Founders Tom Rossing and Eric Mance shared some of the challenges it takes to get a brewery up and running and Sales/Promotion Coordinator Jackie Lanagan discussed some of the ways Broad Brook Brewing is giving back to the community.
PRICE: Whose idea was it to open a brewery?
ROSSING: The whole thing started at my house in Broad Brook, CT, which is how we came up with the name. I was brewing and Joe Dealba (who is now a Partner/Brewer) started helping out a little bit. Eric joined in and he and I started experimenting with more recipes.
Eventually, we started entering competitions because we wanted to see how good our beer was. We started winning ribbons all over the country. At that point, we realized our beer was good enough for the market, Eric started putting together a business plan, and here we are.
PRICE: What was your mission at the outset?
ROSSING:From the beginning, our basic goal was to put out good-quality, drinkable beer. We wanted to make beer styles people would like and something for everybody.
PRICE: Eric, Tom, do either of you have any business background?
ROSSING: I worked construction. I had my own roofing company. I worked for myself for a lot of years and so did Eric. So it wasn't like we didn't know what it takes to run a business.
MANCE: Right. I grew up in a small business environment. My family owns a printing business in Massachusetts. I started my own network consulting business in 2000, which I still operate.
LANAGAN: I love that about them—they were homebrewers with backgrounds in construction, printing, and computers. They had never dealt with the bars, restaurants, package stores. And they're doing awesome.
PRICE: Let's talk about the timeline. According to your website, in July 2011 you set a goal to open a brewery. When did you actually open?
Broad Brook Brewing Company has a 240-member mug club—which sold out right away.
ROSSING: We opened in October 2013. But, it was actually July 4, 2011 when we really got going. We stopped competitions at that time because we already knew the beer was good. Then we started getting involved with the CT Beer Trail and doing tastings. By doing the tastings, people were able to meet us and try the beer. It was also great marketing.
PRICE:But at this point, you weren't actually a full-fledged brewery, correct?
ROSSING: Correct. We spent two years marketing ourselves by making beer, going out and presenting it to people at all these different tastings. We marketed ourselves as homebrewers—we couldn't sell a drop.
MANCE: We were trying to build a brand and a name before we could even legally sell anything. So we would brew beer on the weekends and then we would find places we could serve it to the public as homebrewers. We kept getting better and better reactions from people, which helped solidify the business concept.
ROSSING: But we also hit the ground running.
MANCE: The day we opened we had a following. People were waiting for us to open because they already knew about the beer.
PRICE: Let's talk about the business growth and reach. Are you only distributing in Connecticut?
ROSSING: We're distributing in the entire state of Connecticut and western Massachusetts.
PRICE: And what are your future plans? Do you plan to distribute further?
ROSSING: Yes, we plan on going further east into Massachusetts and probably north into Vermont.
MANCE: We probably have to grow into another facility because we're running out of space.
ROSSING: We're maxing out at this facility. We've been swapping 15-barrel for 30-barrel tanks. You have to meet your demand. Going out of stock is never a good thing. If your product keeps going out of stock you'll lose your tap lines. The stores don't like it and neither do the customers.
We're meeting our goals, as far as our growth, which went faster than we anticipated. We're keeping up and we want to continue to keep up so we don't run out of stock.
PRICE: When you talk about your goals, clearly you sat down and had a business plan with milestones you wanted to reach.
MANCE: Yes. And we are exceeding those—far exceeding those.
LANAGAN: And like Eric said, right now we're looking at southern Vermont and eastern Massachusetts. We'll choose a couple of events, see how we do there, and test the market that way.
PRICE: Speaking of marketing, you're obviously still going to events. Are you still doing tastings?
LANAGAN: Absolutely. We're at package stores, festivals, events, beer dinners. We also rely on social media.
PRICE: You also get the word out through a lot of charity events.
