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United States Navy Band Cruisers | Bachelor Boys Band
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Joe's Kit
14″ x 6-1/4″ R.A.D.
14: x 6″ Maple/Walnut/Aluminum stave shell
Bass Drum
Maple 18″ x 14″
Rack Tom
Maple 12″ x 8″
Joe Ganzelli is a drummer and percussionist in the Washington D.C area and performs with the United States Navy Band Cruisers, the premier popular music ensemble of the Navy. He is also a frequent performer with the multiple award winning Bachelor Boys Band. He has also served as a drummer and percussionist with the United States Air Force Band of the Golden West in Northern California. With the Air Force Band, he was a featured soloist with the jazz, concert and popular music ensembles. In addition, he deployed for four months entertaining troops and strengthening diplomatic ties through music in Southwest Asia.
Prior to joining the military, Ganzelli was part of the IAAPA award-winning "found sound" percussion group "Cocoa Rhythm Factory" in 2012 and 2013, as well as the Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps and United Percussion indoor ensemble in 2011. While living in the San Francisco Bay Area and Philadelphia, he shared the stage with members of Prince, Randy Brecker, Bobby Shew, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and members of both the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Philly Pops, among others.
A native of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, Ganzelli received a duel Bachelor of Music in Education and Percussion performance from West Chester University of Pennsylvania in 2015. His primary teachers include Christopher Hanning, Ralph Sorrentino and Marc Jacoby, and he has had continued studies with Tommy Igoe, Ari Hoenig and Rich Redmond.
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Q: Fitting an SARIMA model of time series regressed on another I'm fitting a
$$ARIMA(p,d,q)\times (P,D,Q)_{12}$$
model. The first loop fits p and q. The second loop fits P and Q. Here, d and D are both assumed to be 0 since I'm looking at the interaction between two cycles.
<<arima,echo=FALSE, fig.show='hold', tidy=TRUE>>=
aic_table <- function(data,P,Q,xreg=NULL){
  table <- matrix(NA,(P+1),(Q+1))
  for(p in 0:P) {
    for(q in 0:Q) {
      table[p+1,q+1] <- arima(data,order=c(p,0,q),xreg=xreg, method="ML")$aic
    }
  }
  dimnames(table) <- list(paste("AR",0:P, sep=""),paste("MA",0:Q,sep=""))
  table
}
u_aic_table <- aic_table(cars_hp$cycle,5,4,xreg=steel_hp$cycle)
@

#a and b are found from the previous step
<<sarima,echo=FALSE, fig.show='hold', tidy=TRUE>>=
aic_table2 <- function(data,P,Q,xreg=NULL){
  table <- matrix(NA,(P+1),(Q+1))
  for(p in 0:P) {
    for(q in 0:Q) {
      table[p+1,q+1] <- arima(data,order=c(5,0,3),xreg=xreg, seasonal = list(order = c(p,0,q), Period=12))$aic
    }
  }
  dimnames(table) <- list(paste("AR",0:P, sep=""),paste("MA",0:Q,sep=""))
  table
}
u_aic_table2 <- aic_table2(cars_hp$cycle,5,4,xreg=steel_hp$cycle)

The thing is when I try this, I can get ACF values under the ARIMA just fine. It's when I run the second loop that I get issues. Is there a workaround for this? Is it because I'm using the cyclic decompositions of each time series? I want to understand how my cars time series relates to the steel time series.
     Error in optim(init[mask], armafn, method = optim.method, hessian = TRUE,  :
  non-finite finite-difference value [1]

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Ever had a site not controlled by the features module or felt that using it, add to much administrative overhead? Or you simply want to learn how to use Drupal field API? This is for you.
In this example I will try to keep the amount of code to the very minimum. Putting too much features into a example have a tendency to put some people off with the amount of code it create. The example will not explain how you create new field types, but rather use one existing provided by Drupal core.
Note:An quick, stort and easy starting point. Does not provide any background information outside the needed steps getting PHP, Apache and the database server running.
Tested on OS X 10.8.x/10.9.x.
Ever wanted to change the Drupal 7 markup? Get rid of all those pesky divs? If so, this is article for you. I will give you a simple example how to do this not by changing the site theme (template.php) but by using a theme function.
Yes, you have make a module, and yes, I will show you have to make it. You will also find, attached to this article, the complete code wrapped up in a zip-file. Using theme functions is not that hard so relative new Drupal users and themers should be able to follow, though, a basic PHP knowledge might come in handy.
Note: This is a blog post I wrote about 9 months ago but never actually never finished. The server this was for died upon me so I was not able to verify that this was bulletproof and kinda forgot about the hole post before today. I'll decided though to publish it as is.
Some of us (lik me) are stuck with old Centos 4.x installations. My web servers are located hundreds of miles away and gaining physical access make a Centos 4.x to 5.x/6.x upgrade more and less impossible. The second best way of fixing this is to compile your LAMP stack from source, should say AMP then the scope of this is not to compile the Linux kernel. Was original hoping for that someone had prepacked RPM/SRPM packages but could not find any repo. what where not out of date.


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Tag Archives: phosgene
One-Pot Synthesis of Substituted Ureas Directly from Primary Alcohols
Publications that describe novel and unusual transformations or interesting one-pot procedures always grab my attention and the latest paper by Chi Zang et al. in Synthesis eFirst is a prime example of this.
Zang set out to develop a phosgene and transition metal free, easily handled, and mild method to synthesise substituted ureas. In this paper Zang describes a one-pot transformation of primary alcohols and amines into unsymmetrical ureas (scheme 1). This work builds on and optimises some previous work from Zang's group where they use iodobenzenedichloride and sodium azide in acetonitrile to convert primary alcohols into carbamoyl azides, albeit in low yields.
After screening a selection of solvents, hypervalent iodine reagents and the number of equivalents of reagents required Zang's best conditions used 5 equivalents of iodobenzenedichloride and 10 equivalents of sodium azide in ethyl acetate.
To test the generality of these conditions a variety of primary alcohols were converted to their respective carbamoyl azides (table 1). It was found that, regardless of the electronic or steric properties of the alcohols, all of the reactions proceeded smoothly. It is also noteworthy that no racemisation was observed with chiral alkyl alcohol 1h (table 1, entry 8).
With the synthesis of the first stage of the reaction optimised Zang proceeded to test his hypothesis that both symmetrical and unsymmetrical ureas could be synthesised from alcohols. Zang chose 4-methylbenzyl alcohol (1b) and aniline as the model substrates and as expected, 1-phenyl-3-p-tolylurea (3a) was isolated in high yields (table 2). It was also shown that by increasing the number of equivalents of aniline a small improvement in the yield could be achieved as well as a reduction in the reaction time.
Utilising these reaction conditions Zang explored the range of anilines to gage the generality for this new one-pot procedure (table 3). Satisfyingly all of the anilines examined, which included electron poor, electron rich and sterically hindered molecules, produced the desired products in good to excellent yields. Alkyl amines (table 3, entries 11-13) also gave the desired ureas in good yields. Zang acknowledges that 8 equivalents of the amine coupling partner is not ideal but he does explain that a majority of this excess can be recovered by a simple workup and gave the example that 4-bromo-aniline was recovered in a 78% yield (table 3, entry 4).
On the basis of the above experimental results and his previous related work, a stagewise reaction mechanism for the present one-pot transformation of primary alcohols to substituted ureas is proposed: i) oxidation of the primary alcohols to the corresponding aldehydes, ii) conversion of the aldehydes into acyl azides, iii) formation of carbamoyl azides from the acyl azides via Curtius rearrangement and subsequent addition of hydrazoic acid, and iv) transformation of the carbamoyl azides with amines to the corresponding ureas (scheme 2).
With this proposed mechanism Zang wanted to understand why the reaction gave higher yields when run in ethyl acetate compared to acetonitrile. He used benzyl alcohol to investigate the kinetic formation of benzaldehyde and benzoyl azide. The studies showed that the benzyl alcohol was completely oxidised to benzaldehyde within 30 minutes at 0 °C in both acetonitrile and ethyl acetate with only trace amounts of benzoyl azide observed. After stirring for a further 4 hours all of the benzaldehyde in ethyl acetate was converted to benzoyl azide but even after stirring for 5 hours only a small proportion of the benzaldehyde in acetonitrile was converted to benzoyl azide. [Bis(azido)iodo]benzene, the active intermediate generated when sodium azide is added iodobenzenedichloride, has been shown to be unstable at 0 °C and to decompose to iodobenzene and nitrogen gas. It was seen that in contrast to the reaction in ethyl acetate when the reaction was run in acetonitrile a large amount of gas was generated from the reaction mixture. A ligand-exchange experiment was undertaken to attempt to understand these differences. These results showed that the speed of the ligand-exchange reaction between iodobenzenedichloride and sodium azide is faster in acetonitrile than that in ethyl acetate; consequently, the concentration of the reactive intermediate [bis(azido)iodo]benzene would be higher in acetonitrile and thus kinetically result in the faster decomposition of [bis(azido)iodo]benzene.
In conclusion this paper demonstrates a phosgene and transition metal free, easily handled, and mild one-pot method to synthesise substituted ureas. It also includes a good explanation for the differences in yields that were observed when the reaction was run in different solvents. I believe that this methodology could be modified to synthesise carbamates in one-pot by the addition of an excess of an alcohol (instead of the amine) to the carbamoyl azide intermediate.
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There are many stories in the media about inappropriate behaviour at work functions – the more public the 'offender', the more likely the incident will attract ongoing attention.
I was pleased to move Brittany's admission in the Supreme Court of Queensland to practice as a qualified lawyer and Dwyer Law Group is proud to have her join our team of professional staff.
Read the Fine Print: What Travel Insurance Companies Don't Tell You!
Travel insurance is an essential form of protection to have when travelling. Even if you're going on holiday to a relatively safe location and you can't possibly imagine anything going wrong – you never know what might happen. A hotel might accidentally lose your luggage, or you might get unexpectedly sick overseas.


