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Caste, Dalit History Month, Film
G for Gumption
1 May 2020 9 Sep 2020 by Vj
The first syllable of this word comes from nowhere in particular. Your tongue hangs about without really touching anything in the mouth, making room for its own stomach to gather the 'guh'. Indeed, it's a word that requires more than your mouth to say it. It needs the tightness of your fists & the firmness of your stomach. I first heard it in the film, 'The Holiday' & understood its meaning entirely from the way Kate Winslet had banged the door on a man- an asshole, turned around with infectious energy, punched the air with her fists & celebrated having fallen out of love with him. When he asks her what had gotten into her, she says 'Gumption'
I don't have gumption. My mother has it, my aunts have it, & mouma who passed it on to her daughters will always have it. It's what caused amma to hold a broom over her head one day & chase away an old Brahmin man who had stopped at our gate to teach her manners. She was cleaning the front yard & he stopped to tell her that in America, people didn't do things like that(!) She screamed, 'saakappa hogu, naavu nodidive jagattu' (enough man, keep walking, even we have seen the world)
My aunt showed gumption by pushing an abusive brother-in-law into a chair, her foot firm on his chest, her eyes dancing with fire, while her index finger launched a threat at his face to never ever lay a finger on her sister.
As a child, I believed that mouma's gumption was hidden in her blouse and perhaps it is. It's why she never wore a bra. She barged into temples, ate their food, prayed to their gods because she never believed that anybody should have the right to stop her, even if it's all they did. She grabbed her paysa & ate it too. And ate it how – standing tall against all the poojaris united.
Savitrimai's gumption was in the extra saree she carried in her bag because she didn't have time to fight Savarna losers whose only job was to stand with cow dung to throw at her. She had work to do – her work was her gumption.
Sujatha Gidla's mother had gumption when she ran after a train that was leaving the platform with all her belongings – marks cards, certificates. She ran with the speed of an athlete, still carrying the water bottle for which she had deboarded in the first place.
It's the English-language's poverty that even a word that needs you to thrust your fists in the air like a martyr, like a woman newly out of love, will never fully lend its energy to understanding Dalit survival in this country. And this is why, G for me, is Gumption & I am claiming that word to tell our stories.
Dalit History Month Dalit Women Gumption Kate Winslet Love Sujatha Gidla The Holiday
H for hair
F for Flight. Friendship. Fight.


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, il cui vero nome è , è un personaggio del manga e anime Sailor Moon. Fa parte del gruppo delle Guerriere Sailor ed è conosciuta in Italia come Heles. Oltre a quello di Sailor Uranus, lei adotta anche il nome di battaglia Sailor Urano negli albi pubblicati in Italia dalla Diamond, ed infatti Sailor Uranus rappresenta Urano, il pianeta dei venti, ed insieme a Michiru, Setsuna e Hotaru fa parte del gruppo di Guerriere del Sistema Solare Esterno. Compare per la prima volta all'interno della terza serie.

Aspetto e carattere
Sailor Uranus è un personaggio ostinato, individualista e impulsivo, ma anche protettivo, affascinante e dotato di una forte volontà. Ha i capelli biondi corti, gli occhi grigi e ama vestirsi sempre con abiti maschili, assomigliando così a un ragazzo: infatti, Sailor Uranus è una ragazza dai bei lineamenti androgini, cosa che spesso porta le ragazze della serie a scambiarla per un ragazzo particolarmente avvenente, dando vita a numerose gag comiche nelle quali personaggi come Makoto Kino, Rei Hino e Minako Aino provano a flirtare con Sailor Uranus, salvo poi accorgersi della sua vera identità di genere e restare di stucco davanti all'evidenza. Nella terza serie vive una relazione omosessuale con Sailor Neptune, con la quale è fidanzata, censurata nell'edizione italiana dall'emittente Mediaset e sulle reti televisive statunitensi. Appare estremamente protettiva nei confronti di Usagi, per la sua natura di Principessa della Luna, ma anche per il particolare rapporto d'affetto che si instaura fra le due. In ogni caso, così come Michiru, Sailor Uranus rimane un personaggio misterioso che chiaramente persegue i suoi scopi, spesso sconosciuti ai più, e insieme a Michiru frequenta l'Istituto Mugen. Ha una spiccata passione per la corsa e per i motori, in generale per la velocità, che accompagna ad un interesse per la musica classica e all'abilità nel suonare il pianoforte. I suoi colori preferiti sono il blu scuro e il nero, il punto forte a scuola è l'educazione fisica, mentre il cibo preferito è l'insalata con il mais dolce. Odia studiare il giapponese moderno e il suo sogno è diventare una pilota professionista. La sua automobile è una Toyota 2000GT decappottabile, gialla o bianca a seconda delle versioni, mentre solo una volta compare su una Mazda Mx-5 Miata, montego blu. I suoi abiti scolastici sono stati ispirati alla Takeuchi da alcune rappresentazioni teatrali facenti capo al Takarazuka Revue, una forma di espressione teatrale tipicamente giapponese nella quale i personaggi maschili sono interpretati da donne.

Trasformazioni e aspetti

Sailor Uranus

Come Michiru e Setsuna, Sailor Uranus detiene uno dei Tre Talismani, la spada Space Sword (evidente riferimento alla spada Kusanagi della tradizione giapponese) ed ha il titolo di Guerriera dei Cieli. Sailor Uranus acquista una valenza significativa sia durante la terza serie, che nella quinta.

È in grado di avvertire e comprendere la voce del vento soprattutto all'avvicinarsi di problemi. Nel manga, la sua aura è blu, nell'anime invece è un misto di blu e oro. I suoi attacchi si rifanno ai movimenti d'aria, alle forze magnetiche e supersoniche dello spazio: si tratta, in generale, di colpi che partono dall'alto e che vengono scaricati verso il basso, in quanto si credeva che Urano, essendo la personificazione del cielo nella mitologia greco-romana, fosse l'unica divinità ad avere la facoltà di scuotere il mondo.

Come riferì il regista della terza serie, Sailor Uranus, come Sailor Neptune del resto, nell'anime possiede un talismano perché è pronta a sacrificare la sua vita, o quella di un innocente, per un bene maggiore, ed è pronta a tutto per la salvezza del pianeta e del futuro. Viene spiegato che solo un cuore estremamente puro non avrebbe paura del sacrificio comportato dalla loro missione.

Naoko Takeuchi disse che Sailor Uranus era una donna con un corpo di donna e il cuore di uomo.

Principessa Uranus

Durante il Silver Millennium, Sailor Uranus era anche la principessa del suo pianeta. Insieme a Sailor Pluto e Sailor Neptune, aveva il compito di proteggere il regno dagli attacchi esterni al sistema solare. La Principessa Uranus viveva nel Miranda Castle, ed indossava una veste blu, come appare nell'atto 41 del manga. A quanto pare a quel tempo non aveva una relazione con la Principessa Neptune, in quanto le outer senshi raramente si incontravano, essendo tutte e tre relegate nelle loro rispettive postazioni di difesa.

Poteri e attacchi
Trasformazioni

Uranus Planet Power, Make Up!: al momento della trasformazione, primo fra tutti appare il simbolo astronomico di Urano e dopo aver ruotato su se stesso si ricongiunge al Lip Rod di Sailor Uranus che appare sullo sfondo, Haruka lo afferra, mostrando delle unghie smaltate color blu.
Emanando un'onda luminosa dorata, Sailor Uranus ruota su sé stessa per creare un cerchio dello stesso colore, che la avvolge dal basso in un furioso vortice di vento.
Viene mostrato il suo viso e un leggero strato di lucidalabbra, appare quindi nelle sue vesti di Guerriera, prima che assuma la sua posa definitiva.

