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Engineers Australia seminar now available
Chairman to present Engineers Australia seminar
The presentation (including speech notes) of the Chairman of Advanced Substructures, Peter Airey from the seminar entitled "Ground retention and preventing undermining of adjacent structures" delivered on November 19, 2019 Engineers Australia's Centenary program of knowledge sharing and Continual Professional Development is now available at this link.
We would like to thank Dr Doug Stewart of Golder Associates for co-presenting and Sean De Prazer of Engineers Australia for the invitation.
For more details contact
phil@advancedsubstructures.com
or call 0455 060 384.
Chairman of Advanced Substructures, Peter Airey, will be providing a seminar as part of Engineers Australia's Centenary program of knowledge sharing and Continual Professional Development on November 19, 2019. He will co-present the seminar, entitled "Ground retention and preventing undermining of adjacent structures", with Dr Doug Stewart of Golder Associates.
The presentation combines their decades of combined expertise in structural and geotechnical engineering to provide attendees with a solid background in the requirements of ground retention design and construction. The presentation will use significant local case studies to highlight what happens when inadequate retention occurs versus what can be achieved with a suitable design process.
The presentation will also refer to the review of standard AS4678 (Earth Retaining Structures) that both Peter and Doug are currently participating in. Peter's knowledge and practice in the field of ground retention systems is nationally significant, and forms part of the core offering of the our company.
Highlights of areas covered in the presentation are:
Site investigation requirements for retaining structures
Temporary works required to facilitate installation of the retaining structure; or temporary retaining structures such as permeation grout blocks
Ground movements during installation of the retaining structure (e.g. prior to any bulk excavation)
Impact of ground movements on adjacent infrastructure
Monitoring requirements
Retention and construction systems for high-rise buildings (in wet and dry soils)
For more information, bookings and details, check the Engineers Australia website.
Another Advanced Substructures project has hit the media - a showcase of the advanced design systems used for Niche Living's new Beaufort Street Inglewood apartment development. The project featured in the West's Property section today (pages 76-77).
Advanced Substructure's design has created an optimised underground space with more parking and storage space for each resident. While the article hones in on the lifestyle aspects of the project, our Engineering systems are being used to meet the challenges of the wet site, providing an optimised dewatering schedule and tight integration with the Heritage shopfront forming the South East corner of the site. Congratulations to Niche Living for your commitment to excellence and innovation on this project.
The project is anticipated to be delivered 10 weeks ahead of the former schedule using our evolution of top-down construction.
A copy of the article is here.
For more details contact Phil on 0455 060 384 or via email at phil@advancedsubstructures.com.
Advanced Substructures project in West Property News
Chairman to present at Concrete Institute masterclass
The forthcoming luxury apartment development at 8 Parker Street, South Perth, which will feature Advanced Substructure's basement designs, has today featured in The West Australian's Property section. The new development will feature a double basement, providing residents with 2 to 5 car parking bays and ample storage room.
Advanced Substructures were selected for the design of the substructure, and efficiencies in the design provided have permitted the development of additional habitable space, a core consideration to the revolutionary funding model mentioned by Architect, John Colliere. Set to commence construction in 2020, the article provides more details on what will be a landmark development in the Perth property market.
phil@advancedsubstructures.com.au
or 0455 060 384.
Chairman of Advanced Substructures Limited Peter Airey will be presenting a seminar alongside PACT Construction's Steve Ball (Construction Manager) and GFWA's Tim Palmer (Managing Director) entitled "Piling, Basements and Foundations" for the Concrete Instute of Australia. The seminar will be conducted at the Mercure Hotel in Perth at 5:30 pm on Tuesday 13 August, 2019.
The creative team behind the National award winning Church House will examine the construction, design and technical innovations created to overcome challenges of one of the most difficult structural builds ever completed in Western Australia. The presentation will examine the state-of-the art potential and techniques for substructure creation in sensitive, crowded and "wet" urban sites.
For more details and bookings, please use this flyer or contact Sonya at the Concrete Institute of Australia on (08) 9389 4447 or wa@concreteinstitute.com.au.
Further details about Church House are available on our website, or contact
+ 0455 060 384.
Chairman cited in 7News report on Elizabeth Quay towers
Chairman Peter Airey has recently been interviewed as a technical expert by 7News media on difficulties and water ingress experienced on newly completed apartment towers at Elizabeth Quay in Perth.
Text from the Published article in the West Australian newspaper (page 10, Thursday 16 May 2019) and the video interview are available here at this link.
For more details, contact phil@advancedsubstructures.com or 08 9265 0400.
Chairman appointed Honorary Fellow of Engineers Australia
It is with great pleasure we can inform you that the Founder and Chairman of Advanced Substructures Limited, Peter Airey, has been appointed an Honorary Fellow of Engineers Australia.
This lifetime achievement award recognises the work of eminent engineering professionals who have exhibited unmatched dedication to their disciplines. The appointment celebrates his contributions spanning a career of over 50 years, which has made a marked contribution to the built environment of Western Australia in particular. Peter received this Award on Thursday December 6, and can be seen (above) receiving the award from Hon Trish White, National President of Engineers Australia.
Engineers Australia note that recipients have rendered conspicuous service to the profession of engineering, are eminent in engineering or an allied science, or a distinguished person whom the Board desires to honour, either for having rendered conspicuous service to the Australian people or in recognition of outstanding achievement.
Peter has previously achieved national recognition from Engineers Australia in 1998 for his work on remediating structures damaged by clay-based movement (an innovation that led to the development of Claylock® and Retroclay®), and in 2011 as responsible Director of Airey Taylor Consulting, provided the complex structural design of the State Theatre Centre of WA, recognised as the Best Engineering project in Australia.
In 2018, Peter founded Advanced Substructures Limited to bring these practices to the national construction industry. He continues as Managing Director of Airey Taylor Consulting.
For more details, contact phil@advancedsubstructures.com.
Chairman appointed to National Standards review
We are pleased to announce that the Chairman of Advanced Substructures Limited, Peter Airey, has been appointed as a Consultant to the review committee for AS 4678 Earth Retaining Structures. Following nomination from the local President and Committee of Engineers Australia, Peter will bring his knowledge from decades of engineering design experience to enhance the standard of practice in the Australian construction industry.
Advanced Substructures Limited was launched from Peter's extensive design knowledge of foundations, substructures, and retaining structures. Some of his innovations have resulted in National Engineering Awards; including a National 1998 ACEA Award for his work on remediation of structures built upon clay-based soils (later resulting in the Claylock and Retroclay systems), and the Overall National Winner of the 2011 Engineers Australia Excellence Awards for his work on the complex structure of the State Theatre Centre of WA. Further awards and accolades have followed for his projects with leading-edge foundation and substructure design.
His knowledge of retaining structures and designs are second-to-none in the Australian industry, and form a core part of the offering of Advanced Substructures Limited. Peter will be serving in an advisory capacity and bringing his decades of design experience to a well needed review of the Australian Standard, joining other leading authorities to ensure our nation's industry standards reflect current best practice.
For more information contact phil@advancedsubstructures.com.
Phil Airey
Director (Sales)
phone : 0455 060 384 / 08 9265 0412
12/18 Harvest Terrace, West Perth WA 6005
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Connect with China Environment Forum
Environmental Health Crises in Southwest China
Wed. Nov. 08 2006
Economics and Globalization
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Millions of rural and urban citizens in China suffer from health problems and limits to economic development due to contamination or shortages of water and air pollution from coal. In southwest China, water challenges are particularly acute due to that region's karst geology, where much of the water flows underground through caves rather than on the surface. These health problems are yet another burden on tens of millions of subsistence farmers. Urban China is not immune to growing environmental health threats—on the highly urbanized east coast, emissions from coal-fired electric power plants and industries have been a leading cause of respiratory illnesses and early deaths (300,000-400,000 annually), as well as damage to crops, forests, and watersheds from acid rain and black carbon.