Thank you for visiting my website. I try to keep it updated with everything going on with us so you can hold us up in prayer, but sometimes the Lord will lead you to support in other ways. I have been, and will continue to be dependant upon the generosity of believers to accomplish the goal and minister to all I come in contact with. In truth, we have had to walk by faith and trust God to provide the funds to fulfill the tasks which He has set before us. We have been given many ministry opportunities and we are relying on God to guide us in each one by opening the doors and providing the finances.
Many of the engagements I keep are non-paying because I feel that as a believer, tithing my time is as important as my income. I have been doing concerts in the prisons and will continue to do so, as long as the Lord allows. It is such a blessing to sing to these men who have no hope other than Jesus Christ. He is the only One who can mend their lives and restore them. No one is beyond His Love and I find that so many are receptive.
To enable God's people to share our vision of ministry in a tangible way, we have formed Miles Pike Music, a non-profit corporation. This ministry is accountable to a board of trustees that consists of pastors and godly mentors that guide us spiritually and help to assure our every decision exalts the name of Christ and spreads His Gospel. As a 501(c)3 corporation, gifts to this ministry are tax-deductible for federal income tax purposes.
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This website is all you need to partner with us in meeting that challenge by making a monthly or one-time gift. You may give by mail, or here online and you will receive a written acknowledgement of your contribution for tax purposes. You will also receive regular updates about the progress of our work. We thank you in advance for your gift to God's Kingdom.