LANAGAN: A lot of the events we do are nonprofit. I would say 70% of the events that we do outside of the building are charity-related. We give to the MS Society, Boys and Girls Club, Wounded Warriors, and Five Corner Cupboard, to name a few.
We're also involved with the Thread City Hop Fest, which is organized by Willimantic Brewery. The annual event features more than 40 local brewers and proceeds benefit local charities.
PRICE: We talked a little bit about supply and demand as being a challenge. What other challenges have you encountered as a startup and do you have any advice for those who are starting out?
MANCE: Good luck!
ROSSING: It seems nowadays everybody thinks that it's the goose that laid the golden egg. They'll do the social media but really they need to get out and meet people too. It's not as easy as it all seems.
And you should probably test market your product so you know what you need to do or what you need to improve on before you actually open your brewery.
SHEMO: Any challenges around distribution?
LANAGAN: We have five different distributors, so with each area there are different challenges. Every area has different styles of beer they are looking for and there are different types of people, so you have to adjust according to the area you're distributing to.
SHEMO: Who distributes for you in Western Massachusetts?
LANAGAN: It's commercial distribution.
SHEMO: Is distributing out of state an additional challenge?
LANAGAN: It's different. There are different laws.
MANCE: There's more paperwork and additional licensing.
ROSSING: The biggest thing isn't if you have a good product or you have a good taproom or you have good bottling, that's not it, but the distribution is. It's a whole different beast.
LANAGAN: We're lucky, they chose great distributors for each area. They're all working pretty well for us.
SHEMO: How about availability of hops? How does that work for you?
ROSSING: You've got to guess and you've got to plan ahead. As a new brewery, that's a difficult thing. If you're homebrewing you have availability to all the different hops. Once you start getting to this level, you need contracts and then there's spot buying. You've got to plan years ahead and figure out what you might need. Then if the supplies you want aren't available, you have to change your recipe and figure out how you're going to cross-reference things to make things work based on what you can actually get.
SHEMO: So this is a big deal?
ROSSING: Oh, it is a big deal.
MANCE: There's a lot of variation year-to-year with the yield and the quality of the hops themselves. So there are those challenges as well.
ROSSING: So basically if you're going to do it, do your homework.
MANCE: Yes, just prepare as much as possible.
ROSSING: What's that expression? Double your timeframe and triple your budget. It's a whole big adventure.
MANCE: But once you're there and everything is going well, it's worth it.
PRICE: Do you feel like that messy part is kind of behind you now, two years in?
ROSSING: Absolutely. We're stable. We know what's going on. We know the process now too if we have to get something approved.
When you're starting out, you really have to be ready. You have to be very proactive, on top of everything, and willing to sacrifice a lot of time and effort. Just like any other startup.
And reinvest your capital. If you see money coming and you just keep taking it, you're never going to grow. That's a mistake a lot of people make in the beginning. Capital improvement is huge, especially in the very beginning.
This business is recession-proof. When times are good people drink; when times are bad they drink some more. Craft beer is growing and increasing its growth percentages every year. It's a good thing, people like it, and I think it's here to stay.
PRICE: There's definitely a demand for it.
LANAGAN: In the meantime, they're helping local businesses around them too. A lot of the work they've done in the tasting room is from local people.
MANCE: It's a small business mentality: I'll help you, you help me, and we all help each other. We'll help the community too, as we go down that road.
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Red Hat Code Sleuths Uncover Mysterious Bug in Registry Service
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2 Oct 2020 12:24pm, by Alex Handy
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After updating to OpenShift 4.3.19, Quay.io experienced intermittent service interruptions. The team quickly rolled back to 4.3.18, restoring service and steadying the waters, but everyone involved was now taking part in a murder mystery.
You've heard stories, but if you're lucky, you've never experienced it. The bug is below you. It's above you. It's in the walls. It's listening to us right now.
Troubleshooting and debugging are time-honored traditions of the methodical and systematic elimination of possibilities. But what happens if you cannot rule out a portion of the stack because your team does not have deep knowledge of it? Or worse yet, what if one of the layers of your stack is closed source software?
