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'''
Andrew Till
Summer 2014

Materials specification subroutines.

Uses nuclide_data python module by Joshua Hykes that has been modified to use python module uncertainties version 2. The data is based on NIST data.

Dependencies: numpy, uncertainties (ver 2), nuclide_data (https://github.com/jhykes/nuclide-data; updated to work with ver 2 of uncertainties), directories (dirDict), Readgroupr (to read potential xs and define some mt2name dicts), iapws (https://github.com/jjgomera/iapws/; for water densities)
'''

#TPL
import os
import argparse
#MINE
from directories import get_common_directories
import materials_njoy as njoy
import materials_materials as mat
import materials_util as util
import materials_global as glob
import materials_bondarenko as bon

def do_all(inputDict):
    if not 'finishedParsing' in inputDict:
        raise ValueError('Inputs have not finished being parsed. Use finish_parsing_inputs().')
    verbosity = inputDict['verbosity']
    useCommonBXS = inputDict['commonbackgroundxs']
    materials = []
    mat2funcDict = mat.get_materials_name2function_dict()
    for matl in sorted(inputDict['materialslist']):
        materials.append(mat2funcDict[matl]())
    #
    util.print_newline(verbosity)
    if verbosity > 1:
        print 'NB: All dictionaries are printed as sorted(dict.items())'
    globalTDict, globalBXSDict, globalTXSDict = {}, {}, {}
    globalZASabList, globalZAList, globalZList = glob.get_union_parameters(
        materials, globalTDict, globalBXSDict, globalTXSDict, not(useCommonBXS), verbosity)
    mat.print_materials(materials, verbosity)
    if inputDict['njoy']:
        njoyTDict, njoyBXSDict = {}, {}
        njoy.get_njoy_temperatures(globalZASabList, njoyTDict, globalTDict, globalTXSDict)
        njoy.get_njoy_background_xs(globalZASabList, njoyBXSDict, globalBXSDict, useCommonBXS)
        glob.print_globals(globalZASabList, globalZAList, globalZList, globalTDict,
            globalBXSDict, globalTXSDict, verbosity)
        njoy.print_njoys(njoyTDict, njoyBXSDict, verbosity)
        njoy.print_mcnp_material_inputs(materials, njoyTDict, verbosity)
        njoy.create_njoy_decks(inputDict, globalZASabList, njoyTDict, njoyBXSDict, globalTXSDict, verbosity)
    elif inputDict['bondarenko']:
        bon.perform_bondarenko_iterations(inputDict, materials, verbosity)
    util.print_newline(verbosity)

###############################################################################
def define_input_parser():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Materials specification functions.', formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter)
    # If nothing is specified, verbosity is False. If -v or --verbose is specified, verbosity is 1. If -v N is specified, verbosity is N.
    parser.add_argument('-v', '--verbose', dest='verbosity', nargs='?', const=1, default=0, choices=[0,1,2,3,4], type=int)
    actionGroup = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
    actionGroup.add_argument('-n', '--njoy', help="Create NJOY input decks. If neither '-n' nor '-b' is specified, do this.", action='store_true')
    actionGroup.add_argument('-b', '--bondarenko', help='Run Bondarenko iteration.', action='store_true')
    # Both options
    parser.add_argument('-m', '--materialslist', help='List of materials to use (for more advanced options, see materials_materials.py).', nargs='+', default=['hpu'], choices=mat.get_materials_name2function_dict().keys())
    # NJOY options
    njoyGroup = parser.add_argument_group('NJOY options', 'Options to use with --njoy.')
    njoyGroup.add_argument('-c', '--commonbackgroundxs', help='Do not use common background XS if specified.', action='store_false', default=True)
    njoyGroup.add_argument('-g', '--groups', help='Number of groups for NJOY calculation. Unless the groupopt is an NJOY groupset, the final number of groups will be the maximum of this argument and the native number of groups in the specified groupopt. Use 0 to specify no resolution.', type=int, default=0)
    njoyGroup.add_argument('-G', '--groupopt', help="Base coarse group structure for NJOY calculation. 'default' is read in default for makegroups and refine. 'equal' means do equal lethargy spacing with 'groups' groups. 'time' means do equal spacing of 1/v_g - 1/v_{g-1} for time-of-flight fidelity. For the NJOY options, no resolving is done. 'njoy-10' means use LANL 187-group structure. 'njoy-15' means use Sandia 640-group structure. Anything else is assumed to a filename. Some examples include 'c5g7', 'c5g7_alt', 'scale-44', 'helios-47' (just resonance groups), 'wims-69', 'wims-172', 'scale-238', 'low-1500' 'med-1500', 'high-1500', and 'res-N' where N=1,..9. Always looks in default directory of makegroups.", default='default')
    njoyGroup.add_argument('-E', '--energybounds', help='Low and high bounds for the cross sections (eV). The interpretation of this value depends on the value of groupopt.', nargs=2, type=float, default=[1E-5,2E7])
    njoyGroup.add_argument('-r', '--resolvedrange', help='The resolved resonance range to be refined (energies in eV). The interpretation of this value depends on the value of groupopt.', nargs=2, type=float, default=[3.0, 2.5E4])
    njoyGroup.add_argument('-L', '--legendreorder', help='Legendre order to use for the scattering kernel.', type=int, default=0)
    njoyGroup.add_argument('-S', '--smallscattering', help='Do not build transfer matrices when running GROUPR if specified.', action='store_true', default=False)
    njoyGroup.add_argument('-P', '--purroff', help='Do not use probability table treatment in the unresolved resonance range for the ACE files', action='store_true', default=False)
    # Bondarenko options
    bondarenkoGroup = parser.add_argument_group('Bondarenko options', 'Options to use with --bondarenko.')
    bondarenkoGroup.add_argument('-N', '--numberiterationsmax', help='Maximum number of Bondarenko iterations. If a value less than 0 is used, unshielded (infinite) background cross sections are used.', type=int, default=10)
    bondarenkoGroup.add_argument('-e', '--errormax', help='Maximum L^infty error for Bondarenko iterations.', type=float, default=1e-10)
    bondarenkoGroup.add_argument('-f', '--format', help='Output format for scattering matrices column or row major.', choices=['csr', 'csc'], default='csr')
    bondarenkoGroup.add_argument('-s', '--simplereactions', help='Use non-threshold reactions and free thermal scattering cross sections only.', action='store_true', default=False)
    bondarenkoGroup.add_argument('-p', '--printopt', help='Which XS to print. Usual prints selected XS and the combined transfer matrix, invel prints the usual in addition to the inverse velocity, abs prints the usual in addition to some cross sections necessary to determine the total absorption rate, total just prints the flux and total XS. All prints all XS and transfer matrices except the combined transfer matrix. None prints no PDT XS.', choices=['usual', 'invel', 'abs', 'total', 'all', 'none', 'everything'], default='usual')
    bondarenkoGroup.add_argument('-M', '--mesh', help='File name for the mapping of fine groups to discontiguous energy elements. If no directory specified, looks in $SCRATCH_BARN/dat/energy_groups.  If no filetype specified, use .txt', default='none')
    bondarenkoGroup.add_argument('-F', '--fluxes', help='File name pattern for the material fluxes. {m} is replaced by the shortname of the material. If no directory specified, looks in $SCRATCH_BARN/dat/indicators. If no filetype specified, use .txt', default='wgt_{m}_9')
    return parser

def finish_parsing_inputs(inputDict):
    dirDict = get_common_directories()
    if inputDict['mesh'] in ['none', 'None']:
        inputDict['mesh'] = None
        inputDict['fluxes'] = None
    else:
        if not inputDict['mesh'].count('.'):
            inputDict['mesh'] += '.txt'
        if not inputDict['fluxes'].count('.'):
            inputDict['fluxes'] += '.txt'
        if not os.path.split(inputDict['mesh'])[0]:
            inputDict['mesh'] = os.path.join(dirDict['dat/energy_groups'], inputDict['mesh'])
        if not os.path.split(inputDict['fluxes'])[0]:
            inputDict['fluxes'] = os.path.join(dirDict['dat/indicators'], inputDict['fluxes'])
    if not(inputDict['njoy'] or inputDict['bondarenko']):
        inputDict['njoy'] = True
    inputDict['materialslist'] = set(inputDict['materialslist'])
    if inputDict['energybounds'][1] > 2E7:
        print 'Current ENDF data does not exist above 20 MeV. Changing energy upperbound to this value.'
        inputDict['energybounds'][1] = 2E7
    inputDict['energybounds'][0] = max(0, inputDict['energybounds'][0])
    if inputDict['verbosity'] > 1:
        print inputDict
    inputDict['finishedParsing'] = True

if __name__=='__main__':
    inputDict = vars(define_input_parser().parse_args())
    finish_parsing_inputs(inputDict)
    do_all(inputDict)


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"I'm Into You" é uma canção da cantora, actriz e dançarina norte-americana Jennifer Lopez, gravada para o seu sétimo álbum de estúdio, Love?. Conta com a colaboração do rapper Lil Wayne. Foi escrita por Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor E. Hermansen, Johnta Austin, Taio Cruz, e produzida pela equipa norueguesa Stargate. Deriva de origens estilísticas de dancehall, R&B e reggae, caracterizada. A canção serve como terceiro lançamento para promoção do sétimo disco de Lopez, marcando ainda a primeira colaboração com o rapper Wayne.