The China Environmental Health Project
At a CHINA ENVIRONMENT FORUM meeting on November 2006, scientists from Western Kentucky University (WKU) and the Southwest University of China (Chongqing) discussed the applied research and training projects they have been undertaking in China over the past 15 years, which have focused on enhancing Chinese infrastructure and technical capacity in two areas: (1) solving safe drinking water challenges in southwest China's limestone karst regions and (2) monitoring emissions from coal burning on the urbanized east coast. These years of collaborative work have coalesced into the China Environmental Health Project (CEHP).
Beginning in October 2006 with major support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), WKU's Hoffman Environmental Research Institute and Institute for Combustion Science and Environmental Technology will carry out CEHP in partnership with the China Environment Forum (CEF) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR), as well as with Chinese scientists from the School of Geography at Southwest University of China and the Anhui University of Science and Technology in Huainan. The main focus of this collaborative environmental health project is to promote partnerships with universities to enhance technical infrastructure in air quality analysis, hydrogeology, and geographic information systems (GIS) computer mapping technology. Besides the scientific components of the karst water and coal activities, there is also a strong community outreach and NGO education components to CEHP.
Karst Water Challenges in China
Dr. Chris Groves (WKU) and Professor Yuan Daoxian (Southwest University of China) began the November 8th meeting by explaining the geological characteristics of karst regions and the economic and health problems that have emerged in these regions in China. Karst landscapes cover over 15 percent of the earth's surface and nearly a quarter of the world's population relies on karst aquifers for drinking water. Karst areas are most predominant in northeastern Africa, Southeast Asia, parts of the eastern United States, and southwest China (Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, and Guangxi). Rural communities in the karst areas of southwest China are some of the poorest in China where 80 to 100 million rural residents earn around $85 a year. This poverty is tied in large part to pollution and difficulties in accessing water in these karst areas.
Quick Karst Geology Lesson
Rivers flowing through underground caves rather than on the surface characterize karst water systems. Because there is little filtration through soil or rock above most karst aquifers and rivers, these water bodies are particularly vulnerable to pollution and other contaminants on the land. Dr. Groves illustrated this vulnerability in showing slides (see speaker PowerPoint presentations in the See Also box) of an exploration in Florida, during which divers in were tracked by researchers following them on land above. The trackers were able to record the various pollution sources above the divers in the karst river. Strikingly, the divers finally emerged from the karst underground river in a sinkhole full of black water and garbage. Such contamination underscores one of the two major human health challenges faced by communities in karst areas; the other major challenge is accessing the water.
In most karst regions of the world, rain is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year. However, in southwest China, the monsoon climate exacerbates water shortage problems in the karst areas. For example, in Guangxi and Guizhou provinces, during the dry season karst areas become almost desert-like, since most of the available water is flowing deep underground (from 100 to 1,000 feet). Because many of these rural areas are poor and lack electricity, accessing water during dry seasons is nearly impossible.
To exemplify the difficulty of accessing water in karst regions, Professor Yuan noted that when Chongqing suffered from a severe drought in the summer of 2006, huge tracts of trees died and 10 million people suffered from extreme water shortages. In response, the government provided emergency water supplies and drilled over 100,000 deep wells.
Value of Scientific Research in the Karst Areas of China
In southwest China, 2,836 underground rivers and streams exist, almost equal in total length to the Yellow River. Despite the great number of underground rivers, they are difficult to locate and those that are found and accessible are often polluted with agricultural and industrial runoff.
The contamination of karst rivers and aquifers is complicated by the fact that polluted streams often "disappear" into underground rivers. Thus, communities downstream rarely know the types and source of the contaminants in their drinking water. In the 1950s, due to an incomplete understanding of the underground water flow in the Kentucky region, rivers that flowed through the White Horse Cave filled with sewage, contaminating the area's drinking water for decades. Professor Yuan argued that without adequate research to inform protection of these out-of-sight waters in China, they could turn into a huge sewer, creating a tragedy more extensive than the contamination of the White Horse Cave.
Professor Yuan explained that the geology of karst catchments varies considerably, thus scientists need to help communities and governments understand the geological background, hydrogeology, and the related ecohydrological problems in order to properly design effective countermeasures to water pollution and access difficulties in karst regions.
Professor Yuan highlighted how, over the past five years, the Chinese government has been proactive in addressing the broader rural water crises, spending $3 billion to help 71 million rural citizens obtain safe drinking water. Another $1 billion will be allocated in 2007, targeting safe water for 20 million rural people, one-third of whom are in the karst region of southwest China. In late 2006, the Ministry of Science and Technology awarded Professor Yuan's researchers at SWUC a 4 million Yuan five-year grant for environmental health and ecological efforts, related to poverty reduction in the karst regions of Chongqing, which strongly complements the USAID-supported CEHP work being carried out with WKU.
Improving Access to Water in Karst Areas
In a karst area in far western Hunan on the border with Guizhou, WKU researchers assisted Chinese counterparts in a project to help ethnic Miao villages gain easier access to water. The villages were on top of a plateau where a very small spring flowed underground into a huge cave system. This spring fed into a large underground river that eventually flowed out of Big Dragon Cave (Dalongdong)—a huge hole on the side of a high cliff, creating a stunning waterfall (see speaker PowerPoint presentations in the See Also box). For decades Miao villagers have had to walk miles down ladders into caves to fill up a jug of water to take back to the village. The time commitment devoted to accessing water represents a major hindrance to economic development and a growing health threat due to lack of sufficient water to meet minimum sanitation requirements.
The village and local government wanted to build a dam inside the cave to flood an area up on the plateau to provide the villages a more accessible water source. In 2004, Chris Groves and other WKU scientists traveled to the community to help their Chinese counterparts carry out some of the preparatory technical research. Parts of the cave were totally submerged and Chinese researchers were unable to map them out. Therefore, WKU brought expert cave divers to carry out the first underwater cave mapping expedition in China. One team dove down from the spring entrance and the other team explored the cave system 400 feet from the surface.
Professor Yuan related how some communities in southwest China have tried to resolve the water access problem with rainwater harvesting. Approximately one million tanks for rainwater harvesting have been built in China's karst regions, but this solution poses health problems. While plenty of rain falls in the monsoon season, many water tanks that villagers build on their roofs become easily contaminated with bacteria and algae in the hot dry season. Some wells constructed from limestone in karst areas also lead to water with a high PH, contributing to numerous health problems in rural communities.
A broader strategy to protect the quality of water in karst regions has been the creation of eleven protected areas in China's karst region, three of which (in Yunnan and Chongqing) have been submitted to UNESCO to become World Heritage Sites. In one area, the IUCN Netherlands office helped create a protected area in which sustainable agricultural practices are being implemented to protect the karst waters and promote healthier communities.
China Environmental Health Project Karst Area Activities
Under the USAID-supported China Environmental Health Project (CEHP), WKU and the School of Geography at Southwest University of China will initially be conducting research and working with local communities in Mengzi in Yunnan and a rural township in Chongqing. In the former, the community faces a severe water shortage and needs assistance in locating safe water sources. The latter township in Chongqing faces an increasingly common problem of karst water contamination caused by what Professor Yuan terms the "suicide practice" of dumping solid waste into sink holes or muddy water, where it quickly leeches toxins into the community's drinking water supply.
The CEHP Coal Emissions Monitoring Component
The United States and China are both heavily dependent on coal—China relies on coal for 70 percent of its total energy and coal supplies 56 percent of all U.S. electricity needs. Both countries also face similar environmental problems stemming from heavy coal use, which underscores how U.S.-China partnerships in studying coal emissions and clean coal technologies could benefit both countries.
