Fully noted bifolium. In general, the chants found in fragment P-G P 627 contain peculiar textual variants, like an extra alleluia added at the end (see for example the antiphon 'Clarifica' 001826 on fol. Av) but also there are chants currently not catalogued in Cantus Index, like the antiphon 'Petite et accipietis' whose text could not be added in the Cantus Index catalogue because of a lacuna in the middle of the chant. On fol. Arv there are some chants for Rogation Days and the Vigil of Ascension Day. On fol. Brv the liturgical feast(s) has been left unidentifed. Despite some of the chants found here are commonly sung during feasts related to Pentecost, the selection of pieces in the fragment does not match any other source indexed to this date in the Cantus-Index databases. The comparison with manuscripts representative of the Braga liturgical use, such as P-BRas Ms. 32, has shown occasional correspondences. For example, the order of the antiphons on fol. Bv does not exactly match the antiphons for Dom. Pentecost in P-BRas Ms. 32 because antiphons 003643 and 002889 are swapped. Probably the closest liturgical source to this fragment is F-Pn lat. 1090, an Antiphoner from Marseille cathedral, dated between 1190 and 1200 in Aquitanian notation and Cathedral cursus. The index of this manuscript is available at http://cantus.uwaterloo.ca/index?source=123627.
Despite the bifolium is currently used as book cover, it is in decent condition and still quite readable. Fols. Av - Br are the external cover of the book.The bifolium was irregularly trimmed with some loss of contents, especially along the external edge of fol. A. There is a library sticker on fol. Av and a library sticker on the spine of the book. Some later hand inscriptions can be found on both fols. Av and Br, the inscriptions are written reversed with respect to the text and they display the shelf-mark of the book and its contents.
One full-page column, 9 lines of text alternated with music.
Medium size neumes around a red line. The lozenge seems to be used randomly. Furthermore, there are many instances in which the difference between a lozenge and a more or less square punctum is not clearly defined. The lozenge is used as lower note of a clivis (neutral – low) but on few rare occasions it is found isolated on syllable. Custodes absent.


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Rainy days and Mondays, United Bible Studies, Úlfur Eldjárn, Apparat Organ Quartet, carpet crawling, trawling and..
seanworrall / October 5, 2015
#365ArtDrops
We were somewhere around the bathroom on the edge of the studio when the mints began to take hold, the rain was lashing, the rodents were missing, the smell of fresh Montana was in the air, a rainy Monday, stuck here in the studio all day today, work to do, things to throw paint at, not hanging around, nothing to do but frown? Nah, let's have a trawl through the e.mail and see what the world has been throwing our way, there's a mountain of e.mail festering up again, generic mass-mailout e.mails that insert a cold-hearted name to make us think the person who pressed the button cares a lot and what about those garbage pale kids and the food that live aid bought, it is indeed a dirty job but someone has to read it and "Hey blah, how was your weekend, what about the game eh" no mention of which game, the Reds? The Jets? Wigan Warriors? FC last Friday night? (bring back Norton!), "hey, here's some Monday morning music for you, the NME already love it, so does that girl at Vice, you need to get on board quickly, we know you'll love it" . So far there's been some so-bad-they're-almost-good born again reformed hair metal from Spain, a "British shoegaze artist who will evoke the rebirth of the movement" or so said the Canadian press release sending coal back to Newcastle, there's been some really uninspiring unadventurous sub Porcupine Tree neo-prog tedium – there's some really unadventurously polite tedium peddled as prog rock these days, tempting to stop trawling and throw on the real proper prog of that first gloriously fragile IQ album or maybe some heart-starting early Cardiacs or an emergency playing of a live bootleg of The Lamb and the big lump of story and music and how a large black cloud descended on Time Square and just prog the flip out of the day and delete all these (annoying) e.mails and spraying things like Rael the imperial aerosol king. Don't mention the damn game, there's something moving in the sidewalk steam…
United Bible Studies
Hang on though, hang on! Hang on a minute, hold off with the carpet crawlers, this is rather delicately glorious, United Bible Studies? Who are they? "MIE Music is extremely pleased to be releasing in a limited edition the new LP The Ale's What Cures Ye by United Bible Studies; a compendium of traditional and modern folk songs as interpreted by the band and inspired by Folkways" – and is a nutshell of roaming roads and strong ale, is what we have here, some beautifully simple wonderfully played traditional folk.
Did you notice the break in the flow there? This United Bible Studies album has taken up quite a few hours of the working day and the listening time – taking to road and apparently United Bible Studies "are a folk band from Ireland with members from the UK" (and the label would love us to say you can pre-order on the MIE Website.. ). Really beautifully spirited traditional folk, nothing groundbreaking or different, just really good traditional folk music Can't find anything of the beautiful new album on-line yet, here's a previous album from United Bible Studies, something a more "modern" and less "traditional", a drone or two and not quite as much of a fully fledged traditional folk thing as the highly recommended new album, equally as interesting though. Actually there's a lot to explore via their bandcamp page, interesting band here…
Meanwhile this one sounds a lot more experimental, interesting bit of bible study going on here
Meanwhile word from Miraculous Mule… hang on, first this, have to put this here for no reason what so ever….
Word from the good people from our current favouritist band of all, Miraculous Mule
"On Saturday 3rd October Miraculous Mule were privileged to part of the We Shall Overcome weekend of events which took place throughout the UK and Ireland. The chances are you will not have heard about this large musical mass protest via the main stream media but take it from us, it has provided hope and assistance to the many people who are suffering due to the cruel and unnecessary cuts imposed by the current UK government. We took courage and inspiration from the evening and will do everything we can to promote this movement and help to organise an event in our own London borough of Camden next year. It is our belief that through unity, kindness and compassion we can weather this storm and bring about change. Please visit the We Shall Overcome website and help spread the word".
Rambling Steve added – "Cheers to everyone who came along Saturday night for We Shall Overcome. You were an ultra generous bunch, and we raised nearly £800 and got a shed-load of food. The food is going off to Leytonstone Food Bank today, and the dosh will be divided between the Food Bank, Sally's Kitchen, and the Christian Kitchen. Thank you everyone again! And of course a special thank you to all the musicians who give up their time for free for the cause (and who also donated 50% of their merch sales!) – Alan Tyler, Steve White and Doug, Morton Valence, Jack Sharp, Miraculous Mule, and of course, Hank Wangford. Steve, Anna, and Nick for saying a few words over the evening. And lastly well done everyone at We Shall Overcome HQ for pulling such a massive event together all over the country".
"I can die happy now" said the girl next to me, she isn't being silly, Miraculous Mule in a basement ….
Onward with the trawling "Please find below the new album from Smokey Bastard, 'Back To The Drawing Room'. A 10 track, unique masterpiece of folk inspired punk rock, with added banjo, mandolin and accordion for good measure" – well not that sure unique is the word, but hey, if energetic Eastern European folk flavoured punk pop is your thing, then here's a band for oyu. Eastern European sounding rather than Elnish, they are from the UK though ans you like your Flogging Molly and yer Pogues and yer generic American punk pop, then I guess they have something. The album is out in November… Hang on, off with the folk punks, in with the folk brass, what is is with folk today?Why are folk flooding us with folk? On with the "soul shaking, border defying" Raya Brass Band has a new record called RAYA. Off with the whatever he just called it, I prefer the Brighouse and Rastrick or maybe a bit of James Last. .
Onward with the carpet crawling, this here e.mail insists we'll love this one, "we think you'll love this one" it says, they always say that, most of them weren't watching the game we were watching….
Hypnocuts will be part of LeVant's upcoming EP "ToneSkin" due to be released in November 2015. " It's a dreamy fusion between electronic ethos and modern classical and I feel this has the type of influences to resonate with a lot of people in the world. It brings to mind the exotic nature of how Jon Hopkins, Clark and Lulu Rouge put their music together and we are excited to bring this track to the world today" So said someone else, you can make up your own mind, kind of like it over here, kind of, in a floaty floating around dreamy floaty kind of way, kind of…. and here's a band who sound like middle period Metallica, think we'll pass by that one and here's another that yer man who sent the e.mail insists is the hot new thing that everyone is going to be raging and drooling over, it isn't. Hang on, here's one
Hi there. Following is a press release and link to Poyekhali! – a song that I wrote in honour Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. I'm looking for help in promoting the and possible collaboration for the future of the project. I really hope you enjoy it, XX Úlfur.
Úlfur Eldjárn releases "Poyekhali!" – first track from the upcoming solo album – The Aristókrasía Project.
Úlfur Eldjárn is one of the rising stars of the Icelandic indie composer scene, known both for his work with the legendary cult band Apparat Organ Quartet, and his critically acclaimed compositions for film, TV, theatre and own compositional projects.
Poykhali! – is the first song to be released from his upcoming solo album called The Aristókrasía Project. The song is inspired by the Soviet astronaut, Yuri Gagarin – the first man in space – and his first hand account of seeing Earth from outer space.
The Aristókrasía Project is an inspirational musical journey through a utopian world of space travel, intelligent machines and futuristic societies. The music combines bold, melodic electronica with sublime string arrangements, minimal electronic beats and organic live percussion – topped with vocoded lyrics about Yuri Gagarin, the history of science and the love between humans and machines, to name a few of the topics.
The music is performed by Úlfur on analog synthesizers, electronics and vocoders, assisted by Samuli Kosminen (múm, Hauschka) on drums and percussion, Halldór Eldjárn, additional percussion and programming, and a quartet of distinguished Icelandic string players, including musicians who have performed with Björk, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Ben Frost and Nordic Affect.
Hang on, we remember this guy and his rather brilliant band, indeed "Úlfur Eldjárn is one of the rising stars of the Icelandic indie composer scene, known both for his work with the legendary cult band Apparat Organ Quartet, and his critically acclaimed compositions for film, TV, theatre and his own compositional projects".How good its this session!
That'll do, out of here, leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again… I should probably proof read the page, nah, plane to catch…. you do it
October 5, 2015 in ART, MUSIC. Tags: Apparat Organ Quartet, Úlfur Eldjárn, Björk, Carpet Crawlers, Jack Sharp, KEXP SEATTLE, LeVant, Leytonstone Food Bank, MIRACULOUS MULE, MORTON VALENCE, Poyekhali, RAEL, Rainy days and Mondays, Raya Brass Band, Smokey Bastard, The Ale's What Cures Ye, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, United Bible Studies, We Shall Overcome, Yuri Gagarin
ORGAN THING: A taste of Úlfur Eldjárn's new album, the new Free Salamander Exhibit album…
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God has given us victory by redeeming us, and delivering us from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God. The same God gives us victory and will give us victory. God is not a God of past tense alone. He is God of past, present and future. Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever.
The same Jesus that saved us with His blood is waiting for you to call upon His mighty name. At the mention of His name every knee must bow. He is the high priest that meets our needs, and our God will supply all our needs according to His riches in glory.
Do not relegate God to the past alone. Go into the throne of grace where there is help with faith, worship and thanksgiving and the God of all grace will meet your needs, as you present your petitions to Him. He is a God that answers prayers and our prayers go up like incense before Him.
He is a God of yesterday, today and tomorrow who gives. He is the one that gives us the victory and He will give us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Glory to God, our God reigns with glory and power.
We can't claim these last days are dull can we?
These last days are certainly not dull. Your post strikes a chord deep within me. Some revelations….
Amen! God gives us the victory indeed! Beautifully said Laura!