Attacchi

World Shaking: per realizzare questo attacco, Sailor Uranus solleva in alto la sua mano destra, evocando inizialmente un'energia dorata, che si concentra intorno alla mano stesa assumendo la forma di un pianeta con un anello attorno. Successivamente getta con forza la sfera a terra, che inizia a spaccarsi, scatenando un terremoto e attirando dei fulmini intorno ad esso.
Rifacendosi ai caratteri kanji usati per la scrittura giapponese di questo attacco, esso contiene parole come "cielo", "mondo celeste" e "sisma", attingendo al potere di cui era investito il dio romano Urano personificazione della volta celeste, il quale era l'unico ritenuto in grado di scuotere il pianeta dall'alto dei cieli.

Space Sword Blaster: attacco che prevede l'uso della Space Sword per colpire il nemico con una potente onda d'energia, rilasciata dal Talismano, capace di fendere qualsiasi cosa e colpire più nemici simultaneamente.

Space Turbolence: attacco che prevede l'uso della Space Sword Sailor Uranus solleva le sue mani per concentrare un'enorme quantità d'energia con la quale colpire il nemico.

Doppiatrici e attrici
Nella versione giapponese Sailor Uranus è stata doppiata da Megumi Ogata e da Junko Minagawa (serie Crystal), mentre in quella italiana da Maddalena Vadacca e da Tatiana Dessi (serie Crystal) e solo nell'episodio 200, da Loredana Nicosia.

Nei musical è stata interpretata da 5 attrici: Sanae Kimura (1994-1998), Nao Takagi (1998-2002), Asako Uchida (2003-2004), Akiko Nakayama (2004-2005) e Shuu Shiotsuki (dal 2015).

Non è mai apparsa nella versione live-action.

Note

Bibliografia
 Kappa Magazine 51, settembre 1996

Personaggi immaginari LGBT
Sailor Team
Principesse immaginarie
Studenti immaginari
Spadaccini immaginari

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Q: Inserting Commas Into Quotations I am currently writing my English coursework to hand in tomorrow and would very much appreciate some quick help. I would like to know whether I should insert commas into a quotation to make it read better. Here is the quote:
Don't Spy On Us is targeting UK based mass surveillance and wants to "let judges not the Home Secretary decide when spying is justified".
Here is how I would change it:
Don't Spy On Us is targeting UK based mass surveillance and wants "to let judges, not the Home Secretary, decide when spying is justified".
Is this grammatically correct and if so, should I be adding commas or just remove the quotation marks and keep the commas?
Thank you in advance

A: To quote from this page

Sic is a Latin term meaning "thus." It is used to indicate that something incorrectly written is intentionally being left as it was in the original. Sic is usually italicized and always surrounded by brackets to indicate that it was not part of the original. Place [sic] right after the error.
Example: She wrote, "They made there [sic] beds."
Note: The correct sentence should have been, "They made their beds."
Why use [sic] at all? Why not just make the correction? If you are quoting material, it is generally expected that you will transcribe it exactly as it appeared in the original.

The emphasis is my own.

A: No.  Do not ever, ever change the quotation, if you can help it, in terms of spelling, punctuation, capitalisation or anything else.  Or if you really must (for clarity), show and say how and why you have done so.
Otherwise you would be distorting evidence.  In your example, obviously, you are aiming for clarity.  The point, however, is that you can alter the meaning of something that you present as someone else's statement, because you are only mentioning it to recruit authority.
In the end, though, it's up to you.
But while you're here... What is this thing called, Love?

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Home » Health News » Drugmakers to Raise Prices on at Least 350 Drugs in US in January
Drugmakers to Raise Prices on at Least 350 Drugs in US in January
January 3, 2023 Comments Off on Drugmakers to Raise Prices on at Least 350 Drugs in US in January
NEW YORK, Dec 30 (Reuters) – Drugmakers including Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca, and Sanofi plan to raise prices in the United States on more than 350 unique drugs in early January, according to data analyzed by healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors.
The increases are expected to come as the pharmaceutical industry prepares for the Biden Administration's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which allows the government's Medicare health program to negotiate prices directly for some drugs starting in 2026. The industry is also contending with inflation and supply chain constraints that have led to higher manufacturing costs.
The increases are on list prices, which do not include rebates to pharmacy benefit managers and other discounts.
In 2022, drugmakers raised prices on more than 1,400 drugs according to data published by 46brooklyn, a drug pricing non-profit that is related to 3 Axis. That is the most increases since 2015.
The median drug price increase was 4.9% last year, while the average increase was 6.4%, according to 46brooklyn. Both figures are lower than inflation rates in the United States.
Drugmakers largely have kept increases at 10% or below – an industry practice followed by many big drugmakers since they came under fire for too many price hikes in the middle of the last decade.
Antonio Ciaccia, president of 3 Axis, said that drugmakers have focused on launching their drugs at higher prices because of the attention paid to annual price increases. The IRA should further this dynamic, he said.
"Drug makers have to take a harder look at calibrating those launch prices out of the gate … so they don't box themselves into the point where in the future, they can't price increase their way back into profitability," he said.
More drug prices are likely to be announced over the course of January – historically the biggest month for drugmakers to raise prices.
To date, Pfizer announced the most increases, with prices rising on 89 unique drug brands, and an additional increase on 10 drug brands at its Hospira arm.
That was followed by GSK, with planned increases so far on 26 unique drugs, including nearly a 7% increase on its popular shingles vaccine Shingrix.
GSK was not immediately available for comment.
Notable increases expected include 9% price hikes on Bristol Myers Squibb's personalized CAR-T cell therapies Abecma and Breyanzi, both of which were already more than $400,000 for the blood cancer treatments.
A company spokesperson said there were several driving factors in increasing the list price of the two CAR-T cell therapies, including the rate of inflation, the value of the therapies, and the personalized nature of the CAR-T manufacturing process.
Increases for Pfizer include a 6% rise on the cost of Xeljanz, a treatment for autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis and ulcerative colitis, and 7.9% increases on cancer drugs Ibrance and Xalkori.
A Pfizer spokesperson said in an email that the company's average list prices for drugs and vaccines in 2023 are well below overall inflation at approximately 3.6%, noting that the increases are needed to support investments in drug discovery.
Pfizer noted that net prices – those the company actually receives for its drugs – have fallen in the past four years because of higher rebates and discounts paid to insurance companies and pharmacy benefit managers.
AstraZeneca is set to raise prices in the 3% range on blood cancer treatment Calquence, non-small cell lung cancer drug Tagrisso and asthma treatment Fasenra.
"AstraZeneca has always taken a thoughtful approach to pricing, and we continue to do so, considering many factors," said company spokesman Brendan McEvoy.
In addition to significant R&D investments, McEvoy said AstraZeneca considers clinical value, size of patient population, government/payer coverage requirements, patient affordability, competition and other market conditions.
Sanofi plans to raise prices on 14 of its drugs or vaccines.
A Sanofi spokesperson said the drugmaker's 2023 pricing actions are consistent with its approach to responsible pricing, adherence to government policies, and the need to respond to evolving trends in the marketplace.
Reporting by Michael Erman and Julie Steenhuysen; editing by Diane Craft.
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Q: DataAdapter updated field i am trying to update my table from a gridview, the code below shows me no errors but my tables doesnt update, what is the idea for my mistake?
new updated for the pageload, the loadstatement is work,i able to fill the data into my datagridview but i still cannot update my database wuth my button clicks. the problems remain, no errors is throws. but no update
   void LoadStatement()
    {
        using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(sqlConn))
        {
            conn.Open();

            using (SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(sqlSelect, sqlConn))
            {
                dtbl = new DataTable();
                da.Fill(dtbl);

                dgv1.DataSource = dtbl;
            }
        }

    }

  private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        try
        {
            conn.Open();
            string updCommand = "Update Salary set Salary = "+ds.Tables[0].Rows[0]["Salary"].ToString()+"";
            SqlCommand sqlcmdUpd = new SqlCommand(updCommand, conn);

            da.UpdateCommand = sqlcmdUpd;

            sqlcmdUpd.ExecuteNonQuery();

