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Sir Noël Pierce Coward (Teddington, 16 de Dezembro de 1899 - Port Maria, 26 de Março de 1973) foi um dramaturgo, ator e compositor britânico.

Ganhou um Óscar especial em 1942 pela sua contribuição para o esforço de guerra com o filme In which we serve. Foi feito cavaleiro do reino pela rainha Isabel II (no Brasil, Elizabeth II) em 1970.

Por ser um homossexual influente, Noël Coward foi incluído no "livro negro", lista preparada pelos nazistas que incluía pessoas que deveriam ser presas e assassinadas após a conquista do Reino Unido.

Carreira

Filmes
Como actor, Noël Coward entrou, entre outros, nos seguintes filmes:
 1935: The Scoundrel (br.: O Enérgumeno), seu primeiro papel no cinema, exceto por uma ponta em 1918
 1942: In Which We Serve (br.: Nosso Barco, Nossa Alma) que co-realizou com David Lean
 1950: The Astonished Heart (pt.: Veneno de Amor), baseado numa peça sua
 1956: Around the World in 80 Days (br., pt.: A Volta ao Mundo em 80 Dias)
 1959: Our Man in Havana
 1964: Paris - When It Sizzles (br.: Quando Paris Alucina)
 1965: Bunny Lake Is Missing (pt.: Desapareceu Bunny Lake)
 1969: The Italian Job (br.: Um Golpe à Italiana)

Teatro

Noël Coward é autor de várias peças de teatro, incluindo:
 1924 The Vortex
 1925 Fallen Angels e Hay Fever
 1930 Private Lives
 1936 Tonight at 8:30, uma colecção de nove peças de um acto que inclui Still Life, a base do filme Brief Encounter de David Lean
 1933 Design for Living, em que foi baseado o filme de Ernst Lubitsch
 1939 Present Laughter
 1941 Blithe Spirit, em que foi baseado o filme de David Lean
 1950 Relative Values
 1956 Nude with a Violin e South Sea Bubble
 1965 Suite in Three Keys, três peças cuja acção se passa no mesmo quarto de hotel.

Ficção
 1939 To Step Aside (contos)
 1951 Star Quality (contos)
 1960 Pomp and Circumstance
 1964 Pretty Polly Barlow (contos)
 1967 Bon Voyage (contos)

Música
Teatro de revista, musicais, opereta

 London Calling! (1922, 1923), teatro revista com Ronald Jeans
 On With the Dance (1924, 1925), teatro revista
 This Year of Grace (1927, 1928), teatro revista, original de Charles B. Cochran 1928 teatro revista
 Bitter Sweet (1928, 1929), operetta
 Words and Music (1932), teatro revista
 Conversation Piece (1933), comédia com música
 Operette (1937), musical
 Set to Music (1939), revue (de Broadway Words and Music)

 Sigh No More (1945), teatro revista
 Pacific 1860 (1946), romance musical
 Ace of Clubs (1949), musical
 After the Ball (1953), musical baseado em Lady Windermere's Fan
 Sail Away (1959–61), comédia musical
 The Girl Who Came to Supper (1963), comédia musical baseado em The Sleeping Prince
 Oh, Coward! (1972) teatro revista
 Cowardy Custard (1972) teatro revista

 Canções
Coward escreveu mais de cem canções. O website Noël Coward Society enumera numa lista por ordem de popularidade:

"I'll See You Again" (Bitter Sweet); "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" (Words and Music); "If Love Were All" (Bitter Sweet); "Someday I'll Find You" (Private Lives); "I'll Follow My Secret Heart" (Conversation Piece); "London Pride" (1941); "A Room With a View" (This Year of Grace); "Mrs Worthington" (1934); "Poor Little Rich Girl" (On With the Dance); and "The Stately Homes of England" (Operette). In the society's second tier of favourites are: "The Party's Over Now" (Words and Music); "Dearest Love" (Operette); "Dear Little Café" (Bitter Sweet); "Parisian Pierrot" (London Calling!); "Men About Town" (Tonight at 8:30); "Twentieth Century Blues" (Cavalcade); "Uncle Harry" (Pacific 1860); "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans" (1943); "There Are Bad Times Just Around the Corner" (Globe Review); "Dance, Little Lady" (This Year of Grace); "Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?" (Tonight at 8:30); "I Went to a Marvellous Party" (Set to Music); "Nina" (Sigh No More); "A Bar on the Piccola Marina" (1954); "Why Must the Show Go On?" (Together With Music); "Sail Away" (Ace of Clubs and Sail Away); and "Zigeuner" (Bitter Sweet).

Ligações externas

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História LGBT do Reino Unido


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Q: Selenium Actions moveToElement on Google Chrome 75.0.3770.80 on ubuntu doesnot work Selected an element and wanted --> physically move the mouse cursor over it.
tried using Actions class provided with selenium.method used is moveToElement().
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(element).build().perform();

Used driver version is  ChromeDriver 75.0.3770.90.
Expected :- Physical Cursor Must move to element location.

A: I had the same issue after upgrading to Chrome 75.
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(element).build().perform();
element.click();

That real solved the problem for me.

A: The method you are using seems correct. Looks either you need to wait as it quicky moves to next statement
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(element).build().perform();
try{
     Thread.sleep(6000);
}
catch(Exception ex){

}

OR
Your element is not ready yet you need to wait for it like below:
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
WebElement myDynamicElement = (new WebDriverWait(driver, 10))
  .until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.id("myDynamicElement")))

actions.moveToElement(element).build().perform();

A: I had the same problem with windows too, using chrome 75.0.3770.90 and chrome driver 75.0.3770.8.
Try to do this :
actions.moveToElement(element).release().build().perform();

That solved the problem for me.

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Орашац је топоним изведен од речи орах. Она може значити:

Србија:
 Орашац (Обреновац), насеље у градској општини Обреновац, град Београда, Република Србија;
 Орашац (Шабац), насеље у граду Шапцу, Мачвански округ, Република Србија;
 Орашац (Аранђеловац), насеље у општини Аранђеловац, Шумадијски округ, место где је подигнут Први српски устанак,
 Орашац (Пријепоље), насеље у општини Пријепоље, Златиборски округ, Република Србија;
 Орашац (Лесковац), насеље у граду Лесковцу, Јабланички округ, Република Србија;
 Знаменито место Орашац, непокретно културно добро у Орашцу, општина Аранђеловац;

Босна и Херцеговина:

Федерација Босне и Херцеговине
 Орашац (Високо), насеље у општини Високо, Федерација БиХ, БиХ;
 Орашац (Бихаћ), насеље у општини Бихаћ, Федерација БиХ, БиХ;
 Орашац (Травник), насеље у општини Травник, Федерација БиХ, БиХ;
 Орашац (Нови Травник), насеље у општини Нови Травник, Федерација БиХ, БиХ;
 Орашац (Прозор-Рама), насеље у општини Прозор-Рама, Федерација БиХ, БиХ;

Северна Македонија:
 Орашац (Куманово), насеље у општини Куманово, Северна Македонија;

Хрватска:
 Орашац (Дубровник), насеље код Дубровника, Република Хрватска.

