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How Has 9/11 Impacted Society
On September 11, 2001, the world stood still in sheer disbelief, as the United States fell victim to an appalling terrorist attack. An Islamic extremist group, known as Al-Qaeda, hijacked four commercial airplanes in the morning of this life-changing day. The group targeted monumental buildings in both New York and Washington, D.C. and executed multiple, suicide attacks, which left behind a massive sea of destruction. Images clearly reveal flames and plumes of black smoke, billowed from the floors and windows of the World Trade Center. Lives have certainly changed in some shape or form and for some, more than others. Thus, 9/11 fabricated significant social, psychological, and economic changes to American society, which has proven to be more…show more content…
The central government's new surveillance systems (challenge/interfere with) our basic constitutional rights. In addition, spying has increased fear among American citizens. Finally, the government has squandered its resources/money on new military and (security/defense) technology, which has proven to be ineffective. September 11, 2001 significantly impacted the social life of the United States. Following the violent act, President George Bush addressed the nation and swore that those responsible would be hunted down and punished. The United States government moved quite hastily and enacted new security systems and policies. On November 9, 2001, President Bush sanctioned the Transportations Security Administration. The TSA is responsible for strengthening the security of the nation's transportation systems. While the organization aims to provide the most effective measures to prevent any terrorist activity, these heightened security procedures have negatively…show more content…
Since September 11th, fear connected with national security threats has shifted to fear of the federal government. The U.S.A. Patriot Act certainly caused much anxiety amongst society. Signed by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001, this act increased law enforcement's surveillance and investigative powers, "The purpose of the USA PATRIOT Act is to deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and other purposes." Clearly, federal agents have abused their power, as personal information, telephone calls, and Internet searches were and are being recorded and saved. A recent news article, posted in The Guardian, fully elucidates the intrusive government spying of American citizens, "the watchlist tracks 'known' and 'suspected' terrorists and includes both foreigners and Americans. It's also based on loose standards and secret evidence, which ensnares innocent people. Indeed, the standards are so low that the US government's specifically allow for a single, uncorroborated source of information…to serve as the basis for placing you on its master watchlist." Essentially, everyone is vulnerable. All individuals, whether "known" or "unknown," are under constant surveillance. One is simply labeled a "threat," by
9/11 Impact On Society
The terrorist attack on September 11th, 2001, was more devastating to the United States than Pearl Harbor. More lives were lost when the towers fell then when the Japanese attacked United States in Hawaii. The difference between the attacks was 9/11 was against civilians, not the military. No one could've imagined anything good or productive coming out of these terrorist attacks. The shear lost of life and destruction staggered the mind.
Essay On The Impact Of 9/11 On America
9/11 had a huge impact on not only America but the full world. I will discuss ways in which 9/11 has affected America as a whole, the people of America, society and other general facts about 9/11. Firstly I will discuss what happened on September, 11 2001. It was about 8:45am when the American airline crashed into the World Trade Centre North Tower, and only 18 minutes after the first plane had crashed into the North Tower, a second plane had flown into the South Tower of the Trade Centre.
9/11 Tragedy
Introduction Event of 9/11 without a doubt considered to be one of largest disastrous American society has experienced. The shock society underwent uncountable. Nobody could expect to happen those events. Even the security services of US could not prevent the terrorist attack.
9-11 Significance
Following the 9-11 attacks, on September 17th 2001, President George. W.Bush confirmed to America and the watching world Osama Bin Laden the,dictator and ruler of the terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda was the plotting mastermind behind these vicious attacks. The President made a history defining speech on November 10, 2001, declaring a Global "War on Terror", which in turn highlights the overall large scale significance of 9-11, and furthermore highlighting the renewed stance and direction US Domestic and Foreign Policy was taking as well as an unprecedented Presidential phase within US Politics and Government, in the wake of these terror attacks. Furthermore the significance of 9-11 was evidenced in Bush's speech in which he articulated, "we
How 9/11 Changed America Essay
In the history of America, the history of the world, never had such unexpected terror descended from the skies. In one hour, the peace and relative quite of 9:45 AM in New York City, was disrupted by a plane circling overhead. Curiosity turned to aghast and shock as the plane started diving toward one of the twin towers. It crashed into an upper story of the building, spewing fire and showering those below with debris. This was only one of 4 hijacked planes, heading toward other United States landmarks.
The Homeland Security System
The homeland security system of the United States is a large machine. It is an all-encompassing machine that produces copious amounts of intelligence and information. How the information is processed, analyzed and distributed is another mechanism of the machine. There are many civil liberty issues that have recently arisen from post 9/11 policies set in place by previous and current administrations. These issues stem from intelligence collection methods in all facets of collection.
9/11 Conspiracy
On September 1, 2001, an alleged terrorist attack was committed against the United States of America, leaving millions confused, wondering what really happened. The terrorist attack consisted of 19 hijackers taking control of four different planes heading toward the west coast. Those four planes were redirected toward The World Trade Center, The Pentagon, and the fourth landed in Pennsylvania. Two of the planes flew directly into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, engulfing them in flames from the jet fuel, eventually leaving the buildings to collapse, killing thousands. The Twin Towers however, were build with intent to withstand high volumes of heat, so how could jet fuel produce enough heat to melt the structure and cause the building
9/11 Vs Present Day Essay
The terror attacks on 9/11 were one of the most monumental yet tragic moments in American history, so we will always remember and honor the lives stolen from us. However, we are so quick to forget the quiet before the storm, the day before the chaos. This is notably discerned when regarding schools and its issues through TIME Magazine and the New York Times. While researching, one understands that there are several similarities between society then and present day.
9-11 Historical Analysis
The reason that historians differ on the causes, effects, and who was responsible for "historical events" is because memory is reconstructive and unreliable. Therefore the written history of 9-11 is affected by bias because the writers, children, and adults memories are affected by the schemas of each one's individual culture. This can change the recollection of 9-11 and other traumatic events. Memories linked to 9-11 differ between different cultures.
In the midst of catastrophic disasters in the United States within the past decade such as 9/11, American airport bombing attempts, and the birth of various terrorist groups across the country, the implementation of the Transportation Security Administration continues to remain its high priority. Although welcomed with optimism, the new millennium of America unfortunately witnessed the heavy hitting effects of Terrorism, and its strikes against America's national security. This abrupt cause for concern devastated the country and left the nation vulnerable to such detrimental outside forces as the Al-Qaeda. Only one collective motive of America, safety, was to the forefront of the U.S. government's train of thought. The situation had to be handled
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Jordan Peele's Us Is Already a Critical and Box Office Hit
Us is coming for us! Less than 48 hours after its nationwide release, Jordan Peele's second horror film, following 2017's Oscar-nominated Get Out, is already on track to have a stellar, record-breaking opening weekend at the box office. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the picture earned $7.4 million on Thursday night — a massive first-night take — and $29 million on Friday, and is on track to gross a total of $67 million over the weekend.
Against a reported $20 million budget, that's a good ratio for any movie, and it's especially strong for the horror genre, where R ratings tend to limit ticket sales and keep films from reaching their blockbuster potential. Recent horror hits like It and Halloween, two of the only other R-rated horror films with bigger openings than what's projected for Us, had built-in fan bases; It is based on a Stephen King novel and Halloween is part of the long-running franchise of the same name. So it's all the more impressive that Us, an original story, is doing so well, based solely on the cast, marketing, reviews, and, perhaps most importantly, Peele's reputation. If these numbers hold, it'll be the best-ever box office opening for a completely original horror film.
Starring Lupita Nyong'o and Black Panther breakout Winston Duke, Us is the story of the Adelaide family, who face killer versions of themselves while on vacation. All this buzz is reported to land it the top box office spot for the weekend, knocking Captain Marvel out of the slot it's held for the last month. Yet another very impressive aspect of Us's box office returns is that it's drawing an ethnically diverse audience: Black and white moviegoers have turned out in almost equal shares, according to THR, continuing to prove the universal appeal not only of horror films and of projects led predominantly by black actors, but also of Peele's highly allegorical storytelling about race and culture.
In addition to being a business success, Us is also fast becoming a critical and cultural hot topic. The film holds a 95 percent "Fresh" critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and a healthy 69 percent audience rating. The internet has already been flooded with articles explaining the film's apparently either confusing or highly metaphorical ending, plus countless deep dives into Peele's purposefully heavy use of symbols and imagery throughout the movie — with nary a spoiler warning for the many people who have yet to actually see the film, which, again, has only been out for 48 hours.
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Consumption: The Role of Eating in Rehabilitation in the Memoirs "A Million Little Pieces" and "Two Kinds of Decay"
By Ezekiel J. Leeds
While the act of eating has personal implications for the agent eating—as with the aforementioned impact on physical appearance and performance—it is nonetheless fundamentally not a self-contained act. To eat is to bring things together—food and people. As Leon Kass' The Hungry Soul, a philosophical exploration of the meaning of food, notes, "eating is not a pure and self-contained activity of the agent, like running or swimming or flying; the word eating is also, and always, a transitive verb as well. To be eating is necessarily to be eating something—something other and in the world." (Kass 1994) Here, Kass demonstrates that even if an eater is eating alone, they must be involved with some other direct object, if at least grammatically. By eating, the eater directly interacts with a direct object, "we do no become the something that we eat; rather the edible gets assimilated to what we are." (Kass 1994) This possibly explains why Frey often finds deep comfort and confidence in the generic and unpleasant cafeteria food. Displayed in his simple depiction of eating a bowl of mushy oatmeal:
The oatmeal is gray and mushy and disgusting but the sugar tastes good. It soaks into my tongue and its sweetness is the first taste I have recognized aside from whiskey or wine or smoke or vomit since the evening of my accident. I like the sweet and the taste means that some of my senses are coming back if I stay here. I'll be able to taste and smell and experience normal sensations that normal people experience every day. If I stay. (Frey 2003) (57)