What if, horror of horrors, your stack is entirely open source and the bug is down in one of those layers? In Kubernetes? In Linux? Can your teams even begin to comprehend tracking down that type of bug? Can they even eliminate it as a possibility without reading hundreds of pages of code and documentation?
Growing to 10-Digit Scale
Red Hat's Quay.io is a very large hosted service. There's been a lot of news recently about the business of hosting container images at scale for enterprise cloud users, and Quay.io has quietly been performing that function since 2013 and growing steadily. In the month of August 2020 alone, Quay.io served 1 billion container pulls and had 100% uptime.
Back in 2014, when Quay.io was acquired by CoreOS, a decision was made to build an App Registry into the service. This predated the modern methods of cloud native artifact bundling that we use today in Kubernetes, with solutions like OCI, but the functionality was nonetheless included into Quay's codebase. Because this feature wasn't what most users adopted Quay.io to do, it wasn't highly used and so it didn't get a lot of engineering scrutiny.
App Registry is a lesser-known feature of quay.io that allows objects like Helm charts and containers with rich metadata to be stored. While most quay.io customers don't use this feature, Red Hat OpenShift is a large user. The OperatorHub within OpenShift uses App Registry to host all of its Operators.
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Every OpenShift 4 cluster uses Operators from the embedded OperatorHub to serve a catalog of available Operators, to install and provide updates to already installed Operators. As OpenShift 4 adoption has increased, so has the number of clusters globally. Each one of those clusters needs to download Operator content to run the embedded OperatorHub, using the App Registry inside quay.io as a backend.
The Outage
Fast forward to this summer and Quay.io is processing over one billion image requests per month, a rate of over 1.5 million per hour. It's a large scale data distribution and retention service depended upon by enterprises around the globe. It's also hosted on Red Hat OpenShift, an open hybrid cloud platform for container-based IT teams around the world.
After updating to OpenShift 4.3.19 from OpenShift 4.3.18, Quay.io's database froze and the service stopped working, resulting in services that were intermittently disrupted. During these periods, users experienced a range of outcomes, including slow container image access times and inability to retrieve container images. The team quickly rolled back to 4.3.18, restoring service and steadying the waters, but everyone involved was now taking part in a murder mystery as their very own Inspector Lynley.
But the culprit has already been mentioned: the app registry. Turns out it had become the way internal teams at Red Hat were building Kubernetes Operators. The code behind app registry had never been pushed to work at this scale, and thus, the entire system suffered because of it.
We're not here to discuss the end results: they're almost boring compared to the giant bug hunt which ensued, and which shows just how CSI-style procedural such a search can get when Red Hat is involved.
Instead, we're here to discuss that bug hunt. The twists and turns, the insane breadth of possibilities, and the methods used to track it down. The ensuing weeks after the crash saw Red Hat employees working on Quay, OpenShift, the Linux Kernel, and all manner of other systems, attempt to eliminate possibilities and identify the exact culprit.
William Dettelback is an engineering manager on the Quay engineering team. When it came to the Quay.io outage, the first thing he saw was the Red Hat SRE team, run by Jay Ferrandini and Jonathan Beakley, isolate the changes that had taken place between the service functioning properly and its newly degraded state.
Dettelback says it's important to have this type of monitoring and performance measurement in place to start; otherwise, when things go sideways, you cannot actually tell. Without a baseline of system behavior, pinpointing when exactly the problem started is nigh impossible.
A Mile Wide, an Inch Deep
Fortunately, the number of changes across the systems involved were minimal. Unfortunately, they went deep. The OpenShift 4.3.18 to OpenShift 4.3.19 upgrade included not only OpenShift updates, but also some updates to the fundamental Linux systems and kernel used to power containers.
That's because the OpenShift platform is not just some PaaS, or some framework, or even simply some implementation of Kubernetes. Instead, it is a harmonizing of thousands of open source projects, from the very bottom at the Linux kernel all the way up to the support for serverless applications running on top with Knative. Red Hat engineers have first-hand expertise across the entire open source stack.