Види још
 Орах (вишезначна одредница)
 Ораовица (вишезначна одредница)
 Орахова (вишезначна одредница)
 Ораховица (вишезначна одредница)
 Ораховице (вишезначна одредница)
 Ораховљани (вишезначна одредница)
 Орахово (вишезначна одредница)
 Орашје (вишезначна одредница)
 Ореовец (вишезначна одредница)

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Home/About Australia, Camels, Historical/Camels
We all know that Camels are not indigenous to Australia so why would they get a mention on an Australian site.
From 1860's to the early 1900's camels, together with their handlers (cameleers) were imported into Australia from Afghanistan. The Australians knew nothing about camels so their cameleers were also recruited to care for these animals and accompany them wherever they were required to go. Also, I would guess that they could only respond to instructions in their native language……..you can't teach an old camel new tricks!
Australia has vast tracts of desert and it did not have the roads or a railway system to carry merchandise from town to town or to explore the dry interior. These animals were housed in various parts of our country and used as they have been for centuries in, Central Asia, for transportation. The camels were able to do what the horse and oxen could not do which was accompanying exploration parties. They carried water, supplies, and mail to remote settlements. They were used to carry surveying and construction equipment for some of Australia's earliest infrastructure projects such as the 'Overland Telegraph' and the 'Trans Australia Railway'. They carried all the equipment needed for the construction of the rail link from Port Augusta to Alice Springs. This was known as the 'Afghan Express' and later changed to the 'Ghan'. Today (February 2014) the Ghan runs from Adelaide through Alice Springs to Darwin. It is now 10 years since the connection to Darwin and it was given a welcome in Darwin from some locals. The locals gave a quick 'flash" of some flesh as the train come into Darwin. The emblem of the Ghan is an Afghan camel.
The early explorers used horses and to lesser degree donkeys and bullocks for transport. The biggest problem was that horses needed lots of water and feed and found it hard going on the desert sands and rough terrain. The first time a camel was used for transportation was in 1846 by the Horrocks Expedition – the camel was named "Harry". A Melbourne newspaper reported that the camels could carry:
From seven to eight hundred pounds weight….they last out several generations of mules…the price paid form them does not exceed one half of that paid for mules …and it is proven that 'ships of the deserts' of Arabia are equally adaptable to our climate'.
In 1860 24 camels and 3 cameleers were imported to join the Burke and Wills expedition. Although the expedition ended in tragedy and Burke and Wills died the camels proved their ability to survive the harsh and dry conditions of the Australian outback. By the late 1860s, most Australian states were importing camels and cameleers. It is estimated that between 1870 and 1900 more than 2,000 cameleers and 15,000 camels were imported into Australia. Although the cameleers were collectively known as 'Afghan' cameleers they also came from other countries such as Baluchistan, Kashmir, Sind, Rajasthan, Egypt, Persia (Iran), Turkey and Punjab. Their common bond was their Islamic religion and they were mostly young or middle-aged.
The cameleers were frowned upon by the Europeans and the population was isolated into three separate areas – the Europeans, the Aboriginals and the Cameleers. Some of the Cameleers had left wives behind and only came to Australia for a three-year stint. Others married Aborigines as the Europeans were not accessible. They built mosques and used them for prayer as well as community gatherings. When the Cameleers set up their own business in competition with the Europeans they were vilified. The Europeans accused them of acts of aggression including monopolizing and befouling waterholes. A police investigation proved that the allegations were untrue and that the Cameleers had not forcibly taken possession of dams or polluted the waters.
A letter was written to the Attorney General stating that:
'It is no exaggeration to say that if it had not been for the Afghan and his Camels, Wilcannia, White Cliffs, Tibooburrra, Milperinka and other Towns, each center is of considerable population, would have practically ceased to exist".
The Immigration Restriction Act of 1901 disallowed the Cameleers, who had returned home after their three-year contract, to return to Australia. They were either not granted permission to return or they were given a dictation test which kept out new Cameleers and denied re-entry to those who had left. Many were denied naturalization due to their 'Asian' statuses. When the rail and road transport was up the Cameleers became redundant. Some returned home and others stayed and turned to other trades. Rather than see their camels shot they released them into the wild.
The Situation Today
Today the camels roam the country in large numbers and across 3.3 million square kilometers (1.3 million square miles) of the outback. Australia is either flooded or in drought. Currently the 'top end' is in drought and in one area the thirsty camels have knocked down fences and broken into homes in an effort to quench their thirst. The Northern Territory town of Docker River is under siege and the CEO Graham Taylor said,
"I think the words 'under siege' are good words because it talks about people being stuck in their homes and looking out and seeing just numbers of camels at your front door," he said. "And if they get anxious and want more water and stick their head through the window, I suppose you've then got another problem, so they're still chasing the water."
The Territory Government is spending $50,000 on a cull in the next week. Helicopters will herd the camels 15 kilometers outside the community where they will be shot and left to decay. It is estimated there are more than 1 million camels roaming through a vast area in the outback. The chief executive of the Northern Territory Cattlemen's Association, Luke Bowen, says,
'pastoralists in the north are fed up with the damage being caused to their stations'. "This is a plague of biblical proportions laying waste to a sensitive and arid environment," he said. "It has been something that has been too hard to deal with; it's been duck-shoved around from state to state and nobody has been able to stand up and cooperatively, collectively do anything about it."
Last August, the Federal Government announced a $19 million grant for camel control to go to the corporate arm of the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research center. But the company is yet to receive the money because the contract is still under negotiation. Ms. Ferguson says even with the $19 million program in place, other measures to control feral camels will still be needed.
The Overlander Steakhouse in 'The Alice' (Alice Springs) serves up Camel steaks and shanks! The "Today" show on Channel 9 showed the result. The Camel's leg was cooked by Wayne Crafty Craft the owner of the 'Overlander' Steakhouse and it took 3 days to thaw and 10 hours to cook. You could understand this when you know that the total weight is 32 kilos. The shank is called the 'Jurassic' Lamb Shank. It is lean and low in cholesterol and has less fat than any other animal – even the kangaroo. The 'shank' tastes like lamb and the steaks taste like 'beef' – what a versatile animal. The restaurant has operated for 43 years and I am sure with Camel on the menu it will be around for a long time to come.
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Weekly tax brief | 5 January 2021
Tax and fairness: the debate has changed
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Will U-turn over cross-border tax reporting provide the UK with a Brexit dividend?
Jackie Hall
Despite earlier indications that the Government would implement EU cross-border reporting of tax arrangements as intended, it is now abandoning the majority of those provisions in a surprising U-turn.
Stamp Duty Land Tax holiday should be phased out gradually
Chris Etherington
The Government has confirmed that there will be no extension to the 'SDLT holiday' beyond the 31 March 2021 deadline but, with the country plunged into lockdown again, thousands of property purchases that are already underway risk being subject to significantly higher SDLT costs due to delayed completions. Rather than risk disruption to the property market and chains collapsing, we call on the Government to rethink its response and consider a phased withdrawal of the SDLT relief.
No amnesty from HMRC on 31 January tax return deadline
Gary Heynes
With all the uncertainties of another national lockdown, we hope HMRC reconsiders its stance and offers to waive all penalties for a short delay in submission of tax returns, beyond 31 January 2021, so giving certainty to many taxpayers.
Brexit deal revealed, but what does the future have in store?
Sarah Halsted
Businesses may have breathed a sigh of relief when the UK and EU reached a last-minute agreement on their post-Brexit trading relationship, but what does this mean in practice from a customs perspective, and what challenges are likely to arise in the coming months?
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Boys make up a disproportionate number of those who receive discipline referrals, they are over-represented in Special Education classes, and their dropping rates of college graduation are cause for concern. Historically our approach to boys has been to tell them what not to do, who not to become. We have done a poor job at holding up images for boys of what it means to be a good man. Too often we lose contact with boys out of fear and misunderstanding.
My approach to understanding and supporting boys is rooted in years of research on the topic. Some of that research is summarized in the document Building On Strengths: Helping Boys Succeed in Portland Public Schools. Biological and social forces interact to create unique challenges for parents, teachers, and counselors. My advocacy work for boys is based on looking at their strengths and being strategic about the messages we send boys regarding what it means to be a man. I work to help people understand boys' developmental issues so that they may gain a deeper understanding of what boys need.
In addition to writing on the topic and working with boys in a therapy setting, I offer public presentations to parents, school personnel, and youth organizations. I address the importance of men in boys' lives and advise about styles of communication that work best to maintain contact with boys.
When speaking with school staff I highlight strategies such as incorporating movement into classrooms, literacy techniques that work for boys, handling humor and violence in boys' writing, involving more men in schools, modifying lessons to help boys develop relational skills, and creating school climates where boys are engaged. I teach a graduate course titled "Challenging Indifference: Creating Schools Where Boys Thrive" for those who want college credit and the opportunity for an in-depth look at boys in educational settings. I am also available to speak to schools' staff on-site.