"I'm Into You" foi colocada na Internet a 30 de Março de 2011, depois de ter sido revelada uma pequena amostra no programa de rádio On Air with Ryan Seacrest, com uma recepção positiva, caracterizada pela sua sonoridade retirada das ilhas exóticas. A canção foi lançada digitalmente a 1 de Abril de 2011 em certos países da Europa, e quatro dias depois nos Estados Unidos.

Videoclipe
O videoclipe foi filmado em Abril de 2011, e foi gravado na cidade arqueológica Chichén Itzá, no México. Constitui-se de Jennifer Lopez vivendo um romance na praia com o ator cubano William Levy e protagoniza um número de dança no meio do clipe. O Video estreou oficialmente no dia 2 de Maio de 2011 no programa Today Show, nos EUA.

Faixas e formatos
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Prêmios e indicações
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Threats from militia provoke shutdown at Oregon capitol, a day after GOP lawmakers fled
Author: Reis Thebault, Michael Brice-Saddler, The Washington Post
FILE - In this June 12, 2019, file photo, a truck moves around the Oregon state Capitol during a protest against climate bills that truckers say will put them out of business, in Salem, Ore. Oregon is on the precipice of becoming the second state after California to adopt a cap-and-trade program, a market-based approach to lowering the greenhouse gas emissions behind global warming. (AP Photo/Sarah Zimmerman, File)
Oregon's top lawmakers will shut down the state capitol after receiving threats from militia groups. Authorities say they are planning to demonstrate there in support of the 11 Republican senators who fled the state to dodge a vote on climate change.
State Senate President Peter Courtney, a Democrat, told his colleagues on Friday that Oregon State Police had informed him there was a credible threat to him, the rest of the remaining senators - all of whom are Democrats - and the building's staff.
"It was obviously a credible threat because Sen. Courtney wouldn't close it down for no reason," Courtney's spokeswoman Carol Currie told The Washington Post.
State police confirmed the danger in an emailed statement.
"We have been monitoring information throughout the day that indicates the safety of legislators, staff and citizen visitors could be compromised if certain threatened behaviors were realized," wrote Capt. Timothy Fox.
Friday night's escalation was the latest in a bizarre feud between the state's Democrats and Republicans, who have clashed repeatedly during this year's legislative session.
Early Thursday morning, every GOP senator bolted, reportedly for the Idaho line, rather than sit idly in the chamber as their opponents passed a sweeping cap-and-trade bill. Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, responded by directing state troopers to corral the Republicans and return them to the state house.
Democrats have a supermajority in Oregon, allowing them the rare opportunity to pass the legislation of their dreams - but without Republicans, they can't achieve a quorum. No quorum, no vote. GOP senators said they had two options: allow a bill to pass that they said would devastate their constituents, or make a run for it.
"We will not stand by and be bullied by the majority party any longer," Senate Republican Leader Herman Baertschiger said in a Thursday statement. "Oregonians deserve better."
Critics of the cap-and-trade measure say it would raise the cost of fuel and have a disproportionate impact on truckers and loggers, many of whom live far from the state's largest cities.
The rift has become a proxy for the deepening divide between the state's ultraliberal urban enclaves and its sprawling rural counties with proud libertarian streaks. Currie said she feared the militia groups threatening action may be affiliated with the anti-government activists who led an armed occupation of a federal wildlife preserve in the state more than three years ago.
Led by Idaho rancher Ammon Bundy in 2016, about a dozen rogue fighters turned the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge - a federal nature reserve established in 1908 - into a militia stronghold. They were demonstrating their support for infamous ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond, a father-son duo sentenced to five years in prison for sparring the government and setting fires on federal land.
The Bundys threatened to occupy the reserve for "years" in protest. Their efforts lasted 41 days.
News of the state house closure on Friday prompted the state Republican Party to suggest that the Democratic leadership canceled the session out of "a fear that Republican voters might show up."
Sen. Sara Gelser criticized the statement on Twitter, writing that she and her colleagues "were notified we were physically in danger."
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The militia groups' alleged threat was the second apparent mention of violence to mar state politics in recent days.
Sen. Brian Boquist, one of the Republicans currently on the lam, sent a warning to state police Wednesday.
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We've all been there where our friends ask us to spot them for food because they've forgotten both their wallets and phones.
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Rather than swiping with a credit card, all you'll have to do is stand there and smile.
Originally, CaliBurger customers were only able to face log into their loyalty accounts at the self-ordering kiosk.
They would then have to use a credit card or their phones to complete their order before receiving food.
Now, it appears that has become a thing of the past for anyone with a face.
CEO of Cali Group, John Miller said "The positive customer reaction to face-based loyalty login at the kiosks encouraged us to quickly deploy face based payments at the kiosks"
Once patrons' faces are scanned, all they'll have to do is enter their 3-digit CVV number from their credit card to finish the transaction.
The future is now at this burger joint!


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India Hikes Tariffs on all Pakistani Imports to 200%
The latest move is likely to grind direct bilateral trade to a halt, though Indian exporters, who currently sell nearly $2 billion worth of goods to Pakistan, might end up suffering more than Pakistan's exporters, whose trade volume is 25% of that figure.
Representational image: Reuters
New Delhi: Hot on the heels of the withdrawal of most favoured nation status for Pakistan, India has hiked tariffs on all imports from its western neighbour to 200% with immediate effect, finance minister Arun Jaitley said on Saturday evening.
India has withdrawn MFN status to Pakistan after the Pulwama incident. Upon withdrawal, basic customs duty on all goods exported from Pakistan to India has been raised to 200% with immediate effect. #Pulwama
— Arun Jaitley (@arunjaitley) February 16, 2019
The decision will almost certainly deal a death blow to Pakistan's exports to India, which currently stand at around US$490 million.
However, with Indian exports to Pakistan valued at just under $2 billion, any retaliatory tariff hike from Islamabad will also adversely impact all Indian companies currently selling products on the Pakistani market.
India's Trade with Pakistan (US$ million). Source: Directorate General of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India. From Nisha Taneja et al, "Emerging Trends in India-Pakistan Trade, ICRIER Working Paper, 2018.
Cotton, organic chemicals and plastics are India's major export items while edible nuts, plastering materials and mineral fuels account for top imports.
As The Wire reported on the day India withdrew Pakistan's MFN status, one fallout of New Delhi's latest decision could be that 'informal' or 'diverted' trade between both countries increases.
Trade that is routed between India and Pakistan through third countries such as the United Arab Emirates or Singapore is estimated to double existing formal and direct trade at $4.71 billion.