The lack of widespread coal washing infrastructure and scrubbers at Chinese industrial facilities and power plants highlight the potential negative domestic and global air impacts of China's plans to build 562 new coal-fired power stations by 2012. China already emits more greenhouse gases (GHG) than any country except the United States, and is expected to surpass the United States in GHG emissions by 2009. The expansion of China's power plants alone could nullify the cuts required under the Kyoto Protocol from industrialized countries. Regionally, sulfur dioxide (SO2) and mercury emissions from coal burning are some of the main pollutants spreading from China. Acid rain resulting from coal and fossil fuel combustion has damaged nearly one-third of China's limited croplands.
Notably in China, data on carbon dioxide (CO2) and mercury emissions from coal burning have not been released, (perhaps not even comprehensively gathered) since 2001. There are estimates that China releases 400 to 600 tons of mercury each year (U.S. emissions are approximately 48 tons each year), but there are no supporting data. Moreover, mercury emissions are actually quite difficult to measure. Overall, China is in great need of better equipment and training to measure coal emissions, which underscores the need for the technology capacity building and training that WKU is undertaking at the Anhui University of Science and Technology (AUST).
WKU's Institute for Combustion Science and Environmental Technology
The coal component—led by the director of WKU's Institute for Combustion Science and Environmental Technology, Dr. Wei-Ping Pan—will focus on building up the capacity to measure and collect quality data in the city of Huainan (Anhui Province) and on implementing related health impact studies. The key Chinese partner institution for the coal work is the Anhui University of Science and Technology (AUST) and its medical school.
Over the last sixteen years, Dr. Pan has established three prominent laboratories in the Department of Chemistry at Western Kentucky University—the Thermal Analysis Laboratory (one of the best-equipped of its kind in the United States); the Combustion Laboratory (which focuses on the behavior of chlorine, sulfur, and mercury during combustion); and the Mobile Mercury Emissions Control Laboratory. Over the years, 20 researchers from Huainan city have visited and received training at these laboratories.
China's "Coal-Powered Three Gorges"
Huainan city in Anhui Province is a major energy base in eastern China, dubbed the "coal-powered Three Gorges" of the country. While heralded as a major energy-producing city, the years of coal burning have created severe air pollution and human health problems. Besides ambient air pollution from coal burning in Huainan (where 11 million tons of coal was burned in 2004), there is also a major challenge in dealing with a huge fly ash stockpile (6.6 million tons of fly ash were produced in 2004). Fly ash can be a useful ingredient in producing cement, but improper disposal could cause contamination of water and soil, for according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, fly ash contains heavy metals, including nickel, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, barium, chromium, copper, zinc, lead, and radium.
Like most Chinese cities, pollution-related illnesses are increasing in Huainan. For example, some preliminary studies show that asthma, bronchitis, and conjunctivitis are on the rise, with the more vulnerable population groups of children and the elderly more severely impacted by the high level of coal emissions in the air. While these illnesses are apparent today, the long-term impact of mercury and other toxins from coal both within China and abroad also represent growing health concerns.
WKU/AUST Partnership
Years of exchanges have enabled WKU to build up a strong relationship with the AUST and government research communities, which will enable them to undertake comprehensive training to collect data from coal-fired power and chemical plants—with the goal of improving Huainan's monitoring system for sulfur oxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter (PM10), and other air toxins. Central to this program will be the training and education of Chinese researchers in the latest environmental technologies for emissions measuring.
In addition, WKU, with assistance from CEF, will also work with researchers at the AUST School of Medicine to investigate how particulates from coal emissions are affecting human health in the city, to encourage energy policies to reduce coal-related health problems. One notable advantage of working with Huainan city is the fact it possesses the authority to establish its own air pollution regulations, such as requiring all companies to set up scrubbers to collect particulate matter.
Besides in-the-field research, the WKU karst and coal initiatives will be providing training for Chinese researchers and graduate students in China and the United States. Updates on CEHP research, papers, and NGO outreach will be provided on the websites of WKU's Hoffman Institute and the China Environment Forum throughout the two-year project.
Drafted by Jennifer L. Turner.
Wei-Ping Pan
Western Kentucky University
Chris Groves
Yuan Daoxian
Southwest University of China
Hidden Waters, Dragons in the Deep
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Hey, guys, it's Allen. I just want to start off by saying I apologize if the audio quality is not that good today. I'm recording this in my car. I'm driving around. I don't even know where I am. I just got in the car, started driving. I'm in the middle of some farms and cows and stuff. That's all I can see. I don't even know what road I'm on, but basically, what I'm doing today is I'm going through what I call the four stages of overcoming losses.
Today is October 11th. I don't know when you're listening to this, but it's October 11, 2018. Over the last week or so, the market, S&P in particular, dropped about 3%, which is not a big deal, but yesterday, it dropped another 3%. Today, it's down another 1%. It kind of feels like the world is caving in, especially as a trader, we live in and die by how well we're doing, and when you see red across your screen all over the place, it's like your blood is coming out of your guts and stuff.
It feels miserable, so I am depressed. I am down. I am angry. I'm upset. It's one of those days where you just don't want to get out of bed. You just want to stay in the covers and cry, really. It wasn't as bad now as it was back in the financial crisis. Those are day after day of wanting to just stay in bed and cry. I'm laughing about it now, but yeah, I did feel like crying about it this morning. I just wanted to be open and honest and raw.
I know you're not supposed to, as running ad advisory and telling people how to trade and teaching, I'm not supposed to be like, "Oh." I should be all motivation or be like, "Yeah, don't worry. The market is going to recover." Yeah, it will, but when you're going through it, when you're suffering those losses, man, you feel completely alone. You feel like the world is ending. You feel like, "Oh, my God, what the hell? I could've done something better. What did I do this for?" You second-guess all your stuff. Maybe I should go get a job," all these kinds of things.
I mean, the losses aren't that bad, right now, for me, at least, and so it's not dire. I'm not giving up or anything, but it just feels really bad when you're going through it, and so I wanted to make this podcast to throw a lifeline out to those of you who are also going through the same thing, or if you're ever going through a series of really tough losses, I wanted to share the four steps that I go through whenever this happens to me. Hopefully, those will help you overcome.
Now, normally, there's this woman, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross who came out with The Five Stages of Grief. If you've studied psychology in college or high school or whatever, you'd cover that. They got denial, and anger, and whatever the other ones, but when you're going through a grief, when you have a loss, or when you lose somebody, or somebody dies, you go through these five stages, and everybody goes through the five stages.
You might do it differently. You might skip one, or you might spend a lot of time in one. You might get stuck in one, or you might do one, and then go to the next one, then come back, or go back forth, back and forth, but everybody goes through these five stages. If you're having emotional issues, and you cannot overcome them, then maybe you want to go take a look at those five stages of loss. Just google it or something, and I'm sure you'll find articles to help you through it.
What I do is when I'm dealing with trading losses, the biggest thing is that you have to overcome it emotionally, otherwise, you'll never get back into the mental aspect of being able to do it successfully again. The first thing I do, step one, is really to get out of the pain. Whatever positions are causing you stress, whatever positions are causing you pain, whatever are hurting, I get out of those.
This morning, I had a big position in SPX. I had some weeklies on, and I had some monthlies on that expire a week for now. I mean, those are really painful because I've been watching this trade for the whole month, and now, a week left, and I just got to pull the plug because I can't take it anymore. It's driving me crazy. It's like, "Oh," every point that S&P drops, it's like a dagger in my heart until I can't take it.
I had a couple other positions where I was losing, so I just got out of everything, just got out every losing position. There are times when you want to get out of all your winning positions too, so everything is wiped clean. Now, you do this with your long-term holdings and whatnot, but short-term option trades, just get out of everything, just clean the board, fresh start.