            SqlCommandBuilder cmb = new SqlCommandBuilder(da);

            da.Update(ds,sTable);

            lblErrorMsg.Text = "Updated";

        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            lblErrorMsg.Text = ex.Message.ToString();
        }
        finally
        {
            if (conn.State == ConnectionState.Open)
            {
                conn.Close();
            }
        }

    }

A: Never code like that!
Always use parameterized queries. This code is open for an SQL Injection attacks.
string updCommand = "Update Salary set Salary = @Salary";
SqlCommand sqlcmdUpd = new SqlCommand(updCommand, conn);
sqlcmdUpd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Salary", ds.Tables[0].Rows[0]["Salary"].ToString());
sqlcmdUpd.ExecuteNonQuery();

This codes looks fine. Check your ds.Tables[0].Rows[0]["Salary"].ToString() varabile again, and please debug your code and look all variables is what you want or not..
Try to use your DataAdapter like;
DataAdapter da = new DataAdapter(sqlcmdUpd);
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
da.Fill(dt);

A: Are you only operating with 1 table only?
I don't think you need all those code. Try this:
try
{
    conn.Open();
    SqlCommandBuilder cmb = new SqlCommandBuilder(da);

    da.Update(ds,sTable);

    lblErrorMsg.Text = "Updated";
}

Any changes on the DataGrid should be saved correctly to the database.


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2000s >> 2000 >> no-1146-february-2000
The Birth of Labourism
When the Labour Party was founded it did not even claim to stand for Socialism, but only for the election of trade union and pro-trade union MPs to Parliament to press for reforms within capitalism.
The Labour Party is claiming that it was formed a hundred years ago this month. Actually it did not come into existence until after the 1906 General Election when a separate parliamentary group, with its own officers and whips, was constituted.
What happened a hundred years ago, at a meeting in London on 27 February 1900, was the establishment of the Labour Representation Committee. This was a body, made up of representatives of a number of trade unions and of three political bodies (the Independent Labour Party, the Social Democratic Federation, and the Fabian Society), with the aim of securing "Labour" representation in the House of Commons so that a parliamentary "Labour Party" could be formed.
The meeting had been called by the TUC as a result of a resolution carried at its congress the previous September. It was an expression of what Lenin (right, for once) called "trade union consciousness, i.e., the conviction that it is necessary to combine in unions, fight the employers and strive to compel the government to pass labour legislation, etc" (Lenin's mistake was to argue that, left to themselves, workers could not evolve beyond such a trade union consciousness.)
Various motions were put before the conference, the one which was carried being:
"That this Conference is in favour of establishing a distinct Labour Group in Parliament who shall have their own whips and agree upon their policy, which must embrace a readiness to co-operate with any party which, for the time being, may be engaged in promoting legislation in the direct interest of labour, and be equally ready to associate themselves with any party in opposing measures having an opposite tendency . . . "
The SDF, which was an organisation which sought to model itself on the continental Social Democratic parties which were committed to the class struggle, socialism and Marxism (and of which most Socialists in Britain were then still members), tried to commit the new organisation to socialism and the class struggle, but not even Keir Hardie's ILP supported them. In fact, Hardie always explicitly repudiated the class struggle.
The LRC didn't even pretend to stand for Socialism. The conference was chaired by a trade unionist who was also a Liberal MP, W. C. Steadman, and many of the trade unionists involved were Liberals. According to the official Conference report, one of the delegates to the Conference, John Ward, from Newcastle, declared that "they wanted to get their feet on the floor of the House of Commons, and would not be particular how they did it", which has remained Labour policy to this day.
The LRC faced its first test later that year in the General Election in October. Only two of the candidates it endorsed were elected, Keir Hardie and a Liberal trade unionist, Richard Bell, not enough to constitute a parliamentary Labour Party. This had to wait till after the next General Election in 1906.
At the 1901 LRC conference the SDF again tried to commit the organisation to only supporting candidates who agreed (in the words of an ILP resolution) with "the creation of an Industrial Commonwealth founded upon the common ownership and democratic control of land and capital and the substitution of co-operative production for use in the place of the present method of competitive production for profit" and (the SDF's addendum) who "recognise the class war as the basis of all working-class political action".
Due to a procedural manoeuvre this was not even voted on, and at its own conference that year the SDF decided to withdraw from the LRC. The report of the discussion in the SDF paper Justice (10 August 1901) brings out the arguments for and against and also that those who within a few years were to break away to form the Socialist Labour Party in Scotland and the SPGB in London supported the Executive Council on this issue against the more reformist members of the SDF (Yates was to be a founder member of the SLP in 1903 and Fitzgerald of the SPGB in 1904):
The following resolution was moved by H. Quelch on behalf of the Executive Council:
"That this Conference of the SDF decides to withdraw from the Labour Representation Committee."
He said that when we joined this Committee we hoped the trade unionists as a body would also join, and that we could do something to bring them along our way. But the bulk of the trade unions had not joined. He wished to make it quite clear there was no antagonism between us and trade unions. It was simply that we were on different lines. It would be a mistake to antagonise the unions.
Lewis (Blackburn) seconded.
Deasey (Accrington) thought it foolish to withdraw. We should stay and endeavour to permeate and capture the trade unions. J. Hunter Watts was against withdrawing, but thought our members should remain and hold a watching brief. Steer (Battersea) said the SDF had urged the working class to use the vote and he thought we should take part in the political organisation and have a say in the matter.
J. Fitzgerald (Central) on the contrary thought we might be dragged back by the trade unions. We could do more effective work when not entangled with them. W. Gee, L. E. Quelch, J.J. Kidd, Lewis and McGlasson continued the discussion.
G. Yates said they in Scotland had joined a committee formed three years ago, and they found themselves tied to a party which could preach any nostrum that came along. Our proposals were systematically voted down and intrigued off the programme. It was an experiment and they now ought to withdraw.
Leggo (Plymouth) and Lloyd having spoken, the resolution was carried by 54 to 14.
Since the leadership of the SDF (and it was a leadership) was not against the principle of independent Labour (as opposed to purely Socialist) representation it may seem strange that they should have recommended withdrawal. However, they felt that the LRC was turning out to be another front for obtaining trade union support for the Liberal Party and so was not genuinely independent Labour representation.
Although, twenty years later, the Labour Party did become independent—organisationally, if not in terms of ideas and perspectives—of the Liberals and in fact eventually came to replace them as the Tories' alternate, at the time there was a great deal of truth in this, as the 1906 General Election was to show. This resulted in the return of 29 MPs endorsed by the LRC who constituted themselves into the parliamentary Labour Party. However, most of these were elected with the help of the Liberals. At that time many constituencies returned two members, so each elector there had two votes. As emerged later, Ramsay MacDonald, who was the Secretary of the LRC, had secretly negotiated a deal with Herbert Gladstone, the Liberals' National Agent, under which in a number of these two-member constituencies there would be one Liberal and one Labour candidate and that each would recommend their supporters to give their second vote to the other
Even the ILP candidates running under the auspices of the LRC went along with this deal. "In several cases", commented the Socialist Standard (March 1906) in a detailed analysis of the votes, "they contested double-member constituencies, and not only got in by Liberal votes, but made arrangements with the Liberals to work and vote together". One example given was that of MacDonald himself (an ILP member) who was elected for Leicester along with a Liberal. He obtained 14,693 votes, of which 13,999 were split with the Liberals, 260 with the Tories and 426 were "plumpers" (i.e., only voted for him).
In Parliament the Labour MPs generally voted with the Liberal government. It was only after the first World War that the Labour Party became more ambitious and began to think of developing from a mere parliamentary pressure group for the unions into a party that could take over the government of British capitalism, replacing the Liberals as Tweedledum to the Tories' Tweedledee.
In 1919 Labour adopted a new constitution allowing individuals to join directly instead of via a trade union or an affiliated political group and adopting the famous Clause IV as its ultimate aim, so committing itself to "socialism" (in reality, full-scale nationalisation or state capitalism). The Socialist Standard of the time (May 1918) was not impressed and set out a criticism of Labourism that has stood the test of time:
"The new constitution of the Labour Party does not make that party any more of a working-class party in the real sense than it has been heretofore. As has frequently been pointed out in these columns, its policy is, for the following reasons, opposed to the best interests of the working class, and calculated to hinder their emancipation.
(1) The Labour Party is not a Socialist party, and consequently is not concerned with the abolition of capitalism and wage-slavery.
(2) The time and energy of the Labour Party are spent in advocating and pleading for reforms, which cannot materially improve conditions for the working class, but which confuse the minds of the workers, leading them to expect benefits they never obtain, thus causing disappointment, disgust, and apathy.
(3) The avowed aim of the Labour Party is to get members into Parliament, in the belief that those members can legislate in the interest of the working class, whereas they are powerless to do so because they are dependent upon a capitalist party for constituencies in which to run their candidates, and the electorate of such constituencies merely vote them in because they stand for a Liberal programme and policy.
(4) By claiming to have a Socialist objective the Labour Party perpetuate the false notion that Socialism will be established, not as the result of an organised and conscious effort of the working class, but by a series of political reforms concurred in by the capitalist class.
(5) The Labour Party deny the class struggle: the antagonism between the working class and the capitalist class. Recognition of this antagonism is, quite obviously, the fundamental principle which forms the basis of a genuine working-class, or Socialist party."
ADAM BUICK