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Nation urged to join the Big Garden Birdwatch after 'alarming' decline of these birds
Around half a million people are expected to take part
Emily Beament
Kirsty Bosley
Sparrows and starlings have suffered "alarming" declines in the last 40 years (Image: Nick Ansell/PA Wire)
The Big Garden Birdwatch is marking its 40th year this year, and they're asking people to get involved with recording which birds visit their garden.
The request comes with the news that sparrows and starling have suffered "alarming" declines over the last four decades, while other species have become a common sight in backyards.
The world's largest garden wildlife survey expects around half a million people to take part, counting the birds in their garden as part of the world's biggest wildlife citizen science project.
With cold weather forecast, more birds might head to gardens in search of food, the RSPB said.
The results of the survey could also give some indications of the impact on birds of last year's "Beast from the East" in spring and the heatwave that followed.
Over the years the project run by the RSPB has revealed the failing fortunes of some of the UK's most commonly seen garden birds such as house sparrows, starlings and song thrushes.
It has also recorded increasing numbers of species such as wood pigeons and long tailed tits spotted in backyards and parks, and influxes of birds such as bramblings and waxwings.
It has even helped chart new arrivals, including the reintroduction of red kites, the one species which people are allowed to record if they see them flying over their garden rather than in it.
Keep your eyes peeled for blue tits (Image: Ray Kennedy/RSPB/PA Wire)
The spread of invasive ring-necked parakeets has also been recorded in places such as London.
This year the event takes place on January 26, 27, and 28, and members of the public are asked to spend just one hour watching and recording the birds in their garden or local green space, then send their results to the RSPB.
Results over the 40 years since 1979 show the average number of starlings seen in each garden has fallen by four fifths.
House sparrows have declined by 57% since the Big Garden Birdwatch began, but in the most recent decade their numbers appear to be recovering with a rise of around 17% since 2009.
The survey was the first to flag up the decline in song thrushes, which were the seventh most commonly seen bird in 1979, but by 2009 its numbers had more than halved and it had crashed to 20th place in the rankings.
But there have been major increases in birds such as wood pigeons and collared doves.
Goldfinches and long tailed tits, which have been tempted into gardens in search of food such as nyjer seeds which householders are putting out, have also flown into the top 10.
'Everyone has a role to play'
Mike Clarke, RSPB chief executive, said: "Everyone has a role to play in saving nature and protecting our wildlife.
"Big Garden Birdwatch participants have made a significant contribution to monitoring garden bird numbers over the past four decades.
"Those taking part work together as part of a community with thousands of other Big Garden Birdwatchers to help the RSPB's work to protect birds, other wildlife and the places they live.
"Reaching 40 years is a huge achievement and shows just how passionate people across the UK are about their wildlife. "
He said the survey, which started out as a winter activity for young RSPB members, was now the largest garden wildlife survey in the world.
As well as counting birds, the RSPB has for the last few years been asking participants to log some of the other wildlife they have seen throughout the year.
This year, people are being asked to look out for badger, fox, grey squirrel, red squirrel, muntjac deer, roe deer, frog and toad.
For more information and to submit results, people can visit the RSPB website .
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Luxurious Vehicles – Abdullah Taleb on Easy methods to Successfully Scale a Enterprise
by James Albert
in Luxury Cars
Home » Luxurious Vehicles – Abdullah Taleb on Easy methods to Successfully Scale a Enterprise
From promoting his first product on Myspace to usually working with celebrities worldwide, Taleb shares how he took his enterprise to new heights
For a lot of entrepreneurs beginning their first enterprise, the "honeymoon period" will be each thrilling and exhilarating; nonetheless, eventually, nearly all of new enterprise homeowners usually expertise an onset of considerable monetary stress in addition to the stress to maintain success for an indefinite period of time. Sadly, many entrepreneurs are unable to seek out efficient methods during which they'll develop their enterprise whereas maintaining with the prices related, and their enterprise usually fails as a direct consequence. So that you may be questioning, how does a enterprise proprietor efficiently develop their enterprise with out being engulfed by the prices of doing so? Entrepreneur Abdullah Taleb has mastered the artwork of scaling his enterprise by expertise, as he managed to repeatedly enhance income for his firm, Wealthy Boys' Toys, whereas hardly taking up any extra prices.
In 2004, Abdullah created a Myspace account because it was a preferred subject of dialog amongst his friends at college. He used his Myspace web page to submit and share lots of his favourite customized autos together with luxurious automobiles, bikes, and supercars. Taleb has at all times had a powerful ardour for cars, and he hardly ever missed a day of importing a photograph or video to his Myspace web page. Over many months of constantly posting the very best content material attainable, Abdullah started to construct a powerful following of automobile and bike lovers. On the time, Abdullah considered his social media platform merely as a passion, and he had no intention of constructing it to develop into a business- at the least not but. As his web page progressed and automotive lovers continued flowing in, he started to obtain a considerable amount of inquiries for the high-end merchandise and autos that he was posting on his web page. At this cut-off date, Abdullah realized the earning-potential he had in his fingertips. With the help of his household and mates, he determined to start his first enterprise, Wealthy Boys' Toys.
Abdullah's imaginative and prescient was to make the most of know-how to determine Wealthy Boys' Toys because the premier one-stop store for vehicle lovers. This on-line store would come full with quite a lot of choices to select from, customise, and order. He rapidly started networking to develop relationships with builders, producers, and designers, and after months of building a basis of belief, Wealthy Boys' Toys was off to the races. Working solely off his Myspace web page, Abdullah dealt with and fulfilled numerous inquiries and orders, and enterprise was trying promising for the foreseeable future. He had already constructed a powerful repute amongst many glad shoppers, and phrase was starting to unfold to many areas of the world. Presently, Abdullah was solely 16 years outdated and was incomes a considerable amount of cash. "Eventually, we had the bandwidth to handle significantly larger inquiries which resulted in sales in the hundreds of thousands. By the age of 16, I was generating seven figures annually," Abdullah boldly acknowledged.
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Abdullah Taleb is not any stranger to wrestle. He spent nearly all of his childhood as a refugee within the United Arab Emirates, and it was not a straightforward upbringing by any means. It wasn't till 2004 when he moved to the San Francisco Bay Space along with his household that he was in a position to really feel barely safer. Though his childhood was difficult to say the least, the struggles he confronted instilled a burning want to achieve success in addition to an unbreakable self-discipline inside him. With that mentioned, Abdullah is just not afraid to fail when taking calculated dangers, as he strongly believes that failure cultivates development; nonetheless, the ball was in his court docket, and he was not going to permit failure to occur. As profitable as Wealthy Boys' Toys had develop into, he knew there was extra he may do to make sure a fruitful future for the corporate. Abdullah desired to grasp the market, so he centered his full consideration on researching tendencies within the automotive trade. He believed that if he may establish shifts in previous tendencies, he may begin to acknowledge tendencies that have been at the moment starting in addition to predict tendencies that may happen sooner or later. "Whether it's the economy at large or a shift within a particular market, it's extremely important for new entrepreneurs to know and realize that staying updated with trends is a key factor for continuity, especially during tough times," Abdullah defined.
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An introductory workshop to learn the basics of making your own bath products. You will learn how to make bath salts, bath milk, bath floats & more. You will add fragrance, colour & botanicals too. All materials will be provided for you to create your own to take home.
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A talk based on Rosa's research and unique book collection with images, memories from the books and song. Chesterfield was an important area in the strike and many women from both Chesterfield and the surrounding areas took part, so the talk will have a local flavour detailing events – plus memories of the women involved – recorded in the strike books.
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Do Your Calves Ever Cramp When Swimming? Here's Why!
There's nothing like a painful calf cramp to ruin an otherwise enjoyable swim, ya know? 🙁 They seem to happen at the worst times and very often, they'll happen in our most important races. Frustrating!
So what's going on? Why do so many triathletes struggle with this issue during swimming?
Ridding yourself of the cramping calves will often lead to exactly what you want when you swim, which is a nice compact kicking motion which is both streamlined and also relaxed.
"Sometimes I get a cramp in one of my calves while swimming. It can happen in the beginning, middle, or near the end of a workout, and only occasionally - not every time I swim. It may happen just after pushing off the wall, or it may start in the middle of a lap. I don't feel like I'm kicking very hard when I'm swimming. It has never happened in a race, just while training in a pool. I figure I swallow enough pool water during my swims that hydration shouldn't be the issue. Any suggestions on how to prevent them?"
1. Trying to point the toes during kicking, which is active "plantar flexion" and creates tension in the calves. DON'T do this!* DO NOT try to point the toes while you kick.
Why all that tension? (this relates to why it happens to triathletes more than swimmers).
You're running, and with all of that running is more tension in the calves, simply because they're so active during running (and walking), etc.
1. First, the most important thing: RELAX YOUR FEET AND LEGS.
More: Really good "kickers" have very mobile,*floppy ankles. In fact, great backstrokers can lie on their backs on the floor and easily touch their toes to the floor as they point their ankle. Most triathletes can't come close to doing that. Limited ankle mobility means tension when kicking.
So what we must do as we are swimming down the lane: think and visualize FLOPPY ANKLES. That's right, just let the feet just flop at the ankle. Relax and release them completely.
As you relax your feet and JUST LET THEM FLOP, you'll reduce all of that tension in the calves that leads to cramping.
Now, of course, relaxing the feet and letting them flop, DOES NOT give you permission to also flop your knees or relax them.
In fact, what I've found works best is if you keep that knee straight and at the same time, flop the ankles, you'll get exactly what you're looking for, which is a nice compact kicking motion which is both streamlined and also relaxed.
When I say "straight knee," I am really saying to keep it straight - locked out. What will most likely happen is that your knees won't actually "lock," but they will bend less....which is a good thing.
From my experience videotaping dozens of triathletes: those with the worst kicks will bend their knees a LOT, and their ankles a little. That looks ugly on video.
Great kicking comes primarily from floppy ankles. Just check any backstroker (where kicking makes up a great majority of their propulsion).
2. Second, and really importantly: make sure you keep those calves stretched out and nice and long. They will tighten up from running and over time, shortness in that area raises risk of running injury, and also leads to increased risk of cramping.
To avoid cramping in the calves while swimming, keep the calves LONG, and relax those feet and think: FLOPPY ANKLES.
And lastly, do all of your swimming in the JACUZZI!
ps: got additional swimming questions or anything training related? Jump onto our FACEBOOK page and ask away!
Hi Everyone! Coach Al here. I've got a quickie for you today, talking swim technique and common mistakes I see in developing triathletes.
As many of you know, for novices (and even for those who have experience) the swim portion of a triathlon is often THE segment of the race that creates the most amount of anxiety and nervousness. As a result, many triathletes spend countless hours doing drills up and down the pool to improve their technique, hoping that the changes they learn and practice WILL make the swim portion of the race easier come race day.
The problem becomes, what if you're not working on the right skills or worse, grooving less-than-optimal form, in your attempts to improve?
In my experience, there are two mistakes that I see over and over again, that are arguably the most common mistakes. Today I shot a quick video so you can see for yourself.
Ironically, the 2nd mistake I point out is very likely one of the reasons why the 1st mistake is often happening and therefore difficult to correct.
To summarize, if you roll excessively to the side, not much else matters! Why? Because there really is no way you can get into a good catch from an "all-of-the-way-onto-your-side" position, without first returning or rolling back to a more prone position. And, rather than feeling fast or stable, you may actually feel the exact opposite.
Want to learn more? Check out this great video from Vasa (and elite swim coach Karlyn Pipes) on Better Freestyle Body Rotation.
And here's another: In this video, Karlyn discusses fingertip orientation. Check it out.
Go other questions? Hit me up on our Pursuit Athletic Performance Facebook page!
ps: if you'd like to learn more about Karlyn and the services she offers designed to help you improve, go to her website here!
pss: we are HUGE fans of the Vasa Ergometer here at Pursuit Athletic Performance. Very few swim training tools offer a larger bang-for-your-buck than the Vasa. Check them out if you want to take your swim to the next level.
As many of you well know, calf cramps while swimming can be quite common, especially for triathletes...and there's a very good reason why. Some athletes think it has to do with hydration or an electrolyte imbalance. It's neither.
So why do these occur?
1. Trying to point the toes during kicking, which is active "plantar flexion" that creates tension in the calves. DON'T do this! DO NOT try to point the toes while you kick.
2. The other thing, which is somewhat related, is that there is OFTEN simply too much TENSION in the lower legs, period.
Triathletes run. And with all of that running there is tension in the calves, as they are so active during that endeavor.
Often, what adds to the tension is the colder temps you find in some competitive pools. With colder temps, tension rises (which is why I love jacuzzis! 🙂 ).
1. First, the MOST IMPORTANT thing: RELAX YOUR FEET AND LOWER LEGS.
The term I use to describe how to kick correctly (while reducing the risk of cramping in the process) is FLOPPY ANKLES. Really good "kickers" have very mobile, floppy ankles. In fact, great backstrokers can lie on their backs on the floor and easily touch their toes to the floor as they point their ankle. Most triathletes can't come close to doing that. Limited ankle mobility means tension when kicking.
So what we must do as we are swimming down the lane? It's simple. Think: FLOPPY ANKLES. Let the feet just flop. Relax and release them completely.
Of course, relaxing the feet and letting them flop DOES NOT give you permission to also flop your knees or relax them.
In fact, what I've found works best is if you keep that knee straight, and, at the same time, flop the ankles, you'll get exactly what you're looking for, which is a nice compact kicking motion. The bonus is this motion is, at once, streamlined and relaxed.
When I say "straight knee," I am really saying to keep it straight--locked out. What will most likely happen is that your knees won't actually "lock," but they will bend less, which is a good thing. From my experience videotaping dozens of triathletes, those with the worst kicks will bend their knees a LOT, and their ankles a little. That looks ugly on video.
2. Second, make sure you keep those calves nice and long. Stretch. They will tighten up from running and, over time, shortness in that area raises risk of running injury. It also leads to increased risk of cramping.
How We Trained A Top Junior Olympic Gymnast, and How it Applies to YOU!
Our client, 14-year-old David Jessen--a fantastic and talented young man--took the silver medal at the US Junior Olympic National Gymnastic Championships in Cincinnati this weekend. After four grueling days of competition, David stunned audiences with his outstanding performance in the last round of the Men's All-Around to stage a come-from-behind 2nd place finish!
David competed against a 192 person field comprised of the best regional gymnasts from across the nation. He also won silver in men's pommel horse, vault, and horizontal bar. We are very proud of David, and so happy for him!
While we often talk in this blog in terms of training runners, cyclists, swimmers, and triathletes, at PAP we work with an array of athletes ranging from an NFL offensive lineman (Zach Hurd of the Oakland Raiders), to novice runners, to an elite level gymnast like David. The need for a solid foundation, which starts with quality movement, is universal for any athlete in any sport, and it is ESSENTIAL for top performance. It is essential for YOU. David's story is a good illustrator of that point.
Here's a brief synopsis of our findings when we put David through our gait analysis process, and a recap of how we helped him overcome muscle imbalance, compensation, and dysfunction, all which were holding him back from a personal-best performance in gymnastics. We worked with David over a period of about 4 months, and will continue to do so.
1. He was upper extremity dominant in many of his movements. He would absolutely need to become more balanced with an equal contribution of stability and strength coming from the lower extremities.
2. He was not as stable through his pelvic girdle as he needed to be.
3. His hips were not equally strong or stable in all three planes of motion, particularly the side-to-side frontal plane.
4. Prior injury had created asymmetry and compensation. If these issues were not addressed, the imbalances would, indeed, limit the improvements he needed to make in his gymnastic performance.
Based on the above assessment, we knew David would not perform to his potential in the events most likely to expose these weaknesses, such as the floor exercise. After our assessment, we understood why he occasionally had trouble "sticking the landings," consistently falling out to the right side.
1. First of all, we helped David understand, intellectually, how basic movement quality impacts gymnastics performance, and how his specific limiters would negatively impact HIS performances.
2. We prescribed specific exercises for the hips/glutes to address muscle strength imbalances, and develop better strength in the tissues. Gaining proper strength where HE needed it directly translated into better movement--and better performance. He could train better, recover, and, thus, up his chances of outstanding performance in competition.
3. We prescribed basic core stability movements, and taught David how to progress of the exercises over time.
Our work with David is a clear illustration of the impact quality movement has on sport performance. It does not matter if you are Olympic bound, or running your first 5K. We can help you make the the same kind of powerful changes in YOUR body through gait analysis and prescriptive training designed specifically for YOU.
We wish David the very best as he continues on the elite gymnastics competition circuit. Next up for him is the Visa Championship in St. Louis in June. We'll be cheering!
David trains at Rhode Island Sports Elite Gymnastics, aka RISE Gym in Warwick, RI. He is coached by Vasili Vinogradov, who was on the Russian National Team and has placed several gymnasts in the World Championships, and by Vladimir Mureso who was on the Czechoslovakian National Team. David is also a High Honor Student at Tollgate High School, and enjoys mathematics, sciences, and music.
As runners, swimmers, cyclists, and triathletes we're always talking about the next workout, paces we strive to achieve, upcoming races on the calendar. Sometimes we need to, literally, take a breath and think about some very fundamental ways our bodies are working. It's why we are taking the time to write about our most involuntary of actions--breathing--and how it can be trained to help maximize your athletic pursuits.
Many cultures believe the simple process of breathing is the essence of being. As many of you know, in yoga the breath is known as prana, or a universal energy. In our previous post we talked about how sport training should absolutely include work on diaphragmatic breathing techniques. Today, let's talk about the idea of doing more to integrate this "universal energy" with athletic movement.
Isn't it amazing how "hard" some movements are when our breathing isn't connected to that movement? Conversely, how much easier do things feel when we connect and integrate our breathing into all we do?
We believe the integration of the breath with athletic movement may be the most under appreciated and underutilized aspect of moving better and getting stronger. And it's all so simple. The key to utilizing this powerful tool? It begins with AWARENESS. Simple awareness.
Think about the relaxed rhythm you need when swimming to generate efficient and powerful strokes. Integrating the breath is a central component, is it not? Mess up the breath when swimming, and efficiency and smooth easy speed go out the window.
Runners who breathe deeply and diaphragmatically can run at a faster pace with less effort. Breathing deeply, in and out through the nose and mouth not only gets more air into the lower lobes of your lungs, it also helps you maintain better posture and a relaxed composure. The next time you watch a good cyclist climb powerfully yet relaxed, you can be sure proper, rhythmic, deep breathing is part of that easy-seeming form.
How to work on your breathing?
The first step is to simply become mindful and aware of what you are doing and how you're doing it, by integrating the diaphragmatic inhalation/exhalation exercise into your daily routine. It is deceptively simple, but it takes focus and practice.
To begin, lie on your back on the floor. This position creates an enhanced postural awareness. Be sure your pelvis is in a neutral position, and your shoulders are relaxed down and back with palms facing up. Put one hand on the stomach area and the other on the mid chest area. Relax as much as possible, allowing your body to "sink" into the floor. This position of lying on your back creates enhanced postural awareness; however, this exercise can be practiced in other positions.
Start by recognizing (awareness) where the breathing movement is taking place at that moment. Do you recognize which area is moving? Can you feel the movement more under the hand which is on your stomach, or under the one on your chest? Don't make judgments at this point about what is "good" or "bad," or even try to change what you are doing, just observe and become aware of what you are doing, however subtle it might be.
Now that you are aware of what you are doing, you will begin to change and shape your breath. The first step is to focus on extending each EXHALE. That is, each time you exhale, simply try to lengthen how long you breathe out. Next, can you change that exhalation so that the hand over your stomach sinks inward under your hand? Once you start to feel it moving under that hand, try to increase the depth and intensity of the exhalation.
Now that you are feeling your belly sinking to the floor as you exhale, have you also noticed the movement that occurs naturally during the inhalation that follows? Your stomach, which sank during the exhale, is now bulging outward as you inhale. What is happening? It is simple but profound: the diaphragm is descending caudally (toward the pelvis), causing your belly to move outward.
Now that you are breathing diaphragmatically, see if you can both increase and decrease the amplitude of the movements. Remain aware of what is moving. Relax and try to feel the same movements whether you are inhaling a small volume of air, or a larger volume of air. Nice work! Be aware that as you practice, you may find yourself falling back into chest breathing. No worries, pause for a moment and come back to your awareness.
This seemingly simple exercise is the basis for learning a new and powerful way to breathe more deeply and fully. It is a technique that will unleash more powerful athletic movements and performance!
Lastly, for now, as you bring this awareness into your athletic training, be sure to EXHALE on exertion, INHALE on recovery. Be aware when you are holding your breath when you shouldn't be. Breathe deeply.
Take the time to work on your breathing. It's free, you can do it anywhere, and it is the most pleasant of all training exercises.
Every Breath You Take, Part 1: Do You Know How to Breathe? can be found here.
Learn Something New About How You're Moving!
Moving authentically = quality learning = improving skills = more efficiency, economy and better production of force = more power = more speed!
Moving poorly or not correctly = poor learning = less skill development = less power AND increased risk of injury = stagnant or lack of improvement, or worse, injury and burnout, mentally and physically.
I fully believe that my enthusiasm for what I do as a coach and athlete is grounded in the idea of continual LEARNING and growth, NOT in simply training hard and racing.
1. Find a coach in your area who is versed in training on the Vasa swim ergometer. (The Vasa is such a great training tool, and we'll talk more about that in future posts.) Being on the Vasa with someone who can give you appropriate feedback is a great way to LEARN about how you move when you swim. We have no reason when on the Vasa to NOT move correctly. Swimming or any other movement starts with executing some basic proper skills. The Vasa is great for this skills-based learning.
2. Videotape yourself in the water. Video work is essential! How else will you know what you're doing? And if you don't know what you're doing, how can you know what must change to improve? Start videotaping yourself, and do it routinely. Start now.
We spend so many hours training, yet so few of those hours are spent really trying to understand what we should do, vs. what we are actually doing. In my mind, that adds up to a fairly large amount of wasted time and energy.


