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Entertainment March 1, 2014
George Lopez reportedly passed out drunk at Canadian casino – Fox News
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Around college basketball: Robinson's shot at OT buzzer completes Michigan's … – Columbus Dispatch
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Entertainment February 27, 2014
'Girls' star Allison Williams engaged to marry – Boston.com
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Pro Basketball|For Knicks, No Respite on the Court – New York Times
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Las Vegas February 26, 2014
Nevada in running for 6500-worker Tesla battery factory – Las Vegas Sun
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tech February 26, 2014
First Look: Fitness freaks will love Samsung Galaxy S5, Gear Fit – Firstpost
FirstpostSamsung Galaxy S5 is seen in this photo along with the Galaxy Gear 2 smartwatch. AP. 26 Feb 2014 , 12:00. By Bree Fowler/Associated Press. New York: Samsung is banking on people shaping up this…
Collins Focuses on Being a Net and Learning Plays – New York Times
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Samsung in show's spotlight, rolls out its new Galaxy S5 – The Seattle Times
The Seattle TimesSamsung sought to frame its new Galaxy S5 smartphone as a lifestyle product, as it emphasized a built-in heart-rate sensor and improved camera features over its slightly larger size. By ANICK JESDANUN. The…
Drug Lord's Arrest Shifts Focus to 'El Mayo' – Wall Street Journal
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No. 4 Syracuse beats Maryland 57-55 to end skid – Boston.com
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Remaking Film Comedy With a Straight Face – New York Times
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Collins Appreciates Milestone but Focuses on His Tasks – New York Times
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seattle February 24, 2014
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houston February 22, 2014
Mexico's Sinaloa drug chief arrested – Houston Chronicle
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Canada beats US 1-0 to reach gold-medal game – Boston.com
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UN chief calls for 3000 more troops in violence-hit Central African Republic – – Associated Press of Pakistan
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Brendan Ryan, who is Derek Jeter's backup on Yankees, realizes he might hear … – The Seattle Times
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kiev February 18, 2014
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Tina Maze takes big lead in Olympic giant slalom – Boston.com
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Winter Olympics 2014: NBC TV schedule, event listings for Tuesday (Feb. 18) in … – Penn Live
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Baltimore Orioles acquire pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez – The Seattle Times
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Drew Doughty's OT goal lifts Canada past Finland – ESPN
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Highlights from Day 9 of the Sochi Olympics – Washington Post
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Celebrities profess love and admiration for Ellen Page – Fox News
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London February 16, 2014
Wellies maker Hunter makes a splash at London show – U-T San Diego
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Oakland February 15, 2014
Oakland's Sonny Gray ready for a full season – Washington Post
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Andre Drummond has huge Rising Stars game – The Seattle Times
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New York February 14, 2014
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Mr. & Mrs. Barlow are 2 rising stars on the Moore Success Team. Cecelia Barlow has 5 years of medical experience assisting a cardiologist. She loves helping people on a daily basis in sickness and health. She also has worked in collections so adding LegalShield in her life, allows her to continue helping people and rectifying problems.
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Broncos out of race for 2020 quarterback?
04/28/2019 05/03/2019 by Ben Corcoft, posted in Opinion
Much was said about how stronger the 2020 quarterback class will be and that the Denver Broncos would find their quarterback of the future next year.
Broncos general manager John Elway likes Oregon's Justin Herbert, who decided to stay in school rather than declare for the 2019 NFL Draft.
Herbert will declare in 2020, but Elway couldn't wait when Missouri's Drew Lock was still available at #42 in the 2019 NFL Draft last week, trading with Cincinnati to move up from #52.
With Lock joining Joe Flacco in the Mile High City, and both quarterbacks on favorable contracts, the Broncos don't necessarily need to go after a quarterback in the 2020 draft, but that shouldn't stop Elway from keeping his options open.
Still fresh in the memory is that Arizona traded up to take Josh Rosen 10th overall in 2018 only to draft Oklahoma's Kyler Murray with the first-overall pick in 2019 then trade Rosen to Miami for a second-round pick.
If Flacco isn't hitting his prime as Elway has declared and Lock isn't the answer for the Broncos, it is inconceivable that they are not active in finding the guy in 2020, unless they really like Clemson's Trevor Lawrence, who won't come out until 2021 at the earliest.
Not only will Herbert declare in 2020, but Alabama's Tua Tagovailoa will also be a headline quarterback.
Georgia's Jake Fromm, Washington's Jacob Eason, and Oklahoma's Jalen Hurts should also be in the conversation.
John Elway is a known fan of Oregon QB Justin Herbert
The teams in desperate need of a franchise quarterback are thin at present, so the Broncos could be aggressive in getting their guy, whether that turns out to be Herbert or another quarterback.
Despite trading for Rosen, Miami will be in play, while Cincinnati could look for an instant upgrade on Andy Dalton, who doesn't have a strong career behind him.
Other teams that could be in the market include Tampa Bay and Tennessee, despite taking quarterbacks first and second overall in 2015. Both Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota will be unrestricted free agents in 2020.
New England will continue to look for the heir to Tom Brady (42), while the Los Angeles Chargers could make a move to find an heir to Philip Rivers (38), and New Orleans could pounce for a successor to Drew Brees (40).
Never count out Oakland with Jon Gruden as head coach and the fact that Derek Carr has no further guaranteed money.
Even the Los Angeles Rams and Dallas Cowboys could look to move on from Jared Goff and Dak Prescott if they do not want to pay an exorbitant salary for a franchise quarterback.
But Elway has spoken of giving Lock the Aaron Rodgers treatment, sitting behind Flacco to learn before receiving the keys to the franchise.
That should preclude the Broncos from the race for a quarterback in 2020, but it will depend on how Flacco and Lock perform in 2019 and if they are the right fit for the Broncos' offense.
Arizona drafting Murray was mostly based on him being the best fit for Kliff Kingsbury's offense. If neither Flacco nor Lock flourish in Rich Scangarello's offense, the Broncos should seriously consider going again in 2020.
Tagged 2020 NFL Draft, Denver Broncos, Drew Lock, Jake Fromm, Joe Flacco, John Elway, Justin Herbert, Tua Tagovailoa
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In this project, you will implement a very simple timer as an Android application.
(0.5) The timer always displays the remaining time.
(1) If the time is greater than zero and three seconds elapse from the most recent time the button was pressed, then the timer beeps once and starts running.
(0.5 for SRP) Follow the design principles discussed so far.
Maintain a clear, responsibility-based separation among the different building blocks.
(0.5) Most of the complexity should be buried in the model (also as in the stopwatch example)..
(0.5 extra credit) Use of the state pattern (APPP chapter 36) is optional.
Generally follow good Android development practice.
(0.5) Use sound notifications for beeping.
(1) Provide a brief (2-300 words) description of your pair development journey during this project. Focus on aspects you find noteworthy, e.g., process, pairing, testing, design decisions, refactoring, use of the repository.
Verify that your repository is named cs313f12p1a. Please follow the updated repository layout of the clickcounter example.
Share your repository with the instructor (laufer) and the TA (ejburns) through admin > access management. Notification will occur automatically.
You should already have been using your repository to collaborate. There should be exactly one repository per pair.
When your project is ready for evaluation, send the instructor and the TA a brief email notification.


Paul Richardson – has had an obsession with technology all his life. For the past 12 years of his career with Barclays Bank and Deloitte, he has been involved with Internet facing technologies and the user experience.
Being a self-taught cook, he looked on the Internet for recipes but was disappointed with the main food websites – so he decided to make one (with his brother Kevin, who is a software developer). At that point www.getmecooking.com was born! Little did Paul know that creating the website would lead to him going on food holidays in Italy and Lebanon, attending presentations for food related aspects of Triathlons, 'pot luck' cooking events, the first Food Blogger Conference and now speaking at the third Food Blogger Conference!
In his spare time, Paul can be found competing in half marathons, Triathlons, 6 hour Adventure Races, rifle shooting and rock climbing.
I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Paul Richardson – Get Me Cooking and is located at http://www.foodbloggerconnect.com/paul-richardson-get-me-cooking/.