Frey eats the oatmeal, regardless of the fact that he is disgusted by its appearance and is surprised by its taste—also, because he can simply taste it. The interaction of the sugary taste of the oatmeal on Frey's tongue then comes to represent the power of eating as a sense experience. In eating and tasting the oatmeal, Frey is reminded of the last things he tasted, all of which are bitter—whiskey, wine, smoke, and vomit—yet the sugar is sweet. The sweetness reminds Frey of the benefits of sobriety, that he will "be able to taste and smell and experience normal sensations that normal people experience." (Frey 2003) Furthermore, this eating experience indicates the positive progress in his rehabilitation as well reinforcing, for Frey, the value of normal sense experiences.
Frey does not eat his oatmeal alone; he is with others in the cafeteria, which functions as a significant place of social exchange for Frey. Here, Frey sees that the women are divided into tables "according to Socioeconomic Class" while "divisions among the men are not made by class, but by drug of choice." (Frey 2003) The cafeteria is a microcosm, for Frey, remembrance of his life in the outside world where he probably saw a world where women group themselves by class, whereas the men, drug addicts, and drug dealers likely identified themselves by the drugs they used or sold.
As he progresses in his stay, however, Frey notices the consumption habits of the addicts. When he observes the addicts' need for constant outside stimulation, he repeats the phrase, "Addiction needs fuel." (Frey 2003)Food is of course a sort of fuel, but it is more than simply this, as Kass says, "unlike a machine, to nourish means to maintain as well as to fuel, and the organisms is self-maintaining and self-repairing." (Kass 1994) For the addict, though, as Frey finds, food and the act of eating serves less as something to be experienced, savored, and enjoyed, but instead, functions solely to provide the addict with fuel. This is of course reflected in Frey's own eating habits early on; "I don't look at what it is and I don't care what it is or what it tastes like. It doesn't matter." (Frey 2003)
Later, when Leonard holds a fest for everyone, Frey shows a degree of self-control, unlike his fellow peers—"They are all Addicts and Alcoholics and the food is their fuel. I watch some go back for a second, I watch some go back for thirds. I want food myself but watching this is beautiful." (Frey 2003) Frey demonstrates that he prefers to no longer eat food as if it were fuel or an escape; that even while others around him lost control, he could control himself without reacting to his compulsory "urge to eat everything I see, to eat myself into a coma, to eat so that I no longer feel anything, to eat until I'm beyond feeling anything." (Frey 2003) This signifies Frey's positive recovery, not only in his ability to demonstrate self-control, but also, because the hedonistic desire to over-consume has transformed into a help behavior necessary for self-maintain.
Like Frey, who says in his addiction that he felt no hunger for food; that "food was always an afterthought," so too, when Manguso becomes ill, does her foremost attention move away from food to her blood transfusions and drug intake. Although, for Manguso this is because "With my own blood in me, I couldn't feel, and I couldn't move, but with other people's blood in me, and with chemicals in me, I could do those things." (Manguso 2008) The role of food and medicine become interchangeable, for Manguso, they come to mimic each other in form, while at times prohibiting, distorting, and enhancing her normal eating experiences. For example, the role of the apheresis nurse, Tabitha, is not only thawing and preparing the albumin for the apheresis sessions, but also, to come ready "with a bag of wintergreen candies." (Manguso 2008)
Manguso takes it as a good sign that with steroids she "was finally able to eat a whole meal and no longer needed two protein drinks per day". (Manguso 2008) The most memorable of these experiences included being able "to go out to a restaurant," (Manguso 2008) and making "myself breakfast." (Manguso 2008) The memory she best describes is "how happy my mother was to cook a hamburger for me. I remember eating it. The ketchup, the mustard—I can taste the condiments." (Manguso 2008)
At first, the steroids appear to be the prefect solution to her problems, not only because she has the ability to feed herself independently, but also because of the pleasure of being able to participate in those important social events, which usually revolve around some form of cooking and eating. This eating experience is not altogether normal, though, as indicated by her heightened ability to taste the condiments, which foreshadows the future consequences of her unhealthy duration on the steroids.
Nonetheless, her ability to eat for herself serves as a positive marker yet again later in the memoir when she is attending the Iowa Writer's Workshop in August 1997. There she describes her habit of walking "all the way up Gilbert Street to the Asian grocery store where I could get Korean noodle bowls." (Manguso 2008) It is "on maybe [her] fifth trip to the grocery" (Manguso 2008) that Manguso realizes there is a plasma donation center and is once again forced to come face-to-face with her illness and recovery.
The plasma center reminds Manguso that once, instead of going to the Asian grocery store for the replenishment and nourishment of her body, she had to go to the hospitals to be hooked up to an apheresis machine. The ability to eat when, where, with whom, and what she wants, is not only a part of a normal healthy life, but it is also a key component of why Manguso wants to be healthy at all.
While it may appear that a store-bought bowl of noodle soup does not show much engagement with ones' food, it should be noted the great care with which Manguso takes when preparing the meal, especially in comparison with other ubiquitous American fast food. The multiculturalism of Manguso's meal and her simple ability to walk to the grocery store to get it, reminds Manguso of life in New York, where a wide range of foods from different cultures is always close by and readily available. She then describes in detail the delight she takes in preparing this undemanding dish, "cooking the oily noodles" and "mixing them with a can of tuna fish." (Manguso 2008)
Indeed, Manguso's experience in Iowa City is in many ways demonstrative of how modernity has altered the typical American meal away from local, home-made meals, into a sea of industrial foods, an ever-expanding selection of pre-made options. It is in strong contrast to the eating behaviors Jimmye Hillman depicts of the food culture in southern America in the early half of the 20th century, which consisted mostly of a rural farming lifestyle and a diet based on plants. By comparison, Manguso's Iowa experience is very modern and urbanized. As Hillman says, "[they] bought only a very small portion of our food in the Depression years. These days it is all supermarket and restaurants." (64) (Hillman 2009) Food has increasingly become more institutionalized insofar as we seek foremost in our eating experiences efficiency and consistency: Eating industrial food is inexpensive and convenient. It allows you to have the same exact food experience in New York City as in a far-away Iowa City.
As Michael Pollan argues in his nonfiction work The Omnivore's Dilemma the rise of industrialized agriculture has dramatically impacted the American grocery store and farms, and also has had a significant effect on our relationship with our food, thereby reducing our meals to far more limited and empty experiences. The abundance of food caused by this industrialization, Pollan points out, "has been a boon to humanity (allowing us to multiply our numbers), but not an alloyed one." (Pollan 2006) For instance, as Pollan attempts to describe the phenomenological experience of eating McDonalds: "I said before that McDonald's serves a kind of comfort food, but after a few bites I'm more inclined to think they're selling something more schematic…so you eat more and eat more quickly, hoping somehow to catch up to the original idea of a cheeseburger or French fry…and so it goes, bite after bite, until you feel not satisfied exactly, but simply, regrettably, full." (Pollan 2006)
His description of the fast-food experience is akin to Frey's self-depiction of his eating behaviors, which sought "to take as much as I can as fast as I can." (Frey 2003) The addict's need for fuel—the need to consume blindly out of an escapist impulse to remove one's self from an experience by losing the self in the act of consumption—is what Frey himself implies when he repeats the phrase "Get something. Fill me." (Frey 2003) The treatment of food within this framework of addiction is precisely the way in which Pollan describes his McDonald's experience.
Fast food represents the food culture of addicts, people who want nothing from their eating experiences, except that it signify something other than themselves, that it serves as fuel, that it can function as an escape. It is "a hallmark of the industrial food chain," Pollan reminds, "which breaks down the family into its various demographics and markets separately to each one: Together we would be eating alone together, and therefore probably eating more...These days 19 percent of American meals are eaten in the car." (Pollan 2006) As Pollan demonstrates there is less connection between our food and us than ever before, the social aspect has been reduced to "eating alone together," and the act has been deduced to something that can be handled in transit, an almost nearly forgettable part of our daily life, with little connection to who we are or where we are.
Our eating now more closely resembles the smooth fluidity of Manguso's aphersis treatments than anything naturally structured around the food source itself. The health consequences of proximity to food fast restaurants have been empirically show to have a positive correlation with weight gain and obesity in young teens and adults. (Currie, Vigna, Moretti, Pathania 2010) Obesity is a disease that is born of out overconsumption, which indicates addictive eating behaviors.
The transformative properties of food extend beyond the corresponding physical changes and functioning of the body, as well as the taste of the food, or its role as a social facilitator; rather, the overall effect of feeding is for nourishment and self-maintenance. Food provides us with the most essential of needs, which in the case of an autobiography, would be to aid the narrator toward some personal moral lesson, or redemption. In the case of Frey, this would be some signal of future sustained sobriety, which Frey's own memoir displays as something of a process. As Allen Borst shows in his comparison of Frey's memoir to Thomas De Quincey's classic, "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater," Frey's memoir "presents recovery as a drama in its own right." (Borst 2010)Continued on Next Page »
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Leeds, Ezekiel J. "Consumption: The Role of Eating in Rehabilitation in the Memoirs 'A Million Little Pieces' and 'Two Kinds of Decay'." Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse 6.12 (2014). <http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/a?id=977>
Leeds, Ezekiel J. 2014. Consumption: The Role of Eating in Rehabilitation in the Memoirs 'A Million Little Pieces' and 'Two Kinds of Decay'. Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse 6 (12), http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/a?id=977
LEEDS, E. J. 2014. Consumption: The Role of Eating in Rehabilitation in the Memoirs 'A Million Little Pieces' and 'Two Kinds of Decay'. Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse [Online], 6. Available: http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/a?id=977
Ezekiel J. Leeds graduated in 2014 with a Bachelors degree in English/Psychology from La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA.
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Q: Splitting a dataframe into a specific number My task at hand is to figure out how to split a data frame based on the cumulative sum of a column.
As an example, here is a data frame
df <- data.frame(a1 = c("X1", "X2", "X3", "X4", "X5",
"X6", "X7", "X8", "X9", "X10"),
a2 = rnorm(20, mean=5, sd=2) )
df2 <- df[order(df$a2),] # the df is sorted from by a2 from smallest to largest.
How do I create a list of data frames where the a2 column sums to 10 in each df2 without any rows repeating?