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ER sleepers less rested than patients in room: Study
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In a blazing statement of the obvious, a new study reveals that — SHOCK! — patients who spend the night in an emergency room get less rest than those in beds in a hospital room.
For the study, researchers surveyed 49 emergency room patients waiting to be admitted to the hospital and 44 people already admitted to inpatient wards.
They asked the patients to describe noise levels in their rooms and rate sleep quality on a scale from 1 to 100, from worst to best.
The questions focused on five aspects: How lightly or deeply they slept, how easily they fell asleep, how often they woke during the night, how easily they returned to sleep when they did wake up, and whether they thought they had a good or bad night's sleep.
After researchers accounted for patient characteristics that might impact sleep like their age and the severity of their illness or injury, they still found that people who got inpatient rooms rated their sleep environment as 65% quieter than patients stuck in the ER for the night.
ER patients also rated their sleep significantly worse across all five aspects of sleep quality, researchers report in the Emergency Medicine Journal.
"Often in my experience, patients react with dread at the idea of spending a night in the noisy ER — bad enough you are unwell, and been told you need to stay in hospital, without them having to stay in the sleepless ER for the night," said Richard Prendiville, lead author of the study and a researcher at National University of Ireland in Galway.
"Hopefully the finding will show hospitals that ER patients sleep measurably worse and that this needs to be addressed," Prendiville told Reuters by email.
Patients stuck in the ER were much older than people who got inpatient beds for the night. Half of those stuck in the ER were at least 60 years old, compared with 47 for people given inpatient rooms.
In the ER, patients were also sicker.
Roughly three in four were ranked as the most seriously ill and injured patients when they first arrived, compared with slightly less than half of the people given inpatient beds for the night.