Just nothing there to worry about, nothing there to think about because then you have to do stage two, and that's the physical aspect, right, just getting out of everything. That's stage one, and that will help you because there's no more stress. There's no more pain. Then you just have to deal with what you've already lost, and so that's step two, which is to deal with it or to feel better about it. I should've given it a better name than that.
This is why I'm driving around because that helps me clear my mind. This is where you take as long as you need to. It could be a couple hours, depending on a loss. It could be a day. It could be two days a week, however long it takes you to get over that pain, that loss and you do what you need to do. I mean, you know yourself best. If you need to go for a run, a lot of people do that, go running, build up a sweat, go to the gym, do whatever, work out. Get over that loss.
If you need to take a nap, I used to do that a lot, and it's not actually very … I thought it was beneficial. I thought it was helpful, but actually, it leads to more depression, but if you need to take a nap, you want to take a nap, go take a nap. If you want to get in the car and drive, do that. If you want to maybe go to a movie in the middle of the day, just get out, go to a movie. Get your mind off of it, and do what you need to do to calm yourself, to bring yourself back to center. That will help you.
Then when you're done with that, then you move on to stage three. Stage three is reassessment, where you actually go through what happened. You go back and look at your trades. What was going on in the market? Why did you have these losses? Could you have done anything in advance? Was there any signs that you missed that you should've been paying attention to, or maybe you even saw but you ignored them for some reason?
This is a lot. We cover this part of it in one of our trainings called Trade Hacks, Trading Hacks, and I go through the different things that you can look for to signal when trouble is coming up and how to avoid that. As a human being, I made mistakes, that's why I'm suffering these losses. That's why I'm going through this right now. It's hard to admit it, but I did not follow my own trade hacks. I probably could have taken action a couple days ago, a day ago, a week ago to save myself some of this, or limit it, but hindsight is 20/20.
Once you've been trading for a while, in the back of your mind, it's like, "Yeah, I know what I'm doing. I know what I'm doing." It's like when you're starting to drive when you're learning how to drive, you pay attention to everything. You pay attention to every little knob and dial, and every little indicator on the car, dashboard, but when you've been driving for years, put the key, turn the ignition, put it in drive, and just go. Then you're not checking the rear view. Oh, I'll get to that later. You're not checking the side mirrors. You're not checking how much gas you have.
You're just going, and then you're like, "Oh, wait, I got to do something. Okay." You don't pay attention as much as you should. In driving, you can autocorrect while you're going along. In trading, if you do not, then things can happen. Bad things can happen if you're not paying attention, and you could lose. Then in the market also, there's no telling what the market could do, and so just going down a lot further than we think it's going to do, then it really eats you up inside mentally and emotionally.
You're like, "Oh, geez, man, I messed up." It's not the market's fault. I mean, the market does what it does, right? We have to respond to it. We have to trade the market that we have. We can't just wish for a market. This market, in particular, has been going up for eight, nine years, right? Now, we have a little dip. It's not even a 10% correction, yet, but it's causing me this much pain because I got too complacent. I got too, maybe, even arrogant that I'm just putting on trades in and working, and putting on trades and working, putting on trades, working. I don't have to worry about it. I don't have to worry about it.
You get lax. You fall asleep at the switch, and then a rude awakening happens, and boom, oh, man, oops, messed that up. These happen. It's human nature. It's going to happen. That's why we trade options the way we do with built-in protections. When there is a loss, it shouldn't be catastrophic. It shouldn't just blow up your whole account. It should be contained, which mine are. They're overcomeable. They're still big, several percentage points, but I can still overcome them.
That doesn't make the pain any less because the more you trade, the bigger your accounts get. When you have a loss, the bigger the loss is, and so you don't look at it like a percent, "Oh, I lost 14%, oh, okay." You don't look at it like that. "Oh, my God, I lost $60,000. Oh, my God." That will freak you out, anybody, it'll freak out anybody. It'll freak out a millionaire, like, "What? We lost $60,000. Oh, my God." That's just an example. That's not an accurate number for myself, but I'm just throwing numbers out there.
That's step number three, right, where we go back, and we reassess, and we say, "Okay, what did we do wrong? What could we have done better in the future?" This is where all the learning takes place. This is one of the most important steps that you cannot really skip. You cannot do this properly until you've completed step number two where you've actually centered yourself, and you've actually gotten over the loss. If you haven't gone over the loss yet, then do that first because then step three will not be as effective as it should be.
Then once you're doing step three, you go over everything. You look at the past. You try to go through the exact trade if you can. If you have some backtesting software, go through it day by day, see what you could've done differently. If there's nothing you could've done differently, then you need to work on your loss prevention mechanisms. You need to work on your asset allocation maybe.
Find out what you could've done to limit the loss, and that's one of the things that we cover in the Protect Your Portfolio book that I've written. That's one of the reasons we wrote the book was to help people know what to do to protect themselves and hedge themselves in a situation like this. If there's a bear market, or if there's a flash crash, or if there's a panic or anything like that, there are different strategies that you can use to limit your losses to protect yourself. What I'm talking about right now is I've already suffered the losses, so I'm going through these four stages of getting over it.
Then step four is to get back on the horse. You've gotten out of trouble. That was step one, exited all your trades. Step two, you've dealt with the pain. Step three, you went back and you tried to figure out what could've gone better if anything, and now, step four, you get back on the horse and you start trading again. Now, depending on how bad the loss is and how long or how the market is reacting determines the time when you get back on the horse.
Now, I just got out of everything today. I'm not getting back on the horse tomorrow. I'm not getting back into my trades tomorrow. I am going to wait for a significant amount of time for the markets to actually calm down themselves before I get back in. Does that make sense? You don't want to jump back in. I lost all my puts today. I'm going to go jump in and call tomorrow, or in the afternoon, or I'm going to roll right now.
No, if you're suffering pain, you don't want to be rolling. You don't want to be rolling. You don't want to get more in trouble. If you're suffering a lot of emotional pain, just get out of the trade. If your emotional balance is uncentered, if you're not centered emotionally, you're not thinking straight, you're not trading straight, get out of the position. Get out of any position that's causing you pain. I can't stress that enough. That is the only way that you're actually going to be able to think clearly and rationally again.
When you're getting back on the horse in step number four, let's get back in slowly. Let's get back in once everything has settled down. Now, how do you know when things have settled down? Well, I like to do it when the market is not moving several standard deviations, or at least not even one standard deviation. If you don't know what a standard deviation is, again, go look at that Trading Hacks program that we have, the trading program. It covers that in detail, but I want to see the market relax and calm down and move less than one standard deviation in a day or two days in a row before I would even consider getting back into the market when we've had a big decline.
That is one of my barometers. You need to come up with your own barometer. Don't do it on a percentage basis. Today, the S&P is down 1%, which normally is not a big deal, but after coming off from yesterday's 3% and 3% the last three or four days before that, it's adding up. Tomorrow, if the market goes up 2%, I won't be surprised, but that doesn't tell me that it's all clear. That could just be a snapback rally. The volatility is still going to be up, VIX has spiked considerably in the last three days, and so the volatility is still going to be there. That's not enough for me to say that things are back to normal or calm again. Things are rational.
You don't want to see big moves day after day, even up or down, up or down. You want to see calmness. You want to see everything come back to normal before you go back into the market and start putting your trades on. You have to remember that we are always going to have more wins than losses, but when we do have the losses, they'll be larger. Right? The losses are going to be larger than the wins, and so they do hurt emotionally when they happen because we're not used to them, number one, and number two, the numbers are bigger.