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Google Books settlement: open access to my book chapters, please
Update February 3, 2010: Klaus Graf explains that book authors who are holders of the rights to the online versions of their works can make their works open access in Hathitrust. Klaus has also made his works free in Google Books. Thanks, Klaus!
In my earlier writings on the Google Books Settlement (here and here), I had mistakenly thought that none of my works would be included. After reading this letter from a group of academic authors, I realized that book chapters that I wrote might very well be included. The authors suggest that academic authors might prefer that their out-of-print books be open access. For me, this is definitely the case! Please make my works open access (CC-NC), or public domain. While I haven't opted out (and am not sure why I should have to - this is a U.S. lawsuit, and I am not a U.S. citizen), I haven't opted in, either. I wonder how many other authors hadn't thought about their chapters being included in Google Books?
Excerpts from the letter:
we believe that most unclaimed books in the GBS corpus will prove to be books written by scholars for scholars, and most such authors would prefer that their out-of-print books be available on an open access basis
In particular, we think this fiduciary should have the explicit authority to set prices for unclaimed books at $0 or make them available under Creative Commons licenses or other open access terms insofar as there is reason to think that their academic authors would prefer for them to be made available on these terms. The UWF should not have the power to authorize Google to alter the texts of books.
Comments: hear, hear! As noted above, please make my works open access. I write my scholarly works as part of my service to my profession, and for the public good, not for profit. OA for me. Under my preferred CC license for these works (CC-NC), people are free to create modifications of my work, but not for profit, which excludes Google. At any rate, I think that I have the right to say that the original which is posted should be exactly as I wrote it.
Labels: google.books hathitrust
arXiv business model development
arXiv, the physics preprint server, is in the process of moving to a new form of business model, one based on voluntary contribution based on usage. Following is a suggestion for a slight tweak that I think will make the transition smoother; but don't wait, please sign up right away as the financial aspects likely need no change.
The cost of maintaining arXiv, including further developing the service to fully meet the needs of the physics community, is less than $7 per submission or 1.3 cents per download. The current approach is to ask heavy users (readers) of the service to contribute to the funding of arXiv, and 22 institutions have made this commitment so far.
My suggestion, one which would not be that different financially but might be a model that is easier to sustain into the future, is to follow a similar institution-based approach, but base the charges on approximate submissions rather than usage. Regular contributors could pay a flat fee, perhaps calculated to reflect an average of about $10 per submission (to allow for subsidy for authors from developing countries and/or to build an endowment for arXiv's future). Institutions that choose not to contribute on a regular basis could then pay one-off fees reflecting the higher administration cost associated with the one-off payment system, e.g. perhaps about $50 per submission.
To transition from the current plan, likely all that is needed is a little wordsmithing in the current document, i.e. change: "The top 100 institutions based on the previous year's download activity" to "The top 100 institutions bases on the previous year's submission activity". The list of institutions in each category are likely about the same, as it is the active physics researchers who are more likely to be doing the most reading and the most contributing.
This approach is more likely to succeed in the longer term, as this way the institution is clearly purchasing a needed service; and, if necessary, the cost of paying per submission is easily within the reach of the individual author, if necessary.
Noting a bit of inspiration from Joe Esposito on Scholarly Kitchen.
Note also that $7 per submission appears to be covering preservation costs rather than this year's submissions. Clarification on this point from arXiv would be appreciated.
For subscription journals: calculating open access success, and considering your options
Open access success is not necessarily limited to open access journals. Subscription journals can also achieve considerable OA success - by allowing, or better yet, encouraging author self-archiving. Some subscription journals also work cooperatively with open access archives, ensuring both broader access to their journals and preservation.
Because open access policy of necessity specifies deposit in an open access archive, rather than publication in an open access journal, it is entirely possible for an alert subscription journal to exceed an open access journal in open access performance on this key criterion!
To calculate open access success when your journal's articles are open access through self-archiving:
Medical journals - the key archive is PubMed. Here are instructions for assessing compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy. The search described can be modified to calculate full OA compliance for your journal, i.e. simply search for articles in your journal, and see how many come up as full-text.
Not every journal has such a convenient subject archive for this search. In this case, I recommend selecting a sample of articles from your journal and conducting a search in the Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE).
If your journal's open access performance is low, what can you do? One option is to provide information to your authors about their rights to self-archive, and encourage them to make use of these rights.
If your services are contracted out, and OA performance is low, it could be a great time to explore your options
If your journal has contracted with a publishing business, how helpful are they at encouraging authors to take advantage of self-archiving rights? This is especially important when authors are required by research funding agencies or their universities to make their work publicly or open accessible, as is becoming increasingly common. If service is lacking, this might be a good time to explore your options. If your journal made the decision to contract out some time ago, you might be pleased at the expanded range of options now available. This includes a growing number of fully open access publishers (OASPA is a good place to find these folk). There are many a great many university libraries that now provide journal hosting and support services; odds are that the members of your Editorial Board are associated with one or more of these university libraries.
This post is part of the Transitioning to Open Access series.
Calculating compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy
If your journal publishes articles that benefit from NIH research and you would like to know how your journal would rate on compliance, following is my search method:
From PubMed, go to Advanced Search.
At the first drop-down menu, select Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural [pt]
Under Journal, enter your Journal's title
Under Publication Date, enter:
Either: full NIH policy period: 2005/01/01 to [one year prior minus one day]
Or: mandatory NIH policy period: 2008/04/07 to [one year prior minus one day]
Note that either publication date period is an estimate, as the policy date reflects dating of research grants rather than dating of publications. There are other possible approaches to calculating this data; from a methodological viewpoint, using more than one approach and triangulating is optimal. Comments on the method are appreciated; please contact hgmorris at sfu dot ca
The Dramatic Growth of Open Access uses the full NIH policy period, at least up to Dec. 31, 2009. Full details of the search strategy used in DGOA are published in the open data edition (see the 3rd sheet).
Labels: dramatic growth of open access
Clarification re Health and Social Care in the Community and NIH compliance
In the December 31, 2009 issue of The Dramatic Growth of Open Access, I reported that "Wiley and Blackwell's Health and Social Care in the Community authors show a 0% compliance rate with the NIH Public Access Policy".
The evidence for this statement is based on a time frame of Jan. 1, 2005 - Dec. 30, 2008, reflecting the time frame beginning (roughly) at about the time that articles under the initial voluntary policy would have begun to be published, up until the permitted 12-month embargo period. The basis for this evidence is presented in the open data edition of the Dramatic Growth of Open Access (see the 3rd worksheet)
It has since come to my attention that there are no articles in Health and Social Care in the Community that should be available under the present mandatory NIH policy, which took effect on April 7, 2008. From this perspective, Health and Social Care in the Community and Wiley-Blackwell authors are not remiss in their obligations.
My apologies for any confusion to anyone who understandably considers the "real" NIH Public Access Policy to be, in effect, the mandated policy beginning April 7, 2008. That this question has come up underscores the importance of mandatory requirement in OA policy.
Update January 19: according to Peter Suber, "In the period since the NIH policy became mandatory, HSCC has had two submissions based on NIH funding. In the first case it deposited the manuscript in PMC within six days of receipt. The second paper was received very recently and is still in process. (Thanks to Cliff Morgan for the correction.)". As of this morning, I am not able to find any articles from this journal indexed in PubMed using the original search. This could mean nothing; it might be a glitch at PubMed, or persistent operator error, i.e. I do not wish to draw any firm conclusions until I retry the search at another time. I re-ran the Dec. 31, 2009 search yesterday evening, and once again found the result of 6 NIH-externally funded articles from 2005-2008 with no fulltext available for any of the articles.
Please note that the compliance rate reported for other journals also reflects the time frame beginning Jan. 1, 2005. To avoid further confusion, I will make adjustments to future searches of this nature.
For details about the search method I use to calculate compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy, see this DGOA post.
Open Content Alliance (OCA) vs. Google Books: OCA as superior network and better fit for an emerging global public sphere
My preprint Open Content Alliance (OCA) vs. Google Books: OCA as superior network and better fit for an emerging global public sphere is now available via SFU library and E-LIS. This preprint explores two similar projects (OCA and Google Books) via the theoretical lenses of two emerging theoretical frameworks (network theory, based on Castell's work, and the global public sphere, derived from but moving beyond the work of Habermas, Fraser, and others). Comments are welcome; it is very likely that I will continue to explore these theoretical frameworks throughout my PhD work and possibly beyond.
Brendan Rapple at Scholarly Communication News@BC (Boston College) considers this work interesting and provocative. Thanks, Brendan!
The UBC cIRcle copy will be coming. Even the most ardent self-archiver can sometimes fall behind!
Open and Evolving Scholarship
The internet has opened up new potentials for scholarship, potentials that we are only now just beginning to explore. As scholarship evolves, one of the signs of progress will be multiple versions. At first, some people will find this a challenging change; it is clearly different from the static print form. Because this change is part of the evolution of scholarship and brings both current and emerging innovations that will vastly improve scholarship, it is both necessary and desirable to embrace a variety of versions.
In a print-based world of scholarship, it was enough to have a single version of a journal article. There were significant costs involved in typesetting, printing, and mailing; while a few disciplines, such as physics and economics, have a history of sharing preprints even in the print era, most did not.
Already, it is possible for a research project to be published in numerous versions in a way that advances scholarship and makes it more accessible to all.
Here are some examples of how a research project can currently be shared in multiple versions. Not everyone will want to pursue all these approaches to sharing, and that is fine. Every discipline has its own traditions, every researcher their own comfort level with various types of sharing, and limited time.
Before the research begins: researchers can share their research questions, grant applications, or early plans. Benefits for the researcher include:
the possibility of early peer review (if there is a problem with the question or approach - why not find out before you start the project, rather than after when the paper is done?)
the possibility of finding collaborators to expand your research project (this has happened to me! - see Greyson et al,, University Supports for Open Access, Canadian Journal of Higher Education 2010, forthcoming); Taylor et al, Open Access Journal Supports (in progress)
establishing priority
When the research is done: researchers can post openly a preprint, open data, conference presentation prior to final publication, or peer-reviewed postprint.
Benefits for the researcher include:
the open access citation advantage
possibility of early peer review when early forms (preprint, conference presentation) are shared
other researchers can confirm results of rigorous studies when data is shared openly
Alternative versions and libre open access: in addition to these multiple versions of the research report per se, researchers can post alternative versions, or facilitate their creation by providing full libre open access including re-use rights. Examples of such alternative versions:
abbreviated versions for the author's blog, scholarly newsletters or listservs
audiovisual presentations (e.g. the YouTube version)
translations into different languages, whether automated as through google's language services or manual
translations into alternative formats to serve a wider variety of readers, e.g. audio or daisy versions for the print disabled
translation into versions for lay or custom readerships, an emerging possibility for the scholarly-minded journalist or freelance writer (sometimes this will include the author)
