Answers From a "Disney Expert"
Your friends know you as the "Disney Expert." You own every guide book and have over 50 Disney-related web sites bookmarked. Any conversation usually leads to something Disney related. When your friends are thinking about going to Walt Disney World, you are the first phone call they make. Sound familiar? Do you often get asked questions about where to stay, what tickets to get, or even what ride to do first?
As one of these so called, or self described, "Disney Experts," I often find myself helping friends, and even friends of friends, plan their trips. Of course, the first thing I do is tell them to get the PassPorter and read it. That way they have some idea of what they are getting into. But I thought I would put together a list of my most asked questions to help the other "Disney Experts" out there.
1. Do you really have to plan for a Disney vacation?
Chances are if you are reading this newsletter, your answer to this question is a resounding, "Yes!" Once your friends get a guide book and see how much there is to do, they may get overwhelmed. But you need to give them some idea as to why you do the planning – to avoid over-crowded parks, to make sure they get the meals they want, etc.
2. When is the best time to go?
The short answer is, "Go when kids are in school." But if taking kids out of school is not an option, direct them to the chart in your PassPorter that shows crowd levels and costs throughout the year. If a school schedule is not an issue, be sure to tell them about the special events that may interest them –Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party, the new Pirates & Princesses events starting next year, the International Food & Wine Festival, etc. And you must, as a friend, tell them about Hurricane season. You may lose a friend if they have to spend two days trapped inside a hotel room or their flights get canceled.
3. Do you stay on Property or off?
This will be a personal preference of the person being asked. We always recommend staying onsite, because of the theming of the resorts and the Disney transportation system. You have to give people enough information to help them make their own decisions here. Make sure they know the difference between a Disney owned and operated Resort, a Disney Good Neighbor Resort, and off-site accommodations. Then let them make their own decisions! Choosing a Resort is probably the most personal decision a family can make during the planning process.
4. Which Disney Resort should we choose?
This question always leads me to more questions. Are they on a budget? What is important to them - pool theming, location, inside hall? How many people are in their party? We all know the issues that come with having a family or 5 or more… I will then refer them to the PassPorter and www.disneyworld.com so they can see what each resort has to offer.
Once again, more questions for you to ask. Do they have a budget, do they like long car rides, and do they need a car when they get there? This is when I explain why I plan so much in advance - I start looking at air fare and gas prices to decide whether to fly or drive. I have a little boy and he does okay for a few hours in the car but for us it is an 18 hour drive. I know I can only take "Are we there yet?" for so long! But if they want to see the beach, Kennedy Space center or have family to see, then driving may be their only option. I tell people to look for web sites that have games and ideas for traveling with kids. I also tell them to join AAA as car problems only happen when you don't want them to. Another reason to plan ahead!
6. What ticket option should we get?
As before, more questions on my part. How long are they going for, do they think they will really use the Park Hopper option? This seems like a straightforward question but it may be the most complicated. You're going for 5 days then get a 5 day ticket, right? But with all the different options there is a little more to look at. I also tell people to think ahead – will you be returning to Disney World in the near future? An Annual Pass may be their best bet. I tell people to consider how long their trip will be and if this is a once in a lifetime trip or potentially just the first of many. If this is a 10 day trip and they will be back in a year or two, they may only need park admission for 7 or 8 days. If this is a once in a lifetime trip, 7 day trip, then consider adding on the Park Hopper and Water Park option so they can see as much as possible during their trip.
7. Where should we eat?
Now that they have started planning you get the question about what restaurants to eat at. And you should have more questions. Budget, what type of food, do you want to meet the characters, etc. Our family is early to rise so we have a character breakfast almost each morning. You can eat a ton of food for a little bit of money, the meals have all been great and you get the characters to come to your table. No waiting in line to see or meet them. This saves time in the parks to ride the rides. Also, do they want to try new types of food? Are the kid's picky eaters? The menus at www.allearsnet.com will give them some idea as to what each restaurant offers and what the price range may be. Once again, if you schedule your trip you can find a place to eat at the park you are at. By doing this you will not be one of the ones waiting for a table or in the long lines to get a meal when you should be riding the big rides when the lines are smallest.
