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Eyes on the Skies
Development of a sprawling telescope array has made South Africa a world leader in radio astronomy and produced a pipeline of specialized engineers.
Rising out of red sand and scrub in a remote, desolate part of South Africa is a scientific endeavor that has energized the nation's engineering schools like nothing before. Four massive dishes pointing toward the sky will be the epicenter of a network of 2,000 antennas stretching across the continent. Together with 100,000 smaller antennas in the Australian Outback, they will form the largest radio telescope array the world has ever seen. When complete, the international Square Kilometer Array (SKA) promises astronomers a window into deep space and a time before the stars were formed. For now, however, the astronomers must wait. "The SKA is not yet an observatory," says David Davidson, the SKA Research Chair in Electromagnetics at Stellenbosch University's Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. "It's an engineering project."
When the SKA was still just rough plans on paper, South Africans recognized the vital importance of engineering schools to its success. Ten young South African university students were sent to radio telescope observatories around the world to gain experience. "We were not anywhere near in position to build a telescope that was world-class," recalls project manager Willem Esterhuyse.
Since then, the South African SKA organization has funded relevant research by more than 700 students, 42 percent of them engineers, and six SKA research chairs lead centers of excellence at the nation's universities. "In a decade we have gone from a very minor player in radio astronomy engineering to being one of the dominant players in the field," says Justin Jonas, associate director for science and engineering at the SKA South Africa and also a professor of physics and electronics at Rhodes University.
One of the research chairs, Oleg Smirnov, marvels at the "new-frontier feel" in South Africa created by the SKA. A Russian expert in imaging algorithms for radio astronomy, Smirnov was lured from Europe to Rhodes University to help found its Radio Astronomy Techniques and Technologies group. The three-year-old group has already attracted students and post-docs from four continents. "People feel they are doing something new, something important," he says.
Designing New Components
Engineering academics are inspired by the SKA's constant drive to push beyond existing frontiers of technology. "In general, the SKA needs components that do not exist yet for every component in the whole system," says Petrie Meyer, who specializes in radar antennas, amplifiers, and filters at Stellenbosch. For example, his colleague Gideon Wiid has just installed an antenna on site for detecting interfering signals that could corrupt the telescope data. Wiid and his students assembled the serrated antenna by hand after 70 iterations, 650 gigabytes of test data, and a year of effort, because the SKA needs a receiver that can detect interference over a wider spectrum than any commercially available antenna could handle. The SKA-funded lecturer believes that his Protea design, named after the local flower, has the widest impedance bandwidth of any single-element, omnidirectional antenna ever made.
Still, he is pushing his students to improve on it. One of his post-docs, Joely Andriambeloson from Madagascar, uses the novel technique of printing plastic antennas — later coated with conductive paint — on a 3-D printer. The mono-cone and bi-cone shapes have the potential for very wide bandwidth at a reasonable price. "The spectrum specification from SKA was 'DC to daylight,' whatever is possible," says Wiid.
Many other students and academics are also kept busy by the effort to detect, identify, and counteract radio frequency interference (RFI). The telescopes are built to pick up incredibly weak signals that have traveled more than 13 billion years. Electromagnetic signals closer to home — whether from satellites or a farmer's electric fence — could not only spoil the images of the outer universe, they might destroy sensitive electronics. For this reason, the site has extremely strict rules banning the open-air use of mobile phones, laptops, and even gasoline-powered vehicles. (Sparkplugs are a problem.) The computers to assemble the data from the dishes are being housed in a heavily shielded building sunk into the earth and hidden behind a hill from the field of telescope dishes.
"RFI is the biggest risk," says Davidson, "and it's a good topic for a university to address because it's always going to be a concern. You're never going to say: 'this is solved.'" At the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, master's-degree students are working to establish the fingerprints of the many sources of RFI. "How do you tell if a signal is coming from the fridge next door, not from a galaxy far, far away?" asks UCT lecturer Amit Mishra. So Daniel Czech is developing algorithms that categorize the incoming RFI while James Gowans devises the hardware to pinpoint the location of offending RFI.
Unfortunately, the risks of RFI from visitors — as well as the remoteness of the site in the Karoo — mean that students and academics rarely get to travel to the site where their efforts will be put to use. Davidson himself has not seen the dishes that have gone up in the past year, even though the SKA research group he heads at Stellenbosch helped design them. Andriambeloson feels privileged to have witnessed the observatory in action while testing RFI antennas. "Seeing those giant telescopes turning together around you, like scanning for something in the sky, is amazing," he says. "It makes me more enthusiastic to keep working."
Measuring Interference
Sometimes, being there is essential. Ph.D. student Hardie Pienaar spends many hours staring at a computer in Stellenbosch to develop his mathematical model for how RFI moves in the three-dimensional space above the array of dishes. But to test how that model performs in the real world, he has to travel 10 hours to the site along with the quadcopter he has modified to measure RFI. The drone has 3-D-printed legs with embedded antennas and copper shielding to contain its own interference. Pienaar gained valuable empirical data as the device flew in a programmed cylindrical flight pattern 100 meters into the sky above the building where telescope data are processed — at least until battery failure sent it crashing to the ground.
From its high vantage point, Pienaar's quadcopter looked down upon the first 13.5 meter-diameter dishes of the MeerKAT array, at the edge of what will be a massive spiral pattern. MeerKAT—a combination of an Afrikaans word and an English acronym that together spell the name of a charismatic mammal of the Karoo — will be commissioned as a 64-dish array in 2017. It will greatly surpass the sensitivity and resolution of today's leading radio observatories: the 27-dish Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico and the $1.4 billion Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile, which has 66 smaller antennas. (For the past few decades, the astronomy community has understood that a single, massive radio antenna is not as effective as using computers to assemble a single view from multiple antennas in a process known as interferometry.)
The South African-funded MeerKAT is just the beginning, however, a chance for the country to prove to the other 10 nations in the SKA that it has the engineering expertise to be more than just a passive host-site partner. The international SKA organization — based in Britain — will spend more than $700 million on SKA Phase I, building another 133 dishes in the Karoo by 2023 and incorporating MeerKAT's array The more ambitious Phase II will begin construction in 2023 and is meant to stretch as far as Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Mozambique, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, and Mauritius. In preparation, South African universities are already training engineers from all but one of those countries on SKA scholarships. At that point, the collective area of dishes and antennas will add up to more than a million square meters, hence the name Square Kilometer Array.
Jonas hopes that the massive effort will pay off by answering fundamental questions: "How did stars and galaxies form? Does the theory of gravity and relativity hold up? Was Einstein right?" Testing for the gravitational waves posited by Einstein requires ultra-precise timing of pulsar signals arriving at each dish, so they are synchronized with an accuracy of better than 10 nanoseconds over 10 years. "We can do experiments so exquisite you need a celestial lab with pulsars and black holes," marvels Jonas.