In OpenShift 4, the Linux operating system is delivered as a feature of the platform through Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS. Each instance of this OS is provisioned and updated by Kubernetes itself, using the Kubernetes declarative API machine controllers as part of the OpenShift installer. The entire stack embraces the concepts of fully immutable infrastructure.
Red Hat engineers were able to quickly narrow down what had changed in the kernel to just a few networking packages. It turned out, those were only a few commits worth of changes, but Bill said the team was able to learn this fact in a day — rather than spending their time researching the vagaries of the Linux kernel.
Stephen Cuppett, director of engineering for Red Hat OpenShift said that the Quay team, the OpenShift teams, and the Linux teams all tried to root out possible causes, narrowing the problem space as quickly as possible. But that wasn't as easy as it sounded, as the problem only manifested at tremendous scale, making replication difficult in the lab.
Compounding matters, the Telemeter service, remote debugging data stream, had been experiencing network-based outages after the 4.3.18 to 4.3.19 update, so both the Quay.io and Telemeter teams were initially convinced that they were tracking down the same bug.
"As a macro-level service failure," said Dettelback, "there were a lot of avenues to chase down. We had application things to chase down, infrastructure things to chase down, we had OpenShift things, then the RHEL side of things for this. We knew we had a small number of deltas we were dealing with. After quite a bit of investigation, we figured out that the telemeter issues were networking related, but [it was] not the same issue Quay saw."
This is when proper logging of performance metrics became important. When the outage occurred, the clusters' performance metrics were captured and saved using a synthetic benchmark test against a smaller version of Quay in the staging environment. Since the bug was nearly impossible to reproduce in the lab, this data would be a lifeline to figuring out the cause. The team couldn't simply spin the updated version of Quay.io back up and wait for it to fail again, as that would interrupt services for users who had built critical systems based on Quay.
Thus, the data from the initial issue conditions was critical to troubleshooting. Said Dettelback, "We found Quay on OpenShift 4.3.18 versus 4.3.19 behaved very differently at that breaking point. That was the clue. We knew 4.3.19 wasn't the smoking gun, but it was the thing we were concerned about. It didn't explain why we went down, but we knew when we had to do the upgrade, [that] we had to be careful."
At first, the backup system was suspected as the cause, as the database had been running backup calls prior to the outage. That turned out not to be the case, however, closing entire avenues of possibility in the process, narrowing the list of suspects.
Unfortunately, the initial list of suspects was as long as one in an Agatha Christie novel. Cuppett said "We have different teams at all levels of the stacks, so none of my folks had to investigate all of them. It could have been a very protracted path. It's complicated, this crosses skills boundaries. From Web services on Quay in Python, to Kubernetes in Go, to the Linux Kernel in C, and then there's networking… These are all different teams that have multiple engineers at Red Hat."
That means, said Cuppett, "We had gone wide across the different layers with multiple teams. That way, when one team found conclusive evidence, other teams could quickly abandon other costly and deep paths of investigation. And there were plenty of wrong roads to choose from, so narrowing it down across the many teams helped to prevent any one team from wasting their time, or blocking the other investigations. "
In the end, the problem stemmed from the increased demand on the App Registry in Quay, a new feature that had never been tested at that scale, and was experiencing unexpected increased usage from development teams over time. That underlying App Registry code has since been optimized and the teams using those features are also being accommodated in other ways, reducing demand.
Said Dettelback, "The correct solution was multiple factors: it wasn't one thing that took down Quay.io, it was a lot of traffic on a fairly vulnerable portion of Quay's codebase that wasn't designed to take the load it was taking. At a technical level, DNS resolution was slower on 4.3.19, but the way we determined that was that the team was able to build a reproducer in Python."