In order to take full advantage of all of these potentials, and others of which I have not yet dreamed, it is necessary to let go of the idea that there is one single version of a research article. Approaches to citation need to evolve as well; this is not as confusing as it might seem. If there are multiple versions of an item - cite what you read. If there is another version you think readers should be alerted to, add this to the citation. For example, if you are cited a locked-down subscription version but know that a free version is available, add the URL to the free version as a service to your readers.
Multiple versions is not a new idea. For years, books have been published in multiple editions. There has never been a need to decide that one version was the authoritative version for all time, and there have been many an occasion when it was useful research to compare the differences between one edition and another.
Some useful examples of multiple versions in action: Living Reviews, an online open access peer reviewed service in which the review articles are kept up to date by their authors; the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, in which invited articles by experts are periodically updated (and archived on a quarterly basis for citation and preservation purposes); and Charles Bailey's bibliographies, updated frequently and available at Digital Koans. Jean-Claude Bradley and colleague's Useful Chemistry is a great illustration of sharing of research-in-progress.
Labels: multiple versions, open scholarship, scholarly communication
Response to STM response to US Scholarly Publishing Roundtable
This is a response to the Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) responds to US Scholarly Publishing Roundtable Report and Recommendations.
STM is overstating their contributions to scholarly publishing and overlooking the much greater contributions of scholars themselves, as the unpaid writers and peer reviewers.
For example, the STM report says: "Government research grants currently cover the cost of the research only. Government research grants do not cover the costs of publication."
What is missing?
the scholars who write the research articles and do the peer review, for free
the U.S. National Institutes of Health funding which goes to page charges for subscription journals - to the tune of $30 million, enough to pay for full OA with online open access
a portion of government research grants goes to universities for overhead - including library subscriptions - which are about 70% of STM revenue, (which is more than enough to pay for full global OA at today's rates with over 60% savings for libraries)
STM "welcomes the consultation and collaboration that has occurred with our industry". Comment: my perspective is that public policy consultation should involve the public, as the OSTP consultation has - not a secret group of individuals meeting behind closed doors.
STM, understandably, wants financial compensation if the policy requires access to the final Version of Record. From my perspective, this is unnecessary, and not necessarily desirable, as there are advantages to having multiple versions, such as for preservation purposes (one version might survive and another not), and access purposes (e.g., the author's own version may be more useful for the print disabled).
Labels: FRPAA, open access policy
The peculiar practice of democracy? in America
The neighbours down south are a little hard to figure out sometimes. Recent consultations on open access policy are a great example. While the Office of Science and Technology Policy consultations on public access policy are a veritable model of openness and democracy, the secretive and undemocratic nature of the deliberations of the House and Science Committee read like a scene from C. Wright Mills' "The Power Elites".
My submissions to the OSTP are openly posted, as usual, on IJPE. The only thing I have to add here is applause for this completely open process; anyone can participate, and everyone can see all of the comments.
The House Science Committee is another story. A small group of 14 individual "experts" was selected in a secret fashion, and conducted meetings in secret. Much is being made of the "consensus" of 12 of the 14 individuals. There are a few librarians among this group; but what about the rest of the librarians in America? Why not invite the major library associations to select a representative, for example? Why have a group meeting to decide on the future of scholar publications - with no scholars invited to participate?
For the record, as someone who is considered an expert on scholarly communication (I have published a book on the topic, and developed and taught a course on scholarly communication), while I appreciate the group's support for free access, there are some points in the report that I strongly disagree with. For example, it is inappropriate for a group of librarians, publishers, and university administrators to make a decision that there needs to be a "Version of Record" for scholarship; this is a decision that only scholars can make. There are areas in scholarship where multiple versions of documents are the norm; for example, in both physics and economics, it is very common to post preprints or working papers. My own perspective is that there are advantages to having multiple versions. For example, having different versions presents advantages for preservation purposes (if one version does not survive, the other might). If authors are concerned about consequences of posting preprints with errors, then they can wait for peer review and post corrected versions.
For links to the report of the House Science Committee and Peter Suber's comments, see:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2010/01/house-science-committee-on-roundtable.html.
PubMedCentral Canada up and available for searching
PubMedCentral Canada is now up and available for searching, at:
http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/
PMC Canada is the third country portal in the PMC-International Initiative, after the original in the U.S. and PMC-UK. Congratulations to partners CISTI, CIHR, and the US National Library of Medicine.
(thanks to Peter Suber, Open Access Tracking Project)
Strong open access growth reported by Hindawi
Hindawi Publishing reports strong growth for 2009. Submissions more than doubled, from 7,600 in 2008 to more than 16,500 in 2009. The number of accepted manuscripts grew from 2,500 in 2008 to 4,400 in 2009. Note that the growth in accepted manuscripts is smaller than the growth in submitted manuscripts, indicating an increased rejection rate.
This data and indication of strong growth at PLoS One is important in indicating that not only is growth rate of open access journals very strong (two per day based on DOAJ rates), the growth of articles published in open access journals is strong as well.
Thanks and congratulations to Hindawi's Paul Peters and Ahmed Hindawi.
This post is part of the Dramatic Growth of Open Access series.
Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Management
Following is my response to the Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Management (U.S.) (Phase 3).
Thanks once again for an opportunity to participate in this important consultation.
Question: Compliance. What features does a public access policy need to ensure compliance? Should this vary across agencies?
There should be a simple basic policy covering all agencies: mandate requirement of open access to published results of funded research, with an embargo period of no more than 6 months. Full libre open access – no embargo, re-use rights for results – should be encouraged. Beyond the basics, implementation details might best be left to the individual agency. For the NIH, for example, the PubMedCentral database initiative is well established, in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada, with discussions to extend this initiative further on an international basis. It makes sense, then, for the NIH policy to specify deposit in PubMedCentral. In addition to providing access and an easy means for monitoring compliance, this stipulation allows the NIH to carry forward the tradition of the U.S. National Library of Medicine as the world's premiere library steward for medical literature, ensuring the preservation of the medical literature.
This centralized, government-led database approach may or may not work best for other agencies. Academic disciplines vary a great deal, and interdisciplinarity is increasingly common. The approach that I would recommend is working with existing strengths of academics and their organizations (mostly universities) and disciplines. There are only a very few highly successful, centralized subject databases similar to PubMedCentral. Where these exist, my suggestion is to work cooperatively with the existing initiative. For example, in physics, the arXiv, http://arxiv.org/was created by and for physicists who use it heavily; arXiv has established cooperative relationships with many publishers, allowing researchers to begin the submission process for publication through arXiv, and publishers also host arXiv mirror sites; for physics materials, arXiv is the obvious locus of deposit. For physics articles, then, I would recommend collaborating with and supporting arXiv, whose main site is Cornell University Library. For economics, collaboration with the distributed RePEC http://repec.org/ is recommended. In education, the U.S. Educational Resources Information Coalition (ERIC) http://www.eric.ed.gov/ is the first place to start. For library and information studies, my suggestion is to collaborate with and support the global volunteer-based collaboration, E-LIS, the Open Archive for Library and Information Studies http://eprints.rclis.org/ [disclosure: I am volunteer member of the E-LIS Governance Team]. This is not a comprehensive list of disciplinary approaches; apologies for any omission.
The vast majority of academic literature, however, does not fall into any of the disciplinary repository approaches. For most U.S. government-funded literature, therefore, what I would recommend is deposit in an institutional repository. Universities and their libraries are more than ready to cooperate in this manner, which has advantages for the U.S. university system; more on this later.
Question: Evaluation. How should an agency determine whether a public access policy is successful? What measures could agencies use to gauge whether there is increased return on federal investment gained by expanded access?
Response: Evaluation is an area where I would suggest agency-specific approaches. For example, I would argue that the NIH leadership in open access, going back to providing free access to the PubMed index, has been key to the development of the practice of evidence-based medicine. The basic idea of evidence-based medicine is that after doctors and other health care practitioners graduate, they should continue to keep up their knowledge through reading, and make use of the research literature in diagnosing and treating illness. It would make sense to hypothesize that the NIH Public Access Policy will further advance evidence-based medicine; the tools and research methods of evidence-based medicine, then will be useful in evaluation. Other positives from the NIH Public Access Policy include speeding up advances in medical knowledge, and technology transfer (for example, facilitating the discovery of new drugs). These potentials would suggest different methodological approaches.
In education, I would be very surprised if there was not a serious gap in access to the research literature for educators and parents. School libraries anywhere are lucky to have sufficient resources for the kids themselves; most would see professional development resources for teachers as a luxury. In this case, simple before and after access measurements for access to research would be suitable. Surveys of educators to determine awareness of potential access would be beneficial; there may be a need for an educational campaign, as those who are not used to having access will not automatically think to look for it once it becomes available.
For technology transfer to the private sector, economic studies similar to those conducted by Houghton et al. http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=316 would be most suitable.
Question: Roles. How might a public private partnership promote robust management of a public access policy? Are there examples already in use that may serve as models? What is the best role for the Federal government?
Response: The key partnership that I would recommend is with the researchers' home organizations, generally universities. University libraries have well-established services and infrastructure that can greatly assist management. For example, the vast majority of university libraries have functioning institutional repositories. Virtually all university libraries participate in consortial groupings that could quickly find means to collaborate to ensure that all researchers have a repository available. University libraries have a robust technological infrastructure, reflecting their current leadership roles in providing access to (and increasingly, creation of) electronic information, and knowledgeable professional staff with established liaison relationships across campuses, across the nation. Librarians also have long-established business relationships with scholarly publishers. Even where the locus of deposit is a central repository (as with the NIH policy), librarians have expertise in assisting researchers with questions surrounding author rights retention to ensure compliance, and with deposit. The collaborative nature of the library profession means that it would be easy for any agency to work with the university library institutional repositories to ensure adherence to metadata standards to facilitate virtual repositories that will meet the specific needs of the agency, e.g. to showcase the work of the agency. [Disclosure: I am a professional librarian].
Working cooperatively with universities and their libraries has advantages for the U.S. university system as a whole. A full university IR will showcase the work of the university. Conceptually, there are strong reasons to believe that the IR will be a key evaluative component for universities in the very near future. For example, showcasing the work of a creative research department through the IR will only help to attract the best and brightest graduate students, and usage statistics for the IR will increase the university's web presence, an emerging evaluative criteria for universities.
When work is deposited in a central repository such as PubMedCentral, it is ideal if it is cross-deposited in an institutional repository as well. This will facilitate preservation and assured ongoing access; the more copies of an item, the more likely it is to be preserved, and preservation is a key function for the academic library.
Once again, thank you for the opportunity to participate, and I hope that these comments are helpful to you.
Labels: open access policy, OSTP