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"Hula Nā Lāʻau" means, "The Dancing Trees". I was looking out the window one day, watching the tradewinds blow through the coconut fronds. Throughout Polynesia, the sound the coconut leaves make when the wind blows through them is exquisite. It is somewhat like a soft rattling.
The key to the musicality of "Hula Nā Lāʻau" lies in the smooth execution of its manaʻo (thought, phrasing). It will sound wonderful if the RH harmonics project and the entire piece is played in a smooth, legato (connected) fashion.
After you have finished this piece, go on to Ka Leileiona.


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The event's security perimeter is set up, not in a distant bit of nature (like the G8 in Muskoka) but rather smack next to the CN Tower and the Roundhouse Museum and Park.
It's also adjacent to Union Station, the Rogers Centre (aka Skydome), Harbourfront and Bay Street, which will probably get some trickle-down congestion. All in all, not very convenient for visitors.
No patios: Downtown patios will be shut down from June 11 to 27.
No views: The CN Tower will be closed from June 25 to 27.
No Jays: Their scheduled games against Philadelphia have been moved south of the border.
Transit delays: Yes, even more than usual.
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Border control: The only people allowed into the security zone will be searched, screened with a metal detector and required to produce government-issued ID. Fun.


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The Keratographer is a non-invasive medical imaging technique that maps the surface curvature of the cornea. The 3-D map produced by the Keratographer aids the doctor in the diagnosing, monitoring and treatment of various visual conditions.
It is used in helping to diagnose and treat certain conditions of the eye, such as; keratoconus (progressive steepening of the cornea), corneal deformities, corneal scars or opacities and most importantly – the fitting of contact lenses. Another important use of the Keratographer is for pre-operative measurements for Lasik and PRK surgeries as well post-operative measurements from cataract removal.


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El St. Paul Women's City Club es una casa club de 1931 en Saint Paul, Minnesota (Estados Unidos). Fue diseñada en estilo art déco streamline moderne por el arquitecto Magnus Jemne (1882-1964). El edificio de piedra caliza de Mankato tenía como fin proporcionar un "centro para el trabajo organizado y para el intercambio social e intelectual". Tenía un comedor, salones de actos, vestidores, dormitorios y 1.000 miembros. En 1972 el Museo de Arte de Minnesota lo compró y alberga desde entonces una colección permanente de esa institución. Está incluido en el Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos.

Referencias

Edificios y estructuras terminadas en 1913
Art déco en Minesota

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Antique doll. Unsure of origin and identity.
Soft vinyl like body all one piece with bisque socket head. Body is stuffed with sawdust possibly. Hair is molded. Eyes open and close, sleepy eyes, blue eyes possibly glass. Closed mouth no teeth.
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Yacc (Yet Another Compiler-Compiler) is a computer program for the Unix operating system developed by Stephen C. Johnson.  It is a Look Ahead Left-to-Right Rightmost Derivation (LALR) parser generator, generating a LALR parser (the part of a compiler that tries to make syntactic sense of the source code) based on a formal grammar, written in a notation similar to Backus–Naur Form (BNF). Yacc is supplied as a standard utility on BSD and AT&T Unix. GNU-based Linux distributions include Bison, a forward-compatible Yacc replacement.