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Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are having a major global impact, not least in manufacturing. Using this technology means better data insights, improved troubleshooting and faster procedures, resulting in a more efficient factory flow. Emma Green explores the current and future developments in AI, including the use of robotics to enhance the manufacturing process.
Over the past few years, the rise of miniaturised medical devices has helped reshape the industry. Driven by rising healthcare costs and the shift to home-based outpatient care, hospitals, medical practitioners and patients are demanding products that are smaller, lighter and more portable than ever before.
While the finished products – from implantable defibrillators to wearable health monitors – tend to grab the headlines, for devices to decrease in size and increase in efficiency, it is the components inside them that must fundamentally change.
For component manufacturers, miniaturising a medical device can be achieved in several different ways. But one of the most important is through micropumps – scaled down versions of a normal macroscopic pump that play an essential role in managing and dispensing gas and fluids.
"When we look at the growing trend in the medical device sector towards getting devices into the hands of end users, homecare – and hence, portability – are critical," Abelardo Gonzalez, adjunct professor at Saint Xavier University, said in a recent article for MD+DI. "This trend has led to device miniaturisation and the proliferation of micropumps."
All shapes and sizes
As well as their size, small pumps are associated with lower production costs, fewer leaks, decreased power consumption and increased accuracy owing to the controlled flow of fluids and delivery of drug dosage into the body. "Because of their reduced dimensions, micropumps weigh less and use less space than their macroscopic counterparts," says an online resource from the Southwest Center for Microsystems Education.
"They have the ability to handle extremely small volumes of liquid very efficiently," the resource adds. "The medical industry is taking advantage of these characteristics. A small drop of blood (rather than a vial of blood) can be extracted from a patient and distributed on a chip for analysis by using a micropump. Micropumps are being developed that can be used in vivo or internal to the pump."
The first microelectromechanicalbased micropump was introduced in the 1980s by Jan Smits for use in insulin delivery systems, which control the blood sugar level of diabetic people.
Since then, micropumps have been developed in a variety of medical applications including transdermal insulin delivery, blood transportation through artificial hearts, injection of glucose and drugs, hormone treatment, and pain and wound-care management. Many consider the devices to be the 'beating heart' of the microfluidics industry, where microminiaturised devices are developed with chambers and tunnels through which fluids can flow.
According to a September report by Market Research Future, the global micropump market is anticipated to expand at a compound annual growth rate of about 19.4% during its forecast period of 2018–27. the US dominates the micropump market, the report adds, owing to increasing investment in healthcare, and micropump manufacturers significantly upgrading their factories and manufacturing capabilities.
While micropumps come with different shapes, flow-rate capacities, pressure and vacuum ratings, most models fall into two broad categories: mechanical micropumps, which have moving parts that create a higher pressure in the fluid inside the pump, and non-mechanical micropumps, which cause movement of fluids through other means, such as electric fields, heat and magnets.
"Different micropumps are effective and suitable for different applications, which can be determined by analysing various performance parameters such as flow rate, pressure generated, operating voltage and size," said Partha Kumar Das, a lecturer at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, in a recent academic paper.
Disc Pump cycles in 20,000 per second, which is one or two orders of magnitude faster than traditional pumps, and above the limit of human hearing.
– Tom Harrison, TTP Ventus
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One popular mechanical model is the peristaltic pump, which works when rollers or shoes within the pump rotate and compress the tube or hose.
This creates a vacuum that then draws fluid through the tube. Some manufacturers specialise in producing the pumps, which can be used for irrigation, waste removal and other medical applications.
Peristaltic pump technology is suited to the aforesaid applications beacause users can easily dispose of the tubing afteran individual procedure. This ensures that no cross-contamination occurs, which can prove fatal if untreated.
Another common mechanical model is the diaphragm micropump, which is usually comprised of a pumping chamber that is connected to the inlet and outlet valves necessary for flow rectification.
"As the diaphragm deflects during the expansion stroke, the pumping chamber expands resulting in a corresponding decrease in chamber pressure," explains an article written by several academics in the journal Microfluidics and Nanofluidics.
"When the inlet pressure is higher than the chamber pressure, the inlet valve opens and liquid fills the expanding chamber," the article adds. "During the compression stroke, the volume of the chamber decreases with the moving diaphragm, causing the internal pressure to increase whereby liquid is discharged through the outlet valve."
Diaphragm micropumps use a number of different actuation mechanisms, most notably actuators that use piezoelectric materials, actuation that uses electrostatic forces and electromagnetic actuation that uses a permanent magnet attached to a diaphragm and surrounded by a coil.
"While there are differences among them, all diaphragm pumps can be delivered in a smaller form factor than other pump types," said Gonzalez for MDDI. "Diaphragm pumps are an excellent technology when you are trying to achieve a good trade-off between performance, size and lifespan."
The power of three
Of course, diaphragm pumps are not the only game in town, with new models are regularly hitting the market. At last year's American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) annual meeting, TTP Ventus showcased the Disc Pump, a new 'silent' micropump platform based on ultrasonic resonance. The company claims that the micropump could be particularly useful in point-of-care diagnostic devices, offering less irritation to patients and disruption to healthcare workers.
"Disc Pump cycles in 20,000 per second, which is one or two orders of magnitude faster than traditional pumps, and above the limit of human hearing," said Tom Harrison, business development manager at TTP Ventus, in an interview with Technology Networks. "This makes our pump silent, which satisfies the growing consumer appetite for quieter products – whether for home or hospital use. "A second benefit of high-frequency operation is that each pump cycle can move a smaller quantity of air than compared with a low-frequency pump, in order to deliver the same pumping output. This results in a reduction in pulsatility in the pump output, providing more stable pressure and flow. In our case, the reduction in pulsatility is so substantial that the pump is virtually pulse-free. This eliminates mechanical vibration, too."
Whatever the model, designing and engineering a micropump is not easy. In a recent article for Medical Design and Outsourcing, Sam Ruback, product manager at Parker Hannifin Corporation summarised three of the core engineering challenges, "Valves and pumps must consume less power so batteries can be smaller and yet last longer… must better integrate into manifolds to consume less and cannot sacrifice flow rates, create thermal issues or increase costs," he said.
In the end, every application has different performance requirements and will therefore need a unique micropump solution. Much of the responsibility for this falls on the component manufacturers, who have become increasingly powerful in recent years as OEMs outsource most of their design and engineering functions.
Industry experts say OEMs and suppliers should engage with each other as early on in the design process as possible. When choosing a suitable micropump, manufactures must gain a "clear definition from the marketing team of the criteria for a successful product release," said Dan Schimelman, then of Hargraves Technology, in a 2009 article for World Pumps.
"Then, it is important to prioritise these capabilities and select the components and their respective performance specifications needed to best meet the ranked criteria," Schimelman said. "Since there are usually trade-offs, this will help to ensure that major product objectives are met and that development timelines don't suffer from subsequent changes to the project scope."
Micropumps are being used for new medical applications. Recently, for example, Sensile Medical announced it had developed a wearable micropump for a European pharmaceutical company that is designed to treat Parkinson's disease. The device uses Sensile Medical's patented SenseCore micro rotary piston pump and a personally programmable basal profile that enables patients to receive the precise dosage they need.
"In developing the micropump for Parkinson's treatment, we have completed a highly ambitious project to exacting requirements that improves treatment for patients," said Derek Brandt, CEO of Sensile Medical, in a news release. "The device comes with a large number of different languages already on board, enabling its use in many countries around the world." Researchers at Pennsylvania State University working under Tony Huang, a professor of engineering science and mechanics, have demonstrated a cost-effective acoustofluidic micropump solution for lab-on-a-chip disease diagnosis.
The micropump is powered by a miniaturised piezoelectric transducer that oscillates a series of sharp-edged structures hundreds ofmicrometres long that have been constructed onto the side wall of a microfluidic channel made of PDMS, the widely used, silicon-based organic polymer.
"The field of microfluidics and lab-ona- chip technologies has the potential to revolutionise the healthcare industry with cost-effective, high-performance miniature biomedical diagnostic devices," said Huang in a news release. "Despite its tremendous potential, the field has only delivered very limited numbers of products and tools for realworld applications. It is difficult to fabricate micropumps that are simple and inexpensive, yet effective."
Of course, while a lot of progress has been made in micropump research, development and performance in practical applications, work must be done in designing new models and making those that exist work more efficiently, across a range of medical applications.
"There is still a need to design more versatile micropumps that can meet multiple applications with much more effectiveness," concluded Kumar Das.
Macroscopic pumps are key for managing how gases and fluids are dispensed. In addition to their tiny size, other advantages include lower production costs and increased accuracy.
Micropumps have a plethora of uses, but each one must be tailored to meet the specific needs of an application. It is the responsibility of component manufacturers to do this.
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Rosario Dawson on Top Five, Chris Rock, and Being Yourself
Juan Antonio Barquin
Juan Antonio Barquin | December 12, 2014 | 10:20am
It's practically impossible to define actress Rosario Dawson by the roles she's played. She's kicked ass, dished out the drama, and sung her heart out in dozens of diverse roles over practically two decades. Unlike the Chris Rock's character in their new movie, Top Five, she's never going to get recognized consistently for being a bear cop, and it's because she keeps it interesting.
"There's some people who are gonna do the thing like, 'Oh I'm gonna just do the same movie over and over again. I want to continue to play up to my base," but I don't have a base. I'm all over the place," she says.