The Abyss, Avoided
This could have been an endless dive into every avenue of possible issues. While the idea of possibly coming up against a bug that's in the Linux kernel might sound like being knighted as a new open source warrior, is that really what your developers should be spending their time on if they've never touched the kernel before? This is the expertise of Red Hat engineers, and their work on issues like this is one of the advantages of Red Hat support. And if your teams really do encounter a kernel bug and want to take on the challenge of fixing it, we'll help them do just that. We love bringing new contributors to open source!
"The kernel was one of those things where it looked very likely. 'Oh, there was a kernel change! That could have had an upward effect on the stack.' But we ruled that out very quickly," said Dettelback.
So what's the long-term solution? "I'd say the long-term solution is not the removal of app registry (that's a tactical fix), but continuing to strengthen our cross-team collaboration across SRE, OCP and RHEL so we can fix these sorts of things faster. Because we have experts across the value chain and we work in an open manner, it's easy to get the right people looking at the problem when you suspect it may be in their backyard. If we were a closed source shop or a less open organization, it would have been nearly impossible to get the collaboration and insight into chasing down what was going on when quay.io went down," said Dettelback.
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Turkish property & economy news As European prices soar, tourists flood to Turkey
Created : 29 November 2022
As European prices soar, tourists flood to Turkey
Following the coronavirus pandemic and the constant rising energy prices, Turkish travel companies are expecting a rush of tourists from Europe in the coming months as winter draws in.
Cem Polatoglu, spokesperson for the Travel Operators' Association said that: "This winter we expect more tourists than in previous years. During the pandemic, people could not go on holiday for a long time. Now that travel restrictions have been lifted, many tourists will feel as though they have 'broken free from chains."
Russian-Ukraine War and the energy crisis in Europe
An acute energy crunch is facing Europe as we head into the winter months, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Gas supplies to Europe have been cut by Russia in response to the sanctions imposed by the West.
An expert said: "It is positive for the tourism sector that European tourists – especially pensioners – prefer long holidays in Turkey during the winter months due to the increase in natural gas prices."
The expert continued to say that the global inflation and energy crisis were encouraging more people to book holidays during winter to help save them money.
He said: "There are developments such as rising fuel costs, energy expenses, food crises, which affect ticket and hotel prices and therefore people's overall travel budget." Even with these factors, it was found that the bookings were in line with expectations of the tour operators.
The weak Turkish Lira
Polatoglu explained further saying that in addition to the energy crisis, there was a further incentive for the people to flock to Turkey. The Turkish Lira is weak, making it the perfect destination for a cheap holiday.
For tourists, Polatoglu explained that currently a package holiday in Turkey at a five-star hotel would cost less than staying at home in Europe. "And with much more comfort than at home," he added.
Rebounding tourism industry
The rebound witnessed in Turkey's critical tourism industry has been driven this year by the huge leap in the demand for holidays from Europe. This has been led by Germany, followed by the United Kingdom, and then Russia.
It was found that figures of holidaymakers to Turkey had more than doubled from January to August of 2022. In the first eight months, approximately 29.3 million tourists had arrived in Turkey; this was an increase of 108.5% compared to the same period of 2021. At the moment, this is on track to match roughly the levels seen in 2019 pre-pandemic.
Nations topping the list of visitors
Tourists from Germany were at the top of the list for nations visiting Turkey, at 3.85 million. Germans made up 13% of all visitors to Turkey in the initial eight months of the year, jumping up by 105.73% on arrivals from 2021.
Russians came in second on the list, with just over 3 million; this was an increase of 22.8% from year to year. British visitors were ranked in third, with 2.36 million visitors. According to data, this was an increase of an incredible 2,120% when compared to the same period during 2021.
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7/09/2018 · To cure an ear infection, get plenty of rest and stay hydrated while you wait for your body to recover. To help alleviate pain in your ear, try applying a warm, damp washcloth to your ear for 15-20 minutes at a time. You can also take an over-the-counter pain medication, like ibuprofen. If you develop a fever or flu-like symptoms, or if your pain worsens within 48 hours, contact your doctor to... The symptoms of ear infections also happen in other illnesses. For this reason, if you suspect your child has an ear infection, take them to your family doctor. Your doctor will examine your child to see if an ear infection (or another problem) is the cause of your child's symptoms.