If you're used to winning 100 bucks, 100 bucks, 100 bucks, 100 bucks, but then you lose 400. Oh, my God, that's such a big loss because you're used to the small numbers, you're used to the 100, 100, 100, so if you lose 100, no big deal, oh, my God. It's a big deal, right? We have to keep that in mind, and that is one of the things that we go through when we're getting over it. We reassess, and we go over everything, and then we plan our next moves. We get back on the horse, and then we move forward because the odds are in our favor. They always will be, but if the trades are not going in our favor, even though the odd's in our favor, then there's something else at work. We need to figure out what that is. All right?
If you don't know what it is, stay out of the market. If you don't know why things are moving so much, stay out of the market. Do more research. Do more homework, but do not be trading until things calm down, things settle down, and you have a better handle on yourself, and you have a better idea of how the market is going to react in certain ways. If it's calm, that's when I want to trade. I don't want to be trading crazy, choppy markets going up and down, up and down on a daily basis when nobody can predict and nobody knows what the heck is going on, and there's blood in the water, blood in the streets. I don't want to be selling options on those days.
This brings me to another point is the diversification that you should have, and we've recently just had something that we call passive trading, which is going to be a big deal for us. It's a new way of trading options as well as stocks together and doing so in a passive way. Those trades that I've been doing with my passive trading are doing great. The stocks are down, but the options are making money, and when this decline stops, I'm going to be in a much better position with those accounts that are doing passive trading.
That is something that we're going to roll out pretty soon. You'll be hearing more about it. If you're interested, email us, and we'll give you more details about it. I'm actually in the process of writing a book about it, so it's a new way of trading. It's really cool. I'm really excited about that, so that's something that I look forward to. For now, I just wanted to make this podcast. I hope this helps you. I've been through this process a few times, done it different ways, banged my head against the walls, screamed at my wife and kids for days on end.
Those were not very beneficial, so maybe that's something that I should've mentioned in step number two where you don't want to take it out on other people. You don't want to take out your anger and aggression and depression on other people. If you have to, stay away from other people, if that's you. I mean, you know who you are. I don't handle losses very well, especially, we did have an Option Genius trade that lost money. We did have a weekly trading system that lost money, and I'm really, really, really upset about those, more than the other trades that I lost money on because I know that's my own money.
When I lose on one of my advisory trades, that really, really pisses me off. I get really upset about that, but I need to be careful that I do not take it out on my wife, my kids. I was very depressed last night, and I was horrible. I didn't eat well. I went out, got out a bunch of fast food. I got some more right now, comfort food kind of thing, but you do what you got to do for those couple of days until you recover and you get over it.
That's the process that I'm in. I'm not going into the office for a while. I'll probably go in later on. We do have a webinar tonight, so I have to go in for that. I can't cancel that, but probably tomorrow, I'm probably taking a day off, just because I need to deal with myself emotionally and get back to centered as soon as possible so that I can continue. Take your time. Do what you need to do.
Do what you got to do, but follow these four steps when you have massive losses, and they will help you overcome, get over it. Get back on the horse, and get back to trading because if you do have massive losses, yeah, you can say, "Oh, I give up, this doesn't work," and make whatever excuses you want, but in the end, if you want to succeed, you're going to have setbacks. You're going to have losses. The market is going to give us losses. We have to learn to deal with it. If we just give up, then we'll never reach our goals.
If this is a path you want to take, this is what you want to do, and I hope it is because it's amazing, 99% of the time, it's amazing. Maybe once a year, you might have a time where you're feeling, at least, for me, I feel this bad. When I was learning how to trade, it was a lot more often. It was maybe once a month, but since it's gotten better, I've been more in control over my emotions, and now it's got a lot less. Follow these four steps, if you have any cover, if you have any losses, overcome them. This is how you do it. This is the plan. If you need any help, reach out to me, and we'll be sure to help you out as much as we can. Peace. Don't forget, trade with the odds in your favor. Bye.
How to be profitable no matter which way the market moves: Up, Down, or Sideways.
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Who wants to save more than $120 billion in energy by 2015? ODVA is undertaking what seems the most expansive energy control effort to date by an industrial network organization, expanding beyond the manufacturing space (where two other network organizations have focused) to also address facilities infrastructure, metering and management, as well as the industrial enterprise, and power grid.
Previously, SERCOS vendor organizations released an energy profile specification for the SERCOS III Real-time Ethernet Communications System to reduce the permanent load of machines, improve energy use through more efficient partial loading, and turn off unused machines. Separately, PROFIenergy, a vendor-neutral energy savings profile, allows operators to achieve effective energy management by integrating the profile via firmware into robots, lasers, controllers, drives or other components to standardize operator input for parameterization, runtime, and diagnostics, according to Profibus Nutzerorganisation.
Those involved with the ODVA OEU effort (a team of 15 from ODVA and member companies Cisco, Molex, Rockwell Automation, and Schneider Electric) have been at it for more than a year, and have been watching concurrent energy management profiles and standards during that time, including and incorporating elements of the data model from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Energy Management Framework (EMAN) group. There seems to be no desire to duplicate efforts. Many incentives exist to make it work.
The industrial sector consumes half the world's total delivered energy, the largest piece of the energy pie, according to a new ODVA OEU white paper; global industrial energy consumption is projected to increase 40% from 2007 to 2035, with emerging economies in non-OECD countries accounting for 95% of that consumption. (OECD is the 34-country Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.) Potential energy savings opportunities for the industrial sector alone could exceed $120 billion in 2015, ODVA said.
Why? Energy is an invisible cost of production, an unmanaged resource in industry and other sectors. Detailed, standardized energy knowledge can lead to automated energy savings. Money and productivity can flow across a smart grid and an energy-enabled Internet of things. Knowledge is power. And vice versa.
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Progressive Counting Therapy
Home / Treatment Approaches / Progressive Counting
Progressive counting (PC) is a recently developed trauma treatment, based on the counting method, that is already supported by several published studies. As per the research and clinical experience to date, PC appears to be about as effective, efficient, and well tolerated as EMDR, and relatively easy for therapists to learn. Briefly, PC involves having the client visualize a series of progressively longer "movies" of the trauma memory while the therapist counts out loud (first to a count of 10, then 20, then 30, etc.).
Dr. Greenwald is PC's developer, and TICTI is the primary source of PC training internationally.
PC Training
Training in PC is included in the following programs:
Child & Adolescent Trauma Treatment Intensive
Certificate Program: Trauma-Informed Treatment for Adults, Children, & Teens.
We offer a Certification in Progressive Counting.
This is an advanced clinical credential for those therapists who have gone the extra mile to get good at trauma-informed treatment and PC. Completing your training in PC is the first step.
PC Publications
Baron, I., & Tracey, J. K. (2017). Quasi-qualitative evaluation of progressive counting in secure accommodation in Scotland: An exploratory cluster case study. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma.
Greenwald, R. (2008). Progressive Counting: A new trauma resolution method. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 1, 249-262.
Greenwald, R. (2008). Progressive counting for trauma resolution: Three case studies. Traumatology, 14, 83-92.
Greenwald, R. (2012). Progressive Counting: Asking recipients what makes it work. Traumatology, 18(3), 59-63.
Greenwald, R. (2013). Progressive Counting Within A Phase Model Of Trauma-Informed Treatment. NY: Routledge.
Greenwald, R. (2014). Intensive child therapy to prevent further abuse victimization: A case study. Journal of Child Custody, 11, 325-334.
Greenwald, R. (2015). Progressive counting: The next trauma treatment of choice? International Journal of Trauma Research and Practice, 1(2), 31-33.
Greenwald, R., & Camden, A. A. (2022). A Pragmatic Randomized Comparison of Intensive EMDR and Intensive PC for Victims of Crime. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication.
Greenwald, R., McClintock, S. D., & Bailey, T. D. (2013). A controlled comparison of progressive counting and eye movement desensitization & reprocessing. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, & Trauma, 22, 981-996.