This "Swap" offer I made has turned out to be a waste of time. Most of the offers I have received have been for stuff I already have. I don't think people actually read my "Wants List".
Wiz: Some members have offered to buy certain items, but I was only interested in swaps.
Chooch and Herb: You are both right. And thanks to you both.
I will seek councelling for my "paperback aversion"
I have been persauded to hang onto my collection as it is, and not break it up. I realise I would regret it later if I had swapped the rarest items. I will just add the lettered editions as they come onto the open market.
I think there will be a lot of rare items coming onto the open market this year, as the world's financial crisis deepens. I'm looking forward to getting some of them.
I've only been collection for 5 years so there is plenty of time for my collection to grow.
Looks like I will have to reinstate my "Collection" page.
Good call, even though I really had no choice because I just don't have the space, I have regretted selling all my duplicates, my proofs, my red faux leather book clubs, my gift and illustrator copies, etcetera. I still have a good collection, but where it used to take up 4 books shelves, it now hardly fills up two. I wish I had them back, but until I get a bigger house I don't have a choice.
Long winded, but the point is, yes I regretted it later.
I'm glad to hear you have the option of keeping your collection, and that you have chosen to exercise that option.
Since the sell/trade side of the equation is now closed, we'll soon merge this thread into the King Books Wanted thread, as that half of the topic is still open.
Best choice you could make dude. I sold my copy of Six Stories years ago because I needed the money, and I still wish I hadn't done it. I gave my copy of Desperation to a friend and I regret that too but only because she turned out to not be a friend after all. She had me snowed but good.
I've decided to part with the UK 1sts in my collection due to space constraints and to focus on getting the remaining US 1sts to complete that side of my collection.
So... up for sale are the following UK 1st editions. All are 1st printings with properly price dust jackets (except Insomnia).
If interested please PM me with which books your interested in, your email address & what state you live in and I can send photos and a shipping quote. Might also be interested in trades!
EDIT: Also have a copy of the Red Leather version of Night Shift.
Bumping due to adding prices for these. Prices aren't overly firm, more so ballpark figures.
I've listed some of the items I am getting rid of on Amazon(link above). The items are marked up to account for fees shipping, ect... If anyone is interested PM me an offer and we can negotiate or feel free to pay the Amazon price(lol).
Or, all five for $250 shipped (within North America).
It has lightly tanned pages, a faint bump to bottom corner and some light edge wear. The proceeds of this will go to the Haven Foundation Fundraiser. If interested, shoot me a PM with an offer that includes shipping, by lets say Friday morning at 9AM EST. I'll ship it out to the "highest bidder" and the balance will be donated.
What a wonderful thing to do, thank you so much.
I will be listing several books on ebay in the next couple of weeks. Thought I'd give anyone here a crack at them first. All are in excellent condition. There is a very small chip in the box for the Stand. PM me and I'll send you a pic if you're interested. I'm willing to be a bit flexible, but only for you guys! I want these to go to a good home. I'll cover shipping and insurance.
I'm selling these DTs now, because I've decided I'm going to save up for a matched set down the road, so no need to keep these around.
I have a signed copy of JUST AFTER SUNSET on its way to me.
I am asking $190 for it.
$40 of that asking price will be donated to this website's Haven Foundation Fundraiser.
The last three are scarcely seen on the secondary market. PM me for condition, price, etc.
T/song is out of (online) contact for a little while--but if I get her on the phone I'll let her know you've got it!
Ahh thats too bad. I was just kidding, but if she wants it, I've got it!
Moved a few of the red leather titles to eBay - my ID is 9692erict if anyone wants to buy/ best offer.
After long thought, I have decided to part with my copy of Dolan's Cadillac (#811).
$325 shipped (within North America). Has a few very minor flaws. PM me if interested and I can send some photos, etc.
That is a very good price.
If anyone from this site is interested PM me - I'll do $300 shipped for members of tdt.com!
Wasn't sure if we were supposed t be using DTBay or not since the fundraiser is going on. I though i read somewhere that we were not supposed to. Have some books i need to unload, could use some extra money right now.
here is the list, make offers on anything you see !!
Lot of two of those Stephen King Library Books - bag of Bones and Desperation, for what I think is a pretty decent opening bid!