8. When do I do the Magic Kingdom?
This question also depends on the make-up of the party. For younger kids, you may want to save the Magic Kingdom until later in the trip, or everywhere else pales by comparison. For older kids, this is less of a concern. This can be when you explain about Extra Magic Hours (if you haven't already covered them in the on-site vs. off-cite debate) and the merits of using a touring plan like those suggested in PassPorter. This will allow them to decide what they want to see and what they can miss. After they do this I get with them and make sure they have not missed something good because they didn't understand what it was. For example, friends of ours did not have Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin on the list because they thought it was a spinning ride and they get sick easy.
This is when you really get to look like an expert! You need to tell them how to get the FastPass, how to read it and when they can get new ones. I will tell friends with small children to use their tickets to get extra FastPasses and Mom or Dad can go 2 times with the older children. This is also a good time to explain the "Baby Swap". You now will be a friend forever.
10. What else is there to do besides the 4 theme parks?
This is where the Disney expert shines. You have been there enough to know that it takes more than just 4 days to see it all. We tell them about the water parks and Downtown Disney. Of course my wife tells them about the shopping. I tell them about the Adventurers Club. We tell them to take in a dinner show if it is in the budget, or book a fireworks cruise. It is these little things that make the trip even more special.
Either way, just make sure to remind them to have a good time and take lots of pictures to remember the magic.
About the Author: Terry Rohrer is the father of two and contributed an article on meeting Disney's PhotoPass program in the July 20, 2006 issue of PassPorter News..


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BBC Home: a VR Spacewalk
A joint collaboration between the BBC and digital production studio Rewind, BBC Home: a VR Spacewalk is an award-winning project. It has won a Silver Lion award at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, a Webby Award, and others, including a recent nomination for VR Experience of the Year at the UK's VR Bound Awards.
The idea for the VR spacewalk experience was sparked from a conversation the BBC's Tom Burton had with British astronaut Tim Peake about his preparation to go to the International Space Station. Aligning with the BBC's mission to both inform and entertain its audience, the BBC and Rewind worked to develop this 15-minute immersive experience that would help educate viewers on the training programs and interstellar experiences of real life astronauts.
Unreal Engine 4 allowed the project to be built entirely to scale (with the Earth at 1:1 size), giving viewers a breathtaking panorama within the headset's field of view as they float 250 miles above the earth. UE4 handled the massive data sets required to recreate the Earth, ISS, and surrounding universe with accurate lighting and physical properties.
Thanks in part to Unreal Engine, this experience pushed the VR medium forward and raised the bar for what developers can achieve.
Read more about the project at Keef Sloan's BLOG.
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University students and their teachers probably face such challenges as writing proposals. And the main issue is not only the choice of the topic of the work, but also how to correctly plan the research work. In this article, we will consider the correct procedure for constructing a plan.
While studying in high school and university, you will inevitably encounter the need to write a research proposal – to conduct research on various scientific, technical, or social aspects of a phenomenon. If you have never done this before, the task may seem complicated. However, not everything is so scary! The work, of course, does not write itself – but in this article we will tell you everything you need to know about writing research papers and give a list of good research proposal topics!


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RENOVO — Police protection and continued efforts to clean up uninhabitable structures dominated most of Renovo Borough Council's meeting in October. Mayor Gene Bruno handled most of the discussion on the topics.
Early in the summer, Code Enforcement Officer Roger Hoy and Bruno learned that a house at 145 Myrtle St. had a broken sewer line. Raw sewage had been pouring into the basement for at least a few months, according to Bruno. In addition, we can see a wall leaning towards the alley.
The house was deemed uninhabitable and the tenants had to move out.
Bruno said in his report that he and ordinance officer Dave Walker boarded the building. The two must have moved up recently as people tried to move in, he continued.
Renovo resident Maureen Ruhl attended the October meeting and asked to speak about her concerns about the lack of police coverage in the borough.
Ruhl offered harsh words in his take on the situation, noting that the advice in his eyes was "lose the trust of its citizens" as they try to "defund the police."
Ruhl offered two problems in particular.
The first referred to the borough seeking a city-wide security surveillance system, which Bruno presented at a summer meeting. The Council continues to seek funds for the potential project.
