Few people have the ability to light up a room.
Mary Alexander is among those fortunate few, yet she'd never admit it. It's not necessarily her beauty or her confidence that make her shine, though she has plenty of both to go around, but rather a general happiness and aura of positivity that supersedes time, age and experience.
Mary radiates – which is probably the reason she was chosen as Coca-Cola's first female African-American model back in 1955.
Ask Mary who she is, and she'll proudly share her many titles: wife, mother, grandmother, former teacher and high school principal.
"We were married three years before I realized I was married to a Coca-Cola model," says her husband of three decades, Henry Alexander.
Affectionately called "Miss Mary" by some, she's as humble as they come. So humble, in fact, that Coca-Cola didn't know the identity of the young woman pictured in those groundbreaking ads until more than a half-century after they were produced.
Mary in a 1955 Coke ad published in Ebony magazine.
Mary grew up on a farm in Ballplay, a small community in the northeast corner of Alabama. One of 10 children, she spent most of her days hoeing fields in the Southern heat.
She became only the second person in her family to attend college, enrolling at Clark College in Atlanta. During her junior year, the housemother of her dorm approached her and explained that Coca-Cola was trying to recruit African-Americans for a new advertising campaign. She suggested Mary try out.
Having no modeling experience, Mary hesitated, but agreed after the Dean insisted once more. She interviewed and was selected.
When the final ads came out, however, the mood changed.
"We told the whole family and spread it around campus," Mary says. "It was surreal… I was just so happy." She earned $600 total for approximately 15 ads, enough to pay for a full year of her college tuition.
A Coca-Cola ad from 1957. Mary used the money she earned as a model to pay for a full year of her college tuition.
While Mary's face graced newspapers, magazines, billboards and New York subway stations, she fell out of touch with The Coca-Cola Company. The ads marked both the beginning and end of her modeling career, though she would go on to achieve plenty of other firsts.
After college, she moved to Detroit to pursue a master's degree for a career in education. The job market was tough for an African-American woman in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement, but after nearly three years of applying to positions and working as a real estate secretary, Mary landed a position at Mount Clemons High School.
The principal warned her that the school's population was mostly white, and that she'd be their first African-American teacher. Yet Mary remained unfazed.
"I asked, 'Well, do they all have red blood running through their veins?' He replied, 'They do,' and I said, 'Then I don't have a problem!" Mary recalls.
Meanwhile, Mary continued to have no contact with Coca-Cola. She was rediscovered by chance, 52 years after her ads were first published. Mary's niece and a high school classmate were looking through old photos when they came across a familiar face. The two took a picture of one ad and contacted Coca-Cola, letting a consumer hotline operator know what had been found.
When the request finally reached the company archives, the team assumed the claim was false.
Fortunately, Mary had kept a personal letter from the company from her modeling days. She faxed it in, and the team quickly called back to verify what Mary had known all along.
Just months earlier, one of Mary's ads had been selected to be featured at the World of Coca-Cola. The company brought Mary and her husband to Atlanta to see the exhibit and learn more about the story that almost went untold.
At the World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta with her husband of 30 years, Henry Alexander. "We were married three years before I realized I was married to a Coca-Cola model," Henry says.
A lesson learned, Coca-Cola now keeps in close contact with Mary, now 78. Retired and living in Ocala, Fla., she periodically visits Atlanta for speaking opportunities and events.
Though she is flattered by the attention, she says it's not about her.
"I hope I opened some doors. I hope I laid some groundwork for people in the future to see what can be done despite the odds," Mary concludes. "That's why I'm just so happy about it."


Randall Garrison is refusing to heed a call from 200 well-known musicians, academics, trade unionists and NDP members to withdraw from the Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Group (CIIG). To justify his pro-Israel campaigning the Victoria MP has cited that country's relatively gay-friendly policies even as he promotes a bastion of Canadian homophobia.
Garrison's ties to anti-Palestinian lobbying groups go beyond his role as vice-chair of CIIG. In May Garrison, Liberal MP Marco Mendicino and Conservative MP David Sweet co-sponsored an event with the staunchly anti-Palestinian Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC). Israel's Ambassador Nimrod Barkan spoke at the event on Parliament Hill.
In a private discussion with a Palestinian solidarity campaigner recounted to me Garrison pointed to Israel's relatively LGBTQ-friendly policies as a reason for participating in CIIG and supporting that country more generally (he refused my request for an interview regarding the open letter). But that can't be the full story because Garrison also promotes the Canadian Forces, which has long been a bastion of homophobia.
Representing the Esquimalt naval base in Victoria, "Garrison is a passionate advocate for the Canadian military", according to the Canadian Defence Review. The NDP defense critic held his 2015 election night party and other events at the Esquimalt Legion. Part of the Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association and Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on National Defence, Garrison criticized the Liberals' 2017 announcement that they would increase military spending by 70 percent over the next decade because more money wasn't given immediately. Garrison bemoaned that "all we have is promises for future [military spending] increases" and in another interview said, "the money you're proposing will not keep pace with the rate of inflation." A proponent of Canada leading a NATO battle group to Latvia, Garrison also criticized the Liberals for failing to immediately follow its defence policy review's recommendation to upgrade a multi-billion dollar early-warning radar system used by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which is a military alliance that has drawn Canadian personnel into supporting numerous US wars.
Garrison's promotion of the Canadian military and Israel should be understood as two sides of one coin. An under-discussed explanation for Canada-Israel ties is militarists' affinity for that country. They are impressed by the large political, cultural and economic role Israel's military plays in the country's affairs. In recent years Canada-Israel military ties have grown. During a speech at a Toronto synagogue in May Canada's ambassador to Israel, Deborah Lyons said she sees Canadian generals in Tel Aviv on a regular basis. At the same time, there have been increased ties between arms manufacturers in the two countries.
It's hard to imagine that Garrison, who represents a base community, is NDP defense critic and Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on National Defence, wouldn't be influenced by Canadian militarists' pro-Israel disposition. It's also unsurprising that he portrays his pro-Israel campaigning as "gay-friendly" to progressives rather than as militaristic or imperialistic.


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The major sabha which NRIs and the localites look up to during the December Season in Madras is The Music Academy.
The concert hop-ons between sabhas depend on the Music Academy schedule for many of the music season buffs.
The performance of Prasanna Venkatraman and K Bharat Sundar were exemplary. They were real feast for the music lovers.
The performance of Dr Vedavalli last Sunday was overwhelmingly good. The music was very traditional, satisfying and relaxing. At the end the recital attracted a long Standing Ovation for the artiste.
Lec Dem by Dr. Ema Mhashwari on Music today in Divya Prabandham, possibly a first 'go' on the subject, was revealing. Though people have been aware that some of the verses, esp by Andal and Periazwar, it was new info that the all of the verses had the inbuilt characteristic and format to facilitate introducing of the ragas. Singing the verses will really take the people nearer to God.
However much of the faulting on the meaning and implication of 'Pann' could have been avoided since the two facets 'direct meaning' and 'implications' exist for all the words in vocabulary. Further the prayer song, if it had been on Lord Narayana. would have been consistent with the topic.
Happy to hear that Bombay Sisters are going to get 'Sangeetha kalanidhi' award. I used to attend their concert regularly at Mounaswamy Mutt, Ambattur during Vinayaga Chathurthy and Navarthri festivals in earlier day. The title 'Bombay' was given by Sri Mounaswamigal. During one concert my guru ( Late) Shri. P.K.Rajagopala Iyer gave title to them as 'Thodi Sisters;. But the title Bombay only stood firm.