Worldwide Interest
The involvement of engineering schools around the globe is increasing as Phase I construction nears. In Canada, one of the SKA partner countries, the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary is taking the lead in engineering research for the radio telescope. Australia has a special role as host of a separate Phase I array consisting of more than 100,000 small receivers that will look as if farmers have planted vast fields of TV aerials in the western Outback. Engineers at the University of Western Australia and Curtin University in Perth are conducting research to support that array.
The United States is not an SKA participant, but American astronomers are starting to take advantage of South Africa's growing expertise in radio telescope engineering. On a site very near the heart of the SKA, work has begun on an entirely different radio telescope, a collaboration largely funded by the National Science Foundation and driven by astrophysicists at Berkeley, UCLA, MIT, the University of Washington, the University of Pennsylvania, and Arizona State.
The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) will ultimately be a 13-acre flat hexagon of dishes. David DeBoer, an electronics engineer and astronomer at UC Berkeley who travels regularly to South Africa for work on HERA, says that while the quiet, well-serviced site was one reason to choose the location, the supply of South African engineering skills was another. "It's been an American project," says DeBoer of HERA, "but increasingly the intellectual content is South African." In Stellenbosch, for example, master's student Mariet Venter spends her days optimizing designs for the antenna feed for the low-frequency radio observatory, which will examine the "cosmic dawn" when stars began to shine.
Research is only one of the roles the universities play in support of the observatories. "They're creating a pipeline of skilled people who understand what we do," says Francois Kapp, who hires electronic engineers for SKA South Africa. "It's a huge success story." For example, Simon Winberg, a UCT professor of electrical and electronic engineering, teaches students in his Digital Systems course by asking them to extract the signal from simulated radar data. In turn, SKA's high profile in South Africa stimulates interest in the field, driving growing numbers of students to apply to the department, he says.
But Winberg notes that as graduate students come to appreciate the complexity of SKA research, many seek easier topics. Four SKA-funded research projects in his department went begging this year. That's not all bad for an organization more interested in quality than quantity, according to Kapp. "We're trying to tease out the interest of the really strong students," he says.
Big-data experts
Some of the most intense projects address challenges in computing. Demands on computer power expand by the square of the number of dishes, and the SKA's antennas will generate 160 terabytes per second in Phase I, fully 10 times the 2014 Internet traffic for the whole world. Such a tsunami of data demands exascale computers that currently exist only in the imaginations of computer engineers. "We're always going to be behind the curve," admits Jonas. But he adds that the benefit of this limitation is that "as processing improves, we can get more and more from the telescopes without building more telescopes."
To accelerate the local supply of big-data expertise, three South African universities last month formed the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy. UCT Professor Russ Taylor, the founding director of the institute, says that it will pool talent across departments as well as universities. "It's not just an astronomy problem; it's a problem of computer science, computer engineering, mathematics, and statistics," he explains. The institute plans to fund and train at least a hundred data scientists, from undergraduate to post-grad.
MeerKAT will use a custom-built computer correlator to amalgamate signals from its 64 antennas. The core of MeerKAT computing is the ROACH board, originally developed for radio astronomy at Berkeley and "perfected by the SKA and Stellenbosch University" according to Davidson.
Berkeley's DeBoer says that the latest generations of ROACH boards from South Africa are used in observatories around the world. Even NASA uses South African technology. "South Africa is now one of the world leaders in radio astronomy," says DeBoer.
UCT post-doc Lerato Mohapi is using the RHINO board — a ROACH board descendent designed at UCT—to develop a computer language from scratch to allow easy algorithm upgrades to the electronics on the dishes. Mohapi, from Lesotho, sees spin-off benefits from astronomy's demands. "SKA will be the foundation of Africa as a center for high-performance computing," he predicts.
The effectiveness of the computers will depend in large part on those like Smirnov who are writing the algorithms to process the data. At the offices of SKA South Africa, overlooking Cape Town's Table Mountain, the bearded Russian points to one speck among thousands on a computer screen showing a radio telescope's view of the heavens. "Can you see this thing on the side of that blob?" he asks. "Is it a jet from an active radio galaxy or an artifact of imaging?" Corruption can come from RFI, the antenna itself, or the ionosphere. "The challenge is how to eliminate all of this crap," says Smirnov. It's a challenge he is facing squarely. Earlier this year, his algorithm achieved a record dynamic range of 5 million to 1 between the strongest radio signal from space and the background noise and artifacts.
It's not just computing that will keep engineering departments busy for decades to come. Phase II is scheduled to be completed in 2030. And while the lifespan of the dishes in the array is at least 50 years, the electronics might be upgraded every decade. "I believe MeerKAT will be driving activities at universities for a very long time," says Esterhuyse. In fact, a freshman engineering student in 2015 could retire as a professor in 2062 without running out of problems to solve for the radio telescope.
So the SKA sponsors engineering academics to look far into the future. In a clean-room laboratory at the University of Pretoria, Tinus Stander carefully adjusts the electrodes on a wafer probe station to test a semiconductor chip just back from the foundry. Stander and his graduate students are designing an integrated circuit that puts three separate devices currently found on MeerKAT dishes — the amplifier, filter, and digitizer — onto a single chip. This radical idea could have dramatic advantages in speed, performance, and cost.
"There's a good chance it won't work," admits Stander, "but the SKA is willing to fund far-out research." One of his students took a job with SKA in Cape Town this year, but Stander is happy to continue innovating for the observatory without leaving the university. "If you really want to chase the wild ideas," he says, "you have to remain in academia."
Decades from now, physicists may well earn Nobel Prizes for discoveries made on South Africa's telescope array. The engineers who are making those revelations possible know that their role will by then have been forgotten. But the lure of space is still a motivator for engineering students and faculty, many of whom are astronomy buffs. The walls of Winberg's UCT office are dominated by poster-size images of the Hubble Telescope, its views of galaxies, and his own paintings of wormholes. The wormholes are products of Winberg's imagination. Never seen, never proven to exist, wormholes are theoretical concepts allowed for in the math of General Relativity. "That's what I'm hoping to get out of this," says Winberg, pointing to his visions of the cosmos. "Maybe one day we'll get some pretty pictures."
By Don Boroughs
Don Boroughs is a freelance writer based in South Africa.