Deputy Nunnery and Deputy Marshal Willis Hemby of the Magee Police Department were shot and killed by a man they were attempting to arrest on a minor charge.
The suspect was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and hanged on July 13, 1928.
Deputy Nunnery was survived by his wife and three daughters.
Deputy Nunnery your sacrifice will never be forgotten! Thank you for your dedicated service Simpson County and the citizens you were sworn to protect! Continue to rest in peace my fellow LE brother!


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Rev. Carlos W. Anderson
Rev. Carlos W. Anderson is an ordained New Thought/Universal Truth Minister and a Disciple of the Mystic Christ Mind Revelation of Christ Jesus. Though Rev. Anderson's ordination was not through the Unity School for Ordination, his own ordination process and course of study was based deeply in the teachings of Unity and its philosophy and Truths and Principles. His foundation of studies would include focuses on the life, times, customs, rituals, Christ Mind revelations, miracles and God-made-flesh expression of Jesus of Nazareth as the embodiment of the Living Christ. In flying colors!
The teachings, the modeling, the miracles and the God-Consciousness of Jesus the Christ were accompanied, supported and deepened in their meaning, and their practical practice-ability, by studies of the Holy Scriptures as recorded in the King James Version of the Holy Bible; Metaphysical Interpretation of the Bible; the astounding work of the late Charles Fillmore, founder of Unity; Eric Butterworth; Unity and its teachings; the Science of Mind teachings; the work of the late Ernest Holmes and the teachings of A Course in Miracles, the Message of Jesus through His chosen scribe Helen.
Rev. Carlos found Unity in his late teenage years when his mom gave him a copy of Unity minister, speaker and author Eric Butterworth's classic book, Discover the Power Within You. Rev. Carlos had found his kindred souls, his people of like mind and spirit. He vowed that he would move from Amherst, Massachusetts where his family was living, to Manhattan to be part of Butterworth's thriving ministry at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. He kept his word. He has been faithfully involved with Unity Churches and Centers ever since.
With his late partner Johnny Earl, Rev. Anderson and Mr. Earl were invited to present their "Carlos and Johnny" music and spoken word ministry to more than 50 Unity Churches and Centers throughout the country. And it was the Unity School of Ministry that financed and produced the first "Carlos and Johnny" album, How High Will You Fly? in the early 1980s.
Over the years Rev. Carlos has served as Choir Director and Platform Assistant to Rev. Alan Stanley at Unity on the Bay in Miami, Florida; as Associate Minister at Unity of New York in Manhattan, NY; and as principal Minister at Unity in the City in Brookline, Massachusetts. Currently Rev. Anderson has been with Unity of New York for over 20 years now and with Unity in the City for more than a dozen years.
Rev. Carlos served as Pastor of Hope Community Church for 20 years, from 1988 until 2008, when he retired. He has now returned as Pastor of Hope Community Church once again.
Learn more about the Anderson family's ministry at Hope Community Church:
Rev. Carlos is an accomplished artist and musician, as well as a gifted spiritual leader. You can find examples of his art in this online gallery: Art by Rev. Carlos W. Anderson.
His music is on iTunes (search for Carlos W. Anderson (Carlos & Johnny albums)
Talks/sermons and meditations over the years can be accessed through:
UnityofNewYork.org (Manhattan, NY)
UnityintheCity.org (Brookline, MA)


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Senran Kagura: Estival Versus to feature four new playable characters
Action News Playstation 4 PS Vita
Travis Bruno September 4, 2014 11 Comments
The latest issue of Famitsu magazine has revealed some new details , courtesy of Gamestalk, for the newly revealed Senran Kagura: Estival Versus. Not only will the game include the four teams from the previous Vita title, but it will also introduce four new characters, a trio of sisters by the names of Renka, Hanabi, and Kafuru, and Sayuri who is their mysterious grandmother.
The title will also feature a multiplayer mode and it appears that the pair battles from Senran Kagura 2 will also be implemented into Estival Versus. It also appears that we may now know why a Senran Kagura image was shown at the end of Koei Tecmo's Dead or Alive announcement, as it sounds like the outfits the girls wear will now become dirty or transparent similar to how the fighters' clothing in Dead or Alive 5 becomes. Of course that is merely conjecture at this point and nothing more.
Travis Bruno
After playing games since a young age and getting into anime a bit later on its been time to write about a little bit of everything.
Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus Daidōji and Rin DLC available now
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RCEP: What is its purpose & why India-USA are excluded?
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After a range of discussions for eight long years, (RCEP) Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership came into existence in Asia in order to streamline trade between countries in the region. South Korea, Australia, China, Japan, and New Zealand and the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are the part of the deal.
The major objective of the pact is to bring down trade barriers between these nations and boost businesses. But, although India and USA are major economies, are still not a part of it. India opted out of it last year in 2019 and USA has been a member since the very beginning of the discussions.
What is RCEP?
You must have heard regarding RCEP Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership for several years in which few Asian nations have refused to for a free trade agreement. The remaining fifteen countries have accepted its membership. India's call is seen as a shock for the RCEP member countries since countries like China, Australia, New Zealand were eyeing India's large domestic market.
What are the benefits of RCEP?
Many countries in Asia hope that this agreement will help the coronavirus epidemic recover faster. Mohammad Azmin Ali, Malaysia's international trade and industry minister, said the agreement indicated that the RCEP countries decided to 'open their markets instead of taking protectionist measures in this difficult time'.
Under RCEP, there will be a single rule of trade for all member countries, which will benefit everyone. Under this, easy movement of goods will be strengthened. This will also attract multinational companies to more investment in member countries.
By this, member countries will do business according to each other's needs and keeping in mind the economic outlook. This deal will make the deal easier between member countries.
Why India opted out of RCEP?
In November last year, India disassociated itself from the deal and blamed China for the growing trade deficit. India had said that joining the deal meant that the Chinese market was filled with Indian goods, which would adversely affect India's internal economy.
This time India has not participated in the deal, but officials said the doors have been kept open for India to redo the deal. As per India, RCEP did not take care of India's issues, due to which they did not participate in it.
By becoming a partner in this deal, import duty on 80 to 90 percent of the goods imported into India would be reduced. There is a fear in the Indian industry that the reduction of import duty will lead to a glut of foreign goods in the Indian market, especially from China.
In such a situation, India's trade deficit may increase. India's trade deficit with other RCEP member countries continues to grow. The benefits and losses of India from the "RCEP deal":
"Self-reliant India" campaign could be weakened by RCEP. Had India become a partner in the RCEP deal, it would have been the third largest member among the countries. Experts believe that this deal could have affected the investment and supply chain in India, which is already a big challenge before India in the Corona period. Also, being a partner of this deal does not give India the opportunity to capitalize on the opportunity to expand and use the domestic market. That is to say, simply participating in the RCEP deal could weaken the self-sufficient India campaign.
Why did USA not participate in RCEP?
USA, under President Trump's administration, opted out of TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) due to growing participation of China . Also its aggressive trade rules kept it away from joining any of the trade agreements existing in the Asia Pacific region.
Impact of Opting out of the RCEP Deal
Some specialists believe that this call may have a negative impact on India's business activities. Under the RCEP, there will be a rule of trade for all member states, which will benefit everyone.
Under this, the smooth movement of goods will be strengthened and at the same time all formulations will also get relief. It will also attract multinational companies to invest more in member countries. Through this, the member countries will do business according to each other's needs and keeping in view the economic outlook. This way India may lose out on very lucrative opportunities.
But Prime Minister Narendra Modi have a different take on this. He said in his address that, "When we look around the US during the seven-year RCEP talks, So many things have been modified with world economic and trade matters. We cannot ignore these changes. 'Meanwhile, trade advisers have stated that India's call to not be part of the RCEP would protect domestic trade from unfair competition.
Will all countries benefit from RCEP?
On the outside it may seen like a fair agreement, but may not be beneficial for all. China being one of the biggest economies in this bracket of countries, may overpower and not give equal opportunities to all countries to make the most of the agreement. As mentioned in the earlier sections, China may flood its products in different nations impacting their domestic markets and livelihood of common people. It will be tough for smaller economies to make their mark in this scenario. So smaller markets must look out for some cut throat competition.
Will RCEP improve relationship of all major countries involved?
RCEP is the biggest Free Trade Agreement (FTA) across the world involving 30 percent of the entire economy and 45 percent of the entire population. Comprising of 15 nations, it will undoubtedly boost regional integration. It is an excellent opportunity for countries like Japan and South Korea to mend their relationships which were otherwise a bit strained.
Each of these countries has imposed certain restrictions on each other's goods especially South Korea who went to the extent of boycotting Japanese goods. Coming together on this platform will help in reworking the situation for a mutual benefit and maintaining harmonious relationships.
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Very nice article and it's really informative…
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David Jamar (left) brought in Brad Quinn of Tejas Trails for this morning's "JBar Weekend Restroom Report" to get us ready for the upcoming racing season. Tejas Trails has planned multiple races, including a new one this season March 3-5 called Tinajas.
Find out more about Tinajas and the entire season at tejastrails.com.


