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Grand Theft Auto V's musical accompaniment keeps getting more elaborate. The videogame already has its own massive soundtrack, while the new version comes with expanded radio station playlists, and now Gangrene (the collaboration between the Alchemist and Oh No) have announced an album that will be packaged with the PC version of Grand Theft Auto V.
As a taste of The Alchemist and Oh No Present: Welcome to Los Santos, they have released a track called "Play It Cool" with Earl Sweatshirt and Future Islands' Samuel T. Herring.
The track sports crackly, analogue-sounding samples with lots of tense bass figures and trilling flutes. Herring contributes some sonorous, dramatic singing and Earl offers up a rapped verse.
The Alchemist and Oh No Present: Welcome to Los Santos will debut inside of the PC version of Grand Theft Auto V starting April 14. The standalone release with follow on April 21 through Mass Appeal Records/Rockstar Games. Other featured guests include Little Dragon, Phantogram, Freddie Gibbs, Killer Mike, Tunde Adebimpe (of TV on the Radio). The album was inspired by the GTA V soundtrack.
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\section{Pointer states and classicality}

The problem of pointer states is much relevant  to the quantum origin of the classical world.
Among very many degrees of freedom of a macroscopic system,
small number of them behave classical.
The classical states of these degrees of freedom are called as pointer states.
A typical example is the center of mass position of a macroscopic object.
It does not behave as quantum mechanically,
superposition of states, but has a certain position.
On the other hands, other almost all of the degrees of freedom are true to quantum mechanics.

It has already been pointed out that the eigenstates of the interaction Hamiltonian between a macro-system and its environment play important role:
On this subject,
after the 1970s the idea of decoherence have been studied\cite{Joos1985}\cite{Zurek1981} to understand
the classical features of our daily experiences within quantum mechanics.
Since the decoherence theory\cite{Joos1985}\cite{Zurek1981} is conceptually close to our approach,
we shortly refer this below.

\subsection{Pointer states and decoherence theory}

For the two states of the macroscopic system,
we consider the interaction with its environment.
The initial states of the total system is,
\begin{eqnarray}
|\Phi(0)\rangle=(c_1|\phi_1(0)\rangle+c_2|\phi_2(0)\rangle)|\varepsilon(0)\rangle.
\end{eqnarray}
If we assume an appropriate interaction,
it evolves into
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:vNform}
|\Phi(t)\rangle=c_1|\phi_1(t)\rangle|\varepsilon_1(t)\rangle+c_2|\phi_2(t)\rangle
|\varepsilon_2(t)\rangle.
\end{eqnarray}
Although this standard expression (von Neumann form) focusing the states of the macroscopic system is often used, in the next section, we express the same equation in another form focusing the state of the environment.

We notice that these two states are assumed to be stable against the interaction.
Therefore it is important that these states, $|\phi_1\rangle, |\phi_2\rangle$, in generally, may be  approximate eigenstates of the interaction Hamiltonian.
These states are called as the pointer states and essential role in the decoherence scenario.

For the operator $\hat{Q}$ acting only on the subsystem $\phi$,
its expectation value is expressed as,
\begin{eqnarray}
\langle Q \rangle=|c_1|^2\langle\phi_1|\hat{Q}|\phi_1\rangle+|c_2|^2\langle\phi_2|\hat{Q}|\phi_2\rangle
+c^\ast_1 c_2\langle\phi_1|\hat{Q}|\phi_2\rangle\langle\varepsilon_1|\varepsilon_2\rangle
+c^\ast_2 c_1\langle\phi_2|\hat{Q}|\phi_1\rangle\langle\varepsilon_2|\varepsilon_1\rangle.
\end{eqnarray}
If the state of the environment develop into the corresponding orthogonal state
after the interaction, we can say,
\begin{eqnarray}
\langle\varepsilon_1|\varepsilon_2\rangle\sim 0.
\end{eqnarray}
In this case, the coherent terms in the above equation become small.
This process is called decoherence.
Since in this case the above equation is similar to that of statistical mixture of the events, we may also say the approximate mixture is obtained.
We also find out the same result
introducing the reduced density operator for the macroscopic system as,
\begin{eqnarray}
\rho_\phi:={\rm Tr}_\varepsilon\rho_\Phi,
\end{eqnarray}
where the density matrix for mixed states appears.

The decoherence theory is studied intensively and approved by no small number of researchers because of its conceptual simplicity, where the time evolution is under the total system-environment Hamiltonian.
The many facts have been clarified\cite{Joos1985}\cite{Zurek1981}
and its relation to the interpretation of quantum mechanics is also discussed\cite{Schlosshauer2005}.
On the other hand, there are still some essential questions.
For example, in quantum mechanics, in principle, any choice of basis give same results.
Namely, if  nothing happens in certain basis, we can conclude nothing happens.
In the decoherence theory, however, only the pointer states seem to be effective and capable to describe our reality.
Why do we experience specific basis?
The mechanism of the emergence of the pointer states still seems unclear
to be suitable for textbooks.

Although we agree with the basic idea of the decoherence theory,
we examine the starting point below, where we find that
one experiences the pointer states not because of its effectiveness but because of only the pointer states surviving.

\section{Formulation}
\subsection{(already entangled) Initial state}
Assuming that a macroscopic system is described by two orthogonal states and the environmental system is described by $N$ orthogonal states.
(We can easily generalize the number of states of the macroscopic system.)
Each of the $2N$ eigenstates of the interaction Hamiltonian is decomposed into the product states as,
$|\uparrow\rangle|\varepsilon_1\rangle, \cdots, |\downarrow\rangle|\varepsilon_N\rangle,$
where $|\uparrow\rangle, |\downarrow\rangle$
correspond to the states of the macroscopic system and
$|\varepsilon_1\rangle, \cdots, |\varepsilon_N\rangle$ correspond to the states of the environment.

Using these states, we start from the initial state,
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:entangled}
|\Phi(0)\rangle=C_{\uparrow 1}|\uparrow\rangle|\varepsilon_1\rangle+\cdots+
C_{\downarrow N}|\downarrow\rangle|\varepsilon_N\rangle,
\end{eqnarray}
representing general entangled states.
Thia is reasonable if we remember that the macroscopic system interacts with the environment continuously.
Generally any state of center of mass interacted complicatedly with other microscopic states in the past.

Next, we separate this to $N$ states from the viewpoint of the environment side,
\begin{eqnarray}
|\Phi(0)\rangle&&=(C_{\uparrow 1}|\uparrow\rangle+C_{\downarrow 1}|\downarrow\rangle)
|\varepsilon_1\rangle
+\cdots+(C_{\uparrow N}|\uparrow\rangle+C_{\downarrow N}|\downarrow\rangle)
|\varepsilon_N\rangle\\
&&=:\sum_{\nu=1}^N\alpha_\nu|\nu\rangle,
\end{eqnarray}
where the states $|\nu\rangle=(c_{\uparrow\nu}|\uparrow\rangle+c_{\downarrow\nu}|\downarrow\rangle)|\varepsilon_\nu\rangle$ are appropriately normalized and orthogonal each other.
It is important that {\bf various superposition states of the macroscopic system} appear in this expression.

This is, in a sense, the inverse version of eq. (\ref{eq:vNform}):
Namely, in usual discussions, such correlated state is often represented as,
\begin{eqnarray}
=|\uparrow\rangle(C_{\uparrow 1}|\varepsilon_1\rangle+\cdots+C_{\uparrow N}| \varepsilon_N\rangle)+|\downarrow\rangle(C_{\downarrow 1}|\varepsilon_1\rangle+\cdots +C_{\downarrow N}|\varepsilon_N\rangle),
\end{eqnarray}
being grouped into two groups.

\vspace{1cm}
\underline{\bf Notice}\\
For comparison, if we start from the product state, which is a very special case, we obtain
\begin{eqnarray}
|\phi\rangle\otimes|\varepsilon\rangle
&&
=(c_\uparrow|\uparrow\rangle+c_\downarrow|\downarrow\rangle)(c_1|\varepsilon_1\rangle+ \cdots+c_N|\varepsilon_N\rangle)\\
&&
=\sum_{\nu=1}^Nc_\nu(c_\uparrow|\uparrow\rangle+c_\downarrow|\downarrow\rangle)| \varepsilon_\nu\rangle.
\end{eqnarray}
Here we see that each state corresponds same superposition state of the macroscopic system.
This, however, is wrong at least with respect to the center of mass position as mentioned above.
We can show the emergence of the classical state, paradoxically starting from the sufficiently
entangled state eq. (\ref{eq:entangled}) below.