PostgreSQL 8.2 and above has this pretty neat feature of allowing you to define aggregate functions that take more than one column as an input. First we'll start off with a rather pointless but easy to relate to example and then we'll follow up with something a bit more interesting.
We have all seen aggregate functions that take one column as argument, but what about ones that take two or three or four or more. Why would you ever want to do this? The first example we will show is one that puts me to sleep, but demonstrates the point. We'll call it the prodsum. What it does is this.
Any astitute observer will observe that this is just a lame use of something as powerful as multicolumn aggregates because you can easily simulate it with the below. Its only nice because it allows us to validate our result.
Now to validate that it is doing the right thing..


This is my 19th year teaching sixth grade at Ocean Shore. I was a parent of an alternative student for eight years before that. I have also taught 5th, lst, and high school at other schools. Before being a public school teacher I worked at a university. I've always had jobs in academia. Math and Social Studies are my specialties but I enjoy teaching art and all the other subjects. I am a member of the beginning band!


Last edited by Phil on Tue Sep 21, 2010 7:34 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Does anyone find that the turnout frequencies are always distorted? And theres always that annoying static that comes over before a firecall.
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That is really interesting, Firecom can actually watch . I have been at 10 station when a firecall has come in once. The doors open, the bells ring and a fireman has to answer the call on the turnout system, and then the dispatcher talks over the PA while they gear up.
The ability to watch whats happening on the screen would be handy for when they turnout from the station and before the pump radios for station security, someone can enter the station.
Firecom can do anything they can open doors to the stations close them, they have to open the key box door. They can sellcall the pumps so the horn starts going off and lights start flashing. Yeah they do it all. They have three computers in front of them. It's pretty cool what they do there.
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FIRECOM CAN OPEN DOORS, KEY BOXES. EXHAUSE FANS ETC, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE CCTV TO THE STATONS. ALL URBAN PUMPS HAVE A REMOTE TO THEIR STATION DOORS AND IT ALSO OPENS OTHER STATIONS DOORS WHEN THEY STANDBY. THE REASON YOU HEAR STATION SECURITY IS BECAUSE THERE MAYBE A FAULT ETC. ONCE ALL PUMP ARE FITTED WITH AVL'S (AUTOMATIC VEHICLE LOCATORS) THE ESCAD WILL AUTOMATICALLY SELECT THE NEAREST PUMP FOR THE JOB REGARDLESS OF WHERE THE PUMP IS FROM. SO IF A VEHICLE FROM DBAY IS COMING FROM THE WORKSHOPS AT EAGLE FARM THEY WILL BE RESPONDED TO A JOB AT EAGLE FARM. IT IS THE SAME AS QAS' SYSTEM SO HERE COMES THE FUN.
So what exactly is station security? And just to confirm. They don't have Live cameras of what's happening?
Well trucks down here either don't have them or never use them coz 99% of the time when trucks leave station they ask for security at station. I know station 33 always ask for security and need firecom to open their doors for them.
One station I do know that can open their own doors is stn 37 coz I was sitting outside their station when they arrived home and opened their back door but not their front door.
So this leads me to believe that they can open their back doors but not shut the front doors from their pump.
stn 31 also has their own security cameras operating looking in the engine bay as well as out the back of the station where all the old and new appliances sit.
I bet you can get a good signal off that one, let me know how you go.
Location: Earth around the Gold Coast Area.
perhaps you need to tell the scanner to tune in 6.25 KHz segments instead of 12.5 KHz.
alinco21 wrote: perhaps you need to tell the scanner to tune in 6.25 KHz segments instead of 12.5 KHz.
As far as I can see, the second frequency should be 461.75625 MHz.
Bear in mind that the frequencies are only 5 watts, and the Stations have yagi's pointed at the transmitters. But if you are receiving some of the South East frequencies, one would expect you would also receive the others.
Im in the Metro South area of Brisbane and I can receive Sout East perfectly, but all South Brisbane turn outs are bearly readable.
Stretch wrote: Well trucks down here either don't have them or never use them coz 99% of the time when trucks leave station they ask for security at station. I know station 33 always ask for security and need firecom to open their doors for them.
all southside brizzy trucks have a magic button to open and close doors mitch. i like to make sure the doors are shut before we leave for every firecall, it only takes 2 seconds to hit the button and watch the door start going down in the rear vision mirror. not sure that they can open other stations though, most of them are different.