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ETL: DataStage
The Global Customer Data Base (GCDB) application provides a means of data migration from existing source applications into central repository. The blanket project GCDBM had the Integration Tool Kit (ITK) as one of its components. The focus of ITK was to provide a GCDB data extract to its corresponding client applications. It involved the extraction of GCDB data for some client applications in the required format through Ascential (now IBM) Datastage, an ETL tool (Extract, Transform and Load Tool). This exercise was to be run within a time window of 8 hours every day. I designed an entire module and played the role of developer in the project.
COMET ETL – involved data cleansing and migration from disparate data sources to a unified warehouse for a reputed courier company. The COMET ETL tool was developed for the emerging markets. It is a generic implementation, which can do the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) to transform the data obtained from a Global Customer Database (GCDB) to a proprietary (COMET EIM) file format, for the COMET application in Siebel. I played the role of a developer and was also involved in the design of a module in the project.
CRM - Sales: Epiphany
The primary goal of this project is to provide an integrated contact and account management system using the Epiphany Sales package (A Java Based CRM Tool). The critical data from the existing Siebel system will be migrated to the new system to ensure business continuity. I took ownership of this piece. The client was exalted by our performance in this project and extended 6 other projects to our team. I was also involved in design and implementation of subsequent phases of the project. The project was titled: Siebel-Epiphany Migration (SME) and RAPID
Texas Instruments Siebel Analytics project was a data warehousing project which involved customization of existing Siebel Informatica vanilla mappings and creation of additional star schemas data models for Audit Trail and Survey subject areas. Based on the warehouse reports for Service Request Volume Analysis, Customer Satisfaction Survey Analysis and Workload Analysis are generated. These reports provide the required information for the strategic level managers for analysis. I was involved as designer and developer through the length of the project.


Inga's Inn is an inn owned by Inga and located in Flopside in Super Paper Mario. Inga's Inn works like a Toad House from the past Paper Mario games, in that it completely restores Mario and his allies' health.
Inga's Inn is located in the second floor of Flopside; it is next to two elevators (one going to Flopside Tower and the other one going one floor down).
Inga's Inn is special in the fact that she has three different "packages". There's the Mushroom, Flower and Star packages. The packages give the player different items depending on the package. In order to get the breakfast, Mario must flip into 3D and the item will be on the table. The Mushroom package costs ten coins and has a not very valuable item on the table, the Flower package costs twenty coins and has a more valuable item on the table, and the Star package costs forty coins and has an even more valuable item on the table.
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Party Name: GRAEN'S MENS WEAR, INC., an Iowa Corporation, and Jack Graen, individually, Appellants, v. STILLE-PIERCE AGENCY, Steven Stille and Tim Pierce, Appellees.
STILLE-PIERCE AGENCY, Steven Stille and Tim Pierce, Appellees.
Clarence Dan Connell and John W. Duffy of Connell & Duffy, P.C., Storm Lake, for appellants.
Maurice B. Nieland of Kindig, Beebe, Rawlings, Nieland & Killinger, Sioux City, and Wendell Pendleton of Pendleton Law Firm, Storm Lake, for appellees.
Considered by REYNOLDSON, C.J., and LeGRAND, UHLENHOPP, HARRIS, and McCORMICK, JJ.
There was a jury verdict for defendants insurance agency and its partners in this action for damages resulting from defendants' alleged negligent failure to procure burglary insurance plaintiff Graen requested for his Storm Lake clothing store. Plaintiffs, appealing, raise several evidentiary issues. Because plaintiff Graen's Mens Wear, Inc., apparently is a closely held corporation, we shall refer to Jack Graen as the sole plaintiff.
plaintiff told Pierce to put the insurance into effect, but he never saw the policy. He further testified that on June 4, 1979, alarmed by a large burglary loss in another town, he called Pierce and asked "[i]f anything like this would happen to me, would I be okay?", to which Pierce replied, "Pal, don't worry about it. You're taken care of."
August 12, 1979, one of plaintiff's stores was burglarized, with an extensive loss of merchandise. Plaintiff testified that when he reported the loss to defendant Stille the latter stated, "Don't worry. You're covered." Later in the day he was told there was no coverage for the loss.
Defendants' evidence controverted the above testimony. Pierce testified that although plaintiff never asked for theft insurance he nonetheless made application to Aetna Life and Casualty Company for "all risk" insurance that would have included theft. The company replied in writing (placed in evidence), "Do not quote all risk due to lack of alarm systems." Pierce stated that when he told plaintiff an alarm system would cost between $800 to $1000 the latter took the position he was not interested in that coverage. When the policy arrived, Pierce testified he went over it with plaintiff and carefully explained its features.
Defendants denied they ever told plaintiff he had theft coverage. Pierce offered proof he was attending an out-of-state golf tournament on June 4, 1979, the day plaintiff allegedly telephoned him regarding his insurance coverage.
Other relevant facts will be set out in our discussion of the evidentiary issues in the following divisions. Plaintiff contends trial court committed error in excluding certain testimony of a witness to an alleged telephone conversation, in excluding testimony of witnesses relating to prior consistent statements, in admitting evidence as business records, and in admission of evidence to contradict a stipulation.
Excluded Testimony of Witness to Telephone Conversation.
Plaintiff offered the testimony of his employee Beverly Keen as a bystander to the telephone conversation he allegedly had with Pierce on June 4, 1979. She could hear only plaintiff's part in the conversation. Trial court sustained motions to strike her conclusory statements that plaintiff was talking to Pierce, except for one volunteered statement that "[h]e called Mr. Pierce Tim. That's why I know that was the person he was talking to." Trial court admonished this witness "to answer your counsel's question exactly as to what you heard Mr. Graen say and make no assumptions."
Plaintiff asserts the court's rulings were erroneous for two reasons: (1) plaintiff earlier testified he was calling Pierce and (2) "testimony of a bystander to a telephone conversation is admissible even though the ... bystander cannot state with certainty who the person on the other end of the line is." Defendants contend trial court correctly limited Keen's testimony to what she heard plaintiff say into the receiver, that the ruling was within the court's judicial discretion and nonprejudicial to plaintiff.