Greenwald, R. & McClintock, S. D., Jarecki, K., & Monaco, A. (2015). A comparison of eye movement desensitization & reprocessing and progressive counting among therapists in training. Traumatology, 21, 1-6.
Greenwald, R., & Schmitt, T. A. (2010). Progressive Counting: Multi-site group and individual treatment open trials. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 2, 239-242.
Jarecki, K., & Greenwald, R. (2015). Progressive counting with therapy clients with PTSD: Three cases. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 1-8. DOI: 10.1002/capr.12055 (No journal number yet; only published online so far.)
Lasser, K. A., & Greenwald, R. (2015). Progressive counting facilitates memory reconsolidation. In Ecker, B. & Dahlitz, M., (Eds.) special issue on memory reconsolidation. The Neuropsychotherapist, 10, 30-37.
PC Frequently Asked Questions — information for therapy clients.
PC Research Grants: Call for Proposals
In the interest of promoting research on Progressive Counting (PC), we are offering in-kind grants of training and consultation for PC researchers. The scope of our interest is broad, potentially including case studies, open trials, and comparison studies; children, teens, and adults; USA and international. Grantees commit to pursue the project to completion and publication. Proposals should include:
Brief cover letter including the applicant's name, degree, affiliation, proposed project title, and any special resources, interests, qualifications, or areas of expertise relevant to the project.
2-page summary of the proposed project, including Statement of the Problem, Purpose of the Project, and Research Design.
Letters of support from any co-investigators, collaborators, collaborating facilities, dissertation committee chairs, etc.
Projected time line, budget, and any other sources of support for the proposed project.
CV of applicant and any co-investigators.
Preliminary inquiries are encouraged, as are early applications. Proposals should be submitted via e-mail by May 1, 2022. Notification of decisions will be made by June 1, 2022.
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This is just one in a series of blog posts that will feature medical students telling their stories of how they got accepted into medical school. Today, Shivani Amin shares with us the story of her acceptance to St. George's University School of Medicine.
Shivani, give us a peek into your life. What initially attracted you to pursue medicine?
On campus at SGU.
Some people know for sure that they want to do medicine. For me, it took a while. Pursuing medicine was always a possibility in my mind; I certainly knew what I didn't want to do, but medicine was never on that list. In 2013, I went on a trip through my university to Honduras, and while we were there, we worked at a children's home. When we were volunteering, I remember walking into the room where all the kids with mental disorders were staying, and it shocked me. I had always liked psychology. This, combined with that experience, made me realize that medicine was what I wanted to do. I've always liked the brain, and for me, psychiatry was a way to mix the science and psychology that I liked. I remember thinking about it on the flight home from Honduras. I had really enjoyed what we'd done, and realized that I had found ways to integrate everything that I liked.
Why did you choose to apply to St. George's University School of Medicine?
It has gotten harder to apply to medical school, so I kept my options open and applied to all D.O. schools in the U.S. and St. Georges, Ross, and American University as well. I got into all three of the Caribbean schools. I have friends who have gone there, and know friends' parents who have gone there. Also, I'm not a great test taker, so I think my MCAT score is what really kept me from getting into schools in the U.S.
What are three reasons why you think you were accepted?
The official white coat ceremony at St. George's University School of Medicine!
Firstly, I wasn't a cookie cutter applicant. I majored in psychology, and although many people are starting to do majors outside of biology, most people don't. After undergrad, I did a post-bac to get all my pre-med requirements in, and then I did a masters program. It was a long journey, but I believe one of the reasons I was accepted is because I stuck with it.
I also interview well. I'm a people person, and they saw that in me. I interviewed in New York with a grad who is now a doctor at NYU, and I remember that he responded well to what I told him.
Finally, I did a variety of different medical and non-medical work and volunteering, and I think that made the school interested in me.
How do you think the Atlantis Fellowship influenced or impacted your acceptance?
Shivani's Atlantis Fellowship in Spain in 2015.
I think my Fellowship influenced my acceptance in a positive way. The admissions committee saw that I had shadowed not only doctors, but doctors outside of America. My interviewer really focused on that and drew parallels between my experience and opportunities I could have at St. Georges. I remember that he looked at me and said: "Oh you'll definitely like these programs we have, because you seem like that kind of person."
Now, as an international student, I realize that experiencing medicine abroad also helped me expand my view of medicine beyond the United States. I resonated with many of the medical students and residents I met in Spain. Because they study medicine from the start in university, they were around my age, if not a bit older, and we were really able to connect. And I did use some of my experiences in my application.
I don't know if St. George's or any other school I applied to looked at my Atlantis Fellowship and thought: "She's definitely a good candidate." But when I was able to verbalize my thoughts and experiences to them, they realized what I had gotten out of it. And I'll just say here that as a future medical student, you need to show true interest during your Fellowship. There were people in my group who wanted to get out of the hospital at 3 o'clock on the dot because they were tired. But if your doctor wants you to stay until 4, stay.
Finally, Atlantis helped me become aware of what I like and don't like. After my rotations in the hospital -- internal medicine, general surgery, neurosurgery and OB/GYN -- I knew I definitely was not going to become a gynecologist. And that's important to know.
How did you feel after the interview?
I felt really good about it, although I was nervous going in. The setting was more casual than the other ones I've done -- we met at a coffee shop after my interviewer's shift at the hospital. It was pretty conversational, and although I was nervous, he seemed to like me. He responded well to everything that I'd done, and seemed to appreciate the failures and hardships that I'd had in my journey. No person is 100 percent perfect, so everyone is going to have a challenge here or there. When you're interviewing, own up about all the struggles you've had, but also highlight the good things.
Walk us through the moment you found out you got accepted.
I'm pretty sure I received a call, but missed it, and got a voicemail asking me to call back. I feel like I should have been more excited -- not that I wasn't excited -- but it was really just a sigh of relief when they said I was accepted. Through stress after stress, that's what everyone waits for. It could be from the last school on your list, because it is getting harder and harder to be accepted to med school, but getting in somewhere is the goal.
Last question: How can others imitate your success?
It takes a lot of commitment. For me, it took three years between graduation and medical school, and there were two years in between when I actually finished all my requirements and began at St. Georges. So the bottom line is: keep trying. Get as much experience as possible. For example, I volunteered at a foster home, a bit like Make a Wish Foundation, and my school really liked that.
Be sure that you want to do this, but know that you're going to make a lot of sacrifices. It's OK to not know what kind of doctor you want to be. That's what rotations are for. Get as much experience and understanding of the field as you can before you apply. That will really help you in the long run.
About Shivani
Meet Shivani, MS2 at St. George's University School of Medicine!
A New Jersey native, Shivani Amin is a second year medical student at St. George's University School of Medicine on the Caribbean island of Grenada. She graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in psychology and a minor in biology, and traveled to Spain with the Atlantis Fellowship in summer 2015. Although she is uncertain about her future medical specialty, she is interested in both child psychiatry and orthopedics. In her spare time, she enjoys the beach, hiking, kickboxing and travel.
Or read more medical school acceptance stories below:
How I Got Accepted to George Washington University School of Medicine
Originally from Wellington, Florida, Marissa Mangini graduated from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. with a B.A. in philosophy and a double minor in chemistry and biology. She is now currently in her third year of medical school at The George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences
How I Got Accepted to Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine
After my [own] experience in the hospital, I started looking into the osteopathic approach to medicine because mind, body, and spirit care are intertwined. When I was a patient, that had really hit home with me. I felt most cared for when a physician was addressing all three aspects. So I chose to pursue training that would equip me to do the same with my patients.
Swimming in a Sea of Data: An Insider's Guide to Getting the Most From the MSAR
Pre-med ResourcesMackenzie Rodgers May 15, 2019 pre-med, atlantis, undergrad, medical school
How I got into Med SchoolMaddie Pelletier April 23, 2019 How I got into, how i got into med school, How I Got into Hopkins, How I got into Johns Hopkins Med School