\subsection{Interaction with the environment}
The total system obeys the Schr\"odinger equation,
\begin{eqnarray}
[i\hbar\partial_t-(\hat{h}_\phi+\hat{h}_{int}+\hat{h}_\varepsilon)]|\Phi(t)\rangle=0.
\end{eqnarray}
We expand $|\Phi(t)\rangle$ by the non-perturbative states,
\begin{eqnarray}
|\nu(t)\rangle=(c_{\uparrow\nu}|\uparrow(t)\rangle+c_{\downarrow\nu}|\downarrow (t)\rangle)|\varepsilon_\nu(t)\rangle,
\end{eqnarray}
assumed to be orthogonal to each other.\footnote{At $t=0$, this holds exactly.}
Substituting $|\Phi(t)\rangle=\sum_{\nu=1}^N\alpha_\nu(t)|\nu(t)\rangle$
and acting $\langle\nu(t)|$ from the left side, we obtain
\begin{eqnarray}
i\partial_t \alpha_\nu(t)=\sum_{\nu^\prime}\alpha_{\nu^\prime}(t)\langle \nu(t)|\hat{h}_{int}|\nu^\prime(t)\rangle\ \ \ \simeq \ \  \alpha_\nu(t)\langle \nu(t)|\hat{h}_{int}|\nu(t)\rangle.
\end{eqnarray}
Although we treat the interaction effect perturbatively,
in the last equation, we neglect transition,\footnote{At $t=0$, this also holds exactly.}
\begin{eqnarray}
\langle\nu(t)|\hat{h}_{int}|\nu^\prime(t)\rangle\sim 0.
\end{eqnarray}
We can very easily integrate this and obtain
$\displaystyle \alpha_\nu(t)=\alpha_{\nu}\exp\left[-i\int \langle \nu(t)|\hat{h}_{int}|\nu(t)\rangle dt/\hbar\right].$
This treatment is equivalent to the lowest order approach in the perturbation theory, where only the phase shift due to the interaction energy is taken into account.
After all,
\begin{eqnarray}
|\Phi(t)\rangle\simeq\sum_{\nu=1}^N\alpha_\nu|\nu(t)\rangle e^{-i\Lambda_\nu(t)/\hbar},
\end{eqnarray}
where $\Lambda_\nu(t):=\int\langle\nu(t)|\hat{h}_{int}|\nu(t)\rangle dt$
represents the time integral of the interaction energy.
Even for the very weak interaction, $\Lambda_\nu(t)$ is the macroscopic quantity and
occurs very frequent sign inversion.

\subsection{Destructive interference due to the phase shift}
Therefore only the states giving the extreme values to $\Lambda_\nu(t)$ can survive.
The stationary phase approximation leads,
\begin{eqnarray}
|\Phi(t)\rangle\simeq\sum_{\nu_c}\tilde{\alpha}_{\nu_c}|\nu_c(t)\rangle e^{-i\Lambda_{\nu_c}(t)/\hbar}.
\end{eqnarray}
Finally almost all of the states vanish except for the classical states $|\nu_c(t)\rangle$.
(It is similar to the case that the classical limit in the path integral formulation.)
These states are the approximate eigenstates of the interaction Hamiltonian, so-called pointer states.
This result is obviously independent of the representation.
In this point our result disparate to the standard decoherence scenario.

For simplicity, we assume that the interaction energy depends only on
the state of the macroscopic system, $|\phi(t)\rangle$.
In this case, introducing the external potential,
\begin{eqnarray}
\hat{V}:=\langle\varepsilon_\nu|\hat{h}_{int}|\varepsilon_\nu\rangle,
\end{eqnarray}
\begin{eqnarray}
\Lambda_\nu(t)=\int(|c_{\uparrow\nu}|^2\langle\uparrow(t)|\hat{V}|\uparrow(t)\rangle+|c_ {\downarrow\nu}|^2\langle\downarrow(t)|\hat{V}|\downarrow(t)\rangle)dt.
\end{eqnarray}
Except for the case of accidental degeneracy in the interaction enegy,
the extreme values occur at $c_{\uparrow\nu}=0$ or $c_ {\downarrow\nu}=0$ and then,
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:nuc}
|\Phi(t)\rangle\simeq\sum_{c_{\downarrow\nu}=0}\tilde\alpha_{\nu_c}|\uparrow(t)\rangle|\varepsilon_{\nu_c}(t)\rangle e^{-i\Lambda_{\nu_c}(t)/\hbar}
+\sum_{c_{\uparrow\nu}=0}\tilde\alpha_{\nu_c}|\downarrow(t)\rangle|\varepsilon_{\nu_c}(t)\rangle e^{-i\Lambda_{\nu_c}(t)/\hbar}.
\end{eqnarray}
Surviving states are classical as seen in Fig. 1.
\footnote{Although  the coefficients $\{c_{\uparrow\nu}, c_ {\downarrow\nu}\}$ are unknown, we here exclude the exceptional distributions. }

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=7cm]{image1.eps}
\caption{The contribution of the stationary phase (image).}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\vspace{1cm}
\underline{\bf Localization of the center of mass}\\
Although we have studied on the two-state macroscopic system above,
the obtained results are easily extended to the continuous case.
Representing the center of mass position with the wave function,
the time-integrated  interaction energy is,
\begin{eqnarray}
\Lambda_\nu(t)=\int\int\phi^\ast({\bf R}, t)V({\bf R})\phi({\bf R}, t)d{\bf R}dt
\to|\phi({\bf R})|^2\sim\delta({\bf R}-{\bf R}_c).
\end{eqnarray}
In this case, however, the delocalization by the non-pertubative Hamiltonian and the localization by the destructive interference are competitive.

\subsection{Decoherence in the present formulation}

For the comparison purposes, we can re-order the terms in eq. (\ref{eq:nuc})  to correspond to Schmidt representation\footnote{In our original formulation, each term, $|\nu_c(t)\rangle e^{-i\Lambda_{\nu_c}(t)/\hbar}$, represents a classical state.},
\begin{eqnarray}
|\Phi(t)\rangle
&&\simeq\sum_{c_{\downarrow\nu}=0}\tilde\alpha_{\nu_c}|\uparrow(t)\rangle|\varepsilon_{\nu_c}(t)\rangle e^{-i\Lambda_{\nu_c}(t)/\hbar}
+\sum_{c_{\uparrow\nu}=0}\tilde\alpha_{\nu_c}|\downarrow(t)\rangle|\varepsilon_{\nu_c}(t)\rangle e^{-i\Lambda_{\nu_c}(t)/\hbar}\\
&&=:\tilde\alpha_{\uparrow}|\uparrow(t)\rangle|\varepsilon_A(t)\rangle+\tilde\alpha_{\downarrow}|\downarrow(t)\rangle|\varepsilon_B(t)\rangle,
\end{eqnarray}
where $|\varepsilon_A(t)\rangle:=\sum_{c_{\uparrow\nu}=0}\tilde\alpha_{\nu_c}|\varepsilon_{\nu_c}(t)\rangle e^{-i\Lambda_{\nu_c}(t)/\hbar}$ and $|\varepsilon_B(t)\rangle:=\sum_{c_{\uparrow\nu}=0}\tilde\alpha_{\nu_c}|\varepsilon_{\nu_c}(t)\rangle e^{-i\Lambda_{\nu_c}(t)/\hbar}$.
These states are paradoxically stabilized by the interaction.

Since the states separated to $|\varepsilon_A\rangle$ and $|\varepsilon_B\rangle$ have already vanished by the destructive interference,
 $\langle\varepsilon_B|\varepsilon_A\rangle=0$ and
$\langle\varepsilon_B(t)|\varepsilon_A(t)\rangle\simeq 0$
is lead.
The present study clearly reproduce the results of the previous studies in decoherence\cite{Joos1985}\cite{Zurek1981}, giving the precise meaning of the classical states for general case.

\section{Conclusions}
Under the general but weak interaction with the environment, we have illustrated the process of the emergence of the pointer states taking into account of the time-integrated interaction energy $\Lambda_\nu(t)$, where only the state giving extreme values to $\Lambda_\nu(t)$ survive.
The classical states are clearly identified.

\vspace{1cm}

Other main conclusions are,
\begin{itemize}
\item{Like the center of mass position, the states almost isolated but weakly interacting with its environment behave classical.}
\item{The decoherence is also derived.}
\item{Our results are independent of the representation (basis).}
\end{itemize}

\vspace{1cm}

On the other hand, the present study is based on the following essential assumptions:
\begin{itemize}
\item{The time evolution under the Schr\"odinger equation}
\item{The environment-based grouping of the entangled initial state}
\item{The phase shift due to the interaction energy}
\end{itemize}
Especially the meaning of the second assumption will have to be examined.
Note that since the resulting states are in the superposition,
the interpretation is still left.

