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The world economy in 2010 affects trade, money flows and conflicts resulting out of alterations in purchasing power. Right now the key issues are the various holdings of bank shares in other countries or as in the case of China its trade advantage presumed to be linked to an undervalued currency. Naturally world economy touches upon the scale of economies. Any firm will seek advantages in producing more due to a demand for its products not coming merely from a restricted local market but world wide.
Quite another matter is the search for policy measures, indicators and practical tasks to ensure sustainable development. The warning signs are clearly everywhere to be seen: erosion of the soil, floods, pollution or vanishment of drinking water, oil and other forms of pollution etc. A turning point in all of this has been the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg in 2002. It was a failure due to business coopting the agenda and in managing to have more official delegates than what Civil Society was able to muster despite years of preparatory work for an international agreement. A clear issue is again not only finding or developing the tools to measure things but to have politicians commit themselves to such measurable tools that everyone can know if the world is on track to attain sustainable development. Since governments, think tanks and other institutions following closely developments work with time lines and definite policies which have clear advantages if understood in the right or certain way, it needs to be said the development favored until now has only criteria in mind which enhance profit taking and business practices linked to the notion that a healthy economy is one in which things are done in the most efficient way while those who are innovative have a chance to make money. Thus measures of success are used which distort perception of reality and as a consequence governments do not alter their course until too late.
It has been said that Capitalism will end up in a crisis and then a new society shall come about. This hope for Capitalism to collapse has never been fulfilled. On the contrary, the development of the world economy shows a growing learning process out of all kinds of crisis. Even if the oil spill by BP means a huge disaster for fishers and nature e.g. wetlands and other ecological niches, the institutional norm is to return as soon as possible to 'business as usual'. That means models of existence are not basically altered even though it is clear that the dependency upon oil stems from the fact that people still prefer to drive around in their cars even though everyone would admit this adds a huge burden to an already strained earth by over population, deforestation, melting of the artic ice etc.
Also it is a fallacy to believe problems of the world economy and sustainable development can be resolved by new technology. It was technology itself which has brought about all these problems. Since technology is no longer just a mere tool or a product like a car, but includes a logic according to which society has to organise itself e.g. more roads for all the cars, modifications like clean energy, safer technology, soft power etc. are not sufficient to get out of this trap. For technology has altered since First World War the scale of things and empowered forces which can exert control over millions of people. The use of modern media to convey only certain images attests to that. It leaves those to be addressed by serious discussions and thoughts out of sight.
The problem has intensified as things have become more anonymous. There seems no feed-back possible between thoughts and studying possible consequences if actions are undertaken in a certain direction for many firms and companies have become independent from such local immediacy where theory and practice can be evaluated also in terms of way of life and impact upon the contents of life itself. As a matter of fact the growing number of people excluded from meaningful working and deliberation processes indicates a 'poverty of experience' prevails so that people no longer feel to be in touch with larger reality. Their own lives is one thing, what the media proclaims and how political processes are commented upon has little or nothing to do with what they experience at personal level. Rather than clarifying positions, public debate if at all accessible obscures and obstructs access to information no longer free nor really validated by independent sources. In the end, society does not know how it wants to be governed since best practices are not discussed in politics. It leaves everyone wondering how long will things continue as they have all along as if nothing is happening and yet all the crisis from oil spills, Greek deficit, street protests of the red shirts in Bangkok etc. suggest something has to be done to change how governance is practiced in view of firms going global to join the many forces making up the world economy.


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UConn Named to Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Institute
The new national initiative aims to increase small manufacturers' use of robots by 500 percent. Researchers at UConn will focus on the aerospace and shipbuilding industries. (Getty Images)
The University of Connecticut is part of a new national institute designed to advance robotics manufacturing and maintain America's global competitiveness in that arena. UConn researchers will help develop new sensing, software, artificial intelligence, and other technologies to improve the use of robotics in manufacturing for the aerospace and shipbuilding industries.
The institute, called the Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Institute (ARM), was announced earlier this month and will include several Connecticut businesses and academic institutions. The Connecticut portion of the proposal was led by UConn, the United Technologies Research Center, UTC Aerospace Systems, and ABB US Corporate Research. The institute will be led by American Robotics Inc., a nonprofit associated with Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Penn.
The ARM institute is the 14th and final national institute created under President Obama's Manufacturing USA initiative, according to Michael Accorsi, senior associate dean of engineering.
"The focus on robotics makes it a great fit for Connecticut, with our strong ties to the aerospace and shipbuilding industries – industries that can really benefit from the next generation of robotic innovation," he said.
The new institute is supported by a total of $253 million in funding. Federal funding represents $80 million of that, with the remaining money coming from 123 industrial partners, 40 academic and academically affiliated partners, and 64 government and nonprofit partners.
At UConn, Ashwin P. Dani's Robotics and Controls Lab is already performing research on interactions between robots and humans. Dani and his graduate students are creating algorithms so that industrial robots can learn what action a person will likely take in a given situation. By understanding where a person will move, a robot can work alongside a human and avoid injuring them.
"The new institute is designed to create an ecosystem of robotics," said Dani, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. "That ecosystem will involve creating collaborative robotics that can do flexible, highly variable jobs efficiently and create advancements in artificial intelligence, particularly human-robotic interactions. That's an area we already focus on here at UConn."
The U.S. Department of Defense's Manufacturing USA initiative is designed to encourage private industry, academia, and government collaboration to revitalize and enhance U.S. competitiveness in key areas. As a part of ARM, UConn will create a new, advanced robotics facility within the new UConn Tech Park, which will expand on UConn's existing robotic capabilities.
The aerospace, automotive, and electronics industries will represent 75 percent of all robots used in the country by 2025. UConn and other Connecticut partners are focusing on the aerospace and ship building industries, which have been slower to adopt robotic technologies than the automotive industry. Dani said that because these industries create a smaller volume of products than the automotive industry, they need robots that can do a variety of tasks.
"The automotive industry makes millions of cars every year, so each robot can be highly specialized. The aerospace industry creates far fewer individual products, so each robot needs to be able to quickly learn and perform multiple tasks," Dani said. "UConn and ARM will make the innovations necessary to create agile, dexterous, and collaborative robotics."
The new institute aims to increase small manufacturers' use of robots by 500 percent. UConn will work with community colleges around the state to provide training in robotic jobs within existing STEM programs, to meet the increasing demands for the robotic manufacturing industry.

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vivo released the V11i in India back in September as vivo V11 and now it is hitting the manufacturer's domestic market as vivo Z3i. Essentially, the V11i and the Z3i are the same but there are some small details that set those two apart.
We've got the same MediaTek Helio P60 chipset on board but instead of offering two memory options, the company gave a limited choice – only 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. Just for the record, the V11i came with either 4GB/128GB or 6GB/64GB. The screen features the same waterdrop notch design, 6.3-inch IPS panel, and 1080 x 2280 pixels resolution.
Another barely noticeable difference is the front-facing camera – the V11i packs a 25MP sensor while the Chinese Z3i version comes with a 24MP sensor. The back accommodates the dual-camera setup that consists of a 16MP (f/2.0) main camera and a 2MP secondary unit for depth sensing.
Battery capacity remains at 3,315 mAh and the handset runs on Android 8.1 Oreo-based Funtouch OS.
The vivo Z3i comes in Millennium Pink and Aurora Blue colors and the asking price is CNY2,398 in local currency or $346.