Since I bought the Ikelite underwater housing last year for my old Canon 5DmkII and Canon 8-15mm f4L I've only been out snorkeling with it a few times. But had been wanting to try underwater photography with a model for ages now. In order to get some basic practice in I borrowed good friend and model Talisa to come get in the cold water with us for some fun.
Although the water looked great from above it was not as clear as I hoped under the water. Plus we probably should have been out much deeper so as not to kick up all the sand below us.
I still have a lot to wrap my head around with this underwater business but its a fun journey.
Here are a few of the shots from today.
Talisa getting used to keeping her eyes open in the salt water.
The water wasn't really clear and we were probably too shallow as the sand was getting kicked up.
Talisa getting goosebumps. Yeah it was pretty cold in the water today!
Not cheap but good fun! The housing is made up of 3 parts. The body, port and front dome. All together I think it cost about $2500 from B&H Photo in The States. It takes some getting used to controlling all the dials on the camera with the housing on and underwater but works quite well and has never got a drip inside it yet. Although I've only taken it down a couple of meters so far. Looking forward to finally getting my divers license this summer so I can really take advantage of the beautiful waters of Okinawa and work on my underwater photography skills more.
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DURHAM, N.C. – The Duke men's basketball program has added human performance company WHOOP to the cutting-edge sports science approach it has personalized for each of its student-athletes heading into the 2017-18 season.
The Blue Devils are currently training with the help of the WHOOP Performance Optimization System. Duke players are wearing the WHOOP Strap 2.0, a lightweight, waterproof and screenless device worn on the wrist, forearm or upper arm. The device automatically measures and analyzes an individual's strain, recovery and sleep metrics.
When paired with the WHOOP strap, the WHOOP mobile and web apps provide physiological data, analysis and actionable recommendations that help coaches and athletes tailor their training, improve their sleep and maximize performance. WHOOP has also developed a Team Dashboard, a 27-level privacy measure that ensures data is completely secure.
For more information on WHOOP's mission, products and team, visit whoop.com.


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import pyomo.environ as pyo

def pyomoresults(QEMCAProfitModel): # define a function to print optimization results
""""Print results of the optimization of model 'QEMCAProfitModel' including
objective value at optimum, optimal decision variable values and
dual/slack information on constraints"""
print('')
print('=========================')
print('QEMCAProfitModel Maximization Solution')
print('=========================')
print('')
print('Objective Function Value at Optimum')
# loop over objective objects in the model
for f in QEMCAProfitModel.component_objects(pyo.Objective, active=True):
    print ('Objective', f) # print the name of the objective
    # loop over subobjectives (in this course we will only have one)
    for index in f:
        print ('      ', index, pyo.value(f[index]))
print('')
print('Decision Variable Values at Optimum')
# loop over decision variable objects in model
for v in QEMCAProfitModel.component_objects(pyo.Var, active=True):
    print ('Variable', v) # print variable name
    for index in v: # loop over index of variable object
        # print index/optimal values
        print ('      ', index, pyo.value(v[index]))
print('')
print ('Duals/Shadow Prices at Optimum')
# loop over constraint objects in model
for d in QEMCAProfitModel.component_objects(pyo.Constraint, active=True):
    print ('Constraint',d) # print constraint name
    for index in d: # loop over index of constraint object
        # print dual value of constraint
        print ('      ', index, QEMCAProfitModel.dual[d[index]])
print('')
print ("Slack at Optimum")
# loop over constraint objects in model
for i in QEMCAProfitModel.component_objects(pyo.Constraint, active=True):
    print ("   Constraint",Ci) # print constraint name
    for index in Ci: # loop over index of constraint object
        # print constraint slack information
        print ("      ", index, Ci[index].lslack(), ' - ', Ci[index].uslack())

#Define Concrete model

QEMCAProfitModel = pyo.ConcreteModel

#Define variable dictionary for decision variable index

#Crop index

I = [1,2,3,4,5,6]

#Define parameters

#Define mean profit per crop - ETB

mPi = {1:15635.2, 2:9571.36, 3:13392.6, 4:39834.6, 5:49074.1, 6:11365.6}

#Define mean cost per hectar of crop - ETB/Hecatre

Ci = {1:10467.37, 2:8160.47, 3:12392.22, 4:5702.01, 5:8265.88, 6:8514.31}

#Define objective function

QEMCAProfitModel.L = pyo.Var(I,within=pyo.NonNegativeReals)

QEMCAProfitModel.Profit = pyo.Objective(expr=sum(mPi[i] * QEMCAProfitModel.L[i] for i `in I), sense=pyo.maximize)`
#Profit un EBT

#Define constraints

def Budget_rule(QEMCAProfitModel, i):
return sum(Ci[i] * QEMCAProfitModel.L[i] for i in I) <= 850636
QEMCAProfitModel.Budget_rule = pyo.Constraint(I, rule=Budget_rule)

def Land_rule(QEMCAProfitModel, i):
return sum(QEMCAProfitModel.L[i] for i in I) <= 47.77
QEMCAProfitModel.Land_rule = pyo.Constraint(I, rule=Land_rule)

def Land_rule_min(QEMCAProfitModel, i):
return sum(QEMCAProfitModel.L[i] for i in I) >= 0
QEMCAProfitModel.Land_rule_min = pyo.Constraint(I, rule=Land_rule_min)

def Consumption_rule_1(QEMCAProfitModel, i):
return 4560.64 * QEMCAProfitModel.L[1] >= 51250
QEMCAProfitModel.Consumption_rule_1 = pyo.Constraint(I, rule=Consumption_rule_1)

def Consumption_rule_2(QEMCAProfitModel, i):
return 5764.71 * QEMCAProfitModel.L[2] >= 36710
QEMCAProfitModel.Consumption_rule_2 = pyo.Constraint(I, rule=Consumption_rule_2)

def Consumption_rule_3(QEMCAProfitModel, i):
return 9908.3 * QEMCAProfitModel.L[3] >= 30316
QEMCAProfitModel.Consumption_rule_3 = pyo.Constraint(I, rule=Consumption_rule_3)

def Consumption_rule_4(QEMCAProfitModel, i):
return 16614.81 * QEMCAProfitModel.L[4] >= 4850
QEMCAProfitModel.Consumption_rule_4 = pyo.Constraint(I, rule=Consumption_rule_4)

def Consumption_rule_5(QEMCAProfitModel, i):
return 20323.81 * QEMCAProfitModel.L[5] >= 4450
QEMCAProfitModel.Consumption_rule_5 = pyo.Constraint(I, rule=Consumption_rule_5)

def Consumption_rule_6(QEMCAProfitModel, i):
return 4400 * QEMCAProfitModel.L[6] >= 7100
QEMCAProfitModel.Consumption_rule_6 = pyo.Constraint(I, rule=Consumption_rule_6)

