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Flushing Council Candidates Split on Contentious Waterfront Development
https://www.thecity.nyc/platform/amp/queens/2020/11/19/21574515/flushing-council-candidates-split-on-waterfront-development
By Christine Chung
on November 19, 2020 4:30 am
A contentious Flushing waterfront project is upending the usual City Council politics around approvals — and dividing candidates running to replace Councilmember Peter Koo, a fan of the hotel and apartment development.
A consortium of three developers, F&T Group, United Construction & Development Group, and Young Nian Group, is seeking permission to create the Special Flushing Waterfront District, underpinning a 13-tower complex that would transform the east shore of Flushing Creek.
The consortium, operating as FWRA LLC, aims to construct 879 hotel rooms and 1,725 residential apartments on three privately owned sites by 2025. Some 90 of the apartments in the 29-acre development would be earmarked for affordable housing.
On Tuesday afternoon, dueling sides of the fight made their voices heard on 39th Avenue in Flushing.
Opponents yelled, "Peter Koo, shame on you" and waved signs depicting the Democrat's eyes.
Outside the Queens Crossing shopping center, a project developed by F&T Group, dozens of people backing Koo held signs in Chinese and English, and shouted chants of support.
Many construction workers who are employed at F&T Group's partially complete Tangram South condominium were in the mix, and walked in lockstep back to the construction site after the rally.
On the other side of the street, a cluster of community members and staff from Minkwon Center, a community organizing group working with low-income Korean and other area Asian residents, protested the development.
Minkwon, Chhaya CDC and the Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit in June pressing for a full environmental impact statement for the project.
The groups maintain the creation and development of the waterfront district will drive up rents further and displace residents in a neighborhood where more than half of people are already rent-burdened.
Development of the former industrial area would be allowed under existing land use rules. But the plan currently under review by the City Council aims to tweak design details that include opening up streets within the area and new waterfront access.
A lot to the north, accounting for about 10% of the property, requires rezoning, a FWRA LLC spokesperson said.
Pushing Back on Developers
Protesters opposing the project were joined by candidates for City Council elsewhere in Queens, including former Queens District Attorney candidate Tiffany Cabán — and one soon-to-be candidate, John Choe.
Choe, head of the Greater Flushing Greater Chamber of Commerce, is launching his campaign for City Council Thursday. He joins a growing field looking to replace Koo, who will be term limited next year.
Choe, 50, told THE CITY that he plans to run an "insurgent campaign in opposition to the development community." If elected, he said, he'll propose policies to "return power to the working families and small business owners who are the core of our community."
Choe spotlights the Flushing Creek project as emblematic of a larger power imbalance citywide.
"Through their deep pockets, developers control every facet of public policy in NYC," he said. "It's time to remove their tentacles from our democracy — whether it's railroading luxury developments like [the Special Flushing Waterfront District], squashing transportation improvements like the Flushing busway and protected bike lanes, or reforming our police force."
Also running for the Council and opposing the project is Hailing Chen, an Uber driver who hopes to implement more robust protections for immigrant workers and gig economy employees.
Another candidate in the race, Neng Wang, the former director of the Chinese‐American Planning Council's Nan Shan Senior Center in Flushing, told THE CITY that he'd vote yes on the rezoning, if he could.
Wang is campaigning on a law-and-order platform, also promising to boost education resources for the district.
"It will increase thousands of permanent jobs," Wang said. "I believe it is good for the economic recovery."
Candidate Sandra Ung, an attorney and special assistant to Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens), said that she's yet to make a decision on the project.
Council Concerns
A Council subcommittee postponed a vote on the project scheduled for Wednesday because negotiations are ongoing, including with labor unions, Council Member Fransciso Moya (D-Queens) told THE CITY.
Moya, who chairs the subcommittee, said the proposal doesn't yet have enough support to pass the subcommittee.
Koo has suggested he backs the project, saying it has "many merits."
Council members typically would defer to the preference of Koo as the local representative. But many on and off the committee are making an exception.
On Tuesday night, Moya issued a statement signed by 11 other members stating their opposition.
"Approving this rezoning as it currently stands would be a grave mistake," the statement said, adding that the project "ignores the real, urgent needs of the Flushing community."
Councilmember and Queens Borough President-elect Donovan Richards (D-Queens), who sits on the subcommittee, said that housing affordability is key.
"In the midst of a pandemic ensuring there is upward mobility for people in communities like Flushing is a must, there shouldn't even be a debate," he said.
Richards added he will vote no unless the developers reach an agreement on labor standards.
The full 51-member Council will ultimately vote on the project, no later than 50 days after the City Planning Commission's Nov. 4 vote, 11-to-2, in favor of the developer's map changes. The proposal will then head to Mayor Bill de Blasio for final review.
Sprawling Promises
The developers have committed to environmental remediation of the creek, improvements to sewer and storm water drainage systems, as well as to creating 124,000 square feet of publicly accessible streets and sidewalks, and a waterfront pedestrian path.
They anticipate the project will generate 2,926 permanent jobs and nearly $165 million in annual tax revenue. Representatives for the developers have repeatedly emphasized that the public amenities will not materialize if the rezoning is unsuccessful, and that the bulk of the project can move forwards without the city's approval.
They've applied for a zoning text amendment and map change that would create the waterfront district and switch the zoning from heavy industrial use to allow light industrial uses and for 14-story buildings to be constructed.
In a statement released Tuesday following the demonstrations, the developers said their project "aims to support small businesses and it seems the opposition is determined to rob Flushing of that opportunity."
"Those who oppose the Special Flushing Waterfront District claim to want to see Flushing thrive," the statement said. "However, they have no plan or means to bring Flushing the jobs, affordable housing and public space they want."
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With my 2 and a half days in Queenstown, after flying over the surrounding mountains, getting a thrill and great panoramas on a 4WD adventure, I selected to experience the Dart River Wilderness Jet. Although the weather was not cooperative it was still enjoyable (see review at the end of the post after all the pictures).
Queenstown being the adventure capital of the world, many people come here to get some adrenaline highs. One of the classic is river jet. Most chose the Shotover jet which takes place very close to the city, is cheaper and includes narrower water ways for guaranteed freaking out moments.
But I prefer scenery and I am not so much into adrenalin rushes… So I chose the Dart River Wilderness Jet experience which was combining jet on the Dart river and landscapes of Glenorchy at the other end of the Lake Wakatipu.
Organisation: Well oiled organization, vehicle and boats well maintained. At first I was unhappy we had to have lunch in Glenorchy before going back but after the views from the river I had time to see, I am glad they are planning for it.
Activities: Photo stop – Jet – Forest walk – Scenery Drive – good balance and timing.
Guide/Driver: The boat driver was very nice and I felt safe the whole time. I also enjoyed chatting with the bus driver.
Overall opinion: A great option for people preferring nature to adrenalin. The place is very wide and does not create the same as the shotover jet. However the scenery is well worth it.
After being picked up early morning in the city we drove along the lake towards Glenorchy. Sun was rising and we stopped at one of the view point. The light was beautiful!
Then they separated people some started with the forest walk and scenery, others with the boat. I started with the jet.
I liked the feeling of gliding on the water (I used to be an ice skater gliding all the time). However it was raining and at that speed the drops of water were like rocks being thrown on my face. Not the best part. Plus the clouds were covering this amazing environment. The driver did for us some great acceleration and rotating 360s.
After the boat we enjoyed a very nice walk in the forest and drove back to the centre of Glenorchy by bus, with one more great landscapes.
Then we returned to their center of operations in Glenorchy village and we had some time for lunch. Instead of having lunch inside I grabbed a sandwich and walked towards the river where I was welcome by stunning views.
I just wished I had more time exploring Glenorchy. It is very different from Queenstown which is at the wider area of the lake.
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How often do you set out into the forest with nothing more than a GPS and maybe some sort of smartphone as your only means of navigational aid?
Technology today is amazing, and now, you can determine distance, get a 10-digit grid, see a 3D view of the terrain, set waypoints and find an azimuth—and you can do all this with a simple swipe of a finger.
I personally love gadgets that make doing complicated things easier. I have watches, global positioning systems, personal locator beacons, radios and a plethora of other electronic devices to help me figure out where exactly on the globe I am and where I need to go.
There are many high-speed navigational aids on the market today, but they all have one fatal flaw: They all require power to work.
Although these systems are all relatively reliable in their own right, and I have multiple backup systems if one were to fail, from a preparedness point of view, they all possess the same fatal flaw: They are battery operated. It won't take an electromagnetic pulse to stop your electronic devices from working in an emergency situation. It might just end up being Murphy's Law (that is, anything bad that can happen will happen at the most inopportune time), dead batteries or a malfunctioning recharging device.
You can find yourself lost in the woods without any idea where you are and where you need to go to reach safety if you do not possess the highly perishable (and, as of late, highly rare) skill of map-reading and land navigation.
The first two things you should master in map-reading and land navigation is determining distance and direction. This was the very first lesson I ever learned regarding land navigation.
Determining distance is not as hard as it might seem. The first thing I would suggest is to learn what your pace is. A "pace count" is the amount of steps an individual has to take using their normal walking gate in order to walk a specified distance on the ground.
It should be noted that you can use whatever unit of measurement you want based on the type of map you are going to use. I prefer a 1:50,000 MGRS (Military Grid Reference System) map, so I determine my pace using meters (because military maps use the metric system). The way I determine my pace is by taking a measuring wheel and marking out a 100-meter stretch. I then count every time my left foot hits the ground (the foot you choose is irrelevant) from one end of the 100-meter stretch to the other.
and divide by 3. The number I am left with is my pace (see the sidebar on page 90 for additional tips). An example would be that if my pace were 70 as I walk along a given route, every time I count 70 times that my left foot struck the ground, I would know I moved 100 meters.
I like to use a device called "pace beads" to keep track of my pace count. It is simply a string with beads on it that are tight enough on the string so they can be slid up and down and will stay in place. Every time I reach 100 meters, I slide one of my pace beads down the string. When I have slid 10 beads down the string, I know that I have moved 1,000 meters or 1 kilometer.
This information is going to help you immensely when it comes time to make your foot movement. But you are not there quite yet: You first need to determine the distance of your movement on the map. You can use the scale on the map or the scale on your protractor to measure the distance from where you currently are to the point on the map you want to reach.
The author and his dog take a break to check a map for the best fording site prior to crossing a water obstacle.
Direction-finding is a key skill in being able to navigate from one point to another.
One of the two most commonly used ways to determine direction is with a map, protractor and compass. When using these tools, it is important to do the proper conversions before you start your actual movement. We, in the Special Forces, have a saying: "Paperwork before leg work." It simply means to make sure you have all your plotting and calculations done correctly before you set off on a foot movement, or you might wind up expending a ton of vital life-saving energy moving in the wrong direction … this will only multiply your problems on the ground.
To determine direction using this method, you should first be able to determine your current location on a map, as well as the location you want to travel to.
On an MGRS map, everything is overlaid with 0-99 horizontally and 0-99 vertically numbered 1×1-kilometer grid squares. These maps are read to the right and up. In a six-digit grid (which will get you within 100 meters of your intended destination), the first two numbers are from the horizontal grid line (which runs east to west) on the map. The third number is also from the horizontal line, but it is from within the grid square that you are vectoring in on; this is further divided into 10 segments of 100-meter intervals each that you can guestimate with your eyeball. Alternatively, you can use a protractor for a more-accurate measurement. The next two numbers are taken from the vertical grid line (which runs north to south) and are followed by the last number, which is from the grid square, itself, just as on the horizontal line.
Once you determine your location on the map using terrain association, GPS or prior experience in the area, you need to mark that location on the map and then mark the location on the map you want to move to.
Draw a thin, straight line on your map from your current location to the location you want to travel to. Place the center crosshairs of your protractor directly over your location on the map and then find where the line crosses the protractor in the direction of travel. This will give you a grid azimuth reading.
Now, take your grid azimuth and convert it to a magnetic azimuth by factoring in the G-M angle, which is simply the difference between grid and magnetic north. The needle of your compass points to magnetic north. Grid north and magnetic north are usually not the same. Neither one points directly to the North Pole (called "true north"). In the East, in order to convert a grid azimuth into a magnetic azimuth, you need to subtract the G-M angle from the grid azimuth. You do the exact opposite in the West. You can locate the G-M angle in the marginal information portion of your map.
There is a lot of skill required to stay on azimuth for long distances through the woods, where constant compensations are needed to negotiate around obstacles and still remain on course.
You should consider getting your pace for multiple types of terrain, such as hills, forest, swamp, etc., so you know what adjustments to make based off the type of terrain you are moving through. You might be 70 paces on open terrain but move to 80 or 90 paces when moving through more-constrictive forest or swamp—where you are taking shorter and more numerous steps to cover the same amount of distance.
A map is nothing more than a topographical representation of the Earth's surface as seen from above. "Terrain association" is when you associate features on a map with features you can identify on the ground in order to determine your approximate location on a map.
There are many skills to be learned when it comes to map-reading and land navigation—from the extremely simple to the much more complex. Regardless of the skill level you are at, direction and distance will always be factors in getting you from where you are to where you want to be, safely and as quickly as possible.
While this article only touches on some of the skill sets required to master land navigation, I hope it will motivate you to put away the GPS for a while and dust off the map, compass and protractor so you can bring those skills up to the same level as you currently have with the aid of electronic direction-finding devices.
The map, protractor and compass are the most basic and essential tools for map-reading and land navigation. Knowing how to read contour lines, natural and manmade terrain features, and other pertinent marginal data on a map—and then plot a course and follow an azimuth in order to navigate yourself from one known point to another in the wilderness—are all skills that will stay with you long after your GPS batteries go dead.
Brian Morris is a retired Army Special Forces master sergeant with more than 25 years of active-duty experience. He is a former Special Forces weapons sergeant with multiple combat tours in the global war on terrorism. Morris is also an avid hunter, fisherman, outdoor enthusiast and self-proclaimed "prepper." He is the author of two books: The Green Beret Pocket Guide and his newly published book, Spec Ops Shooting.