A: The result for each row depends on the value of previous rows, so requires an iterative approach. It may be easiest to wrap this in a function:
split_sum <- function(data, column, split_by = 10) {

  x <- data[[as.character(match.call()$column)]]

  group <- current_group <- value <- 0

  for(i in seq(nrow(data))) {
    group[i] <- current_group
    value <- x[i] + value
    if(value > split_by) {
      current_group <- current_group + 1
      value <- 0
    }
  }

  setNames(split(data, group), NULL)
}

Testing this out, we have:
df <- data.frame(a1 = c("X1", "X2", "X3", "X4", "X5",
                        "X6", "X7", "X8", "X9", "X10"),
                 a2 = sort(rnorm(20, mean = 10, sd = 2)))

split_sum(df, a2, 10)
#> [[1]]
#>   a1       a2
#> 1 X1 6.232476
#> 2 X2 7.466659
#>
#> [[2]]
#>   a1       a2
#> 3 X3 7.674123
#> 4 X4 7.946872
#>
#> [[3]]
#>   a1       a2
#> 5 X5 8.202970
#> 6 X6 8.340281
#>
#> [[4]]
#>   a1       a2
#> 7 X7 9.046769
#> 8 X8 9.323847
#>
#> [[5]]
#>     a1       a2
#> 9   X9 9.569602
#> 10 X10 9.955981
#>
#> [[6]]
#>    a1       a2
#> 11 X1 10.58773
#>
#> [[7]]
#>    a1       a2
#> 12 X2 10.69006
#>
#> [[8]]
#>    a1      a2
#> 13 X3 10.7256
#>
#> [[9]]
#>    a1       a2
#> 14 X4 11.61281
#>
#> [[10]]
#>    a1       a2
#> 15 X5 11.80578
#>
#> [[11]]
#>    a1       a2
#> 16 X6 11.91369
#>
#> [[12]]
#>    a1       a2
#> 17 X7 12.40917
#>
#> [[13]]
#>    a1       a2
#> 18 X8 13.11021
#>
#> [[14]]
#>    a1       a2
#> 19 X9 14.00975
#>
#> [[15]]
#>     a1       a2
#> 20 X10 14.11547