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Comic Books, IDW Publishing, News
IDW Debuts Collection of Disney Comics Starting This April
Multi-tiered Publishing Plan Brings Classic Characters To New Audiences
IDW Publishing is proud to announce that they will debut a new collection of Disney Comics beginning in March 2015 with the publication of Don Rosa's Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Artist's Edition, followed by four extra-length comic series launches in April, May, June, and July.
April sees the debut of Uncle Scrooge #1, which will feature the best tales from creators around the world starring the iconic tycoon adventurer. Donald Duck #1 launches in May, Mickey Mouse #1 in June, and in July, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories will maintain the original numbering and launch with #721 as the first IDW issue.
"The chance to bring Disney comics to fans, both old and new, is a fantastic opportunity," said IDW editor Sarah Gaydos. "We cannot wait to get these into the hands of readers!"
All four premiere issues will offer 48 pages of content for $3.99, with subsequent issues offering 40 pages per issue for that same cover price.
"It's the best bargain in the business," said IDW archival editor David Gerstein. "No wonder it's attracted Scrooge McDuck! And we'll be attracting a big following, too—with stories by epic talents like Romano Scarpa, Daan Jippes, Casty, Giorgio Cavazzano, and Al Taliaferro."
Each issue will feature two regular covers, as well as a unique cover that places the characters in different environments that feature theme park attractions—including April's Adventureland-themed cover—and other very familiar settings and costumes. If you aren't already an avid collector, you will be! Some examples of what fans can expect to see are:
April 2015 – Adventureland
Uncle Scrooge #1 (48p)
May 2015 – Tomorrowland
Donald Duck #1 (48p)
June 2015 – So special we cannot tell you yet!
Mickey Mouse #1 (48p)
July 2015 – Fantasyland
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #721 (48p)
August 2015 – EPCOT Center
Uncle Scrooge TPB, Vol. 1
September 2015 – Frontierland
Mickey Mouse TPB, Vol. 1
October 2015 – Haunted Mansion
Donald Duck TPB, Vol. 1
November 2015 – Toontown
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories TPB, Vol. 1
December 2015 – Top Secret!
Mickey Mouse TPB Vol 2
The new IDW titles including Donald, Mickey, and Scrooge will be #1s, but will continue their classic legacy number inside the issues.
In addition to the monthly comics released in print, IDW will also be bringing Disney Comics into new territories with Micro Comic Fun Packs, and subsequent Artist's Editions, too. Details on titles and release schedules will follow.
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Q: Mysql table collation change I have an old table with several Spanish keywords. Its collation is latin1_swedish_ci.
The column with the keywords has a Primary index.
When I try to change collation to utf8_general_ci it is not possible because if finds duplicates.
With that index it is not possible.
What happens is that, for example, "cañada" is taken as "canada" that already exists but they are different words.
That was using phpMyAdmin.
Another try was to export the table as file.sql and using
sed 's/STRING_SOURCE/STRING_REPLACE/'
but at the end mysql source gave me the same error (did expect that :))
I also try that last one with the entire database.
MySQL version 5.5.64-MariaDB
phpMyAdmin, selected the database/table, tab Structure, column with the keywords selected Change and finally from the drop down Collation I selected ut8_general_ci
How can I make this change keeping all the keywords?

A: Since you are focused on Spanish, use a Spanish collation, not a generic one:  utf8_spanish_ci and utf8_spanish2_ci.  They treat ñ as a separate letter between n and o.  Other collations treat ñ and n as the same.
Meanwhile, ç=c.
However ll is treated as two l by utf8_spanish_ci, while it is treated as coming after lz by utf8_spanish2_ci.  (Something about dictionary versus phonebook -- remember those artifacts from ancient history?)
Ref: http://mysql.rjweb.org/utf8_collations.html
Once you upgrade to 8.0, there will be two more choices:  utf8mb4_es_0900_ai_ci and utf8mb4_es_trad_0900_ai_ci.
Ref: http://mysql.rjweb.org/utf8mb4_collations.html

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Tomlinson Group > News > Tomlinson receives 2018 Green Leadership and Sustainability Award from ORBA
Tomlinson receives 2018 Green Leadership and Sustainability Award from ORBA
Tomlinson was awarded the Green Leadership and Sustainability Award from the Ontario Road Builders' Association (ORBA) on Tuesday, February 5, 2019 during an awards breakfast at The Westin Harbour Castle Hotel, Toronto. This was one of two awards presented to Tomlinson by ORBA. This award celebrates the company's achievement in ensuring little to no adverse environmental impacts during its work to replace the Rawdon Creek bridge located in Stirling, Ontario. Despite major construction in an environmentally sensitive area, Tomlinson's Erosion and Settlement Control Measures (ESC) resulted in no erosion, washout, or sediment release throughout the contract
The ORBA Community Leadership Award recognizes a member company's achievement in environmental leadership and sustainable best practices. "On behalf of our Association, I want to extend congratulations to Tomlinson on receiving the 2018 ORBA Green Leadership and Sustainability Award," said Bryan Hocking, Chief Operating Officer of the Ontario Road Builders' Association. "Through their focus on worker training, and a 'best outcomes' criteria for selecting erosion and sedimentation controls and work means and methods, Tomlinson demonstrated its commitment to environmental stewardship and leadership. The holistic approach Tomlinson employed to mitigate and eliminate these risks from construction operations at the Rawdon Creek Bridge project stands as a best practices example in environmental impact risk management."
The Rawdon Creek Bridge Replacement, begun October 2017, included the removal and disposal of the entire superstructure on Highway 62, County of Hasting, Ontario. There were several potential environmental impacts of the project including: disturbance or destruction of fisheries habitat; impact on fish activity due to suspended sediment; flooding; water chemistry and habitat alterations; degradation of water quality. The area is also home to various Species-At-Risk: the SAR Turtles, Bobolink/Eastern Meadowlark, and the Barn Swallow.
In order to protect the area, Tomlinson implemented the adaptive management approach. Upon thoughtful consideration and site analyzation, the company developed a series of erosion and sediment control plans for each phase of construction, which they adapted to reflect changing site conditions as the work progressed. Two key site personnel were on-site at all times during construction to monitor erosion and sediment control, adjust the measures to address observed issues for effectiveness, provide training, and conduct on-site weekly meetings. The team considered primary factors determining the potential for erosion including: rainfall and runoff; topography; soil texture; soil cover. Embankments around the bridge were reinforced to prevent the release of sediment into the creek. The team also implemented innovative and long-term mitigation measures for the highly erodible soils, comprised mostly of silt and sand.
"Tomlinson is delighted to receive this award," said Stephanie Tessier, VP Business Development. "ORBA recognized that our adaptive management approach which, has proven to be incredibly successful, was highly beneficial to this type of project. Being environmentally conscious is one of our CORE values and Tomlinson strives to maintain leading-edge environmental practices and adherence to sustainability."
About Tomlinson Group of Companies
Ralph Tomlinson founded R.W. Tomlinson Cartage in 1952 with one single-axle dump truck. Now celebrating 65 years, the company is now Eastern Canada's leader in environmental and transportation infrastructure services. Providing a comprehensive range of products and services in quarrying, construction, trucking and environmental industries, Tomlinson continuously strives to deliver the highest standard of quality and value to its customers, partners and employees. Investment in its communities, people, processes, resources and equipment has earned Tomlinson a reputation for excellence, integrity, innovation and teamwork. For more information, please visit www.tomlinsongroup.com.