Ruhl also said she called 911 to report a trash bag that had been dumped on her property that contained drug paraphernalia. Ruhl said that at last week's meeting, only Pennsylvania State Police helped her resolve the issue. No policeman from Renovo answered her, she said.
After Ruhl read her complaints, Bruno responded, trying to answer each one.
Bruno said the words "defund the police" were never spoken by anyone on the board.
Bruno further explained that the two part-time officers have full-time police jobs in other cities and work in Renovo part-time.
He said he would like to have up to four policemen, but from now on they have to work with what they have.
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Bruno was in contact with an instructor, trying to interest newly credited officers in coming to Renovo to find employment.
The mayor said the borough currently saved taxpayers $10,000 from a year ago and provided no lesser coverage.
The Council further noted that, while the state police handled Ruhl's call, it was done when the Renovo police officers were off duty. If the police were handling the first call, Renovo officers would also not be investigating the incident.
Board member Kristy Serafini-Brooks assured Ruhl that the board is "still trying to hire officers."
Bruno summarized the Board's position by adding, "I am very pleased with the direction the department is taking."
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Prof. Thomas Schmickl – Repairing broken ecosystems with robotic surrogates
Porf. Frank Kirchner – AI-Enabled Robotics
Prof. Thomas Schmickl, University of Graz
Repairing broken ecosystems with robotic surrogates
Ecosystems are currently breaking down world-wide, especially insect species are dramatically disappearing. In order to protect our society, which depends on the ecosystems it is a part of, we have to prevent further decline of bio-diversity. However, damages are already present and crucial "key-stone species" are threatened. We studied the collective swarm-behavior of two highly threatened animal groups (honeybees and fish) and, as a proof-of-principle demonstration, we have designed two robot species that can infiltrate those ecosystems and even coordinate these very different animals with respect to each other. This way we have created, for the first time in history, a novel ecological link between them by embedding autonomous robots in a small living ecosystem. This was the first time that such an ecological link was mediated by autonomous robots, showing that this is a viable option to externally stabilize fragile, or even already broken, ecosystems.
Thomas Schmickl is full professor at the Department of Zoology at the Karl-Franzens-University, Graz, Austria, where he is also supervising the Artificial Life Lab, which he founded in 2007, after returning from a HHMI visiting professorship in the USA. In 2012, he was appointed the Basler Chair of Excellence at the East Tennessee State University (ETSU), Johnson City, TN, USA.
Besides his research activities in the fields of Zoology, Biological/Ecological Modeling, Bio-inspired Robotics (Swarm Robotics, Modular Robotics, Neural Networks, Artificial Hormone Systems, Evolutionary Robotics) he teaches also ecological modeling and multi-agent simulations at the Department of Environmental System Sciences at the URBI faculty at Karl-Franzens-University Graz. He also taught as a lecturer in multi-agent modeling at the course of study "Industrial Simulation" at the University of Applied Sciences in St. Pölten, Austria for more than 10 years.
He was/is partner in the international EU-funded projects I-SWARM, SYMBRION, REPLICATOR, FloraRobotica and he was/is leading scientist and consortium coordinator of the EU grants CoCoRo, ASSISIbf and subCULTron and HIVEOPOLIS. These projects all aimed at improving the current state-of-the-art in robotics to let them be more similar to animals (or other natural organisms) in order to be adaptive, resilient and flexible. In his recent projects, animals and plants became even parts of the robotic systems, in order to form bio-hybrid societies of natural organisms and robotic agents to achieve a novel, more powerful but also more sustainable symbiosis.
Recently, he founded the COLIBRI initiative (Complexity of Life in Basic Research and Innovation) at the University of Graz, which is a network of approx. 20 full professors who research complexity sciences and join forces across various disciplines (Biology, Economics, Sociology, Psychology, Mathematics, Chemistry, etc.). He extended his research interest into socio-economic multi-agent modeling through the work in this initiative.