But the function is written in such a way as, for example, to break only when the sum reaches 50:
split_sum(df, a2, 50)
#> [[1]]
#>   a1       a2
#> 1 X1 6.232476
#> 2 X2 7.466659
#> 3 X3 7.674123
#> 4 X4 7.946872
#> 5 X5 8.202970
#> 6 X6 8.340281
#> 7 X7 9.046769
#>
#> [[2]]
#>     a1        a2
#> 8   X8  9.323847
#> 9   X9  9.569602
#> 10 X10  9.955981
#> 11  X1 10.587733
#> 12  X2 10.690059
#>
#> [[3]]
#>    a1       a2
#> 13 X3 10.72560
#> 14 X4 11.61281
#> 15 X5 11.80578
#> 16 X6 11.91369
#> 17 X7 12.40917
#>
#> [[4]]
#>     a1       a2
#> 18  X8 13.11021
#> 19  X9 14.00975
#> 20 X10 14.11547

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With his immense experience of 18 years, Dr. Moiuddin has worked for Care Institute Of Medical Sciences for 12 years with a Diploma in Diabetology. He has a MS in Otorhinolaryngology and also is a MD in General Medicine, CCEBDM. Apart from doing research work (multinational Clinical trials) in Cardiology and Endocrinology, he has also participated in Pharmacovigilance and FDA – USA audits.


The simple dichotomies that once defined the aid relationship – rich and poor countries, donors and recipients, the global North and South, foreign expertise and local knowledge, to name a few – have been rendered obsolete. The global flow of knowledge and expertise is changing. New players have appeared on the stage of development cooperation, including non-DAC countries, impact investors, philanthropic organisations and private sector companies.
In this 113-page retrospective publication co-edited by Heinz Greijn, Volker Hauck, Tony Land and Jan Ubels, the partner organizations behind Capacity.org (SNV Netherlands Development Organisation and the European Centre for Development Policy Management) outline an agenda for future research and practice. The publication also commemorates the 15th year anniversary of Capacity.org during which 47 issues of the journal were produced, as part of a broader knowledge platform for capacity development practitioners.
Learning for Development managed the production of Capacity.org journal as well as the corresponding website and learning portal from 2007 until 2014. Following the discontinuation of the journal and web platform, we coordinated the production of the retrospective publication Capacity Development Beyond Aid (2015) that analyzed the evolution of capacity development theory and practice over the past two decades.
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This publication was developed in the framework of the Partos learning platform, a collaborative programme of Dutch-based international development organizations.
This publication analyzes the main findings of a study commissioned by the Partos working group on monitoring and evaluation that examined some of the factors that influence the use of monitoring data.The analysis is supported by eight illustrative case studies of how Partos members are working to improve their utilization of M&E data. The case studies range from the use of methodologies such as sensemaking, data mapping and scorecards, to approaches that help funding organizations to create trust among their southern partners and hence improve the relevance and ownership of monitoring data.
The MFSII Progress Report 2015 and MFSII Synthesis Report (2016) is an end-of-project report highlighting the achievements of the Dutch-funded MFSII development cooperation programme implemented by the Interchurch organisation for development cooperation (ICCO Cooperation). The report includes an annual report for 2015 as well as an overall synthesis report of the five-year MFSII period (2011-2015).
One of the key themes of the report is assessing the readiness of ICCO Cooperation and its southern partners to transition to a new way of "doing development." This follows a radical shift in Dutch international cooperation policy, which increasingly links development cooperation to trade and investment, and a greater role for the private sector.
The Business Organisations and Their Access to Markets (BOAM) programme provided development actors in Ethiopia with a unique opportunity to experiment with the value chain approach in a pro-poor context. Thousands of people participated in and benefitted from the programme and valuable lessons were learned at all levels, including by smallholder farmers and farmers' organizations, traders and processors, exporters, research institutes, government institutions and the donor community.
The systems approach taken by BOAM is explained in eight chapters, starting with the four key building blocks of value chain development: sector, business, knowledge, and services development. The next two chapters explore the theory from a practical perspective and analyze some of the results, drawing on external validations. This is followed by a chapter describing how the programme was successfully adapted to address the needs of smallholder farmers in several food-insecure areas in Ethiopia. The conclusion distills ten key lessons for practitioners, researchers and policymakers.
The international development community invests billions of dollars to improve organizational capacity. But real-life practice is poorly understood and undervalued as a distinct professional domain. Written by practitioners, this innovative publication is designed to make capacity development more professional and increasingly effective in achieving development goals.
Practical illustrations draw on experiences from the civic, government and private sectors. A central theme is to understand capacity as more than something internal to organizations. This book shows how capacity also stems from connections between different types of actor and the levels in society at which they operate.
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One of the core services provided by L4D Consultancy is supporting development organizations to reflect on their practice and share the resulting insights with others. Over the years we have helped to publish and disseminate numerous case studies, field reports and "lessons learned".
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Mary Kay's pride and joy, Allison LaMarr, continues to do the company proud. She was the fastest ever get to the position of National Sales Director, and now she claims she made $1 million faster than anyone in Mary Kay. Three years later, Allison quit Mary Kay. I suspect she quit because her earnings had declined sharply and she wanted to do something else that would help her capture more money from her downline. In no time at all, she was hawking all sorts of systems… trying to make millions that way.
Allison LaMarr told the world she was a "frustrated entrepreneur" in Mary Kay. What an awesome endorsement! Someone who was supposedly in the most coveted position in Mary Kay, and she essentially said IT SUCKED.
What's a girl to do when she realizes she doesn't really have "her own business" with Mary Kay? The company owns her and dictates what she can and cannot do in the name of Mary Kay. So Allison quit to do her own thing.
She's tried selling her success system for Mary Kay directors. She's tried running around the country doing live events. She's tried selling a video series. And then came her big break… an exectuive position with new cosmetics MLM Bellamora. Until the company imploded within a couple of months of launching.
The below vidoe shows Allison LaMarr and MLM whore David Dubbs talking about the "sick" and "retarded" money they have made in multi-level marketing. I bet Mary Kay is very proud of this offensive video. This is who they held up as the role model for all consultants.
classy. just real damn classy. they should be ashamed of their sorry selves.
Darn! I cannot watch it! Has anyone uploaded this video on YouTube?