QEMCAProfitModel.pprint()

QEMCAProfitModel.dual = pyo.Suffix(direction=pyo.Suffix.IMPORT)

opt = pyo.SolverFactory('glpk')

results = opt.solve(QEMCAProfitModel)

QEMCAProfitModel.display()

QEMCAProfitModel.dual.display()

pyomoresults(QEMCAProfitModel)

'''

A: You are missing parens when defining the model object:
QEMCAProfitModel = pyo.ConcreteModel

should be
QEMCAProfitModel = pyo.ConcreteModel()

Without the parens, QEMCAProfitModel is the class ConcreteModel instead of an instance of the class.  The "magic" that triggers component "construction" (the __setattr__ method on Block data instances) only works on Block instances (and a model is a block).
Note that the same method is also responsible for copying the attribute name to the component name.  Since that is not being triggered, you are seeing the default component name (the class name, IndexedVar) in the error message.

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Massachusetts-based HubSpot, which offers a marketing hub, sales hub, a free CRM and a service hub to customers in over 100 countries, already runs most of its core operations on AWS, but has been growing rapidly.
The contract expansion comes 16 weeks after it launched a new services hub, which includes functions like tracking ticket trends, then helping users turn them into articles on a site that automatically index on Google.
Founded in 2006 by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, HubSpot develops software products targeting the inbound marketing and sales sector. They provide web analytics, content management, and social media marketing services.
HubSpot has worked over the years with AWS and has constructed an architecture which uses deeply automated microservices across the platform to operate numerous applications of varying size and complexity.
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It is important to highlight that this year's GCSE results cannot be compared to previous years due to the changes in the examination system. However, despite the more rigorous assessment procedures 51% of King Arthur's students achieved above the national standard of 5 or more GCSEs including English and Mathematics at grades A*C or 9-4 with 54% gaining standards for Maths and English.
King Arthur's has a strong record of students progressing into further, higher level study and apprenticeships and is pleased that students will be able to access their chosen next steps.
Particular recognition goes to Kelly England who achieved 10 passes including 6 A*, 2 A and grades 8,8,7; Danni Switzer who achieved 11 passes including 2A*, 4 A and grades 8,7,7; Caleb Maskell who achieved 10 passes including 6A, 1B, and grades 4,6,9; Mollie Chapman who achieved 10 passes including 1A*, 3A and grades 5,6,7; Josh Harrison who achieved 10 passes including 4A, 2B, and grades 6,7,8 and Georgina Isaacs who achieved 9 passes including 3A, 3B, and grades 5,7,9.
Alongside the high academic performance of some students there are many stories of students who have achieved strong GCSE results despite significant adversity. We celebrate the successes and progress of all of our students and wish them well for their futures.
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Posted 6th January 2019 by ‒ Rhys Lewis
Director of the NPL Quantum Metrology Institute
How Will Quantum Technologies Change Your Industry?
We are at the beginning of a new era of technology
For most of the last century, quantum mechanics research focussed on understanding the nature of the universe. But in recent years, we have reached a point where we can control and measure these strange quantum behaviours with new degrees of accuracy. The result has been an explosion of interest and innovation in a new generation of quantum technologies.
Quantum computing has received a lot of attention, but it is just the tip of the quantum iceberg. Many of the world's major research companies – in IT, engineering, and defence – are harnessing quantum phenomena to develop a huge range of new technologies. IBM and Google, BT and Toshiba, Rolls Royce and Airbus, Thales and QinetiQ all have research programmes in these areas. Myriad startups are spinning out of universities to meet growing interest in quantum, in applications across communications, transport, energy, and health.
So, what does it all mean?
What are quantum technologies?
Quantum technologies take advantage of the unusual properties of individual atoms, electrons and photons, and how they interact. At the quantum scale, particles follow different rules to human-scale objects – many of them seemingly bizarre.
In the classical world, objects exist in a specific place and time. In quantum mechanics, state and location are probabilistic, not absolute.
Why is this useful?
The quantum state of particles responds to the world around them in ways we can now measure and calculate. If we detect how their quantum state has changed, we can understand what is changing them: the presence of an oil reserve, corrosion that will cause a bridge to collapse, a poisonous gas, activity in the brain.
And we can go further. We now have technology to change quantum states with incredible precision. This allows us to encode data within particles, which will change how we share information, making electronics and communications smaller, faster and more secure.
What technologies are we talking about, and what industries stand to benefit?
The UK Government's National Quantum Technologies Programme has established four quantum hubs focusing on computing, communications, sensors and imaging. These are a pretty good guide to where the industry is going.
Sensing is a good place to start. Small changes in magnetism or gravity register as quantum fingerprints on particles. By detecting these, we can understand what's happening around us.
An immediate application is for the detection of corrosion. Corrosion is the curse of the energy and construction industry, destroying pipelines and bridges. The disruption in the quality of a metal surface, or the presence of small pits due to corrosion can be detected through the altered pattern of the magnetic signature of the metal surface. This can be detected through paint or insulation which makes it a powerful new technique.
Closely related is imaging. Quantum cameras will soon see the invisible. A camera has already been developed to see round corners. Out of sight objects can be reconstructed into images, based on how individual photons are reflected. This could be used to detect whether humans are in a building before entering it, saving lives of firefighters or soldiers. It is also a candidate technology for driverless cars which would benefit from knowing what's around the corner.
This incredible detection sensitivity also has applications in communications, allowing us to share information encoded within particles.
We do this by using lasers to create 'qubits' – quantum equivalent of bits which represent the 1s and 0s in digital communications. For instance, a photon of light can be created in two different states which can represent either a 1 or a 0.
One of the closest-to-market quantum technologies is quantum key distribution (QKD). Here we create a qubit encryption key and send it to the receiver. In quantum mechanics, observing a system changes its quantum state, so anyone intercepting the key will change it. The encrypted message will only be sent if the key arrives unchanged – making transmission of information highly secure.
And finally, Quantum Computing
Quantum computers also use qubits but take advantage of quantum superposition, whereby particles exist in two states simultaneously. This allows orders of magnitude more information to be stored than in ordinary computers, which in turn enables the creation of computers with unprecedented data processing speeds.
Whilst we won't see quantum computers in PC World any time soon, they will have a major impact on our lives. The modern business world is increasingly built on processing huge amounts of data. AI, including applications such as driverless cars, need to absorb and learn from huge data sets to be capable of making human-like decisions. Models of new medicines are incredibly complex, taking in not just drug trial data but detailed information about human biology. Being able to run these models at many times the current speed could transform R&D in pharmaceuticals and other data heavy industries.
Planning for the quantum age
Mainstream adoption of quantum technologies is not quite here yet, but we are getting close. Although a functional quantum computer is probably a decade away, many of the technologies discussed in this article have been demonstrated and are heading towards commercialisation. We are probably just a couple of years away from seeing real uptake of quantum technologies.
What you should do about this depends on who you are. High-tech companies with major R&D programmes should be looking seriously at how quantum will replace their existing technology offers, and engaging with the relevant quantum researchers at universities and NPL to ensure they stay ahead of the curve.
For end-users of these technologies; it's time to start watching closely, setting your criteria for adoption, and feeding that into quantum R&D programmes.
Any new technology comes with uncertainty and complexity, and quantum is full of both. A major stumbling block could simply be lack of understanding amongst buyers. The more complex the technology, the more important it is that we develop test capability, industry standards and validation criteria that provide confidence that it will do what it says on the tin.
Rhys Lewis is Director of the Quantum Metrology Institute at The National Physical Laboratory, the UK's national measurement institute. He is responsible for NPL's strategic direction in quantum and for NPL involvement in the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme. He joined NPL in 2007 following a career in industry, including roles at SMEs and start-ups. He holds a degree in Physics and a DPhil in atomic and laser physics from Oxford University.
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A high-stakes battle between Gov. Spitzer and state Republicans is playing out on the small stage of a special election for a Nassau County state Senate seat – making this week's vote Super Tuesday for Albany's balance of power.
The race between Republican Maureen O'Connell and Democrat Craig Johnson in the 7th District is a crucial test of the political power of Spitzer, who has become personally invested in the race.
It comes just as he's gearing up for a budget fight over health-care spending with politically powerful Local 1199 – which, in part to try to keep a check on Spitzer's power, is backing the Republican.
But Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno needs O'Connell to win to preserve his fragile lead in the Senate. If he doesn't, he will hold just a two-seat majority – and the contest is seen as a bellwether on the future of the GOP's control there.
The open seat was created when Democrat Spitzer tapped then-Sen. Mike Balboni, a Republican, to be the state's homeland-security chief.
In a sign of what's at play, just two days ago fur flew over an O'Connell campaign mailing showing her with Balboni – featuring the state Homeland Security office seal and a picture of Osama bin Laden inside, a move the security office slammed as potentially illegal.
But New York GOP chairman Joe Mondello, for whom this race is his first test as state leader, had his own rap on the Democrats, calling for a probe into whether Johnson "bought" the Working Families Party endorsement with $225,000 in donations, a charge the WFP dismissed.
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It's your money, can you answer the ten easiest money questions ever?
How much do you earn each month?
How much money do you spend each month?
How much do you spend each month on debt payments only?
How much money are you saving each month?
How much is in your emergency fund?
Bonus question to make up for question #1: How many months until you are debt free?
I was talking with The Wife today about how so many people are so bad with money and how so many finance books and websites are waaaaaaaaay to complex for the average person.
If so many people are making money mistakes we don't need more complex money teaching, we need less complex money teachings!
Talking about reverse mutual funds and backdoor interest retreats isn't helping. We need the basics!
If you can nail the basics month after month, the complex stuff will take care of itself.
If you can't nail the basics, the complex stuff won't matter anyway because you will never get there.
If you can't answer these ten money questions, your homework for today is to be able to answer them and be in bed by 10:30… like a boss!
About the author: Derek's two-year-old daughter hates boring finance blogs. To make her happy, Derek started How Do I Money? You want painfully simple financial advice, stories from my life that will make you feel better about your life, emails you will actually read? Well then, How Do I Money has your name written all over it. Podcast coming June 2016!
"What's the point of a financial planner if you have no money to plan with? People need money coaches in their lives (parents, friends, partners) who can guide them to the point of having money to invest. If you get that far, you're already winning".
Boom! That's awesome that you could answer all 10. You are like, waaaaay ahead of so many people.
And you (and your mom) are right. You've got to get the basics nailed down before any of that fancy stuff will help you anyway, so, stick to the basics.
#9 is the most important in my view. If you're paying attention to your net worth you know pretty well what your money is doing on a monthly basis! And proud to say that just like Liz, I can also answer all of these with or without looking at my trusty spreadsheet – woo!
Agree that #9 (net worth) is important. But that's probably the most advanced question on the list. Even though net worth is super important, there are a few steps you gotta figure out even before you can get there.
But, when you figure your net worth, you have to answer like 3 or 4 of the other questions anyway, so it's a good place to start!
Keeping it simple is the way to go. If you do not have any money at the end of the month, you are severely cutting down your options. This might mean saving, going on holiday or even allowing yourself to study to improve your career prospects. Address your money habits and skills first and once you have that in mind, then look at 401k, compound interest, Roths, IRAs , ABC's CDE's…… We as a nations are too focused on our returns, but have not curbed our spending!
More money is a *result* of your habits.
Happy to say I sailed through 2-11. #1 was a little tough – sometimes that just depends on the day and my 5th grade daughter's common core homework!
Wow. That's great. You are on top of this.
Curious… what does common core say 2+2=???
11 out of 10! This one goes to eleven.
Haha, when you need that extra little push over the cliff!!
A year and a half ago, I would not have been able to answer all of those questions. Today this quiz is just an easy A! Plus, my answer to the bonus question is pretty awesome – four months! *Technically three, I guess because August is when it will be gone but our payments are made at the end of the month, so I'm counting May as one of those months.
This is exactly what I'm saying. Most people can't answer even half of these questions. But once you start paying attention, awesome things happen.
Congrats on paying off the debt!!!
If I can answer #1, I'm doing pretty well, right?
Jokes aside, great post. I agree that sometimes it's best to just simplify these concepts.
My only problem is the how much do you earn each month. I'm a contingent worker, and that is not great for planning. I have an idea what will happen, but that can change with 20 minutes of notice.
I was able to answer all these questions. Great to know I'm on the right track. Thanks for such an interesting post.