Design by Nicola Nittoli
Images courtesy of MeerKAT SKA South Africa and Don Boroughs


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DHR - Virginia Department of Historic Resources > Archive of DHR Press Releases > 10 New State Historical Highway Markers Approved (Sept. 2018)
10 New State Historical Highway Markers Approved (Sept. 2018)
—New markers will rise in the counties of Charles City, Fauquier (3), King and Queen, and Mathews; and the cities of Alexandria, Bristol, Lynchburg, and Norfolk—
RICHMOND – Among ten new historical markers recently approved for placement along Virginia roads will be the first one to recall the lynching of an African American. Other new markers will highlight a boarding school in King and Queen County where a young James Madison received a classical education, the Union Railway Station, completed in 1903 in the City of Bristol, the philanthropy of Paul and Mary Elizabeth Conover Mellon, and the Rokeby Stables, where Paul Mellon bred and raised champion racehorses.
The marker "Isaac Brandon Lynched, 6 April 1892" will rise in Charles City County, where "a mob of about 75 masked men dragged" Brandon from a county jail cell "and hanged him from a tree," according to the approved marker. Brandon, age 43 and a husband and father of eight, "had been held in jail on a charge of assaulting a white woman," the marker text states. No one was charged in connection with Brandon's murder. The marker will note that about 100 people, "the vast majority of them black men, were killed in documented lynchings" in Virginia between 1877 and 1950, during which more than 4,000 lynchings took place across the U.S.
Between the ages of 11 and 16, future President and "Father of the Constitution" James Madison attended Donald Robertson's School. Born and educated in Scotland, Robertson (1717-1783) established his private boarding school on his farm in King and Queen County, providing girls and boys "a classical education influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment," the forthcoming marker's text reads. Madison later described Robertson as "a man of extensive learning, and a distinguished Teacher," according to the text.
Land for railroad facilities in Bristol was donated in 1848, "before the town of Bristol took root early in the 1850s," the marker "Bristol Union Railway Station" will recall. On October 1, 1856, the railroad later known as the Norfolk and Western sent its first passenger train into Bristol, and in 1858, "the line later known as the Southern Railway was completed from [Bristol] to Knoxville, TN," the approved text states. The current 1903 Bristol station, "served both railroads until passenger and postal service ended in 1971." The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, and is "among the last of its era on the original N & W line," the text concludes.
Three markers will be erected in Fauquier County to recall the Mellons' philanthropy and the Rokeby Stables.
Paul Mellon (1907-1999) was "one of the foremost American philanthropists of the 20th century," according to the text for a marker summarizing his life. Inheriting a vast fortune from his father Andrew W. Mellon, the younger Mellon "supported universities, civic improvement projects, conservation efforts, and fine-arts institutions." Along with his second wife, Rachel "Bunny" Lambert Mellon, "he amassed a world-renowned art collection," and "donated more than 1,000 objects to the National Gallery of Art." He also made substantial contributions to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. In 1975, he donated the land to Virginia that became Sky Meadows State Park.
The life of Paul Mellon's first wife, Mary E. Conover Mellon will also be highlighted with a sign. With a keen interest in the humanities and the work of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, "she was instrumental in establishing the Bollingen Series of books in 1943 to publish Jung's writing in English and to disseminate works on anthropology, art, literary criticism, philosophy, and comparative religion." She was also the first president of the Bollingen Foundation, established to support the publishing enterprise. She died in 1946 and is buried at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville.
Rokeby Stables near Upperville was established by Paul Mellon after Andrew W. Mellon purchased the property in 1931. His horses included American Way, winner in 1948 of the Grand National Steeplechase; Mill Reef, winner in 1971 of Europe's most prestigious races; and Sea Hero, 1993 winner of the Kentucky Derby, among many others. Mellon collected equine art and donated much of his collection to the National Gallery of Art and the Virginia Fine Arts Museum, and the Yale Center for British Art, which he founded.
Three new markers address African American topics in Virginia and U.S. history:
The "Booker T. Washington High School" sign in Norfolkwill recall "one of Virginia's first accredited public high schools for African Americans." Housed in a newly built building in 1924, the school was Norfolk's only public high school for black students for decades. Two of its faculty members between 1939 and 1940 "pursued legal action that led to a federal court decision requiring salary equalization for black and white teachers." After desegregation of Norfolk's schools in 1970, the high school moved to a new building in 1974.
The marker "Thomas Hunter (Rosenwald) School" relays the story of the founding of the Mathews[County] Educational League in 1923 and the black community raising $9,900 to build a four-room school between 1926 and 1927. The Julius Rosenwald Foundation provided matching funds and building plans, making Thomas Hunter one of the more than 5,000 schools and affiliated structures for black students the Rosenwald Fund underwrote between 1917 and 1932. Named for Thomas Hunter, a former slave, the school relocated to a new building in 1953.
The forthcoming marker "Universal Lodge No. 1," slated for Alexandria, recalls Prince Hall Masonry, which "originated in Massachusetts in 1775 when a lodge attached to the British army initiated Prince Hall and 14 other free black men as Freemasons." The Alexandria lodge was "the first Prince Hall lodge in Virginia." Tradition holds three "seamen who had become masons in Liverpool, England," chartered the new lodge.
In Lynchburg "The Academy of Music (1905-1958)" sign will recall "a regional center of entertainment in the 20th century." Well known 20th-century luminaries including actress Sarah Bernhardt, musicians Eubie Blake, W.C. Handy, and John Philip Sousa, and others performed at the academy, which served primarily as a movie house after 1928. Closed in 1958, the neo-classical building stood vacant for decades before it was restored. It will reopen in December 2018 as the Academy Center of Arts. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Virginia highway marker program, which began in 1927 with installation of the first historical markers along U.S. Rte. 1, is considered the oldest such program in the nation. Currently there are more than 2,500 official state markers, most of which are maintained by the Virginia Department of Transportation, except in those localities outside of VDOT's authority.
The manufacturing cost of each new highway marker is covered by its sponsor.
More information about the Historical Highway Marker Program is available on the website of the Department of Historic Resources at https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/highway-markers/.
[PLEASE NOTE: DHR markers are erected not to "honor" their subjects but rather to educate and inform the public about a person, place, or event of regional, state, or national importance. In this regard, markers are not memorials.]
Full Text of Markers:
(Please note that some texts may be slightly modified before the manufacture and installation of the signs. Also locations proposed for each sign must be approved in consultation with VDOT or public works in jurisdictions outside VDOT authority.)
Booker T. Washington High School
John T. West High School, one of Virginia's first accredited public high schools for African Americans, was renamed in 1917 for Booker T. Washington, educator, author, and orator. The school moved to a newly constructed building in 1924 and for decades was Norfolk's only public high school for black students. Its programs were central to the community. In 1939-1940, faculty members Aline Black and Melvin Alston pursued legal action that led to a federal court decision requiring salary equalization for black and white teachers. In Sept. 1963, students marched to protest poor facilities. Norfolk implemented a desegregation plan in 1970, and the school moved into a new building here in 1974.