This page shows a comparison between the BirdLife Australia (v1.1) taxonomy used on an early version of the website and the latest v2.1 list (which is available for download here).
Whilst most of us think we know what a 'species' is, scientists called taxonomists are continually assessing the genetic makeup and other aspects of species, and this can result in changes. Not all taxonomists agree, and different lists (taxonomies) may have different sets of species!
Sometimes they decide that what were previously regarded as two separate species, such as Rufous Fantail and Arafura Fantail, are in fact sufficiently closely related that they are best regarded as a single species - in this case the Rufous Fantail. This is called a 'lump'.
As far as this website is concerned, this is very simple: all photos that were originally uploaded as Rufous or Arafura Fantails are now re-assigned to Rufous Fantail. In the case of newer lumps we update the comment on the photos to say what the original species was. You can no longer upload an image as Arafura Fantail, or search for Arafura Fantail in the lists.
On other occasions they decide that what was previously thought of as a single species, such as Thick-billed Grasswren, contains sufficient differences that it deserves to be regarded as two or more species - in this case Thick-billed Grasswren and Western Grasswren. This is called a 'split'.
All existing photos of Thick-billed Grasswren are assigned to a new name: 'Thick-billed Grasswren complex'.
Over time the original photographers or the moderators will attempt to assign such images to the correct new species. To assist in this, when editing an image of a 'complex' the list of new species will be shown.
When you upload you have to make a choice of Thick-billed or Western Grasswren. Because you may not have realised the species has been split there will be an indication of this on the upload page if you select Thick-billed.
If you search for images of 'Thick-billed Grasswren complex' you will get all images of that name, together with any images of the new species - Thick-billed or Western Grasswren.
If you search for one of the new species - e.g. Western Grasswren - you will get images of that species and the complex.
Note that in this example the name of one of the new species is the same as the name of the original single species. In some splits (e.g. Rockhopper Penguin into Northern and Southern) this is not the case.