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Using a large flywheel (and an associated motor/generator electrical system) to power an ordinary automobile is old news, even if it never entered the mass market. The problem is that the average automaker seems to think that a flywheel car needs to have the same range as a gas-engine car. But that is not necessarily true if the car is intended mostly for commuters and other short transits.
Well, the main reason that a flywheel car can't have the range of an average car is because the average car is a pretty massive object, often between 1 and 2 metric tonnes. The more massive the car, the more energy it sucks from a flywheel during acceleration.
Note that designed-for-commutes cars are typically fairly lightweight, and thus a good match for flywheel-power. But we can do even better than that! Motorcycles are much less massive than even commuter cars!
However, putting a flywheel on a motorcycle is problematic --beginning with the fact that a flywheel is a wide object while a motorcycle is a narrow object. The flywheel needs to be oriented so it's disk is horizontal, not vertical, because of gyroscopic effects that will be very annoying whenever the cyclist wants to drive around a curve --even a long gentle curve. And even a horizontal mounting is not so good on a motorcycle, since the cyclist typically leans the vehicle when following **any** curve.
So, this is why we associate the flywheel with a motorcycle side-car. It provides the width-space to hold the flywheel, and, because the overall vehicle has three wheels, it does **not** always lean when following curves in the road. There may even still be space for a passenger, in the side-car. And the range of the vehicle will be very nice.
— Vernon, Apr 09 2012
Prior art. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrocar
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Apr 09 2012]
Inspiration strikes TwinFlywheel
Thanks, [MB] and [8th]. [Vernon, Apr 09 2012]
A vector diagram http://i.imgur.com/294hs.jpg
A vector diagram of counter-rotating flywheels. Confirms what FlyingToater said. [xaviergisz, Apr 11 2012]
Precession http://geophysics.o.../precess/index.html
Tau = L x F [xaviergisz, Apr 11 2012]
If you have two flywheels, mounted side by side on a horizontal axis but spinning in opposite directions, does their gyroscopy cancel out?
— MaxwellBuchanan, Apr 09 2012
Almost. But ...
... there will be enormous forces set up between the two flywheels; that axle had better be a strong one ....
A motor capable of spinning up two huge heavy flywheels is gong to be pretty heavy unless by some cunning means it's integrated into the hub.
— 8th of 7, Apr 09 2012
The simplest way to produce balanced flywheels is to have three in a row, two at half the weight to the exterior, and one at full weight in the interior. If they're all spun up to the same speed with the outer two in the opposite direction from the center, they produce no net precession. Since this cancels out any forces, they can be separated a bit from each other, allowing for a heavy shaft and bearings between them.
— MechE, Apr 09 2012
// heavy shaft and bearings //
Doesn't need to be heavy - just strong ...
// by some cunning means //
Chain or shaft run from the final drive. Spins up the flywheel as you work through the gears.
— Alterother, Apr 09 2012
A resonant ballance rod near the center of the hub tunes its frequency to a tempo miniscule-y faster than the rpm's of the flywheel itself every time the vehicle sits idle to add impetus. Braking energy and gearing down while descending hills could be recaptured.
If the entire vehicle raised as it came to a complete stop then the lowering weight of the vehicle could be used to attian initial speed before the flywheel even engaged turning the negative,
//average car is a pretty massive object//
,into a positive.
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— 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Apr 09 2012
//does their gyroscopy cancel out// I don't think so: precession would cancel, but it's going to be just as difficult to reorient them as it always is.
— FlyingToaster, Apr 09 2012
^ I second this. The direction of the rotation will change the gyroscopic effect at all.
— WcW, Apr 10 2012
My sidecar rigs burns about 20% more fuel than the motorcyle did before the addition of the car. Will this invention give more than a 20% savings in fuel?
— cudgel, Apr 10 2012
[cudgel], how efficiently does a motorcycle engine convert fuel into energy-of-motion? 25%? 30%? Modern electric-power plants can manage about a 50% efficiency of conversion of fuel into electrical energy. And a flywheel motor/generator system is 90+% efficient at storing and using electrical energy for vehicular motion. So the answer to your Question is, "Probably". 90%x50%=45%, and the value "45%" is 50% greater than the value "30%" (and more than the 20%-greater that you asked about).
sp "yes, in the city or on very hilly roads".
////does their gyroscopy cancel out// I don't think so: precession would cancel, but it's going to be just as difficult to reorient them as it always is.//
It's an interesting thought. Instinctively I'd say you're right. On the other hand, a pair of opposed flywheels has zero net angular momentum, doesn't it? Or not. Maybe.
that's... ... ... hmm.
No, the stacked flywheels have exactly twice as much flywheel effect, proximity irregardless. MB, you feeling all right?
//No, the stacked flywheels have exactly twice as much flywheel effect, proximity irregardless.//
Yes, I sort of intuitively expected that. But is their net angular momentum zero or not?
//MB, you feeling all right?// Very not. But that's a whole other story.
Their net angular momentum is, indeed, zero. However precession is cumulative around the nominal axis between the flywheels.
//precession is cumulative around the nominal axis between the flywheels.//
Ah, yes, silly me. What? (Not disagreeing, just not understanding.)
OK, suppose I have a flywheel mounted like the front wheel of a bicycle, and spinning "forwards". I try to steer to the left, and the flywheel produces a torque in some other weird direction.
Now I do the same, but with the flywheel spinning "backwards". When I try to steer to the left, does the flywheel still produce a torque in the same direction as before?
No. The torques will be opposite.
I think [MechE] is saying that if I had two perfect, thin flywheels arbitrarily close together on the distal end of a stick, I could not distinguish by waving it around between (a) both wheels stationary, and (b) the wheels exactly counter-rotating. But if they were separated by a non-trivial amount along the length of the stick, then I could. I'm also not disbelieving, but I don't immediately see why.
— spidermother, Apr 10 2012
In that case, simply make the two flywheels very close together, or quasiconcentric, for energy storage without the torque.
I've posted a diagram on facebook of two counter-rotating flywheels (sorry can't link to it at the moment, but its easy to find). The L represents to angular momentum, the F represents the applied tilting force, the T represents the resultant force (the circle with an x represents an arrow going into the screen, the circle with a . represents an arrow going out of the screen).
I think the gyroscopic effect is dependent upon the centre of rotation of the tilt. If the centre of rotation is between the centre of mass of the two flywheels the flywheels will resist the tilt. However if the centre of rotation is distant from the centre of mass of the flywheels, then the flywheels will not resist that tilt.
disclaimer: my physics is rusty so treat with healthy scepticism.
— xaviergisz, Apr 11 2012
My own 2-cents-worth on the topic of adjacent contrarotating flywheels:
Consider each, separately, on its own axle. When spun up, each will resist an effort to change the direction at which the axle points. This resistance **might** be associated with a kind of "inertia" --one might say that a rotating flywheel has an associated "inertial field". You must overcome **that** inertia in order to change the direction at which the axle points.
Well, with two adjacent contrarotating flywheels, I see nothing to cancel-out the **individual** inertial field of each flywheel. That is, each inertial field seems to me to be "monopolar". If they were dipolar I could see that since the total angular momentum of the flywheels is zero, then the associated total inertial field should also be zero.
But if the fields are monopolar, the way gravitation always sucks, then all we have done is double the amount of "inertia" that must be overcome, in order to change the direction at which the flywheels' shared axle points.
//This resistance **might** be associated with a kind of "inertia" --one might say that a rotating flywheel has an associated "inertial field".// Fine, except that it's not, and it hasn't. There is no //inertial field//, unipolar or not. It's just ordinary matter, obeying ordinary inertial mechanics, in a perfectly symmetrical manner. It just happens to get a bit more complicated when you have rotation and applied torques that are not parallel.
//This resistance **might** be associated with a kind of "inertia" //
My understanding is that it's simple inertia. As the flywheel spins, all of the point-masses around it have a high velocity, each tangential to the circumference. When you tilt the flywheel, you are trying to change the direction of all those fast-moving point masses, and they of course resist this change. In effect, you are trying to put an acceleration onto all the point masses; the acceleration is large because, although the tilt may be small, the speed of the point masses is high.
However, with contrarotating flywheels, a tilt will try to accelerate the point masses of one flywheel in one direction, and those of the other flywheel in the opposite direction. Hence, no net force should be needed and the contrarotating flywheels should give no net resistance to twist.
I usually like to have an intuitive understanding of something before applying the maths, but this might be an exception. In other words, just trust the maths.
I illustrated my understanding of the situation with a vector diagram (link). I just applied the "right hand rule" to the two vectors (angular momentum L, and applied force F) to get the resultant vector (torque T).
The first vector diagram illustrates a rotational force applied with centre of rotation at the centre of the system. The second illustrates a rotational force applied with a centre of rotation outside the system.
My diagram confirms what FlyingToaster said: the counter-rotating flywheels will cancel out the precession but not the gyroscopic effect.
//My diagram confirms what FlyingToaster said: the counter-rotating flywheels will cancel out the precession but no the gyroscopic effect.// You mean, //that's... ... ... hmm.//?
I don't think you've got that quite right. Precession is a manifestation of the gyroscopic effect. And purely translational forces (which your Fs appear to be) don't affect rotating bodies any differently to non-rotating ones.
//Precession is a manifestation of the gyroscopic effect//
Perhaps, but maybe not. Gyroscopes are counter-intuitive things, and counter-rotating gyroscopes even more so. As I said, I just did the maths and that's the answer that fell out - if the maths is wrong I'm happy for the error to be pointed out.
//And purely translational forces (which your Fs appear to be)//
The Fs are instantaneous tangential force vectors not translational forces. I may have made a mistake here in their representation - it's been a while since I studied physics.
Again, not disagreeing, just not quite understanding. It seems to me that the lower system could be seen as identical to the upper, but with the addition of a circular translation of the midpoint of the two rotating masses. But I could be wrong.
[MaxwellBuchanan], I'm pretty sure it is not "simple inertia". If it was, then the force you apply to change the direction of a gyroscope's axis should cause that axis to keep changing its orientation (in Zero Gee, say), after you stop applying the force. And I'm pretty sure that doesn't happen.
It _is_ simple inertia. Absolutely every behaviour of ordinary gyroscopes - paired or otherwise - can be explained from first principles using classical mechanics, and nothing else. There's no need to make up semi-mystical theories to explain plain old matter moving in complicated, but ordinary, ways.
//It _is_ simple inertia.//
Exactly. (What else is there apart from inertia? There's no vis viva in a spinning wheel.) The complication arises because the elements of the gyroscope are usually continuous, and hence their rapid movement is not intuitively obvious.
However, if you replace the gyroscope with, say, two masses on either end of a rod (spinning propellor-style), it will behave pretty much like a gyroscope but the inertial forces are more obvious.
(It won't behave quite like a gyroscope, because there are only two point masses; make it a four- bladed propellor and it will be very close to a gyroscope.)
When one turns the axis of a gyroscope, does the speed of rotation slow?
I am thinking about tiny neutronium gyroscopes as a sci-fi concept energy source. 4 inches high, 3000 lbs. I wonder if an assembly of small, supernaturally heavy, very rapidly spinning items could be assembled in such a way that the torque generated by a positional change could be used to help an unaided person carry them about and counter any inertia they might develop.
— bungston, Apr 11 2012
//torque generated by a positional change could be used to help an unaided person carry them about//
You're into Laithwaite territory there...
Eric, or the wine merchants?
Anything that helps my manservant's valet carry my weekly cellar replenishment is always welcome.
— AbsintheWithoutLeave, Apr 11 2012
Laithwaite - yes. Which reminds me; Ling likes gyroscopes. Maybe he will weigh in with some wisdom or witticism.
[spidermother], neither you nor [MB] addressed the specific point I made in my last post. Perhaps I should have only quoted "simple". Because it is **not** simple. Otherwise we wouldn't be discussing their behavior across so many posts.
So, in Zero Gee, if you have a floating and spinning gyroscope, and you grab its cage with both hands and try to smoothly change the direction its axis points, what happens when you let go? If we were talking about SIMPLE inertia, constant motion of an object should result (therefore constant change of the direction the axis points).
But since I fully expect the axis to stop changing its point-direction the moment you let go, that is why a spinning gyroscope does not have SIMPLE inertia. (And remember, a gyroscope's ordinary/constant axial precession at Earth's surface is due to the constant-applied-force of planetary gravitation. Not present in a Zero Gee environment.)
It will do neither of those things. Instead, it will wobble, a bit like a wobbling spinning top (or, indeed, exactly like a wobbling fully gymballed gyroscope). This is because at the moment you let it go, its moment of inertia is not parallel with its axis. And it does so because of simple inertia, regardless of the position of quotes.
I don't understand in detail how a straight 6 engine can be perfectly balanced, but I'm confident that with sufficient study I could, and that there would be no fundamental principles involved beyond the laws of classical mechanics (and their abstractions, such as angular momentum or harmonic motion). Just because a system and its behaviour are complex does not mean that the underlying physics is.
Waves goodbye to [Vernon] as I turn a corner and [Vernon], motorcycle, sidecar, passenger and flywheel enter the scenery at speed.
— UnaBubba, Apr 12 2012