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Lorna Nowve to Coordinate the Asian American Film Lab's Unfinished Works Program!
Screenwriter, producer, and development director, Lorna Nowve, Joins the Management Team of the Asian American Film Lab, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to the promotion and support of gender and ethnic diversity in film and television.
By: Asian American Film Lab, Inc.
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Feb. 15, 2013 - PRLog -- New York, NY, February 15, 2013 – The Asian American Film Lab (Film Lab) is pleased to announce that Lorna Nowvé has joined the Film Lab management team as the new Unfinished Works coordinator. Jean Goto, formerly the sole Unfinished Works staff member, welcomes the expansion of the program and continues to work in Unfinished Works.
Said Ms. Nowvé, "I am delighted to be part of the Asian-American Film Lab. Our upcoming programs will be multi-faceted events, offering filmmakers exciting opportunities to workshop their projects. The audience will get an insider's look at the creative process and be treated to a first look at some of the strongest emerging voices in film and video today."
Film Lab Board member, Bea Soong, noted, "Lorna brings with her a wealth of knowledge and experience to the team. We are so lucky to have her aboard."
Film Lab President, Jennifer Betit Yen, explained, "[T]he Unfinished Works program, which provides screenwriters with the free opportunity to workshop their works in progress via a table read by professional Film Lab actors and a structured, moderated feedback session, has been growing significantly over the past year. As the program continues to expand, Lorna's expertise is both welcome and necessary to allow us to continue to provide the highest caliber of service possible to our members."
About Lorna Nowvé
Lorna Nowvé has an extensive background in film and television production. She has worked as a screenwriter, producer, and development director for a number of independent production companies.
She served as Associate Producer on the indie hit Untitled and the Paul Reiser/Steven Sater Untitled NY Pilot for FX. Her production staff credits include The Following, Bored To Death, Law & Order, Ocean's 11, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and the upcoming feature, Now You See Me.
Her projects in development include the music documentary, Women On The Side and Best Buds.
Ms. Nowvé produced the highly acclaimed screenplay reading series at the Nantucket Film Festival. The program brought together noted screenwriters and casts including Ben Stiller Amanda Peete, Jane Alexander, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Scott Cohen, Naveen Andrews, and Andy Richter.
Ms. Nowvé was a participant in the Sundance Producers Conference and served as a screenwriting mentor for the National Association of Latino Independent Producers.
About Asian American Film Lab and the Unfinished Works Program
The Asian American Film Lab (Film Lab) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to the promotion and support of gender and ethnic diversity in film and television through free monthly educational and outreach programming and the acclaimed annual 72 Hour Shootout filmmaking competition (www.asianamericanfilmlab.org). This annual competition has inspired hundreds of filmmakers by helping nascent talent take brave steps towards a filmmaking career. The Film Lab formed in 1998 by collaborative of New York-based filmmakers whose goals were to hone their craft and to share their knowledge, experience and resources. The membership has grown to comprise professionals, artists and other talented individuals who all share the common goal of creating great film and promoting all filmmakers of color, with a focus on Asian Americans, and the visibility of their stories and characters in film and television.
The Film Lab's Unfinished Works program constitutes its longest running program, ongoing for 15 consecutive years. Unfinished Works allows writers to workshop, in a structured and constructive environment, unfinished plays, screenplays and television scripts. It also serves as a bridge between actors, writers and directors of color, particularly Asian Americans. Writers are welcome to bring in a director for the table read and absolutely must cast a certain number of roles from the Asian American Film Lab's actor members. To submit your screenplay for a free reading and workshop, please email UnfinishedWorks@film-lab.org with your name, email, telephone number, logline, synopsis, and a brief statement of why you feel Unfinished Works will be useful to developing and improving your screenplay.
The Asian American Film Lab is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Membership and all contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
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Investing in Sparks replacement windows will pay off during the cold winters in this region of Nevada. The city of Sparks is located near the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, which affects the community's climate. Although Sparks enjoys mostly sunny days throughout the year, Sparks replacement windows can protect your household against the occasional episodes of severe weather.
Sparks is the twin city of Reno, a NV city known for its casinos, restaurants and outdoor recreational activities. Sparks and Reno both feature a variety of homes, from condominiums to traditional ranch dwellings. Sparks replacement windows help you control the interior climate of your home and protect your furnishings, carpets and drapes against the ultraviolet rays of the strong sun. Compare estimates from multiple Sparks replacement windows providers to find Nevada window pane solutions that will protect your residence for years to come.
When you purchase Sparks replacement windows, you may not be aware that many of these products are tinted. While some tints are visible to the naked eye, other protective coatings are microscopically thin. Nevertheless, these products, or glazing treatments, can safeguard the interior of your house against the unwanted effects of weather and sunlight. Subtle tinting can also protect your family's privacy.
A barely visible replacement windows tint can block the harmful ultraviolet rays of the sun, which keeps your furniture, collectible art work, wall hangings and window treatments from fading. UV resistant basement glass options are popular in high altitude communities, where the sunlight can quickly raise the temperature inside a home. Tints may be combined with a low emissivity coating, which reduces the amount of solar heat gain inside a NV home. Solar heat gain can increase the workload on your cooling system in the summer, which also increases utility costs.
Tinted replacement windows can guard the interior of your Sparks home against the eyes of curious passersby. If you live in one of the more densely populated neighborhoods in Sparks, you may enjoy the feeling of privacy that an artfully applied tint can provide. Decorative tints give the exterior of your home a colorful, unique appearance while blocking the inside of your rooms from public view.
Visible tints can reduce the amount of daylight that enters your rooms, but for some homeowners, the positive effects of tinting are worth the slight reduction in daylight. In areas of your home where natural lighting is less important than privacy or reduced solar heat gain, tinted Sparks replacement windows can be a sound investment.
Energy usage has become a concern for many families in the West. If you're worried about the effects of greenhouse gas emissions, energy efficient replacement windows can be a gratifying purchase. High performance replacement windows reduce heat gain and loss, which means that your air conditioner and furnace won't have to expend as much energy in order to keep your interior temperatures within a temperate range.
Heat gain is often the result of the sun's rays passing through the glazing of your window panes. Glass that admits high amounts of specific types of light promotes heat accumulation inside your home. Low emissivity, or low E, glazing cuts down on the amount of light that's transmitted through your panes, so that your rooms will remain at a more moderate climate, even when you aren't operating the air conditioner. Low E coatings consist of a layer of metal that's so thin as to be invisible to an observer.
Heat loss may occur through the framing components of a window assembly or through inadequately insulated glass. Double paned replacement windows include a protective, insulating layer of air or gas between two sturdy panes, one of which may be treated with a low E coating. In the winter, properly sealed, well insulated Sparks replacement windows prevent the loss of heated air from inside your home. Vinyl, wood and fiberglass products have high energy ratings and are easily customized to match your home's decor.
Air leakage is another factor that affects heat loss and gain. When air leaks through the tiny openings between panes or between the panes and the frame, you may feel a noticeable draft or hear the sounds of the assembly moving slightly. Caulking these cracks is one effective way to make the assembly more resistant to energy loss. Replacing old, warped, damaged units with new models is another effective approach to minimizing your energy usage.
The more measures you take to seal off your home's interior from the effects of sunlight and weather, the less energy you'll use. Maintaining a small carbon footprint has become a priority for many local families. You'll enjoy cooler summer days, warmer winter mornings and lower energy bills throughout the year when you invest in Sparks replacement windows.


As you may know, the Onshape App Store makes finding new engineering apps – such as CAM, simulation, rendering, manufacturing and data management – as easy as browsing iTunes or Google Play. Many of our development partners offer Integrated Cloud Apps which work directly within Onshape Documents.
Physically accurate photorealistic rendering in the cloud.
Dedicated rendering servers with high-end GPU hardware.
A library containing more than 1400 high-quality, pre-defined materials.
Automatic UV mapping for easy texture mapping.
Reconverting and updating your model while keeping materials.
Rendering at any size or quality.
Various natural and artificial lighting configurations.
To learn more, check out this tutorial video for RealityServer for Onshape.
VisualCAMc is a new production-grade CAM application based on the industry-proven technology, VisualCAM. VisualCAMc supports 2 ½ Axis and 3 Axis milling cutter paths directly inside an Onshape Document. As an Integrated Cloud App, VisualCAMc can be used from any device, anytime and from anywhere in the world.
VisualCAMc is now available in beta and is being prepared for final commercial release later this year. This beta release is free for anyone with an Onshape account who is approved by MecSoft.
Click here if you are interested in signing up for the VisualCAMc Beta program!
SIMSOLID Cloud is a new browser-based Integrated Cloud App. Featuring a cloud-based user interface and distributed compute engine, the app contains the complete feature set in desktop SIMSOLID. Its unique approach does not have the meshing limitations found in traditional FEA. Instead, the application is based on new technology that works directly on the unsimplified CAD geometry and does not use a mesh.
With SIMSOLID Cloud, you never have to leave your familiar Onshape environment. All modeling, analysis and results visualization are completely embedded.
Click here if you are interested in signing up for the SIMSOLID Beta program.
OpenBOM has taken a step into the realm of manufacturing by providing Onshape users the ability to create an Order BOM to perform production planning. The Order BOM is OpenBOM's first practical step toward closing the gap between engineering and manufacturing. After you release a BOM in the current version of OpenBOM, you'll be able to create production batches to plan the number of product units to be manufactured. OpenBOM will create an Order BOM, which includes information about the required and gap quantities for each part.
The Order BOM can be shared with contractors and suppliers for follow-up and collaboration on parts delivery. Furthermore, the Order BOM can be integrated with bookkeeping or ERP systems for procurement and order tracking. When the Order BOM is released to production, the inventory quantity on hand for each part will be updated automatically in the OpenBOM Part Catalogs (inventories). To learn more, please read this blog post.
Support For Onshape Custom Properties – Onshape Professional users now have the capability to extract custom properties from Onshape to OpenBOM. Learn more here.
New BOM Creation Configuration Page – Based on your feedback, we've improved the BOM creation window page. The same BOM configuration options are available, just formatted in a more concise fashion.
Support For Density, Surface Area and Volume Properties.
Transparent Login – We removed the need to sign in to your OpenBOM account each time you open an Onshape Document with an OpenBOM BOM. Learn more here.
OpenBOM's Integrated Cloud App is free in the Onshape App Store. Try it here!
Render Animation – Trace a path in the scene and visualize different aspects of the project in a video.
Share Projects – Share the latest version of your project with others and work collaboratively.
New Interface Design – Changes in the menus, colors, typography size and color contrast.
Check out this video to learn more.
Parmetric, a new Integrated Cloud App, provides an automated quoting and ordering system for Onshape sheet metal parts.
Design a sheet metal part in Onshape using sheet metal features.
Select the part in the Parmetric app and receive instant feedback on manufacturability, price and lead time.
Add multiple parts to a single quote with different quantities, finishes or materials in the unique BOM view.
Purchase the parts inside of Onshape and have it shipped directly to you.
For a more detailed look at Parmetric, watch this video.
OnCreate3D, the first full-cloud CAM app, has added Pencil and Leftover toolpaths. These toolpaths are specifically useful for machining fillets and regions not machined by previous big tools. Pencil and Leftover are used after finishing toolpath operations so that the tool cuts away only the un-machined regions, leaving the surface finish untouched.
OnCreate3D also detects the changes in an Onshape Document and gives users an opportunity to fetch the latest Document for further processing. Toolpath operations created on old Onshape Documents are regenerated automatically, maintaining the associativity between the design and machining process.
ONU is pleased to announce that its 3D visualization platform is now available in the Onshape App Store. Convert & Optimize by ONU is the only cloud-based solution for efficiently creating lightweight polygonal FBX and OBJ files from CAD data. This product employs automation with patent-pending technology to create a polygonal model in just minutes, retaining the part number and hierarchy information to enable interactive technical applications.
The app allows for unlimited sharing of models via the ONU web viewer, and will permit a limited number of free exports so that users can appreciate the versatility of the output, which can serve AR, VR, web, and mobile applications.
For more information on ONU's Convert & Optimize app, watch this webinar.
That wraps up this "What's New" update. As always, we'd love to know what you think of Onshape's partners and what kind of engineering tools you'd like to see next in our ecosystem. Please share your thoughts in the Onshape Forums!