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Infection can affect the ear canal (otitis externa), the eardrum , or the middle ear (otitis media). Most ear injuries are caused by pressure changes during a direct injury (such as a blow to the ear) or sports scuba diving, but, a persistently painful ear may signal an infection that requires treatment.
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No to disorder!
... police to get tough in Spalding, army called in to assist after shooting incident last Tuesday
MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Head of the Manchester Police Division, Superintendent Wayne Cameron says he will be taking steps to deal with what he called "significant public order issues" in Spalding, located on the border of north-western Clarendon and north-eastern Manchester.
Cameron's comment at a Manchester Chamber of Commerce meeting at Golf View Hotel in Mandeville late Thursday followed last Tuesday's alarming incident in Spalding, which left a bus driver seriously injured after being shot by a policeman.
Widely circulated video footage captured on cell-phones showed the bus driver violently assaulting a policeman before he was shot.
The incident, which is being investigated by the Independent Commission of Investigations led to mayhem in the town with Jamaica Defence Force soldiers having to be called in to help police restore order.
A police service vehicle was damaged — including its windows shattered by someone hurling a large stone — and business operators were forced to close their doors.
Cameron told Manchester's business leaders that the incident reflected a culture of disorder that had taken hold among transport operators in Spalding.
"We have seen the general trend where people pride themselves in lawlessness and disorder in that town. No one wants to obey no-parking signs, no one wants to go into the transportation centre, people want to pick up passengers just about anywhere...," the police chief said.
He spoke of cases where taxi operators in Spalding were observed "hand-breaking the car and spinning it around in the opposite direction".
Among planned measures aimed at "bringing Spalding under control" would be the deployment of additional police personnel to the town, Cameron said.
"There are significant public order issues and so we will have to get stronger in Spalding," he said.
Cameron said a man alleged to have thrown the large rock into the service vehicle was handed over to the police by residents on Thursday morning. Others involved in damaging the vehicle would also be charged he said.
The option of suing those involved in damaging government property was being contemplated, he said.
Cameron said charges, including assault, would be laid against the injured bus driver as soon as he is sufficiently recovered. The driver was said to be hospitalised in serious but stable condition up to late last week.
In cautioning against any repeat of the Spalding incident, Cameron noted that "policemen have been trained to defend themselves, and it is going to happen irrespective of who the attacker is..."
And flowing from the incident, president of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Garfield Green issued a statement on the weekend calling "on all business leaders and law-abiding citizens to identify and discourage indiscipline in our society".
This, he said, should include "partnering with the police".
Said Green:"We saw how businesses were adversely impacted by one man's action. We saw the destruction of property, the danger the public was faced with, and among other things, how much productive time was wasted."
Green said the incident also highlighted the need for police to be equipped with "non-fatal weapons" to deal with disorder.
"Incidents like this remind us that our police officers need to be outfitted with the right gear to protect themselves and the public. Someone else (in the converging crowd) could have been shot... this is when non-fatal weapons are needed," he said.
Also, said Green, to protect themselves, police need to wear body cameras. "We have seen how alleged eyewitnesses' version of the incident was widely different from what was shown on video," the Manchester Chamber of Commerce president said.
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Another Bank Robbery Hits Mississauga
By Ashley Newport
Published October 18, 2016 at 2:42 pm
It's been a very bad week for banks in Mississauga.
Shortly before 10:00 a.m., police were called to a bank in the Dundas and Wharton Way area to respond to reports of a robbery.
No injures have been reported and it does not appear that a weapon was used.
The suspect is described as a 6'2″ male with a slim build. He was last seen wearing a white outfit and a black jacket. He fled the scene on foot.