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Here's the perfect topping everybody should add to their pizza. And no, it does not affect anything after you cook them. New research has found that mushrooms offer high levels of antioxidants, which are perfect to avoid aging and to improve general health.
In fact, the lead researcher Robert Beelman — a professor of food science and director of the Penn State Center for Plant and Mushroom Products for Health — said that his team found impressive amounts of antioxidants in mushrooms. He even doubted the finding as "unusual."
Also, the Penn State researchers found that this food contains two compounds that are extremely beneficial to our health: ergothioneine and glutathione. Of course, every mushroom from all the 13 species tested possesses different amounts of them. But don't worry, scientists said that the number contained in an average mushroom will always be "high."
"What we found is that, without a doubt, mushrooms are highest dietary source of these two antioxidants taken together, and that some types are really packed with both of them," said Beelman.
The lead researcher explained how these two compounds work to improve the human health.
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Your body will help you if you help it
Normally, a person gets its energy thanks to the food it eats. However, it also creates free radicals in the process, which leads to oxidative stress.
These oxygen atoms, which are also free radicals, travel through all the human body to find other electrons and pair up. But in the process, they tend to hurt as many cells, proteins, and parts of a person's DNA as they can.
By eating the mushrooms, we would be facing the damage these oxygen atoms cause in our body. The more we eat, the more antioxidants we will ingest, and the more we will be protecting ourselves against the oxidative stress.
When talking about the free radical theory of aging, Prof Beelman said that the human body has "mechanism to control" these toxic radicals — such as ergothioneine and glutathione. However, our body decreases the production of them as we get old. This is why every person should help their body by eating little portions of mushrooms at least once every week.
Even though many Americans enjoy mushrooms as pizza toppings, for example, they don't eat them nearly as much as Europeans.
If we avoid as many oxidants as we can, we will also be preventing dangerous diseases coming with aging — like "cancer, coronary heart disease and Alzheimer's."
"We found that the porcini has the highest, by far, of any we tested," said Beelman when talking about the species he thinks has the most of the two important compounds. "This species is really popular in Italy where searching for it has become a national pastime."
Beelman also said that the common mushroom — the white button, usually eaten in pizza — is the species scientists reported to have the less amount of antioxidants from all the 13 other types. However, just a single one of these contains more antioxidants than many other foods.
When comparing countries reporting higher numbers of ingesting mushroom, Beelman said that Italy and France exceeded the United States. Unlike European population, Americans don't consume high amounts of ergothioneine in their diets. This might explain why US people have higher probabilities of diseases like Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's
There's still a lot of research to be done, but Beelman considers this is just the beginning.
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The Moon jellyfish's body consists of a round flat shaped disk known as the bell because of its bell shaped structure, it is also known as the umbrella. Recently some scientists have done some research on the jellyfish and how temperature can effect its growth. At the temperature of about 21 celsius showed the greatest growth change in the jellyfish where as the temperature of 8 degrees celsius slowly decreased the size of the bell. [] Located below the bell are the jellyfish's mouthparts and the sub umbrella. On the opposite side is the exumbrella. The oral-aboral axis reaches out from the middle of the aboral surface to the middle of the oral surface which then shows its central line of symmetry. The outside of the bell is slightly indented in eight different spots so it may appear to some as a scallop. Within the indentations are sensory complices or the rhopalia.
The stomach, otherwise known as the coelenteron consists of many chambers and a channel coated by ciliated gastrodermis and goes through the mesoglea and then opens the exterior by using the mouth. It is separated into two parts and is used to transport fluids as well as the digestive system.
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'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Deleted Scenes Details: A First Order Cover-Up, Mourning Han Solo & More
Posted on Friday, March 2nd, 2018 by Ethan Anderton
The home video release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi will be available in just under two weeks, longer if you want it on disc. But you don't have to wait until then to find out new details on a few of the 14 deleted scenes you'll be able to watch in the special features.
Among the Star Wars The Last Jedi deleted scenes is a tender (but also creepy) moment between Finn and BB-8, a moment of mourning for Han Solo, and an amusing scene that actually reveals a First Order cover-up. Get the details on these scenes below, but beware of spoilers, obviously.
Thanks to Entertainment Weekly for the Star Wars The Last Jedi deleted scenes and a few images.
BB-8 Plays a Touching Hologram for Finn
One of the earlier scenes cut from The Last Jedi would have seen Finn (John Boyega) struggling to figure out what to do with his life next. Sure, he helped the Resistance out in The Force Awakens, but he's still a defected Stormtrooper on the run from the First Order. Does he really need to keep actively fighting against them? Or should he just go on the lam? While struggling with his decision to possibly leave the Resistance, he gets a push in the right direction from a friend.
BB-8 rolls up next to him and shows him a hologram of the moment from the end of The Force Awakens when Rey (Daisy Ridley) gives him a touching goodbye as he's unconscious in a medical pod following his lightsaber injury at the hands of Kylo Ren. Director Rian Johnson described why this scene initially felt necessary:
"I was looking for any opportunity I could to emotionally connect those two I thought it was a really sweet little scene. I loved John Boyega's performance in it. Ultimately it was meant to explain his motivation for going [to find Rey and quit the Resistance], but we realized that you understood his motivation, because he tells it to Rose. Once we realized we could get away without it, it was something that just naturally fell away."
As sweet as that moment is, you might be thinking that it's a little creepy that BB-8 took it upon himself to record that moment. Or are droids always recording what happens around them? Plus, the movie would have acknowledged that with a line from Finn saying that BB-8's recording was a little creepy. Even so, Johnson says, "Little sneak. You've got to watch what you're saying around BB-8. It's all on the record."
Luke and Leia Mourn for Han Solo
Since the First Order is in hot pursuit of the Resistance after the destruction of Starkiller Base, it seems like there's not much time to have a funeral for Han Solo. Supposedly the novelization of the movie will have a sequence laying the smuggler-turned-Rebel to rest, but in the movie it doesn't seem like there's any time for such tributes. But there was one scene that ended up being cut that allowed both Luke (Mark Hamill) and Leia (Carrie Fisher) to have a moment of solace in memory of the fallen scoundrel.
In The Last Jedi, we see that Luke is unaware that Han has died. While Leia felt his death through the Force, we learn that Luke has cut himself off from the energy field that connects all living things in the galaxy. After Luke worriedly asks where Han is right after Chewbacca has torn the door to his hut down, we're shown that Rey has just explained everything that happened. But it's not much time to mourn.
Originally, Luke had a moment in his stone hut alone to sit quietly. Tears even form in his eyes as he remembers his old buddy. Don't worry, there's no foggy flashback to their greatest moments together like some kind of sitcom, but there's is a cut to Leia who is sitting in a similar pose to Luke, also feeling his pain, sharing a moment of grief together as twins.
So why did it get cut? Johnson explains, "We realized just for pacing in that section we had to stick with Rey and Luke, and we wanted just to go straight from him slamming the door of the hut into the day-in-the-life montage, of him going around the island. Taking that bit out suddenly propelled us forward into that segment in a way that just felt much better for the film."
As it stands, we get a pretty great moment where Luke remembers everything that brought him to this point when R2-D2 plays him a familiar hologram of Princess Leia, so it sounds like Johnson made the right choice.
A First Order Cover-Up
Finally, towards the end of the movie, there was an extra scene with Finn and Rose (Rose Tico) on The Supremacy, the Mega Star Destroyer belonging to Supreme Leader Snoke. The two Rebels are on board the ship (along with Benicio del Toro as DJ) to disable the active tracking device that is keeping the First Order on the tail of the Resistance, even through hyperspace. They're in disguise as officers, but that doesn't stop one of them from being recognized.
Remember, Finn is a defected Stormtrooper, and even though his face remained covered up most of the time, he got to know plenty of people under their helmets, and they got to know him. Therefore, it's a very surprising moment when one of the Stormtroopers recognizes Finn in an elevator in the Star Destroyer. It's a funny moment where the Stormtrooper just won't shut up about how cool it is that his old buddy FN-2187 ended up becoming an officer.
What's interesting about this scene though, is that it also reveals how the First Order has dealt with Finn's defection. Instead of making it clear to everyone else what happened with Finn and making it clear that he's a traitor, the First Order basically covered it up. Johnson explains, "The implication from the exchange is that this was obviously an embarrassment that this happened with Finn, and that First Order didn't let the info get out, as much as they could."
Fun fact: the Stormtrooper in question is supposedly played by Tom Hardy. At least that's what we heard over a year ago. We'll have to wait until we see this exchange before we can really tell. Then again, Daniel Craig played the Stormtrooper who freed Rey from being held by Kylo Ren, but the voice behind the character doesn't really sound like him. So maybe we won't know for sure, even after seeing the scene.
That's all for the new details on Star Wars The Last Jedi deleted scenes. You can find out some more about an alternate encounter with Captain Phasma over at Entertainment Weekly. Their rundown of some of the deleted scenes also features some more details about that scene between Rey and Luke involving the island's caretakers that we highlighted awhile back, compete with insight from Johnson. So be sure to check that out.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi hit digital download on March 13, 2018, then Blu-ray & DVD on March 27, 2018.
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A regular contributor looks back on his experience at The Partial Observer.
One Year (or Less) on the PO_S.E. Shepherd-A regular contributor looks back on his experience at The Partial Observer. Since everyone here at The Partial Observer has reflected on the one year experience/experiment that is the PO, and because I can't think of anything else to write about, I decided to write about what the PO has meant for me.
I'll never forget the day editor-in-chief Mark D. Johnson, flanked by two very large and scary-looking thugs, cornered me into a dark alley and asked me if I would like to write for the PO. After a very sincere assurance that "Rocko" would not break my kneecaps if I said yes, I agreed to contribute.
I immediately became the "new kid on the block," with taunts of "fresh meat" coming from James Leroy Wilson, and suspicious looks from a paranoid Dear Jon, convinced I was trying to steal his advice column. However, unlike my fellow staffers here at the PO, I resisted the temptation/chore of writing a weekly column and opted to write more free-lance, or as lazy writers like myself like to say, "whenever the mood hits me." Since then, our editor has named a large 2" x 4" "the mood" and hit me with it several times.
Writing for the PO is a lot of fun, though I do have a tendency to aggravate over every column I write. Never knowing my audience (unless I get feedback) I aim to be neither offensive nor boring, and hopefully present my ideas clearly and intelligently. My first article for the PO was a review of the Beatles' latest compilation CD, 1. I have never agonized over a piece of writing like I did for that review. Certain that everyone who read it would consider me a complete moron, I nevertheless submitted the article and awaited my public execution. Instead, I received enough positive comments from those that read the article that I was encouraged to write more. Since then I hope I have created a positive relation with PO readers and that there are some of you that actually look forward to my next article.
I have tried to contribute to every field covered by the PO, and there are two reasons for this.
The first reason is I like to stretch my writing abilities. I am not a professional writer, though I do like to dabble in all the different writing styles. The PO allows me an opportunity to write in different styles and hopefully find an audience for my "voice." (A Writing 101 term) I don't know if my writing is the best and often feel I could have done better (Our editor will testify how I've submitted several copies of the same article, each with a note saying "I think this is better.") However the true litmus test for my writing is you, my audience, and so far no one's panned my articles, so I must be doing OK.
The second reason I try to contribute everywhere is because I love the concept of the PO, and try to "fill in the gaps" I see in certain areas. It is unfortunate that we don't have more people contributing book reviews, movie reviews, or articles about sports or current events or whatever. As much as I enjoy reading Dear Jon, James Leroy Wilson and the other regular contributors, nothing is more exciting as an article by a new contributor. I also love to scan the forums and hope people continue to add to them as well.
Let me end by encouraging all of you who have considered writing/submitting an article to the PO to do so. It was extremely difficult, writing that first article for the PO, but it has gotten easier since. 2001 has been a very eventful year, and when I wrote that first piece in January, I had no idea what awaited me. But working on the PO has been a wonderful experience, and if this is Year One, I can't wait to see what happens in the years to come. Thanks for reading me; I promise my next article will be more interesting.