History
In the early 1970s, Stephen C. Johnson, a computer scientist at Bell Labs / AT&T, developed Yacc because he wanted to insert an exclusive or operator into a B language compiler (developed using McIlroy's TMG compiler-compiler), but it turned out to be a hard task. As a result, he was directed by his colleague at Bell Labs Al Aho to Donald Knuth's work on LR parsing, which served as the basis for Yacc. Yacc was influenced by and received its name in reference to TMG compiler-compiler.

Yacc was originally written in the B programming language, but was soon rewritten in C by Alan Snyder. It appeared as part of Version 3 Unix, and a full description of Yacc was published in 1975.

Johnson used Yacc to create the Portable C Compiler. Bjarne Stroustrup also attempted to use Yacc to create a formal specification of C++, but "was defeated by C's syntax". While finding it unsuitable for a formal specification of the language, Stroustrup did proceed to use Yacc to implement Cfront, the first implementation of C++.

In a 2008 interview, Johnson reflected that "the contribution Yacc made to the spread of Unix and C is what I'm proudest of".

Description
The input to Yacc is a grammar with snippets of C code (called "actions") attached to its rules. Its output is a shift-reduce parser in C that executes the C snippets associated with each rule as soon as the rule is recognized. Typical actions involve the construction of parse trees. Using an example from Johnson, if the call  constructs a binary parse tree node with the specified  and children, then the rule
expr : expr '+' expr  { $$ = node('+', $1, $3); }
recognizes summation expressions and constructs nodes for them. The special identifiers ,  and  refer to items on the parser's stack.

Yacc produces only a parser (phrase analyzer); for full syntactic analysis this requires an external lexical analyzer to perform the first tokenization stage (word analysis), which is then followed by the parsing stage proper. Lexical analyzer generators, such as Lex or Flex, are widely available. The IEEE POSIX P1003.2 standard defines the functionality and requirements for both Lex and Yacc.

Some versions of AT&T Yacc have become open source. For example, source code is available with the standard distributions of Plan 9.

Impact
Yacc and similar programs (largely reimplementations) have been very popular. Yacc itself used to be available as the default parser generator on most Unix systems, though it has since been supplanted by more recent, largely compatible, programs such as Berkeley Yacc, GNU Bison, MKS Yacc, and Abraxas PCYACC. An updated version of the original AT&T Yacc is included as part of Sun's OpenSolaris project. Each offers slight improvements and additional features over the original Yacc, but the concept and basic syntax have remained the same.

Among the languages that were first implemented with Yacc are AWK, C++, eqn and Pic. Yacc was also used on Unix to implement the Portable C Compiler, as well as parsers for such programming languages as FORTRAN 77, Ratfor, APL, bc, m4, etc.

Yacc has also been rewritten for other languages, including OCaml, Ratfor, ML, Ada, Pascal, Java, Python, Ruby, Go, Common Lisp and Erlang.

 Berkeley Yacc: The Berkeley implementation of Yacc quickly became more popular than AT&T Yacc itself because of its performance and lack of reuse restrictions.
 LALR parser: The underlying parsing algorithm in Yacc-generated parsers.
 Bison: The GNU version of Yacc.
 Lex (and Flex lexical analyser), a token parser commonly used in conjunction with Yacc (and Bison).
 BNF is a metasyntax used to express context-free grammars: that is a formal way to describe context-free languages.
 PLY (Python Lex-Yacc) is an alternative implementation of Lex and Yacc in Python.

See also
 Compiler-compiler
 hoc (programming language)

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Compiling tools
Parser generators
Unix programming tools
Unix SUS2008 utilities
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Get Your Feet Wet Before You Ask "How's the water?"
Experiment. Play. Learn. Teach yourself. You're not going to break it.
This is even a lesson we teach to kids, when learning about almost anything. One part that kids often lack is the judgment of is it safe to learn on their own? Adults are more equiped to make this judgement, and are more equiped to handle minor problems or consequences.
I want to share this lesson with my peers. The ones who are tech savvy, are programmers, and are smart, educated people, equipped to solve more complex problems. For the most part, you do this, and that's awesome. You know that the first step to solving most of your challenging problems is to stop and think, and then to google it, and then to bounce between those two for a while before looking for help from others.
There's a piece of judgement that's not so common among us, however, and that's when to test the water. Often times, when thrown into (or voluntarily exploring) a situation that involves a new technology, we aren't quite sure whether to stop and think, google, or ask someone else. Many times, we'll jump quickly to "hey, so-and-so worked with this, let's get her input." What if you could avoid talking to that person altogether before getting her involved?
Figuring out when to test the water yourself, and really get your feet wet is tough. What if there are lots of obstacles that your peer already figured out, and she could help you avoid the same mistakes? That's a really good reason to get her input. On the other hand, what if there aren't? What if she got her feet wet and jumped in, and you could do it too - easily figuring out the task at hand without much difficulty at all? But how do we tell? How do we know?
I don't have a good answer, but I think I'd ere to the side of getting my feet wet. Often times, we can avoid distracting our peers by simply trying something ourselves, and then making a judgement later about whether or not we need help. There are some things we can do to help, though. Blog. Document. Share. Don't just spit it out or get it into text, though - articulate the problems and solutions thouroughly and completely so your peers can search and find and read and learn, on their own, while still getting some hard earned beta from you if they need it.