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Is it time to switch receivers?
I have the Yamaha DSP-A1 and someone tells me that I need something with HDMI to get true HD sound. Is it really that different? I would like to hear from those who have made the switch. TIA.
Am I upgrading or downgrading. I don't have much disposable income nowadays with a family and kids so I only have to spend what I can sell my DSP-A1 for. So far I got a $400 offer. Would I be foolish or smart to switch it to a receiver that has HDMI inputs? BTW, I'm running a B&K 200.5 amp along with my processor/receiver.
A Denon 1908 would meet your needs for around $600 new.
Does your receiver have 5.1 inputs? If your dvd player has the processing built in (like a Sharp BD20U), you can run the 5.1 output and you are good. Just run the hdmi cable to the tv for video.
I may get corrected but I'm pretty sure HDMI will NOT improve your sound. It's cabling, and improves the picture more than the sound. Adding sound is a convenience.
So long as your source has digital out (coax or optical) to connect the sound to your DSP-A1 you will get HD audio. And a $600 receiver will be a material downgrade from your yamaha.
It depends on what your source is. If you have an Oppo DV-980H, the HDMI connection can pass an uncompressed surround digital stream from DVD-A and SACD discs.
If you have a Blu-ray or HD DVD player, the HDMI connection can pass an uncompressed 7.1 data stream to your compatible pre/pro. Depending on the player and the disc's soundtrack, this datastream could be 5.1 or 7.1 channels of uncompressed PCM, Dolby TrueHD, or possibly one of the DTS schemes (I can't keep 'em straight). The SP/DIF digital connection does not have the bandwidth to pass uncompressed multichannel digital sound. HDMI does.
There are several Blu-ray and HD DVD players where the only way you can for sure get the new uncompressed soundtracks is via HDMI.
I do have a bluray via a PS3 game machine. The video portion is connected to my HDTV via HDMI and the sound is connected to my receiver via a toslink optical. I'm wondering how good is uncompressed PCM? Is it worlds apart from what i'm already hearing? I think my cabling is decent. I'm running the belden 1505F from blue jean cables and for speaker wires, I'm running monster M1's.


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Q: I have a inequality, I don't know where to start Show that for $x,y,z > 0$ the inequality is true:
$\frac{x^2}{y}+\frac{y^2}{z}+\frac{z^2}{x}+x+y+z \geq \frac{(x+y)^2}{y+z}+\frac{(y+z)^2}{z+x}+\frac{(z+x)^2}{x+y}$
I have tried Holder, but i had no luck. Please give me a hint of how to start.