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Consultation launched on legislation to allow local authorities to work together on animal health
DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS News Release (Information Bulletin ref :247/08) issued by The Government News Network on 25 July 2008
Defra has today launched a consultation on legislation to allow local authorities in England to work more easily together on animal health. In 2006, the Eves review of the animal health and welfare delivery landscape highlighted that there was a legal obstacle to local authorities carrying out animal health work for other local authorities, and recommended removing it. Stakeholders supported this recommendation. In our response to Eves, we agreed to seek to pass the necessary legislation in 2008. We propose a Legislative Reform Order (LRO) to bring in this change, which will bring animal health in line with all other policy areas in England.
LROs are often used to make changes to Government Acts in order to reduce burdens.
Defra is now seeking views on whether an LRO is the best way to achieve this objective.
View the full consultation at: http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/localauth-lga-ah/ View the Eves Review report and Defra's response at: http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/ahws/deliver/review.htm
The closing date for consultation responses is 17 October 2008.
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Q: getting error: Python failed preconditioned when trying to train machine learning model I'm using tensorflow keras for training my model. My images shape are (224, 224, 3) for trainning my image classification model. I am using VGG face weights which is why i cannot change the convolutional layers.
this is my code
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import tensorflow as tf
from tensorflow import keras
from tensorflow.keras.models import Model
from tensorflow.keras.layers import Dense, Flatten, Input, Dropout, Conv2D, MaxPooling2D, Activation, \
    BatchNormalization, ZeroPadding2D, Convolution2D
from tensorflow.keras.applications.resnet_v2 import ResNet50V2
from tensorflow.keras.applications.resnet import ResNet50
from tensorflow.keras.applications.vgg16 import VGG16
from tensorflow.keras.preprocessing.image import ImageDataGenerator
from tensorflow.keras.callbacks import *
from tensorflow.keras.optimizers import Adam
from keras.models import model_from_json
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
gpus = tf.config.experimental.list_physical_devices('GPU')
tf.config.experimental.set_memory_growth(gpus[0], True)

folder = "images"
train = pd.read_csv("face_attribute_train.csv")

train_d, val_d = train_test_split(train, test_size=0.1, random_state=2)

train_datagen = ImageDataGenerator(rescale=1. / 255.,
                                   rotation_range=40,
                                   width_shift_range=0.2,
                                   height_shift_range=0.2,
                                   shear_range=0.2,
                                   zoom_range=0.2,
                                   fill_mode='nearest',
                                   horizontal_flip=True)
test_datagen = ImageDataGenerator(rescale=1. / 255.)
columns = ['Thick_Lips_Nose']

trainGen = train_datagen.flow_from_dataframe(
    train_d, folder, x_col='image_id', y_col=columns, class_mode='raw', target_size=(224, 224), batch_size=128,
    color_mode='rgb', shuffle=True)
print(trainGen.image_shape)

valGen = test_datagen.flow_from_dataframe(
    val_d, folder, x_col='image_id', y_col=columns, class_mode='raw', target_size=(224, 224), batch_size=128,
    color_mode='rgb', shuffle=True)
model = tf.keras.models.Sequential()
model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1, 1), input_shape=(224, 224, 3)))
model.add(Convolution2D(64, (3, 3), activation='relu'))
model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1, 1)))
model.add(Convolution2D(64, (3, 3), activation='relu'))
model.add(MaxPooling2D((2, 2), strides=(2, 2)))

model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1, 1)))
model.add(Convolution2D(128, (3, 3), activation='relu'))
model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1, 1)))
model.add(Convolution2D(128, (3, 3), activation='relu'))
model.add(MaxPooling2D((2, 2), strides=(2, 2)))

model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1, 1)))
model.add(Convolution2D(256, (3, 3), activation='relu'))
model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1, 1)))
model.add(Convolution2D(256, (3, 3), activation='relu'))
model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1, 1)))
model.add(Convolution2D(256, (3, 3), activation='relu'))
model.add(MaxPooling2D((2, 2), strides=(2, 2)))

model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1, 1)))
model.add(Convolution2D(512, (3, 3), activation='relu'))
model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1, 1)))
model.add(Convolution2D(512, (3, 3), activation='relu'))
model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1, 1)))
model.add(Convolution2D(512, (3, 3), activation='relu'))
model.add(MaxPooling2D((2, 2), strides=(2, 2)))

model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1, 1)))
model.add(Convolution2D(512, (3, 3), activation='relu'))
model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1, 1)))
model.add(Convolution2D(512, (3, 3), activation='relu'))
model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1, 1)))
model.add(Convolution2D(512, (3, 3), activation='relu'))
model.add(MaxPooling2D((2, 2), strides=(2, 2)))

model.add(Convolution2D(4096, (7, 7), activation='relu'))
model.add(Dropout(0.5))
model.add(Convolution2D(4096, (1, 1), activation='relu'))
model.add(Dropout(0.5))
model.add(Convolution2D(2622, (1, 1)))
model.add(Flatten())
model.add(Activation('softmax'))
model.compile(loss='binary_crossentropy', optimizer=Adam(learning_rate = 0.0001), metrics='accuracy')
model.load_weights("vgg_face_weights.h5")

x= Flatten()(model.layers[-3].output)
x = Dense(1748, activation='relu')(x)
x = Dropout(0.3)(x)
x = Dense(874)(x)
x = BatchNormalization()(x)
x = Activation('relu')(x)
x = Dense(256)(x)
x = BatchNormalization()(x)
x = Activation('relu')(x)
outputPred = Dense(1, activation='sigmoid')(x)

model2 = Model(inputs = model.layers[0].input, outputs = outputPred)
model2.compile(loss='binary_crossentropy', optimizer=Adam(learning_rate = 0.0001), metrics='accuracy')

model.save("Model1/")
model2.fit(trainGen, epochs=2, validation_data=valGen)
model2.save("Model2/")
sub_df = pd.read_csv('sampleSubmission.csv')

datagen = ImageDataGenerator(rescale=1./255.)
testGen = datagen.flow_from_dataframe(
    sub_df, folder, x_col='image_id', y_col=None, class_mode=None, target_size=(224, 224), batch_size=128,
    color_mode='rgb', shuffle=False)
preds = []
preds = model.predict(testGen)
sub_df[['Thick_Lips_Nose']] = preds

sub_df.to_csv("Submission.csv", index=False)
sub_df

I am getting this error at line 105. This error is initiated by fitting of the model:
tensorflow/core/kernels/data/generator_dataset_op.cc:107] Error occurred when finalizing GeneratorDataset iterator:
 Failed precondition: Python interpreter state is not initialized. The process may be terminated.
     [[{{node PyFunc}}]]

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Alternative & Holistic therapies are based off the intention to work with the body in a 'Holistic way'. This means that all angles and layers are taken into account. Ie - Physical, mental and emotional. Craniosacral Therapy is an extremely light hands on way of working with the Craniosacral System within the body which exists within but is not restricted to the Cranium (head), Spinal Chord, and Sacrum (last bone of the spine). The practitioner accesses this system through the power of his / her intention and aims to bring movement back to places of injury / trauma.
Domesticated horses, especially those in work, are regularly exposed to a variety of external influences which can cause the body to come out of alignment. On a daily basis we see causes such as: ill fitting tack, pull backs, improper feeding, bad dentistry, falls, accidents during transit/ in the field, injuries from contact during competition (especially Polo, Show Jumping, Cross country, Racing). In Craniosacral Work, we honour the fact that bodily structures are deeply connected. This means that when one part of the body is out of balance, there will be other conjoining parts which are also out due to their immediate compensatory relationship with the original trauma. With horses, a large majority of these imbalances occur at the cranium, thus the importance of Craniosacral therapy within the Equine world.