Sponsor: The Concerned Citizens of Booker T. Washington High
Locality: Norfolk
Proposed Location: 1111 Park Avenue (corner of U.S. 58 West and U.S. 166 South)
Sponsor Contact: Dr. Vivian Monroe-Hester, vctc81@aol.com
Thomas Hunter (Rosenwald) School
African Americans formed the Mathews Educational League in 1923 and raised $9,900 to build a four-room school here in 1926-1927. Donations came mainly from the black community, with additional contributions from white residents, the county school board, and the Julius Rosenwald Fund. This fund, established by the president of Sears, Roebuck, and Co., and inspired by the work of Booker T. Washington, helped build more than 5,000 schools and supporting structures for black students between 1917 and 1932. Named for Thomas Hunter, a former slave, this school was accredited during the 1939-1940 session and moved into a new brick building here in 1953. County schools were desegregated in 1969.
Sponsor: Thomas Hunter Middle School/Mathews County Public Schools
Locality: Mathews County
Proposed Location: 387 Church St.
Sponsor Contact: Katherine Small, katherine@davis-small.com; Laurel Byrd, lbyrd@mathews.k12.us
Universal Lodge No. 1
Prince Hall Masonry originated in Massachusetts in 1775 when a lodge attached to the British army initiated Prince Hall and 14 other free black men as Freemasons. Universal Lodge No. 1, the first Prince Hall lodge in Virginia, was established in Alexandria on 5 Feb. 1845. According to tradition, founders William Dudley, Benjamin Crier, and Sandy Bryant were seamen who had become masons in Liverpool, England, in the 1830s. They later joined Social Lodge No. 1 in Washington, DC, and worked to charter a new lodge across the Potomac River. Before the Civil War, Universal Lodge No. 1 met secretly in a house on South Royal Street in Hayti, a black enclave.
Sponsor: Universal Lodge #1 Free and Accepted Masons, Prince Hall
Locality: Alexandria
Proposed Location: 112 East Oxford Ave.
Sponsor Contact: McArthur Myers, Alexslim62@comcast.net
Isaac Brandon Lynched, 6 April 1892
A mob of about 75 masked men dragged Isaac Brandon from a cell in the old Charles City County jail and hanged him from a tree on this hillside on the night of 6 April 1892. Brandon, a 43-year-old black man, had been held in jail on a charge of assaulting a white woman. He was married and the father of eight children. No charges were filed in connection with Brandon's murder. More than 4,000 lynchings took place in the United States between 1877 and 1950. In Virginia, approximately 100 people, the vast majority of them black men, were killed in documented lynchings. Lynch mobs terrorized African Americans and helped to maintain white supremacy.
Sponsor: Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History; Charles City Chapter NAACP
Locality: Charles City County
Proposed Location: intersection of Courthouse Road and Courthouse Green at Charles City Court House
Sponsor Contact: Judith Ledbetter, mosside2@gmail.com
The Academy of Music (1905-1958)
The Academy of Music was a regional center of entertainment early in the 20th century. Its neo-classical facade and elaborate interior date from the rebuilding following a fire in 1911. The theater featured local talent, vaudeville acts, and performances by national and international luminaries such as Maude Adams, Sarah Bernhardt, Eubie Blake, George M. Cohan, W. C. Handy, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Anna Pavlova, Will Rogers, and John Philip Sousa. Primarily a movie house after 1928, the Academy closed in 1958 and was vacant for decades. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 and, after restoration, reopened in 2018 as the theater of the Academy Center of the Arts.
Sponsor: Academy Center of the Arts
Locality: Lynchburg
Proposed Location: 5th and Main Streets
Sponsor Contact: Jane White, janebaberwhite@gmail.com; Geoffrey Kershner, gkershner@academycenter.org
Donald Robertson's School
Donald Robertson (1717-1783), born and educated in Scotland, established a private boarding school on his farm near here by 1758. Among his students were James Madison, fourth president of the United States and "Father of the Constitution," and Brig. Gen. George Rogers Clark, militia commander in the Old Northwest during the Revolutionary War. Madison attended the school between the ages of 11 and 16 and later described Robertson as "a man of extensive learning, and a distinguished Teacher." Instructing both boys and girls, Robertson provided a classical education influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment. He operated his highly respected school for at least 15 years.
Sponsor: Mr. Peter Meyerhof
Locality: King and Queen County
Proposed Location: Spring Cottage Rd. (Route 628) at intersection with Gravel Pit Rd.
Sponsor Contact: p.meyerhof@comcast.net
Paul Mellon (1907-1999)
Paul Mellon, one of the foremost American philanthropists of the 20th century, lived nearby. An heir to the vast banking and industrial fortune left by his father, Andrew W. Mellon, he supported universities, civic improvement projects, conservation efforts, and fine-arts institutions. With his second wife, Rachel "Bunny" Lambert Mellon, he amassed a world-renowned art collection, donated more than 1,000 objects to the National Gallery of Art, and made substantial contributions to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Mellon achieved international success as a breeder of racehorses. In 1975, he donated land to Virginia for the creation of Sky Meadows State Park, about five miles west of here.
Sponsor: Mary Elizabeth Conover Foundation
Locality: Fauquier County
Proposed Location: Intersection of John S. Mosby Highway and Rokeby Road, Upperville
Sponsor Contact: Larry Nelson, StrategicAlliances@ConoverSysterms.org
Rokeby Stables
Paul Mellon established Rokeby Stables near here on property purchased in 1931 by his father, Andrew W. Mellon, financier and U.S. secretary of the treasury. Paul Mellon bred and raised champion racehorses, including American Way, Grand National Steeplechase winner in 1948; Arts and Letters and Fort Marcy, Horses of the Year in 1969 and 1970, respectively; Mill Reef, winner of Europe's most prestigious races in 1971; and Sea Hero, Kentucky Derby winner in 1993. Mellon twice won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Breeder. He collected equine art and donated many pieces to the National Gallery of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Yale Center for British Art, which he founded.
Proposed Location: Intersection of John Mosby Highway and Rokeby Road, Upperville
Mary Elizabeth Conover Mellon (1904-1946)
Mary E. Conover Mellon lived nearby with her second husband, the philanthropist Paul Mellon. Interested in the humanities and deeply influenced by the work of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, she was instrumental in establishing the Bollingen Series of books in 1943 to publish Jung's writings in English and to disseminate works on anthropology, art, literary criticism, philosophy, and comparative religion. She was the series' first editor and the first president of the Bollingen Foundation, founded by the Mellons in 1945 to support the publishing enterprise and to issue fellowships, grants, and prizes in the humanities. Mary Mellon died in 1946 and is buried here at Trinity Episcopal Church.