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/*!
 * \file   atomic/detail/fence_operations.hpp
 *
 * This header defines fence atomic operations.
 */

#ifndef BOOST_ATOMIC_DETAIL_FENCE_OPERATIONS_HPP_INCLUDED_
#define BOOST_ATOMIC_DETAIL_FENCE_OPERATIONS_HPP_INCLUDED_

#include <boost/atomic/detail/config.hpp>
#include <boost/atomic/detail/platform.hpp>

#if defined(BOOST_ATOMIC_DETAIL_CORE_BACKEND_HEADER)
#include BOOST_ATOMIC_DETAIL_CORE_BACKEND_HEADER(boost/atomic/detail/fence_ops_)
#else
#include <boost/atomic/detail/fence_arch_operations.hpp>

namespace boost {
namespace atomics {
namespace detail {

typedef fence_arch_operations fence_operations;

} // namespace detail
} // namespace atomics
} // namespace boost

#endif

#ifdef BOOST_HAS_PRAGMA_ONCE
#pragma once
#endif

#endif // BOOST_ATOMIC_DETAIL_FENCE_OPERATIONS_HPP_INCLUDED_

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Q: Correct use of relations/constraints when deleting a complete user account How do you handle constraints when you want to delete a complete user account with all underlying data?
I use RESTRICT ON DELETE on some tables to keep consistency, but how do I handle the constraints when I want to delete the complete user account!? Then I get Integrity constraint violation
On some tables I also use CASCADE ON DELETE so I can't just ignore all constraints

A: *

*Start a transaction.

*For each table that has ON DELETE RESTRICT, delete the right rows. The order of tables sometimes matters; start with the tables "furthest" from the table of users.  (See below.)

*Then delete the user. ON DELETE CASCADE should delete the remaining
rows.

*Commit the transaction.

The order of tables matters when you have a "chain" of tables with ON DELETE RESTRICT.
Table_N
    Table_M references Table_N ON DELETE RESTRICT
        Table_P references Table_M ON DELETE RESTRICT

You need to delete from Table_P first, then Table_M, then Table_N.


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Hamilton County, Illinois Gender Ratios
There are more women than men in Hamilton County, Illinois. Total population of Hamilton County, Illinois is estimated at 8,296 people with 4,063 male and 4,233 female. There are 170 more women than men in the county, which is 2.05% of the total population.
The Hamilton County, Illinois Gender Ratio is 96 men to 100 women (96:100) or 0.96. Hamilton County, Illinois's gender ratio is equal to the Illinois State average of 96 men to 100 women (96:100) or 0.96. The gender ratio is also lower than the national average of 97 men to 100 women (97:100) or 0.97.
Back to Illinois Page
Hamilton County, Illinois Gender Ratios By Age
Gender Ratios vary by age group as well as location. The table below shows the gender ratios breakdown in Hamilton County, Illinois by age.
Hamilton County Ratio
Illinois State Ratio
5 to 9 99 to 100 104 to 100 104 to 100
30 to 34 93 to 100 100 to 100 100 to 100
60 to 64 100 to 100 92 to 100 93 to 100
Cities in Hamilton County, Illinois
Broughton, Dahlgren, Dale, Macedonia, Mc Leansboro, and Springerton.
Dale.
Source: https://www.states101.com/gender-ratios/illinois/hamilton-county


The wide adoption of Augmented Reality or Virtual Reality across numerous applications of corporate training and development coupled with continuous innovation in VR/AR technologies is propelling growth of the virtual classroom market. In addition, increased participation and engagement in learning, along with growing demand for personalized learning experiences is leading to boost use of connected devices in virtual classrooms. These are some of the factors driving the market growth.
The virtual classroom market report is intended to help the readers, players, new entrants, and investors for discovering the prevailing trends. The report also estimates future opportunities for extensive growth in the coming years. It includes recent data for outlining growth opportunities and key threats. The key part of the report is competitive landscape of the virtual classroom market. The reports also investigate the revenue share, status, growth rate, market drivers, opportunities, future trends, and challenges.
The appropriation of shrewd gadgets in training is because of the expanding desire for portability and adaptable realizing, which empower understudies and representatives to get to all instructive material and organization work. BYOD is an integral asset that enables school to staff and understudies to utilize their cell phones. The BYOD pattern in the instruction business would connect with students, upgrade staff profitability, and extend coordinated effort. For example, instructive organizations are utilizing tablets and cell phones to spare schools' expense by joining books, number crunchers, and word processors into one helpful gadget.
The developing pattern in virtual classroom market is its versatility and adaptable learning crosswise over workers and understudies is boosting the market. BrainCert; one of the real player in virtual classroom market offers online HTML5 virtual classroom. Brainer is one of the main player in virtual classroom market that offers Elan named virtual classroom programming. The frameworks likewise offer substance library for learning materials. The framework can be gotten to from cell phones and remote work area.
The choice and execution of virtual classrooms are getting to be vital choices and an extensive piece of the instruction business, as IT spending is being used for these procedures. Advanced education can be befitted by time and spot accommodation given by virtual classrooms. Moreover, the virtual classrooms encourage the best quality training alongside mentally fulfilling learning encounters in advanced education.
Colleges and instructive foundations are utilizing imaginative advancements in the training innovation to include understudies, extend their essence internationally, and keep away from grounds clog.
Key players in the virtual classroom market are trying to offer advanced virtual classroom products. Growing investment in development of common object of digital training in schools and teachers empowerment with the requisite knowledge of implementing technologies in classrooms is expected to offer lucrative opportunities for growth of the global virtual classrooms market.
Regionally, the virtual classroom market could be segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East & Africa. Of these, North America is expected to be dominant region in terms of revenue, demand, and consumption over the forecast period. This is attributable to the rising adoption of smart and technologically advanced classrooms in the region in order to improve educational and corporate setups. This adoption is helping to create a learning environment mainly which is focused on an individual's or organization's learning needs.
Some of the leading companies operating in the global virtual classroom market are Sony, Samsung Electronics, HTC, Google, Microsoft, Panasonic Corporation, Hitachi, Barco, LG Electronics, Veative Labs, Cisco, Blackboard, Dell, IBM, Saba Software, Oracle, Edvance360, Electa Communications, BrainCert, SKYPREP, Impero Software, WizIQ, BigBlueButton, Digital Samba, and TutorRoom.