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Climate change a top concern for Gov. Inslee
OLYMPIA — There was a telling moment just before Gov. Jay Inslee raised his right hand and took the oath of office.
He was introduced as a politician who sees climate change as "an existential threat that transcends politics."
"More than any other president or governor before him, Jay has an electoral mandate on this issue," Denis Hayes, organizer of the first Earth Day in 1970, told a packed audience in the rotunda two months ago.
If lawmakers did not grasp the significance of those remarks then, they do now.
"I can tell you with a high degree of assurance that unless you and I and other people in our state embrace a commitment that we're going to see to it that our grandkids have that experience, they're not going to have it. And the simple reason is the water will be too acidic to support those life-forms," he said.
Richard Feely, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Seattle and an acidification expert, said the governor was probably accurate when it comes to the Pacific oyster, but the science isn't clear yet on other species such as crabs.
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Editor's Notebook
Improving Our 'Technology' With More Expertise and Experience
Got a letter recently from an "Appreciative Fan" of the tire industry. More precisely, of the technological wonders that are today's radials.
"I'm 78. I've driven on a lot of tires. I would like to thank the tire industry for designing and manufacturing better and safer tires," wrote Warren Modell of Bronx, N.Y., who mentioned that he "should have written this letter many years ago" out of his "admiration for the entire tire industry."
And he's right. I mean, about the technology part. In recent months we have seen significant announcements about new technology breakthroughs and concepts. Michelin is pairing with Amyris Inc. to develop raw material isoprene from "renewable feedstocks." Dow Chemical and Lehigh Technologies are working together to gain greater use of micronized rubber powders made from old tires in the production of new tires.
Goodyear is working on technology in which tires will be able to self-maintain their own inflation pressure. Cooper – and all tiremakers – continues to push rolling resistance technologies. And Bridgestone's latest is a tire that instantly senses and evaluates road surface conditions to help drivers react to changing traction conditions.
Yep, Warren, you ain't seen nothing yet! Stick around, this is about to get good!
World-class technology is the A-train to success in delivering a world-class product. But all of that is tied directly to having good, talented and knowledgeable people.
We don't make tires, but we do try to deliver a world-class level of experience and expertise. That's what you should expect from Tire Review.
Over the past few months you've doubtlessly seen a few new authors among our ranks, and there will be a few more in coming months. Some of the new contributors are replacing others who have moved on because of career changes, and a couple are straight additions to bring you even more information about the tire industry.
Mac Demere is a name you might be familiar with. I first met Mac when he was with Motor Trend magazine and I was a rather green tire writer for another magazine. He took me on a few hot laps, giving me vivid, non-stop play-by-play as he ate up every inch of Road Atlanta, a level of performance driving concentration I have seen from very few.
More recently, Mac worked as a tire test driver and event coordinator for Michelin. Now, among his varied freelance auto writing duties and graduate degree studies, Mac has taken over our bi-monthly Performance column, and I think you have already found that Mac's unique insight can be invaluable in helping you help your customers make smart tire choices.
When long-time contributor Skip Scherer had the opportunity earlier this year to become a "loaned executive" with the United Way, he jumped at the chance. And it is a great opportunity that I know he is enjoying, but it left a hole in our coverage of TPMS-related issues and our popular Tire Tech column.
Enter Rudy Consolacion, another name many of you will remember from his days as a tire engineer with Goodyear and Kumho Tire USA and then as motorsport manager with Kumho. Today, Rudy is director of operations for DriveTeam Inc., an Akron-area based performance driving school for teens, adults, seniors, even police officers.
When he's not doing that, Rudy will be our new TPMS and Tire Tech column writer. His first Tire Tech column ran last month, and he will have a full schedule in 2012.
There is no argument that other than annual market round-ups, Tire Review has been weak in its coverage of ag and OTR tires. We have been remiss, but no more.
Joining our staff with regular columns on these highly specialized tires are two other familiar names – Tim Good and Jeff Vasichek.
Tim recently concluded a 37-year career with Goodyear, the last 22 years in OTR tire sales and service. There is very little about the giant OTR tire market that the Akron native doesn't know, and Tim maintains direct contact through his consulting business.
Earlier this year, Vasichek stunned the industry when he left an executive position with Titan International to become vice president of sales and marketing with Baldwin Filters. And even though he certainly will be successful in another industry, Jeff wanted to keep his hands in the ag tire business. That's good for you because there are few people with the background and expertise in ag tires, farmers and farm tire service.
Rounding things out is retail tire business expert Rick Barnhart, who will be putting his knowledge to use on extensive feature articles for Tire Review. He has 35 years of experience in retail automotive and tire sales and customer service, most of which are with a major tire retailer. His retail tire consulting business works with other dealers to improve their businesses.
In this article:Jim's Blog
Editor's Notebook: Vehicle Subscription Models Put a Twist on Consumer Choice
Editor's Notebook: Idled Driving Shouldn't Mean Stalled Vehicle Service
Editor's Notebook: Winning the Customer Care Game
Editor's Notebook: Refocus Your Business Through Subtraction
Improving Our 'Technology' With More Expertise and Experience
Looking for Opportunities Amid Supply Challenges
Forging a Path Forward
How the State of Our Industry Impacts Your Day to Day
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Relocating garages to Teku Road
By Raymond Tan on	 January 10, 2011, Monday at 6:07 AM Sarawak
State government, Sibu Automobile Repairers Association working together to resolve 20-year-old problem
SIBU: Automobile workshops in choked residential and town areas which have been an eyesore may be history soon.
This is because the state government and the Sibu Automobile Repairers Association are now working closely together to see whether it is possible to relocate all these workshops to a piece of land spanning 31 acres in the outskirts of Teku Road.
Second Finance Minister Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh, who disclosed this plan during the association's gathering on Saturday night, said he was determined to turn this piece of land into an industrial lot.
"I hope this will help solve the nagging environmental problem arising from the rapid development of the town. I am determined to help."
Wong said he had in fact been trying to help the association resolve this nagging problem for years.
He lamented that an earlier plan to relocate to Lanang Road failed to materialise because the developer found the sinking land unsuitable for this purpose.
"The situation was frustrating; the developer had to return the deposit to hopeful car garage owners and diverted the land for other uses. We wasted five years," said Wong, who is also the Minister of Environment and Public Health.
Stating that this was
a matter of urgent concern, he added: "I have discussed the matter with the
Chief Minister (Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud) and I have received the nod from him to see if the proposal (to shift to Teku Road) could be worked out with the association."
Wong explained that the nagging situation had persisted for so long
because of the lack of industrial land.
"The land in mixed zone are too expensive, and I therefore have turned to the outskirts in this search."
He advised car garage operators to be patient as he would work out the proposal with their association.
Meanwhile, association chairman Teo Ngiin Poh said the problem had plagued them for about 20 years and impatience among members had festered.
"I have been blamed for the delay.
"I am happy Dato Sri Wong is again with us to help see us through to better days ahead."
More than 1,200 association members and their families took part in the pre-Chinese New Year gathering at Sibu Trade and Exhibition Centre on Saturday.
The association also gave out graduation certificates to 19 trainee mechanics from their member workshops.
They also gave out study incentives to students with excellent academic performances.
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Asia Briefs: Needle found in child's heart
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Needle found in child's heart
BEIJING • The parents of a one-year-old Chinese girl were shocked to find a 4.5cm long needle wedged in their child's heart after taking her to the hospital for a chronic cough.
The couple, whose family name is Xie, told local media that their daughter Chenchen often coughed at night and had developed a fever in the past weeks.
According to Taiwan's China Times, doctors took two X-rays and found a foreign object in the girl's chest cavity.
The girl had an operation to remove the needle, which her mother said looked like a sewing needle that she regularly uses.
Emperor Akihito still unwell
TOKYO • Japan's ageing Emperor Akihito cancelled his official duties for a second day yesterday, after being treated for insufficient blood supply to the brain.
A palace spokesman said the monarch "has a mild stomach ache in addition to symptoms of vertigo".
On Monday, a government spokesman said the monarch had been treated for cerebral anaemia, a condition resulting from insufficient blood flow to the brain, which caused vertigo and nausea.
The 84-year-old shocked the country in 2016 when he signalled his desire to step down after nearly three decades in the job, citing his age and health problems.
Fatal ferry accident in Indonesia
JAKARTA • At least a dozen people, including two children, died yesterday after a ferry ran aground off the coast of Indonesia, officials said, as rescuers raced to save more than 125 other passengers thought to be aboard the vessel.
The deadly incident in waters off Sulawesi island came the same day that the authorities officially called off the search for more than 160 people still missing after another ferry sank in a popular tourist lake in Sumatra two weeks ago.
In yesterday's incident, the KM Lestari ran aground about 300m from the coast, Indonesia's transportation agency said, as waves swamped trucks and other vehicles on the ferry's deck before they plunged into the water.
The authorities have not yet accounted for all 139 people listed in the ship's manifest, police spokesman Dicky Sondani told Kompas TV.
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Located under the right arch of the rib cage, the liver silently performes it's never ending tasks of detoxifying, metabolizing, decomposing, building and rebuilding. This metabolic organ, weighing about 1,5 kg (3,5 lb), is vitally important and we have no way of compensating for it's functions medically.
All the venous blood from our intestines pass through the liver, where it's filtered from toxic compounds and the products from the digestion is repackaged for further delivery to the cells.
The liver also produces and secrets bile, the green-yellow fluid that sometimes comes up when having a really bad stomach flu. The yellow color is from billirubin, a product of the decomposition of red blood cells, a process that takes place in the liver.
The bile is important for the break down and uptake of lipids in the small intestine. It forms fat droplets with the digested fats, making the surface area for enzymatic digestion greater and speeds up the process. Without the bile, most of digested fat would pass through, as would the fat soluble vitamins, A, E, K and D.
Glycogenisis – the formation of glycogen for storage in liver and muscles (muscle cells can also do this).
Gluconeogenesis – Building glucose/sugar from amino acids, lactate or glycerol.
Glycolysis – the break down of glycogen to glucose.
Fructolysis – the break down and metabolism of fructose into glucose or pyruvate.
Building, decomposing, rebuilding and storing proteins.
Synthezising cholesterol and packaging it with different transport proteins to deliver it to different cells.
Producing coagulation (blood clotting) factors. Vitamin K1 is necessary for this process.
Breaks down or modifies toxins and so they can safely be excreted in bile or urine, through a process called conjugation. It's also responsible for the break down and inactivation of many medications and drugs – antibiotics, benzodiazepines (an anxiety reducing drug) and alcohol among others.
Stores a multitude of substances, such as vitamins A, D, K1, B12, iron, and copper.
Produces albumin, the main protein and osmolar component in the blood. It transports a lot of substances and keeps the fluid of the blood in the vessels.
Storage unit for blood. A lot of blood is going through the liver, normally about 450 ml is located there. In times of need this can be expanded to more than the double amount.
As you can see, the liver performs a multitude of functions, simultaneously, quietly. The only time you will realize you have a liver is when it's not working properly, as in bile insufficiency, which can have many causes, or congestion of the bile flow (most often because of stones blocking the path).
Long term alcohol abusers also get to know their liver intimately, since that's usually the organ that starts giving symptoms after a long time of high alcohol metabolism. The over consumption of alcohol and the demands it puts on the liver will slow down other important processes and one of the first signs is when fatty acids starts to build up in the organ. A sign of the liver working over time, since it's not sending them out properly.
Something similar seems to be happening with high amounts of fructose in the diet, it's over taxing the liver and can lead to fatty acid build up, a field of interest for a lot of research.
Give some thoughts of gratitude to this multitasking, vitally important, red organ. Remember, you only have one and it's hard to replace, so take care of it.