They look like tiny swirling dust devils on the surface of the superconductor: "vortices" that appear where magnetic fields interact with the material. Unlike harmless dust devils, however, vortices can sap a superconductor's ability to transmit current without resistance.
Image: Goran Karapetrov of Argonne's Materials Science Division prepares a scanning tunneling microscope. The device can determine the surface structure of a sample at the atomic scale, leading to new discoveries about the interaction of magnetic fields and high-temperature superconductors. Photo by George Joch.
View vortex video: Vortices, the small dark dots appearing in these video images (2 MB .mov file) from a scanning tunneling microscope, are where magnetic fields penetrate a superconductor and the amount of current the material can carry. From left to right, these images show the transition of "chains" of vortices. A single chain, left, splits into two chains as the magnetic field is strengthened. At right, a stronger magnetic field splits the double chain into three chains. These chains have never before been observed.
Knowing how the vortices move and arrange themselves under various temperatures and magnetic fields, as well as how they are influenced by the physical properties of the material, is critical in maintaining supercurrent flow.
As part of Argonne's intense focus on superconductors, a team of scientists in the laboratory's Materials Science Division (MSD) has obtained, for the first time, detailed images of the interaction of magnetic vortices with artificial, nanoscale engineered defects in a superconductor. Understanding this interaction could help scientists reduce the vortices' current-sapping effects — or lead to fundamentally new superconductor designs for transmitting DC and AC electric power, and quantum logic devices based on vortex manipulation.
High-temperature superconductors, discovered in 1986, have attracted intense interest due to their ability to conduct electricity without resistance when cooled with liquid nitrogen. Previously, superconductivity was only known in metals cooled with liquid helium, which is much more difficult and expensive to produce and handle. High-temperature superconductors are now used in many applications, including RF filters for mobile telephone networks, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines and particle accelerators.
A critical factor limiting applications for these superconductors is their response to magnetic fields, such as in electric motors. Magnetic fields reduce the amount of current a superconducting material can carry. The fields create swirling tubes of electrical current — vortices — in the superconducting material. Superconductivity is completely suppressed within these structures. (The individual structure of vortices and their arrangement were predicted by Alexei Abrikosov of Argonne's Materials Science Division, who won the 2003 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on superconductors.) And as current flows through the superconductor, the vortices are pushed at right angles to the current flow by the Lorentz force. The vortex movement inside the material dissipates energy and produces resistance.
Scientists have discovered that vortices can be locked into position by "pinning" them to defects — tiny grains of non-superconducting substances embedded in the superconductor.
"Today, vortex pinning is the main thrust of superconductor research," said Goran Karapetrov (MSD), a lead researcher of the Argonne team that includes Maria Iavarone, Jan Fedor, Dan Rosenmann and Wai Kwok (all MSD). "We are concentrating on the microscopic physics behind defects that hold the vortices in place and increase the current-carrying capability of the materials."
To learn more about vortices and their effects, the Argonne team uses low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, or STM. This sophisticated technique is used in fundamental research to obtain atomic-scale images of surfaces as well as essential information on the electronic states at and just beneath the surface. The atomic-scale images of the surface and its electronic structure allow the Argonne team to pin-point the positions of both the vortices that control the superconductivity and the defects that pin the vortices. Applying this powerful imaging technique to engineered defect structures is a major advance.
STM requires an extremely sharp conducting probe held close to the sample — at a distance of only a few atom-diameters. Electrons can jump the gap or "tunnel" between the sample material and the stylus, producing an electrical signal. The stylus slowly scans across the surface, raising and lowering to keep the gap between the surface and the tip constant. Recording the vertical movement of the stylus reveals the structure of the surface atom by atom.
"If the scanning tip touches the surface, the experiment is over," Karapetrov said. "These experiments are very precise. To visualize the surface, the tip comes within three to four Angstroms of the material. It has to be precisely that distance — within one hundredth of an Angstrom — in order to observe these effects."
Beyond developing sophisticated STM techniques, the team devised a method of preparing a sample with an atomically flat surface containing a periodic array of defects to pin the vortices.
"The size of each defect allows it to hold up to six vortices," Karapetrov said. "As the magnetic field increases beyond the saturation number of the defect, vortices appear outside the defect."
The vortices induced by a weak magnetic field attached themselves to the defects, as expected. As the scientists increased the magnetic field, STM images revealed additional vortices; those that couldn't find a home in a defect appeared alongside in orderly lines — a "chain." As the magnetic field was increased further, the vortex chains became denser, up to a specific, critical intensity; at this critical field the vortex chain split into two parallel chains. The transition was accompanied by a peak in the superconductor's critical current density — the measure of how well the superconductor carries large electric currents. The scientists were able to create additional parallel chains by further increasing the magnetic field.
"It's basically a phase transition," Karapetrov said. "This behavior was predicted theoretically more than 10 years ago, but it hadn't been possible to see it until this scanning technique was perfected."
The experiments marked the first time this phase transition from single to multiple chains had been directly observed. It was also the first time vortices have been studied in engineered samples with STM. Previously, creating superconductors with varying defect properties was done using randomly distributed defects created with heavy-particle accelerators like Argonne's ATLAS.
"The STM experiments using samples irradiated at ATLAS helped us a lot. But the ability to create engineered samples means we are free to make whatever geometry of defects fits best for the application," Karapetrov said. "We can design the material for vortex-pinning abilities and the best critical current by changing the fabrication parameters. Since the defects are created by lithography, we have full control over the geometry and internal structure." The lithographic process also allows researchers to vary the material in the defects, opening up a new avenue for research.
The research resulted in two published papers in Applied Physics Letters and Physics Review Letters: the first discussing the sample preparation, the second focusing on the research results. (APL 87, 162515 (2005), Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 (2005) 167002).