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AZ Elite has partnered with NESTA (National Exercise & Sport Trainers Association) to bring TACTIX & the IMPACT Method to Northern Arizona. These two programs will build long, lean musculature without over bulking a person to the point of injury. Because muscle fibers build strength faster than ligaments and tendons, these programs are designed to prevent injury. As everyone knows, if you're injured while working out, your workouts can't do you any good. All the hard work will be lost & any progress you made will be gone by the time you're sufficiently rehabilitated.
With TACTIX, there are no jazzy dance moves, ancient philosophies, or useless routines. TACTIX is all about function, form, fun, and fitness. You will enjoy a high calorie burning workout that utilizes the latest techniques in metabolic conditioning, practical self-defense and advanced fitness programming. Although TACTIX has explosive and effective self-defense applications, the energy of the class is always positive, fun and empowering.
The idea of IMPACT came from Dr. John Spencer Ellis, founder of the National Exercise Sports Trainers Association and The Adventure Boot Camp Program. John & his team at NESTA researched the optimal format for fat burning & muscle conditioning & came up with the formula for IMPACT. John invited Kelli Calabrese, Clinical Exercise Specialist & Master Trainer to co-create the program by further defining the IMPACT Method workouts. Together John and Kelli have 45 years of experience in the fitness industry.
The 1000 Calorie Challenge is, in fact, comprised of two challenges which are used together in the program. One of these challenges is in the realm of fitness and the other is in the realm of nutrition. Participants start at burning 300 calories and work up to burning 1,000 calories in about an hour.
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Dads of all kinds celebrate Father's Day at NEW Zoo
by: Rhonda Foxx
SUAMICO, Wis. (WFRV) — Dads of both the two-legged and four-legged kind braved the gloomy Sunday weather to enjoy Father's Day at the NEW Zoo & Adventure Park.
"It's always nice to come to the zoo and see the animals," says Adam Delsman, who made the trip with his daughter, Matilda.
"We came out because she likes going to the zoo and we thought that would be a good Father's Day activity," agreed Scott Aulik, who was also with his daughter, Lauren.
Despite their appearances, dads of all species have a lot in common. Take Manny the snow monkey, for example, who can't seem to get his kids motivated enough to move out.
"If you stop by the snow monkeys, 'King of the Monkeys' Manny has a couple of grown sons living in the tube with him," explains Carmen Murach, a Curator of Animals at the NEW Zoo. "One's an adult (and) one's kind of a teenager, but they're still hanging around home."
There's also Abner the swan, who's keeping busy with a few bundles of joy of his own. "He's got four week-and-a-half-old cygnets," says Murach. "He's pointing out food and telling them where to run from danger…He's here to protect them if anything seems to be threatening.
Much like Abner, both human and animal fathers kept close to their young, always proud to keep their families safe. "We enjoy looking at all the animals and seeing the babies," said Aulik. "Obviously, all fathers want to protect their babies."
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A Place for Everyone at IHS
Rex Geller
Are you involved? Would you like to be? Here is a quick way to learn about some of the amazing clubs at Ipswich High School!
One of the best ways to meet people and make friends around school is to join a club that you are interested in.
Pure Pals
The Pure Pals club is advised by Ms. Bediz. They meet every other Wednesday frome 11:15 – 11:45 over zoom. The club typically meets in the downstairs B-pod or outside if the weather is nice.
According to Ms. Bediz, "Pure Pals is a way to help students in the high school connect and stay connected with students in the SAIL program that they may not see much of during the day in their classes." She says the only requirement is that "students make the commitment to attend meetings on a regular basis."
If you are interested in joining the club, you can contact Mrs. Bediz ([email protected]), Mr. P ([email protected]), or Miss Cardoza ([email protected]) for the Google Classroom code. Ms Bediz also adds, "You are always welcome to come to visit a meeting before committing as well."
The Interact Club is advised by Ms. Barclay. The club typically meets over zoom before school on wednesday, after school on wednesday, or in person with the individual cohorts.
According to Ms. Barclay, "Membership is open to all students who have a strong willingness to make a difference in their community."
In addition, President Audrey Berger says, "My favorite part about being in this club is being able to help the school, the local community, and sometimes the international community."
Ms. Barclay welcomes all to come and check out the club, "I would say to come and see for yourself!" If you are interested, you can contact Ms. Barclay at [email protected] or club President Audrey Berger at [email protected].
Global Languages Club
Ms. Killian, a global language teacher, is the advisor to the World Languages Club. They typically meet every other week on Friday mornings in room B206 around 7:30.
"There are no requirements to be a member, just a willingness to help out at our various activities and be committed to our mission of promoting universally important linguistic, cultural, and social messages in our world," says Ms. Killian.
The club members are active participants in helping with exchange students. "We have held "Meet and Greet" morning gatherings for the French students during their annual visit and also one for foreign exchange/second language students here at IHS."
They are also active in charity. This year they have been raising money for Elmer, a needy child in Guatemala.
Current Global Languages Club member Sophia Stasiuk says, "Most of our time is spent by coming up with ways to reach our sponsorship goal. We donate around $400 every year, and we always find new ways to earn it."
Señora Killian goes on to say that "Anyone who is globally minded and has a desire to improve the well-being of others should consider taking an active role in this club!" If you are interested, you should contact Ms. Killian at at [email protected].
Model UN is advised by Mr. Krieger and Ms. Hayoz. The club typically meets before school every other week. There are currently no plans to attend a conference, though the club typically attends Eagle MUNC sessions hosted by Boston College.
The purpose of the club is to represent a country or an individual at a mock United Nations trial or conference.
There are no requirements to join Model UN; however, there are typically limited spots at the conference.
Mr. Krieger says that Model UN is special because "It enables students to use a wealth of skills while exploring real world issues."
He also adds, "Obviously, the ability to spend a weekend exploring issues with other students from around the country (and world) is another feature that makes the Model UN Club special."
As a member of Model UN, I would add that the club is very fun. You spend your time researching a real person or country, which you go on to represent at the conference. More importantly, Model UN has helped me to make lifelong friends and memorable experiences.
Club member Maddi McLauglin adds that "Being a member of Model UN has changed my high school experience remarkably."
Mr. Krieger urges anyone that is interested to come and check it out. He says, "Get involved. Jump-in with both feet and you'll be amazed at what you'll discover about the world around you. If you're an underclassmen, think about joining this year and next year. It's an exciting club with great members and you're bound to have a good time!"
If you are interested, feel free to contact Mr. Krieger at [email protected] or Ms. Hayoz at [email protected].
GSA is a safe space for LGBTQ+ at Ipswich High School. The club is advised by Ms. Slawson and meets Mondays from 2:30 – 3pm in room B102 or zoom.
Ms. Slawson says, "It's pretty flexible, but just attending the meetings each week for a half hour is all that's expected."
She also notes that "Whether you identify as part of the LGBTQ community, are questioning your identity, or are an ally for your LGBTQ friends and family, the GSA is a place where you can find like minded friends and be completely yourself."
Ms. Slawson adds, "This club is made up of a great group of people and we'd love to have you join us." If you are interested in joining, contact Ms. Slawson at [email protected].
The environmental club is advised by Mrs. Lafrance. The group meets once a month, though subcommittees meet more often. Typically they meet in room B229, but recently they have met over zoom.
According to Mrs. Lafrance, "Members are expected to join a subcommittee and take part in an event or two." She also adds that, "Attending meetings is important because that is where you find out what everyone else is working on."
The Environmental Club works to make a difference locally. Some of these projects include, "monitoring the health of the marsh, changing the cafe trash, recycling, and composting to a user-friendly system, beach clean-ups, hydroponics, and running climate cafes which are opportunities for community discussions."
As a message to all, Mrs. Lafrance says, "Everyone is welcome! Join our Google Classroom page (code d7oduh7) and check out the subcommittees. We would love to have you join an existing committee or start a new one!" Feel free to contact Mrs. Lafrance at [email protected].
The Math League is advised by Mr. Mabbott. They currently meet once a week in room A207, alternating between Tuesdays and Thursdays, to accommodate both cohorts. They also set up a zoom during the meetings.
Mr. Mabbot says, "The only requirement is an interest in Math." They hold multiple competitions throughout the year. "The commitment would be being able to come to most practices and being available for the competitions."
He says the reason the club is special is that "Snacks are provided and students who are interested in Math get to meet other like minded students." He adds that "If a student is interested, come by the next practice and chat to me." Or if that doesn't work, you can always contact Mr. Mabbott at [email protected].
The club advisor for the Dungeons & Dragons club is Mr. Wood. During a normal year, the club meets weekly right after school on Thursdays in Mr. Wood's room (B207).
According to Mr. Wood, "The club is fairly low key. It's open to both new players and experienced ones, so there is a good sense of camaraderie. The expectation is that people are actively engaged during gameplay and that they complete their storylines and characters in the agreed-upon timeframe."
On what makes the club special, Mr. Wood states, "It's essentially a group of people getting together to play a game they all love."
He also says, "There's really no downside in coming to check out a session. You don't need any prior experience to have a good time. Anyone who's interested should also feel free to contact me directly ([email protected]) so I can put them in contact with the student leaders and chat about the club."
As you can see, there are a wealth of clubs and activities around school. The best way to meet new people and find your niche is to get involved. So do it! You might find that you really like something new!
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And, as the tradition goes, it is in conjunction with DJ Deny's birthday bash. This year promises to be another success with a killer line-up of SOP DJs and international special guests. Two floors will cater this explosion of sounds: 5th floor with an EDM oriented delivery featuring Justin Prime and 6th floor will present a closer take on the roots of State Of Play, with Darin Epsilon and Cid Inc as the headliners.
For the past six years, SOP has been active in many aspects of the Indonesian dance scene. Still considered a new player in the industry, SOP is quickly adapting to its challenging landscape. And 2015 has proven to be a busy year with many changes: from it's founder's, DJ Deny, retirement to the departures of Dimitri and Adhe and the amazing addition of six new members to it's roster (Dimaz Andrean, Angga, Claudia Jaramillo, Tracy Tania, Adyt and MC Jovie), State Of Play always promises to deliver quality electronic music.
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I believe it was early 1968 when 67-0011 departed Norton for Peterson Field to pick up the Air Force Academy Band to transport them to MCConnell AFB. The band was to be part of a ceremony that was sending off a Fighter Squadron to the war zone. The keynote speaker at the event was to be LBJ.
I was just getting settled in watching television when I received a call form the Job Control Senior Controller telling me that 0011 was broke down at McConnell with a hydraulic problem. I was to pack a bag and report ASAP since a C-130 from Travis was scheduled to arrive at 9 pm to pick me and a hydraulic specialist up. When I arrived at Job Control the hydraulic guy was there and I ask him if he knew what the problem was. He said that the aircraft had a leaking brake swivel. I told the Senior Controller that someone has to be joking, and he said it was gospel. The 130 got pushed back to 11 pm, then 1 am then about 08:30 a 141 out of Travis arrived and Transit Alert took us out to the end of the runway to meet it. We climbed on board and took a seat. The cargo bay was empty and we where the only passengers. A few minutes after takeoff the pilot wanted to see me so I went forward to talk to him. He wanted to know why he was taking us to MCConnell. I told him all I knew was that a brake swivel was leaking on 0011. It was a good thing he was strapped in or he would have gone through the fuselage. His words where 'you mean they (22 AF) launched the &$%(@#* alert bird for a %^$*�@ brake swivel leak. Told him I was just as upset as he was. Seems he was scheduled to get off alert one hour after they launched him and what really upset him was he missed his 9 am tee time. He dropped us off at the end of the runway then departed. His instructions where to go to another base (don't know which one) and sit until 0011 was in the air with the band. If 0011 was still broke then he was to return to pick up the band.
A Transit Alert truck picked us up and took us to the aircraft where we found out that a loose B nut caused the problem. After it was tightened we were good to go. At base ops it took me awhile to get a hold of the AC, then I told him that the 22AF Command Post wanted to talk to him NOW. Seems this guy had been hard to find. He wanted to know how long before 0011 was fixed and I told him is was then he wanted to know how long I had been at the base and the time it took to fix the problem. I told him it took longer to find him then fix the plane. About four hours latter the crew finally showed up. We cleared the write up by stating we had replaced the swivel even though we had not. Thought it would help the Captain out. The story I got from the Transit troops was that when he taxied in the scanner deplaned and headed strait to the left wheel well and shortly reentered the aircraft. A few minutes latter they shut down. After the band was unloaded they where supposed to depart and go to another base (guess the same one as the other guy) and wait. When the Captain notified Base Ops he was broke he was told that he would have to move the bird since he was parked in LBJ's spot. He refused to move and an O-6 showed up to tell him in no uncertain terms to move it. I'm told he wasn't a happy camper but he complied with the O-6's request.
After LBJ left we left with the band. I latter told him it would not be wise to let the Lt.Col from Travis know who he was because he was pissed. A few days latter I found out unofficially from one of the enlisted guy's that the Co-pilot wanted to spend a night at home with mom and dad.