A: The hint.
It's $$\sum_{cyc}\left(\frac{x^2}{y}-2x+y\right) \geq \sum_{cyc}\left(\frac{(y+z)^2}{z+x}-2(y+z)+(z+x)\right)$$ or
$$\sum_{cyc}\frac{(x-y)^2}{y}\geq\sum_{cyc}\frac{(x-y)^2}{z+x}$$  or
$$\sum_{cyc}(x-y)^2S_z\geq0,$$
where $S_z=\frac{1}{y}-\frac{1}{z+x}.$
Now, by C-S $$\sum_{cyc}S_x=\sum_{cyc}\left(\frac{1}{x}-\frac{1}{x+y}\right)=\sum_{cyc}\left(\frac{1}{2}\left(\frac{1}{x}+\frac{1}{y}\right)-\frac{1}{x+y}\right)\geq$$
$$\geq\sum_{cyc}\left(\frac{1}{2}\cdot\frac{4}{x+y}-\frac{1}{x+y}\right)=\sum_{cyc}\frac{1}{x+y}>0$$ and
$$\sum_{cyc}S_xS_y=\sum_{cyc}\left(\frac{1}{z}-\frac{1}{x+y}\right)\left(\frac{1}{x}-\frac{1}{y+z}\right)=$$
$$=\sum_{cyc}\left(\frac{1}{xy}-\frac{1}{z(y+z)}-\frac{1}{x(x+y)}+\frac{1}{(x+y)(x+z)}\right)=$$
$$=\sum_{cyc}\left(\frac{1}{xy}-\frac{1}{y(x+y)}-\frac{1}{x(x+y)}+\frac{1}{(x+y)(x+z)}\right)=$$
$$=\sum_{cyc}\frac{1}{(x+y)(x+z)}>0.$$
Now, since $$\sum_{cyc}S_x>0,$$ we can assume that $S_y+S_z>0$.
Also, we have
$$\sum_{cyc}(x-y)^2S_z=(x-y)^2S_z+(x-y+y-z)^2S_y+(y-z)^2S_x=$$
$$(S_y+S_z)(x-y)^2+2(x-y)(y-z)S_y+(S_x+S_y)(y-z)^2$$ and it's enough to prove that
$$S_y^2-(S_z+S_y)(S_x+S_y)\leq0,$$
which is $\sum\limits_{cyc}S_xS_y\geq0$.
Done!

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Belgium may be a small country, but it's ideally located in the heart of Europe and boasts some of its most hidden gems. And, train travel in Belgium is easy since it's primarily a regional system that takes you from location to location in no time at all.
Eurostar trains routes provide high-speed train services from London to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam. There are further Eurostar journeys to Disneyland Paris, Lyon and Marseille.
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Once you've figured it out, try putting the whole route together. —Anak Verhoeven, Belgium, 3-time Lead World Cup Gold.
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I realised I was not in love with my husband. On our wedding day.
She realised she was marrying the wrong man, as she walked down the aisle.
The woman who discovered she didn't want to be with her fiance, the day they were married.
All of these thoughts ran through my head on my wedding day, much like they do in most brides' minds. The difference, however, was that my thoughts weren't about my future husband. They were about someone else entirely.
His name was Jason. No, not my future husband. Jason was the man who consumed my thoughts on my wedding day as I walked down the aisle and married someone else. He consumed my thoughts before the wedding and after the wedding, too. I met him in university and immediately developed a crush on him, which was easy to do since he was cute and funny and so much fun to be around. I knew he would be the perfect boyfriend. There was just one problem: I was already engaged.
"His name was Jason. No, not my future husband. Jason was the man who consumed my thoughts on my wedding day."
Nathan, my fiance, was was nice enough, and he was perfect on paper, but I just wasn't really into him. I was twenty years old when I accepted his proposal and even then, I knew deep in my gut that it wouldn't last. But what else was a girl supposed to do? I knew that graduating from university meant getting married, which is why when the proposal came, I said yes—and then regretted it immediately. My regret was made even more clear when I met Jason.
Jason and I had a fling for several months leading up to my wedding. I could tell it didn't mean much to him, but it meant the world to me. He was my escape, my hope for something else. I'm not proud of myself for cheating on my fiancé, but it's a fact I have owned up to. I think I was secretly hoping Nathan would find out and then we could call off the wedding.
"Jason and I had a fling for several months leading up to my wedding."
So why didn't I just call it off? Because it didn't feel that easy. At twenty one, I didn't know myself the way I do now that I'm in my 30s. And my friends and family loved Nathan so much. "He's perfect for you and he loves you so much," they would say. I knew that was partially true—he did love me so much, which made me feel worse—but I also knew there was no spark between us. But I figured that was just how marriage was. People complained all the time about how bad marriage could be, so I just figured that was the deal. After all, if everyone who loved me thought he was perfect, then obviously he was.
Ultimately, I walked down the aisle that day. The whole time I thought of Jason and wondered if he knew I was getting married at that moment, wondering if he even cared. As I stood there saying my vows I wondered how long our marriage would last and whether I would be heartbroken or relieved when it ended.
"So why didn't I just call it off? Because it didn't feel that easy."
When we divorced a few years later, I felt relief. I also felt butterflies for Jason once again because right before our divorce, we had reconnected. Interestingly enough, seeing Jason was the push I needed to end my marriage. Seeing him and feeling that excitement that only a crush can bring reminded me that marriage should be like that. It should be butterflies and excitement, not obligation and regret.
In a way, I'm thankful for Jason. We didn't end up together and I later realised he was actually quite a jerk, but it didn't matter. He helped me leave my husband and start over. Strangely enough, he was kind of the book-ends to my marriage. I thought of him at the beginning and at the end, although we didn't keep in contact in the middle. Either way, I'm grateful for that jerk.
I'm married again now, and I love my husband more than anything. When I walked down the aisle I thought of nothing but him and our life together. Getting married in my early 20s to a man everyone thought was right for me was wrong. I know that now. I know that I should trust my instincts. I know what's best for me now.
He raped me, but I went out with him again. Here's why.
My son died, but I have no regrets about his free-range childhood.
I can sum up marriage in 11 texts I've sent my husband.
Watch out world: I'm newly divorced and off my anti-depressants.
I married my best friend. My wife did not.


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Choryń – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie wielkopolskim, w powiecie kościańskim, w gminie Kościan.

Położenie
Choryń leży na Równinie Kościańskiej, przy drodze wojewódzkiej nr 308, na południowy wschód od Kościana. Na północ od miejscowości przebiega linia kolejowa z Kościana do Miejskiej Górki (przystanek kolejowy Choryń) oraz przepływa Rów Wyskoć. Wieś leży na terenie Parku Krajobrazowego im. gen. Dezyderego Chłapowskiego.

Historia
Wieś była własnością rodziny Choryńskich herbu Abdank. Po wygaśnięciu rodu, właścicielami byli kolejno: Bojanowscy, Śliwniccy i Taczanowscy. 21 września 1831 w chrzcie Zofii Taczanowskiej jako chrzestny uczestniczył Adam Mickiewicz. Poeta gościł tu jeszcze w okresie od stycznia do marca 1832, w towarzystwie m.in. swego brata Franciszka. Zainspirowany rozmowami z powstańcami listopadowymi napisał w Choryni Redutę Ordona.

W okresie Wielkiego Księstwa Poznańskiego (1815-1848) miejscowość wzmiankowana jako Chorynia należała do wsi większych w ówczesnym pruskim powiecie Kosten rejencji poznańskiej. Choryń należała do okręgu krzywińskiego tego powiatu i stanowiła siedzibę odrębnego majątku, którego właścicielem był wówczas (1846) Taczanowski. Według spisu urzędowego z 1837 roku Choryń liczyła 264 mieszkańców, którzy zamieszkiwali 19 dymów (domostw).

Do 1938 w Choryni był pochowany gen. Edmund Taczanowski.

Pod koniec XIX wieku wieś liczyła 385 mieszkańców. Kościół podlegał parafii w Wyskoci. W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość administracyjnie należała do województwa leszczyńskiego.

Gospodarka
W Choryni ma swoją siedzibę państwowa Stacja Selekcji Roślin, zajmująca się badaniami nad nowymi odmianami zbóż i ich hodowlą. Wyhodowano w niej m.in. popularne odmiany pszenicy ozimej i żyta. Biura ulokowały się w zabudowaniach dworskich. Od 1991 przedsiębiorstwo używa nazwy "Danko".

Zabytki i turystyka
We wsi znajdują się zabytkowe:
 neogotycki kościół św. Katarzyny Sieneńskiej z 1851 roku. Obok kościoła stoi neogotycka dzwonnica z 1850 oraz kaplica grobowa rodziny Taczanowskich, z lat 1669-1670.
 klasycystyczny dwór Taczanowskich z 1759 z zabudowaniami towarzyszącymi: dworem-oficyną (nowy dwór), spichrzem z I poł. wieku i wozownią z II poł. XVIII wieku albo I poł. XIX wieku oraz parkiem krajobrazowymi o pow. 2,8 ha.