Cheyenne is survived by her father Timothy V. Okerblom, siblings Brandy (Chad) Collins, Timothy V. Okerblom Jr., and Tina Austin, Aunts Barb (Don) Raines and Rose (Steve) Beauchamp, Uncle Mark (Cindy) Stamat, 3 nieces and several cousins and 2nd cousins. Predeceased by her mother Alice V. Okerblom.
Cremation has taken place. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Memorial donations may be made to the Family Wishes. Arrangements by the Gilbert Funeral Home, Algonac, MI.


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Kerosene, sometimes spelled kerosine in scientific and industrial usage,[1] is a flammable hydrocarbon liquid. The name is derived from Greek "keros" (κηρός wax).
It is commonly called paraffin oil or paraffin in the UK and South Africa (not to be confused with the waxy solid also called paraffin wax or just paraffin); the term kerosene is usual in much of Canada, the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand.[2]
Its heating value, or heat of combustion, is around 18,500 Btu/lb, or 43.1 MJ/kg, making it similar to that of diesel. It is widely used to power jet-engined aircraft, but is also commonly used as a heating fuel.
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Kerosene is a thin, clear liquid formed from hydrocarbons. Kerosene is obtained from the fractional distillation of petroleum between 150 °C and 275 °C, resulting in a mixture of carbon chains containing 12 to 15 carbon atoms.
Kerosene was first described by al-Razi (Rhazes) as a distillation of petroleum in 9th-century Baghdad. In his Kitab al-Asrar (Book of Secrets), he described two methods for the production of kerosene. One method involved using clay as an absorbent, whereas the other method involved using ammonium chloride (sal ammoniac).[3] In 1807, Kerosene was refined from a naturally-occurring asphaltum called Albertite by Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner, founding the modern petroleum industry in the process. Gesner went on to establish his Kerosene Gaslight Company to market kerosene around the world in 1850. Scottish chemist James Young built the first truly commercial oil-works in the world at Bathgate in 1851, using oil extracted from locally-mined Torbanite, shale, and bituminous coal. Polish chemist Ignacy Łukasiewicz discovered the means of refining kerosene from the less expensive seep oil in 1856. The widespread availability of cheaper kerosene was the principal factor in the precipitous decline in the whaling industry in the mid- to late-19th century, as the leading product of whaling was oil for lamps.
At one time the fuel was widely used in kerosene lamps and lanterns. These were superseded by the electric light bulb and flashlights powered by dry cell batteries.
Its use as a cooking fuel is mostly restricted to some portable stoves for backpackers and to less developed countries, where it is usually less refined and contains impurities and even debris.
As a heating fuel, it is often used in portable stoves, and is sold in some filling stations. It is sometimes used as a heat source during power failures. The use of portable kerosene heaters is not recommended for closed indoor areas without a chimney due to the danger of buildup of carbon monoxide gas.
Kerosene is widely used in Japan as a home heating fuel for portable and installed kerosene heaters. In Japan, kerosene can be readily bought at any filling station or be delivered to homes.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland kerosene is often used as both a cooking and heating fuel in areas where there is a limited gas supply.[4]
The Amish, who limit use of electric appliances for religious reasons, rely on kerosene for lighting and often purchase kerosene-powered versions of appliances such as refrigerators.
More ubiquitous in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, kerosene space heaters were often built into kitchen ranges and kept many farm and fishing families warm and dry through the winter. At one time citrus growers used smudge pots fueled by kerosene to create a pall of thick smoke over a grove in an effort to prevent freezing temperatures from damaging crops. "Salamanders" were kerosene space heaters used on construction sites to dry out building materials and to warm workers. Before the days of blinking electrically lighted road barriers, highway construction zones were marked at night by kerosene fired pot-bellied torches. Most of these uses of kerosene created thick black smoke because of the low temperature of combustion.
A notable exception, discovered in the early 19th century, is the use of a mantle above the wick on a kerosene lamp. Looking like a delicate woven bag above the woven cotton wick, the mantle was a residue of mineral material (thorium dioxide) which glowed white hot as it burned the volatile gases emanating from the blue flame at the base of the wick. These types of lamps are still in use today in areas of the world without electricity.
Kerosene is also used for fire performances such as poi and staff because of its low flame temperature when burnt in free air, making the fire low risk, should the performer come in contact with the flame.
Today, kerosene is mainly used in fuel for jet engines (more technically Avtur, Jet-A, Jet-A1, Jet-B, JP-4, JP-5, JP-7 or JP-8). One form of the fuel known as RP-1 is burned with liquid oxygen as rocket fuel. These fuel grade kerosenes meet specifications as to smoke points and freeze points.
In the early 20th century, kerosene was used as a cheap fuel for tractors. The engine would start on gasoline, then switch over to kerosene once the engine warmed up. A "heat valve" on the manifold would route the exhaust gases around the intake pipe, heating the kerosene to the point where it can be ignited by an electrical spark.
Kerosene is sometimes used as an additive in diesel fuel to prevent gelling or waxing in cold temperatures.
In countries like India, kerosene is the main fuel used for cooking, especially by the poor. Kerosene stoves have replaced the traditional wood-based cooking appliances that are unhealthy and inefficient. The price of kerosene can be a major political issue; the Indian government subsidises the fuel to keep the price very low (around 15cents/litre as of Feb.2007).
Kerosene has been used to treat pools of standing water to prevent mosquitoes from breeding, notably in the yellow fever outbreak of 1905 in New Orleans. It can also be used to remove lice from hair, but this practice is painful and potentially very dangerous. Also, this would wash out all natural oil & fats from the hair and scalp.
Since kerosene is chemically stable, it is used to store substances with redox tendencies within to prevent unwanted reactions, such as alkali metals. Kerosene is also used in the packaging and storage of White Phosphorus to prevent immediate combustion on contact with oxygen.
Kerosene can be used to store crystals. When a water-soluble crystal is left in air, dehydration may occur slowly. This makes the colour of the crystal become dull. Kerosene can therefore prevent the crystal contacting with air.
It is used as a solvent and in conjunction with cutting oil as a thread cutting and reaming lubricant. When machining aluminium and its alloys, kerosene on its own is an excellent cutting lubricant.
Kerosene is often used in the entertainment industry, as a fuel for fire dancing. Kerosene is not usually used as a fuel for indoor fire-dancing as it produces an unpleasant odour which becomes, in sufficient concentration, poisonous. In general such use of fire indoors is not common. Methanol is often used instead, but it can be a more dangerous fuel because of its lower flash point, and it also produces less "impressive" flames.
In Sri Lanka, it is also used to help ignite firewood stoves, power electric generators, wash tar and grease from vehicles or hands, remove stains from clothes, and as a rust-loosener and creeping oil.[citation needed]
Tractor vaporising oil
^ Webster's New World College Dictionary, kerosene.
^ Oxford English Dictionary, kerosene.
^ Zayn Bilkadi (University of California, Berkeley), "The Oil Weapons", Saudi Aramco World, January-February 1995, p. 20-27.
^ OFTEC fact-sheet about kerosene
Categories: Alkanes | Hydrocarbon solvents | Fuels | Aviation fuels
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14 JUNE 17: Today's hearing is listed as: COURT 19 at the ROYAL COURTS OF
[IN]JUSTICE, THE STRAND, LONDON [nearest tube stn.: Holborn on the Piccadilly line]
Before SIR ALAN WILKIE sitting as a judge of the High Court
Wednesday 14 June, 2017
At half past 10
CO/5792/2016 Hofschroer v Office Of The State Attorney Austria
FOR HEARING
Alan Wilkie
Sir Alan Fraser Wilkie, styled The Honourable Mr Justice Wilkie, was a British judge and barrister.
He retired on 31 January 2017. Wilkie was born on 26 December 1947. He was educated at Hutchesons' Grammar School, an independent school in Glasgow, Scotland, and Manchester Grammar School, an all-boys independent school in Manchester, England. He studied law at Balliol College, Oxford.
https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/announcements/high-court-retirement-of-the-honourable-sir-alan-fraser-wilkie/
above: Peter H. being taken away from a bogus court hearing in York on Dec. 4 2014 he was lured to – he was been in custody ever since [except for a couple of weeks]. He is at present in HMP Preston now awaiting the extradition hearing to send him back to Austria.