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Carlos Llamosa – USMNT
Dubbed by USMNT coach and former DC United coach Bruce Arena as the best man-marker in MLS, Carlos Llamosa wasted no time becoming a regular with the USMNT after becoming a US citizen in 1998.
Llamosa was part of two MLS Cup-winning teams with United, and in 2001 he led a Miami Fusion defense that was hailed as one of the best in the league. His defensive skills and extensive professional experience in both the US and Colombia made Llamosa one of the most highly-regarded American defenders during his National Team career.
After taking the 2005 season off, Llamosa was summoned back to Major League Soccer to play for Chivas USA under Bob Bradley, who was an assistant coach with DC United when Llamosa was there. Injuries continued to plague him through 2007, and he retired at the end of that season.
On January 28th, 2009 he was named an assistant coach at Chivas USA. He worked as an assistant coach with the NY Cosmos for several seasons before joining the New England Revolution for 2017.
2002: Appeared in five games for the USMNT, including two substitute appearances at the 2002 World Cup. Assisted on Clint Mathis' game-winning goal in 1-0 win over Mexico in Denver.
2001: Appeared in ten matches for the US on road to fourth consecutive World Cup finals place.
2000: Established himself as a key figure in the USMNT defense, starting nine games, more than any other defender. Earned MVP honors in a 0-0 draw against Costa Rica in a World Cup qualifier.
1999: Was a member of the USMNT squad that won the bronze medal in the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup.
1998: Made his first appearance with the USMNT against Australia in November , 14 days after earning his US citizenship.
2007: Missed entire year at Chivas USA due to pre-season injury. Retired at the end of the season.
2006: Played 13 games (11 starts) for Chivas USA. Registered one assist.
2005: Did not play.
2004: Injured most of the season.
2003: Played 27 games overall for Revs (26 starts).
2002: Despite battling injuries much of the season, played 14 times for New England and appeared for the USMNT in the MLS All-Star Game.
2001: Traded from DC United to the Miami Fusion. Made 26 starts overall.
2000: Played 23 games (20 starts) as DC failed to make ploayoffs for the first time. Scored twice.
1999: Won his second MLS Cup with DC United. Made 19 starts overall, scoring once and registering an assist.
1998: Made 24 starts for DC overall as they lost MLS Cup.
1997: Selected by United coach Bruce Arena in the first round of the MLS Supplemental Draft and went on to win the 1997 MLS Cup with the club. Played 30 games (25 starts) overall.
1996: Selected to the A-League All-Star team as a member of the New York Fever.
1995: Played his first professional season in the US with the New York Centaurs of the A-League.
1990: Played in the Colombian First Division with Huila.
1986: Made professional debut with Colombian Third Division side Colmena.