Madeline celebrated her one year birthday with a tribute to her favorite man in red - Santa Claus! We may be just as excited as Madeline for the big guy to come to town and to celebrate Christmas in style with our families! We are wishing everyone happy and safe holidays!


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Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna est un jeu vidéo de type dungeon crawler développé et publié par Sir-Tech en 1987 sur Apple II, DOS, PC-88 et PC-98. Le jeu est le quatrième opus de la série Wizardry. À sa sortie, il surprend les fans de la série par son scénario dans lequel le joueur incarne Werdna, le sorcier maléfique vaincu à la fin de Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. Celui-ci s'est en effet réveillé mais il est maintenant privé de ses pouvoirs et emprisonné dans les profondeurs de son donjon. Pour en sortir, il doit déjouer les pièges et affronter les monstres qui servaient à l'origine à empêcher les aventuriers de pénétrer le donjon. Pour cela, il peut notamment invoquer des monstres, que le joueur ne peut cependant pas contrôler, pour l'aider. Il est généralement considéré comme un des plus difficiles jeux vidéo de rôle sur ordinateur jamais créé. Le joueur ne dispose en effet pas de carte du donjon et certaines énigmes du jeu sont particulièrement difficiles à résoudre. De plus, le fantôme d'un des ennemis tués par Werdna, Trebor, hante le donjon et peut tuer le sorcier instantanément s'il le rencontre. Enfin, chaque nouvelle sauvegarde ressuscite tous les monstres présents dans le niveau où se trouve le joueur. Le jeu dispose de trois fins différentes, la plus difficile à atteindre donnant au joueur le titre de Grand Maître de Wizardry.

À sa sortie, le jeu est plutôt bien reçu par la presse spécialisée et en 1993, la journaliste Scorpia du magazine Computer Gaming World juge que les fans de la série ne doivent pas passer à côté. Du fait de sa difficulté, qui le réserve aux fans de la série, et de sa réalisation datée, il est cependant l'un des Wizardry les moins connus du grand public.