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"You'd look at my resume," she laughs, "and clearly think 'she's a schizophrenic.' I look at it and go, 'I have ADHD and like to multitask.' But I've chosen things arbitrarily over the years. I want to work with that director, I want to work in that location, I've never done that before, I want to see if I can do my 'crack walk' in a way that people would really believe."
And that kind of dedication to exploring different roles has led her to a rather exciting one in Top Five. In Rock's film, Dawson plays New York Times film critic, Chelsea Brown, who is interviewing Rock's character Andre Allen for an entire day. More interestingly, she's a bisexual woman of color, who manages her great job and single motherhood just fine; a rarity on screen these days.
When it comes to playing the role, she admits, "It was great. I feel like this movie is so modern, y'know? I get to play a really modern woman. She has really different issues and ways of thinking about things, and the world, and her place in it, very differently than her mom, her grandmother, any of these different people. The advice even that they give her and have given her over the years are in conflict with who she is and has her compromise herself sometimes because we're all lost sometimes."
Everyone tries to figure out what they would do in their own situation, and Dawson claims that you have to make your own choices, rather than letting other make them for you: "We try to figure out what other people would do, you do it, and you're going, 'Ah that was a bad decision! I need to own it, I need to do what I'm supposed to be doing.'"
That kind of going against the grain is exactly what Top Five delves in to. As she explains, it's about "really having to stand up for yourself and having integrity in your word, in your person, and going: this is my value, this is what I stand up for, and it might not be popular with everybody else, but this is actually what would make me happy."
It's the kind of decision making that's tough to do on your own, and as she further says, "It's scary sometimes to say out loud, fall on your face, and make those mistakes, because when you make them, they're yours.
"When you do something right, everybody takes credit. When you fall on your face, that's all you. And if you were in my family, everyone's gonna go," she pauses, claps her hands and yells, "WEPA!" Then laughs, points down and adds in a, "Wait, are you okay?"
Basically, what any loving Latino family would do really (and surely everyone in Miami's heard that before). And having to deal with that in real life certainly helps when portraying a character just as strong-willed.
"It's hard to put yourself out there and I really love that this was a character who does that," she continues. "Because she does that so strongly, there's no way she was going to interview this man - who she is a fan of, who she has the relationship of being sober as well and really knows what that feels like - and let him just go 'yeah' and give some flippin' answer.
"She's like 'No, and I work for the New York Times so you need me and I don't have to kiss up to you.' And that was really great to see these two very powerful, very intelligent people, really go at it and have fun."
A large portion of the film focuses on Dawson and Rock's back and forth: dishing out jokes, insults, and insightful commentary minute after minute. Much of that, apparently, mirrors the kind of relationship she and Rock share in real life.
"This is a relationship I've had with Chris for many, many years, and this is our banter. I'm much more positive about it, very often, than he is. We really go at it with each other and we're very opinionated and we're very strong and, a lot of the time, we end up agreeing to disagree, but I love that. And I like to think that we were able to translate that onto the screen. It makes that a very modern relationship; it's different."
And playing characters that contribute to something different is part of what she loves doing. "I have all these different things and ideas inside of me, and I just love life and people and stories and getting the chance of putting myself into someone else's shoes and challenging my own views and perspectives. That makes me so much more enriched in my life, and so many artists have contributed to my world and I hope, through my storytelling, that I can do that to other people.
"Because that's the magic of movies," Dawson adds. "When you see the good, bad, and the ugly, up there, you get to compare and go: do I relate to this? Would I do that in this situation? Maybe I can prevent myself from having to fall on my face in that particular way because I saw someone else do it not so gracefully and it made me think twice before I went in there."
It's an experience she's had since Kids and beyond, and almost twenty years in, she still feels genuinely challenged in her career. Even with Top Five, she and the others made the film never thinking it was a surefire hit. But with some of her more outlandish scenes - one of which, we won't spoil here, involves flashbacks of events with Chelsea Brown's former boyfriend, and hot sauce - she really takes some fun risks.
"So with the hot sauce, I was like, 'But I like hot sauce and I want to be able to have that in public, and not have an issue. Ah, okay Chris. Really? Alright, let's do it. Anders [Holm], you're naked and on all fours? Well, if you're game, I'm game," she laughs, vaguely referencing the making of the hilarious scene.
"I've been there, I've done that, and it's good to put yourself out there. I don't want to look in the future at my tombstone and see it say 'played it safe.'"
Top Five opens today, December 12, at the Coral Gables Cinema.
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4 Proven Ways to Never Meet a Genuine, Good Girl
By: Gregory Arnold
A lot of guys I know tend to get really caught up in one-night flings with the first lassie willing to hop in the sack. They go to parties and bars, running the same charm, waiting for a temporary mistress to buy what they're selling.
Get a good one!
This is all fine and good if you're into the thrill of random hook-ups. Many dudes are, and I'm not judging. The problem with this way of life is that it eventually has to change if you want to meet the real thing, an amazing girl with whom to settle down.
Now don't get me wrong. I'm 21 years old. I'm not searching for a wife just yet, but I do think that it's human nature to eventually want a life partner. I definitely do. If you're at a point where you want to attract a real relationship, here are 6 moves to avoid.
1. Act like someone you're not.
Guys put on all types of personas to attract quick hook-ups, but if you're looking for more, you really do have to be yourself. Attracting a girlfriend with a fake identity will never work out in the end. If you're not comfortable in your own skin, you're not ready for a real relationship anyways.
2. Don't listen to what she's saying.
Serious relationships are founded on a connection between personalities. When initial physical lust fades, this is what remains golden in the best couples. You're never going to know if you're really attracted to her personality if you're not listening to what she's saying. Listen, consider, respond thoughtfully. Simple as that.
3. Never talk to women outside of the bar.
This one is actually a real pet peeve of mine. I hear friends of mine making insulting claims like, "All women are sluts," but they never meet or interact with girls outside of a bar scenario. I'm not saying every girl who goes to a bar is a whore, but seriously, a lot of legitimately great girls won't be found there. So keep an open mind and meet girls elsewhere.
4. Communicate with ladies by insulting them.
This is a classic move of bro kings trying to land a sexy bedmate for the evening. Many ladies in a party environment will respond to demeaning or sexist comments because of deep insecurities. If you want to land a honey to keep around long-term, you better respect her because if she's worth hanging onto, I promise she respects herself.
That's that. Heed the wisdom, or end up perpetually single yearning to relive the glory days. If you avoid those four mistakes, you will drastically boost your probability of discovering true love. And yes men, true love does exist, and I don't feel like a 'pussy' or a 'fag' for admitting it. Now go be gentlemen, dammit.
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As a writer, Silas House doesn't like to use the word "love" too much. But, when it comes to his dogs, House knows that they embody love in every sense of the word—the giving and receiving of affection, practicing kindness and patience, and enjoying every single moment.
I believe that if more people were like dogs, we'd all be a whole lot happier.
My dogs make me a better person just by being themselves. They don't care about what color I am, or whom I love, or my religion, or any of the other ridiculous things that separate us as people. They only care that I am kind to them and others. That's what should matter.
My dogs also know that giving and receiving affection are the most important things in life. Yes, eating is right up there, too. But I believe that if my dogs had to choose between lying still in a patch of sunshine while I sat beside them on the grass giving their bellies a good rub or devouring a meal of the same dog food they get every single day of their lives . . . well, I truly believe they'd choose the loving, despite their genuine devotion to gobbling down their kibble as if they might never have another morsel of food offered to them in their whole lives.
When they offer themselves up to receive adulation, they cause me to become still, to remember that most things actually can wait a few more minutes to get done because this moment right here, this moment of sitting beneath the trees with their swaying limbs, the sun warm on my face, the scent of the creek down in the woods, the birdcall in the deepest parts of those woods, and the holy world (all of it holy, every single bit of it) shimmering all about me, this moment is what life is about.
Having a dog—or any pet—makes us better people. They force us to slow down (each time I return home I have to spend a few minutes patting the belly of our outside dog, Rufus, because he'll lie down on the driveway on his back, right in my way as I'm rushing to the door; I can't refuse that and I often fold myself down onto the ground with grocery bags standing all around us to give him some loving), to pay more attention, to be kinder (especially to Pepper, who came from an abusive household before ours, and carries all of that grief in his eyes, in his damaged back, in his wariness), to give and receive affection, to be patient (especially on days when Holly Marie just doesn't really feel like going to the bathroom anytime quick), to love and love and love.
Writers aren't supposed to throw that word around much. We're supposed to be stingy with putting that on the page. But it is necessary when talking about dogs because that's what they embody. They remind us, time and time again, of the most important thing. Such a shame that we actually forget that. But we do.
I know that some people think it's a sin to think an animal has a soul, but I do. I don't care what anyone says or thinks. Because if anything in this world is close to God, it's a dog. I believe a great amount of being in touch with God is required to hear the thunder from way off, or to feel the trembling of a train miles away, or to know when someone they care about needs them, and offer comfort no matter what, and not have one tiny bit of judgment in their whole beings. I believe a sort of holiness is required to remind us that everything in this world deserves affection. Dogs know these things. They know and know and know.
Dogs make us better people. That's what I believe.
Silas House is the nationally bestselling author of five novels, three plays, and one work of creative nonfiction. He has been published in the New York Times, Narrative, Newsday, Oxford American, and many other publications. The NEH Chair of Appalachian Studies at Berea College, he also serves on the fiction faculty of the MFA in creative writing at Spalding University.