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Psychologists find Asian Americans get a social boost from being overweight
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Aamna Mohdin
Overweight Asian Americans are perceived to be more American than their thinner counterparts, according to their fellow Americans.
Researchers from the University of Washington sought to examine how stereotypes can help define who is seen as "American" and who is not. More specifically, researchers wanted to analyze how race and body shape influence perceptions of identity.
For the study, published in the journal Psychological Science, researchers recruited more than 1,000 college students from US universities. The participants viewed photos of men and women of a variety of races (black, Asian, white, and Latino) and weight. Researchers had edited the image to create thinner and heavier versions of each subject.
Participants were then asked to answer a number of questions on the subject's nationality, including: "How likely is this person to have been born outside the US?" and "How likely is it that this person's native language is English?"
The findings tell an interesting story about American identity. Asian Americans who appeared overweight were more likely than their thinner counterparts to be perceived as an American. But heaviness didn't have the same effect on perceptions of other races. The weights of white, black, and Latino photo subjects had little influence on whether they were perceived to be American or not. The study also found that heavier Asian Americans were "more likely than their normal weight counterparts to be buffered from assumptions that they were living in the United States without documentation," researchers note in the paper.
Americans, on average, more likely to be heavier than not. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, around 70% of American adults are overweight or obese. In comparison, just over half of adults in the EU are overweight. The prevalence of obesity is, on average, much lower among Asian Americans. While 34.5% of white Americans, 42.5 % of Latino Americans, and 48% of black Americans are obese; just 11.7% of Asian Americans are obese. That figure is even lower among native-born Asian immigrants.
While overweight people often face discrimination for the way they look and behave, Sapna Cheryan, co-author of the study, said in a statement that the findings point to "an unusual possible protective benefit of being heavier for Asian Americans." For heavier Asian Americans, the "extra weight allows them to be seen as more American and less likely to face prejudice directed at those assumed to be foreign."
The study fits with the team's previous research, which found that US immigrant groups eat American dishes to prove their American identity and show they have integrated into American society. But in a bid to belong, immigrant groups are choosing unhealthy American dishes over healthier traditional foods.
The researchers ended their paper calling for wider representation of ethnic minorities in the media and politics.


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\section{Introduction}
The unexpected observation of unusually large Nernst coefficients ($\nu$) in cuprates at temperatures much greater than $T_c$ \cite{xu2000vortex} have drawn much spotlight to the Nernst effect over the past decade.  As the Nernst coefficients are generally small in most ordinary metals, \footnote{One notable exception being bismuth; see K.~Behnia, M.-A.~M\'easson, and Y.~Kopelevich, Phys.~Rev.~Lett.~{\bf 98}, 166602 (2007).} the large values of $\nu$ seen at $T > T_c$ have elevated the Nernst effect as one of the central avenues used in attempts to characterize the nature of the pseudogap state.  Since then, an extensive investigation on the subject has been done,  both experimentally \cite{xu2000vortex,wang2001,wang2006nernst,wang2002high,pourret2006observation,cyr2009enhancement,daou2010broken,hess2010,albenque,*albenque2} and theoretically,  \cite{ussishkin2002,mukerjee2004,podolsky2007nernst,raghu2008,tinh2009,andersson2010,alexandrov_nernst_2004,*tewari_effects_2009,*hackl_nernst-effect_2009,*hackl_quasiparticle_2010,kotetes2010} producing widely differing proposals on the origin of the phenomenon.  Most of these competing interpretations center in the dynamics of either vortices \cite{xu2000vortex,wang2001,wang2006nernst,wang2002high,ussishkin2002,mukerjee2004,podolsky2007nernst,raghu2008,tinh2009,andersson2010} or quasiparticles. \cite{cyr2009enhancement,daou2010broken,hess2010,alexandrov_nernst_2004,*tewari_effects_2009,*hackl_nernst-effect_2009,*hackl_quasiparticle_2010}

In this article, we use the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau (TDGL) equations to simulate the Nernst effect for an extreme type-II superconductor and (i) report a sign reversal of the transverse thermoelectric coefficient $\alpha_{xy}$ consistent with the one observed in experiments, and (ii) examine the noise properties of the Nernst signal, which has been surprisingly overlooked thus far for the Nernst effect and, we find, can distinguish among different dynamical phases of the vortex system.

The Nernst effect is the emergence of a transverse voltage $V$ under the presence of an applied thermal gradient $\nabla T || \mathbf{\hat{y}}$ and a perpendicular magnetic field $\mathbf{H} || \mathbf{\hat{z}}$ (see Fig.~\ref{nernstgeometry}). From linear-response theory, the transport electric current due to an applied electric field $\mathbf{E}$ and a thermal gradient $\nabla T$ has the form $\mathbf{J} = \hat{\sigma}\mathbf{E} - \hat{\alpha}\nabla T$, where $\hat{\sigma}$ and $\hat{\alpha}$ are the electric and thermoelectric conductivity tensors.  Restricted to systems with negligible Hall effect, the off-diagonal term of $\hat{\alpha}$ is related to the Nernst coefficient as $\nu(H,T) \approx \alpha_{xy}(H,T)/H\sigma_{xx}(H,T)$.\footnote{Although $|\alpha_{xy}| \ne |\nu|$, $\mathrm{sgn}(\alpha_{xy}) = \mathrm{sgn}(\nu)$ with $H>0$.}

\begin{figure}[!htb]
\includegraphics[width=2.5in]{nernst}
\caption{(Color online)  Geometry of a Nernst experiment.  A transverse voltage $V$ in the $x$ direction appears when a magnetic field $\mathbf{H}$ and a thermal gradient $\nabla T$ are applied simultaneously in the $z$ and $y$ directions, respectively.}
\label{nernstgeometry}
\end{figure}

\section{Extreme type-II limit}
The TDGL equations can formally be derived by taking the Ginzburg-Landau free-energy functional \cite{tinkham} and employing Langevin dynamics for the time evolution of the superconducting order parameter $\psi$.  For quintessential high-$T_c$ superconductors, it is appropriate to consider the extreme type-II limit where $\kappa$, the ratio of the penetration depth $\lambda$ and the coherence length $\xi$, is assumed to be infinite by taking $\lambda \rightarrow \infty$.  In this simplified picture, the applied magnetic field in the sample is uniform and unscreened, as the lower critical field $H_{c1} \sim (\ln \kappa)/\kappa \rightarrow 0$ \cite{tinkham}.   Therefore, $\mathbf{H}(\mathbf{r},t)=H_{\mathrm{ext}}(t)\hat{\mathbf{z}}$ and we select an instantaneous Landau gauge for the vector potential $\mathbf{A}(\mathbf{r},t)=H_{\mathrm{ext}}(t)\left(\mathbf{r}\times\hat{\mathbf{z}}\right)/2$.  Consequently, the $\nabla \times \mathbf{H}$ term in Maxwell's equations vanishes, and we obtain the following relations that govern the evolution of $\psi(\mathbf{r},t)$ and the electric potential $\phi(\mathbf{r},t)$,
\begin{eqnarray}
\left(\partial_t+i\phi\right)\psi &=& -\frac{1}{\eta}\big[(-i\nabla-\mathbf{A})^2\psi \nonumber\\
&&+(1-T)\left(|\psi|^2-1\right)\psi\big]+\tilde{f}, \label{tdgl1}\\
\partial_t\mathbf{A}+\nabla\phi &=& (1-T)\mathrm{Re}\left[\psi^*(-i\nabla-\mathbf{A})\psi\right],\label{tdgl2}
\end{eqnarray}
along with zero perpendicular supercurrent boundary conditions, $(-i\nabla-\mathbf{A})\psi|_{\hat{\mathbf{n}}}=0$.

Temperature, length and time are measured in units of the mean-field transition temperature $T_c^{\mathrm{MF}}$, zero-temperature coherence length $\xi(0)$, and $t_0=\pi\hbar/(96k_BT_c^{\mathrm{MF}})$, respectively. Vector potential $\mathbf{A}$ and magnetic field $\mathbf{H}$ are in units of $H_{c2}(0)\xi(0)$ and $H_{c2}(0)$, respectively, where $H_{c2}(0)$ is the upper-critical field at $T=0$.  The dimensionless parameter $\eta$ is proportional to the ratio of characteristic times for $\psi$ and $\mathbf{A}$, and $\tilde{f}$ is a random thermal noise.  The order parameter $\psi$ has been normalized by the equilibrium value $\psi_{\infty}(T)$.