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module Match
  class TablePrinter
    def self.print_summary(app_identifier: nil, type: nil)
      rows = []

      type = type.to_sym

      rows << ["App Identifier", "", app_identifier]
      rows << ["Type", "", type]

      {
        Utils.environment_variable_name(app_identifier: app_identifier, type: type) => "Profile UUID",
        Utils.environment_variable_name_profile_name(app_identifier: app_identifier, type: type) => "Profile Name",
        Utils.environment_variable_name_team_id(app_identifier: app_identifier, type: type) => "Development Team ID"
      }.each do |env_key, name|
        rows << [name, env_key, ENV[env_key]]
      end

      params = {}
      params[:rows] = rows
      params[:title] = "Installed Provisioning Profile".green
      params[:headings] = ['Parameter', 'Environment Variable', 'Value']

      puts ""
      puts Terminal::Table.new(params)
      puts ""
    end
  end
end


Thursday, January 25, 2018 .
Hi Everyone! It's Nicole, Annette's web-manager and friend, and I'm here today with an easy green smoothie sure to satiate. Let me be abundantly clear on this from the get-go: embracing green smoothies for me took a while. I couldn't get passed the idea of drinking vegetables and fruits that I typically ate muddled in a salad or individually as snacks.
Invest in a great blender. Annette loves her Nutribullet, and I love my Ninja. No matter what blender you use, it's really important you get one that can handle the different textures of frozen fruits and veggies with ease. It will make your smoothie taste so much better.
Decide which green vegetable works best for you as your base. I used to be a tried and true kale gal, but I've since shifted over to spinach. The truth is, it doesn't matter what greens you use as long as you use some. Decide what you love, no matter what the recipe says, and stick with that. Pro Tip: Use your leftover smoothie greens as salads for the week.
Blend smoothies two servings at a time. Keep the second in a tightly sealed mason jar for the next day – or share it with a friend!
Feel free to play. If you don't like grapefruits, use an orange instead. If you love pineapple, double up on that. If you happen to have some spare clementines around, toss those in, too. Enjoy being in the kitchen and playing with flavors. A fun smoothie is a better smoothie.
The smoothie recipe I'm sharing today is modified from Simple Green Smoothies' Beginner's Luck. As the title indicates, it's a great first timer smoothie and a fantastic way to ease into the green smoothie lifestyle.
Blend spinach and milk together until spinach is fully combined.
Pour into a cute glass and sip through an even cuter straw. Store any remaining smoothie for tomorrow!
Note: when you think it's blended, let it blend a little more. The longer this one blends, the more of the orange pith will disappear and blend into the rest of the drink.
Thursday, January 11, 2018 .
I love carrot juice! I make sure to have a glass at least once a week.
This is a lovely recipe, and one you will use time and time again. It's both tasty and satisfying. Plus, it's full of vitamins perfect for the winter months.
Put the ingredients into your juicer (I use a Nutribullet) and blend!
Let me know how it's going. Write any comments or questions below.
Thursday, December 29, 2016 .
Juice January 2017! Celebrating 5 years of Juice January.
Hey hey, my juice people! This is the 5th year of juicing in January who's in?!
For the next 21 days, we will take this journey together.
For those of you just joining us, here are the ground rules for making these 21 days easy, fun, and delicious.
Thursday, December 31, 2015 .
I love carrot juice! During Juice January, I make sure to have a glass at least once a day.
This is a lovely recipe, and one you will use time and time again. It's both tasty and satisfying.
Let me know how it's going write any comments or questions below.


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Here's What (Tunnel) Car Washes Are Really Doing to Your Car
Home/Auto Detail Services, Services/Here's What (Tunnel) Car Washes Are Really Doing to Your Car
By Alvin Reyes
There are times when hand-washing your car seems more like a chore than a fun, scintillating experience, as depicted in movies. Not everyone has a private parking area or garage, and you'll need a handful of cleaning tools, buckets, and access to a strong water connection to get the job done right.
It's one of the many reasons why automatic car washes are a godsend for most people, offering a quick service and easy accessibility. The first car wash business in the United States opened in Detroit in 1914. Still, the first automated wash facilities weren't established until 1940 (per Aqua Bio), and washing technology hasn't looked back since. But because we think you should really know, here's what (tunnel) car washes are really doing to your car.
NOTE from Sunset North Car Wash & Detailing: Our complete outside/inside, make-your-vehicle-look-and-feel-like-new-again package is about 1/10th the price they quote as a "starting price" in this article.
There will be approximately 59,000 car wash and auto detailing businesses across the continental United States in 2022 (a slight decline of -0.9% to 2021), with California, Texas, and Florida having the most car wash garages (per IBIS World). No wonder people like driving their car to an automatic wash station, paying the dues, and watching the magic unfold with its cacophony of spinning brushes, pressurized snow foam, and rotating washcloths. The car is clean in under five minutes (via Columbia Tire Auto), a miracle if there ever was one.
Will automatic car washes harm my car's paint?
Yes, absolutely. There's a reason why professional detailer and popular "cleanfluencer," according to his many followers, Larry Kosilla of AMMO NYC charges $2,500 for basic
cleaning and up to five figures depending on the car's condition (per The New York Times).
Cleaning any car is about reducing friction while removing dirt, but automatic car washes do the exact opposite.
According to Car Magazine UK, the convenience of automatic car washes come at the expense of damaging your car's paint. The machines will slap and contact your car's paint while introducing various contaminants that cause scratches and swirl marks, and the damage is more evident if you have a black or dark-colored vehicle. Those awesome-looking, rotating brushes are typically poorly maintained and will cause the cross-contamination of dirt from other cars. Repeated exposure to poorly-maintained wash brushes will eventually dull your car's paint and make it look old or dated.
The worst part? Removing the damage from scratches that may appear means pre-cleaning, polishing, waxing, and sealing the paint, which will cost money. You could also opt for a ceramic coating, but this also requires time and money. Moreover, there are "touchless" car washes that don't use brushes, but the results are somewhat mediocre in comparison.
So if you think paying $10 for an automatic car wash is worth it, think again.
Read More: https://www.slashgear.com/1117738/heres-what-car-washes-are-really-doing-to-your-car/?utm_campaign=clip