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from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django.db import migrations, models
import django.db.models.deletion

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        ('taggit', '0002_auto_20150616_2121'),
        ('jobs', '0008_job_tags'),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.CreateModel(
            name='TagVariant',
            fields=[
                ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
                ('variant', models.CharField(max_length=255)),
                ('tag', models.ForeignKey(on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE, to='taggit.Tag')),
            ],
        ),
    ]

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Like many people, I've never been able to carry off a hat. Unlike most of them, I keep on trying, spurred on, at this point in my life, by the non-aesthetic benefits of hat-wearing - keeping warm and keeping off the sun.
When younger, I routinely made myself ill in hot places by refusing to sacrifice appearance to health (in the same way that many won't consider warm underwear in cold weather until they're past 35). Monte Alban, near Oaxaca in Mexico, comes to mind.
I walked around these exposed ruins for several hours under a searing sun, and, not surprisingly, suffered a blinding 24-hour headache.
Some people look great in hats. Ruth, for instance, who borrowed this one from me only minutes earlier and immediately made it her own.
It was bought for me last century by the X in a Sydney St Vincent de Paul's because I was trapped in the house by blazing heat. I didn't wear it then, I don't wear it now, and yet it goes on waiting for me to do so.
I have more luck - or is that confidence? - with winter hats. Perhaps because they're markedly less ladylike and I don't feel such a fraud.
I borrowed this one from E for a winter weekend at the Chateau last year and felt remarkably at home in it (I was, mind you, in love with the person weilding the camera, which probably anaesthetised me against all other sensations). E also gave me a nice wool cloche she bought at considerable expense in London. I don't feel too bad in that, either.
Sun hats, though, continued to elude me.
And then - drumroll - last year in Melbourne I found it - the perfect hat. Because I've spent much of my life in a state of hat denial, I don't know the proper names of various types of hat, so I'd better just give you a picture of this one.
Which doesn't go far towards illustrating how nifty it was in Kookai when I bought it. That's because within a day or so of getting it home I ran it over.
I must have rushed down the path to the car and plonked the hat on the car roof while I got myself and my belongings inside. I didn't notice the hat wasn't among them until I returned an hour or so later and found it flattened on the road. Tragically, it's never been the same since.
I suppose what I like/d about it is that it isn't ladylike. It appeals to the boyish in me. It makes the wearer look jaunty rather than as though she should be bedecked in muslin, carrying a willow basket of cut flowers and brimming with sweetness.
This hat's other important feature is that it fits me. I have a small head and that, coupled with the usual onslaught of the Wellington wind, means your average-sized brimmed hat is off my head in seconds. This one is soft, rams on tight and stays put. Unlike a similar one, bought a year or so later, also in Melbourne but rather more cheaply. Which means it serves more as a bedroom decoration than a useful piece of headgear.


AWSM launched its student chapter program in 2011-12, and it has since grown to include chapters at 21 campuses in the United States. If you're interested in starting a chapter at your campus, under no circumstances should you take any steps or actions until you have contacted Katie McInerney, Vice President of Student Programs. AWSM board members will respond and let you know how to proceed.
Under no circumstances should a university/college claim to be affiliated or under the guise of AWSM that hasn't formally applied and been approved. Legal action may be taken against any individual or party.
AWSM instituted a chapter of the year award in 2013 in the spirit of honoring the hard work and enthusiasm of our student network members. Recipients of the award are below.
I want to start a student chapter at my university. What do I do?
AWSM only accepts applications for new student chapters in the fall. The deadline to apply for 2018 was September 30. New chapters will be selected in October. Requests for 2018 have closed. All potential chapters are required to be recognized as official student organizations on campus. If you have questions, please contact AWSM board members Katie McInerney, Meghan Montemurro or Sarah Scriven.
The 2018 deadline for new student chapter applications was September 30, 2018.
What will increase my school's chance of becoming officially recognized?
Planning ahead and generating interest among students and faculty members before applying will increase your chance of being officially recognized by AWSM. For instance, a prospective chapter with 15 interested students already signed up as student members of national AWSM will have a greater chance than one with three. A strong outline of plans for the chapter (potential events and speakers) also will make your chapter a more attractive candidate.
Is there a limit on how many student chapters will officially be recognized by AWSM each semester? What will increase my school's chances of earning that distinction?
Yes. AWSM will "admit" up to five new chapters each semester. This program is still in its developmental stages, and capping the number of official student chapters allows national AWSM to give each chapter the guidance it deserves. Planning ahead and generating interest amongst students, faculty members and professionals before applying to will increase chances of being officially recognized by AWSM. For instance, a prospective chapter with 20 interested students already signed up as student members of national AWSM will have a greater chance of becoming an official student chapter than one with five. A strong outline of plans for the chapter (targeted guest speakers, potential events, etc.) will also make your chapter a more attractive candidate.
What are the benefits of having an AWSM student chapter at my university?
AWSM prides itself not only advancing women in sports media, but creating a community of members of all ages and in all areas of the field. Being a student chapter means you are fully welcomed into the AWSM family. You will have access to member-only benefits, such as AWSM's directory, monthly newsletter and job alerts. Additionally, all student chapters will be guided by professional AWSM members, creating plenty of networking and mentorship opportunities. Finally, student chapters allow students at universities with a similar interest in sports media to connect with one another and, hopefully, form valuable friendships and professional relationships that will continue when entering the workforce. Check out this blog post by AWSM@OklahomaState member Courtney Brown that explains why being part of a student chapter is a valuable experience.
Why do all of our chapter members need to be national AWSM members?
The student chapter program is a full partnership with national AWSM. In order to take advantage of the resources our organization can provide, student members must register as national AWSM members. The student fee is $25 per calendar year (c'mon, you probably spend more than that on Starbucks each week!) and may be tax deductible because AWSM is a nonprofit organization. Register at awsmonline.org.
How do we plan a schedule? What are we supposed to do?
Brainstorm with interested students and faculty members to come up with a variety of meetings and events that will most benefit your chapter. The most successful student chapters have a healthy blend of social, educational and professional development activities. Reach out to local media professionals that could be a guest speaker or part of a discussion panel. Hold workshops where peers, faculty members and professionals can critique resumes, cover letters and work samples or provide job interview advice. Throw a watch party for big sporting events or take part in a community service outing. National AWSM is also here to help. Some of the most prominent female sports media professionals in our field today are members of AWSM and we can help connect you to them for conference calls, Skype chats or even in-person visits. Just ask!
We want to raise money for a project. What should we do?
or car washes can work well on campuses. Establishments such as Blaze Pizza, Chipotle and Jamba Juice offer opportunities as well. And, don't forget about looking into options on campus – such as student government or the communications school, which may have funds available.
What is your internship/scholarship contest, and why should we enter it?
Illustrated. Details can be found here.
Can guys be part of our AWSM student chapter?
Yes! AWSM stands for the Association for Women in Sports Media, not the Association of Women in Sports Media. Our membership is open to anybody who supports the advancement of women in this field.
What kind of help is there if we have a question or problem?
National AWSM's board is always available.
Contacts for every board member can be found on the AWSM About Us page.
Do we need to keep our own finances?
Yes. Student chapters are a branch of national AWSM, which means we need to report finances of all chapters to the IRS for tax purposes. Additionally, most schools will require a regular financial report as part of being an official student organization. Having a student chapter treasurer is recommended.
Are we allowed to come to the AWSM national convention?
opportunities available. Also keep an eye out for our regional events, announced in quarterly newsletters and on social media.
Once our chapter is approved, do we have to reapply each year?
All chapters will be evaluated on an annual basis, taking place at the end of each academic year. AWSM will notify each chapter advisor by July 31 of the results. If a chapter is found not to be upholding guidelines set forth by national AWSM, that chapter will be placed on probation for a 90-day period. At the end of 90 days, the chapter will be re-evaluated and allowed to continue operations or suspended. Suspension of a chapter in no way precludes an individual attending or employed by a university from being an AWSM member in good standing. Chapters which have been suspended are eligible to reapply after one academic year. Example: School X is suspended July 31, 2000 – it may reapply on August 1, 2001.
What would warrant the suspension of a chapter?
A chapter will be suspended when it is found not to be upholding guidelines set forth by national AWSM – which may include: absence of continuous activity and communication with national AWSM, failure to have elected officers in place, lack of chapter members joining national AWSM, maintaining good standing at the host college/university, failure in being officially recognized by the host college/university as a student organization.