Proposed Location: 9108 John S. Mosby Highway, Upperville
Bristol Union Railway Station
The Rev. James King donated land for railroad facilities here in 1848, before the town of Bristol took root early in the 1850s. The first passenger train arrived on 1 Oct. 1856 on the railroad later known as the Norfolk and Western (N&W). In 1858, the line later known as the Southern Railway was completed from here to Knoxville, TN. Bristol became a manufacturing and commercial center. The N&W built the present station, the fourth on this lot, in 1902-1903. It served both railroads until passenger and postal service ended by 1971. The station, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, is among the last of its era on the original N&W line.
Sponsor: Bristol Train Station Foundation
Locality: City of Bristol
Proposed Location: 101 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Sponsor Contact: Tim Buchanan, buchanan03@bvu.net

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Registration of this purchase agreement at the local tax office will be carried out by our agency.
Under Italian law the signature of the preliminary purchase agreement involves serious obligations for both the seller and the buyer. It is a legally binding contract.
In case the seller breaches the contract or changes his mind he will be liable to pay double the amount given as a deposit.
On the other hand, if the buyers change their mind, they will lose the deposit paid.
– An Italian tax code will be needed for drawing up and registration of the preliminary purchase agreement. We can help in getting the tax code on your behalf at the local tax office.
– To become the true owners of the property you will need to make use of an Italian notary who will draft the final deed of sale.
The notary is a public officer acting on behalf of the Italian State and guarantees the validity of the sale.
Our agency will deliver all documents relating to the property to the notary's office and we will send you a cost estimate of purchase fees and taxes.
The notary, on his turn, will perform further legal checks and prepare the final sales deed.
The transfer of ownership will be carried out at the office of the notary who will read the deed in front of the parties in Italian whereas the translation in your language will be read by the translator.
The notary will be available to answer all questions and give explanations.
Only at this stage you will be required to pay the balance of the agreed selling price as well as the notary's fee, purchase taxes and the interpreters fee for the translation of the deed.
Once you have signed the final deed in front of the notary you will become the new owners and you can immediately enjoy your new home.
– The agency's fee will have to be paid 50% at signing of the purchase agreement and the remainder at the notarial deed.
In Italy, the agency's fee is paid by both seller and buyer and amounts 3% + VAT of the final agreed purchasing price for each of the parties.
– Immediately after completion of the deed our agency will handle all formalities regarding utility contracts and placing them on your name.
– Our services also include the opening of an Italian bank account which is definitely useful for all payments related to the purchase and of all utilities.


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Police and the ambulance service were called to Newington Road, outside McColls, at 8.33am.
A school child called emergency services and three members of the public helped the man until ambulance crews arrived.
A Kent Police spokesman said: "Kent Police received a report of a collision involving a car and a man riding a bike in Ramsgate at 8.33am on Thursday 4 October.
A South East Coast Ambulance service spokesman added: "One ambulance crew attended the scene following reports of an collision involving a car and a bicycle at approximately 8.25am this morning.


If the Government of Karnataka agrees to the proposal made by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited (DMRCL) and it turns out to be feasible, one will be able to reach Mysore in just 30 minutes.
Such a corridor, he said, will have a total length of 110 km with a speed potential of 350 km and the whole distance can be covered in less than 30 minutes.
He said that the Kerala Government has already accepted the feasibility report submitted by the DMRC for a HSRL between Thiruvananthapuram and Kasaragod, covering 560 km, to be covered in less than three hours.
"Kerala has accepted the report, based on which it has asked DMRC to prepare a detailed project report (DPR) for this project and the work on it is going on," Sreedharan said, adding that logically, such a line should be extended from Kasaragod to Mangalore/Udupi in Karnataka, which is being taken up separately.
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Ted Cruz's fight with Big Bird on Twitter was not on our 2021 bingo map.
However, Senator from Texas tweet, calling the hero of "Sesame Street" November announcement on the Covid-19 vaccination "Government propaganda … for your five-year-old child" is a prime example of a modern phenomenon: it is becoming increasingly difficult for people to distinguish between real and fictional characters.
To Aaron Bisman, VP of Audience Development at Sesame Workshop, this may seem like a testament to hard work. He oversees all of Sesame Street's social media accounts (eight on Facebook, nine on Twitter, and one on Instagram), each reflecting characters from a long-standing children's program and sharing messages that fit the show's mission: to make viewers smarter and kinder.
"We knew that the stories of our characters were powerful voices for enlightenment," said Mr. Bisman. But deciding when and how to use each one requires careful consideration.
For example, it made sense for Big Bird to talk about the Covid vaccine because he has "a lot of joy, but a bit of anxiety," said Mr Bisman. Elmo also tweeted about vaccinations, but not from personal experience. (He is consistently 3 and a half years old – too young to be eligible, but obviously old enough to ski with Lil Nas X.) Bert was able to post a vote in the 2020 presidential election as he is slightly older. In addition, as Mr. Bisman said, he looks like a man committed to civic duty.
Such extrapolations of characters and their motives are no longer limited to the area of writing rooms and social strategy meetings. Now, almost everyone talks about fictional creatures as if they were living, breathing creatures that walk – and set off – among us. During the pandemic, fans began to engage more in so-called parasocial relationships with the stars of their favorite shows as screen time skyrocketed and viewers sought comfortable television. On social media, characters with blue checkmarks who post regularly only fuel this behavior.
Bisman said that Sesame Street's accounts focus on "harnessing the love and nostalgia" people have for the show, which began airing in 1969 and has been part of the lives of three generations. (The oldest of the accounts, meanwhile, has been around for ten years.) "We're thinking about building relationships," he said, "because that's what every brand in the world is expected to do today."
The HBO Max reboot of Gossip Girl, which debuted this summer, pursues a similar goal: based on a show that ended nearly 10 years ago, the series had a built-in audience of former fans who still link to scenes on their social media. The media, as well as a new generation of viewers.
Although the original show ended just before the explosion of social media, the writers, executive producers, and directors agreed that it would play a much larger role in the reboot – not just in the show's plot, but also as a sequel. Gossip Girl's official social media accounts, as well as the characters' own accounts, were a way to "reward" viewers "for staying in this world," said Anthony Kane, social media director at HBO Max.
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Five people at HBO Max maintain Gossip Girls' social accounts, as well as several employees at Ralph, an outside creative agency. The posts closely follow the plot of each character.