The Edina girl died at age 6 following devastating injuries from a pool-drain accident last summer. Her story helped enact new safety laws.
Abigail Taylor, the 6-year-old Edina girl whose devastating injury in a wading pool last summer inspired a new federal law to make pools safer, died Thursday evening.
Her parents were with her at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, where she'd had a rare transplant surgery to replace the organs destroyed in the June 29 pool accident, said the family's attorney, Robert Bennett.
"She fought so bloody hard, and didn't catch one break. It all stems right from June 29," Bennett said Friday.
Her family declined to comment. Bennett said no funeral arrangements have been made yet.
Abigail was injured when she inadvertently sat on a wading pool drain at the Minneapolis Golf Club in St. Louis Park. Its powerful suction ripped out part of her intestinal tract.
At least three other children have suffered similar injuries since 1990; 33 others have died in drain accidents, most when they were trapped underwater in hot tubs or pools, according to federal reports.
Those tragedies prompted efforts to enact new pool safety laws. But those proposals foundered until the Taylors made their story public, said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who sponsored the new law in the U. S. Senate.
"She told her parents that she wanted them to tell her story so it wouldn't happen to any other kid," Klobuchar said Friday. "She said the same thing to me when I visited her in the hospital."
Whenever Klobuchar encountered resistance to the bill from other legislators in Washington, "I said I would tell her story every day until Christmas." Rep. Jim Ramstad, R-Minn., sponsored the bill in the House.
Congress enacted the law in mid-December, the same day that Abigail underwent transplant surgery at the Nebraska hospital to receive a new small bowel, liver and pancreas. It is one of the few places in the country that specialize in the procedure.
Abigail later suffered multiple setbacks. In March, her father, Scott Taylor, said that his daughter needed kidney dialysis to remove excess fluid in her body, and that she'd had 16 surgeries and innumerable infections.
In late February she began chemotherapy after her doctors concluded that she had developed a cancerous condition that, on rare occasions, is triggered by organ transplants. The condition, called PTLD (post-transplant lymphoprolipherative disease), affects certain blood cells.
"They knew it was their only hope, to have this transplant," said Klobuchar, who said she kept in touch with Scott Taylor. "He just never gave up."
The new federal pool safety law bans the manufacture, sale or distribution of drain covers that don't meet anti-entrapment safety standards. It requires the use of less powerful drainage systems. The law applies to existing public pools and new ones.
The law, the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act, is named for the 7-year-old granddaughter of former Secretary of State James Baker. She drowned at a graduation party in 2002 when suction from a drain trapped her.
A similar bill, sponsored by state Sen. Geoff Michel, is pending at the Minnesota Legislature. "I just feel terrible for them," he said of the Taylors. A Republican from Edina, he said he is optimistic that the bill will pass.
On Friday, the president of Minneapolis Golf Club sent a message to its members telling them of Abigail's death. It said, "Our hearts and prayers go out to the Taylor family during this difficult time and we ask that you continue to keep them in your thoughts and prayers as well."
In November, the family sued the golf club and Sta-Rite Industries, the pool equipment manufacturer owned by Pentair of Golden Valley.