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Initial Teacher Education (ITE) Geology numbers in the sector have been and remain unstable. Therefore, to meet the needs and supply of specialist teachers of school/college examination-level Geology (in GCSE, A-level or Scottish Higher courses) a course has been devised to train practising or newly-qualified teachers to provide geoscience education to school-level Geology classes.
Keele University has a track record in training geology teachers extending for more than thirty years. In recent years it has also hosted the Earth Science Education Unit which has trained more than 38,000 science, geography and primary teaching in the teaching of Earth Science across the UK. The course is hosted by Keele University's School of Geography, Geology and the Environment which has a strong reputation for the training of geologists lasting for many years and a reputation for innovation in teaching, recognised by many awards. The course depends upon the industrial bursaries obtained to run the course.
is supported by the UK Onshore Geophysical Library (UKOGL), the Warwickshire Geographical Conservation Group (WGCG), and the Building Earth Science Education Resilience (BESER) group.
Successful completion of this module provides participants with the knowledge and skills to teach school/ college examination-level geology (in GCSE, A-level or Scottish Higher courses).
Keele University's accredited Teaching and Learning in Geoscience Education is managed by the Earth Science Education Unit supported by the School of Geography, Geology and Environment. Successful completion of this module (15 credits at level 7) entitles participants to an Earth Science Education Unit CPD Certificate in Geoscience Education and a transcript from Keele University.
The module enables teachers to develop their teaching practice (skills, knowledge and values) and provides a dynamic, critical reflective rationale for their teaching practice. This reflection has a range of sources: personal experience, the experiences of others, observation of teaching, practical and task-related discussion with peers, and relevant reading.
The module is delivered through a week-long residential summer school, 27th July - 2nd August 2019, based at Keele University.
a desire to develop or contribute to a school/college examination-level course in or containing geology (GCSE, A-level or Scottish Higher).
The strategy for teaching the programme and the content of the sessions has been determined through a developmental workshop led by the Earth Science Education Unit, involving members of the Earth Science Teachers' Association and representatives of the two Awarding Bodies that offer A-level Geology, OCR and WJEC.
Sessions are prepared through the perspective of what it means to 'think like a geologist' and use the content of the current geology examination specifications (syllabuses) as a foundation, but incorporating a wide range of activities developed at Keele University, through the Earth Science Education Unit, through Earthlearningidea and also through innovative fieldwork approaches also developed at Keele University. The content also counters common geoscience misconceptions, identified through work at Keele University.
critically evaluate their plan for the delivery of higher level geoscience and educational skills.
mapwork and three dimensional thinking.
marketing an examination course in geology.
The A-level Scheme of Work (SoW), initially developed by collaborative group activity during the week, will be further developed after the end of the taught course by each student. A 2,500 to 3,000 word reflective and analytical commentary on the construction of the SoW for the teaching of A-level geology will then be added.
The SoW should be capable of being implemented by participants directly in their own teaching situations. This development of an individual SoW requires participants to reflect critically upon their own learning, compare the ideas incorporated in the SoW against their own professional experience and knowledge and compare their work with SoWs (available on the internet) created by practising A-level Geology teachers in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It should also include critical evaluation of other resources available to the geology teacher.
Participants are required to maintain a critically reflective diary with critical commentary on their day-to-day learning experiences during the Summer School, comprising 1,500 words. The diary must demonstrate an analytic and evaluative approach to their own learning experiences.
Apart from inter-library loans (if necessary) and potential overdue library fines we do not anticipate any additional costs for this postgraduate module.
£1,800* for those UK/EU citizens for whom a bursary is not available.
* includes accommodation, hospitality and fieldwork excursions.


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The Planets and Their Names—a Few Stories About How We Decide to Label the Skies
By Champe Barton | Jan. 28, 2016
A pregnant woman digs her nails into the (supposedly) comforting arm of her husband and, in a howl of pain, declares the name of their new baby boy. The husband decides against protest this time, and so Champe is born.
Worry less, make more
By Joseph Buss | Jan. 27, 2016
Books I'm thankful for
By Kylie Widseth | Dec. 1, 2015
By Joseph Buss | Dec. 1, 2015
Nothing makes sense, and that's life
By Champe Barton | Dec. 1, 2015
Book review of "Room"
BLOGS | SCIENCE
Diseases stink ... literally
If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
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Favorite and least favorite genre of books
By Kylie Widseth | Nov. 11, 2015
For as long as I can remember, I've always hated fantasy and science fictions books.
Exploding glass never disappoints
By Champe Barton | Nov. 9, 2015
Few people experience science with as much joy and love and enthusiasm as Destin Sandlin. His Smarter Every Day YouTube channel is a medley of head-scratching, "huh"-inducing, brain rattling videos about science all of which, he presents with delightful ease and clarity. He's a rocket scientist who makes rocket science, among other things, as digestible as algebra (and infinitely more fun).
Hollywood does well with investigative journalism films
By Katherine Champione | Nov. 9, 2015
From the tone of the last two blogs in this series, you might be expecting me to point out another one of Hollywood's flaws. While the movie industry has a long way to go, it is doing some things right and I think those deserve recognition too.
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I love letting people borrow my books, but I've also been told that I'm quite OCD with my books.
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I recently re-listened to an old Radiolab episode whose beginning filled me with a warm, fluttery excitement for love. Give a listen to this 2,400-year-old story that comes from Plato by way of Aristophanes (it's transcribed below in case you can't listen, though the cello and Robert Krulwich's voice give it something, more):
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By Joseph Buss | Nov. 4, 2015
Now, whether you are republican, democrat or independent you probably have accused a president of lying once or twice. No matter which president you have had an angry tirade against I will give you justification for any such rant, provided it is in the form of accusing him of lying. However, it is not in the form that you are expecting.
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By Katherine Campione | Oct. 21, 2015
In Ellen Pageer's speech at the Human Rights Campaign's Time to Thrive conference, she describes the film industry as "an industry that places crushing standards on all of us". She goes on to share openly about her sexuality and her hopes for everyone to be more accepting of each other.
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By Joseph Buss | Oct. 21, 2015
Most of you will not want to read this article for almost the same reason why you don't look at grades immediately or check your bank account after a night in Midtown.
Book review of "The Day I Killed James"
By Kylie Widseth | Oct. 21, 2015
I've become a fan of shorter books lately for some pretty obvious reasons.
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The Intensifying Love Affair Between London and the NFL
By Dylan Dixon | Oct. 14, 2015
On Oct. 4, the New York Jets beat their divisional rival Miami Dolphins 27-14, putting their record through four games at 3-1 for the first time since 2010. However, the game was significant for another reason, as it was played 4,000 miles away at Wembley Stadium in London, England.
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The Arcs' debut album, Yours, Dreamily, at first listen
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They say lightning never strikes twice, and for it to happen in the music industry is often a challenging feat. However, Dan Auerbach, lead singer and guitarist of The Black Keys, has got that metaphorical lightning down to a science.