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Papa Timóteo III (IV) de Alexandria (m. 528 ou 535) foi um Papa copta e um Patriarca de Alexandria de 511 ou 516 até a sua morte, um ano depois. Assim como seus antecessores, era um miafisista.

Ele é reconhecido como Timóteo IV pela Igreja Ortodoxa Grega de Alexandria, que reconhece Timóteo Salofaciol como Timóteo III. Já a Igreja Ortodoxa Copta, que rejeita Salofaciol, o reconhece como Timóteo III.

Teria sido Timóteo quem converteu a futura imperatriz bizantina Teodora ao miafisismo.

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Netflix CEO is donating $120 million to HBCUs, wants it to celebrate "great black achievement"
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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, announced they are giving $120 million to support scholarships at historically black colleges and universities.
The donation, the largest of its kind, will be split among Morehouse College, Spelman College and the United Negro College Fund, and will be enough for both universities to support 200 students each over the next decade.
Hastings credited Dr. Michael L. Lomax, president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund, for "offering to help" him and his wife get to know the HBCUs, and explained why now is as important a time as ever to shine a spotlight on the significance of these institutions.
Hastings and Lomax, along with Morehouse College President David A. Thomas and Spelman College President Mary Schmidt Campbell, spoke with "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King about the record-setting gift.
Read a portion of their conversation below:
Reed Hastings: About five years ago, I set up a program at my alma mater ... And so I was telling Michael Lomax, you know, "Look at what I'm doing at Bowdoin College."
And he said, "Well, that's great. But, you know, there's this whole other world."
And what happens is that white capital tends to flow to predominantly white institutions. And it's just what you know and are comfortable with and have grown up with. And he offered to help Patty and I get to know the HBCUs ... And then this year, with the tragedy in America and everyone feeling hopeless, we realized this is the time to do something bigger, and to really try to bring the HBCU story front and center...
Gayle King: Dr. Lomax ... it sounds like we have you to thank on some level about this. When you heard that Reed and his wife were doing this ... what was your initial reaction?
Dr. Michael L. Lomax (UNCF): Well, Reed and I have known one another for 15 years… I knew they needed to go to a range of colleges, and I always felt that historically black colleges were gonna be centrally important for that ... So, you know, I was making the case to Patty and Reed — great education at historically black colleges, but we need great philanthropists to step up and invest…
King: Dr. Campbell, how did you hear the news, and what was your reaction?
Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell (Spelman College): Patty explained that what they wanted to do was to provide a gift of $20 million, to fund ten students a year over the next ten years with full tuition, room and board scholarships… The very next day — the very next day — Patty sent ... an email around again to Michael, David, and me, and this time said, "You know, we've been thinking, and we've decided to make it $40 million." And I just about fainted at that point… This gift is such an affirmation of all of those gifted, hardworking students who want to come to places like Spelman and Morehouse ... Now we have the resources to support 200 students, each of us, over the next ten years. That's a game-changer.
King: Dr. Thomas, what will this money mean to Morehouse?
Dr. David A. Thomas (Morehouse College): I think it will also transform how people look at HBCUs as an investment ... You also have to put this in the context of what's been happening here in Atlanta.
King: Right, right.
Thomas: During the first week of protests, a student from both Spelman and Morehouse were together, were tased and pulled out of a car by police ... I had been ... with my students who were taking leadership in the protest, and writing to them, and telling them, you know, "You gotta practice what you've been — what you've been taught here at Morehouse, and what it represents ...
King: And what is that?
Thomas: What you've been taught here is ... to create change, nonviolent social action, the vote, organizing, educating and leading and serving ... I wrote to Reed later that what I really felt in his and Patty's reaching out was a true partnership. And then the $40 million email came, and ... my wife had to tell me to put her down.
King: I love that. I love it ... Did you know you were gonna do 40? Or did you do 20 and then say, "You know what? Let's kick it up a notch."
Hastings: We realized that if we really wanna support the HBCUs in the right way, we should dig deeper ... And so that's where, you know, Patty and I wanted to really go big and really start the ball rolling ... As big and wonderful as this gift is, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the need.
Campbell: ... The wonderful thing about this gift is Patty and Reed did not want the gift named after them. So Spelman College chose to name it after one of our alums ...
King: You said they didn't want the gift named after them--
Campbell: That's right
King: Reed, please explain. Very few people, again, extraordinary, would give money of this magnitude and say, "You know, I don't mind if you name a wing after me or if you call it after me ..."
Hastings: So in both cases, we really want the gift to symbolize, you know, great black achievement, through the HBCUs.
King: People that know you say that you are a very private person, you and Patty.
Hastings: Absolutely ... but, you know, it does help to bring attention — by coming forward and really explaining why the HBCUs are such a great resource, such a historic, so much resilience and so many chapters of that story, and what a difference they make in black education in America.
King: So you guys have all heard that phrase, "Go big or go home." Reed and Patty, you do not have to go home, 'cause you went really big. You went really big.
Lomax: But, you know, just if I may, this gift is the largest single gift made to UNCF and our HBCUs in 76 years of history. It is made by private individuals ... Patty and Reed need to be inspirations to more people to give.
King: Dr. Lomax, are you all optimistic about where we're heading?
Lomax: I will be optimistic when I see other people stepping up as Patty and Reed have stepped up, and that they are saying, "We stand in solidarity with these movements ..."
You know, Dr. King said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." The arc does not bend on its own. We have to put our shoulders to it to help it bend. We need more people to join in doing that work.
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Insufficient infrastructure has been highlighted as a key impediment to sustainable economic development and prosperity in many countries. With the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, the establishment of a Global Infrastructure Forum in Addis Ababa and an Investment and Infrastructure Working Group within the G20, the international community seeks to improve international cooperation on closing the enormous investment and capacity gaps. A particular challenge consists in placing due focus on sustainable infrastructure, i.e. the development and implementation of projects that contribute to economic growth and job creation but simultaneously account for environmental protection, efficient use of resources and low-carbon, climate-resilient operation processes.
(4) The need for sustainable financing models, the development of viable business cases and consequently the early involvement of investors in risk calculations and sustainability considerations.
The discussions in Geneva among representatives from ten emerging and industrialized economies as well as international institutions reflected a general awareness that unless the political economy of coal in many countries and the international mindset regarding carbon prizing and reducing fossil fuel subsidies changes, the danger is that new a majority of investments and infrastructure projects will continue to reinforce traditional carbon-intensive economic lock-ins, ultimately jeopardizing any development and climate goals and with it the welfare of future generations.
The first analyses and findings of the existing EPF work streams in this initiative will be published by the end of 2016 and presented to national decision makers as well as on international policy and investment for a like the G20. The EPF invites interested stakeholders from all sectors to join the initiatives and contribute with their expertise, specific tools and outreach as efforts in this field will continue into 2017 and beyond.