Artificial Life lab: http://zool33.uni-graz.at/artlife/ COLIBRI: https://colibri.uni-graz.at/en/ University of Graz: https://www.uni-graz.at/en/
Prof. Frank Kirchner, DFKI Bremen
AI-Enabled Robotics
In recent years robotics and artificial intelligence has gained a lot of interest also in the area of production and manufacturing. While systems for a long time have been used as tools to implement classical AI approaches in the area of object recognition,
environment representation, path and motion planning etc., researchers now begin to understand that the robot itself is part of the question and has to be taken into account when thinking about AI. Robotics and AI in production and manufacturing scenarios ultimately requires for intelligent systems that come with a degree of
structural (kinematic) complexity that allows them to perform on the same level as their human counterparts. This talk will survey the state of the art in robotics and outline ways to tackle the question of AI in the light of the systems as an integral part of the approach. Future milestones and key achievements will be discussed and a
scenario will be presented on how to integrate modern robotic systems – that provide the above mentioned AI features and electromechanical complexity – into modern production and manufacturing scenarios. Advantages and Bottleneck's of today's
technology will be discussed and a request is made to carefully integrate these so called disruptive technologies in a human centered way.
Frank Kirchner is Executive Director DFKI Bremen and in charge of the research department "Robotics Innovation Center" with more than 100 employees. Founded in 2006 as a DFKI laboratory in Bremen, the institute is building upon the fundamental research of the Robotics Research Group led by Kirchner at the University of Bremen. Since 2002, the university professor has held the chair for robotics in the faculty of
mathematics and computer science. Kirchner studied and obtained his doctorate at the University of Bonn and worked as a senior researcher at the Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD) in Sankt Augustin and at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston (USA). In 2013, under Kirchner's leadership and following the model of the DFKI, the Brazilian government founded the "Brazilian Institute of Robotics" in Salvador da Bahia, where he was the Scientific Director during the development phase. There he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2017 for his achievements in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence.
Frank Kirchner is one of the leading experts in the field of biologically inspired behavior and motion sequences of highly redundant, multifunctional robot systems. In addition, he supervises a variety of doctoral theses, is a regular reviewer for a number of international scientific journals and conferences and is the author of more than 350 publications in the field of robotics and AI. In 2015, Frank Kirchner was elected and
accepted as a member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW).


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NEW DELHI: Intelligence agencies have warned of a possible terror strike in the next few months and issued an alert to all states, sources say.
In a letter earlier this month, the Mumbai railway police have said that the terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba is planning to attack hotels and railway stations in the city in two to three months, in what could be a 26/11-style strike. The letter warns that eight to 10 terrorists may take the sea route and enter Mumbai.
Top intelligence sources say a "generic alert" was issued to all states few days ago, but no specific targets have been mentioned.The Mumbai letter, the sources say, is part of this alert. There have been warnings of a possible Lashkar strike ever since the BJP-led government took charge last year, they added.
The heightened alert comes at a time Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi, a top commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, has been released from prison.Lakhvi was released on Saturday after a court in Pakistan called his detention illegal. He was arrested in 2009, months after 166 people were killed by 10 gunmen in a three-day siege in Mumbai.
Lakhvi and six others have been charged for planning and executing the Mumbai attacks, but the case has made virtually no progress in six years, inciting repeated protests from India.On Monday, the Islamabad High Court ordered an anti-terror court to close the trial in two months.
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I did this for Glitter Girl's challenge to mix manufacturers. I started with the photos, and took out a stack of paper. I like to keep some favourite sheets of paper that do not fit into any other of my theme/company organization folders in their own stack. That way I get to see all my favourites often and I can mix and match to use them. I picked out a few sheets that worked with the photos and then matched embellishments by colour. And, I finally used the cute KI Memories Puffy cupcake embellishment that my mom bought for me to use when I scrapped photos of her in this sleeper!
My mom gave Ruby Sky this stinking cute cupcake sleeper for Christmas. When we opened it up and showed her, she just happened to sort of sneer and raise her hands into a shrug. It was hilarious.
I typed "she was not impressed with her new" on the scallop tag, so then the title acts as the rest of the journalling. Not much to say about this one, just want to remember her hilarious apparent dislike of the cute, cute sleeper.
The chipboard letters are covered with Martha Stewart pink woodgrain paper from this year's Valentine's Day paper pad. I used the felt puffy cupcake instead of a letter A, and stuck a Making Memories heart pin into the top, just like the cupcake on her sleeper is topped with a heart.