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Effect of hardwoods characteristics on kraft pulping process: Emphasis on lignin structure
Santos, R. B., Capanema, E. A., Balakshin, M. Y., Chang, H.-M., and Jameel, H. (2011). "Effect of hardwoods characteristics on kraft pulping process: Emphasis on lignin structure," BioRes. 6(4), 3623-3637.
In an attempt to explain variations in delignification behaviors among different hardwood species, the kraft pulping delignification rates of Eucalyptus urograndis, E. nitens, E. globulus, sweet gum, maple, red oak, birch, red alder, cottonwood, and acacia were obtained and correlated with their respective lignin chemical structures. Since H-factor for hardwood is calculated based on the softwood activation energy (Ea) value, a comparison between softwood vs. hardwood activation energy was also performed. Lignin was isolated by a modified isolation protocol, using alkaline pretreatment of the wood prior to isolation. The lignin preparations were analyzed via quantitative 13C NMR spectroscopy. Substantial variations were found among the hardwood species studied. A linear correlation between the kraft delignification rate and the amount of syringyl units was found. Activation energy values obtained for kraft pulping of hardwoods were very similar and almost identical to the value obtained for softwood. Birch was the only species with outlier behavior.
Ricardo B. Santos,a Ewellyn A. Capanema,b Mikhail Yu. Balakshin,b Hou-Min Chang,a,* and Hasan Jameel a
Keywords: S/G ratio; 13C NMR; Chemical kinetics; Reaction rate constant; Activation energy; Hardwood; Kraft pulp; Lignin; Degree of condensation; Morphology
Contact information: a: Department of Forest Biomaterials, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 8005, NC 27695-8005, USA; b: Lignol Innovations Ltd., Unit 101, 4705 Wayburne Drive, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5G 3L1; * Corresponding author: hchang@ ncsu.edu
The kraft process is currently the dominant chemical pathway to produce pulp. During the process, white liquor promotes lignin dissolution and consequent fiber individualization, and the bulk phase (main delignification phase during process) is known to promote from 60% to 68% of the total delignification of the wood (Gierer 1980 and Chiang et al. 1987). The use of sodium hydroxide and sulfide during a kraft cook brings a number of advantages when compared to other processes, especially in terms of fiber strength. Disadvantages are also present, the major one being a loss in pulp yield caused by carbohydrate instability and degradation during the alkaline reaction.
In order to minimize those losses, it is important to have a good and reliable understanding of both process and raw material. Further, interactions between process conditions and utilized raw material can be critical and may require special attention.
Easier lignin breakdown during pulping may permit the use of less drastic process conditions, leading to carbohydrate preservation. When one discusses lignin vs. process conditions, it is important to note that softwood species are harder to pulp, in comparison to hardwoods. Softwood lignin appears to vary little between species (Sarkanen and Hergert 1971; Akiyama et al. 2005) and therefore fewer improvements in the process (related to wood) can be achieved. On the other hand, there is increasing evidence that the structure of hardwood lignin varies greatly between species. The major difference in hardwoods is the presence of syringyl lignin in combination with guaiacyl units (S/G), and the mixed system allows for the opportunity to improve process conditions. A more suitable lignin may reduce the needed alkali charge, temperature, and/or retention time. In such cases an increase in production (yield) and fiber quality is expected.
Considerable variation in kraft pulping performance of different hardwood species has been reported (Collins et al. 1990; Pinto et al. 2005; González-Vila et al. 1999; Bose et al. 2009). A study with model compounds showed indications that the β-aryl ether of syringyl lignin is cleaved much more easily than that of guaiacyl lignin (Tsutsumi et al. 1995). Since β-O-4 is a dominant structure in lignin and appears to correlate highly with the S/G ratio, there have been many studies to investigate the effect of S/G ratio on kraft pulping of hardwoods (Collins et al. 1990; Pinto et al. 2005; González-Vila et al. 1999; Bose et al. 2009; Chang and Sarkanen 1973; Gomes et al. 2008). Even within the same species of E. globulus wood, evidence of the influence of S/G ratio on pulp yield and ease of pulping has been reported, leading to the inclusion of lignin S/G ratio as a selection parameter in clonal breeding programs for pulpwood production (González-Vila et al. 1999; del Río et al. 2005). Similar results were also reported for various clones of E. grandis and the hybrid of E. grandis × E. urophylla (Gomide et al. 2005; Guerra et al. 2009). The correlation was not as strong, leading to the suggestion that other lignin structural features, in addition to the S/G ratio, may also play a role (Guerra et al. 2009).
Until now, studies aimed at demonstrating the effect of S/G ratio on the ease of kraft pulping delignification have been done either by cooking to different kappa numbers at the same alkali charge or by pulping to a constant kappa number with different alkali consumption. These two methods can only give the relative ranking of the ease of kraft delignification among species or clones. These two methods may also be affected by factors unrelated to lignin structure, such as type and amount of hemicelluloses, extractives, etc. Few studies have determined the rate constant of the bulk delignification for kraft pulping of different hardwood species. To the best of our knowledge, activation energy (Ea) has never been determined for any hardwood. In this paper, hardwood lignin structures were evaluated and quantified by 13C NMR. In addition, hardwoods morphological aspects were also determined. An investigative study of those parameters (lignin type and wood morphology) affecting pulping delignification is presented. Activation energy was determined for commercially important hardwood species, as well as for loblolly pine as a softwood reference.
Eucalyptus nitens, E. globulus, E. urograndis, sweet gum (Liquidambar styraciflua), red maple (Acer rubrum), red oak (Quercus rubra), birch (Betula pendula), red alder (Alnus rubra), cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa), acacia (Acacia mangium), and loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) received from different pulp and paper mills around the world were ground and sieved as received (knots and bark were removed). The wood meals (40 to 60 mesh) were soxhlet extracted for 24 h with benzene-ethanol 2:1 (v/v) (TAPPI T264 om-88), dried, and used for pulping and lignin isolation.
Wood chips of E. nitens, E. globulus, E. urograndis, sweet gum (Liquidambar styraciflua), red maple (Acer rubrum), red alder (Alnus rubra), cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa), and acacia (Acacia mangium) were prepared using a lab chipper. The logs had their bark manually removed and then were mechanically split into four pieces. After chipping, each sample was separated into 3 different fractions (27 to 23 mm; 23 to 17 mm; 17 to 11 mm). The fractions were proportionally mixed in order to obtain a similar chips size for all species and avoid size interference. They were placed in plastic bags, and the moisture content was determined.
Sawdust Delignification Rate Constant
Sawdust delignification rate determination was performed at 150ºC using E. nitens, E. globulus, E.urograndis, sweet gum, maple, red oak, birch, red alder, cottonwood, acacia, aspen, and loblolly pine. Stainless steel autoclaves (50 mL) were filled with 3 g of OD wood sawdust plus 30 mL of white liquor. An excess of white liquor (liquor: wood ratio of 10:1) was used in order to maintain constant reagent concentrations during the evaluation of kinetics. Therefore, the active alkaline charge was 40%, with 25% sulfidity. The autoclaves were closed and seated on the bottom of the M&K digester. White liquor with the same ion concentration was used to heat the 50 mL autoclaves placed inside the M&K. After the desired reaction time, the whole apparatus was cooled down by running cold water through it. The samples were removed from the bombs and washed with deionized water until a neutral pH was reached. Cooking yield and lignin content (Dence and Lin 1992) were then determined for kinetics calculations.
Chips Delignification Rate Constant
A kinetics study on chips was performed using eight hardwoods species (E. globulus, E. nitens, E. urograndis, maple, sweet gum, red alder, cottonwood, and acacia). The species were cooked following the same approach and conditions as for sawdust. The experiment was designed to be similar and allow comparison of the results (Fig. 1). The only modification was in regards to the amount of sample utilized (150 g) and the direct contact between wood sample and digester. After the kinetics experiments, the pulp was separated from black liquors and exhaustively washed with water until a neutral pH was reached. Pulping yield and lignin contents (Dence and Lin 1992) were determined.
13C-NMR for Lignin Structure Quantification
13C-NMR analysis was performed according to Capanema et al. (2007). 13C-NMR spectra of the lignin preparations in DMSO-d6 were recorded on a Bruker AVANCE 300 MHz spectrometer at 300 K using a 90º pulse width, a 1.4 s acquisition time, and 1.7 s relaxation delay. MWL was isolated according to the modified protocol, (Capanema et al. 2007) in which all samples are extracted with 0.3% NaOH for 1 hour to remove tannins. The ball milled wood was extracted with 96% aqueous dioxane, in accordance with the method of Bjorkman (1956). The targeted milled wood lignin yield was 27%. Chromium (III) acetylacetonate (0.01 M) was added to the lignin solution to provide complete relaxation of all nuclei. A total of 20,000 scans were collected.
Figure 1. Apparatus for kraft kinetics study using sawdust or chips
Carbohydrate Analysis
The samples' carbohydrate composition was determined by acid hydrolysis. 0.1 g of sample was hydrolyzed with 1.5 mL of 72% H2SO4 at room temperature with occasional stirring for 2 hrs. The mixture was then diluted to 3% H2SO4 using deionized water, transferred to a vial, sealed, and heated to 120°C for 1.5 hrs. The resulting suspension was filtered, and the filtrate was analyzed for monomeric sugar. Fucose was added as internal standard.
The monomeric sugar content was determined by injecting 2.5 mL samples into a high-performance anion-exchange chromatography system with pulsed amperometric detection (HPAE-PAD) with a Dionex IC-3000 chromatograph. Sugars were separated using a Carbo-Pac PA1 guard and analytical columns connected in series. Water was used as eluent at the flow rate of 1.0 mL/min, and the column temperature was 18oC. A post-column base 40 mM NaOH was added in to improve detection by pulsed amperometry. The post-column flow rate was 1.0 mL/min.
Quantitative Wood Anatomy