It costs more than $30,000 dollars per year to run Pilpintuwasi and Animal Orphanage, which is extremely high by Peruvian standards.
Although we are fortunate to be in such a beautiful environment, the isolated location of Padre Cocha means that the cost of purchasing is higher than other parts of Peru. Also, this total doesn't include the refurbishment and medicine costs that crop up intermittently and also doesn't allow for other improvements we may like to make.
We rely solely on the entrance fees and the generous donations of our visitors in order to provide this refuge. We are grateful for any contribution no matter how large or how small.
If you're interested in supporting our work you can feed one of our animals for a day, offer a recurring monthly contribution, or fully sponsor one of our animals for a fixed time.
Feeding one of our animals for a day requires a relatively small contribution that should suit those on a tight budget, but really makes a difference to our work here. For this, you receive a huge thank you from us and, of course, the animal you're feeding.
In return for a monthly contribution or full sponsorship (supporting all the costs of one of our animals) we will send you updates throughout the duration of your commitment.
If you are visiting the sanctuary we can accept cash or Paypal payments.
Once you sign up to sponsor an animal we will email you a link to make a single payment, or set up a recurring payment. Of course, you can cancel a recurring payment at any time.
Thank you from all the animals at Pilpintuwasi!
Our 5 capuchins eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, as well as nuts and insects.
Our Uakaris get cereal products, peanuts, Brazil nuts, fruit and mealworms on a daily basis as well as pecans as a treat.
Cost Per Day: $3 or 6-8 soles per monkey.
Harry has been with us since she was a kitten, she is a playful and curious cat, she loves walking in the jungle, feeding time and playing with the toys left for her in her enclosure.
Cost Per Day: $3 or 6-8 soles.
Our anteater needs vitamin K, taurine, and protein powder in high quantities daily, as well as meat. In addition she needs to be walked for 8 hours every day so she can forage for ants. The men who walk her receives 20 soles a day.
Cost Per Day: $16 or 40 soles.
Tamarin's eat mealworms, nuts and fruit, and help by collecting a lot of insects themselves.
Cost Per Day: $1.50 or 3-4 soles.
The sloths get vitamin K and, every now and then, taurine. Their food expenses are minimal as it is collected from the jungle.
Our two coatis eat fruit and nuts and worms and fish caught by volunteers.
The pygmy marmosets eat worms, insects and tree sap.
Cost Per Day: $1 or 2.5 soles.
Cost Per Day: $4 or 10 soles.
If you prefer to make a general donation, following are needs for your consideration. You can choose exactly how you wish to help.
$25 (62 soles) will allow us to feed and walk our Anteater for a day.
$25 (62 soles) helps us to feed Harry, our Ocelot for one week.
$30 (75 soles) will feed Marbino, our Manatee for one week.
$35 (90 soles) will feed all of our Amazonian bird species for one week.
$42 (105 soles) will feed our Coatis, Maxie and Juanita, for one week.
$42 (105 soles) will feed and provide essential vitamins to our 3 Sloths for one week.
$42 (105 soles) will provide our Capuchins with food for the week.
$60 (150 soles) pays for the vets fees to check the health of the animals, which is arranged on a regular basis.
$190 will feed all of our 9 Uakaris for one week.
$300 (800 soles) will pay our workers for one week, allowing them to look after the animals and their families.
$500 (1250) will enable us to build a larger enclosure allowing us to rescue several small animals in danger or larger Amazonian species.


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Esko to sell Kongsberg
By Wayne Robinson | 18 December 2020
Esko owner Danaher is selling the Kongsberg digital wide format finishing business to private equity fund OpenGate Capital, which owns several print and packaging-related businesses.
Esko sells: Kongsberg
The deal will include the Kongsberg head office and development centre in Norway and the manufacturing centre in the Czech Republic.
The Kongsberg cutting tables are one of the top selling high-end flatbed digital cutting tables in ANZ, vying with Zünd (and the Canon ProCut, which is a Zünd) for top spot. Kongsberg was established in 1965 and bought by Esko, or Barco as it then was, in 1998.
The Belgian manufacturer, which makes integrated software and hardware products for the packaging, label, and wide-format sectors, announced the planned sale yesterday (15 December).
It is subject to any applicable information and/or consultation with employee representative bodies under applicable local law.
Esko said its Kongsberg customers can "expect business as usual". Most of the employees who currently work in the Kongsberg business will transfer over to the new standalone entity, which will be called Kongsberg PCS (Precision Cutting Systems).
Its new president will be Stuart Fox, who is currently digital finishing specialist with Esko. He said, "We are excited about this change and the new opportunities it brings for Kongsberg to accelerate growth with new customers."
The Open Gate fund was established in 2005 in Los Angeles, and since then has acquired several companies in the print and packaging arena, mainly in packaging papers.
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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack visits Renmatix for commissioning of plant-to-sugar BioFlex Conversion Unit
Building on success in hardwood, Philadelphia-based Renmatix adds on-site capability to convert multiple local and international feedstocks to cellulosic sugar
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pennsylvania – January 11, 2013 – Renmatix, the leading manufacturer of cellulosic sugars for biobased chemical and fuel markets, welcomed Secretary Tom Vilsack, leader of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), for the commissioning of the company's BioFlex Conversion Unit, a multiple-feedstock processing facility at the company's King of Prussia headquarters.
Vilsack toured Renmatix's world-class technical center and joined Renmatix CEO, Mike Hamilton, in formal remarks on the industry's recent advancements in developing next-generation renewable energy and high-value biobased products, and Renmatix's role in producing the low-cost intermediates critical in the pivot from petro-sourced to bio-based alternatives.
"Rural America holds tremendous promise today, thanks in large part to innovation taking place in the biobased economy. Since 2009, USDA has made tremendous investments in the research necessary to develop the next generation of biobased products. Such research is validated when companies like Renmatix can convert locally relevant feedstocks into the very low-cost sugar intermediates demanded by global fuel and chemical markets," said Vilsack. "I applaud the Renmatix team for creating more than 50 sustainable, green collar jobs in Pennsylvania and strengthening the future of a biobased economy for southeast Pennsylvania."
The new BioFlex Conversion Unit (BCU) at Renmatix's Pennsylvania facility builds on the company's success with hard wood biomass at its flagship facility in Georgia and will test and convert a range of non-food plant materials through its water-based Plantrose™ process. In addition to hardwood, the company will begin conversion of four locally available feedstocks including: perennial grasses, agricultural residues, softwoods and waste streams. The cellulosic sugars produced on-site via the BCU will support downstream fuel and chemical strategic partners and data analysis at the company's technical center, which was opened in September 2012.
"Having Secretary Vilsack join us to mark the next phase in diversifying Renmatix's technology across multiple forms of biomass is a great honor. His visit reflects our complementary interests in agriculture and chemistry, and highlights a new wave of 'farmistry' that is creating value for many types of locally grown, advantaged biomass. This new production facility will expand the relevance of the Plantrose Process by helping to evaluate renewable feedstocks that are abundantly available in a variety of climates and geographies worldwide," said Renmatix CEO Mike Hamilton. "The sugars produced at this site will continue to enable development of the emerging bioeconomy and will be shared with key industry collaborators and Fortune 50 downstream partners in our active sampling program."