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Environment-friendly catalysts reduce emissions
By: Theresa Bhowan 28th August 2020 High-performance catalyst manufacturer Clariant Catalysts has developed the EnviCat N2O catalyst, to remove nitrous oxide (N2O) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) gases almost entirely from the waste gases emitted by industrial plants. →
Regional developments expected to ignite South Africa's gas economy
By: Natasha Odendaal 28th August 2020 There has long been discussions about the development of a gas economy having the potential to help transform the South African landscape and, despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, about gas emerging as a game changer both in terms of its role in the country's energy transition and the new... →
Regulations, pricing a challenge for local LNG uptake
By: Theresa Bhowan 28th August 2020 Despite there being vast benefits to using liquefied natural gas (LNG) locally, natural gas producer Renergen tells Engineering News that regulations and pricing are impeding the growth of the LNG sector. →
RENEWING ENERGY Renewable energy is fast becoming more affordable
LPG upcoming in SA's energy mix
By: Theresa Bhowan 28th August 2020 Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has an important role to play in the complete energy mix of South Africa – it is a clean-burning, sustainable and portable fuel, with further applications in water heating, space heating and cooking, says industry association and body the Liquefied Petroleum Gas... →
NIRVAN BRIJLAL The economic and environmental benefits of LPG emphasises its role as a key player in the local energy mix
LNG project should benefit SADC
28th August 2020 Untapped expertise in Southern Africa should benefit from the opportunities provided by the exploitation of the large liquefied natural gas (LNG) reserves discovered off the coast of northern Mozambique, says engineering, procurement and construction company Lesedi Nuclear Services project... →
IHS Markit says growth in world oil demand expected to plateau
By: Simone Liedtke 25th August 2020 London-based global information provider IHS Markit says the growth in global oil demand is expected to taper off, with global crude oil demand plateauing just below pre-pandemic levels. According to the company's new analysis, global oil demand, currently at 89% of pre-Covid-19 levels and... →
Mauritius starts to scuttle Japanese oil-spill vessel
By: Reuters 21st August 2020 Mauritius said on Thursday it had started to scuttle the Japanese-owned bulk carrier that ran aground off its shores and spilled oil over pristine waters and fragile coral reefs. The MV Wakashio hit a coral reef off the Indian Ocean island on July 25 and began spilling oil on Aug. 6, prompting... →
Photo by Reuters
A part of the MV Wakashio
Greenpeace condemns exploitation of yet another fossil fuel in South Africa
By: Marleny Arnoldi 19th August 2020 Commenting on the arrival of Total's oil and gas drill rig DeepSea Stavanger in Cape Town on August 12, environmental organisation Greenpeace Africa says the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy "needs to get its story straight". "The claim is that the drilling aims to diversify South... →
Mauritius arrests captain of Japanese oil spill ship
By: Reuters 19th August 2020 Mauritius has arrested the captain of a Japanese bulk carrier that ran aground off its coast, causing a devastating oil spill in one of the world's most pristine maritime environments, police said on Tuesday. The MV Wakashio struck a coral reef off the Indian Ocean island on July 25 and began... →
Six months set aside for merger of CEF's oil and gas subsidiaries into 'Newco'
By: Terence Creamer 18th August 2020 The process of merging the State-owned entities of PetroSA, Igas and the Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF) into an "integrated national petroleum company" will formally begin on September 1, with six months having been set aside for the creation of a Newco that is "commercially viable". All three... →
The PetroSA GTL refinery in Mossel Bay
Sasol's new-look strategy will seek to 'reset' group for low-carbon world
By: Terence Creamer 17th August 2020 Embattled chemicals and energy group Sasol aims to officially unveil its new-look strategy, dubbed Future Sasol, later this year. It has already indicated, however, that the plan will seek to reposition the 70-year-old company, built around a highly carbon-intensive technology that converts coal... →
Sasol CEO Fleetwood Grobler
Oil spill puts five-decade Mauritian fisher family in a bind
By: Bloomberg 17th August 2020 It may take a decade to restore a delicate ecosystem in Mauritius after a bulk carrier ran aground and spilled oil into the island nation's pristine waters. Some fishermen fear they may never get their lives back. The vessel that left Mauritius almost helpless after it spilled 1 000 t of fuel oil... →
Japanese shipping company says Mauritius government has requested compensation
By: Reuters 14th August 2020 The Japanese shipping company that owns the bulk carrier that struck a coral reef off of Mauritius and leaked some 1 000 t of oil said the government of Mauritius had requested compensation. Nagashiki Shipping also said in a statement that the cause of the incident was still not known and would... →
SANEDI, MDA work together to support South African mineworkers
By: Simone Liedtke 13th August 2020 The South African National Energy Development Institute (SANEDI) and the Mineworkers Development Agency (MDA) have signed a partnership agreement that will result in them collaborating to bring relief to the country's former mineworkers and their communities in the wake of mine closures and the... →
Total oil, gas drill rig arrives in Cape Town
By: Marleny Arnoldi 12th August 2020 Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has welcomed the arrival of the DeepSea Stavanger oil and gas drill rig, in Cape Town, which has been commissioned by petrochemicals company Total. Total and its partners will drill the Luiperd prospect in Block 11B/12B off the Mossel Bay... →
Why so much world trade passes Mauritius's pristine beaches
By: Bloomberg 12th August 2020 The bulk carrier Wakashio was 11 days into a month-long voyage to Brazil when it hit a reef off Mauritius causing it to spill fuel into the island's crystal clear waters, endangering baby turtles and unique plants in a nearby nature reserve. Given the vastness of the Indian ocean, why was the... →
Sea life around Mauritius dying as Japanese tanker oil spill spreads
By: Reuters 12th August 2020 Mauritian volunteers fished dead eels from oily waters on Tuesday as they tried to clean up damage to the Indian Ocean island's most pristine beaches after a Japanese bulk carrier leaked an estimated 1 000 t of oil. The ship, MV Wakashio, owned by Nagashiki Shipping and operated by Mitsui OSK... →
The MV Wakashio which struck a coral reef on Mauritius' southeast coast is leaking oil
Sasol warns of dramatic earnings collapse as it confirms R112bn impairment
By: Terence Creamer 11th August 2020 Chemicals and energy group Sasol warned of a dramatic collapse in its 2020 financial performance on Tuesday, confirming that losses for the period would represent a deterioration of more than 100% when compared with results reported for the 2019 financial year. The decline, the company told... →
DBSA gears up to fill Covid-induced municipal funding gaps
By: Terence Creamer 7th August 2020 Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), which recently disbursed loans worth R4.5-billion to two Gauteng metropolitan councils to support ongoing infrastructure delivery amid coronavirus-induced liquidity constraints, reports that it is gearing up to support several other municipalities to... →
Mohan Vivekanandan
Reduced oil, oil product demand to last for six months – Absa
By: Simone Liedtke 4th August 2020 The current reduced demand for oil and refined products as a result of national lockdowns in South Africa and across sub-Sahara Africa could persist for at least six months, Absa Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) natural resources head Shirley Webber says. She explains that national... →
Renergen spuds first well as expected
By: Simone Liedtke 3rd August 2020 The drill rig at emerging natural gas and helium producer Renergen's Virginia gas project production hub, in the Free State, is preparing to spud the first well in the programme. The upcoming programme of inclined wells target the gas productive fracture systems at the project. →
Occidental discusses $4.5bn asset sale to Pertamina
By: Bloomberg 30th July 2020 Occidental Petroleum Corp is in talks about a potential sale of energy assets in Africa and the Middle East to Indonesia's state-owned PT Pertamina, people with knowledge of the matter said. Pertamina is negotiating the acquisition of oil and gas stakes in countries including Ghana and the United... →
Sasol to sell world's biggest oxygen production site to Air Liquide
By: Marleny Arnoldi 29th July 2020 JSE-listed petrochemicals company Sasol has signed a negotiation agreement with industrial gas company Air Liquide for the sale of Sasol South Africa's 16 air separation units (ASUs), in Secunda. The ASUs, with a 42 000 t/d capacity, provides oxygen for Sasol's fuels and chemical production... →
Air seperation units at Sasol Secunda
Egyptian gas discovery supports Total exploration strategy
By: Schalk Burger 28th July 2020 Energy multinational Total has announced a gas discovery in shallow waters off the Egyptian coast that could deliver an estimated 100-million standard cubic feet of gas a day, as well as up to 800 barrels of condensate a day. "These results support our strategy to allocate a significant share of... →
Transnet Pipelines, law enforcement efforts yielding results
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1917: A Phantasmagoria
Eccentric and entertaining whirlwind tour through the events of 1917.
1917: A Phantasmagoria is undoubtedly a little bit on the odd side, but definitely entertaining. It begins with Michael Daviot, writer and performer, hiding behind a white sheet making ghostly groaning sounds, before emerging to introduce himself as the Spirit of 1917: a Christmas Carol style phantom whose role is to represent that year and so be remembered.
A very rapid and selective tour of the events of 1917 ensues. Battles, political manoeuvrings, espionage, and literature relating to the First World War feature prominently, of course. Other events include the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Finland's declaration of independence, the death of the last Queen of Hawai'i (deposed when America invaded in 1893), Arthur Conan Doyle's conversion to spiritualism, and the Harlem Silent Protest Parade against lynchings. In addition to the political events, Daviot also gives lip-synched performances of show tunes, in a very period-appropriate music hall style. Fact and fiction also seem to have blended somewhat, as a scene featuring fictional detective Sherlock Holmes finds its way into the mix. The mood changes as rapidly as the scene, switching from humourous to poignant to informative in the blink of an eye. Daviot's impression of Irish poet WB Yeats' search for a wife is particularly amusing, while the hate-filled lynching of Ell Persons in the American south is very disturbing.
Each scene is generally quite short, sometimes too short to allow the audience to work out who or what it's about before the Spirit has moved on to a new event. As such, its educational value is somewhat questionable, but as the aim seems to be instead to give a feel for the turbulence of the year, it can be deemed a success.
Parallels between the events of a hundred years ago and those of the present are left unelucidated, challenging audiences to work it out for themselves. One might guess, however, that there is a message to be found in the selection of some of the material used – for instance in the only scene from India, which criticises a government composed of "greedy automatons."
Daviot is a charismatic and engaging performer, who blazes through the year of world history with a great deal of energy and an impressive ability to switch rapidly between different moods. In the hands of a less skilled performer 1917: A Phantasmagoria might easily have been a confusing mess, rather than the fantastic entertainment that it is.
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UL Study Finds High Obesity Rate Among Children Admitted to Hospital
A study by researchers at the Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick and Dalhousie University in Canada has found 34% of children between 6-12 years old admitted to hospital are overweight or obese.
The study, undertaken at the Children's Ark, University Hospital, Limerick, found that as many as 1 in 3 children have at least 1 fast food meal during their hospital stay. Researchers looked at the types of food eaten by children in the hospital setting, especially the abundance of fried food and the lack of water, brown bread, dairy products, fruit and vegetables.
Study co-author, Professor Clodagh O'Gorman, Chair of Paediatrics & Consultant Paediatrician at Mid West Regional Hospital and University of Limerick explained; "There are approximately 145,000 paediatric admissions to hospital annually in Ireland. Limerick is probably representative of most of Ireland's paediatric hospital wards. The incongruent abundance of fried foods in the hospital setting underlines the need for the introduction of age-appropriate nutrition guidelines to complement 'Food and Nutritional Care in Hospitals' issued by the Irish Department of Health and Children's in 2009."
Professor O'Gorman added; "Furthermore, approximately 50% of parents brought food into the hospital for their children. Of these, 60% brought fast food from takeaway restaurants. Children in hospital should be given treats, but these numbers suggest that as many as 1 in 3 children have at least 1 fast food meal during their hospital stay."
Professor Colum Dunne, one of the study's authors and Director of Research, GEMS, UL said "This multidisciplinary study, albeit limited in its scope, showed that almost 24% of the boys and 31% of the girls studied, and overall 34% of the studied children between 6 – 12 years old, were overweight or obese. Awareness and education of lifestyle choices are important, a challenge reinforced by our finding that nearly 67% of parents of overweight or obese children believed that their child was of normal weight ".
The paper is entitled "Children in hospital in Ireland - what do they eat and what do they weigh: a cross-sectional study" by Aisling Flinn, Alan Macken, Walter Cullen, Des Leddin, Colum Dunne and Clodagh O'Gorman was completed at the Children's Ark, University Hospital, Limerick, Ireland and has been published by BMC Research Notes 2012 5:491. – is available here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1756-0500-5-491.pdf
The study was undertaken by researchers at the Centre for Interventions in Infection, Inflammation & Immunity (4i), Graduate Entry Medical School, UL. 4i is the University of Limerick's newly-established research centre and brings together a multidisciplinary team of researchers focused on developing studies that impact health outcomes. A major focus of 4i is the translation of research findings into better patient outcomes and improved effectiveness, efficiency, and economics in healthcare provision.
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