Gossip Girl also has a team that makes sure the characters' phone screens look realistic in every episode. This includes Instagram feeds, tweets, and Venmo transactions – all done using prototyping software, as well as a Google Sheet with tips posted to the Gossip Girl account on the show (hundreds of them, written by Matthew K. Begby, scripted show coordinator and Eleanor Lawrence, social media scriptwriter).
The characters are also active on other social networks. Akeno "Aki" Menzies, an introverted movie buff, has an account on the Letterboxd movie review site, run by Mr. Begby, Joshua Safran, host of Gossip Girl, and Eric Eidelstein, writer of the series. (Shortly after the release of People, Aki's Letterboxd account posted a review of the film, which featured a Thanksgiving episode of "Gossip Girls," in which the real and fictional universes mingled.)
Two other characters, Audrey Hope and Zoe Lott, are on Goodreads. Fanfare about Audrey's story surprised Mr Begby; although, as he put it, fans were screaming about what she read, he didn't expect it to become the most popular account on Goodreads at some point (it is now 17th). Zoe's account appeared after fans started asking for him.
Mr. Begby said that keeping accounts is like "an extended play of pretending." Fans are also playing along, referring to accounts by character names when sending private messages with recommendations for films and books. "Consumers believe these reports are genuine," said Mr Kane. He added: "They love this world, they want to stay in this world."
Peter B. Gregg, assistant professor of new media at St. Thomas University, echoed this view. "Our minds do not view parasocial contact as anything other than interpersonal contact," said Dr. Gregg. As these shows give us "a special window into their world," he said, viewers begin to feel like they know the characters.
"We all know these characters are not real," said Mr. Bisman. But even Ted Lasso, whose Twitter account is as unrealistically optimistic as his character on Apple +, has fans who thank him for the inspiring quotes.
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The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in Brussels proved a majestic background for a High Level Lunch with Mr Michael Ignatieff on Friday May 15th. The Flemish liberal party Open Vld and the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit enjoyed the support of the European Liberal Forum (ELF) in organising this event with the Canadian intellectual and former politician.
Ignatieff was in Brussels to talk about his acclaimed work The Lesser Evil. Political Ethics in an Age of Terror. (2004, Princeton University Press) The lesser evil position holds that in a terrorist emergency, a democracy is committed to both the security of the majority and the rights of the individual. With the recent terrorist attacks in Europe and the IS menace in the Middle East in mind, this book – written amidst the "War on Terror" of George W. Bush – still could and should serve as a moral compass to liberal politicians dealing with terrorism.
Mrs Gwendolyn Rutten, chairwoman of Open Vld, and Mrs Susanne Hartig, President of ELF, welcomed 65 participants in the Marble Hall of what used to be the palace of Dutch Crown Prince Willem I. Amongst the invitees: Vice Prime Minister in the Belgian federal government, Mr Alexander De Croo, Flemish Secretary of Culture, Media, Youth and Brussels, Mr Sven Gatz, several members of the Belgian and European academic circuit, administrators of the European Commission, Members of the European Parliament, and representatives of member states of the EU.
Mr Ignatieff began his keynote by stressing that the multicultural liberal projects of the West remain the best antidote for confused youngsters against the Sirens' Song of what he coins "the virtual caliphate". Promoting our values to immigrants looking for a better life in Europe or North America is always a better choice than undermining these values ourselves in the name of security.
"If you look at the names of people who engaged in terrorist attacks over the last 15 years, we must always remember two things. First, these people are now dead, and two, we knew who they were before they committed those crimes. So our police and security services are doing a pretty good job. By which I mean: they don't need more powers. And if they grant them more powers, for instance to enable them to intervene sooner, let these measures always be of temporary nature and above all, let them be checked by the legislative and judicial powers", said Ignatieff to reinforce the lesser evil position.
Vice-President of the ALDE bureau and MEP Mrs Sophie in 't Veld took the floor for a response from the European liberal point of view. Although she agreed with the core of Ignatieffs speech, in 't Veld was more critical in her analysis of the liberal position on terrorism since 9/11. Liberty has been traded off for security – not even the kind of security we truly aimed for, she concluded. These two powerful speeches were followed by what was both an extensive and intensive Q&A.


Chronic vomiting is so common that many vets and cat owners have made excuses for it.
A study of 100 cats with a history of chronic vomiting, weight loss, chronic diarrhea or a combination was recently accepted for publication by the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.1 The authors, whom I led, concluded that chronic small bowel disease likely is the cause of these clinical signs in hundreds of thousands of cats.
Chronic vomiting, present in 73 percent of the cases, is so common that many veterinarians and cat owners have made excuses for it.
* "He's just a puker," to quote one of my clients.
Consequently, the typical approach has been the use of diets for "sensitive stomachs," diets for hairballs, hypoallergenic diets, medications for hairballs and antiemetics (metoclopramide, ondansetron, maropitant, famotidine, etc.).
Often there is improvement in clinical signs, but rarely are they completely relieved. In addition, the improvement often diminishes over time.
My two clinical associates and two pathologists teamed with me to better understand the cause of chronic small bowel disease in cats.
One hundred cats with the aforementioned clinical signs were examined by abdominal ultrasound. The small bowel wall thickness was measured in several places; if one or more measurements were 0.28 cm or greater, surgery was performed. At surgery, at least three full-thickness biopsies were collected from the small bowel using a 6 mm biopsy punch so all layers of the bowel wall could be examined.
In addition, the liver (wedge) and pancreas (4 mm biopsy punch) were biopsied. Histopathology and immunohistochemical staining were performed on all samples, and PCR for Antigen Receptor Rearrangement (PARR) was performed on samples deemed to be "ambiguous." "Ambiguous" was defined as a cellular composition that had characteristics of both inflammatory disease and small cell lymphoma, the two most common diagnoses.
IBD is one of several causes of chronic enteritis and requires more testing to rule out other known causes before the term IBD is justified. However, ultimately IBD, as a diagnosis of exclusion, is correct in a high percentage of cases.
The final diagnoses of the 100 cats are shown in Table 1. It is notable that the incidences of chronic enteritis and neoplasia are almost equal. It also is notable that the cats with lymphoma were slightly older than those with enteritis.
There is growing evidence that some cats with chronic enteritis transition into lymphoma. This should motivate the practitioner to be aggressive in getting biopsies of these cats so the disease can be diagnosed at the more treatable stage.
Gary Norsworthy, DVM, Dipl. ABVP, and J. Scot Estep, DVM, Dipl. ACVP, will present a symposium on small bowel disease at the 2014 Western Veterinary Conference in Las Vegas in February. The emphasis will be on diagnosis, but therapy also will be included.