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If we as a society can begin collecting relevant data, perhaps we can begin to use the analytical tools, metrics and knowledge to go beyond GDP and make wise choices for the future.
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World South Korea urges North to present plan for denuclearization
South Korea urges North to present plan for denuclearization
South Korea's president urged North Korea on Wednesday to present a plan with concrete steps toward denuclearization, raising the pressure on its leader Kim Jong Un during his visit to Beijing to discuss the outcome of his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Kim left for Pyongyang later in the day after making his third visit to China this year, according to China's official Xinhua News Agency, underscoring the major improvement in relations between the communist neighbours.
Xinhua said Kim met Chinese President Xi Jinping for a second day of talks on Wednesday and cited Kim as saying the visit was an opportunity to "deepen the friendship" between the two leaders and advance bilateral ties.
Kim earlier visited an agricultural technology park and rail traffic control centre, accompanied by Beijing's top official, Cai Qi, Xinhua said.
Kim's motorcade was seen leaving the North Korean Embassy on Wednesday afternoon as police closed off major roads and intersections in central Beijing. Gawking pedestrians watched the passing motorcade that included Kim's limousine — a black Mercedes-Benz Maybach with gold emblems on the rear doors — as well as several minibuses and 15 motorcycle police clad in white suits.
North Korea's Kim Jong-un and Chinese President Xi Jinping came to an understanding on the results of the summit between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump in Singapore, including the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, according to the North's state media. Reuters
The motorcade travelled to Beijing's airport, where the limousine entered the charter flight terminal.
In Seoul, South Korean President Moon Jae-in urged North Korea to present actionable plans on how it will scrap its nuclear program, and for the United States to swiftly take unspecified corresponding measures.
"It's necessary for North Korea to present far more concrete denuclearization plans, and I think it's necessary for the United States to swiftly reciprocate by coming up with comprehensive measures," Moon said. Moon's office said he made the remarks to Russian media ahead of his trip to Moscow later this week.
Moon, who has met with Kim twice in recent months, said the North Korean leader is willing to give up his nuclear program and focus on economic development if he's provided with a reliable security guarantee. Moon described Kim as "forthright," "careful" and "polite."
China backs the North's call for a "phased and synchronous" approach to denuclearization, as opposed to Washington's demand for an instant, total and irreversible end to the North's nuclear programs.
A report by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said Kim expressed his gratitude to Chinese President Xi Jinping for China's support when they met on Tuesday. KCNA said Kim told Xi at a welcoming banquet that North Korea-China ties are developing into "unprecedentedly special relations."
At his summit with Trump last week in Singapore, Kim pledged to work toward denuclearization in exchange for U.S. security guarantees. The U.S. and South Korea also suspended a major joint military exercise that was planned for August in what was seen as a major victory for North Korea and its chief allies, China and Russia.
China has touted the prospects of more trade and investment if North Korea makes progress in talks on abandoning its nuclear weapons and long-range missile programs.
That could allow the lifting of U.N. Security Council economic sanctions that have hamstrung North Korea's foreign trade, although the U.S. insists those measures can only be eased after the North shows it has ended its nuclear programs. The U.S. says China is in agreement on that point, although Chinese officials say sanctions should not be an end in themselves.
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Crystals springing into action: metal-organic framework CUK-1 as a pressure-driven molecular spring dagger
P. Iacomi, J.S. Lee, L. Vanduyfhuys, K. H. Cho, P. Fertey, J. Wieme, D. Granier, G. Maurin, V. Van Speybroeck, J.-S. Chang, P.G. Yot
Mercury porosimetry and in situ high pressure single crystal X-ray diffraction revealed the wine-rack CUK-1 MOF as a unique crystalline material capable of a fully reversible mechanical pressure-triggered structural contraction. The near-absence of hysteresis upon cycling exhibited by this robust MOF, akin to an ideal molecular spring, is associated with a constant work energy storage capacity of 40 J/gr. Molecular simulations were further deployed to uncover the free-energy landscape behind this unprecedented pressure-responsive phenomenon in the area of compliant hybrid porous materials. This discovery is of utmost importance from the perspective of instant energy storage and delivery.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/D1SC00205H
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Charting the Metal-Dependent High-Pressure Stability of Bimetallic UiO-66 Materials
S.M.J. Rogge, P.G. Yot, J. Jacobsen, F. Muniz-Miranda, S. Vandenbrande, J. Gosch, V. Ortiz, I. Collings, S. Devautour-Vinot, G. Maurin, N. Stock, V. Van Speybroeck
ACS Materials Letters
2 (4), 438-445
In theory, bimetallic UiO-66(Zr:Ce) and UiO-66(Zr:Hf) metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are extremely versatile and attractive nanoporous materials as they combine the high catalytic activity of UiO-66(Ce) or UiO-66(Hf) with the outstanding stability of UiO-66(Zr). Using in situ high-pressure powder X-ray diffraction, however, we observe that this expected mechanical stability is not achieved when incorporating cerium or hafnium in UiO-66(Zr). This observation is akin to the earlier observed reduced thermal stability of UiO-66(Zr:Ce) compounds. To elucidate the atomic origin of this phenomenon, we chart the loss-of-crystallinity pressures of 22 monometallic and bimetallic UiO-66 materials and systematically isolate their intrinsic mechanical stability from their defect-induced weakening. This complementary experimental/computational approach reveals that the intrinsic mechanical stability of these bimetallic MOFs decreases nonlinearly upon cerium incorporation but remains unaffected by the zirconium:hafnium ratio. Additionally, all experimental samples suffer from defect-induced weakening, a synthesis-controlled effect that is observed to be independent of their intrinsic stability.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.0c00042
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Pillared-layered metal-organic frameworks for mechanical energy storage applications
J. Wieme, S.M.J. Rogge, P.G. Yot, L. Vanduyfhuys, S.-K. Lee, J.-S. Chang, M. Waroquier, G. Maurin, V. Van Speybroeck
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
7 (39), 22663-22674
Herein we explore the unique potential of pillared-layered metal–organic frameworks of the DMOF-1 family for mechanical energy storage applications. In this work, we theoretically predict for the guest-free DMOF-1 a new contracted phase by exerting an external mechanical pressure of more than 200 MPa with respect to the stable phase at atmospheric pressure. The breathing transition is accompanied by a very large volume contraction of about 40%. The high transition pressures and associated volume changes make these materials highly promising with an outstanding mechanical energy work. Furthermore, we show that changing the nature of the metal allows to tune the behavior under mechanical pressure. The various phases were revealed by a combination of periodic density-functional theory calculations, force field molecular dynamics simulations and mercury intrusion experiments for DMOF-1(Zn) and DMOF-1(Cu). The combined experimental and theoretical approach allowed to discover the potential of these materials for new technological developments.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9TA01586H
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Mechanical properties of a gallium fumarate metal-organic framework: a joint experimental-modelling exploration
P. Ramaswamy, J. Wieme, E. Alvarez, L. Vanduyfhuys, J.-P. Itié, P. Fabry, V. Van Speybroeck, C. Serre, P.G. Yot, G. Maurin
A gallium analogue of the commercially available Al-fumarate MOF A520 - recently identified as isotypic to MIL-53(Al)-BDC - has been synthesized and further characterized in its hydrated and dehydrated forms. The structural response under applied mechanical pressure of this MIL-53(Ga)-FA solid was investigated using advanced experimental techniques coupled with computational tools. Hg porosimetry and high-pressure X-Ray Powder Diffraction (XRPD) experiments evidenced that the pristine dehydrated large pore form undergoes an irreversible structure contraction upon an applied pressure of 85 MPa with an associated volume change of ca. 14% which makes this material promising for mechanical energy storage applications, in particular as a shock absorber. The breathing behavior was further rationalized performing a series of periodic Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations with the construction of an energy profile as a function of volume for both MIL-53(Ga)-FA and its Aluminum analogue. As such we could fully unravel the microscopic origin of the difference in pressure-induced behavior for the aluminum and gallium fumarate based materials.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7TA01559C
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Mechanical energy storage performance of an aluminum fumarate metal-organic framework
P.G. Yot, L. Vanduyfhuys, E. Alvarez, J. Rodriguez, J.-P. Itié, P. Fabry, N. Guillou, T. Devic, P.L. Llewellyn, V. Van Speybroeck, C. Serre, G. Maurin
7, 446-450
The aluminum fumarate MOF A520 or MIL-53-FA is revealed to be a promising material for mechanical energy-related applications with performances in terms of work and heat energies which surpass those of any porous solids reported so far. Complementary experimental and computational tools are deployed to finely characterize and understand the pressure-induced structural transition at the origin of these unprecedented levels of performance.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5SC02794B
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Metal-organic frameworks as potential shock absorbers: the case of the highly flexible MIL-53(Al)
P.G. Yot, Z. Boudene, J. Macia, D. Granier, L. Vanduyfhuys, T. Verstraelen, V. Van Speybroeck, T. Devic, C. Serre, G. Ferey, N. Stock, G. Maurin
Chemical Communications
The mechanical energy absorption ability of the highly flexible; MIL-53(Al) MOF material was explored using a combination of; experiments and molecular simulations. A pressure-induced transition; between the large pore and the closed pore forms of this solid; was revealed to be irreversible and associated with a relatively large; energy absorption capacity. Both features make MIL-53(Al) the first; potential MOF candidate for further use as a shock absorber.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4cc03853c
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Impact of the mechanical pressure under various conditions on the flexibility of various metal-organic frameworks
P.G. Yot, P. Ramaswamy, J. Wieme, L. Vanduyfhuys, C. Serre, V. Van Speybroeck, G. Maurin
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Bears' Marshall released from hospital
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Lake Forest, IL (SportsNetwork.com) - Chicago Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall has been released from a local hospital, four days after injuring his ribs and lung in Thursday's game against the Dallas Cowboys.
Marshall, who was also placed on injured reserve Monday to end his season, suffered two fractured ribs as the result of a hit from Cowboys safety Barry Church during the second quarter of Chicago's 41-28 loss. The lung injury is what was keeping the Pro Bowl wideout hospitalized.
Marshall was transported to the hospital shortly after being helped off the field and taken to the locker room following the collision. He later sent out a Twitter message stating: "Thanks for the Prayers. .. I'm Good."
The five-time Pro Bowl selection had three catches for 61 yards prior to exiting Thursday's game. For the season, Marshall recorded 61 receptions totaling 721 yards. He is tied for the team lead with eight touchdown catches.
To replace Marshall on the roster, the Bears signed wide receiver Josh Bellamy from the practice squad. Bellamy has appeared in nine games over three seasons with Kansas City (2012), Washington (2013) and Chicago (2014), appearing mostly on special teams. He also spent time on San Diego's practice squad in 2013 and Kansas City's in 2012.
Chicago also signed linebacker Jonathan Brown to the practice squad.