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Ruth Humphryes Brown
Profiles of the WASP
Class 43-W-8
November 11, 1921 – December 30, 2010
Planes flown: PT-19, BT-13, AT-6, AT-11, B-26
Training Location: Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.)
Assigned bases: Childress Army Air Field (Tex.) and Harlingen Army Air Field (Tex.)
"I heard about the (WASP) program–and all the gals were trying to do something for the war effort. It was either that or Bundles for Britain and I decided flying sounded a little more exciting than knitting…"
Ruth Brown from her interview: Wings Across America
Born Ruth Boettcher Humphreys on November 11, 1921 to the prominent A.E. Humphreys family of Denver, she grew up surrounded by the beautiful mountains of Colorado, steeped in the history of Colorado's 19th century mining, oil and manufacturing industries and her father's love of aviation. She attended Kent School and later Miss Porter's School in Connecticut and Finch College in New York City.
Ruth was determined to help her country during World War II. Once she learned the requirements for acceptance in the Army Air Forces Women's Flying training program, she decided it was time to learn to fly, and immediately began taking flying lessons. Eventually, she completing the 35 required hours, applied and was accepted into the Women Airforce Service Pilots program, class 43-W-8, leaving her beautiful mountains to travel to Avenger Field in the middle of West Texas. It was there that Ruth, along with 47 other young women pilots, completed training and earned her WASP wings on December 17, 1943.
After graduation, Ruth was stationed at Childress Army Air Base, Texas, where she trained bombardiers in AT-11's and later was stationed at Harlingen, Texas, where she flew as a B-26 tow target pilot, training gunners for combat. Her last assignment was to March Field, California, where she was stationed when the WASP were disbanded on December 20, 1944. From California, Ruth paid her way back to Colorado.
After the war, Ruth became very interested in skiing and began spending time in Aspen with a cadre of Denver friends who were interested in creating a ski area. Among them was D.R.C. Brown, whom she married in 1947, the same year he founded the Aspen Skiing Corp. and marked the rebirth of the little-known mining town as a premier international resort destination.
In 1959, Brown established the Ruth H. Brown Foundation, and began funneling her time and money into nonprofits and causes close to home and to her heart. She was a patron of the arts as well as a participant in workshops at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village. Her philanthropic efforts included founding the Blind Outdoor Leisure Development program, which taught the blind how to downhill ski and the first expansion of Outward Bound's programs to America.
Aspen Hall of Fame
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Q: How to properly measure a 200 A/5 A CT using an Arduino? I've seen multiple projects for energy monitoring explaining how to calculate values using a Current Transformer (CT), however, all the CTs that were mentioned have high turn ratios.
The CT available to me is a 200 A/5 A CT. After plugging in their calculations I get a load resistor value of less than 0.6 Ω with a power rating that needs to be impossibly high.
Since the load resistor is impossible, what else can I do? How am I suppose to calculate the load resistor's size?
I have also tried using the ACS712 5 A sensor to try to get the secondary of the CT, but no luck.

A: Current transformers with traditional "current outputs" typically have relatively low turn ratios, and output currents of 5A or 1A at full load. The high output currents mean thick wires to the meter, but good noise resistance.
They normally specify a maximum power dissipation in the ammeter's shunt, which for small cores is often just a couple of watts. This means very low resistance shunts in the meter, especially if they have 5A secondaries. The voltage developed over the shunt will therefore be similarly low. However that is not an issue as the electromechanical moving iron meters they were originally designed for work on current and typically only needed a fraction of a mA for FSD.
"Voltage output" current meters are designed with much higher turns ratios, and therefore much low current outputs.  This allows thin wires, but can lead to more concerns with noise.
They have the same power limits, but the low full load currents means they can be used with much larger burden resistors.  These are typically sized to give 3v3 at full load. Values in the 50R-200R range are common, and the resistors are often internal to the transformers.
High-turns ratios, voltage output CTs are great for ADC inputs, but can also be used with moving iron voltmeters (which are the same sensitive moving iron meters but with series resistors instead of shunts)
Using the formulae for calculating a burden resistor, with a target of 3V3 at full load, with a low turns ratio high current output transformer, will inevitably lead to excessive power dissipation.  For example, with your 5A secondary this would mean over 17W dissipation at full load.
Instead you need to calculate a shunt/burden resistance that is low enough to stay inside the power budget, and then work with the resulting low signal voltage.


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Welcoming 2018 with a look back at highlights from 2017
As global players are returning to their desks to start 2018, here is the summary of what made the headlines in petrochemical markets during 2017. Some of the most important developments of the year were the rebound of crude oil futures, some considerable capacity additions in the ethylene and PE markets, economical and natural developments as well as major company updates at several global producers.
Oil prices traded in the range of $45-55/bbl on NYMEX in the first nine months of 2017 before they started to firm up in October due to supply concerns. Crude oil futures mostly maintained a bullish run in the last quarter of the year while hitting their highest levels since June 2015 in the last week of December.
Meanwhile, Brent futures were mostly on a firming trend in the June-December period of the year, with prices recently hitting their highest levels since May 2015.
On November 30, OPEC and non-OPEC members unanimously agreed to prolong oil production cuts until the end of 2018 in attempt to reduce supply glut.
Naphtha/ethylene
Naphtha prices both in Asia and Europe followed a softening trend in the first quarter of 2017 while they steadily increased in the second half. According to ChemOrbis Price Wizard, both regions' naphtha markets have recently hit their highest levels since the end of 2014.
Meanwhile, spot ethylene prices in Asia have been following a bullish trend since July amidst availability issues and have been trading above China's import LDPE and LLDPE markets for more than four months, according to ChemOrbis Price Index.
New ethylene/PE capacities
Many petrochemical producers in several countries including China, India, Iran and the US either expanded their production capacities or launched new plants for ethylene and/or PE in 2017.
In the US, Chevron Phillips began the startup process of its new PE units at Old Ocean, Texas in September. Each PE unit is able to produce around 500,000 tons/year of PE. The company's new 1.5 million tons/year cracker also begun the commissioning activities in December.
DowDuPont Materials Science started up its new integrated ethylene plant and its upgraded PE unit named ELITE in Freeport, Texas in September. The company's ethylene plant has a production capacity of 1.5 million tons/year while ELITE is expected to produce 400,000 tons/year of PE.
ExxonMobil launched the first of its two new PE lines, located in Mont Belvieu, Texas, in October. The company's new PE units are able to produce 650,000/ton of PE each.
India's Reliance Industries Limited also started up its new 1 million tons/year PE plant, located in Jamnagar, India at the end of September. Players particularly in China reported competitive PE offers for Indian origin in the last quarter while they also showed up sporadically in Turkey and Southeast Asia.
Although the new capacities have already caused some oversupply concerns across the globe, plans for new projects do not seem to lose momentum for the years between 2020 and 2025 across the board. Iran, in particular, speeded up its plans to develop new petchem units in 2017 in partnership with several foreign funds.
China-Iran bank issues cause HDPE prices to spike
In May, many traders in China reported that they were facing difficulties in securing petrochemical goods from Iran since China's banks started to impose some restrictions on opening letters of credit for transactions with Iranian parties.
Iran, as the main HDPE supplier of China, lost a considerable market share given these payment issues. According to data from ChemOrbis Import Statistics, China's total HDPE imports from Iran decreased by around 7.2% year on year in the January-November period. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia recuperated Iran's loss as it raised its market share considerably by around 37% in the same timeframe.
As a result of reduced supplies from Iran, China's import HDPE market mostly followed a bullish trend in the second half of 2017, with prices hitting a more-than-2-year high in late November.
Qatar tension
Members of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates cut their diplomatic relations with Qatar in early June, which generated economic and supply concerns throughout June. However, these concerns happened to be short-lived as Muntajat continued to meet their customers' requirements through alternative logistics arrangements which included re-routing their shipments through other ports.
India's implementation of GST
In most of the second half of 2017, India's polymer demand was negatively affected by the government's implementation of GST (Goods and Services Tax) which was put into force as of July 1 as an indirect tax on manufacture, sale and consumption of goods as well as services.
On a global scale, the new tax in India affected PVC the most among other polymers given the country's position as the world's largest importer of PVC. Demand from India was persistently slow for months as the market sentiment failed to improve even after the monsoon season due to uncertainties over the GST implementation.
In November, the Indian government decided to revise the tax rates down and boost consumption to increase consumer goods and the retail sector, the media reported.
A series of devastating hurricanes, including Harvey and Irma, hit the US in September, causing more than $202 billion in damage, according to estimates by Bloomberg. Most petrochemical producers based in the US Gulf Coast were forced to shut their plants given the major storms and a large part of production was suspended in the region. The impact of Harvey-driven shutdowns was felt considerably across the globe as supplies from the US reduced significantly at that time. Spot ethylene prices in the US, for instance, hit a seven-month high in mid-September amidst reduced supply levels while regional polymer producers had to cut their export allocations and lift their offers.
Record-high imports in China and Turkey
ChemOrbis Import Statistics reveal that China's and Turkey's imports of polymers made in January-November already surpassed the previous years while the full data for 2017 is likely to hit new record highs with more than 18 million tons in China and 5 million tons in Turkey.
PET prices amid safeguard measures
PET prices climbed to more-than-two-year high both in Asia and Europe during 2017 although increasing measures on PET imports across the globe changed the trade routes of PET. Indonesia, Japan, Canada and the US were among the countries that applied new duties or started antidumping investigations on several Asian origins, particularly on China, last year. However, the European Union terminated the 13-year-long antidumping measures on China's PET in early 2017, which triggered questions of whether Europe will be the new destination for this origin particularly in the absence of M&G, which filed for bankruptcy, and the problematic issues with JBF.
Swiss Clariant AG and the US based Huntsman Corp have mutually abandoned their merger plans while Brazil's Braskem denied the takeover talks with LyondellBasell in November. Dow Chemical Co and DuPont finalized their planned merger on September 1 to form DowDuPont.
Petronas and Saudi Aramco re-united in RAPID project, which includes a refinery, a cracker and a downstream chemical complex with a production capacity of 7.7 million tons/year to be commenced in 2019. Aramco also said that their plans for IPO remained on course for 2018 despite the widespread speculations that emerged in the latter part of the year.
Saudi Aramco, meanwhile, acquired the full shares of the US' largest oil refinery, Port Arthur in July while they company signed a memorandum of understanding with SABIC in November to develop a fully integrated crude oil to chemicals (COTC) complex by 2025, which is marked as the first time the two oil giants of Saudi Arabia had entered into a strategic partnership.
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I wrote earlier in the week about research done by Charles O'Reilly and his colleagues on executive compensation. One of his collaborators is long-time compensation consultant Bud Crystal, who has a an interesting web site called The Crystal Report. Indeed, this is Bud's 50th year in the executive compensation field. Bud's site is pretty sparse at first glance, but once I started digging in and reading Bud's writings, I was quite taken with his strong point of view, experience, and great stories.
The thinking of so many HR professionals was never made more clear to me than on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. I was then a junior corporate compensation executive at General Dynamics Corp., the major aerospace firm, which at that time was headquartered in Manhattan.
HR people often get more abuse than they deserve because they are so often put in a position where no one notices them when they do something right, but they get blamed out of proportion when things go wrong. A classic fate of people who have responsibility, but not enough authority. So they often are very timid about taking action because they get punished for doing even the most obviously right things. Not all companies create this difficult situation for HR heads, but too many do.
It's the pain of the game. I think being in HR takes much more strength than any other management position.