The authorities in Austria have not even medically examined him but have issued an order stating he is medically unwell. He owns a house in Austria and it is alleged the PTB both here and there want to the proceeds of the sale from P's house, and a way to get it is to divest him of his legal rights by making him seem medically unfit to cater for his affairs by way of a court order and possible incarceration in a closed mental unit – which will allegedly be confirmed by the authorities in Austria once he is ordered back there by a UK court – hence the extradition hearing on the 14th in London at the Royal Courts of Justice, the Strand. It is imperative P keeps his human rights at all times and does not have them removed by way of any dubious order – anywhere. See the background to this case overall [including the shocking "GRANDMA B" [P's mother] case] which has been ongoing many years = PETER HOFSCHROER: EXTRADITION + APPEAL + GRANDMA B CASE: timeline +archive 25 Jan. 2017
This is an URGENT APPEAL for us all to unite at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, UK, on Wednesday 14 June, 2017 to show our support for a well-loved British man, military historian and author, Peter Hofschroer.
(Court Room and time to be confirmed nearer the time. Please keep checking back.)
and keep checking the government website here:
https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/court-lists/list-cause-rcj#COA-Criminal
for details and updates of the exact time time for the appeal hearing in the xxxxxxxx v Hofschroer case
Friends and supporters of the acclaimed author and historian and his mother, Barbara (aka Grandma B), are asked to attend his appeal against extradition to Austria. He has been unlawfully sectioned under mental health legislation in Austria by a single judge who has never met him, and WITHOUT A MEDICAL EXAMINATION. They want to incarcerate him forever in a mental institution and force him to take psychiatric drugs because he has been speaking out publicly about public corruption in York and North Yorkshire (place that he refers to as "Savile Country"), and other places. Please see details here: http://www.grandmabarbara.co.uk/
It is no surprise that North Yorkshire Police and the others have been desperate to silence him (at huge cost to the public purse).
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH HIM! HE IS A BRILLIANT INTELLECTUAL!
It is important that the authorities know that the hearing is being witnessed by the public. Stop the star chambers in the UK. Stop them from taking SECRET ACTION against this wonderful kind and loving son of Barbara Hofschroer.
PLEASE HELP STOP A TERRIBLE INJUSTICE FROM TAKING PLACE!
It also is known that his beloved 87 year old, wheelchair-bound Mum is grieving for him, thanks to York Social Services and the Court of Protection. She wants desperately to be reunited with with Peter, her loving son. Please don't let her end her days without Peter, who had been caring for her every need, 24/7, until disaster struck. She is incarcerated, against her will, in Haxby Hall, Yorkshire. She would surely enjoy cards and letters of support from you.
See the Grandma B Blog: http://www.grandmabarbara.co.uk/
Please do your utmost to get AT LEAST 700 people to Royal Courts Of Justice. Use Facebook, Twitter, and everything you can to get the word out.
https://tfl.gov.uk/maps?Input=The+Royal+Courts+Of+Justice&InputGeolocation=51.512942%2c-0.113614
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He has been persecuted across three national borders.
This is serious. Peter is a BRITISH-born man who should not be extradited from his homeland, especially on trumped up 'firearms' charges over possession of harmless antique firearms that he used for historical re-enactment in battles.
SEE THE MAIN "GRANDMA B" SITE: http://www.grandmabarbara.co.uk
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A new report released July 1, 2019, concludes that a major monument in Charlottesville, Virginia, can be legally removed.
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The monument, which depicts George Rogers Clark threatening Native American men and a woman holding an infant, is not covered by a Virginia state law that forbids removing war monuments, due to the date of the monument's erection and its ownership by the University of Virginia rather than the County of Albemarle.
George Rogers Clark said that he would have liked to "see the whole race of Indians extirpated" and that he would "never spare Man woman or child of them on whom he could lay his hands." Clark wrote a statement to the various Indian nations in which he threatened "Your Women & Children given to the Dogs to eat."
Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the University of Virginia, depicted in a smaller statue nearby in front of the Rotunda building, when he was Governor of Virginia, sent George Rogers Clark west to attack Native Americans, writing that the goal "should be their extermination, or their removal beyond the lakes or Illinois river." Clark killed the captured and destroyed the crops of those he was sent by Jefferson to exterminate or remove. Clark later unsuccessfully proposed further military expeditions to Virginia Governor Benjamin Harrison in order to demonstrate "that we are always able to crush them at pleasure."
Hundreds of people have signed a petition to James Ryan, President of the University of Virginia, that reads:
Remove the statue of George Rogers Clark engaged in genocide to a museum where it can be presented as a shameful memory.
The new report reviews several alternatives for the monument, including destruction, removal, the placing of a new monument in front to block it from view, and leaving the monument in place but contextualizing it:
"There is considerable space available on every side of the monument. It would be possible to construct several new memorials around this one. These new memorials might tell various parts of the story, or perspectives of the story, of the 'conquering of the Northwest.' One memorial might depict Thomas Jefferson sending Clark on his mission, and quote the instructions he was given. Another might depict the execution of prisoners, another the use of rape as a weapon of war, another the burning of crops, another the destruction of villages, another the struggles for survival by the nations devastated and displaced by Virginia's past imperialism. Quotes from Clark could be included on some of the new memorials. The possibilities are endless. The point is that the University of Virginia is in possession of the knowledge and the funding to wisely and beautifully communicate opposition to genocide, rather than glorification of it, without challenging any law or even facing any accusation of 'destroying history!'"
In the end, the report makes the following recommendation:
"The University and the City should create a public process for considering the proper fate of the George Rogers Clark monument. Among those consulted should be representatives of the nations attacked by George Rogers Clark. Also among those consulted should be young people, who will be most influenced by the decision and live with it the longest."
The report is available as a PDF and on a webpage.
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David Swanson is the author of "When the World Outlawed War," "War Is A Lie" and "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union." He blogs at http://davidswanson.org and http://warisacrime.org and works for the online (more...)
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Are you one of those people who label the Samsung Galaxy S5 as 'cheap plastic'? Prepare to be surprised. The Samsung Galaxy S5 is IP67 certified and claims to be waterproof and dustproof. But what if these abilities were tested for real? The guys at Techsmmart have done it again – they have put the Samsung Galaxy S5 through the worst you can imagine and the results, well, might surprise you, to say the least.
The guys who did this are definitely bordering on crazy, but the stuff they come out with is truly great. Last time, they dropped the Samsung Galaxy S5 and HTC One M8 from varied heights to find out that the HTC One M8 beat the Samsung Galaxy S5 in the drop test. This time they took out the Samsung Galaxy S5 and tried something different.
Samsung claims that the Galaxy S5 can remain submerged in water for 30 minutes – but how about taking it to the next level? These guys submerged the phone under running water for, get this, 90 minutes!
The phone didn't blink and in fact, was working well even after being submerged for so long. For once, Samsung has done better than it advertises to do.
The wash cycle ran its time, while the display of the handset did power off in between and once, the back cover came off and phone had to be dried, the Samsung Galaxy S5 not only survived the washer, it in fact, came out with almost no scratches.
Although, the blue color of the jean did get to the white Samsung Galaxy S5, making it a limited edition blue and white device, other than the phone miraculously survived!
You might feel icky about the design of the Samsung Galaxy S5, when it comes to durability, Samsung has definitely delivered on this handset. In fact, it reminded us of Nokia phones of yester years, which never gave up an survived many a washing machine.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 has definitely earned some brownie points from us for sure.
Check out this video to see for yourself what this smartphone can endure.