Big, big confetti! Big confetti! Iddy-biddy brads!
Supplies: patterned paper (Sassafras, Little Yellow Bicycle, Martha Stewart, Recollections); letters (unknown chipboard, Making Memories glitter stickers); tags (the Paper Company, Avery); chipboard border (Bella Blvd); sequins and button (The Girls Paperie); punches (Recollections, Fiskars, Martha Stewart); puffy embellishment (KI Memories); pen (Sakura); diaper pin (left over from our cloth diapering days).
So cute...the sleeper AND the layout! Love how you used the cupcake to represent the letter A, and the mix of confetti and sequins!


As we celebrate the holiday season, we wanted to showcase some of our Head Start fathers expressing their thanks for the programs their young scholars attend. This Thanksgiving, we are thankful for the opportunity to educate and prepare each of our students to be successful as they continue through our classrooms and beyond! Happy Thanksgiving from the CEOGC family!


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No substitute for a good filter
Wake Forest Baptist Hospital performs real-world testing on its air handler system to improve infection prevention efforts
Bill Payne, CHFM, CFPS, SASHE and Werner E. Bischoff, M.D., MS, Ph.D., FSHEA
A marked-up blueprint of the area that was tested during the Wake Forest Baptist Hospital research project.
Image courtesy of the authors
While health care-associated infections (HAIs) remain a high priority for health care organizations, facilities engineers are doing their part in solving these problems. There is not an American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) member who would not do whatever they could to prevent patients from being harmed by illnesses that they did not arrive with, but the question is, "How?"
Health care facilities engineers have many construction and engineering responsibilities that can directly impact hospital HAI practices and rates. One example is that sinks placed in the back of a room are less likely to be used and thus impact hand-hygiene practices.
The best way forward is for facilities engineers to partner with infection prevention professionals. They need the help of engineers to understand what is possible within the physical environment, and engineers need their knowledge to help determine how the physical environment impacts clinical practices and outcomes.
Vendors also need this input to help ensure that their products are effective in a hospital setting, not just in a third-party laboratory.
Real-world challenge
Located in Winston-Salem, N.C., Wake Forest Baptist Hospital is an 885-bed academic teaching hospital with a Level I trauma center, where physicians and staff care for the most critically ill patients in the area. When COVID-19 arrived in the spring of 2020, new challenges arrived with it.
The Environment of Care and Health Care-Associated Infections: An Engineering Perspective
To combat spread of the virus, placing portable high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) fans in patient rooms and exhausting the air out the window was effective, but this method was limited because HEPA fans were in short supply. With only about 50 accessible fans, installing HEPA fans was not always possible due to the size of the room. Also, the fans are loud and can create problems for staff trying to hear critical alarms and for patients trying to sleep.
The facilities engineering department was tasked with making the large areas of the facility safe for patients and staff. Both the engineering and the infection prevention teams agreed that setting air handlers to 100% outside air and rebalancing spaces to create negative pressure was the best path forward. Fortunately, the design engineers had the foresight to specify oversized cooling coils in the newest air handlers so that this economizer mode could be run throughout the summer.
When it became apparent that COVID-19 was likely to continue to pose challenges through the winter months, however, the engineering staff and hospital leadership knew a new solution had to be found to prevent the coils from freezing. It was not possible to add HEPA filters to the air handlers, so a scientific study was commissioned with the clinical research team at the academic medical center to help find a solution.
Researching better filtration
The purpose of the study was to determine if there were alternate configurations within an air handler that would enable the air in COVID-19 areas to be recirculated without the high pressure drop of a HEPA filter.
The research team decided not to try to solve this problem by using engineering formulas or to perform their research in a laboratory under controlled conditions. Instead, the team wanted to perform tests in an actual hospital space, using existing air-handling equipment, to best understand the behavior of the virus in a real-life environment. The team was fortunate to be able to use the HVAC system in an unoccupied emergency department (ED) of a neighboring hospital.
The infectious disease physician who helped to conduct the test explained that the COVID-19 virus would behave similarly to the influenza virus. Therefore, after securing the area so that no one could walk through the empty space, the team released and collected defined concentrations of live-attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) viruses in triplicate in adjacent exam rooms and assessed the particle count.