\section{Numerical Scheme}
Initially inspired by the Euler-forward based finite-difference scheme in Refs.~\onlinecite{kato,*kato2} and \onlinecite{bolech1995,*buscaglia2000} (cf.~Ref.~\onlinecite{Rosenstein}), we develop a gauge-invariant discrete implementation of Eqs.~(\ref{tdgl1}) and (\ref{tdgl2}).  Space and time have been discretized as shown in Fig.~\ref{Scheme} with $\psi_{i,j,n}$'s placed on the nodes, which are at fixed local temperatures $T_{i,j}$.  In addition to the spacelike link variables, $U^{x}_{i,j,n}=\exp(-i\int_{x_i}^{x_{i+1}}  d\xi A_{x}(\xi,y_j,t_n))$ and $U^{y}_{i,j,n}=\exp(-i\int_{y_j}^{y_{j+1}}  d\xi A_{y}(x_i,\xi,t_n))$, we introduce a time-like link variable $W_{i,j,n} = \exp\left(i\int_{t_n}^{t_{n+1}}d\tau \phi(x_i,y_j,\tau)\right)$ to incorporate $\phi$ into the numerics.

\begin{figure}[!htb]
\includegraphics[width=2.5in]{grid3d}
\caption{(Color online)  Scheme of discretization.  The order parameter $\psi$ is a nodal variable
and $U^x$, $U^y$, and $W$ are placed on links connecting the nodes.  We take the grid spacing $\Delta x=\Delta y=a=0.5$, while we set $\Delta t=0.015$ for the time interval between successive time steps,  both in normalized units.  These values were chosen so as to be able to resolve the structure and dynamics of the vortices.  Use of smaller values does not alter the results in any significant way.}
\label{Scheme}
\end{figure}

To write Eqs.~(\ref{tdgl1}) and (\ref{tdgl2}) in discrete forms, accurate to order $O(\Delta t^2)$ and $O(a^2)$, we first note that
\begin{eqnarray}
&U^{x}_{i,j,n}&W_{i+1,j,n}U^{x*}_{i,j,n+1}W_{i,j,n}^*\nonumber\\
&=& \exp\left(i\int_{x_{i}}^{x_{i+1}}d\xi\int_{t{}_{n}}^{t_{n+1}}d\tau
\left[\partial_{\tau}A_{\xi}+\partial_{\xi}\phi\right]_{y=y_j}\right)\nonumber\\
&\approx&1+ia\Delta t\left[\partial_tA_x+\partial_x\phi\right]_{x_{i+1/2},y_j,t_{n}},\label{uwuw}
\end{eqnarray}
where $x_{i+1/2}\equiv(x_{i}+x_{i+1})/2$.  Using Eq.~(\ref{tdgl2}) and the relation
$\mathrm{Re}\left[\psi^*(-i\partial_x-A_x)\psi\right]_{x_{i+1/2},y_j,t_n}\approx
\frac{1}{a}\mathrm{Im}\left(\psi^*_{i,j}U_{i,j}^x\psi_{i+1,j}\right)_n$, Eq.~(\ref{uwuw}) yields
\begin{eqnarray}
W_{i+1,j,n}&&=U^{x*}_{i,j,n}U^{x}_{i,j,n+1}W_{i,j,n}\times\nonumber\\
&&\Big[1+i\Delta t(1-T_{i,j})\mathrm{Im}\left(\psi^*_{i,j}U_{i,j}^x\psi_{i+1,j}\right)_n\Big],\label{wn}
\end{eqnarray}
and together with an analogous expression in the $y$ direction, they provide a solution to a Neumann-type boundary-value problem for $W_{i,j,n}$'s [with $\psi_{i,j,n}$'s given, and $U_{i,j,n}$'s fixed by $H_{\text{ext}}(t_n)$].

Moreover, it can be shown that Eq.~(\ref{tdgl1}) in terms of the discrete variables can be expressed as $\left(W_{i,j,n}\psi_{i,j,n+1}-\psi_{i,j,n}\right)/\Delta t=\mathcal{P}_{i,j,n}+\tilde{f}_{i,j,n}$ with
\begin{eqnarray}
\mathcal{P}_{i,j,n}=(1/\eta)\big[&&\big(U_{i,j}^{x}\psi_{i+1,j}-2\psi_{i,j}+U_{i-1,j}^{x*}\psi_{i-1,j}\big)/a^2\nonumber\\
&&+\big(U_{i,j}^{y}\psi_{i,j+1}-2\psi_{i,j}+U_{i,j-1}^{y*}\psi_{i,j-1}\big)/ a^2\nonumber\\
&&-\left(1-T_{i,j}\right)\left(\psi_{i,j}\psi_{i,j}^*-1\right)\psi_{i,j}\big]_{n},\label{pijn}
\end{eqnarray}
from which $\psi_{i,j}$'s at $t=t_{n+1}$ may be evaluated.

We perform our simulations on square grids with $N\times N$ cells with $N$ ranging from 64 to 384.  A time-independent thermal gradient is realized by linearly varying the local temperature $T_{i,j}$ along the $y$ direction of the sample.  For $N=192$, we apply a fixed temperature difference $\Delta T=0.03$ throughout, so that temperatures at the coldest and the hottest edges are $T_\mp=T\mp\Delta T/2$, respectively, where $T$ marks the average temperature of the sample.  The thermal fluctuation term $\tilde{f}$ is a Gaussian noise with standard deviation $\sigma_{i,j} = \sqrt{\pi E_o T_{i,j}\Delta t/6}$, where $E_o$ is a material-dependent parameter.  For our choice of $\eta = 1$, we set $E_0=1$ (guided by the fluctuation-dissipation theorem and values used in the literature to fit experiments \cite{mukerjee2004}) and confirmed that the results do not depend sensitively on variations around this value.

\section{Simulation results}
Our initial setting at $t=0$ is the Meissner state, where $\psi_{i,j}=U_{i,j}^x=U_{i,j}^y=1$.  With the fixed thermal gradient applied, we ramp up the magnetic field to a set value in the first few thousand steps and wait for 0.2 million time steps to reach a steady state.  We then time average $\alpha_{xy}(t_n)$ over 0.8 million time steps to obtain $\alpha_{xy}$, where
\begin{eqnarray}
\alpha_{xy}(t_n)=-\frac{\overline{J_x(t_n)}}{|\nabla T|}=-\frac{\iint J_x(x,y,t_n)dxdy}{Na\Delta T},\label{Jxavg}
\end{eqnarray}
and $J_x=(1-T)\mathrm{Re}\left[\psi^*(-i\partial_x-A_x)\psi\right]$ at $t=t_n$. \vspace{3mm}

\subsection{Transverse thermoelectric response}
Figure \ref{Alphaxy}(a) is the plot of $\alpha_{xy}$ vs temperature for various magnetic fields (see Fig.~\ref{alpha_xy_vs_H_negative} for $\alpha_{xy}$ vs $H$).  At low temperatures and, particularly, at lower magnetic fields, $\alpha_{xy}$ attains large positive values as also seen in both experimental \cite{wang2002high} and theoretical \cite{mukerjee2004, podolsky2007nernst} results.  As $T$ is increased,  $\alpha_{xy}$ falls monotonically until it reaches a vortex-proliferation temperature $T_{\mathrm{VP}}(H)$, which can be identified from Fig.~\ref{Alphaxy}(b)  (see Fig.~\ref{VorticityVsH} for vortex densities vs $H$).  At $T_{\mathrm{VP}}(H)$, the number of vortices and antivortices proliferate and the long-range phase coherence of $\psi$ is destroyed.  The exhibition of high $\alpha_{xy}$ values at $T<T_{\mathrm{VP}}$ is consistent with the very low resistances of the samples in that regime (cf.~Ref.~\onlinecite{emery1995importance}).  Above $T_{\mathrm{VP}}(H)$, the curves of $\alpha_{xy}$ resemble the profiles seen in Nernst coefficients $\nu$ for typical high-$T_c$ superconductors.  At even higher temperatures, $\alpha_{xy}$ becomes negative, and we designate the onset temperature for negative Nernst signals as $T_{\mathrm{NN}}(H)$ for later discussions.

\begin{figure}[!htb]
\includegraphics[width=3.3in]{alphaxyVsT}
\includegraphics[width=3.33in]{vorticesVsT}
\caption{(Color online)  (a) Temperature dependence of $\alpha_{xy}$.  Inset: $\alpha_{xy}$ zoomed into the negative-Nernst-signal region with $T_{\mathrm{NN}}(H)$'s marked by vertical arrows; the error bars (comparable to symbol sizes) highlight the statistical accuracy of the negative signals.  The error bar for each data point has been obtained from eight independent measurements of $\alpha_{xy}$, each measurement consisting of time averaging over 0.1 million time steps.
(b) Temperature dependence of $n_{v+\bar{v}}$, the total density of vortices plus antivortices, showing the onset of the vortex-proliferation regime, which is correlated to small kinks in $\alpha_{xy}$ and is seen to be unrelated to the onset of the negative Nernst signal.  The net vorticity $n_{v-\bar{v}}$ (dotted lines) reflects the applied magnetic flux that is independent of temperature.}
\label{Alphaxy}
\label{Vortices}
\end{figure}

Above $T_{\mathrm{NN}}$, we find that the onset of negative Nernst signal is correlated to the onset of the superconducting to normal transition at the hotter edge.  Prior to the transition, $H$ lies in the range $H_{c2}(T_-)<H<H_{c3}(T_+)$, where $H_{c3}$ is the critical field that destroys surface superconductivity.  The bulk is already at the normal state, while the Nernst signal is dominated by superconducting edge currents circulating around the bulk of the sample.  As $T$ is continually increased, $H_{c3}(T)$ decreases and the hotter edge crosses the phase boundary to enter the normal state.  Consequently, the Cooper-pair density at that edge is abruptly suppressed, resulting in a significant asymmetry in the supercurrent density relative to the colder edge and a different vortex vs antivortex dynamics across the sample.