Pathologists will be especially interested in Dr. Estep's findings and how they affect appropriate diagnostics.
The presence of vomiting alone and vomiting with weight loss are the basis for my theory that small bowel thickening causes hypomotility. Hair and food move through the bowel at subnormal speed. When more hair or food is ingested, the full bowel results in reflux vomiting. As the bowel wall thickens further, nutrients are not absorbed properly, resulting in weight loss and compensatory polyphagia, well recognized clinical signs of cats with intestinal lymphoma.
Another notable finding in this study is that vomiting of hairballs is really not as normal as we have thought. The vomitus of many of the cats contained hair or hairballs more than 50 percent of the time.
I hypothesize that formation and vomiting of hairballs are due primarily to hypomotility of the small bowel. Instead of moving aborally at the normal speed, hair moves slowly, resulting in hairball formation.
I am convinced that the vomiting of hairballs is a sign of chronic small bowel disease if it occurs twice a month or more in any cat; or if it occurs once every two months or more in shorthaired cats; or if it occurs in cats that are not fastidious groomers, i.e., presented with many mats in their hair coats or with heavy dandruff.
About 25 percent of the cats in the study were presented for an annual examination. I begin my annual examinations with the client completing a history form that asks about several clinical signs. Vomiting is the most commonly reported clinical sign and is often accepted by the client as insignificant based on one or more of the excuses listed above.
Thus, one of the best ways to find chronic small bowel disease, and many other diseases, is to perform an annual examination that includes proper history taking. This must include proactively asking about chronic vomiting; otherwise, clients will often not report it.
Some veterinarians use endoscopy to obtain gastric and small bowel biopsy samples. However, surgical biopsy has two distinct advantages. First, 76 percent of the cats in the study had segmental disease as evidenced by both normal and abnormal ultrasound findings and proved by visual evaluation of the tissues at the time of surgery. Many cats had disease that was limited to areas not accessible to the endoscopic biopsy forceps.
Final diagnoses of 100 cats with clinical signs of chronic small bowel disease.
Second, endoscopic biopsies generally only contain mucosal tissue. Pathologists prefer to examine all of the layers, especially in ambiguous cases. The therapeutic significance of this will be shown in a subsequent paper in which we will show the difference in therapeutic response and prognosis in cats with villus and mucosal lymphoma vs. those with lymphoma that infiltrates deeper into the bowel wall.
The findings of this study should motivate the practitioner to be much more proactive in working up cats with signs of chronic vomiting, diarrhea and weight loss or a combination of these signs.
Chronic small bowel disease is very common and can cause all of these signs.
It is time to quit accepting our timeworn excuses and treating these cats symptomatically. Get a diagnosis so you can treat these cats appropriately and potentially prevent the transition from IBD to lymphoma.
Dr. Norsworthy, Dipl. ABVP, operates Alamo Feline Health Center in San Antonio. He is a member of the Veterinary Practice News editorial advisory board.
Hello. My 9 year old Persian fits this description. She has a lifetime history or IBD symptoms. I treat her with homecooked food, and probiotics. That has corrected her chronic diarrhea. Recently she's been vomiting ALOT of hairballs (about 20 in a month and a half). She fits the description above – chronic hairballs with no weight loss. She isn't healthy enough to undergo surgery, so what do I do for her. Please help! I'm worried sick for her!
Rachel – I have two adult cats that were diagnosed with IBD two years ago. One through a biopsy and the other through ultrasound. My conventional vet recommended Prednisolone as the "treatment"… I did my own education and discovered a world of natural, holistic health options. Switched to raw diet with supplements of Probiotics and have been working with a Homeopathic Vet to promote healing. I truly believe my cats would have passed if I didn't do natural treatment to address the illness vs. suppress the symptoms through drugs. Weaned one of my cats off Prednisolone and the other one is almost there. Finding the right Probiotic is important too. Digestive Enzymes might help. I recommend looking into Homeopathy and working with an experienced Homeopathic Vet to address diet and remedy use to help your kitty achieve the best health possible. Homeopathic Vets will do phone consultations, so don't worry about finding one near you: theavh.org. Another trusted site for information is healthypets.mercola.com (Dr. Becker). Best wishes for your furbaby.
I'm on the hunt for a good probiotic. I've been told my girl is "a puker" but my mama instinct has always disagreed. Felt like a lazy answer.
But I'd love to hear your discoveries. She's a super picky eater (while her brother will eat anything) so that makes it a little extra tricky.
Lucy is 12.4 yrs old. From the time she got her shots at 3 months. Took her right back to the vet. Vet did 2 UGH studies. 1 was fine, but she still vomited.2nd series showed something, perhaps a foreign body in her stomach. Did surgery to remove substance as she did not pass it. Surgery showed a sore that the barium adhered to. Biopsied it was not malignant. Vet said she would probably be on Pepcid A.C. the rest of her days. Fast forward on to age 9. She had an episode of pain and vomiting. Took her to emergence vet. Blood test and stomach x ray showed nothing. Changed her food to Royal Canin Gastrointestinal. Fine. A few bouts of vomiting, but with Pepced was ok. Then a few months ago, the vomiting started again. I had moved, so I took her to a vet near me. Gave her a shot of steroids and antibiotics along with Cerenia for vomiting. Also did bloodwork and a stomach x ray. A little thickness in the stomach lining. Not helping, so I made the trip back to the original vet.Had her records sent to her. She saw nothing remarkable on the x ray. She also did a test for pancreatitis which was normal. She had lost a little weight. Put her on Cerenia, 4 days on two days off. Also Mirtazapine 3.75mg tablet for appetite. 1 tablet every 3 days. Pepcid morning and night. Did real well. Gained a pound and held it for a little over a month. Changed the dosage on Cerenia to 2 days on 2 off. Changed the appetite med to a longer time between doses. Vomited once. Not eating well, but not vomiting. Go back to vet on April 23rd. All her life she has had issues with her stomach. Never loose stools. At a loss as to what to do next. Very nervous cat, always has been. She had been abused and found in a garage. My vet nursed her to good health and I adopted her. Any advice?


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by Re-Imagine Europe7 October 2019
Re-Imagine Europe is very excited to officially announce two new partners: Kontejner (HR) and Disruption Network Lab (DE).
Together with Paradiso (NL), Sonic Acts (NL), Elevate (AT), Lighthouse (UK), INA GRM (FR), Bergen Kunsthall (NO), A4 (SK) and Ràdio Web MACBA (ES), the consortium is now complete again and looking forward to a packed programme of activities during the next two years across Europe.