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Posted on September 12, 2011 September 12, 2011 by Tonio Loewald
Squeezing True Blood from a Stone
With BitTorrent you can download episodes of True Blood faster and more conveniently than you can set up or cancel a cable or satellite TV subscription. Hypothetically, of course.
I just ordered DirectTV ("$34.95 per month(1) with two upgrades(2), including HBO (3), Starz…, and covering up to 4 TVs(4)") and then — after some mental arithmetic and a quick conversation with Rosanna — almost immediately canceled it. Indeed, the person whose unenviable job it was to close the sale had to read me what sounded like two pages of fine print legalese. I'm amazed that anyone agrees to the service at that point (part of the legalese required me to say "yes" but I never actually was asked to, which I found puzzling). From the cancelation process (during which I was offered a lower rate and a DSL bundle — even if you plan to keep the service, I strongly suggest you try canceling it — remember: telephone operators are standing by) it's quite clear that cancelation of such orders is very common. The person handling my cancelation seemed demoralized and fatalistic. Why? Because:
the $34.95 per month is only (a) after a rebate (seriously, why? how many bait-and-switches do you think it takes before your customer gets pissed off?) and (b) only for the first 12 months of a (c) 24 month commitment which (d) costs $20/month for early termination.
the upgrades are not free and increase your $34.95 (or whatever) per month to a lot more. (And remember, the $34.95 goes up after the first twelve months.)
for the first three months after which it's $15.99/month for HBO and goodness knows how much for the rest.
up to 4 TVs are covered for installation, but you pay extra per month per TV beyond the first, and extra again for HD per TV beyond the first, and extra again for any DVRs. This can easily add up to more than the plan itself.
As an aside: the "foot-in-the-door" technique (a.k.a. "bait-and-switch") is a well-known sales technique, but there has to be some point at which it ceases being effective. I would like to think that these guys have gone well beyond this point but since they're clearly not stupid I suspect that tacking on a half-dozen extra charges that more than double the up-front cost of the alleged deal actually works. (And I never did get to find out what taxes get slathered all over the bill at the end.)
After paring down the deal to its minimum (one TV with HD reception, no DVR) it was going to cost $34.95 per month (after rebate) for twelve months and then either $65.99 or $70.99 per month for the next 12 months. HBO (et al) would be free for the first three months and then $15.99 per month thereafter. The deal includes some kind of premium access to NFL coverage for this season which we need to cancel after the season ends but before the next season begins to avoid being billed for that. And to get the rebate in a timely manner we need to process the rebate before the installation takes place.
In other words, $1200 if I don't make any mistakes. And people think Apple's products are overpriced.
All of this to watch True Blood via HBO Go.
This is our second attempt to get access to True Blood Season 4. Our first attempt involved trying to change our Comcast Subscription by the absolute minimum amount necessary to get access to HBO on Xfinity. ("Xfinity" is a made-up word that you get by crossing out the word "infinity". This is because "zero" is a common word and can't be trademarked.) This first attempt spanned almost four weeks, including several waits on hold each over 30 minutes, and two identical "escalated" "engineering" tickets that were each supposed to be resolved within 72h but were in fact never resolved. (I did receive one call about one of the tickets shortly after having thrown in the towel and canceled the whole fiasco — I believe the person called to tell me the ticket was being closed because I had canceled the subscription.)
Here's the thing. I only did all this crap because I am, basically, an honest person. Stupidly honest, in fact. It's not, for example, that I don't know how Bittorrent works. If True Blood were available via Season Pass in iTunes at a ridiculously inflated price, I would cheerfully have paid for it. But nooooo. HBO wants to protect its ability to attract fools to satellite and cable TV subscriptions rather than simply giving people what they want at a reasonable, or in fact any, price.
In the time I wasted making one call to Comcast, I could have torrented the first episode and had the others drop automagically onto my hard disk overnight. Incidentally, for the three weeks we were subscribed to HBO via Comcast and yet unable to actually watch any HBO content, this would have meant illegally downloading content we were legally entitled to watch but couldn't. That would be a fun lawsuit.
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U.S. Markets: Stocks fell sharply this week with the large cap S&P 500 index losing more than 5% on Wednesday and Thursday combined, the largest two-day drop since early February. Stocks managed a bounce on Friday with the S&P 500 ending the week down -4.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gave up more than 1100 points to close at 25,339, down -4.2%. Smaller cap stocks continued to get the short end of the stick. The S&P 400 mid cap index retreated -4.9%, while the small cap Russell 2000 finished down -5.2%.
International Markets: Canada's TSX finished down for a third week by giving up -3.3%, while across the Atlantic the United Kingdom's FTSE fell a steeper -4.4%. On Europe's mainland, major markets were also all down. France's CAC 40 and Germany's DAX each retreated -4.9%, while Italy's Milan FTSE ended down -5.4%. In Asia, China's Shanghai Composite plunged -7.6% while Japan's Nikkei ended down -4.6%. As grouped by Morgan Stanley Capital International, developed markets fell -3.9% while emerging markets lost -1.4%, helped in no small part by a big pop in Brazil where the conservative presidential candidate won the first round of presidential voting.
Commodities: Amid all the stock market weakness, some investors sought refuge in precious metals. Gold ended the week up 1.4%, at $1222 per ounce, while Silver was off just a penny at $14.63 an ounce. Energy finished down for the week with Brent North Sea crude oil off -4.2% to $80.60 per barrel, while West Texas Intermediate crude oil closed at $71.34 per barrel, down -4.0%. The industrial metal copper, seen by some analysts as a measure of world economic growth due to its variety of industrial uses, finished the week up 1.4%.
U.S. Economic News: The number of people seeking new unemployment benefits climbed 7,000 to 214,000 last week—a modest increase but remaining near historically low levels. Economists had predicted a reading of 205,000. The less-volatile monthly average of new claims increased by 2,500 to 209,500. The low number of layoffs continues to reflect the tightest labor market in half a century. Job openings remain at a record high and unemployment is near a 48-year low of 3.7%. The number of people already receiving unemployment benefits, known as "continuing claims", edged up 4,000 to 1.66 million. That number is also near a 45-year low.
Sentiment among the nation's small business owners pulled back from its 45-year high last month according to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). The NFIB's small business optimism index fell 0.9 point in September to a seasonally-adjusted level of 107.9. In the report, six of the index components declined, three gained, and one remained unchanged. Still, NFIB President Juanita Duggan noted "This is the longest streak of small business optimism in history, evidence that tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks are paying off for the economy as a whole. Our members say that business is booming and prospects continue to look bright."
Prices at the wholesale level rebounded 0.2% in September, matching consensus expectations for the Producer Price Index (PPI). Ex food and energy, the PPI also rose 0.2%. In the details, the services sector PPI advanced 0.3%, led by a 1.8% jump in transportation and warehousing prices, while the goods sector PPI slipped 0.1% - its first decline since May of 2017. Year-over-year, final demand PPI eased 0.1% to 2.7%, while core PPI edged up to 2.5% indicating there was little change in inflation at the producer level. The Federal Reserve is sticking to its forecast that overall inflation will remain around its target 2%, allowing it to carry on its current strategy of gradually raising U.S. interest rates. Economists at Oxford Economics wrote, "This latest inflation data corroborates our view that the Fed is likely to move ahead with another rate hike in December, bringing this year's total to four."
Consumer prices ticked up in September, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index (CPI) edged up 0.1% last month, the smallest gain in six months. On a year over year basis, the CPI eased to 2.3% from 2.7% the prior month—its slowest rise since February. Core CPI, which removes the volatile food and energy categories, also rose 0.1%. Year over year core CPI held steady at 2.2%. So far, global tariffs have not created an inflation issue just yet, as the strength of the U.S. dollar has offset some of the price impact. About half of the increase in the CPI last month was attributed to higher rents and the rising cost of home ownership.
Sentiment among the nation's consumers slipped but still remained near a 15-year high, according to the latest University of Michigan survey. The survey of 500 consumers' outlook on economic prospects fell just short of expectations hitting a level of 99 in its preliminary reading, below the 100.4 expected. Richard Curtin, chief economist for the survey stated, "Consumer sentiment slipped in early October, although it remained at quite favorable levels and just above the average reading during 2018." Notably, the survey revealed growing bipartisan support for the government's economic policies. Curtin noted, "Most of the October gain was due to an upward adjustment by Democrats, although their evaluations were still well below the much more favorable evaluations of Republicans."
International Economic News: The International Monetary Fund cut its growth forecast for the global economy for the next two years as economic risks are on the rise. The IMF cut its growth forecast for the global economy in 2018 and 2019 to 3.7%, down -0.2% from its prior estimate for both years. The change reflects weaker growth in the world's advanced economies, rising trade tensions, and higher oil prices. IMF chief economist Maurice Obstfeld stated recent data showed global trade weakening, as well as weakness in manufacturing and investment. Obstfeld noted that for the United States, the Trump tax cuts should lift the U.S. economy until 2020, but when the stimulus expires and as growth in China continues to slow, Obstfeld said "global growth is set to moderate."
After Canada achieved robust 3% economic growth in 2017, accounting firm Deloitte & Touche now expects the Canadian economy to slow to 2% growth for 2018, slightly lower in 2019, and just 1.4% by 2020. Deloitte Economic Advisory stated that high household debt, rising interest rates, flat real estate markets, and weaker employment growth will all weigh on consumer spending in 2019 and 2020. Along with U.S. protectionism posing a risk in global growth, tighter monetary policy in North America and Europe will also play a role the firm said. Deloitte Canada's Chief Economist, Craig Alexander stated, "The signs that the North American economy is in the late stages of a business cycle are all around us, from a record long bull market in US equities to low unemployment rates and rising central bank rates."
As Brexit negotiations have come to a standstill, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the United Kingdom should call for a referendum to allow voters to choose between a no-deal Brexit and staying in the European Union. Less than six months before the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union, there is little clarity about how the world's fifth largest economy and its financial center of London will continue to trade with the EU after Brexit. Some members of her Conservative Party are unhappy about the Brexit proposals she has made while the main opposition Labour Party has indicated it is likely to vote down any deal May proposes. Blair said he did not expect May to be able to get a deal through parliament so the country should be offered a new vote.
The German government cut its economic growth forecasts for this year and the next citing global trade uncertainty, but noted that the underlying up trend nevertheless remains intact. Germany's economic growth is now expected to come in at 1.8% this year, down a sizeable 0.5% from its previous forecast. In addition, next year's growth rate is expected to be 1.8% as well, down 0.4% from the last estimate. Last year, Germany expanded 2.2%. Peter Altmaier, Germany's Economics Minister, stated "The German economy is still in an upswing and will continue this upswing for the tenth consecutive year next year -the longest upswing period since 1966." Furthermore, "Uncertainties regarding its future performance are caused by increasing protectionist tendencies and international trade conflicts. They harm all parties involved," he said.
In a bid to end trade war tensions, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have agreed to meet next month at the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires in hopes of resolving their escalating trade conflict. The discussion, which Beijing initiated, would represent the first direct talks since August. However, with U.S.-China relations continuing to deteriorate few analysts are expecting a major breakthrough. Michael Pillsbury, director of the Center on Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute stated, "The problem is neither side seems to be confident that it understands the other side's bottom line negotiating demand." The agreement to restart negotiations comes three weeks after Trump added tariffs to $200 billion in Chinese imports.
Bank of Japan (BOJ) board member Makoto Sakurai warned this week that the spread of protectionist trade policies was creating uncertainty in the global economy and could slow Japan's economic growth below the BOJ's projections. Mr. Sakurai said the BOJ should continue its strong monetary stimulus for the time being, as well as monitoring for side-effects of the prolonged easing. The BOJ's policy board forecast Japan's economy would grow 1.5% this fiscal year and 0.8% in the following two years - around the same level as its growth potential. Under its yield curve control policy, the BOJ has pledged to guide short-term interest rates to negative 0.1% and to cap the 10-year government bond yield around zero percent.