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Japan carries out first death row executions since 2019
Public support for capital punishment in Japan remains strong despite criticism from abroad, particularly from human rights organisations.
COVID-19 strikes 24 seniors homes in Eastern Health as owners call for more rapid tests
Eastern Health has confirmed COVID-19 outbreaks at a total of 24 care homes in the region. In an email to CBC News on Friday, a spokesperson for the health authority said eight of the outbreaks are in Eastern Health long-term care facilities and 16 are in privately-owned personal care homes, community care homes or assisted living facilities. The spokesperson also said Eastern Health considers an outbreak a situation where one or more people, residents or employees, tests positive for COVID-19 w
Quebec City daycare facing allegations of mistreatment, neglect closes its doors
A Quebec City daycare that has been in the public eye since a runaway incident and a CBC News investigation last fall will permanently close its doors. The owners of the Jardin Enchanté say they are closing for "personal reasons" and that "managing the pandemic" and "a shortage of qualified daycare staff" also played a role in their decision. Geneviève Côté and Richard Cazes said in the written statement that no children currently attend the daycare. The daycare made headlines when three toddler
Bill would require Senate confirmation for US prison chief
WASHINGTON (AP) — Days after the head of the troubled federal Bureau of Prisons said he was resigning amid increased scrutiny over his leadership, lawmakers have introduced a bill to require Senate confirmation for future bureau directors — the same process used to vet leaders of the FBI and other federal agencies. The bill, drafted by the House's Bureau of Prisons Reform Caucus and introduced late Thursday, seeks to strengthen congressional oversight over the crisis-plagued bureau by adding che


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WATCH: Elton John's Liberace Tribute Performance, Emmys 2013
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Updated Apr 19, 2015 at 3:50am
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In a tribute to Liberace, Elton John is performing at the 2013 Emmy Awards. Introduced by the two stars of Liberace's Behind the Candelabra, Matt Damon and Michael Douglas, John opened with a nice speech before performing a song called "Home Again." As John described it, it's a song about going home again.
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For a look at the behind-the-scenes of Behind the Candelabra check out the video below.
The Making of Behind The Candelabra Extended VersionSubscribe to the HBO YouTube: http://itsh.bo/10qIqsj "Too much of a good thing is wonderful!" Oscar® winner Michael Douglas is Liberace and Oscar® winner Matt Damon is his young lover, Scott Thorson in this sparkling and lush HBO Film Behind the Candelabra, out on Blu-ray + Digital Copy, DVD, and Digital Download: http://itsh.bo/17T2zbw HBO on Facebook:…2013-05-22T23:33:49.000Z
Michael Douglas actually won this evening for his portrayal of Liberace and offers half of his award to co-star Matt Damon, asking him if he wanted the bottom or the top. Very funny.
Check out some more footage of the 2013 Emmy Awards:
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Elton John pays tribute to Liberace in his performance at the Emmys 2013. 'Behind the Candelabra' starring Matt Damon and Michael Douglas is up for an award ...


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Ice Crypt (Mermaids of Eriana Kwai #2)
From award-winning author Tiana Warner comes the sequel to Ice Massacre, the #1 Amazon Kindle Best Seller.
Meela has just returned from the Massacre—the annual attempt to wipe out the mermaids threatening her people's survival. After forming an unlikely connection with Lysi, a mermaid she was trained to kill, Meela is determined to stop the war between humans and merpeople for good. She knows of a legendary weapon that could bring peace if she uses it against King Adaro, ruler of the Pacific Ocean. But her people have plans for future Massacres and refuse to help her uncover it.
While Meela works in secret to unearth the Host of Eriana, Lysi is held captive under Adaro's tyranny. Sent to the battlefront, Lysi joins forces with a band of rebels that could either bring her freedom—or have her executed for treason.
Separated by the vast Pacific Ocean, Meela and Lysi must find a way to defeat King Adaro and end the war that has been keeping them apart.