From experiments, the negative $\alpha_{xy}$ reported in Ref.~\onlinecite{albenque,*albenque2} for an optimally doped YBCO sample displays a notable resemblance to our results.  A qualitatively similar profile of negative Nernst \emph{signals} can also be inferred from measurements of Nernst \emph{coefficients} done on a wide range of samples at various doping levels, \cite{wang2006nernst,daou2010broken} which indicates that this effect is ubiquitous and independent of details or fine tuning.  Theoretical results on granular superconductors in Ref.~\onlinecite{andersson2010} also show negative Nernst signals, which they interpret as diffusion of vortex vacancies in a pinned-vortex state.  In our simulations, however, the sign reversal is not from quasiparticle effects,\cite{alexandrov_nernst_2004,*tewari_effects_2009,*hackl_nernst-effect_2009,*hackl_quasiparticle_2010} as that scenario is not comprised in the Ginzburg-Landau framework.  Moreover, vortex vacancies do not seem to be the cause, since it can be inferred from Ref.~\onlinecite{andersson2010} that $T_{\mathrm{NN}}(H)$ would increase as $H$ is increased, while in Fig.~$\ref{Alphaxy}$(a) we see that $T_{\mathrm{NN}}(H)$ displays an opposite trend as the field is increased. \vspace{3mm}

\subsection{Noise analysis}
The dynamic phase diagram of vortex matter is more diverse than the one at equilibrium. \cite{koshelev_dynamic_1994,*giamarchi_moving_1996} In our simulations, at finite $\kappa$ and in the absence of pinning centers, we observe rich dynamical behavior.  Depending on the strength of the driving force (temperature gradient in our case), temperature, and magnetic field, vortex motion can be characterized into different regimes: immobile lattice of vortices due to the geometrical pinning in the finite-size sample, sliding vortex crystal, and flowing vortex liquids.  It is not surprising that noise properties of transport signals depend on the dynamical behavior of vortices.  Especially, since the Nernst signal is highly sensitive to vortex dynamics, we propose the measurement of its noise properties as a means to tell apart different dynamical scenarios. For this purpose, we have computed the noise correlation for $\alpha_{xy}(t)$. The noise power $S(f)$ of a signal $x(t)$ is defined as the Fourier transform of the temporal correlation function,
\begin{equation}
S(t-t')\equiv\frac12\left\langle \Delta x(t) \Delta x(t') + \Delta x(t') \Delta x(t)\right\rangle,\label{stt}
\end{equation}
where $\Delta x(t)\equiv x(t) - \left\langle x\right\rangle$.

Depending on the dynamical regimes described above, $S(f)$ shows different qualitative behaviors. We note here that in the $\kappa \rightarrow \infty$ limit, the shear modulus of the vortex matter vanishes and thus only the vortex liquid phase survives.~\cite{glazman_thermal_1991} To give a full picture, we provide a short description of the noise behavior in the finite-$\kappa$ regime also, but a more detailed account will be published elsewhere. In the pinned phase, the Nernst signal is suppressed and the noise power is nearly independent of $f$, thus displaying a white-noise spectrum. In the sliding-lattice phase, the noise power shows a characteristic narrow-band behavior and most of the spectral density is found near a particular frequency. The characteristic frequency can be estimated as $f_{\text{w}} \sim v/ \ell$, where $v$ is the speed of vortices and $\ell$ is the distance between vortices in the direction of motion.  This type of noise is known as washboard noise and has been observed experimentally in the conduction noise spectra of driven BSCCO samples.\cite{togawa_direct_2000,*maeda_experimental_2002}  In the vortex-liquid regime, noise power again shows a wide-band behavior. In the infinite-$\kappa$ limit, we found it to be fitted well by a power law $1/f^\beta$.
\begin{figure}[!htb]
\includegraphics[width=3.3in]{betaVsT}
\caption{(Color online)  Exponent of the noise power, $\beta$, as a function of $T$ for different values of $H$.  The error bars (shown for selected data points) have been obtained from a least-squares fitting procedure on the log \emph{S} vs log $f$ plots.  The vertical arrows mark the onset temperatures ($T_{\mathrm{NN}}$) for the negative Nernst signal obtained using linear interpolation in Fig. 3(a).}
\label{Noise}
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Figure \ref{Noise} shows the plot of $\beta$ for different magnetic fields as a function of temperature. We observe that in the low-$T$ vortex-liquid regime, the exponent $\beta \approx 1$ and is nearly independent of the applied magnetic field. As the system enters into the negative-Nernst-signal regime, $\beta$ drastically drops to lower values. This sharp feature provides an excellent means for experiments to causally correlate the onset temperature for negative Nernst signals, $T_{\text{NN}}$, to vortex dynamics. As the temperature approaches the mean-field transition temperature, the exponent is further reduced, but remains finite. In contrast to the low-$T$ vortex-liquid regime, in this case, $\beta$ strongly depends on the applied magnetic field. We remark that we do not see any observable signatures of the vortex-proliferation transition in the behavior of $\beta$. Even though $1/f$ behavior of noise is ubiquitous in transport measurements of many physical systems,\cite{dutta_low-frequency_1981,*weissman_1/f_1988} to the best of our knowledge, it has not been measured for the Nernst signal. In YBCO samples, a similar power-law behavior has been observed in flux noise spectra in a nondriven system~\cite{vestergren_simulation_2004,*festin_vortex_2004} and in longitudinal-voltage noise spectra in a current-driven system.\cite{giraldo_non_2009} Although the above measurements have been done for regimes and observables other than those presented here, they illustrate the feasibility of the noise-measurement scenario we propose here.

\section{Closing remarks}
In this article, a computational method has been introduced to simulate the Nernst effect in high-$T_c$ superconductors using the TDGL theoretical framework.  We show that the thermoelectric coefficient $\alpha_{xy}$ (i) is large and monotonically decreasing for $T<T_{\mathrm{VP}}$, (ii) displays a profile that is qualitatively consistent with experiments at intermediate $T$'s, and (iii) reverses signs at $T>T_{\mathrm{NN}}>T_{\mathrm{VP}}$.  Furthermore, we propose a noise-based observable to distinguish between different dynamical phases of the vortex system.  The noise power of the Nernst signal reveals distinctive qualitative and quantitative properties for different regimes, thus demonstrating its great potential as an experimental probe of vortex dynamics.

\begin{acknowledgments}
We gratefully acknowledge discussions with H.~Steinberg on $1/f$ noise, and with T.~Giamarchi, S.~Mukerjee, D.~Podolsky and S.~Tewari on vortices and the Nernst effect. We also acknowledge the hospitality of the Aspen Center for Physics and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics where some of these discussions took place (Grant No.~NSF PHY06-02228 and No.~PHY05-51164, respectively).  This work was partially supported by the W.~M.~Keck and Robert A.~Welch (C-1681) Foundations.
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Team @CynthiaNixon – you've shared so much helpful info/reminders for preparing to vote today. Do you have any resources for when a polling place doesn't have your info? Would have loved to have read up before my horrible experience this morning.
Guess who wasn't on the rolls this morning at the polling place I've voted for four years?
Now, if this happened in a red state and not Gov. Andrew Cuomo's liberal utopia, everyone would probably be screaming about voter suppression. It must be nice to live in a place where normal bureaucratic snafus are not turned into something sinister.


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Q: Establish an ODBC DSN-Less Connection to local Pervasive DB from .NET application We are developing a .NET application which will be installed on a our clients computer which has installed a Sage 50 (Peachtree) accounting software. Our application will connect to Sage using the Pervasive ODBC driver.
We were able to connect to the Sage DB using ODBC driver by configuring a DSN.
Unfortunately, this requires our application user to take many steps in order to configure the connection, and we would like to avoid that.
We wish to connect to the Sage DB using ODBC but avoiding setting up a DSN.
We have tried connecting to the DB using the below connection string, from our .NET application:
Driver={Pervasive ODBC Engine Interface};dbq=STONEARBORLANDSCAPING;uid=XXXXXXXXX;pwd=XXXXXXXX;

When attempting to connect, the following error is triggered:
"ERROR [HY000] [Pervasive][ODBC Client Interface][LNA][Pervasive][ODBC Engine Interface][Data Record Manager]The specified filename is invalid(Btrieve Error 11)\r\nERROR [HY000] [Pervasive][ODBC Client Interface][LNA][Pervasive][ODBC Engine Interface][Data Record Manager]
We have also tried to mess with the DB name, and it did indicate an invalid DB name, so a connection was made. I believe we are missing a parameter in the connection string pointing to a location on the disk.
After looking up online and trying various options , I could not get it to work and always came back to the "The specified filename is invalid(Btrieve Error 11)" error.
Would appreciate any tip / direction to follow!

A: A Btrieve error 11 is not related to the connection string. It's related to the DDFs and how they reference the data files.  I would think you would get the error 11 even accessing the database through the Pervasive Control Center.
If you are getting an error 11 on connection and not when accessing a specific table, it's probably an invalid database and you need to get new DDFs from Sage.  If you open FILE.DDF using the Btrieve Function Executor, you can read the records and my guess is that one of the system tables (table name starts with X$) is missing or incorrect. There should be at least 10 entries:
Xf$Name                Xf$Loc
====================   ================================================================
X$File                 file.ddf
X$Field                field.ddf
X$Index                index.ddf
X$View                 view.ddf
X$Proc                 proc.ddf
X$Relate               relate.ddf
X$Trigger              trigger.ddf
X$Attrib               attrib.ddf
X$Occurs               occurs.ddf
X$Variant              variant.ddf

A: When trying to connect using a non-sample company from Sage, using the same settings, the connection worked.