The transmission of LAIV in each room was measured by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and cell culture under various configurations.
Testing scenarios
The empty ED was served by a dedicated 15,000-cubic-feet-per-minute rooftop air handler, as shown in Figure 1 below. To create a scenario with the "worst possible conditions," the outside air and exhaust dampers were closed to maximize the amount of virus that would be returned to the space. The exam rooms that were used in the experiment were chosen to minimize the length of the supply and return air ducts.
Figure 1: A simplified rooftop air-handling unit and room configuration used to conduct the test.
Graphic courtesy of the authors
The following five tests, or arms, were performed by changing the configuration of the air handler:
Arm 1: No filters, ultraviolet C (UVC) light off, bipolar ionization off. The purpose of this test was to understand how much virus could be spread from one room to another by the air handler without any obstructions, other than the coils and fans.
Arm 2: No filters, UVC light on, bipolar ionization off. By running the UV test without filters, the team wanted to give the UVC light the maximum opportunity to kill the virus. The system installed used 16 UVC bulbs. The manufacturer stated that it would produce a UVC dose of 3015 µW-s/cm2, with a residence time of 0.325 seconds; the stated inactivation rate for Influenza A was 98.1%. This configuration is much more intense than the hospital has traditionally used to keep the coils and drain pans clean.
Arm 3: Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value (MERV) 8 pre-filter + MERV 14 final filter, UVC light off, bipolar ionization off. This configuration is the typical hospital setup at Wake Forest Baptist and would establish what would be "normal" in the hospital's environment.
Arm 4: MERV 8 pre-filter + MERV 16 final filter, UVC light off, bipolar ionization off. The MERV 16 was the highest MERV rated filter that could be used in this air handler. This test would see what maximum filtration could achieve.
Arm 5: MERV 8 pre-filter + MERV 16 final filter, UVC light off, bipolar ionization on. Bipolar ionization can be used in many ways. It can be used as a coil cleaner, similar to the way hospitals have traditionally used UVC lights. If it is installed downstream of the final filter, the ions travel into the occupied space where the manufacturer claims it will kill many different viruses and bacteria.
It was not within the scope of this test to determine how effective or safe it is to place these ions in occupied spaces.
[To further test the claim that bipolar ionization could improve the filter efficiency by binding small particles into larger ones that the filter could then capture, the team wanted to see if the combination of MERV 16 + ionization could reach the performance levels of a HEPA filter. These tests were conducted with the outside air dampers and exhaust dampers in 100% open positions. Particle counts were taken outside initially, and then again in the exam room, to determine the efficiency of the arrangement. In this real-world test, both the MERV 14 and MERV 16 filters performed higher than their rating. The bipolar ionization system showed an improvement, but it did not reach HEPA's (MERV 17) 99.97% filtration level.]
A nebulizer was used to spray a set amount of influenza mist virus into the air. The nebulizer was taped to an exam light and placed directly under the return air grill of an exam room. The research team understood that locating the nebulizer directly under the air return grill did not represent a patient laying on the exam table, but it did maximize the amount of virus that could be introduced into the air handler.
From left: A nebulizer is positioned directly under the return grill in the exam room, while team members place the petri dishes into an Andersen cascade impactor in preparation for a test.
Images courtesy of the authors
In the next exam room, three six-stage, Andersen cascade impactors were used to capture the virus during each test. An Andersen cascade impactor pulls a set volume of air into its six chambers, where particles are sifted by size and caught on petri dishes. This device was designed to represent the human respiratory system and the degree of lung penetration by the particles. For instance, Stage 1 particles would by stopped by the nasal cavity, whereas Stage 6 particles would travel all the way into the alveoli.
The petri dishes from the test were sent to a laboratory for incubation and quantification of influenza viruses. Three impactors were placed in different locations in the exam room, and the results were averaged together.
The results from the lab are shown in the logarithmic charts in Figure 2 and Figure 3 below, with the "S" numbers signifying each particle stage. The shaded region in the plot identifies values at or below the limit of quantitation.
Figures 2 and 3: Concentration of Influenza A Virus and Influenza B Virus collected by six Andersen stages during each test, or arm.