Getting flowers delivered to your door is always a special occasion, whether they were sent by an ardent admirer or a loving family member; when you see that delivery van pull up to your door it's a bit like someone has waved a magic wand over your day and nothing else really matters any more; whether you were having a bad day or an average day, there's a goofy smile on your face.
For those of us who want to hold on to the magic and keep that rose as a memento of your first anniversary together or you simply want to make your roses last for as long as possible so you're always reminded of the thoughtfulness of a friend of family member, we can help.
There are many tricks that we have heard of, for example; if you cut the stems while they are submerged in water it stops air bubbles forming and the flowers last longer. But that is just a temporary fix because the sad truth is that (watch out because we're about to drop a philosophical bomb on you), everything dies, we are all simply transient beings and whether or not you put the roses in buckets of ice water, crush up a Panado or pour a teaspoon of vodka in to the water the flowers will eventually die. But fear not! We have a way you can keep your roses – or rather the petals – around for a long time. The answer is so simple, you will kick yourself; turn the petals into potpourri!
Potpourri is one of the best things to do with all your petals, and you can simply keep adding to your stash of petals. The petals will keep their colour and they tend to look fragile, precious and seem to contain more mystery. They also have an intense fragrance which will perfume your living room, underwear drawer or linen cupboards.
Simply dry the wilted petals on some paper in the sun for about a week, giving them a mix daily. When they've dried out, add a dash of your essential oil and give them a mix. Then place them in a brown paper bag and seal the bag with a paperclip or peg, giving them a shake daily for the next 4-6 weeks. Make sure your brown bag isn't in direct sunlight though. When your potpourri's been "seasoned", you can rest them wherever your heart desires. As the beautiful scent diminishes, you can add a dash of essential oil and give them a mix to perk them up again.


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All the cards included within this Brainbox set cover a range of photos of Teddy Bears – With questions such as "What is Icky Holding?" to "What is in the large vase near the clock?" – this set has 55 cards and is a level 1 game recommended for 3yrs+. The object of the game is to study a card selected from the box for 10 seconds and then answer a question (on the back of the card) based on the roll of a die. If the question is answered correctly the player keeps the card. Whoever has the most cards wins. It's a fun and fast game. Don't let the simple concept fool you. The brainbox games are brilliant. We love them because they are quick, easy to adapt and players of all ages are happy to play them together (which means you have a game that has a broad reach…older kids and adults can play happily along with younger kids). They're also easy to learn, easy to pack up and easy to store – perfect for the caravan, holiday, plane trip, camping or for a quick family game at the table after dinner!


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With today's story, idol hooves are the devil's workshop.
Lightning Dust has been in a bit of a rut ever since getting kicked out of the Wonderbolt Academy. Day after day, she's been sticking to a strict exercise regimen under the guidance of Cloudsdale's premier personal trainer, Haymaker. Her hope is that she'll unlock her true potential and show Haymaker how awesome she is, thus prompting him to use his connections to get her back into the Wonderbolts. No matter how many times Haymaker tells her it's impossible, Lightning simply refuses to listen.
Then one fateful night, Lightning Dust's training is interrupted by the appearance of her greatest idol, Wind Rider. It turns out he too has difficulty accepting reality, and he has his own, more nefarious schemes to get himself back in the game. Haymaker sees this as his last chance to save Lightning Dust from walking Wind Rider's path. And if that means rubbing salt in a few wounds and shattering a few dreams, then so be it.
Read on for our author interview, in which Metool Bard discusses dark mirrors, pegasus partiality, and never-ending hurricanes.