Eight hardwood species were selected for quantitative anatomical evaluation. Four chips of each species were cut to obtain transverse microtomes, and a 1% aqueous safranin solution was used to enhance contrast of the sections. Next, the samples were washed with deionized water and placed on a warm plate at 75±5°C to dry. Each section was fixed on a glass slide with Permount, and anatomical properties were measured using a light microscope (Nikon E200), 3CCD color video camera (Sony DXC-390), and an Image-Pro Plus 4.5 software. From each slide, four 546 μm x 410 μm-sized images at x200 magnification and four 273 μm x 205 μm-sized images at x400 magnification were taken randomly at 640×480 pixels resolution. On the lower magnification images, vessel number, vessel lumen diameter (μm), and vessel lumen area fraction (%), were measured. Fiber lumen area fraction (%) and double cell wall (μm) were measured on the higher magnification images.
Fiber Quality Analysis
The same species used for quantitative wood anatomy were also analyzed using a Fiber Quality Analyzer (FQA). Samples for FQA evaluation were obtained by isolating holocellulose from 1 g of extractive-free 20 min. kraft pulps. 20 mg of oven-dried holocellulose was suspended in 20 mL of deionized water and defibrillated for 8 minutes. The liberated fibers were placed into 300 mL of deionized water, stirred, and placed in the equipment. The beaker was filled with water 3 times to guarantee that all fibers were counted. The ranges used for the analysis were the following: fines (L = 0.05 to 0.20 mm), mean fiber length (L = 0.20 to 10.00 mm), mean fiber width (W = 7 to 60 μm), and vessels (0.10 < L < 2.00 mm W>100.00 mm).
Samples Characterization
Species' chemical characterization and lignin isolation yield are given in Table I. Among the ten hardwoods, lignin content varied from 22% to 28%. The yield of MWL was rather constant, varying from 24% to 29%, and was independent of the lignin content. These results are consistent with the finding that yield of MWL depends only on the extent of ball milling (Fujimoto et al. 2005). Total carbohydrate content ranged from 57% to 63%, with glucan and xylan as the major components. Glucans composed 37% to 49% of the total wood composition, while xylan ranged from 11% to 20%. S/G, as determined based on NMR measurements, was found to differ widely among the species. It varied from 1.18 for acacia, to up to 3.15 for birch. As expected, Eucalyptus and red oak are among the species with high syringyl content.
Table I. Sugar Composition, Lignin Content, and Structure
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Since the greatest proportion of the lignin removal takes place during the kraft bulk phase, the kinetics experiments were designed to investigate the effect that lignin structure has on this phase of pulping. As polymers such carbohydrates and extractives consume part of the alkaline solution, an excess in alkali charge was necessary in order to isolate those reactions that made it possible to conduct the experiment without their interference. Lignin reactivity with the kraft liquor was measured at 150ºC at four different points in time (20, 30, 45, and 60 minutes).
Figures 2 to 4 show sawdust delignification curves obtained for the kinetics experiments.
Figure 2. Red alder, E.globulus and cottonwood delignification curves
Figure 3. E.urograndis, acacia, E.nitens and red oak delignification curves
Figure 4. Birch, loblolly pine, maple and sweetgum delignification curves
There was a very good correlation between cooking time and percentage of lignin removal during the kinetics. The delignification rate constant value was calculated using the exponential function. Each of the species studied presented a pseudo-first order reaction, in agreement with similar studies (Wilder and Daleski 1965; Kleinert 1966).
A wide range of reaction rate constants were obtained among the hardwoods (Fig. 5). A high rate constant represents a higher delignification rate and therefore a more reactive lignin. In general, eucalyptus species presented the highest delignification rates. The highest values were assigned for E. globulus, followed by E.nitens and, E.urograndis. The lowest value was obtained for maple wood.
Figure 5. Sawdust delignification rate constant
Figure 5 can be divided into three different zones: the first zone contains easily delignifiable species (Eucalyptus), the second zone is composed of intermediate species (from red oak to acacia), and the third zone contains low delignification rate species (red alder and maple). Softwood's rate of delignification was not even half that of the lowest hardwood value (maple), showing the dominance that hardwood species have in regards of pulping performance.
S/G vs. Delignification Rate Constant
In order to explain differences in rate of delignification among the species, lignin structure obtained from 13C-NMR was correlated with the rate constant values. A substantial variation of syringyl and guaiacyl content among the species was found, and those values strongly correlated with the delignification rate constant. As shown in Fig. 6, a straight line was found (R2 = 94%), indicating a high influence of syringyl lignin on the kraft pulping delignification process. As syringyl lignin increases, condensed lignin structure decreases and β-O-4 linkages increase (Santos et al. 2011). These findings are very important and confirm the benefits of high S/G ratio for the kraft process. Moreover, the use of species with high syringyl lignin content may reduce pulping reagent use and consequently diminish fiber degradation, increasing fiber strength. Species having high S content can also be suitable for cellulosic bioethanol processes that have an alkaline stage as pretreatment.
Only one of the species had an unexpected behavior during the study. Birch, which has the highest S/G ratio (3.15), was expected to have the highest rate of delignification. Instead birch delignification was slow and comparable to acacia, with a value of 1.65, 1/min (x100). Further investigation for this species is required, and it will be done as future work.
Figure 6. Sawdust delignification rate constant vs S/G ratio
Activation energy
Activation energy (Ea), which defines the energy that must be overcome in order for a chemical reaction to occur, was calculated for four hardwood species and one softwood. An activation energy experiment was performed to show possible differences between hardwood and softwood species. It is well known that the activation energy for softwood is around 140 kJ/mol (Sjöström 1981), but to the best of our knowledge, no activation energy experiment using hardwoods had been done before.
Figure 7 shows the coefficients used to calculate activation energy, and Table II brings the calculated activation energy.
Figure 7. Activation energy curves
Table 2. Activation Energy Values
Activation energy for the bulk phase of the kraft pulping process presented almost the same value for hardwood and softwood. This confirmation is important, since softwood activation energy value has been applied routinely to calculate hardwoods' H-factor for process control until now.
Chip Delignification Rate Constant
Because of the high activation energy value obtained, no other influence rather than chemical is expected during the kinetics reaction. To ensure this statement and to create a more tangible industrial scenario, kinetic tests with chips were also performed.
Figures 8 and 9 show the curves obtained from chip kinetics experiments. There was also a strong correlation between cooking time and percentage of lignin removal during the reaction. As for sawdust, delignification rate constant value was calculated using an exponential function. The reaction followed pseudo-first order kinetics.
Figure 8. Chip delignification curves for E. urograndis, E. globulus, sweetgum, and acacia
Figure 9. Chip delignification curves for red alder, cottonwood, E. nitens, and maple
Figure 10 shows a comparison between sawdust and chip rates. The rates for chips were slightly higher for the eight species studied. This could be due to the use of sawdust inside stainless steel autoclaves and a consequent delay in heat transfer from the liquid being heated by the digester to the sample inside the autoclave. Also, when chips are cooked, the circulation provided by this type of digester (M&K) might result in a better homogenization of the system and slightly better lignin removal. These two factors would raise the rate values. Nevertheless, the tendency obtained was the same (Fig. 11). The S/G ratio was found to govern chips' rate of reaction, in a similar manner as observed in the case of sawdust.
Figure 10. Sawdust and chip delignification rate constant
Figure 11. Chip delignification rate constant vs S/G ratio.
Wood Morphology vs. Rate of Delignification
Wood morphological features have been mainly reported as determinants of pulp properties (Kayama 1968; Amidon 1981; Ona et al. 2001), and scarce information is found in regards to their influence on pulpability (Ramírez et al. 2009). Looking at the morphological results obtained in this study (Table III), some highlights can be made.
In terms of fiber length, sweetgum presented the highest value, followed by red alder. On the other hand, Eucalyptus nitens had the lowest value. Fiber diameter was found to be very close among the Eucalyptus fibers. Cottonwood and red alder had the highest value for that feature. In terms of cell wall thickness, all the species presented a similar value, except sweetgum and acacia, which had, respectively, the highest and lowest values. In terms of vessel characterization, the three Eucalyptus and acacia were found to have the highest vessel diameter. Sweetgum and cottonwood had the highest percentage of vessels, and acacia the lowest.
However, even with the wide variations found among the species, no wood morphological feature was found to interfere during chip and/or sawdust kinetics (Table IV); these findings demonstrate that the kinetics are based on chemical reactions. Statistical analysis was performed using Person product-moment correlation coefficient (r) which evaluates the linear dependence between two variables and gives value between +1 to -1. The correlation matrix for the variables in discussion was created using a p-level for highlighting of 0.05. Significant t-tests contenting p < or = is shown as highlighted color in the results tables.
Table 3. Species' Morphological Features
Table 4. Correlation Matrix of Species' Morphological Features vs. Reaction Rate
Nevertheless, the knowledge of the different species' anatomical structures can be used as database for future studies aimed at understanding final product quality (paper) attributes based on the original wood and fiber structures.
1. This study used an investigational approach to explain the effect of hardwood lignin structure during the kraft pulping process. Ten industrially important hardwood species were compared in terms of delignification performance, and a wide range of delignification rate constants were obtained for the various species. These variations indicate how easy or difficult the delignification process for each species shall be. Eucalyptus were established as the easiest species to delignify. Even though birch presented a high S/G ratio, its delignification rate was rather low. The species was considered an outlier, and further evaluation will be done.