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Cyborg Lawyers
Kevin Rhodes
This second collection of Kevin's blog posts for The Now of Law and the Colorado Bar Association's Legal Connection ezine focuses on the future and culture of law. Drawing from a variety of disciplines and perspectives --including science, technology, neuro-culture, positive psychology, and entrepreneurship-- it sweeps through current hot topics such as globalization, commoditization, democratization, big data, artificial intelligence, online algorithms, disruptive technology, the new economy, hacking, mindfulness, and more. Extensively researched, visionary, futuristic, and written in a crisp, conversational style by a man on a mission to bring professional excellence and personal wellbeing to the people who learn, teach, and practice the law.
The Future of Law collection boldly predicts the future of law practice, lawyers, and the law itself, which Kevin summarizes as follows:
The new practice models and technologies we're already seeing won't merely change how law is practiced, but will re-create lawyers themselves -- who they are, and what they do.
As a result, a new kind of lawyer will in a new kind of law practice, alongside a new kind of legal expert who wouldn't even qualify to be called a lawyer in today's regulatory environment.
Alongside both of them, consumers (no longer "clients") will themselves also practice law in a wave of legal DIY aided by artificial intelligence algorithms engineered by cyber geeks and served up online.
The combined impetus of these developments will create a new kind of law-- new in both substantive content and in how it is created, shaped, communicated, and applied.
In particular, this new kind of law will be created and disseminated, and will grow and change, by processes other than the historical reliance on legislation and appellate precedent and lawyer-to-client communication.
Finally, the advent of this new kind of law will transform the law's role as a foundational institution in the larger cultural context in which it lives and moves and has its being.
The Culture of Law section explores the author's belief that, in order for the new legal entrepreneurial practice models and technologies to sustain themselves, a new culture for the legal profession will need to arise with them. Kevin follows his interest in neuroscience to examine how culture is formed from the inside out -- beginning literally with how lawyers' brains are re-wired in law school and upon entry into legal practice. This examination leads to this far-reaching conclusion:
"The practice models and cultural dynamics that make up the legal profession's status quo today simply will not be with us in 50 years. Some won't be here in 20, maybe not in 5 or 10. Some are gone already. As they disappear -- one by one, and in batches -- a new world of law will emerge to replace them. And when it does, the law's role in human society -- and thus human society itself -- will have changed with it."
The Legal Times ends by challenging "those of us who inhabit the legal profession, who consider it an essential milieu of our work and our lives" to lend a hand in creating the law's new future and culture. "The question is not whether the new future and culture of law will arrive, it is whether we'll lend a hand in bringing it about."
Drawing on insights gathered from science, technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, neuroscience, psychology, and from his personal experiences as a practicing lawyer, The Legal Times is extensively researched, visionary, and written in a crisp, conversational style by a man on a mission to bring wellbeing to the people who learn, teach, and practice the law.
Although focused on the legal profession, this book's lessons are widely applicable to a multitude of other arenas experiencing radical transformation in our world today.
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Liberty Basketball: Freshman Progress Report
By Meg Perkins Last updated Jan 25, 2023
The Liberty Flames have utilized the services of a couple of true freshmen this season to help push the team to remaining at the top of the ASUN Conference. Led by starting point guard Colin Porter, this class should continue to make an impact on the men's basketball program as it moves towards a tenure in the Conference USA.
As we're roughly halfway through the conference portion of the season, let's take a look at the freshmen's progress through so far.
COLIN PORTER
Porter may be one of the biggest reasons for Liberty taking a step forward this year. Last season's team was unable to find a true point guard to compliment the skill and talent of Darius McGhee. The Flames tried Drake Dobbs and DJ Moore, neither of which panned out and ultimately entered the transfer portal.
Enter porter, a 5'9″ guard from Ashland, Kentucky. Yes, he was reclassified during his junior year of high school to enroll early, but that put him back on schedule with his original graduation class. Still, the poise and skill he has provided to the team as a true freshman has been superb.
Porter has started all 21 games, averaging 25.6 minutes each game. He's shooting 43.1% from three and his 31 made triples are the fourth most on the team behind McGhee, Brody Peebles, and Kyle Rode. He also leads the team with 87 assists to only l36 turnovers and is second on the team with 28 steals. Porter is currently averaging 6.5 points per game.
McKay's take – "He brings a stability to our group on both ends. He doesn't get the credit that he deserves for how sound he is defensively. He's got a commitment on that end that is unlike most freshmen. I love him. I trust him. I think he's got a chance to be one of the best ever in our program. To me, he's as good as any point guarded out there as a freshman."
Cleveland has played in 16 of the team's 21 games, averaging 15.9 minutes each outing. He's shooting 44.7% from the field and has missed his six three point attempts. Cleveland is averaging 3.8 points and 3.3 rebounds per game. He's also second on the team to Shiloh Robinson with 10 blocks and has shown his ability to make plays with the ball in his hands as he has 35 assists.
The 6'7″, 210 pound forward from Bloomington, Illinois, Cleveland has shown flashes of his potential to make a big impact on the team. His athletic ability has led to several times he nearly broke the rim off the backboard with thunderous dunks.
Cleveland has missed the past four games, having not played since the team's loss at Eastern Kentucky. Coach McKay had indicated prior to the home game against North Alabama on Jan. 12 that he was to miss the game due to a non-COVID related illness. Cleveland made the trip with the team to Jacksonville this past weekend, but did not see any game action as he was on the bench in street clothes.
McKay's take from earlier in season – "We've seen flashes of (him being really good) throughout the fall and even some in the early season. Between he and freshmen comrade Colin Porter and Ben Southerland, he's going to be a really good player for us too. I really like the youth that we have in our program."
BRYSON SPELL
The 6'9″ forward from Virginia Beach, Spell redshirted last year and has yet to crack into the normal rotation this season. He has seen playing time in 17 of the team's 21 games, averaging 4.1 minutes per contest. 18 of his 19 attempted field goal attempts have come from three-point range. He has made 4 of 18 triples for 22.2% this season.
BEN SOUTHERNLAND
Southerland was likely the highest rated signee of the class coming out of high school. The 6'7″, 190 pound forward out of Ohio is currently redshirting. He has the ability to make an impact on this team moving forward, especially once forwards Kyle Rode and Shiloh Robinson exhaust their eligibility. Southerland's biggest strength is likely his ability to stretch the floor and shoot from the perimeter.
JC SHIRER, JR.
The 6'3″, 195 pound guard is a walk-on from Arlington, Texas who is currently redshirting.
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Pacific-born, California-raised roots superstars Common Kings announce their return to New Zealand for five concert dates this May, in support of their long-awaited debut LP Lost in Paradise.
Common Kings last visited New Zealand shores as One Love festival headliners in early 2016, and previously as special guests to Justin Timberlake in 2014. Since then, their relentless schedule has seen the band join Meghan Trainor on her Untouchable Tour, followed by their own sell-out headline American tour.
Released in late 2015, Common Kings' EP Hits & Mrs saw the band spend 20 weeks on the Billboard Reggae Charts peaking at no. 2. The EP also saw the band named Best International Pacific Artist at New Zealand's Pacific Music Awards in 2016. The release of Lost in Paradise on February 25 saw Common Kings spent the past seven weeks on the Billboard Reggae Charts, with the song currently taking the no. 1 spot.
Wal caught up with bassist, Ivan 'Uncle Lui' Kirimaua recently to get the story on the new album and their Tour next month here in Aotearoa.
Wal: Tell me about the new album Lost in Paradise?
Ivan: "Finally, we feel like we've accomplished something in our lives for whatever reason out here in the States as far as the industry goes, nobody looks at you unless you have a body of work and the only body of work they'll pay attention to is a full-length album.
Wal: What does the new album mean to you personally?
Ivan: "I think the album represents Common Kings at the fullest and how we are. We knocked out his entire album that was more a true reflection on 'who we are' and 'where we've been'. Everything is very organic, just the way it came together.
Wal: Wait – So, you're telling me you had an album but that changed?
Wal: How would you describe the new album?
Ivan: A really good way to describe it would be its 'crossing the great pacific and coming here,' there's definitely a lot of influences of 'who we are', 'where we came from', and who 'our parents were' and the struggles they had.
Wal: How come we didn't see any Common Kings songs on the Disney Moana film soundtrack?
Ivan: "You know what? during that time, we heard it was going but we were so focused on our album because like I said, "If you don't have a body of work here, nobody counts you as a real artist.
Wal: Since you've been on the scene, have you noticed a shift with Polynesian music or artists getting more airplay in the States?
Wal: Do you guys have family in New Zealand?
Wal: You guys were invited on Meghan Trainor's Tour; do you have any feature artists guesting on your new album?
Wal: Who do you look up to musically, who are your heroes?
Ivan: There's our brothers The Regiment Horns. When knew them we came out we went on tour with Justin Timberlake and we've had the honour of having them on our album, Lost in Paradise.
Wal: I see you guys are also including Whangarei on the Tour here. They do love their Reggae, strange choice of venue?