Przez wieś przebiega zielony szlak pieszy łączący miejscowości na terenie parku krajobrazowego.

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James S. Derk
Scripps Howard News Service
How much of the newspaper you are reading did you really read?
If you're like most people, you scanned the stories, ads and photos and stopped only to read the items that caught your fancy.
What if a computer could do that for you?
Turns out, they can. And it's pretty interesting.
Several new services have been launched that create a personalized newspaper. The only news included is news you want to read. No Bosna, no Serbs, no Newt.
The most impressive of these is NewsHound, a service of the San Jose Mercury-News on the Internet. For $4.95 a month, the sergices scans all the stories and classified ads it can find for topics you want to read about. When it receives "hits," the stories (and ads if you want) are mailed your E-mail box.
It's a pretty impressive service. Reach it at (http://www.sjmercury.com/hound.html)
What if you don't have five bucks a month?
Take a peek at Crayon.
Also on the Internet's World Wide Web, this service, which got its name from the letters in "CReAte Your Own Newspaper," does about the same thing on a smaller scale.
It keeps a database of Internet URLs (addresses) and searches them each day for things you want to read about. Basically, it mooches the content from news sources and other free places on the Web. Then it gathers it all up for you in one package.
This to me is why newspapers and other so-called "content providers" ought to be worried if they are not doing something online for their customers. Do you know who is providing the service for Crayon's 50,000 subscribers?
It's not Knight-Ridder, Gannett, Scripps Howard or some other media giant. It's two college kids from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa.
Co-founder Jeff Boulter said he started Crayon because he was "trapped in the bubble" of college life. "I didn't really know what was going on out there in the real world and I wanted a quick and cheap way to keep up to date," he says. "Then one day I was extraordinarily bored in one of my classes and I came up with the idea of a customized newspaper broken up into sections."
It's a great service and growing all the time, although a recent posting notes some additions had to be slowed because of final exams.
Take a look at Crayon (http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~boulter/crayon/ and see if you're not impressed.
CALL OF THE WEEK:
I've been developing some World Wide Web pages so reporters can have a starting point for finding things on the Internet. Take a look, make suggestions and offer some thoughts. There might be some sites you want to reach, too. Thake a loook and keep checking back: (http://www.evansville.net/~courier/newsroom.html)
NEWSGROUP PICK:
Drop in on the conversations on "alt.dss" to see if one of those little satllite dishes is in your cards. I think I want one.
WEB PAGE OF THE WEEK:
Try "http://www.mnemonic.sony.com" for the media blitz on the film "Johnny Mnemonic."
James S. Derk is a computer research editor for The Evansville Courier in Indiana and co-sysop of Courier Online. His e-mail address is JDERK@evansville.net.


Enzymes are in general globular proteins and range from just 62 amino acid residues in size, for the monomer of 4-oxalocrotonate tautomerase, to over 2,500 residues in the animal fatty acid synthase. A small number of RNA-based biological catalysts exist, with the most common being the ribosome; these are referred to as either RNA-enzymes or ribozymes. The activities of enzymes are determined by their three-dimensional structure. However, although structure does determine function, predicting a novel enzyme's activity just from its structure is a very difficult problem that has not yet been solved.
Most enzymes are much larger than the substrates they act on, and only a small portion of the enzyme (around 2–4 amino acids) is directly involved in catalysis. The region that contains these catalytic residues, binds the substrate, and then carries out the reaction is known as the active site. Enzymes can also contain sites that bind cofactors, which are needed for catalysis. Some enzymes also have binding sites for small molecules, which are often direct or indirect products or substrates of the reaction catalyzed. This binding can serve to increase or decrease the enzyme's activity, providing a means for feedback regulation.
Like all proteins, enzymes are long, linear chains of amino acids that fold to produce a three-dimensional product. Each unique amino acid sequence produces a specific structure, which has unique properties. Individual protein chains may sometimes group together to form a protein complex. Most enzymes can be denatured—that is, unfolded and inactivated—by heating or chemical denaturants, which disrupt the three-dimensional structure of the protein. Depending on the enzyme, denaturation may be reversible or irreversible.
Structures of enzymes with substrates or substrate analogs during a reaction may be obtained using Time resolved crystallography methods.


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Almirall and IRB Barcelona team up to tackle skin disease
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Clinical trial begins of lung cancer immunotherapeutic
FDA says no to Sarepta's golodirsen, blocking bid to expand its Duchenne stable
The FDA has rejected Sarepta Therapeutics' new Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) Vyondys 53 due to concerns about potential side effects.
The setback prompted a 13% drop in Sarepta's shares in after-hours trading as investors tried to work out how long the company's second DMD drug might be kept from the market.
In a statement, Sarepta said that the US regulator refused to approve Vyondys 53 (golodirsen) due to a risk of infections related to intravenous infusion ports used to deliver the drug, as well as kidney toxicity that was observed in animal testing. It has requested a meeting with the FDA to "determine next steps."
Sarepta already sells Exondys 51 (eteplirsen) for DMD after the FDA granted the drug a conditional approval back in 2016, and recorded sales of $182 million from that product in the first six months of the year.
The approval of the first exon-skipping therapy for DMD was controversial, however, coming after the FDA's own expert advisers recommended rejecting it because of concerns that its clinical trials did not clearly demonstrate efficacy.
Exondys 51 was also rejected by the EMA, although the EU agency did give a green light to a rival exon-skipping therapy from PTC Therapeutics called Translarna (ataluren), which failed to win a green light from the FDA.
Exondys 51 is an exon-skipping therapy suitable for treating around 13% of DMD patients. Vyondys 53 works in a similar way but targets a different DMD mutation and would have expanded the eligible patient population by another 8%.
One of the most common fatal genetic disorders, DMD affects approximately one in every 3,500-5,000 male births worldwide.
Sarepta had been hoping to win approval based on data showing that Vyondys 53 was able to improve levels of dystrophin – the protein that is deficient in DMD – rather than showing whether the drug could actually slow the progressive muscle wasting that characterises the disease.
It used the same approach to secure approval for Exondys 51, and the FDA drew a lot of flak for that earlier approval with critics suggesting the agency had caved in to pressure from DMD patient groups.
Sarepta CEO Doug Ingram expressed surprise about the rejection, saying that "over the entire course of its review, the agency did not raise any issues suggesting the non-approvability of golodirsen, including the issues that formed the basis of the complete response letter."
The company maintains that infusion site infections have been seen with other antisense oligonucleotide drugs, and that the kidney toxicity seen in animal studies involved a dose 10 times that used in clinical trials of the drug.
Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) said in a statement that "one of our toughest challenges in the fight to end Duchenne is time because it is so precious for each of our loved ones affected by this disease."
The charity added: "We are hopeful that these outstanding concerns can be rectified quickly as Sarepta and the FDA work to bring our community a safe, effective therapy."
Sarepta has another trial of golodirsen ongoing which is testing the drug alongside casimersen, another exon-skipping therapy that is due to be filed with the FDA shortly.
The company is also adding to its exon-skipping approach in DMD with a foray into gene therapy, in the hope of developing a one-shot therapy for the disorder, with phase 1 results reported earlier this year.
Exondys 51
golodirsen
Vyondys 53
Sarepta says early filing for DMD gene therapy may be back on
Curing DMD: Travelling together to find a meaningful destination
An experimental gene therapy for DMD shows positive results


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Preheat oven to 180°C. Place the cream in a medium saucepan over medium heat and bring to just below the boil. Remove from the heat and set aside.
Place the eggs, caster sugar, vanilla, yoghurt and lemon rind in a medium bowl and whisk to combine. Gradually add the cream, whisking until well combined.
Spread each side of the bread with the butter and place in a lightly greased 11cm x 21cm 5-cup-capacity (1.25-litre) loaf tin.
Scatter the raspberries and blueberries over and between the brioche. Pour over the custard mixture and set aside to soak for 10 minutes.
Sprinkle with raw sugar and cook for 35 minutes or until golden and just set. Set aside to cool slightly before serving with the yoghurt. Serves 6.