Yelp Releases Local Economic Outlook for Q2 2018 | Yelp Inc.
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2018-- Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP), the company that connects people with great local businesses, today announced the quarterly release of the Yelp Local Economic Outlook, a program to rank U.S. metro areas by the pace of local-business population growth to reveal the health of urban economies around the country.
While Yelp is most commonly recognized for our leadership in restaurants, Home & Local services has become the fastest growing and largest category by revenue on our platform. In the first quarter of 2018, Yelpers sent more than 4 million quote requests, and Home & Local businesses increased the amount they spend to advertise on Yelp by approximately 30% compared to one year ago. There are now more than 1 million local businesses set up to receive consumer quote requests via Yelp.
In an effort to look more closely at the health of the Home & Local services industry, Yelp also analyzed the growth of the category on its platform.
In the past two years, searches for "smart home" on Yelp have quadrupled and continued to grow in 2018.
Of those searches for "smart homes" consumers are most often then seeking out Home Automation and Security Systems services. Home Automation in particular is one of the fastest growing categories on all of Yelp.
Year over year, the number of requests sent through Yelp to home automation businesses has more than doubled. In response to this demand, more businesses are opening up shop. There are almost 30% more home automation businesses on Yelp today than a year ago.
The rapid growth and industry response suggests that the rise of smart homes may not be a flash in the pan and has extended beyond early adopters.
While home automation has emerged as one of the fastest growing business categories on Yelp, we've also noticed that the larger success and growth of home and local service businesses in a city is strongly linked to the economic health of that city.
Yelp's Local Economic Outlook ranks 50 U.S. cities by local-business investment and success to reveal the health of urban economies around the country. We measure local-business success by the rate of change of the business population in each city's metro area in the fourth quarter of 2017. Cities where openings greatly outnumber closures are ones where business owners have spotted opportunity and found success.
In the first quarter of 2018, Austin, Texas, topped the list. Largely driven by the growing tech sector and VC investment, Austin's unemployment rate in 2017 dropped to levels not seen since 2000. Spurred by the influx of people moving to the area in search of newly available employment options, construction and home and local services industries have seen tremendous growth in the Austin area.
Meanwhile, Philadelphia fell to the bottom of this quarter's list, which could be a reflection of the city's high poverty rate (25.7), rising homicide rates, and increasing opioid epidemic.
Yelp's goal in publishing this Outlook is to help policymakers, researchers and business owners better understanding local economies in which they operate. Yelp's full Local Economic Outlook report can be viewed on the Yelp blog.
Yelp, the leader in connecting people with great local businesses, is putting its rich data stores to work identifying the parts of the country and types of business with the highest rate of growth in the number of businesses. Yelp's data science team is continually working to identify the best measure of local economic health. For this quarter, we're using the rate of change in the number of businesses in a city, neighborhood or business category as a way to equally weight business closures -- a sign of economic challenges -- and business openings, a sign of business investment and dynamism. We'll continue to study and refine this measure in the quarters to come as we release further updates on local business health.