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Science museums are disconnected from new science research
The system of getting knowledge about science to the public is broken. One major crack in the system is a disconnect between science museums and new science research.
Science museums matter
Aside from the news media, which now has less science coverage as the journalism business contracts, museums play a vital role in how the public learns about science outside of school. New data show that science museums play an important part in this informal learning.
Despite enthusiastic scientists who are using social media, leading citizen science, and supporting other kinds of outreach, the vast majority of scientific information is ensconced in journals and conferences.
To connect this knowledge to the public, it's common practice for closed-access journals to give journalists free (advance) access to new articles. But the same courtesy is not provided to science museums that would also benefit from new articles, as well as a back library of older articles. And science museums rarely budget for journal subscriptions.
This is a shame, as science museums can strongly influence the public's knowledge and attitudes about science and technology, and to a surprising degree can cut across racial, ethnic, educational and economic barriers. (See OSU press release.)
Science museums lack journal access
Scholarly knowledge is hidden in closed-access journals. Vital and current knowledge is behind paywalls, out of reach of educators. This reduces the quality of new exhibitions and harms the chances of new funding.
Charlie Carlson, senior scientist at the Exploratorium, says this lack of access is unfortunate because "scientific journal access would be extremely useful in covering, describing and presenting the latest scientific developments and discourse. This seems a bit like a no brainer."
Martin Weiss, a science interpretation consultant for the New York Hall of Science, says he needs journal access to research and prepare content for exhibitions. Since he does not have access himself, "when I really need something I prevail upon colleagues who have university library access for PDFs."
Jeff Courtman is director of exhibit development at Museumscapes, an exhibit design and fabrication firm, and has worked in the museum field for over 25 years, mostly in science centers. During that time, he lacked ready access to science journals. But ironically, now that he's switching fields and is a student again (working on an Masters degree in mental health counseling) he has access to a broad spectrum of journals via his university.
The converse is true for science organizations who don't have access to education journals. Sue Ann Heatherly is an education officer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). She has access to science, astronomy and engineering journals, but not to fee-based science education journals. Heatherly says she "can ask my organization to purchase articles for me, but that's not the same as the 'random walk' one needs to do in the early stages of finding relevant studies."
Heatherly says that as an informal education practitioner, she should be reading more of the research on learning and "not flying by the seat of our pants when developing educational programming. I'm working now on a rewrite of the failed proposal and I have learned so much from digging into the research as I always do." She doesn't have an alternative, "I'm trying to gain privileges at a state university — so far no luck. Right now, I read abstracts, and purchase a few articles."
Open access & blogs
The good news is that museum and educational staff increasingly rely on open access journals and blogs for access to new information about scientific advancements & research, as well as social science research about learning. (See my recent articles about open access journals; and rise of blogging.)
In lieu of institutional journal subscriptions, Carlson personally pays for his own subscription to Science, uses someone else's subscription to Nature, and reads the open access PLoS journal. Carlson is an avid reader of blogs, and enjoys the provocative themes of New Scientist and Wired. Still, he says that while he loves the blogs and magazine, "I very much like to reference the original materials and see the original papers." He says, "science bloggers have picked up the slack and they bring freshness and new perspectives, and frequently their perspectives provide valuable observations and insights."
Courtman was originally trained as an artist. But blogs and free online news have helped him look for new connections and discoveries. He says, "I appreciate sites like physorg.com because it gives me the top-level view. I don't have to be a science expert to understand and if something piques my interest — perhaps I begin wondering about a connection — I can dig deeper."
Relying on science advisors and stale knowledge
Weiss has a strong science background, but says, "I don't think the majority of science centers have staff to be able to utilize [science journals]. For them the science advisors are sufficient." Creating new exhibitions is a complex business, involving many staff, and the science is only a small piece. Weiss says that not all of the staff who are preparing programs or exhibitions "need or really want to have access… we use expert advisors to vet information for us."
Only a small subset of staff at science museums actually want to read science literature, Carlson says. "It seems to me that getting the focus of informal science education back on the science and process of discovery would be a first step. When I started the focus was science and investigation, now it's education and science is the vehicle, and it should be the other way."
There may be too much focus on methods instead of substance. Carlson says that informal science education professionals tend to focus on "educational technique and methodologies rather than content, principles, and critical thinking. Basically, science is not deemed critical to the mission, which is unfortunate, since it's actually central to the mission and essential to the development of new content."
Carlson says that excessive focus on methodology "inherently diminishes the role of scientific discovery. Most information discussed in the informal science education field comes from secondary and tertiary sources where it has been preprocessed and sometimes distorted. And then it's impossible to get to the sources. Carlson says, "I think that there can be a stagnation without access to journals. The New York Times [science section] will take you only so far."
Collective bargaining power?
If museums can't afford the rates from commercial journal providers, can they band together to get a better deal? The membership society of science centers, Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), has not used its bargaining power of 600 member museums and centers in 45 countries to negotiate journal access to get a good deal for this overlooked corner of the market.
Carlson says, "unfortunately, the number of folks actually interested in science within ASTC is relatively small. Folks tend to me more concerned with the look and feel rather than the crucial scientific questions and discoveries. The people that I respect most from a scientific perspective tended to think the information was too technical for the public and that it would be best left to experts in the field. I found the response disheartening. Actually, the use of scientific discovery and practice might be best sustained and nurtured by access to knowledge and technical detail and might foster great scientific interest in science."
The merchandisers fills in
Where there's no money for knowledge, the merchandizers have a field day. One alarming example is the content in the $2m Harry Potter exhibition which recently circulated several top museums, and had it's content provided by Warner Bros. Consumer Products division, which handles licensing and merchandising deals, like action figures for fast food kid's meals. See my article on blockbuster traveling exhibits.
Without science as a mandate, that Harry Potter exhibit missed a ton of opportunities to bring in the science of potions, flight, or invisibility. By contrast, when the U.S. National Library of Medicine created a small format (a set of panels) traveling exhibition, "Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine," which travels to libraries for less than $500 cost, they included much more science.
Update: 27-Apr: Minor typos fixed.
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5 comments on Science museums are disconnected from new science research
tmcnichol
26 Apr 2011, 8:53 am
Excellent research and report out on the availability of crucial literature for science museums. As an independent researcher, I obtain access to specific databases through the Princeton Research Forum, a group of independent scholars (and arm of National Coalition of Independent Scholars, NCIS) which purchases access to Princeton University libraries. However, this level of access does not include checking out books, which is a long standing problem for scholars and researchers working independently. As Jeff Courtman points out, his new status as a university student changed all that. As an adjunct professor at a local community college, I would recommend looking into whether your community college may provide access to the pertinent databases which are available to part-time students who sign up for even one class. Despite budget shortfalls, the college still offers interlibrary loan services–at least for now.
Glykeria
Three years ago, the e.Knownet project set off motivated exactly by this lack of information bridges between science centres and the research lab. The project was co-funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission and coordinated by the Eugenides Foundation, a Greek science centre. The project focused its efforts to help a fast and efficient sharing of new scientific knowledge produced in the research lab with various learning communities. Original information and learning material in the field of Photochemistry was produced by 65 researchers from various European labs in collaboration with science communicators and science educators. The main outcomes are showcased in a web-based platform titled ScienceTweets (http://www.sciencetweets.eu), focusing thematically on Photochemistry. researchers all over Europe.
This direct cooperation between researchers and transformers of specialised knowledge allowed Photochemistry researchers to decide upon what is actually 'newsworthy' in their study field by use of scientific standards, and also to decide upon the way that this knowledge should be shared with wider parts of society.
The project was concluded last December (2010). We really hope that it will find immitators!
27 Apr 2011, 11:49 am
I think Carlson is being a bit unfair to a lot of science center staff who, like school teachers, work very hard for poor compensation. I doubt it's quite as severe as he says, that most staff don't want to read the literature, but rather, that they just don't have time as part of their job, or really, are encouraged to. I'd be curious to hear actual data on this, rather than what appears to be just his speculation. From my experience as a manager in a science center, I rarely had time myself to keep up to date with literature, and my staff, who were the ones usually talking to visitors, had none. There was no money or effort put toward this.
Your post could also use some good copyediting; the mistakes are pretty distracting: "converge" instead of "coverage," "peaked" instead of "piqued," among others.
Have museums considered asking their local university libraries to allow them access? Maybe this is also fodder for an IMLS grant …
Thanks for this very important post.
ideaorg
Typos fixed. Thx.
27 Apr 2011, 12:42 pm
Greetings from New Mexico where we have a partnership between the NM Museum of Natural History & Science, the Santa Fe Institute (SFI, an international center for complexity science), and the Center for Cultural Technology, which is in itself a partnership between the Media Arts Program at New Mexico Highlands University and the NM Department of Cultural Affairs. SFI used education and outreach funding from a large NSF grant to underwrite the design and production of an exhibit for the museum, and their researchers provided content. The exhibit was primarily produced by students enrolled in PICT (the Program in Interactive Cultural Technology). The goals were threefold: to introduce complexity science into museum interpretation; to use social media to connect the exhibit to audiences beyond museum walls; and to use technology to expand and update the exhibit as research unfolds. The exhibit is scheduled to open in Albuquerque on June 30th. For more information contact me at mimi.roberts@state.nm.us. .
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This complex yet elegant vintage of "Old Vines" Cabernet Sauvignon shows sophistication and concentration that come from such extraordinary 40+ year-old vines. It expresses the purity of fully mature cabernet sauvignon that can only be achieved from old vine fruit. The color is a deep purple, and intermingling aromas of baking spice, cedar, graphite and ripe blackberries leap from the glass. Flavors of black fruits blend beautifully with pencil, cigar box and exotic spice of new French oak that coat the mouth. The texture is soft but firm with beautifully integrated tannins offering a rich, long finish. This wine will benefit greatly from additional cellaring and, with proper storage, should last for ten years or more.
Sagemoor Vineyard (Columbia Valley), Champoux Vineyard (Horse Heaven Hills) and Woodward Canyon Estate Vineyard (Walla Walla Valley).
This 2016 Washington State "Old Vines" Cabernet Sauvignon is produced from grapes that were planted in the early 1970's. From late September through mid-October, the old block grapes were harvested by hand from Sagemoor Vineyard (75%) and Champoux Vineyard (20%) located on two very distinct benches above the Columbia River. The petit verdot was harvested from Woodward Canyon Estate Vineyard (5%). The wine was fermented in 2000 liter stainless steel tanks and was punched down two times per day. Average fermentation was between seven and ten days. After pressing and racking, the various lots were moved to new French barrels for aging and maturation. In late 2018 the wine was racked from barrel, assembled and bottled mid-February 2019.