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Q: Resize plot area in embedded chart object I have problem resizing plot area in an embedded chart in excel
Dim myChart As Chart

maxPie = ThisWorkbook.Sheets(sheetName).Range("A1048576").End(xlUp).Row

Set myChart = ThisWorkbook.Sheets(sheetName).Shapes.AddChart.Chart

myChart.ChartType = xlBarClustered
myChart.SetSourceData Source:=Range(sheetName & "!$A$5:$C$" & maxPie)

With myChart.Parent
    .Top = 10
    .Left = 500
    .Width = 500
    .Height = 500
End With

With myChart.PlotArea
    .Top = 70
    .Height = 420
End With

if i press debug and then F5 then it resizes it, do I need to add a delay in my code because its not finished generating the plot area before I try to resize it

A: The comment Rory made about reading the value solved the issue, strange that this is needed though..
Dim temp As Integer
With myChart.PlotArea
    temp = .Top
    temp = .Height
    .Top = 70
    .Height = 420
End With

A: I think the problem why your code return error because PlotArea properies can only be modify after the Chart object if fully loaded. So yes, you need to complete Chart Object loading process and modify any PlotArea properties.
The code below will work. Try it..!
Option Explicit

Public Sub Demo()

    Dim maxPie As Long
    Dim myChart As Chart

    'I assume that your chart is on Sheet1
    maxPie = Sheet1.Range("A1048576").End(xlUp).Row
    Set myChart = Sheet1.Shapes.AddChart2.Chart

    With myChart
        .ChartType = xlBarClustered
        .SetSourceData Source:=Range("Sheet1!$B$2:$C$" & maxPie)
    End With

    With myChart.Parent
        .Top = 10
        .Left = 500
        .Width = 500
        .Height = 500
    End With

    'Delay the SetPlotArea code execution using OnTime function
    Application.OnTime Now, "SetPlotArea", Now + TimeValue("0:0:5")

End Sub

Public Sub SetPlotArea()
    Dim ch As Chart
    Set ch = Sheet1.ChartObjects(1).Chart

    ch.PlotArea.Top = 70
    ch.PlotArea.Height = 420
End Sub

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Soccer fever is about to hit the Vaal Triangle region and the North-West University's (NWU's) campus in Vanderbijlpark is getting ready to host the first open day of its soon-to-be-launched NWU Vanderbijlpark Soccer Academy.
On Monday, 25 September 2017, youngsters of all ages (boys and girls) and their parents are invited to attend the academy's open day set to take place on the campus grounds from 09:00 – 12:00. Players (u/10 – u/19) should bring along their playing kit and soccer boots.
According to Thomas Thema, the coordinator of the event and head of the campus's soccer activities, the event is open to all players – be it beginners or young professionals. The day will see a team of qualified coaches taking the players through their paces while the South African Football Association (SAFA) will use the event as a grading opportunity for thirty up-and-coming young coaches.


A new bipartisan climate bill offers a much smarter way to cut emissions—auction off pollution permits and distribute the proceeds to everyone.
December 11, 2009. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) introduced a bill today that is a much better approach to reducing climate change than the cap and trade bill circulating in the Senate. Her bill, which she co-sponsored with Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), uses cap and dividend to reduce climate emissions and avoids the pitfalls and boom-and-bust cycles inherent in carbon trading. (Peter Barnes proposed this idea in YES! Magazine in 2001).
Why is this a better idea?
First, polluters would pay for the right to pollute; they would buy carbon emissions permits at an auction, instead of getting the majority of them for free. This sends the right market signal—emit carbon, and you'll have to pay.
Carbon permits would be required at the point where fossil fuel energy enters the economy. The number of greenhouse gas emissions allowances is reduced regularly by amounts that businesses can plan for. There are no offsets—these would be real reductions in climate changing emissions.
Second, American families strained by the poor economy would benefit. Each person would get an equal share of the proceeds from the auction. It works like the oil trust funds in Alaska, where each resident gets about $1,300 per year for their share of the state's oil royalties. As long as our economy remains dependent on fossil fuels, prices for energy and energy-intensive products will rise. But the rebate will offset those price increases—Cantwell says it will mean most families are in about the same place financially. Those who buy carbon-free energy, drive energy efficient cars, or buy products produced locally with little fossil fuels will come out ahead, though, while those who drive gas guzzlers will pay more through the higher price of fuel. So it sends the right signal to consumers, too.
Politically, it should go over much better than cap and trade. Who wouldn't like to get a check in the mail each month that represents your share of the carbon auction revenues? Three quarters of the revenues would be distributed equally to all Americans. The other quarter will go to clean energy research and development, for projects that reduce non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions, and for aid to communities and workers who need special help making the transition to a clean energy economy.
And here's the frosting on the cake. Instead of cap and trade, which would set up a massive Wall Street system of buying and selling carbon, this auction is for energy producers and importers, only—not brokers and speculators.
What's not to like? This is a far better proposal than the cap and trade proposals that has Wall Street salivating. One caveat, though. Carbon reductions proposed in the bill are probably not enough to avert dangerous climate change. But if there is flexibility to step up the reductions as the science get firmer and the public backing grows, this approach could be just right.