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Tracey Thorn, one half of the long-dormant pop duo Everything But the Girl, returned this year with her fifth solo studio album, Record.
Already critically acclaimed, Record's biggest 4/4 dance anthem is "Dancefloor," but the album version is compressed to less than three minutes.
Record producer Ewan Pearson expands the original track to a 12″ mix that breathes wonderfully for eight-and-a-half minutes, like the way it should've on the album.
Also included on the remix package is an extended disco and a radio-length remix by UK collective Powerdance. The aforementioned Pearson also teams up with Finnish producer Sasse for the "Pearson and Linblad Italo Remix."
Both remixes are tasteful and solid, but don't deviate from the original's mix enough to stand out. The 12″ mastermix is the remix pack's most obvious standout.


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Report: Brussels suicide bombers sought radioactive materials
by Patrick Malone March 24, 2016 January 28, 2022
In this image made available Thursday, March 24, 2016 by Haberturk newspaper, Ibrahim El Bakraoui is pictured in a July 2015 image taken by Gaziantep police. Haberturk newspaper via AP
The two brothers who detonated suicide bombs at an airport and subway station in Brussels this week, killing at least 31 and injuring hundreds more, had spied on a senior Belgian nuclear official in the Islamic State's quest to get radioactive materials for a dirty bomb, NBC News reported Thursday.
Last month, in a story pointing out the historic vulnerabilities of Belgium's nuclear facilities, The Center for Public Integrity reported on two men caught on camera secretly recording the Belgian nuclear official.
NBC News reported that the two brothers who exploded the bombs — Khalid el-Bakraoui and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui — were the ones doing the taping. Their source was Claude Moniquet, a former intelligence official from France who was hired to investigate terrorist threats to nuclear targets in Europe.
The brothers saw the nuclear official as a way to gain the materials necessary to carry out an unprecedented act of terror.
Instead, they carried out a more conventional attack. Authorities have said Ibrahim el-Bakraoui, 29, detonated one of the two bombs that rocked the airport, and an hour later Khalid el-Bakraoui, 27, set off the lone bomb at a subway station.
The footage was discovered in a home rented by Mohamed Bakkali, who was arrested on suspicion of helping to plot the Nov. 13, 2015, terrorist siege on Paris that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more. The hours of clandestine video footage focused on a Belgian nuclear official's home in Flanders.
As the investigation progressed, surveillance cameras in the nuclear official's neighborhood showed two shadowy figures in the night retrieving a video camera hidden in a bush near the nuclear official's home before driving away in a car with its headlights off. Moniquet's remarks suggest that the men shown fetching the camera were the el-Bakraoui brothers.
"The terrorist cell … naively believed they could use [the nuclear official] to penetrate a lab to obtain nuclear material to make a dirty bomb," Moniquet, chief executive officer of the consulting firm European Strategic Intelligence and Security, told NBC News.
In an email to the Center for Public Integrity, Eric Van der Sijpt, a spokesman for the Belgian prosecutor's office, wrote, "This information can not [sic] be confirmed."
The official featured on the cell's secret video works at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, known as SCK-CEN, in Mol, about an hour's drive northeast of Brussels. He held clearance that gave him extensive access to nuclear materials and radioisotopes for medical and industrial purposes which readily lend themselves for use in a dirty bomb.
That raised concern among leaders of Belgium's nuclear program that terrorists might have seen the official they targeted as possible leverage to obtain nuclear or radiological materials.
"We can imagine that the terrorists might want to kidnap someone or kidnap his family," Nele Scheerlinck, a spokeswoman for Belgium's nuclear regulatory body, told The Center for Public Integrity in February.
On April 4, the Belgian government for the first time deployed armed soldiers to guard nuclear reactors and power stations. The unarmed contract security force that historically had guarded the seven nuclear reactors and two power plants in Belgium had worried President George W. Bush's administration in 2004, diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks showed.
The U.S. supplies Belgium with highly-enriched uranium, a vital element for nuclear weapons that Belgian plants use to make radioisotopes. Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell privately warned his Belgian counterpart in 2004 that U.S. leaders were uneasy about the weak security at Belgium's nuclear sites.
Besides physical security, there has been cause for alarm about insider threats at Belgium's nuclear sites. In 2014, an act of sabotage caused millions of dollars of damage to a nuclear reactor in Doel, 56 miles west of the research center in Mol. The saboteur has not been caught, and terrorism has neither been identified nor ruled out as the motive, according to Van der Sijpt.
That same year, Belgian intelligence officials learned that 26-year-old Moroccan Ilyass Boughalab was killed in Syria fighting for the Islamic State. From 2009 to 2012, he had worked as an inspector of welding at the Doel plant. Boughalab's job gave him access to highly sensitive and vulnerable areas of the reactor.
Moniquet told NBC News the terrorists' bid to access the materials necessary to create a dirty bomb failed. A bomb containing radiological materials, though far less deadly than a nuclear weapon, could trigger panic and cause billions of dollars in damage to a major city.
"We know that the threat of nuclear radiological terrorism is not a theoretical risk," Miles Pomper, a senior fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation said Wednesday.
Pomper was part of an expert panel from the Fissile Materials Working Group, a consortium of 80 nongovernmental organizations working to secure nuclear materials globally, that held a briefing for reporters at the National Press Club ahead of next week's Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C.
More than 50 heads of state are expected to attend, but Russia will not be represented. It will be the fourth and presumably final meeting between world leaders with the express purpose of keeping nuclear and radiological materials safe from terrorists.
"The reality is, every country has an interest in making sure the countries that have these stocks protect them effectively, because the stuff could be lifted off from one place and used on the other side of the planet," Matt Bunn, a professor at Harvard University who's written more than 20 books and more than 100 articles on topics including nuclear security and terrorism. "Insecure nuclear material anywhere is a threat to everyone everywhere."
The panelists were in consensus that the summits initiated by President Barack Obama have led to improved security of nuclear and radiological material around the world. But much work remains to be done, and they worry that with the end of the summits, international cooperation will lose momentum.
They also agreed that the possibility of terrorists using a dirty bomb is less a question of if, than of when.
"It is nothing short of a miracle that we haven't yet seen a dirty bomb in a terrorist attack," nuclear terrorism expert Andrew Bieniawski, vice president for material security and minimization at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, said. "And so what happened recently in Brussels is really a warning and a wakeup call."
by Patrick Malone, Center for Public Integrity