Yesterday, a bank in the Bloor and Runningbrook area was robbed by a female suspect and just last week, a Rockwood Mall financial institution was robbed (also by a female suspect, but there's indication that the same woman committed both robberies).
Robbery of bank at Dundas/Wharton Way, M. No injuries, no weapons. Susp is Male, 6'2", slim, wrg white outfit, blk jacket- fled E/B on foot.
— Peel Regional Police (@PeelPoliceMedia) October 18, 2016


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a splendiferous gathering of old and young, because at a Billy Jonas Band show, the ensemble is... everyone.
Mr. Popper spend his time daydreaming of adventures in far-off lands while Mrs. Popper scrimps and saves to put beans on the table. When a spirited penguin arrives on their doorstep, a new horizon (and flock!) opens before them! Come along for an unforgettable adventure in this 1930s-inspired musical based on the classic book.
"The most technically imaginative and resourceful theatre production in the region."
"Moon Mouse: A Space Odyssey"
Join Marvin the Mouse on the space adventure of a lifetime: a trip to the surface of the moon on his homemade rocket where he finds misfit creatures, infinite peril, and awesome beauty.
Lightwire combines theater and technology to bring stories to life in complete darkness. They are internationally recognized for their signature brand of electroluminescent artistry.
Steve was green way before green was cool! "You have real green magic inside, don't forget to use it!"
"We left the theater with smiles on our faces."
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Visual comedy at its finest! Think Charlie Chaplin and Mr. Bean, circus clown and slapstick. Torres creates contagious fun from simply taking a photo, setting a table, or trying to win an audience member's heart.
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ONLINE bank Egg is to give all credit card customers the chance of an annual interest-free balance transfer.
The move, aimed at rewarding loyal customers who remain with Egg for at least a year, goes against the trend among providers toward cutting benefits and increasing rates.
Once a year, on the anniversary of opening their account, cardholders will have access to 0% interest rate on new balance transfers, for a five-month period.
New customers will still benefit from an initial six month interest free period on balance transfers. After this it reverts to a standard rate of 13.9%.
The decision to extend interest-free borrowing for loyal customers was taken following a study of 10,000 customers with Egg cards. Of those surveyed, 76% said they would prefer annual 'birthday' balance transfers to receiving 0.5% cashback.
From 1 April the cashback rate on new purchases will fall from 0.5% to 0.1%. Although this may not be welcomed by big spenders, it should make it easier to keep borrowing levels at more manageable levels for people with debts.


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Continuing his exploration of mesh tension loss, Dr. Anderson focuses on optimizing stretching procedures to consistently produce stable, high-tension screens. Learn how to minimize thread deflection and achieve predictable mesh-tension levels, whether you use a pneumatic or mechanical stretching system with rigid frames or rely on retensionable frames for both stretching and printing.
Part of this series revealed new findings about the way in which mesh threads interact during and after screen stretching. The article introduced the phenomena of thread deflection and realignment and explained how these conditions lead to unpredictable drops in mesh tension that continue long after initial stretching. Now, the discussion moves from the theoretical to the practical by reviewing common tensioning tools and techniques and assessing their effectiveness in overcoming thread deflection. On the following pages, you'll discover how to adjust your own tensioning methods to get stable, high-tension screens time after time.
What Is the Optimum Mesh-Stretching Process?
There is no single component you can add or action you can take to completely eliminate mesh deflection (Figure 1) from the screen-stretching process. However, you can cost effectively produce screens with stable, consistent, and repeatable tension levels by modifying your stretching procedures with various function s and options.
An optimum mesh-stretching process would apply even tension through controlled extension of each and every thread that makes up a screen. It would produce no sideways deflection of threads and maintain the mesh count of the screen fabric. And it would produce stable, high-tension screens very quickly and inexpensively, with minimal environmental risk and no image-distortion or registration issues. Unfortunately, this is not the perfect world in which such a stretching system could exist. So you must make compromises in your existing mesh-stretching methods, adding new steps to the procedure and, if your situation warrants it, upgrading to more effective stretching technologies. Before you can enhance your stretching methods, however, you should understand the inherent strengths and weaknesses of all the techniques commonly used today.