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Phil McGroarty (1896 – 1981)
Phil McGroarty, by Barry Britton [source: Seosaimhín Nic Rabhartaigh]
Phil McGroarty was born in the townland of Drumkeelan in 1896 to James and Ann (née Griffin) where he grew up in an environment alive with fiddle, lilting and dance music. In his youth, a neighbour of Phil's called Anne Burke used to lilt every Sunday afternoon for groups of dancers at a spot called 'An Bearna Dhearg' [The Red Gap]. Dances also took place on the roadside in Mountcharles outside what is now 'The Lazy Bush' bar. The McGroarty family were all noted singers but both Phil and his brother James took up the fiddle at a young age. A stone mason by trade, Phil married Mary Williamson, a school teacher, in 1929. They relocated to Rossnowlagh shortly after and Phil established his stone-cutting business at Coolmore. His musical journey brought him into contact with many great players from Donegal and further afield including Jimmy Lyons and Frank Cassidy of Teelin, Frank and Declan Curneen of Glenade, Co. Leitrim and Ben Lennon from Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim. Phil also met a host of musicians who worked on the 'Hydro-Electric Scheme' in Ballyshannon between 1946 and 1955 and through this he formed 'The Four Provinces Céilí Band' with John Joe Gannon (accordion), John Egan (flute) and Paddy Reynolds (fiddle) among others. Jack Clarke, a brick layer from Co. Dublin stayed with the McGoarty's at Coolmore for a number of years and Phil and Jack played regularly with Jack playing the pipes. The family tradition is continuing today through Phil's grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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CAUTION: This guide covers 35 problems that will not appear on your Fields Test. Also under stand that the guide makes statements that are usually true without adding qualifying remarks or apologies. Advanced or special cases are not treated. In some cases, one or two steps are omitted. Solve each problem as you read through this guide.
STRATEGY: The best approach is to recognize the problem and solve it. If you are unsure, find physical reasons to eliminate as many of the five options as possible. Make an educated guess as you pick from among the remaining options. Mark the problem so that you can return to it later at which time you can attempt a more thorough analysis. As you work through the guide, pay special attention to the examples for which options are found not to be viable.
DO NOT MEMORIZE: Memorizing values and facts from this guide is not recommended. Do think about the concepts and orders of magnitude as you read this guide. Think and read just carefully enough to be left with a hazy recollection of the experience. THINK, think, think while you take the test.
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Newton's Laws are best written for particle mechanics. The laws are written in forms appropriate for inertia reference observes. A particle is a body for which every point in the body has the same velocity. If one considers a rotating billiard ball, there is no one velocity and hence no one acceleration for all the mass points comprising the ball. The center-of-mass theorems are the bridge that allows one to generalize Newton's laws to forms that apply to more general bodies.
I.) A particle maintains its state of uniform motion unless acted upon by an (external) force.
Uniform motion is motion at a constant velocity .
III.) If particle A exerts a force on particle B then particle B exerts a force of equal magnitude and opposite direction on particle A.
Newton's Third Law deals with forces and particles.
General Reciprocity (NOT Newton's Law, an extension of Newton's third law): If a physical entity A exerts an influence on entity B, then B exerts a proportionate counter influence on A. For example, an electric charge causes an electric field and an electric field exerts a force on electric charges. A moving charge creates a magnetic field, and a magnetic field exerts forces on moving charges. Note that the entities in these examples were not equivalent so the counter influences were not equivalent. The counter nature is observed when a time-varying magnetic field induces a current in a conductor. The magnetic field caused by the induced current fights (counters) the variation in the magnetic field. The magnetic field in the interior of a perfect conductor must be constant in time as the currents induced in such a conductor are as large as required to completely counter the disturbing influence. Newton was only setting down laws for forces and particles, not for these more complex situations.
Newton's Laws: Use when asked about forces and acceleration at a single position and time.
The centripetal part is always in play. The tangential part applies if the speed is changing.
Friction: Static friction acts with a magnitude from 0 to s N to keep the contacting surfaces from slipping relative to one another. Once the surfaces are slipping, the friction force on each surface has magnitude equal to k N directed to oppose the relative motion. Factoid: k  s.
Kinematics, the description of motion, is always in play. It is used in all mechanics problems.
Use Newton's laws to solve Here & Now problems (related to force and acceleration).
Work-Energy: Work is W = suggesting that work-energy by used when a change is associated with a change in position.
Mechanical energy: Ei = K1 i + K2 i + … + UA i + UB i + …..
A conservative is any force for which the work integral can be evaluated as the difference in the values of a scalar function at the integration endpoints. (Can do if the work integral around any closed path is zero; curl of the force is zero).
Use Work-Energy to solve Here to There (r) problems.
Momentum and Collisions: Impulse is suggesting that impulse-momentum methods be tried for a change that occurs as time changes – even for the time change from before to after.
Internal forces do not change the total momentum.
Use Impulse-Momentum to solve Now to Then (Before to After, t) problems.
Rule 1: Conserve momentum vectorially (component by component).
Rule 2: Kinetic energy is unchanged for an elastic collision. Some kinetic energy is converted to other forms if the collision is partially or totally inelastic. As the total momentum is conserved, only the kinetic energy associated with motion relative to the center of mass is available to be lost (converted).
M: total mass; V: speed of the center of mass (CM); vrelative, i : speed of mass i relative to CM.
In a totally inelastic collision, the particles stick together so Krelative is lost. KCM remains as required by conservation of momentum.
Rule 1 is to conserve momentum vectorially so a coordinate system is adopted.
The momentum of the particles before the collision are and . The total mass is 3 m and the total momentum is .
Was kinetic energy converted to other forms as a result of the collision?
The collision was totally inelastic. Was all the kinetic energy lost?
First, the problem is a constant acceleration problem. Write down the master equations.
The balls fall from rest for a distance H. Using v 2 = vo2 + 2 a (x – xo), v 2 = 2 g H or .
Sanity Check. Three answers can be discarded immediately. Which three? Why?
If the answer were (A), ball 1 would have twice the average speed of ball 2. What would be the ratio of the fall times in that case given that the first ball falls twice as far? Would you expect them to hit at the same time if dropped at the same time?
Ex. 3) Two planets of mass m and M respectively have center-to-center spacing R. At what distance from the planet of mass M do the gravitational forces of the planets cancel each other.
One need only consider points along the line joining the planets. Why? What must be true about the directions of two vectors that sum to zero?
The distance from M is sought. Assign the symbol d to that distance.
Thought 1: Gravitational forces are attractive. Therefore, the 'zero – force' point must be between the planets and along the line joining them. Compare/contrast this situation with that in Ex. 10.
Thought 2: The force is an inverse square (with distance) law force.
Since is less than one, d > ½ R. The point is farther from the more massive planet. Reread the question. The distance d of the point from the more massive M planet is requested. The unknown label d is assigned to the value requested. Always review the question to ensure that you have answered the question that was asked.
Assume m <<< M, say m = 0.01 M: Answers A, B, C and D correspond to points closer to M or to points not between the planets. Why must the correct point be between the planets and be farther from the more massive planet?
If you expect d to be greater than ½ R, you might revise the figure to reflect this expectation.
METHOD: Try a set of values that simplifies the problem: Midn Jasperson (2011) proposed that one might just look at the case that m = M in which case the equilibrium point should be at the mid-point of the line joining the masses, distance equal ½ R. Only response (E) satisfies that test.
In equilibrium, the sum of the forces acting on a rigid body is zero, and the sum of the torques (about any axis  free to choose it where you wish) acting on the body is zero.
A body is buoyed up by the weight of the fluid that it displaces. FB = fluid Vdisplaced g.
Ex. 4) A metal block is suspended in an empty tank from a scale that indicates a weight of W. The tank is then filled with water until the block is covered. If the density of the metal is three times the density of water, what apparent weight of the block does the scale now read?
Examine your options. The new reading should be less than the original reading. Answer (B) could be chosen without much more as the one third density means that the mass will be buoyed up by 1/3 of its weight if completely immersed, but one should solve the problem before choosing an answer.
* The ratio of the density of a material to that of water is called the specific gravity of the material.
Take derivatives to find expressions for v(t) and a(t).
With the convention that U = 0 when the particle is at the equilibrium position, the energy is all kinetic as the particle passes through the equilibrium position and all potential at the turning points.
A mass hanging from a linear spring executes simple harmonic motion about its equilibrium position. Potential energies are associated with systems of interacting entities. Potential energies are associated with pairs of things (at least) or the system while a kinetic energy can be owned by a single entity. The potential energy can be shifted by an additive constant. For SHM, it is often set to zero for a particle at the equilibrium position.
Ex. 5) A 1-kilogram particle is attached to a spring and exhibits one-dimensional simple harmonic motion. The particle's distance (!/* displacement) from the equilibrium position is given by the expression: y(t) = A sin[ t + /2], where A = 1 meter and  = 0.5 rad/s. If the potential energy of the particle (system) at its equilibrium position is null (or zero), which of the following gives the total energy of the particle (system)?
The total energy is kinetic at equilibrium as the potential is set to zero at that point.
Alternative: Etotal = ½ k A2 = ½ (m 2) A2 = ½ (1 kg) (0.5 rad/s)2 (1 m)2 = 1/8 J.
Write down the equation that is to be used. Substitute numerical values with units for each symbol writing the values in the same geometric pattern that was used for the symbols. Adopt procedures that reduce the chance of making a careless error.
In equilibrium, the sum of the forces acting on a rigid body is zero, and the sum of the torques about any axis (  free to choose axis where you wish) acting on the body is zero.
The displacement from the axis to the point of application of the force is , CCW is positive, and  is the angle that takes you from the direction of to the direction of .
Vector cross product: Extend the fingers of your right hand in along the direction of . Orient your hand so that the fingers can curl toward the direction of . The thumb of the right hand will be in the direction of .
Use the figure The rod does not have an assigned length. Assign a length of , 1 m or even 4 m. If the value is not given, the answer must be independent of its value.
Choose an axis: The pivot point is a natural choice for the axis. Picture the situation. If the tension were changed, about what point would the rod rotate?
The tension force tends to cause a CCW (+) rotation so the associated torque about the pivot is T = + T  sin(400). To compute torque, the weight of the boom can be assumed to be applied at its center of mass.
The weight has a lever arm of ½  and tends to cause a CW rotation. W = - W (½  ).
We expect an answer larger than 28 N so response (C) is chosen. The actual value is about 30.5 N.
Lengths are contracted along the direction of relative motion, but lengths running transverse to the motion are unchanged.
A clock in motion relative to the observer runs slowly.
If a time t = 10 s elapses as measured by a moving clock, and it appears to be running slowly as viewed by the primed observer, then the corresponding interval t is longer than 10 s.
Consider a primed observer moving at relative to an unprimed observer with the initial conditions that their respective axes are parallel and the origins coincided at t = t  = 0.
Ex. 7) A stick of length L lies in the x-y plane as shown. An observer moving at 0.8 c in the x direction measures the length of the stick. Which of the following gives the components of the length as measured by the moving observer?
The component along the direction of motion should be contracted by a factor of  = 0.6 while the transverse length should be unchanged.
The following relativity material is under development.
There are four vectors, and they all transform according to the same transformation rules (Assuming the same relative velocity and with .).
(E/c, px, py, pz). Note the manner in which factors of c are used to ensure that all components have the same dimensions.
The transformations ensure that there is an invariant metric product.
a time-like interval from the current event are in the future and past light cones of that event and can linked causally to events inside the light cone. Points at a space-like interval form the event are outside the light cone and can not be causally related to the event at the apex of the cones.
When one considers the momentum of a single particle, the invariant p2 can be evaluated in the rest frame of the particle with the result that in all frames where m is the mass of the particle. The general expression for the moment of a particle is p = (v mc, v m ) where is the standard three velocity of the particle, m is the (rest) mass and .
E2 = Eo2 + c2 (v m v)2 = Eo2 + c2 (v Eo v/c2)2 = (v Eo)2  E = v Eo. The kinetic energy of the particle is the increase over the rest energy. K = E = E Eo = (v – 1) Eo.
Total energy: E = v Eo.
In one frame, event B occurs 4 s after event A and event B is 1 km from A. In a second frame, event B occurs 5 s after event A. a.) Could event A have caused event B? b.) What is the observed distance d between the events in the second frame?
The interval is time-like so event A could have caused event B.
b.) The interval is invariant sos2 = 440000 m2 = (3 x 108 m/s * 5 x 10-6 s)2 – d2 d = 1345 m.
An electron has a rest momentum (0.511 MeV/c, 0, 0, 0). a.) What is the electron's energy when it is if it is moving at 0.8 c relative to the observer? b.) Assuming that the electron is moving in the positive x direction relative to the observer, what is its velocity if its energy is 1.25 * 0.511 MeV?
a.) E = v mc = v Eo = [1 – 0.82]-½ = 0.852 MeV.
b.) E = v mc =  Eo  [1 – 2]-½ = 1.25 MeV. 1 – 2 = 1/(1.25)2.  = 0.6 so v = 0.6 c.
With the other assumptions, the particle is traveling at 1.8 x 108 m/s in the positive x direction.
Attempt to solve b.) using the transformation method.