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Lock down threats to your data
At a time when data has become more valuable than oil, organisations find themselves increasingly in the crosshairs of a cyberattack. It's time to lock your business down, tight.
Between leaks, hackers, and employee misdemeanours, it feels like every shred of data is up for grabs. With intelligent and advanced technologies in their arsenal, however, organisations are now able to expertly monitor their systems' activity, control data access and sharing, and pinpoint high-risk usage to protect against threats.
With better preparation and fewer threats to think about, your organisation can focus on day-to-day business with confidence.
Classify Data & Access
Classify data based on sensitivity, and maintain the protection of said data, even when provided to external sources and stored on corporate devices
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Monitor individual behaviour to highlight potential threats and ensure that access is automatically revoked when necessary.
Remedial Actions
A threat has been detected, but what next? Using automation, threats can be responded to and damage minimised – quickly
We're living in a GDPR world, where data is priceless and compliance is everything. Arm yourself with everything you need to stave off threats and stay within regulation guidelines.
Integrate with your devices to extend protection across your equipment, as well as the cloud.
Allow access to sensitive information, restricting permissions by time and device, automatically removing individuals once they're done.
Protect Legacy Data
Ensure that no data is left behind with a solution which allows you to protect legacy data in line with your current roadmap.
Pinpoint high-risk usage and cloud security issues by reporting on abnormal behaviour to prevent threats.
Safeguard against malicious emails, suspicious links and viral downloads, protecting at every point.
In 2017, data loss cost UK businesses an average of £2.48million per loss.
"Keeping up to date with regular staff changes manually wasn't working. We couldn't ensure that new starters got access to the systems they needed in time, or leavers' access was removed from the system promptly. This compromised both employee productivity and security. We knew we needed to implement an automated system."
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Learn How to Use the Microsoft Office 2010 Ribbon
By Stefan
Last Updated on June 4, 2021
Update: Office 365 is now called Microsoft 365. You can find Office apps inside the Microsoft 365 suite. For home use, the Microsoft 365 suite is currently available in three varieties, including a Family, Personal, and Home & Student plan. Price-wise, the first is $100 per year (or $10/month) and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook for Mac. Membership covers up to six users. The Personal version is for one individual and is $70/year or $6.99 per month. Finally, the student plan is a one-time purchase of $150 and includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Business users can select from Basic, Standard, and Premium plans, starting at $5 per user/month.
Recently Microsoft released an exciting interactive guide which shows Office 2010 users how to "use their knowledge of Office 2003 to learn the basics in Office 2010". The downloads are 100% free, and you can get them from this page. In addition, the installer is very simplified, and you'll have no trouble with it.
Learn the Office 2010 Ribbon
Once you install one of the applications, you'll immediately see that the Ribbon Guide is just a regular Silverlight-based HTML document. The interactive ribbon guide puts you in a virtual Office 2003 environment from where you can open menus and hover over items to reveal their location in 2010. It's quite simplified and seems to work as Microsoft planned, so I recommend you grab it if you or your end-users have difficulty adjusting to the new Ribbon interface. During the testing, the only issue I ran into was a glitch here and there in the Silverlight interface. Nothing to talk about overall.
What is more interesting is that Microsoft has added a small blue Reference button at the upper right of the interactive guide. The button leads to a page where Microsoft has spreadsheets you can download, which, similar to the interactive guide, help you find your way around the new Office 2010 ribbon.
It looks like Microsoft learned their lesson and listened to the users they utterly confused when they introduced the ribbon the first time. Unfortunately, the new ribbon alienated Microsoft from its users and almost lost most corporate America confidence. Obviously, Microsoft took note and is doing what they can to help them as best they can this second time.
Shockersh
Don't need it. Microsoft put the file menu back which was a smart move in office 2010.
MrGroove
True but if your moving to Office 2010 for the first time from Office 2003, I think it will help.
George Ain't Curious
The File menu is a god send. Microsoft made a very good move bringing it back, I flat out REFUSED to use Office 2007 because it was just terrible.
I agree with ya there. It had quite the learning curve and when it comes right down to it, other than the UI, excel is excel. What else is needed?
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Iranian officials deny the recent reports that an Iraqi Shia, linked to the Iranian officials detained by the US in Erbil, was behind the recent blast in Erbil that killed at least 19 Iraqis.
Iran's Embassy in Baghdad on Friday denied a report by Al-Arabiya satellite channel allegedly linking recent blasts in Iraq's Kurdistan with Iranian diplomats detained by US forces.
Al-Arabiya, quoting Iraq's Kurdistan officials, claimed that an Iraqi Shia, recently arrested by Kurdistan's security officials, had confessed to being connected with the five Iranian diplomats -detained by the US in Iraqi city of Erbil on January 11- and implicated them in the recent blasts in Kurdistan.
"Stressing the deep-rooted and friendly ties between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Kurds in north of Iraq, we consider as biased the fake report released by Al-Arabiya about the confession of an Iraqi Shia who implicated Iranian diplomats arrested in Erbil in the recent explosions in Iraq's Kurdistan," said the embassy in a statement.
"Such reports are fabricated by enemies of the two nations to damage Iran's relations with all ethnic and religious groups in Iraq," it added.
A new extremist group calling itself The Kurdistan Brigade of al-Qaeda in Iraq – which belongs to the Kurdish Ansar al-Islam, claimed responsibility for the bomb blast in Erbil that killed 19.