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The Induction Machine (IM) is the most widely used type of electrical machine. By some estimates it accounts for 90% of all small size motors (10 – 750W) and 60 -70% of medium size motors (0.75 – 375 kW). This is mainly due to their reliability, low cost and wide range of torque / speed characteristics. The IM is also used as a generator, especially for small and medium-size applications and where the requirement for the rotor to operate over a wide range of speeds is significant, like in the case of wind turbines, where the speed of the wind is always varying.
Although these machines have been in production and have been optimized for many decades, a stricter requirement for increased efficiency of electrical machines -both motors and generators means further improvements can only be achieved by an in-depth knowledge of the detailed electromagnetic effects in the machine at various operating points.
Because of the difference in frequency, the behaviour of the Induction Machine cannot be captured by static simulations (or frozen flux paths). The different stator and rotor frequencies can be simulated either by including motion, and thus directly accounting for the effects of slip, or by assuming some simplifying hypothesis that allows modelling the dynamic effects at a single frequency for the entire machine. Being able to analyse the machine without the inclusion of motion helps reduce the simulation time.
Using Opera's 2d and 3d solvers, users can solve the full motional analysis, with the stator conductors running at the supply frequency and the rotor at various slip speeds. When running as an Induction generator, the user can define a fixed speed, which corresponds to a given slip speed. Because of the difference in field frequencies, eddy currents will be induced in the rotor bars.
On the other hand, when running as an Induction Motor, slip speed will be an output of the analysis, depending on the load on the rotor. Opera offers the facilities to define a rotational analysis where the position of the rotor is calculated based on the torque produced, the rotor inertia, friction and viscous coefficients.
The load can be varied in time, allowing users to define real life scenarios, like start-ups, faults and varying load.
During transient simulations, the software will log circuit values, like voltages, currents and state of switches, as well as torque and rotor position at every timestep. These are available while the analysis is progressing and allow the users to check on the progress of the solution.
Once the analysis is completed, the model and solution can be interrogated using the Opera Post-Processor and further calculations and derivation of field values can be computed, and fields can be displayed on the structure and on any 2d surface, straight line or arc.
By modifying the rotation speed of the rotor (and implicitly the slip), the induction machine can be made to switch from motor to generator mode, thus modelling the entire operation mode, in different quadrants.
In the above image, the phase shift in the current in the stator conductors between the motor and generator operating modes is plotted. In the case of the motoring mode, the rotor speed is 75 rpm, whereas in the case of the generator mode, the speed is 2475 rpm (corresponding to a slip of 0.95 and -0.65 respectively). The black dotted line represents the normalized voltage and gives the reference for the phase shift.
Although 2d solutions can yield very accurate operating characteristics, there are situations where 3d effects are significant and for this we need to build a full 3d machine, including the end windings and any other 3 dimensional features. Opera makes this process easy, by using the existing 3d Modeller with all its model building facilities or by importing the geometry either from a CAD package or from an Opera-2d file and extruding it. Automatic meshing, robust gap re-meshing and a library of conductor topologies make the definition of a 3d model very fast and efficient.
We can see above the torque characteristic for an induction machine in both generator and motor operation. The effect of the skew on the rotor (modelled using 5 slices in the Opera-2d model) can be seen in the reduction of the torque ripple. The peak torque value remains around the same value for both cases and the start-up transients are equally long.
From the point of view of the model setup, the user only needs to define the skew angle and the number of slices they would like to model. The rotor bars in the individual slices are electrically connected, so that the correct current flow is established in the bars.
Solving a skewed model with its defined slices adds a small time penalty as compared to the non-skewed device and the solver calculates the total field values as well as the individual ones on each slice. The user is then able to visualise field values on any of the slices using the Opera-2d Post-Processor. Integrated values, such as torque and losses will automatically return the total value over the entire machine.
Whereas the skew in a machine can be solved using a 3d model, the option available in Opera-2d significantly improves the modelling and solving times required and expands the type of models that can be analysed as a 2d representation. This option is available for all electromagnetic solvers, be they static, time-transient or harmonic.
An additional feature in the Opera-3d software is the existence of a so called '2d slice option'. Once a 3d model has been built, users can get a quick estimation of the characteristics of the machine by using this option, which is applied as a boundary condition on the geometry. As such, the full 3d model is still retained and once the 2d slice solution has been solved and interrogated in the Post-Processor, users can go back to their original model by simply modifying the imposed boundary conditions.
As expected, the solution time when using the 2d slice boundary condition on a 3d model is very similar to that of a 2d solution, while the results are identical. The advantage is that we now have a full 3d model to which we can go back to and carry on with the full 3d analysis.
For the simulation of Induction Machines in steady-state conditions, users can further speed-up their simulations by using a harmonic solver solution instead of the time-transient one. A harmonic solution solves eddy current models where the driving currents or voltages vary sinusoidally in time. It can analyse skin effect, quasi-non-linear materials and circuit connected conductors.
The solution is much faster than a transient electromagnetic with motion, since there is no time-stepping and no movement of the rotor involved. For looking at the steady-state conditions of electromagnetic devices, the harmonic solver is the best solution in both 2d and 3d analyses.
The simplification introduced by this type of analysis means that effects such as slot ripple and higher harmonic effects due to non-sinusoidal currents are not included. Once a steady-state model is solved, fields can be investigated at different angles of the AC cycle. Other options are also available, such as peak fields and time-averaged solutions.
The torque vs. slip characteristic can be easily computed, as long as the induced currents in the rotor conductors are correctly captured. This will mean that the stator and rotor conductors will need to see fields at different frequencies. Since the harmonic solver considers the field in the entire model to be at one particular frequency, Opera can simulate the correct behaviour of an Induction Machine by altering the circuit properties of the rotor circuit, such that the correct field interaction is obtained.
As such, the rotor bar conductivities are scaled by the ratio of the rotor frequency to that of the stator, or the slip value.
Another possible method, when we are solving a 2d model, is to drive the entire machine at the slip frequency. This will result in the value of variables such as the back-emf to be reduced by the ratio of the slip frequency to the synchronous frequency. This can be remedied by scaling the length of the machine with the ratio defined below.
Also, the phase resistance per unit length and the end inductance of the winding will need to be divided by the same ratio. In the graph on the right hand side, the torque vs. slip characteristic from a series of harmonic (or steady-state) analyses is presented, along with 5 points (shown in red) obtained from dynamic analyses with motion. As it can be seen, the steady-state estimation is quite close to the results obtained from the motional analyses, the slight difference being given by the contribution of the higher harmonics in the machine.
Here we see a comparison of the solution time for the same model, using different solvers and model representations. Please note the logarithmical scale.
The design of an IM can be improved by using the Opera Optimizer and Opera's model parametrization options. The Opera Optimizer tool can assist users in achieving optimal designs for their devices analysed using Opera. It is fully integrated with Opera and can be coupled with any of the 2d or 3d solvers. It can enable quick and easy investigations of possible design spaces for multi-physics problems. It uses an efficient optimization algorithm that combines deterministic and stochastic methods, used to solve single and multi-objective optimization problems.
Users can define their own optimization variables (be they geometrical, material properties or drive properties) and can define any of the outputs available in the Post-Processor as the objective functions.