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Meet Your Multiplatform Publishing Mentors
Don Nicholas • March 16, 2017
Spend two days with us, and you could become a success story like these publishers.
If you're a magazine publisher in the digital age, you're certainly savvy enough to succeed. And perhaps you're satisfied with your revenue and business growth as they are.
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You'll learn all of the details of their success at the Digital Revenue Summit. But allow me to share right now just a few of the strategies they've implemented on their way to success.
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Singer-songwriter and award winning vocalist honored to be among array of talent making an appearance at "the largest sports and humanitarian event anywhere in the world in 2015; The single biggest event in Los Angeles since the 1984 Olympic Games."
(Los Angeles, CA, July 20, 2015) – Singer-songwriter and award winning vocalist Katrina Woolverton is honored to be performing at the 2015 Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles this month! She joins a diverse array of artists and dignitaries celebrating the amazing courage and skill of over 6500 young athletes. Honorary Chairs of the Games are President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and California Governor Jerry Brown serving as Honorary Hosts.
Katrina will be performing on the World Games Music Festival Stage on Thursday, July 30th at UCLA's Wilson Plaza from 11:40am-12pm. She will be performing an acoustic set with guitarist Andrew Doolittle that will feature songs "Shame On Me" and "So Eden" from her 2012 Billboard charting album debut In The Blink Of An Eye (Red/Sony), as well as her new soon to be released single "Heatwave" from her upcoming album Long Time Coming.
Katrina has toured across the US with the legendary icon Meat Loaf (as well as her own live treks in the U.S. and UK). She along with Doolittle on guitar, received glowing reviews while holding the opening slot for the veteran rocker throughout his 2012 Mad Mad World Tour. Her accomplished vocal style also scored her coveted radio support including over 1000 spins on SiriusXM's contemporary music channels.
Katrina's show-stopping live prowess also inspired her to recently record an acoustic version of "Shame On Me" while working in London on her sophomore album. The new recording of "Shame" http://www.katrinawoolverton.com/shame-on-me-acoustic was prompted by fans response to a stripped-down more intimate version performed on tour.
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Catalog / Nate Powell
Nate Powell is the first and only cartoonist to win the National Book Award. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1978, he began self-publishing at age 14 and graduated from School of Visual Arts in 2000.
His work includes March, the graphic novel autobiography of U.S. congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis; You Don't Say, Any Empire, Swallow Me Whole, The Silence of Our Friends, The Year of the Beasts, and Rick Riordan's The Lost Hero.
Powell's work has received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, three Eisner Awards, the Michael L. Printz Award, four YALSA Great Graphic Novels For Teens selections, the Walter Dean Myers Award, and is a two-time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has discussed his work at the United Nations, as well as on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show and CNN.
From 1999 to 2009, Powell worked full-time providing support for adults with developmental disabilities, alongside his cartooning work. He managed underground record label Harlan Records for 16 years, and performed in punk bands Soophie Nun Squad and Universe.
Powell is currently finishing his next book, Come Again (Top Shelf, 2018), and drawing Two Dead with writer Van Jensen for Gallery 13. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
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88 seconds that refuse to end: The Greensboro Massacre - November 3, 1979 [Walking through Greensboro's past]
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Eighty-eight seconds of violence on November 3, 1979, originated within the deep racial and class divisions that existed in Greensboro. The murderous actions of Klan and Nazis responded to a Communist led...
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RL.00134 Blanche M. Boyd Papers
This May 3, 1980 press release, issued by the Communist Workers Party (CWP), announces the release on bail of three of the six CWP members indicted on rioting charges stemming from the November 3, 1979, Death to the Klan march (also known as the...
[Letter from the Mobilization Committee recruiting community involvement]
This December 19, 1979 appeal letter from the February 2nd Mobilizing Committee solicits co-sponsorship of the group's activities by other community organizations. The letter describes recent Ku Klux Klan activity including the November 3, 1979,...
[Letter to Mayor of Kokoma, Indiana]
This copy of a April 18, 1980 letter to Stephen Daily, mayor of Kokomo, Indiana, concerns an upcoming march of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Kokomo. The letter warns that Kokomo officials will be "held resposnible" for any violence against foes of the...
A Call For Justice in Greensboro
This June 27, 1982, advertisement in the Greensboro News & Record, placed by the Greensboro Justice Fund, discussed the group's concerns over the federal grand jury probe into the 1979 Greensboro Massacre. The group was concerned about possible...
An Open Letter to Joe Grady, Gorrell Pierce, and All KKK Members and Sympathizers
This flyer, in the form of an open letter from Nelson Johnson of the Workers Viewpoint Organization (later known as the Communist Workers Party) to leaders of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) challenges KKK members to attend an Anti-Klan Conference to be...
Cameramen: Klan Shooting Looked Planned
This April 21, 1982, article by Larry King of the Greensboro Daily News discusses the testimony of two news photographers who said that the 1979 Greensboro Massacre looked like a planned action. Both reporters were eyewitnesses and also videotaped...
Civil rights groups here express concern about Nov. 3 killings
This May 15, 1982, article by Alex Mukendi of the Carolina Peacemaker reports that several civil rights groups have ongoing concerns about the dissemination of truthful information related to the murders of five Communist Workers Party members at...
Coming Soon: Red November Black November
This undated flyer announces an upcoming documentary on the November 3, 1979, Greensboro Massacre entitled "Red November Black November". The film was directed and produced by Sally Alvarez and Carolyn Jung and distributed by Cesar Cauce Publishers...
Communist Workers Party 5 Died Fighting the KKK/Nazis Rather than Live as Slaves
This flyer, produced by the Committee to Avenge the CWP 5, outlines the Communist Workers Party (CWP) position on events related to the November 3, 1979, Death to the Klan march that resulted in the death of five CWP protestors (also known as the...
CWP scores political victory - The whole world is watching - The Klan/Nazi/FBI trials can't be kept closed
This June 23, 1980 press release, issued by the Communist Workers Party (CWP), announces that the CWP will be filing criminal charges against law enforcement officers in Greensboro for assaulting CWP supporters who attempted to attend the murder...
DCHC - Secret Supports of the Klan
This flyer, produced by the Committee to Avenge the CWP 5, decries the the Durham County Hospital Corporation's (DCHC) firing of Communist Workers Party (CWP) member Tom Clark as a result of his participation in the November 3, 1979 Greensboro...
Death to the Klan flyer
This flyer announces the November 3, 1979 Death to the Klan march and conference to be held in Greensboro. The events were sponsored by the Workers Viewpoint Organization (later known as the Communist Workers Party) in response to recent overt Ku...
District Attorney Schlosser comes to rescue of Klan/Nazi murderers
This March 27, 1980 press release, issued by the Communist Workers Party (CWP), criticizes Greensboro District attorney Mike Schlosser's handling of the murder trial of Ku Klux Klan and Nazi party members accused in the November 3, 1979, Death to...
Felony indictments: More victims blamed for U.S. government crimes
This May 1, 1980 press release, issued by the Communist Workers Party (CWP), discusses the charges against six CWP supporters present at the November 3, 1979, Death to the Klan march (also known as the Greensboro Massacre). Indictments were...
Film sparks protest at UNC-G
This November 13, 1980, article by Lindsey Gruson of the Greensboro Daily News, reports on the controversy surrounding a screening of the movie "The Birth of a Nation" as part of a history class at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro...
Forum on the Assassinations of the CWP 5
This flyer, produced by the Committee to Avenge the Communist Workers Party 5, announces a forum to be held December 13, 1979, at the Uhuru Bookstore in Greensboro, to discuss the shooting deaths of five members of the Communist Workers Party (CWP)...
Free Nelson Johnson and the Greensboro 3
This flyer, produced by the Communist Workers Party (CWP), announces a rally to be held in Greensboro on May 5, 1980, two days before the start of the trial of three CWP members (Nelson Johnson, Rand Manzella, and Willena Cannon)indicted on rioting...
Greensboro community leader and anti-Klan demonstrators to face trial
This April 16, 1980 press release, issued by the Communist Workers Party (CWP), criticizes the prosecution of CWP member Nelson Johnson for "inciting to riot" or "interfering with police officers" following the November 3, 1979, Death to the Klan...
Indictments sought against six anti-Klan demonstrators
This May 2, 1980 press release, issued by the Communist Workers Party (CWP), announces Greensboro District Attorney Mike Schlosser's request for indictments against six CWP members on rioting charges stemming from the November 3, 1979, Death to the...