2. Hardwood lignin structure analysis revealed substantial variation in terms of syringyl and guaiacyl units content. Eucalyptus had the highest syringyl content when compared to the other species (except birch). A linear correlation was found when S/G ratio was plotted against bulk delignification rate constant. This confirms the importance of syringyl units in pulping, due to its higher reactivity with alkaline liquor, the presence of lower condensed linkages, and higher β–O-4 content.
3. Hardwood activation energy, which is a key value for process control calculations, was found to be the same as for the hardwoods as for softwood (≈ 135 kJmol). This is an important confirmation, since the H-factor has been historically calculated based on data obtained for softwood.
4. Rates of delignification for sawdust and chips were found to be similar. No wood morphological interference during chip kinetics was found, showing that the kinetics mechanism is controlled by chemical reactions.
5. During the course of this study, interference from carbohydrates, extractives, hexenuronic acids, and reagent concentration was avoided. This was achieved by the use of high alkaline charge and by measuring pulp residual Klason lignin, instead of kappa number.
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Well Monday was a big day for us. The news of our PLANTAPALOOZA made it onto the front page of the Athens Banner Herald. Check it out here- http://bit.ly/ie2xlf. It was a very well written article that gives all the details you could need.
But just in case you don't go take a look at it, I'll remind you of them.
THIS Saturday, April 9th, 2011, from 8 a.m – 2 p.m. we're having our first ever, PLANTAPALOOZA. We're functioning in conjunction with the State Botanical Garden of Georgia and the UGA Hort Club. Each location is having a sale, at the same time, in different locations. You may be saying to yourself, I don't know how to get there. Or when I do, how do I get to the next location? Fear not. We have very specific details on our website- http://www.ugatrialgardens.com/ and will also have directions at each location. We have plants of ALL types and you are sure to find something you'll like.
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The horrific results when 2 Penn creatives come together
Posted on December 7, 2007 by Matt Rosler in 1996, 1997, Alum Produced Films, Alumni working together, Film Producer | 1 Comment
What happens when a Penn alum film producer works with a Penn alum writer to produce a horror film?
Hopefully it gets made and hopefully it gets good reviews.
This is exactly what has happened in both cases when Todd Shotz (C'96, Glee Club, Penn Players), VP of Rifkin Eberts collaborated with writer Dan Kay (C'97) on Timber Falls.
Check out a great review after the jump!
I saw an advanced preview screening of the film about a month ago and I really liked it. I thought the story was scary and I especially thought the casting and acting was great (which is surprising for a horror film).
The film opens TONIGHT (12/7) in Los Angeles and I encourage all of you to check it out!
Click here to check out the trailer (as featured in Pennfest 2007)
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Here's the review that appeared in Fangoria:
>TIMBER FALLS
Reviewed by MICHAEL GINGOLD
The opening scenes of TIMBER FALLS are made up of ingredients that will seem remarkably familiar to anyone who's been following the horror genre in recent years. A tearful female victim, painful bondage involving spikes and barbed wire, a dark cellar full of nasty metal implements, a deformed, weapon-wielding human monster…yep, it's another backwoods torturefest scenario of the type that has really taken on a "been there, seen that" feeling by this point. (Hell, these movies have started to become so interchangeable that this one was actually released to Brazilian DVD as WRONG TURN 2!) Yet against the odds, and despite any number of predictable and implausible moments, TIMBER FALLS manages to engender genuine tension and a few good jolts that raise it above its imitative brethren.
Part of the film's success derives from the fact that everyone involved, from director Tony Giglio and scripter Dan Kay to the actors on down, have attacked the material with the conviction of people mining this territory for the very first time—or at least believing they are. The level of craft on view makes it a little easier to accept the fact that, say, a couple hiking in the West Virginia mountains wouldn't immediately turn around and head home after a humiliating encounter with a trio of shotgun-toting hillbillies. But Mike (Josh Randall, a long way from his sitcom roles on ED, SCRUBS et al.) and Sheryl (Brianna Brown, thankfully a long way from her previous starring turn in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 3D) are made of stronger stuff and press on anyway. Taking the advice of friendly-seeming local woman Ida (Beth Broderick), they decide to forego taking the more frequently patrolled Donner Trail (heh, heh) in favor of the titular, more scenic route.
The Timber Falls path does indeed lead to a remarkable site which both offers a gorgeous mountaintop view and is within walking distance of a pristine lake. (Just as impressive as Tobian Moore's lush location photography is the fact that that location was Romania, standing in flawlessly for the American South.) It's not long after the couple have set up camp, needless to say, that someone or someones in the woods begin stalking them, and Sheryl soon goes missing. Mike understandably suspects those good ol' boys with the firearms, but any reasonably alert genre viewer will cotton quickly to the fact that it's Ida, and equally friendly-seeming park ranger Clyde (NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH/DEADLY END's Nick Searcy, portraying a very different but equally convincing nutcase), who pose the real threat.
This pair turn out to be Christian fanatics who have very specific and twisted plans for the sinning unmarried fornicators who have wandered into their midst. The exact nature of those plans won't be given away here, but they have been cannily conceived in that they require Clyde and Ida to keep their prisoners alive, and also to subject them to unpleasant physical abuse to force them to comply. Some of this punishment is meted out by the aforementioned disfigured relation, pointedly named Deacon (Sascha Rosemann), and while Giglio doesn't shy away from the gore (well-wrought splatter FX by Jason Collins and Elvis Jones), he doesn't wallow unnecessarily in it either.
The director also keeps the tension humming at a good pitch, maintaining sympathy for his beleaguered couple even when one or the other is doing things like blundering into a bear trap lying in the middle of an open clearing. There's also a nice bit of irony in the fact that the backwoods trio who at first seem to be the primary antagonists eventually come to be Mike and Sheryl's potential saviors—though the movie doesn't fully pay this off by having the victims realize it. In other words, TIMBER FALLS is a movie of mixed blessings: one with strong performances in the service of familiar and occasionally dubious characterizations, that contains a number of genuine scares even as it lacks any real surprises and that delivers very satisfying climactic mayhem before capping it with a groaner of a final scene. But since it's inevitable that we're going to be flooded with lots more of the illegitimate children of HOSTEL, THE HILLS HAVE EYES et al. in the next couple of years, we can only hope that at the very least, they're as professionally put together as this one is.
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Collette December 7, 2007 at 12:46 pm
I saw Timber Falls in Cannes and LOVED it. I was screaming my head off the entire movie to the point where people were laughing at me. AMAZING! It makes me so happy that Penn alum were a huge part in the creation of the project!
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I'd been waiting for months to make this. I gobbled up the last bite last night, and now it's time to share. You still have time to try it. Tables at the farmers market are nearly buckling from the weight of peaches. They're at their prime. But in about two weeks, they'll disappear for an entire year. Last summer I made a lattice peach pie that was amaaaaazing. It deserved a repeat performance. But last weekend Jeff started itching for a cobbler. I considered the options. Blackberries. Blueberries. Peaches. Nectarines.
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This recipe comes from the Art and Soul of Baking, a terrific book I checked out from our library recently. I don't want to part with it. The peach cobbler has convinced me that I need my own copy.
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When it's 80 degrees at 8 a.m., I need something cool and refreshing for breakfast. One of my favorite morning drinks is this frothy melon smoothie. It's terrific after an early morning run, like the one I just went on. It's one of the few, if only, smoothie recipes you'll see on this site. Normally I throw whatever fresh or frozen fruit we have on hand into a blender, with yogurt or milk, some juice and puree.
But a few years ago my mom sent me the food section from my hometown newspaper. It featured smoothies. This recipe has become one of my summertime favorites. It's delicious and packs a nutritional whallop.
Melons are commanding entire tables at the farmers market right now. Feel free to be adventurous and try different types of melons here. You can't go wrong.
Just chop up them up and store them in containers. For breakfast, scoop out the chopped melon with a measuring cup and blend with yogurt and orange juice.
Put everything into a blender and puree for about 30 seconds.


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A Ballet fairy tale in two acts with an Epilogue. Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Libretto: Marius Petipa based on the story by E. T. A. Hoffmann
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The Sleeping Beauty is a ballet in a prologue and three acts, first performed in 1890. The music was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The original scenario was conceived by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, and is based on Charles Perrault's La Belle au bois dormant. The choreographer of the original production was Marius Petipa.
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We are proud to announce the complete schedule of Russian ballet performances in the Hermitage Theater for the season 2020, including world famous Swan Lake ballet, beautiful The Nutcracker ballet, dramatic Giselle and romantic Sleeping Beauty ballet shows. We are looking forward to see you enjoying the Hermitage theatre ballet performances.
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