KONTEJNER, an NGO based in Zagreb, is engaged in curatorial work, the organisation of art festivals and other public events, education and social theory. Its main field of interest is progressive contemporary art which investigates the role and meaning of science, technology and the body in our society. Within this field, KONTEJNER focuses on urgent and current phenomena, with special regard for the most provocative, fascinating and intriguing subjects and topics – including those perceived as taboo.
Disruption Lab Network, is a platform for events and research focused on the intersection of politics, technology and society. Disruption Network Lab aims to expose the misconduct and wrongdoing of the powerful and strengthen freedom of speech through organising participatory, interdisciplinary, international events, as well as community meet-ups, allowing curators, speakers and participants to engage in discussions and share ideas.
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A: The reason: the character ✓ is U+2713 (Unicode code point), which in UTF-8 is coded as E2 9C 93. So I assume your file is correctly coded as UTF-8.
But somehow the file is read as Windows-1252, where E2 is â, 9C is œ, and 93 is ". Maybe your server think it is text and advertise the encoding with some obsolete encoding (CSS, and BTW also most web, should be UTF-8 by default).
You may need to add @charset "utf-8"; at the top of your CSS, to force browsers to interpret the file as UTF-8. See https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-css-charset for details.

A: Try with the entity: content: "\2713";

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PEG-based nanocomposite hydrogel: Thermoresponsive sol-gel transition controlled by PLGA-PEG-PLGA molecular weight and solute concentration
Makoto Miyazaki, Tomoki Maeda, Kenji Hirashima, Naruki Kurokawa, Koji Nagahama, Atsushi Hotta
A PEG-based copolymer with a high PEG ratio was synthesized and the sol-gel transition temperature (Tgel) around the physiological temperature (25 °C–37 °C) was achieved. Specifically, we synthesized a triblock PEG copolymer of poly (D,L-lactide-co-glycolide)-b-poly (ethylene glycol)-b-poly (D,L-lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA-PEG-PLGA) with different molecular weights and a high PEG/PLGA ratio of 0.80. By adding synthetic clay (laponite) to an aqueous solution of the PEG-based copolymer, it was found that the discriminating concentration combinations of the laponite (from 0.75 to 1.5 wt%) and the PLGA-PEG-PLGA (from 2.0 to 5.0 wt%) could effectively regulate the Tgel to fall between 25 °C and 37 °C (physiological temperature), simultaneously controlling the storage and the loss moduli of the specimens studied by the dynamic mechanical analyses (DMA). The structural analyses were also performed by the cryo-TEM and the high-resolution small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) measurements at SPring-8, Japan.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2017.03.016
PLGA-PEG-PLGA
Thermoresponsive hydrogel
10.1016/j.polymer.2017.03.016
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Miyazaki, M., Maeda, T., Hirashima, K., Kurokawa, N., Nagahama, K., & Hotta, A. (2017). PEG-based nanocomposite hydrogel: Thermoresponsive sol-gel transition controlled by PLGA-PEG-PLGA molecular weight and solute concentration. Polymer, 115, 246-254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2017.03.016
PEG-based nanocomposite hydrogel : Thermoresponsive sol-gel transition controlled by PLGA-PEG-PLGA molecular weight and solute concentration. / Miyazaki, Makoto; Maeda, Tomoki; Hirashima, Kenji; Kurokawa, Naruki; Nagahama, Koji; Hotta, Atsushi.
In: Polymer, Vol. 115, 21.04.2017, p. 246-254.
Miyazaki, M, Maeda, T, Hirashima, K, Kurokawa, N, Nagahama, K & Hotta, A 2017, 'PEG-based nanocomposite hydrogel: Thermoresponsive sol-gel transition controlled by PLGA-PEG-PLGA molecular weight and solute concentration', Polymer, vol. 115, pp. 246-254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2017.03.016
Miyazaki M, Maeda T, Hirashima K, Kurokawa N, Nagahama K, Hotta A. PEG-based nanocomposite hydrogel: Thermoresponsive sol-gel transition controlled by PLGA-PEG-PLGA molecular weight and solute concentration. Polymer. 2017 Apr 21;115:246-254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2017.03.016
Miyazaki, Makoto ; Maeda, Tomoki ; Hirashima, Kenji ; Kurokawa, Naruki ; Nagahama, Koji ; Hotta, Atsushi. / PEG-based nanocomposite hydrogel : Thermoresponsive sol-gel transition controlled by PLGA-PEG-PLGA molecular weight and solute concentration. In: Polymer. 2017 ; Vol. 115. pp. 246-254.
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In a YouTube video posted by Paul Powell's Family Crusin channel on Aug. 2, flames engulf Powell's Dodge Hellcat in Plainfield.
In a YouTube video posted by Paul Powell's Family Cruisin channel Aug. 2, Powell speaks about his Dodge Hellcat.
Two suspects in a Plainfield street racing case have court hearings scheduled for early next year.
Paul R. Powell, 35, is slated to appear in court Feb. 7, while his co-defendant, Timothy J. Hagan, 47, will make his next court appearance Jan. 24, Will County State's Attorney spokeswoman Carole Cheney said.
Both men were at the Will County Courthouse on Monday to schedule their next court appearances.
Powell's attorney, Joseph Serpico, failed to return calls Monday.
Powell and Hagan are two of at least five suspects arrested in an ongoing investigation by Plainfield police and the state's attorney's office into street racing.
Police have arrest warrants for two more suspects. Will County Judge Dan Rippy has those cases sealed from public view because it is an ongoing criminal investigation.
Powell, who has been named as a co-defendant in almost every case, is the owner of the YouTube channel FamilyCruisin, which was investigated by Plainfield police. The channel has more than 64,000 subscribers and 9.9 million views.
Hagan had a YouTube channel as well called Growls Garage. Hagan is a registered sexual predator who was convicted of sexually abusing a teenage girl in 2009 while he was working for a school.
Powell, Hagan, Joseph N. Lukas, 36, Steven J. Fredenhagen, 41, and Ian Whelton, 26, all have been arrested on charges of street racing. Prosecutors have said the criminal charges stem from a three-month investigation by Plainfield police into the suspects' alleged street racing activities after viewing a video of Powell's Dodge Challenger Hellcat catching on fire.
The Hellcat caught fire because of a mechanical failure July 31 on Book Road, according to a Plainfield Fire Protection District report. Plainfield police and firefighters responded to the incident.
The criminal complaints filed thus far allege that Powell and Hagan were street racing on Interstate 355 in Lemont, Powell and Fredenhagen were street racing on Route 30 in Plainfield and on I-355, and Powell and Lukas were street racing on Book Road in Plainfield.
In many of Powell's videos, he is driving the Hellcat, racing other drivers or talking about cars. In one video, he offers to do burnouts with his car for money.


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