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(a) Scheme of the nanostructured substrate with the dielectric layer (SiO2) implanted with Ag+ through a grid defining implanted (with AgNPs) and unimplanted (without AgNPs) regions ; (b) optical image of the grid ; (c) optical image of the graphene sheet deposited on top of the substrate ; (d) Raman cartography of the 2D signature of graphene, showing an exaltation of the Raman signal in the region where the graphene is on top of the AgNPs.
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Hypertension Control Program in Argentina (HCPIA), a multicomponent program to improve blood pressure control among low-income patients with hypertension. The program includes a community health worker-led, home-based component; a physician training component; and a text messaging component.
A well-conducted randomized controlled trial (RCT) in which 18 community health care centers in Argentina were randomly assigned to a treatment versus control group.
18 months after random assignment, 73% of HCPIA patients had controlled hypertension (i.e., a blood pressure reading under 140/90 mm Hg) versus 52% of control group patients. This difference was statistically significant.
The program was evaluated in a middle-income country (Argentina), with a sample of low-income, uninsured patients who receive free medications and health care as part of a national public system. Whether the results would generalize to the United States or other settings is yet unknown; replication trials in such settings are needed to find out.
The Hypertension Control Program in Argentina (HCPIA) is an 18-month multicomponent program to improve blood pressure control among low-income, uninsured patients with hypertension. The program includes (i) a community health worker-led, home-based component, in which health workers coach patients on lifestyle modifications to reduce blood pressure, home blood pressure monitoring, and medication adherence during monthly or bi-monthly home visits; (ii) physician training and certification in blood pressure management; and (iii) weekly, personalized text messages sent to patients to encourage medication adherence and health behavioral change. The average cost of the program is approximately $115 per patient.
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Murray, David M., Sherri P. Varnell, and Jonathan L. Blitstein (2004). Design and Analysis of Group-Randomized Trials: A Review of Recent Methodological Developments. American Journal of Public Health. 94(3): 423-432.
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