The appointment last week of Jane Hermann and Oliver Smith as co-directors of American Ballet Theater obviously heralds a new phase in the troupe's history. But through its importance, this decision by the board of an internationally ranked company also symbolizes the implicit closing of a strange era. It is one that saw an unprecedented number of ballet companies headed by male stars, some of whom continued their dancing careers.
Mikhail Baryshnikov's tenure as Ballet Theater's artistic director from 1980 through last September was the embodiment of this trend or aberration, depending upon one's point of view. Ballet Theater's decision to appoint administrators as his successors and even to forgo a search for a ballet personality to direct the company is a significant departure. Or rather, it is a return to Ballet Theater's organizational beginnings.
Mr. Smith, in fact, is being recalled to the same post he held from 1945 to '80 as co-director with Lucia Chase. Miss Chase became Ballet Theater's longtime patron in 1939 when the company was established by its founder and first director, Richard Pleasant, with additional backing from a businessman, Rudolf Orthwine. Miss Chase did dance in the company, but Mr. Pleasant and then Sol Hurok - who ran Ballet Theater before Mr. Smith, a scenic designer, and Miss Chase - were certainly nondancers.
Ms. Hermann has been Ballet Theater's executive director since April and was formerly director of presentations at the Metropolitan Opera House. The indisputable authority now granted her places another nondancer firmly at the helm.
Within this context it is easy to see Mr. Baryshnikov's decade as artistic director as a haphazard experiment engendered by the dazzle of his name and artistry. Yet, his imprint will long be felt. Through his own example as a dancer and through his critical eye, Ballet Theater acquired a genuine classical style. Classicism today is second nature even to Ballet Theater's youngest dancers.
Very possibly, it was Ballet Theater's appointment of Mr. Baryshnikov that set the swift pace for the exceptional number of male dancers who suddenly became artistic directors in companies once headed by founders, administrators or choreographers. Abroad these included Erik Bruhn at the National Ballet of Canada, Rudolf Nureyev at the Paris Opera Ballet, Anthony Dowell at the Royal Ballet in Britain and Peter Schaufuss at London Festival Ballet. At home, the names included among others Peter Martins, who became the New York City Ballet's artistic co-director with Jerome Robbins; Bruce Marks, first with Ballet West in Salt Lake City and now the Boston Ballet; Helgi Tomasson at the San Francisco Ballet, succeeding Michael Smuin; Robert Weiss at the Pennsylvania Ballet, and Edward Villella at Miami City Ballet.
But within the last six months, Mr. Baryshnikov has resigned and Mr. Nureyev, Mr. Schaufuss and Mr. Weiss have also left, although for highly different reasons. Mr. Bruhn died in 1986, and Mr. Dowell's fate at the Royal Ballet has until recently been deemed uncertain.
None of this means that male dancers will not serve as directors. But unlike the 1980's, the 1990's may suggest that boards of directors are no longer automatically in love with big-name stars for purposes of prestige or fundraising.
It is true that the Paris Opera Ballet has replaced a superstar, Mr. Nureyev, with a younger French star, Patrick Dupond. But one reason for Mr. Nureyev's departure was his clash with new high-powered administrators: Pierre Berge, the so-called czar of the entire Paris Opera organization, which includes the new Bastille Opera house and the old house, the Palais Garnier, and Jean-Albert Cartier, the Garnier's administrator, to whom Mr. Dupond will probably have to bow.
The growing worldwide disenchantment with dancing directors has also coincided with the financial realities of running a ballet company. The ballet world today cannot afford a Baryshnikov or a Nureyev who performs in plays, acts in movies or dances mostly with companies other than his own while retaining the title of artistic director.
In Ballet Theater's situation, significantly, it was easy to list many Ballet Theater alumni as prospective artistic directors. But there was no single obvious choice in the way Mr. Baryshnikov was in 1980. Ms. Hermann may owe her new title of co-director to Ballet Theater's board. But Ballet Theater's board was also saved by her energetic cost-cutting and administrative firmness in a financial crisis this fall. There is a quid pro quo here that should be kept in mind, especially when a new board chairman succeeds Melville Strauss, who announced over a year ago that he would leave by next summer. Although she has, in effect, run Ballet Theater since Mr. Baryshnikov's departure, Ms. Hermann now has the freedom of artistic choice she did not have while her future was in limbo. It is too early to predict a full artistic profile for the Hermann-Smith regime. But one can venture that the company will be smaller and that a greater emphasis will be placed on the dancers' individual personalities.
Presumably, Mr. Smith, who was initially invited by Ms. Hermann to advise her on Ballet Theater's 50th-anniversary year and who is also a symbol of continuity, will not attempt to turn the clock back to the 1940's or even the 1970's. Miss Hermann presumably will not adopt a policy that she once followed at the Met, under which she frequently featured a star, namely Mr. Nureyev, as a box-office draw for ballet companies that became a backdrop.
On the other hand, her openness to guest-artists-within-reason may generate welcome excitement. Soviet stars already rumored to be appearing in New York with the company this spring are Faruk Ruzimatov of the Kirov and the Bolshoi team, Yekaterina Maksimova and Vladimir Vasiliev.
The best sign for the future is Ms. Hermann's relationship with the dancers, who are reportedly dancing very well on tour. Conscious that she is not a regisseur, Ms. Hermann has engaged Irina Kolpakova, of the Kirov, as coach for the spring, and Margot Fonteyn has already coached this winter. Anyone who knows where the choreographers are knows there are no great surprises in store.
The Hermann-Smith appointment did not generate the excitement that the naming of a ballet superstar once could; that was its very justification. Call this move a return to business as usual or to reality, it was very much what Ballet Theater needed.


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At CeBIT 2001 in Hanover, the Siemens Gigaset 4010 and 4015 Classic and Comfort made their entry to the cordless Siemens DECT phone product portfolio. With a broad range of consumers' needs in mind, Siemens has developed two new stylish and ergonomically designed cordless family phones, each with the choice of an integrated answering machine (Gigaset 4015 Classic and Comfort). The Gigaset Classic phone comes with novel features such a menu-based user interface and softkeys for convenient and easy use. The Gigaset Comfort is a high-end cordless phone featuring such innovative functions as SMS text messaging and walkie-talkie mode between two Comfort handsets up to 300 meters apart.
The Gigaset 4010/4015 Comfort is a highly multi-functional digital cordless phone for demanding users. With technical features similar to those of a mobile phone, this latest addition to the Gigaset family brings a new dimension to cordless telephony. With its SMS facility, the handset enables the user to send text messages to other Comfort models in the fixed line network or to any mobile phones in the GSM network**. With the text-to-speech-function it will be possible to use value-added services like SMS to e-mail or SMS to fax.
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The Gigaset 4010/4015 Classic is a digital, cordless phone for the whole family. It comes with a range of innovative and indispensable features such as an alphanumeric display to indicate the name and number of incoming calls. It also has a telephone book, holding up to 20 full names and phone numbers and with up to 15 hours of talk time and up to 200 hours in stand-by, it offers outstanding flexibility.
Christoph Caselitz, President of Cordless Products within the Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group, said: "The new Siemens Gigaset 4010/4015 Classic and Comfort are four elegant cordless phones with a large range of innovative features, many of which are a first in cordless telephony. Following the success of the Gigaset 3000 family, we have developed products for demanding customers that enjoy greater flexibility and mobility."
The Gigaset Classic and Comfort handsets have a LED-signal above the display to indicate missed calls, new messages and incoming calls by different flash cycles. In addition, pre-programmed short-cut keys offer easy access to the menu.
The Gigaset 4010/4015 Classic and Comfort handsets can also be used with existing Gigaset 2000 and 3000 base stations. The new range of base stations can also support up to six additional handsets.
The new Gigaset 4010/4015 series will be available from end of June 2001.
(For product details see the Products Page of DECTweb)
* The Gigaset 4010 Classic/Comfort comes without an answering machine, whereas the Gigaset 4015 Classic/Comfort comes with a digital answering machine integrated into the base station.
** Dependent on services offered by operator
*** Voice dialing for up to four people is achieved by simply 'training' the Gigaset to recognize the voices of the four designated users
The Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group (IC Mobile) offers the complete range of mobile solutions including mobile devices, infrastructure and applications. Devices include mobile phones, wireless modules, mobile organizers and cordless phones as well as products for wireless home networks. The infrastructure portfolio includes the complete range of GSM, GPRS and UMTS mobile network technologies from base stations and switching systems to intelligent networks, e.g. for prepaid services. Applications cover mobile services for Unified Messaging, Location Based Services, and Mobile Payment. For the fiscal year 2000 (which ended September 30, 2000), IC Mobile recorded sales of EUR 9 billion and EBIT of EUR 758 million. The group employs 27,450 employees worldwide.
Reference number: ICM 200103.041 e
Information and Communication Mobile
Cordless Products
Michael Leyer
Tel.: +49-89 722-57902; Fax: -45157
michael.leyer@icn.siemens.de


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Saturday, July 16, 2016 - 12:02
The Hateful Eight, Quentin Tarantino's latest movie, opens with a stagecoach making its way through a snowy landscape, trying to outrun a blizzard that is closing in on them. Inside of it sits bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his prisoner, Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh). When they get flagged down by a mysterious man who asks if they have room for one more, Ruth is skeptical because… well, Domergue is worth a lot of money and the mystery man turns out to be Major Marquis Warren, a former Union soldier turned bounty hunter (played by Samuel L Jackson). A bit further down the road they run into yet another stranger called Chris Mannix, a southern renegade who claims to be the town's new sheriff. They all continue their trip together and wind up at a stagecoach stop called Minnie's Haberdashery. Waiting for them inside are Bob "the Mexican" (Demian Bichar), Oswaldo Mobrey (Tim Roth), Joe Gage (Michael Madsen) and former Civil War General Sandford Smithers (Bruce Dern). Together they are… you got it, The Hateful Eight.
That is a mighty long first paragraph there. Then again, it's for a mighty long movie so I guess that makes sense. But hey, if anyone can hold our attention for three hours, then it's Quentin Tarantino, right? Even if pretty much the entire film takes place in one room, things never get boring (remember Reservoir Dogs?) because Tarantino always manages to round up an excellent cast and writes dialogues that have no equal. That's no different this time around.
Russell is excellent as the über-cool bounty hunter (I'm not saying he never blinks in this movie, but if he does I missed it), Jackson is slick and suave as always, Leigh is almost unrecognizable and the best way to describe the others in the room is quiet and brooding. The dialogue crackles like the fire that keeps the place warm and lines are being shot back and forth, until they are replaced by actual bullets in the movie's final act. And yes, it becomes bloody. Very bloody. It's a Tarantino movie. What did you expect?
When the script leaked to the public back in 2014, Tarantino was so pissed he swore he wasn't even going to bother making it anymore. Luckily he changed his mind. The Hateful Eight might not be Tarantino's best movie, but it still would have been a damn shame if we never got to see it.