We seem to be getting limited use of our columns due to high pressure after a limited number of injections. Even while pumping just mobile phase the pressure climbs from about 9000PSI at start to an increase of about 50 psi per hour. Once we shut off the pump it seems as if the pressure goes back down. Any hints?
If the pressure rises even with mobile phase that says it probably is the mobile phase or something in it, that is causing the problem. However, with troubleshooting you must not jump to conclusions, but work through a process of elimination. Have you spoken to your local chemistry rep? They are a great resource. They can assist with the process of identifyig your issue. And or please contact your local technical support resource.
Firstly, you need to determine the location of the plugging, Head of column etc by replacing the inlet frit and if not then replace the outlet.
Secondly, what is casuing the plugging. It is always good to ask whether the method previously worked on HPLC columns. You will need to inject standards or blanks prepared in mobile phase, to see what is the column lifetime? This will help to rule out the solvents, system and method.
Assuming that long column lifetimes are enjoyed during this study in #2, prepare standards in water and subject these standards to the sample prep procedure. Inject these prepared standards. What is the column lifetime?
All that is left now is the samples. The system, solvents and lab practices have been eliminated. If UPLC column plugging or short column lifetimes are now encountered, the sample quality & preparation need to be investigated.
UPLC Columns act as a very fine filter. To realize the potential of UPLC, small procedural changes may need to be made - Analogous to past changes required to utilize 3 µm particle columns or microbore columns.
1) Bacterial contamination... Solvent is filtered into containers that are re-used and contain a bio-film.
3) Glassware.. we have seen cases where the glass containers were leaching silicates at high pH (NH4HCO3).
4) Sometimes a small amount of bacterial or other fouling has built up on surface of the inlet filter from an earlier run and during flushing is extruded into the filter causing much greater flow restriction.
5) If the system has been run in THF without the necessary precautions.
Just a quick followup up to Ms. Hodgdon's and Outback's excellent replies. UPLC column plugging is rare. Because of this, troubleshooting UPLC column pressure issues is a fairly straightforward process since there is a very finite number of causes. In order to identify the cause of plugging quickly (without guessing) I also suggest you contact your local Waters Chemistry Operations representative who has been trained to troubleshoot LC column issues with customers. Waters can suggest a methodical, step-by-step troubleshooting process that will quickly determine the location (usually inlet frit) and then source (e.g., bacteria, sample particulates, etc) of UPLC column plugging. Please let us know if there is anything that we can do to help.
I had that problem once because unknown to me my sample was not compatable with the mobile phase. Samples were filtered and absolutely clear but as soon as they were intruduced to the mobile phase stream something would precipitate out. How I determined this was to mix a sample with some mobile phase in a small test tube. It was then I could see something coming out of solution. Further investigation showed it was the ZnSO4 I was using to enhance precipitation of proteins that was not miscible in the ACN mobile phase. I had to change my extraction to a LLE rather than protein precipitation.
And not only the column got ruined. The stuff precipitated in the sample valve and it had to be replaced. Big lessen learned about sample vs mobile phase.
There is one other thing to consider and investigate that I ran into in my lab. For a time, we (Waters) were supplying solvent reservoir filters (sinkers) made of Hastalloy. In general, Hastalloy is an excellent material that resists most types of corrosion and contains little or no iron to contaminate MS detection. This absence of iron was the primary reason for their introduction. However, over time, we discovered that Hastalloy did have one shortcoming. When exposed to acids (TFA, formic, etc.), Hastalloy will form insoluble oxides. When the oxide formation begins, the behavior is exactly as J&J describes. System backpressure will constantly, and inexorably, rise. This will continue as long as there is acid in the mobile phase reservoirs and Hastalloy solvent filters are in the solvent reservoirs. The Hastalloy filters are marked for identification. I believe it is an "X" imprinted on the bottom of the filter. If it is not an "X", it is some other letter. The standard 316 stainless steel filters have no marking. If this is what J&J is experiencing, the solution is simple. Replace the Hastalloy solvent filters with the standard stainless steel filters. I believe that the part number for a package of 5 is PSL613604, but this should be confirmed. The problem will almost immediately disappear. However, it is very difficult to recover any columns exposed to the oxides. Sometimes backflushing will remove some of the oxide particles, but the column almost never returns to the "original" backpressure. I am, absolutely, not saying that this is the issue that J&J is experiencing, but it is something that should be investigated as a possible cause.
all said before is true: especially about the basic trouble shoot pathway: eliminate possible origin of the problem one by one, and if you think you found the problem switch it back to the original to check if the problem comes back. we have had rising back pressure that was caused by the quality of the methanol used in our UPLC-method. when just pumping methanol/water the pressure raised after one night. when we switched to an other supplier of methanol the problem was gone.
I believe that the correct par number for the Critical clean stainless steel sinkers is 700003616 which is a package of 7. The Hastelloy sinkers are marked with an XH at the bottom. The SS filters do not have any marking. We also have Titanium sinker that should work OK. These are marked with an XT.
Thanks for the, accurate, corrections to my message. I got some of it right. Which means I got most of it wrong. I'll be more careful with the details in the future. However, I did want everyone to know about the issue since I ran into it on one of my own systems. It was rather mystifying until we determined the root cause. For those running acidic MS applications, the titanium is probably the best choice. Do you happen to know the P/N for the titanium solvent filters?