At the K show 2013, WITTMANN is presenting at booth A04 in hall 10 a large tempering unit in a dual zone configuration, the new temperature controller TEMPRO plus D-2-L (the "L" stands for "large"). In addition, the new models of directly cooled temperature controller series TEMPRO basic C120 are shown.
The WITTMANN TEMPRO plus D-2-L represents a completely new development. It has two heat exchangers for each circuit. Every heat exchanger can deliver 18 kW of heating and up to 40 kW of cooling capacity. Through this configuration, it is possible to offer this unit with a heating capacity of up to 36 kW and 80 kW cooling capacity per circuit.
For the optimal transmission of heating and cooling to the consumer, the system can be fitted with one of two different pumps. In the standard version, the TEMPRO plus D-2-L is equipped with a 2.2 kW peripheral impeller pump, which has a maximum pump capacity of 90 l/min (at max. 6 bar). A 4 kW peripheral impeller pump with a pump capacity of 200 l/min (max. 6.5 bar) is also available as an option.
The TEMPRO plus D-2-L features a new cold water valve block with a modular arrangement, which can be expanded indefinitely depending on the equipment variant. This makes it possible to incorporate customer-specific solutions – such as a cold water bypass for cooling the return line, or emptying the mold by means of compressed air – easily and inexpensively into the production process of the temperature controller. Moreover, the standard package includes important equipment features such as automatic filling, emptying the mold by reversal of the pump rotation, system pressure regulation, leak monitoring, and much more.
At K 2013 the new TEMPRO plus D-2-L temperature controller is being presented in the 180 °C dual circuit version. Versions for 140 °C and 160 °C are also available. WITTMANN also plans to produce a single-circuit unit and a 90 °C version in an open configuration.The new TEMPRO plus D-2-L is suitable for applications with variotherm temperature control. The variotherm process was presented for the first time at FAKUMA 2008, and over the course of the past five years the design has been extensively refined in terms of operability, control precision and process optimization.
The area of extrusion opens up further possibilities for the TEMPRO plus D-2-L. But ultimately a temperature controller with significantly larger dimensions was mainly needed in order to be able to offer a temperature control system which is also suitable for large machines – not least as part of any operating environment which includes a MacroPower injection molding machine from WITTMANN BATTENFELD.
The success story of the directly cooled temperature controller began in 2009 when a system perfectly matched to the needs of the plastics industry, the TEMPRO direct C120, made its debut at the US trade fair NPE. And then with the TEMPRO primus C120, WITTMANN was able to extend the temperature controller line for large systems downward, while setting the bar on the market in terms of quality and technical features.
Thereafter, the industry demanded temperature controllers which had to meet various demanding requirements: The devices had to be as compact as possible, but also offer versatile configuration options and be equipped with direct cooling and suitable high performance pumps. Moreover, they had to provide differentiated heating capacities for specific applications and also be able to deliver correspondingly high cooling capacities. The demand for such high performance units led to the development of the TEMPRO basic C120 temperature controller series.
Just as with the TEMPRO primus C120, the appeal of the systems in the TEMPRO basic C120 line lies in their compact construction and the versatile choice of primary technical components: the pump (0.75 kW – 200 l/min – 2.35 bar or 1.5 kW – 200 l/min – 3.65 bar), the heating capacity (12 kW or 18 kW ) and the cooling valves (⅜" or ½").
TEMPRO basic C120 temperature controllers are also available in a somewhat larger version. In that case their pump size can be configured in the same way as the TEMPRO direct C120, whereby the pump capacities then range from 0.75 kW to 4 kW. The standard heating capacity of 12 kW can also be increased to 18 kW as an option. And the available choice of cooling valves (⅜", ½", ¾") makes it possible to adjust cooling capacities in fine increments.
WITTMANN very clearly stands out among its competitors in this equipment sector once again, because as a special highlight – besides pumps with capacities of 2.2 kW and 4 kW – it ultimately offers equipment options which enable heating capacities of 36 kW and even 46 kW.
All of these technical configuration options with the standardized upper temperature limit of 120 °C guarantee trouble-free and optimized production processes wherever application-based high cooling capacities are needed in combination high feed rates.


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