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SOPHOMORES: 1 English, 1 Math, and 2 others
JUNIORS: 2 English, 2 Math, 1 Science, 1 Social Studies, and 4 others
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Coastal rescue
19 December 2005, source Water & Wastewater Treatment
A new WwTW will help preserve the bathing areas of Cornwall's tourist trap, the Lizard Peninsula. South West Water's Steve Cross and Hyder Consulting's Dominic Lovell report.
It is not without reason that the Lizard Peninsula is designated an area of outstanding natural beauty and heritage coast. Alongside renowned beaches such as Kynance Cove, Kennack Sands and Pollurian Cove, Britain's longest coastal path, the South West Coast Path, passes through the area.
Britain's most southerly point, the peninsula is also home to many Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and candidate Special Areas of Conservation (cSAC).
Placed on this idyllic canvas, the picture offshore has not been so rosy. Up until a few months ago, crude, macerated sewage from catchments centred on the villages of Mullion and Lizard was pumped into the coastal waters via dedicated outfalls. In the case of Mullion, the outfall terminated at the base of cliffs, only about 100m from a designated bathing water. Such a situation was unsustainable in an area that is very dependent on tourism for its long-term economic future. The solution has come in the form of a new £5.65M plant serving the two villages' combined population of just over 3,000. This came on stream in June 2005.
The plant is a case of less is more. The original scope, under the National Environment Programme, had been to construct two WwTWs, one for each village. However, taking into account the diversity and sensitivity of the Lizard Peninsula, and the need to work within environmental, ecological, archaeological and financial constraints, the two WwTWs were combined.
Since the two communities are 7km apart, the plant is located remotely between them. A total of 14km of transfer pipelines bring flows from Lizard via a main pumping station and two ancillary pumping stations; and from Mullion via a main transfer and an ancillary pumping station.
The new activated sludge process plant has a design capacity of 4743PE. Flow to full treatment (6DWF) is 54l/s with the effluent treated to meet a consent of 40mg/l BOD; 60mg/l SS.
The process consists of an inlet screen, anoxic tank, compact plant (aeration lane and final settlement tank combined), odour control and a final effluent pumping station. Activated odour treatment is incorporated into the scheme to meet the strict planning conditions. Sludge is stored in a 105m3 tank and provides a total of five days' storage. The sludge produced at the works is transported to South West Water's existing sludge-treatment facility at Hayle WwTW.
As part of the process of ensuring that discharges from the new scheme comply with the Bathing Water Regulations, Hyder Consulting constructed Infoworks models for both the Mullion and Lizard catchments. The verified models were submitted to the Environment Agency for approval. To meet the three spills per bathing season driver at Mullion, 100m3 of storm attenuation was required. This was achieved by constructing a 74m long oversized sewer, which terminated at the wet well of the Mullion Transfer Pumping Station. A small package pumping station was also constructed to collect flows from a smaller sub-catchment.
The existing outfall at Mullion was retained as the combined sewer overflow/emergency overflow (CSO/EO) discharge location for both pumping stations and negated the need to discharge to a fluvial watercourse. All CSO/EOs were screened to 6mm in both directions.
Flows are transferred from Mullion to the WwTW at a rate of 25l/s (6DWF). High-lift dry-well pumps are used to pump flows 7.1km, with a static head of 45m and friction head of 51m. The pumps are variable speed to reduce surge pressures within the pipeline.
The transfer pumping station at Lizard is positioned in a particularly sensitive area adjacent to SSSI/cSAC and is located in a copse of local importance adjacent to a protected species of Babington Leek. The design of the pumping station specified prefabricated plastic for both the storm attenuation tanks (100m3) and also the pumping station. Using this material enabled the contractor to construct the pumping station much more quickly than using conventional methods while minimising disruption.
Two satellite pumping stations were also constructed to collect flows in low-lying areas. These were located in SSSI/cSAC in the beautiful Church Cove area of Lizard. The existing sewerage was located in the middle of the only access road to Church Cove. Constructing the proposed final effluent sewer in this road would have caused major disruption to local residents and visitors alike, so in order to avoid this, the team decided that a better option would be to lay the pipeline through the SSSI/cSAC. This proposal was accepted and agreed with English Nature.
The Lizard catchment also included an existing pumping station located at Ruan Minor, which collected flows from Ruan Minor and Cadgwith. The pumping station forms an integral part of the new scheme and continues to transfer flows to Church Cove. However, instead of discharging flows through the outfall, they are collected at the new Church Cove pumping station and passed forward to the WwTW. Due to the length of transfer from Ruan Minor PS to the works, calcium nitrate is dosed to prevent the occurrence of septicity and combat existing odourous sewage at Church Cove.
Making use of the existing assets was a high priority for the team members. The topography of the Lizard peninsula is very flat plateau and there are no rivers or streams with the capability of accommodating the treated effluent. The existing outfall at Church Cove (Lizard), constructed in the late 1960s, was utilised to discharge treated effluent and also the CSO/EO from the Church Cove Transfer
pumping station. The outfall is a 200mm aluminium pipe, which
terminates 460m offshore, 20m below mean high water springs and is an ideal location to discharge the final effluent.
Design and sustainability issues
To minimise the transfer of waste spoil from the pipelines, the design incorporated a bund around the WwTW, which has a capacity of 5,800m3. The bund also acts as a screen around the works and significantly reduced construction traffic movements and waste taken to landfill. Similarly at the main transfer pumping station in Mullion, a bund was incorporated for aesthetic and sustainability reasons.
Minimising the footprint of the plant was an important requirement and this influenced the specification of a compact plant. The plant consists of an outer annulus (24m diameter) aeration zone with a central final settlement tank (16m diameter). The structure was constructed using pre-cast, post-tensioned concrete panels. These panels were used for the construction of both the compact plant and sludge holding tank.
In order to speed up the construction of the transfer pipelines and to reduce friction head loss, 200 outside diameter, MoPVC, 12.5bar MoPVC pipework was used. These pipes are lightweight spigot/socket pipes and avoided the use of heavy machinery for installation.
The scheme has been operational since June 2005 and has been producing high-quality final effluent exceeding the consent standards.
The new plant will not feature in the tourist brochures. After all, effective sewage treatment does not tend to be a tourism draw. But, by bringing first-time sewage treatment to these coastal communities, it has delivered environmental benefits that will help secure the area's tourist-industry lifeblood.
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FDF prepared to activate measure to protect Swiss stock exchange infrastructure
24.06.2019 — Press release DEA
The stock market equivalence granted by the European Commission to Switzerland for a limited period expires at the end of June. In order to create clarity for market participants, today the Federal Department of Finance FDF is notifying that it will activate the measure to protect the Swiss stock exchange infrastructure in the event of non-extension.
Record efficiency for a gas engine
At the end of May, the final meeting of the "Horizon 2020" project "GasOn" with the EU Commission took place in Brussels. The aim of this EU project was the further development of gas engines for cars and vans. Around 20 partners participated, including ETH Zurich and Empa as well as four European automobile manufacturers and well-known suppliers. Gas-powered vehicles generally emit less pollutants than petrol or diesel cars. They are likely to gain importance in the future due to their possibility of being powered by renewable energy.
Institutional agreement Switzerland-EU: Federal Council to demand clarifications
The Federal Council intends to consolidate and further develop the bilateral approach, the cornerstone of relations between Switzerland and the EU. This also requires the search for solutions to the institutional issues. At its meeting of 7 June 2019, it approved the report on the consultations on the institutional agreement between Switzerland and the European Union (EU) and decided to demand clarifications. The Federal Council also underlined that maintaining the current level of wage protection was a key Swiss demand and that the social partners and the cantons would be closely involved in the next steps of the process.
ESA and EU member states highlight the importance of the space sector
The State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation, Martina Hirayama, participated to the 'Space Council' of ESA and EU member states in Brussels today. A joint resolution entitled 'Space as an Enabler' was adopted, emphasising the role of space as a significant socio-economic tool, its importance in expanding the frontiers of knowledge, and its contribution to the development and implementation of policy in various sectors.
Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis discusses multilateral cooperation and security in Europe with Slovak Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Miroslav Lajčák
Mr Cassis, who is the head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), has met Mr Lajčák in Bratislava during a working visit to Slovakia. Both foreign ministers highlighted the positive development of their countries bilateral ties and discussed the institutional agreement between Switzerland and the European Union (EU). Talks concerning multilateral cooperation focused on security in Europe and the work of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Mr Lajčák is the current Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE. Slovakia also currently holds the presidency of the Visegrad Group (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland) and will soon assume the chairmanship of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Brexit: Federal Council opens consultation proceedings on trade agreement between Switzerland and the UK
On 15 May the Federal Council opened consultation proceedings on the trade agreement with the United Kingdom and on an additional agreement extending the provisions of the trade agreement to the Principality of Liechtenstein. The agreements are intended to ensure to a large extent the continuation of existing trade relations after the UK's departure from the European Union.
President Ueli Maurer travels to Poland to mark anniversary of diplomatic relations
Switzerland and the Republic of Poland, which was restored after the First World War, established diplomatic relations 100 years ago. To mark the occasion, President Ueli Maurer travelled to Warsaw on Tuesday, 14 May, where he was received by Polish President Andrzej Duda.
European Innovation Council funding an interesting prospect for Swiss research institutions and businesses
In Europe research results should be turned into marketable innovations more quickly. As part of its current Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (Horizon 2020; 2014-2020), to which Switzerland is associated, the European Union has taken the decision to enhance the funding opportunities available through the European Innovation Council. A high-level delegation from the European Commission today presented the EIC's funding instruments at an information event in Bern, and set out how Swiss research institutions and businesses can benefit, especially SMEs.