Report: Brussels suicide bombers sought radioactive materials

by Patrick Malone, Center for Public Integrity
March 24, 2016

The two brothers who detonated suicide bombs at an airport and subway station in Brussels this week, killing at least 31 and injuring hundreds more, had spied on a senior Belgian nuclear official in the Islamic State's quest to get radioactive materials for a dirty bomb, NBC News reported Thursday.

Last month, in a story pointing out the historic vulnerabilities of Belgium's nuclear facilities, The Center for Public Integrity reported on two men caught on camera secretly recording the Belgian nuclear official.

NBC News reported that the two brothers who exploded the bombs — Khalid el-Bakraoui and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui — were the ones doing the taping. Their source was Claude Moniquet, a former intelligence official from France who was hired to investigate terrorist threats to nuclear targets in Europe.

The brothers saw the nuclear official as a way to gain the materials necessary to carry out an unprecedented act of terror.

Instead, they carried out a more conventional attack. Authorities have said Ibrahim el-Bakraoui, 29, detonated one of the two bombs that rocked the airport, and an hour later Khalid el-Bakraoui, 27, set off the lone bomb at a subway station.

The footage was discovered in a home rented by Mohamed Bakkali, who was arrested on suspicion of helping to plot the Nov. 13, 2015, terrorist siege on Paris that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more. The hours of clandestine video footage focused on a Belgian nuclear official's home in Flanders.

As the investigation progressed, surveillance cameras in the nuclear official's neighborhood showed two shadowy figures in the night retrieving a video camera hidden in a bush near the nuclear official's home before driving away in a car with its headlights off. Moniquet's remarks suggest that the men shown fetching the camera were the el-Bakraoui brothers.

"The terrorist cell … naively believed they could use [the nuclear official] to penetrate a lab to obtain nuclear material to make a dirty bomb," Moniquet, chief executive officer of the consulting firm European Strategic Intelligence and Security, told NBC News.

In an email to the Center for Public Integrity, Eric Van der Sijpt, a spokesman for the Belgian prosecutor's office, wrote, "This information can not [sic] be confirmed."

The official featured on the cell's secret video works at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, known as SCK-CEN, in Mol, about an hour's drive northeast of Brussels. He held clearance that gave him extensive access to nuclear materials and radioisotopes for medical and industrial purposes which readily lend themselves for use in a dirty bomb.

That raised concern among leaders of Belgium's nuclear program that terrorists might have seen the official they targeted as possible leverage to obtain nuclear or radiological materials.

"We can imagine that the terrorists might want to kidnap someone or kidnap his family," Nele Scheerlinck, a spokeswoman for Belgium's nuclear regulatory body, told The Center for Public Integrity in February.

On April 4, the Belgian government for the first time deployed armed soldiers to guard nuclear reactors and power stations. The unarmed contract security force that historically had guarded the seven nuclear reactors and two power plants in Belgium had worried President George W. Bush's administration in 2004, diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks showed.

The U.S. supplies Belgium with highly-enriched uranium, a vital element for nuclear weapons that Belgian plants use to make radioisotopes. Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell privately warned his Belgian counterpart in 2004 that U.S. leaders were uneasy about the weak security at Belgium's nuclear sites.

Besides physical security, there has been cause for alarm about insider threats at Belgium's nuclear sites. In 2014, an act of sabotage caused millions of dollars of damage to a nuclear reactor in Doel, 56 miles west of the research center in Mol. The saboteur has not been caught, and terrorism has neither been identified nor ruled out as the motive, according to Van der Sijpt.

That same year, Belgian intelligence officials learned that 26-year-old Moroccan Ilyass Boughalab was killed in Syria fighting for the Islamic State. From 2009 to 2012, he had worked as an inspector of welding at the Doel plant. Boughalab's job gave him access to highly sensitive and vulnerable areas of the reactor.