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Home » Browse » Magazines » Communication Magazines » Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management » Article details, "Profiting from List Enhancement"
"Database' is a popular buzz word in the mailing list industry these days. Some wags may claim that a database is nothing but a mailing list with an expensive price tag --but if you treat the subject as a joke, then chances are you're missing major opportunities to fine tune your subscription promotions, beef up your list rental revenue, improve editorial positioning, and generate additional ad revenue.
Unfortunately, there are many reasons why publishing executives dismiss databases. Perhaps the biggest stumbling block for circulation managers and other magazine executives to overcome is fear: fear of computers, fear of technology, fear for data security, and the elementary fear of the unknown. Although computers have been part and parcel of the list business for well over a decade and shouldn't frighten anyone away, continuing high-tech advances in computer manipulation of list data, the proliferation of processing options, and the growing recognition of a potential for theft of data have left more than a few list managers slightly uneasy.
Yet another reason publishing executives hesitate is the bottom-line question of return on investment: Will the time and expense of getting involved in list enhancement pay out in increased subscription or advertising revenues?
When you consider that it is now possible to enhance your file for free (we'll see how later), the answer is probably "Yes.' But even for the enhancements you pay for, most publishers (of both consumer and business publications) have far more to gain than to lose from database enhancement.
Before we look at how it's done, how much it costs, and which magazines, by type and size, can benefit the most from list enhancement, let's define some basic terms that are frequently used with cavalier imprecision.
A list is a group of related items, usually names and addresses, from a single source compiled for a single purpose. For example, the active subscribers to Splurge! magazine would be one list, the expires another.
Each name on the list constitutes a record, which, in addition to the address, may include such related and derivative data as source code, expiration date, match code (or combination codes), and so on.
When similar lists are combined, they form databanks. The combined actives and expires for Splurge!, for example, would form a databank, as would the actives and/or expires for both Splurge! and its sister publication, Save!.
You're probably already working with a few database techniques. For example, if you combine promotional and renewal data files with the Splurge! active subscriber file, you can determine how well renewals hold up for free-issue subscribers as opposed to hard-offer subscribers. Or if you combine the same data with the Splurge!/Save! files, you can compare the percentage of Splurge! renewals on early-bird offers with those on the Save! file.
A database may also include data from outside sources--most typically a wide variety of demographic data such as age, income, race/ethnic origin, age/ name of spouse, number/ages/names of children, type of dwelling, length of residence, number of/types of automobiles, education, head of household and so on.


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Google Glass: No longer just the stuff of science fiction
Business·Analysis
The hubbub today about Google Glass, the search company's new wearable computer technology, got CBC business columnist Don Pittis thinking about a 2007 novel by science-fiction author Charles Stross, in which police officers are able to access information databases through their eyewear.
New wearable computer reminiscent of 2007 novel
Don Pittis · CBC News · Posted: Feb 21, 2013 4:16 PM ET | Last Updated: February 21, 2013
CopSpace sheds some light on matters of course... There's the green tree of signs sprouting over the doorway of number thirty-nine, each tag naming the legal tenants.
That sounds a bit like someone describing how you might use Google Glass. A real-world image of an apartment building entrance, with an overlay of virtual information about the people who live there.
If that also sounds like science fiction, well, that's because it is.
As well as my interest in economics, I have always been a reader of science fiction. I am convinced the two go together well — the best science fiction helps you disconnect from the present and imagine possible futures.
Today, Matt Galloway, the host of the local CBC Radio morning show here in Toronto, was enthusing about Google Glass. Produced by the world's largest search company, it's a computer device that you wear on your face like glasses, and it's now selling for $1,500 by lottery only. Even while lusting after them, Galloway wondered aloud about what possible use Google Glass could have.
"I don't know why I'd want something like that," Galloway told me later, "but I want something like that."
When I first heard about Google Glass last year ("Google glasses" back then), I didn't have to wonder what they could be used for. I knew. Galloway's comments this morning forced me to rush around the house searching for a book by Charles Stross called Halting State.
Google founder Sergey Brin demonstrates Google Glass glasses at a New York Fashion Week event in September 2012. Google has announced a lottery that would allow people to purchase the $1,500 glasses prior to their wide release later this year. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters )
Stross is a supernerd, sort of an updated version of the similarly polymathic Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon). Although he can write accessible romantic prose (such as his Merchant Prince series), Stross is most spectacular in his dense, technologically aware science fiction, like Halting State. Anyone who wants a realistic portrayal of the near tech future should read it.
'Geographical information systems'
Stross, who has a degree in computer science (and one in pharmaceutical science – did I say polymathic?), used to write about Linux for a tech magazine. But he has the imagination to take us a few steps forward into a world where the virtual and the real have merged.
"When I sat down to write Halting State (circa 2005-2006), I decided to do some clean sheet extrapolation to figure out from existing industry road maps what sort of level of technology would be available by 2017 when the novel is set," said Stross in an email today.
He says this is the world where Google Glass is leading us.
In the world of Halting State, data storage is in practical terms infinite. Data is stored geographically, according to its location in the real world. Think of a Google map, where photographs of nearby locations are available by clicking on boxes that appear as an overlay on the map.
This is a real world science called Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and it is increasingly how information is stored today. The idea is that if the city wants to know how recently the water pipes on your street were updated, for instance, they look at a map-based computer system that may also show natural gas pipes, sewage pipes and electrical conduits on your street and maybe even the billing information for your house.
"CopSpace," as it's called in Stross's book, "is basically a distributed geographical information system mapped onto a police intelligence database, using the glasses to provide a heads up view of local crime-related features," Stross explains.
In Halting State — which concerns a bank heist within a virtual reality that has financial effects in the real world — Stross demonstrates some of the practical uses of a technology similar to but even more advanced than Google Glass. In his novel, Stross calls them "Specs," and as in the quote at the top of this article, geographical information overlays physical information in the police officer's field of vision, providing a directory of who lives where.
Staring at a computer
If the officer gets the right permission, he can look at more information about each of those tenants.
"This is the twenty-first century, and all the terabytes of CopSpace have exploded out of the dusty manila files and into the real world, sprayed across it in a Technicolor mass of officious labelling and crime notes," says Stross in the book.
The other thing CopSpace allows you to do is record what you are seeing in real time. Crime scenes, statements, important communications are evidence-logged and stored. This sounds farfetched — until you think of all the Russian drivers who are already doing it. Crazy crash reels on YouTube and the spectacular photographs of the recent meteor are a product of a "dash cam culture" where Russian drivers keep a continuous record of their driving as proof against corrupt officials.
So much for science fiction. Sorry, Charlie, it's hard to keep up.
But Stross has more. When you want your colleague (an expert? a supervisor?) to see what you are seeing, or if you want to observe the view from a remote device, you pass the view around.
"I think the utility (of Google Glass) to policing should be obvious," Stross says, reminding me that fellow science fiction writer Vernor Vinge (the inventor of "the singularity") has proposed contact lenses doing the same thing in a slightly more distant future.
Stross's Specs are a substitute for a cell phone, a hands-free camera, a verbal notebook, a heads-up computer screen and a link to all the information in private and public databases.
Google Glass isn't there yet, but now that it's actually appearing in the real world, you don't have to be a science fiction junkie — or a writer as imaginative as Charles Stross — to see the potential.
Will Google Glass ever be stylish?
Google offers peek at internet-connected glasses


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Viki ist ein Dorf (estnisch küla) auf der größten estnischen Insel Saaremaa. Es gehört zur Landgemeinde Saaremaa (bis 2017: Landgemeinde Kihelkonna) im Kreis Saare.

Einwohnerschaft, Lage und Geschichte
Der Ort hat 41 Einwohner (Stand 31. Dezember 2011). Er liegt zwei Kilometer östlich von Kihelkonna.

Das Dorf wurde erstmals 1778 unter dem Namen Wicki urkundlich erwähnt.

Bauernhofmuseum Mihkli

Gründung
Bekannt ist Viki vor allem für den Bauernhof Mihkli (Mihkli talu), der zu einem ethnographischen Museum umgestaltet worden ist. Seine Gründung geht auf den letzten aktiven Landwirt von Mihkli, Jakob-Eduard Reht (1886–1969), zurück, der ihn in der achten Generation bewirtschaftete hatte und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg dem Staat vermachte. Im Februar 1959 wurde der Bauernhof als Museum der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht. Heute untersteht der Hof dem Saaremaa muuseum in der Inselhauptstadt Kuressaare.

Beschreibung
Der großzügig angelegte Komplex besteht aus zahlreichen historischen Gebäuden, die für die traditionelle Architektur der Bauerngehöfte der Region stehen. Daneben sind zahlreiche originale Gerätschaften und Haushaltsgegenstände zu sehen, die die Lebens- und Arbeitsweise der Landbevölkerung von West-Saaremaa anschaulich dokumentieren. Die ältesten stammen aus dem 18. Jahrhundert.

Eine Mauer umgibt die gesamte Anlage. Die meisten Gebäude sind kreisförmig um die Hoffläche gruppiert. Ein Großteil der unbebauten Fläche wird als Blumengarten genutzt.

"Im Wohnhaus der Familie sind Alltagsgegenstände als Beispiele für künstlerisches Bauernhandwerk am ursprünglichen Platz ausgestellt. Die Schmiede (von 1854), das einzige Steingebäude, durfte in keinem Bauernhof fehlen. Sie wurde in den Sommermonaten als Küche benutzt; um die Arbeit mit dem riesigen Kochtopf zu erleichtern, gibt es eine Konstruktion über der Feuerstelle, die es ermöglicht, den Topf ohne viel Kraftaufwand zu bewegen. Da der Raum auch als Sauna benutzt werden konnte und auch für das Bierbrauen verwendet wurde, ist eine Art hölzerne Wasserleitung an der Außenwand angebracht, die die Stube mit dem Brunnen verband. […] Auf Saaremaa fällt die Vielzahl der Scheunen auf, weil zu einem Bauernhof gleich mehrere gehören. In Mihkli sind es zwei, wobei die ältere aus der Zeit um 1700 stammt. Auch das neuere Gebäude mit seinem U-förmigen Grundriß ist nicht ganz neu, denn zu seiner Errichtung wurden die alten Balken des Wohnhauses wiederverwendet. Dort waren verschiedene Kammern zur Aufbewahrung von Getreide, Fleisch, Fisch und Kleidung untergebracht. In den risalitartig angeschlossenen Eckkammern gefanden sich in den Sommermonaten die Schlafstellen der Mädchen. 1991 wurden die Scheuen mit neuen Schilfdächern versehen, die, wenn die Meister ihr Handwerk beherrschen, durchaus 70 bis 100 Jahre lang halten werden."