In September 2012 my family and I went on a canoe camping trip in Pillsbury State Park in nearby Washington, NH. Among the many photos I took of my kids, the dogs, the incredible food we made that weekend, and the abundant wildlife, was this one of a Great Blue Heron. That trip was magical!


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The FDA announced last week that it authorized the Q-Collar, made by Q30 Sports Science, for protecting the brain during sports activities.
Q30 Sports Science's Q-Collar is a C-shaped collar worn around the neck designed to apply a compressive force to the neck and increase blood volume to help reduce movement of the brain within the cranial space, which is something that may occur during head impacts, according to a news release.
The compressive force provided by the device goes to the internal jugular veins, which in turn increases the blood volume in the skull's blood vessels, creating a tighter fit of the brain inside the skull and reducing unrestrained movement of the brain within the skull, known as a "slosh." It can be worn for up to four hours at a time and should be replaced after two years of active use or upon its expiration date.
The device could reduce the occurrence of specific changes that are associated with brain injury and is authorized for athletes 13 years old and up during sports activities to aid in protecting the brain from the effects associated with repetitive sub-concussive head impacts.
"[This] action provides an additional piece of protective equipment athletes can wear when playing sports to help protect their brains from the effects of repetitive head impacts while still wearing the personal protective equipment associated with the sport," Christopher M. Loftus, M.D., acting director of the Office of Neurological and Physical Medicine Devices in the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said in an issued press release.
A study of the Q-Collar, for which results were released in October 2018, observed 46 female high school soccer players. Twenty-four of them wore a Q-Collar. All 46 athletes underwent neuroimaging at up to three points in time over a six-month period. This included the 3-month soccer season and 3-month post-season rest period, with no exposure to head impacts. Head impacts were tracked using accelerometers–a computer chip–placed behind the left ear during practice and games.
The FDA assessed the device through several studies, including a longitudinal study in the U.S. with 284 subjects aged 13 and older participating on a high school football team. Over the course of the season, 139 athletes wore the Q-Collar, and 145 did not, while all participants also wore an accelerometer device for measuring every impact to the head sustained during play. Each athlete underwent an MRI during pre-season and post-season.
Significant changes were found in deeper tissues of the brain involved in the transmission of electrical nerve signals in 106 of the 145 (73%) participants in the no-collar group, while zero significant changes in those regions were observed in 107 of 139 (77%) in the Q-Collar group.
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The Q-Collar does not replace and should be worn with other protective sports equipment associated with specific sports activities and wearers of the device should not depend on it to protect them from all harmful effects of head impacts, the FDA said.
FDA noted that the Q-Collar has not been tested and should not be used on athletes with the following conditions:
Increased pressure in the skull (including uncontrolled ocular-glaucoma)
Increased presence of acid in the body or excessive blood alkalinity
Open head injury (including in or around the eye) within the past six months
Pseudotumor cerebri (false brain tumor)
Presence of brain or spinal shunt
Accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid within the brain
Known seizure disorder
Known trachea abnormality
Known airway obstruction
Known carotid hypersensitivity
Blood clot in the brain
Increased likelihood of blood clotting (coagulation)
Collections of small blood vessels in the brain that are enlarged and irregular in structure
Skin injury, rash, or other abnormality on or around the neck
To read the full press release on the FDA's approval for the Q-Collar, click here.
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Shibadong village in Hunan province has a new look that shows some of the achievements of poverty alleviation policies. [Photo provided to CHINADAILY]
Shibadong village, a once destitute backwater in central Hunan province, is setting a good example in poverty alleviation.
The village, located in Huayuan county, Xiangxi Tu autonomous prefecture, has 225 households and 939 residents, most of whom had been afflicted by poverty for years.
Things started to turn around after President Xi Jinping visited the village in November 2013 and called on governments at all levels to lift the impoverished villagers out of dire straits through "targeted" measures.
In early 2014, a work team stationed in Shibadong broke poverty-alleviation policies down into specific actions, and 136 households with 542 people were identified as impoverished.
The village, which is endowed with rich natural and cultural resources, has been built into a multiple-industry base covering tourism, kiwi planting and Miao embroidery. The kiwi even tapped into markets in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions.
Long Jinbiao, 27, a villager who once worked in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, has been impressed with the tremendous changes over the past few years.
"I came back to the village every two years to visit my parents during the Spring Festival holiday. But I chose to stay in 2017 because of the promising future here," he said.
Long is now chairman of the village"s tourism cooperative, which was established in September.
Sun Zhongyuan, Shibadong"s Party secretary, said the diversified industries have brought more jobs.
"Before 2013, about two-thirds of the villagers were out of work. That has decreased to one-third now."
According to a news release on the province"s website, the average income per capita in the village increased to 10,180 yuan ($1,490) in 2017 from 1,668 yuan in 2013.
The targeted poverty alleviation in Shibadong village also inspired neighboring areas in the prefecture.
Longbizui village, about 60 miles from Shibadong, is the traditional home of 3,195 people, with 90 percent of its dwellers being of ethnic minorities such as Miao, and 568 trapped in poverty.
The village used Shibadong as an example and took anti-poverty measures focused on rural tourism development based on its natural resources.
So far, 124 households with 513 people have been lifted out of poverty.
Shi Chengyuan, a 64-year-old from Longbizui who has heart disease, was in a financial predicament after his two sons died of illnesses years ago.
Shi now works for the village"s travel company, earning 1,500 yuan per month cleaning the river.
"Thanks to the village"s booming tourism, my wife also got a job selling tea, earning 1,500 yuan every month," he said.
Zhong Haowang, assistant to the village director, said that about 520 jobs were created for villagers last year, of which 148 positions were given to people who were impoverished.
He said the village received more than 1 million visitors in 2018, generating revenue of 150 million yuan for the village and strongly driving the poverty reduction work.
Ye Hongzhuan, Party secretary of the province"s Xiangxi Miao autonomous prefecture, said targeted and specific poverty alleviation work has been introduced in the prefecture"s impoverished areas and has received encouraging feedback.
As of the end of last year, 874 of 1,110 impoverished villages had shaken off poverty, with more than 550,000 people lifted out of poor financial conditions, he said. Disposable income per capita rose to 9,183 yuan last year from 4,229 yuan in 2012.
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