Temporary agreement to safeguard access to the labour market even in the event of a 'no-deal' Brexit
At its meeting on 17 April, the Federal Council approved a temporary agreement with the United Kingdom on access to the Swiss labour market. The agreement will apply in the event of the UK's disorderly departure from the EU. For a limited transition period, it would introduce simplified requirements for working in either country. In this way, the Federal Council plans to safeguard the interests of the Swiss economy with regard to the recruitment of British workers, and the ability of Swiss nationals to access the UK labour market.
State Secretary Hirayama at an informal EU ministerial meeting on research and innovation
On 2 and 3 April State Secretary Martina Hirayama, Director of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI, will be attending an informal meeting in Bucharest (Romania) of ministers of EU member states responsible for research and innovation. At this event, which takes place twice yearly, ministers will discuss how the EU can promote excellence and at the same time encourage broad participation in research and innovation.
Linking of the Swiss and EU emissions trading systems: CO2 Ordinance revision enters consultation phase
On 25 March 2019, the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC) opened the consultation on the partial revision of the current CO2 Ordinance. The amendment is needed so that the Swiss and EU emissions trading schemes (ETS) can be linked. From 2020, emissions from civil aviation and fossil power plants will be included in the Swiss ETS, as is already the case in the EU. Linking the two schemes would enable companies in the Swiss ETS to trade in the larger EU emissions market.
Safeguarding relations between Switzerland and the UK in the field of migration post Brexit
At its meeting on 22 March the Federal Council took three decisions to safeguard good relations between Switzerland and the United Kingdom (UK) in the field of migration in the event of the UK's disorderly withdrawal from the European Union (EU). Firstly the Federal Council opened consultation proceedings on the agreement on acquired rights, which has already been signed. It also adopted a revision of the Ordinance on Admission, Period of Stay and Employment (ASEO) with a separate quota for UK nationals. Lastly the Federal Council decided that UK nationals would be exempt from the requirement to obtain a visa to enter Switzerland after the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
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Bilateral relations at the heart of foreign economic policy
Bern, 09.01.2013 - On 9 January 2013 the Federal Council approved the 2012 Foreign Economic Policy Report. The report's main topic focusing on the importance of border regions from a business location and foreign economic policy perspective reaffirms the intention of the Federal Council to strengthen cross-border cooperation in border regions. The Federal Council regards such cooperation as vital to good relations both with Switzerland's neighbouring states and the European Union. Further progress has been made on free trade agreements with non-EU countries. In the year under review, issues relating to sustainability and raw materials continued to assume greater importance in foreign economic policy. Moreover, the strategic focus and financial basis for international development cooperation were confirmed.
Federal Council approves the 2012 Foreign Policy Report
At its meeting on 9 January 2013, the Federal Council approved the 2012 Foreign Policy Report. The report provides an overview on all aspects of Swiss foreign policy and gives an account of Switzerland's most important foreign policy activities in 2012. It is structured to address the Federal Council's foreign policy strategy for the period 2012-2015. In addition, it deals with the priority question of Switzerland's relations with its neighbouring states.
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Switzerland enjoys close, important and diverse relations with the European Union. They are based on the bilateral approach and influence many aspects of citizens' lives, both in Switzerland and in the EU.
Ignazio Cassis discusses Cyprus question and Syrian crisis with Turkish counterpart
The head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis, culminated his trip to the eastern Mediterranean with a visit to Turkey. During his meeting with Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in Ankara, he spoke, among other things, about the open Cyprus question, human rights, and developments in Syria and their consequences for the region and Europe.
Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis visits Samos refugee camp and meets new Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mr Cassis's visit to Greece has mainly been concerned with the situation of refugees and the challenges posed by migration. On Tuesday, the head of the FDFA visited the refugee camp on Samos and today met Nikos Dendias, who was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs this week, and President Prokopis Pavlopoulos.
Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis proposes Switzerland's good offices to Cyprus
Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis's visit to Nicosia was marked by the Cyprus question, which has remained unresolved for decades. After a visit to the buffer zone between the north and the south of the island on Monday, Mr Cassis, head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, met today with Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Christodoulides.
Switzerland and France give go-ahead to implementation of EuroAirport agreement
At their first meeting, Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis and French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian brought the issue of the tax regime at Basel-Mulhouse (EuroAirport) to a conclusion: the agreement regulating Swiss companies operating at EuroAirport will be applicable from next year. The two foreign ministers' working meeting also focused on other bilateral issues, the situation in Europe and Switzerland's policy with regard to the EU.
EU-Switzerland Financial Regulatory Dialogue held in Bern
The Swiss State Secretariat for International Financial Matters and the European Commission held their 2017 Financial Regulatory Dialogue on October 19 in Berne. The Dialogue was co-chaired by Jörg Gasser, State Secretary for International Financial Matters, and Olivier Guersent, European Commission's Director General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union. Participants included staff from the European Commission, European Supervisory Authorities, Single Resolution Board, the Swiss federal administration, the Swiss National Bank and the Swiss Financial Supervisory Authority FINMA.
European Parliament's PANA Committee to visit Switzerland
The Swiss authorities will receive a delegation from the European Parliament's PANA Committee on 15 September. The focus of the talks will be the current system and the ongoing work to combat money laundering, terrorist financing and tax offences.
Switzerland once again a full member of partnership-funded EU innovation programmes
On 23 August, the Federal Council approved the agreements on Switzerland's participation in the Eurostars-2 and the Active and Assisted Living research and development programmes. This means that Switzerland is once again a full member of both programmes and is co-financed by the EU. The programmes are particularly interesting for research-intensive SMEs looking to enter new European or global markets through cross-border cooperation. Switzerland's participation in the AAL programme is one of the many measures that form part of the federal government's Skilled Workers Initiative.
Emissions trading scheme: acquisition of aviation data in 2018
The integration of greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation sector into the emissions trading scheme (ETS) is a necessary step in order to link the Swiss and European schemes. At its session on 2 June 2017 the Federal Council approved the Ordinance governing the acquisition and reporting of data from the aviation sector. In line with the intention of the European Union, it is only domestic flights in Switzerland or flights from Switzerland to member states of the European Economic Area (EEA) that are concerned.
Official working visit to Brussels by Federal Councillor Johann Schneider-Ammann
On 30 March Federal Councillor Johann N. Schneider-Ammann, the head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER), met European Commission Vice President Andrus Ansip, who is responsible for the digital single market, and the Commissioner for Trade, Cecilia Malmström. The main themes included cooperation in the field of digitalisation and bilateral trade relations, particularly updating the existing bilateral agreements.
Withholding tax agreement with United Kingdom to be terminated
The withholding tax agreement between Switzerland and the United Kingdom will be terminated on 1 January 2017. The agreement between Switzerland and the EU on the automatic exchange of information in tax matters will enter into force on that date. On 14 November 2016, Switzerland and the United Kingdom signed a corresponding agreement in London to ensure a smooth transition between the two models.
Withdrawal of Switzerland's membership application to the EU - EU's reply
EU's reply letter of the 19.10.2016 (PDF, Page 1, 110.9 kB)
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Beats by Dr. Dre Solo² available in Singapore in June
Written by Joe Teh on June 6, 2014
Check out this Beats Solo². This is an upgrade from the previous Beats Solo. it will be available from major electronics stores, departmental stores, and headphones retailers in Singapore from 13 June 2014 at RRP of S$310.
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Beats by Dr. Dre Solo²
Price: S$310
Launch Date: June 2, 2014
Color Editions: Black, Blue, Pink, And Gray
Special Color Edition: RED*
* Beats by Dr. Dre contributes a portion of the Beats (RED) Solo² headphone sales to the Global Fund to fight AIDS.
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DESIGNED FOR SOUND. TUNED FOR EMOTION.
SINGAPORE, JUNE 6, 2014 – Following the recently updated Studio, now, it's time for remastering the Solo — Beats' most popular headphone redesigned from the inside out. With updated and improved acoustics, the Solo² lets you feel your music with a wider range of sound and enhanced clarity. Streamlined, lightweight and durable, this compact headphone is more comfortable than ever.
Beats is building an audio experience optimized for every moment of your life. It lets you immerse yourself in an emotional sound journey. Most of all, the Solo² is designed with earcups ergonomically angled to complete a natural-fit feeling, with pivots for optimal comfort and sound delivery, allowing you to feel the higher fidelity sound.
Beats by Dr. Dre Solo² will be available from major electronics stores, departmental stores, and headphones retailers in Singapore from 13 June 2014.
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Established in 2006 as the brainchild of legendary artist and producer Dr. Dre and Chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M Records Jimmy Iovine, Beats Electronics provides a premium sound experience at every touch point of the consumer's life. It is the parent company of the Beats by Dr. Dre™ line of high-quality headphones, Beats Audio™ HD-sound systems, and the MOG digital music service. The company's mission is to provide a superior end-to-end music experience — with headphones, devices and services — so fans feel the emotion and hear the music the way artists intended it to sound from the studio. This experience is aided by partnerships with HP, Chrysler Group and HTC Mobile.
Led by Co-Founder & CEO Jimmy Iovine, Co-Founder Dr. Dre, and President & COO Luke Wood, Beats Electronics is based in Santa Monica, California.
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