Moniquet told NBC News the terrorists' bid to access the materials necessary to create a dirty bomb failed. A bomb containing radiological materials, though far less deadly than a nuclear weapon, could trigger panic and cause billions of dollars in damage to a major city.

"We know that the threat of nuclear radiological terrorism is not a theoretical risk," Miles Pomper, a senior fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation said Wednesday.

Pomper was part of an expert panel from the Fissile Materials Working Group, a consortium of 80 nongovernmental organizations working to secure nuclear materials globally, that held a briefing for reporters at the National Press Club ahead of next week's Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C.

More than 50 heads of state are expected to attend, but Russia will not be represented. It will be the fourth and presumably final meeting between world leaders with the express purpose of keeping nuclear and radiological materials safe from terrorists.

"The reality is, every country has an interest in making sure the countries that have these stocks protect them effectively, because the stuff could be lifted off from one place and used on the other side of the planet," Matt Bunn, a professor at Harvard University who's written more than 20 books and more than 100 articles on topics including nuclear security and terrorism. "Insecure nuclear material anywhere is a threat to everyone everywhere."

The panelists were in consensus that the summits initiated by President Barack Obama have led to improved security of nuclear and radiological material around the world. But much work remains to be done, and they worry that with the end of the summits, international cooperation will lose momentum.

They also agreed that the possibility of terrorists using a dirty bomb is less a question of if, than of when.

"It is nothing short of a miracle that we haven't yet seen a dirty bomb in a terrorist attack," nuclear terrorism expert Andrew Bieniawski, vice president for material security and minimization at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, said. "And so what happened recently in Brussels is really a warning and a wakeup call."

This article first appeared on Center for Public Integrity and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.


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Aza Munoz is one of a select few, being one of only five Europeans who have won back-to-back Solheims – the others are Suzann Pettersen, Anna Nordqvist, Catriona Matthew and Caroline Hedwall.
The Spaniard made her debut in Ireland and was an integral part of the brilliant late recovery which saw Alison Nicholas' side reclaim the trophy for the first time in eight years. Then, two years ago, she was part of a record-breaking effort in Colorado where the Americans were routinely stuffed 18-10 in their own backyard.
How did you find out you had got a captain's pick for the Solheim Cup in Ireland in 2011?
I was playing in the Canadian Open at the time – I was on the bus at 4.30am and I saw Alison Nicholas' (Europe's captain) name on my phone and got so nervous. She gave me the longest speech without saying if I was in or out and then, finally, she said it was good news.
You were then selected in the opening foursomes. How helpful was it to have Catriona Matthew as your partner?
I only found out in the opening ceremony, I don't remember being told before! Maybe I had been! I loved it, she couldn't have been any better, the same with her husband who was on her bag. She is so calm which helped given it was my first match and we managed to win.
Were the nerves as much as you thought?
I was less nervous as I was expecting to be dying, literally. Everyone was telling me how nervous I was going to be, and I was shaking and I could barely tee the ball up, but it wasn't quite as bad as I had anticipated.
Are you more suited to foursomes?
In Ireland I was surprised as I thought I was more suited to fourballs but, then, thinking about it, maybe I am better suited to foursomes. I don't make too many mistakes, if I miss a fairway it is just off the fairway, if I miss a green then it will be just off the green.
If you put me with someone like Carlota (Ciganda) then maybe not so much as she hits great shots from trouble, I could never play with someone like that as I'm not used to it and I can't do it as well.
After two days the scores were 8-8 with the momentum with the Americans. What was said in the team room on that Saturday night?
It was really funny as Alison got the world rankings out on a piece of paper and she burnt them! She said they mean nothing, it was just one match and everybody is as good as everybody else. There was no doubt in our minds that we could do it, on paper they were better than us but so what.
It looked really bad but we had a couple of rain delays and Caroline, Suzann and I were on carts in a line next to each other waiting to go back out.
We needed two and a half points from our matches and Caroline was two down and Suzann and I were all square. We all said let's not look at any leaderboards and just try and win our own point.
I could not stop looking at what Caroline was doing ahead of me! It was so much fun as there were so many roars. I couldn't see what Suzann was doing but you could hear things.
It was about 130 yards and I hit a little 8-iron, it couldn't have been any more perfect for me" You then played one of the shots of the year, pretty much stone dead at 17 against Angela Stanford?
It was about 130 yards and I hit a little 8-iron, it couldn't have been any more perfect for me. I was so nervous, I could see the European team to the left of the green and I could see Alison pacing up and down as she couldn't keep still.
When I hit it I said 'be good' as it was going straight at it and then the team started jumping up and down so I knew it was pretty close. I've never felt so much relief but I still had to make the three-footer. That is definitely the best shot I have ever hit.
Aside from the nerves how much does matchplay free you up?
It is different. The first two days you have a partner and I really love it. If they hit a great shot you get really excited, it is easier for me as if you make a mistake you can quickly forget about it. I think I am a more aggressive putter in matchplay, I always get it to the hole and that gives you more chance.
Why are the Spaniards often such big factors in Ryder and Solheim Cups?
We are very fiery and it is something about playing on a team. We are normally pretty happy, Carlota and I would always be dancing on the bus and we like to be surrounded by people. We thrive in a team environment and we play our best golf like that.
You and Carlota played together in the afternoon of all afternoons two years ago when Europe won all four matches. How special was that?
Carlota played with Suzann (Pettersen) on the first day and she was really nervous and didn't play very good even though they won. I said to Lotta Neumann that I would love to play together as she is so comfortable with me, we had been foursomes partners in European Team Championships when we were 15. But, if Lotta had other plans then it didn't matter.
We played together and Carlota made a putt on the last to win and everyone went absolutely bananas. Then Karine Icher, who I had partnered in the foursomes, holed from off the green at the 18th and I lost it.
In some ways I wish the match finished right there. I was happier then than Sunday. The Sunday was incredible but that afternoon was perfect. My fiancé caddied for me that week and he has the photo (above left) of us after Carlota and my win on the Saturday as his screensaver so I see it every day.
Is it true that you sing 'Europe' to yourself when the American fans start singing U-S-A?
Yes I do! It can get to you every time you hear U-S-A so I would sing Europe. They are good fans but it never stops and it can get to you.
What did Charley Hull bring to the team?
Charley was fun, it wasn't like she was 14 so you could have a conversation with her and she is really nice. She makes you laugh, she was on the 1st about to make her debut and she says 'when am I supposed to get nervous?' Things come out of her mouth and it makes you laugh. On the course she doesn't care who she plays and is fearless.
What did you think when you heard that she asked Paula Creamer, who she'd just beaten 5&4, to autograph her ball?
When I heard my first thought was that Paula probably wanted to hit her. That is Charley, I would never have asked but it's not a bad thing. She just doesn't care!
About | Azahara Munoz was part of Europe's triumphant Solheim Cup teams of 2011 and 2013, and plays on the LPGA Tour.


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