The palette doesn't feel as cohesive as the Queen of Hearts palette but I don't think there meant to be used in the same way. To me the Queen of Hearts palette can be used daily to create a basic or dramatic look. Whereas the Cheers to the Beauty palette comes off as a going out, big event.Essentially it's for when you want to create a more dramatic high impact look. So far I haven't seen many basic looks done with this palette. It has it's uses though.
Next round I picked up a few Juvia's place palettes. I'd had my eye on the Douce palette, it was giving me strong spring vibes and I had a post in mind that I wanted to use it for. You will note that no post containing said palette was produced. I also picked up the Saharan 11 and the Festival.
I've used a few colours from both palettes and I will say that so far I'm enjoying it, I've used the Festival the most out of all 3 palettes that I picked up. I like the red and pink shades in the palatte. The purple shade 'Custard' in the Douce palette is also very nice.
Last up is the Nars Palette, this one was actually in my New Makeup post way back in January, so when I saw it go on sale, I jumped at the chance to pick it up. I love using duo chrome eyeshadows so I knew that I wanted it in my life. So far I'm happy with my purchase, though I do need to put it through it's paces a bit more.
It's just a wee bit late, but these are the palettes that I picked up during my Birthday month. So far I've tried each palette a few times and I enjoyed working with them. As my palette collection grows it's become a bit harder to use each one with the same frequency. Often times I end up picking a colour from a few palettes, so some shades end up more used than others.
All in all I have no regrets with my purchases.


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Issue 1, 2020
From the journal:
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Evaluation and understanding the performances of various derivatives of carbonyl-stabilized phosphonium ylides in CO2 transformation to cyclic carbonates†
Hossein Sabet-Sarvestani, a Mohammad Izadyar, a Hossein Eshghi *a and Nazanin Norozi-Shada
* Corresponding authors
a Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
E-mail: heshghi@um.ac.ir
The kinetic and mechanism evaluations of the formation of cyclic carbonates by carbonyl-stabilized phosphonium ylides as an efficient and new class of organocatalysts are the main purposes of this research. Recently, it has been reported that tetraarylphosphonium salts play the role of organocatalysts in carbon dioxide conversion to cyclic carbonates. However, in this research, the oxygen atom of the carbonyl-stabilized phosphonium ylides was treated as the nucleophilic atom for the carbon dioxide activation. Two probable mechanisms were considered and analyzed by the energetic span model. The kinetic behavior of the carbonyl-stabilized phosphonium ylides in the carbon dioxide or ethylene oxide activation was justified by the molecular electrostatic potential (ESP) analysis at the nuclear position. However, it was confirmed that the activation strain model (ASM) was a more efficient tool in explaining the kinetic behaviors in the carbon dioxide or ethylene oxide activation. A change in the ESP value of the donor–acceptor interacting system (ΔΔVn) and distortion energy at the transition states (ΔEstrain(ζ)) were the outcomes of the ESP and ASM models, respectively, which showed a linear correlation. The electron localization function (ELF) concept was used to justify the kinetic behavior of the second step of the preferred mechanism, revealing that the electron-donating/withdrawing groups substituted on the organocatalysts have a remarkable effect on the electron density of the involved basin at the transition states. On the basis of different analyses, it was proposed that carbonyl-stabilized phosphonium ylides having electron-donating substituents are the best candidates for carbon dioxide conversion to cyclic carbonates.
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Evaluation and understanding the performances of various derivatives of carbonyl-stabilized phosphonium ylides in CO2 transformation to cyclic carbonates
H. Sabet-Sarvestani, M. Izadyar, H. Eshghi and N. Norozi-Shad, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 223 DOI: 10.1039/C9CP05211A
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