Literatur
 Harry Tuuli: Viki küla ja Mihkli talu ajalugu. Kuressaare 2009 (ISBN 9789985998403)

Weblinks

 Bauernhofmuseum Mihkli (deutsch)
 Eintrag in Eesti Entsüklopeedia (Online-Fassung)
 Beschreibung (eestigiid.ee)

Einzelnachweise

Ort in Estland
Geographie (Saaremaa, Landgemeinde)
Ersterwähnung 1778

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Home >News > Edgetech celebrates its 30th Super Spacer® anniversary
Edgetech celebrates its 30th Super Spacer® anniversary
In demanding, sustainable construction projects, the psi value of a warm edge is not the only thing that counts. The importance of aesthetics, precise, automated application and durability has caught up with the burning issue of energy efficiency - as demonstrated by two flagship projects in Vienna and Vilnius.
When the world's first metal-free Warm Edge Spacer System was introduced in the form of Super Spacer® in 1989, the term sustainability was just transforming from a niche notion into a mainstream one. "Super Spacer already offered the option of thermally optimising edge seals even before the era of Low-E thermal insulating glazing had commenced. We thus proudly view ourselves as pioneers of the warm edge", states Joachim Stoss, Managing Director of Edgetech Europe GmbH. In its anniversary year the European subsidiary of the Quanex Building Products Corporation which produces its flexible spacers in the United States, Great Britain and Germany is very optimistic about the future. The industry anticipates a further tightening of the regulations for energy-efficient construction, whilst ambitious builders and investors are also placing sustainability, with all its facets for new buildings, at the top of their list of priorities. A recent market survey conducted by Global Market Insights forecasts an annual demand of 100 million warm edge metres for commercial buildings in Germany alone by 2024.
Warm edge technology has long been state of the art
A low Psi value for the thermal bridge at the edge of the glass is, and will continue to be, an essential asset for a positive energy balance – that's also according to Hanspeter Petschenig, Managing Director of Petschenig glastec GmbH. In the case of its latest flagship project, the attractive PARKAPARTMENTS AM BELVEDERE and the Hotel Andaz Vienna at the Belvedere in Vienna, planned by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, the Austrian glass processor supplied some 15,000 square metres of heat and sound insulating, as well as drop-guard, insulating glass elements complete with Super Spacer®. The company Flintermann Glasverdelungs GmbH, based in Lower Saxony, Germany, contributed by providing curved insulating glass elements for some of the building edges. "The demanding geometry of the glass panes really did put our team to the test," explains authorised signatory Reinhard Gruber. Five large-format single panes, tapering straight at the ends and a central bend with a very narrow radius, have been combined with Super Spacer® TriSeal™ Premium Plus to form triple-glazed insulating glass units.
Modern architecture in harmony with nature
The real estate project in the new Belvedere urban district to the southeast of Vienna's main railway station was commissioned by the SIGNA Group, or more precisely a SIGNA Group/Hyatt joint venture, and was challenging in every regard. The original project developer had already recruited the Italian architect back in 2008. A state-of-the-art high-rise building in the immediate vicinity of the Baroque palace grounds of Belvedere, the Swiss Garden and the Botanical Gardens had to be designed in such a way that the Belvedere world heritage site was not impaired, as Piano stated at the time in an interview on the subject. His architectural credo in terms of urban design aesthetics is as follows: leaving the past the space it needs, but always looking into the future. One of his architectural goals is to put an end to soulless peripheral city districts. Suburbs must become urban centres with social and cultural meeting places, that bring people together and where they enjoy living. At the same time, Piano is one of the pioneers in the field of sustainable construction, uses durable materials and seeks to establish a connection with the surrounding nature through his architecture. The 342 apartments and the 303-room hotel complete with skybar, ballroom and a large convention area are spread over five towers with polygonal floor plans that are set up on slender pylons measuring several meters in height. Piano's columns were inspired by the tree trunks in the surrounding parks. The green areas under the towers have the effect of virtually extending the adjoining Swiss garden into the grounds that cover an area of more than 10,000 square metres. The beautiful view "Belvedere" is impressively transformed into reality here as the first storeys float above the treetops, and a unique, stunning view of Vienna that also extends into the distance emerges from the towers.
28,000 square metre facade is being put to the test
A mullion-and-transom 28,000 square metre facade was chosen for the ground floor of the two hotel towers that are designed in the form of an elemental facade. Also where the facade's material was concerned, Piano once again searched for the connecting element. In homage to the historic brick facade of the neighbouring former arsenal of Vienna, he chose ceramics, a material that Piano repeatedly uses due to its natural origin, durability, ability to reflect light and its versatility. Among other things, Strabag Metallica that was in charge of the project, installed 60,000 grey glazed ceramic strips with a total weight of 770 tonnes and 1,100 triple insulating glass units within the 5,600 facade elements. Just six months passed from the issuing of the order in May 2017 to the installation of the first element. A Herculean task, due to the fact a time-consuming testing process had to be gone through between the planning or design, and manufacture of the components. All elements had to prove during the simulation as well as on the test bench that they meet the high civil engineering requirements placed upon the thermal insulation and sound insulation.
Precise and rapid: automated spacer application
"Without an automated insulating glass line, a project with such tight deadlines and quality specifications is virtually impossible to tackle", Hanspeter Petschenig confidently claims. "The robot-controlled application of the flexible Super Spacer guarantees the total parallelism of the glass panes on the one hand, on the other hand the production is, of course, performed much more quickly since a flexible, thermo-set spacer does not have to be bent, nor filled, connected and PIB-applied. Especially where large, floor-to-ceiling panes are concerned, such as those used in the Belvedere project, the precise application down to the last millimetre of the flexible spacer constitutes a decisive criterion. The appearance of a spacer is assuming ever increasing performance according to Petschenig. "Super Spacer reflects the colour of the frame profile and thus appears completely neutral in colour," he explains.
Flintermann supplies curved panes of glass for Green Hall 2
Super Spacer® is also in high demand for sustainable showcase projects in Northern Europe. The Green Hall Valley with its three Business Centres in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, designed by Arrow Architects from Denmark, is one of them. Room cooling through air circulation ensures a pleasant microclimate, a geothermal heat pump covers more than 80% of the heating and cooling requirements. The first building complex Green Hall 1 was constructed in 2009, Green Hall 2 was opened in 2017. The energy efficiency class A building is also a prime example of how architecture can harmoniously be merged with the environment. The sweeping facade follows the bend of the Neris river, on the banks of which the Green Hall Valley is located, and the landscape is reflected by the window panes. Cars are banished beneath the earth ensuring the overall natural appearance is not impaired. The facade elements were manufactured by Schüco in Germany, while the planning and assembly was performed on site in Lithuania by KG Constructions UAB. The architects paid attention to the principles of sustainability even where the most miniscule details were concerned. Thus, the insulating bars of the façade system are produced using polyamides from renewable raw materials.
Super Spacer® TriSeal™ Premium Plus for manual application
In order to let in as much natural daylight as possible and thus also thermal energy into the building's interior, the double facade covering an area of 3,800 square metres consists of triple insulating glass units with solar control glazing on the outside and thermal insulation glazing in the middle. It achieves an impressive Uw value of 0.6 W/m2K. Flintermann Insolierglas GmbH supplied the concave-curved triple insulating glass units for the curved edges of the façade, in a 2.800 x 3.800 format using exactly the same window pane design, and 16 mm Super Spacer® TriSeal™ Premium Plus as spacer. "Super Spacer TriSeal Premium Plus is our product for simple manual processing using large-format insulating glazing and facade glass panes due to the fact the polyisobutylene seal is already pre-applied by us," explains Edgetech's authorised signatory, Johannes von Wenserski. Reinhard Gruber added: "When using curved insulating glass units of this size, and what's more in a climatic zone where it can be extremely cold in winter and very hot in summer, the spacer is of particular importance for the durability of the edge seal. A flexible spacer offsets any weather-related pumping movements, thus reducing the pressure on the primary seal, whilst we also have the necessary flexibility during the production of curved special forms."
Source for the market figures:
https://issuu.com/shankar123/docs/warm_edge_spacer_market
About Edgetech Europe GmbH
Edgetech's Super Spacer® flexible foam-based spacer systems acts as energy-efficient warm edge spacers in insulating glass windows. They significantly reduce energy loss to the outside, largely prevent condensation and also contribute to the lifetime of a window. On average, worldwide, more than 300 million metres are sold annually in over 90 countries.
Edgetech Europe GmbH, located in Heinsberg Germany, is a fully-owned subsidiary of Quanex Building Products Corporation, an industry-leading manufacturer of components sold to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in the building products industry. Quanex designs and produces energy-efficient fenestration products in addition to kitchen and bath cabinet components, with its head offices in Houston, Texas. Based on turnover Edgetech/Quanex is the world's largest manufacturer of spacers. Edgetech Europe GmbH is a sales location for the markets in continental Europe and one of the three worldwide Edgetech production plants, with a total of 450 employees and 16 extruders. You can obtain additional information about the Super Spacer® systems and the Warm Edge Technology of Edgetech here: www.superspacer.com.
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