Darvocet is one of the widely used prescription drugs of all time. Like Paracetamol and Aspirin, Darvocet is a medicine that is useful for curing body pain and fevers. For long, Darvocet has been sold in a number of chemist stores and pharmaceutical stores. However, in 2010, the US Government pulled out all stops to prevent and restrict the sale of medicines in the country. Darvocet has been found to have a number ofDarvocet withdrawal symptoms and hazards which can be quite disastrous to human health. As these problems have been identified, people are usually advised to avoid taking the drug as well.
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After you suddenly withdraw from Darvocet, you may find that you are still craving for the drug. This is something that happens every time you withdraw from taking any drug. The craving is something that makes you feel worried, sad, tense, angry and even irritated. You may feel a great sense of craving for the drug. This can have some serious physical effects on your body as well. Darvocet withdrawal symptoms like this can seriously hamper your thinking as well as your normal work life as well.
Fatigue is a feeling of great exhaustion that a person may suffer from. Due to fatigue, a person may not be able to do the work that may be too excruciating or tiring to them. Fatigue is something that is also the result of sudden and drastic drug withdrawal. When someone suddenly withdraws from taking Darvocet, he or she may suffer excessively from fatigue and exhaustion. This feeling will make it difficult for a person to concentrate on physical or mental work. Therefore, fatigue is one of the most probable Darvocet withdrawal symptoms and side effects for people who are used to the drug.
Nausea is the terribly overwhelming sensation that is usually accompanied with digestive problems. The feeling is that of throwing up or vomiting things that have been recently eaten. As chance would have it, this terrible feeling is also associated with the problem of Darvocet withdrawal as well. This is because suddenly leaving Darvocet can make a person feel sick, nauseated or even unconscious and dizzy. Nausea makes a person feel excessively weak and this can have some serious consequences on a person's proper health and constitution as well. Therefore, it is a serious situation.
Diarrhea is the condition of dramatic loss of water from the body. This happens when germs or viruses enter the digestive system and ruin everything. However, it is also one of the Darvocet withdrawal symptoms. The diarrhea is something that is a result of the sudden drug withdrawal. When it happens, there is some terrible damage sustained on the liver and other organs. Diarrhea is a problem that makes a person feel dehydrated and weak. This happens as the body loses crucial water and nutrients to a great extent. Therefore, it is a symptom to look out for.