Werner E. Bischoff, M.D., MS, Ph.D., FSHEA, co-author of this article and the infectious disease research doctor who conducted the test, stated, "Control and configuration 2 revealed the highest virus concentrations with no significant difference in qPCR (p = 0.0776). Viral genome burden was significantly reduced from the control to conditions 3, 4 and 5 (p = 0.0004, p = 0.0001, p = 0.0001). No difference was detected between conditions 4 and 5 (p = 0.6374)."
Figure 4: Concentration of Influenza A and B averaged from six Andersen stages of each test, or arm.
The simplified graph in Figure 4 above shows the data from each of the six stages, averaged together. Each test is also labeled with the percent of virus reduction from the "no filter" control test.
Applying lessons learned
The purpose of this article is to share the findings of the Wake Forest Baptist research team; however, the results of this test have not yet been peer reviewed. The following conclusions are based on results of this one experiment exclusively, and further study is needed to validate this research.
The following conclusions can be drawn from the test data:
Viruses can be transported from the source to other locations through the air-handling system.
"Fly-by-kill" UVC lights did not appear to have a significant impact on the amount of virus that was spread; this warrants additional testing.
MERV 16 filters reduce the virus load to a level that is nearly immeasurable.
The bipolar ionization system appears to make a slight reduction in the amount of virus spread; however, it is within the margin of error of the test equipment.
From left: The blue bars of the bipolar ionization system are mounted above and in front of the cooling coil, while ultraviolet C lights are mounted just downstream of the coiling coil.
Placing MERV 16 filters in the air handlers allowed the outside air dampers to return to 20% open and for the organization to stop paying two times the energy bills while on 100% outside air.
Despite the slight energy penalty of upgrading from a MERV 14 to a MERV 16 filter, the "low pressure drop" MERV 16 filters offer a cost-effective and feasible alternative to using HEPA filters to prevent the spread of viral pathogens through HVAC systems. HEPA filters will continue to be used as required in other spaces but, based on the information gathered in this test, Wake Forest Baptist Health has adopted the MERV 16 filter as the new standard in patient care areas.
While standards and accreditation organizations require health care facilities engineers to spend a significant amount of time and resources on relatively rare fire safety issues, their limited emphasis on the engineering side of infection prevention has left a knowledge gap.
By working together and sharing knowledge and ideas across disciplines, facilities engineers, infection prevention professionals and vendors can close this knowledge gap and the welfare of patients can be improved.
Bill Payne, CHFM, SASHE, is associate vice president of facilities management at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, N.C., and Werner E. Bischoff, M.D., MS, Ph.D., FSHEA, is professor of internal medicine/section on infectious diseases, professor of the department of public health science – epidemiology and prevention, and medical director of infection prevention and health system epidemiology at Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem. They can be reached at wtpayne@wakehealth.edu and wbischof@wakehealth.edu.
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/* eslint-env mocha*/

const { expect } = require('chai');
const minions = require('../../src/reducers/minions');
const { addEffect, damage, KILL, freeze, summon } = require('../../src/actions');
const { initialMinionState } = require('../testData');

describe('minions reducer', () => {
  it('should return the initial state', () => {
    expect(
      minions(undefined, {})
    ).to.eql({
      currentSequenceId: 0,
      minionsById: {},
    });
  });
  it('should handle ADD_EFFECT', () => {
    const action1 = { effectId } = addEffect('minionId1', 'event', 'response', 'selector');
    const minionState = minions(initialMinionState, action1);
    expect(minionState.minionsById.minionId1.effects).to.eql([effectId]);
  });
  it('should handle DAMAGE', () => {
    const action1 = damage(1, 'minionId1');
    const action2 = damage(5, 'minionId1', 'minionId2', 'heroId1', 'heroId2');
    let minionState = minions(initialMinionState, action1);
    expect(minionState.minionsById.minionId1.health).to.equal(0);
    minionState = minions(minionState, action2);
    expect(minionState.minionsById.minionId1.health).to.equal(-5);
    expect(minionState.minionsById.minionId2.health).to.equal(-2);
  });
  it('should handle FREEZE', () => {
    const action1 = freeze(1, 'minionId1');
    const action2 = freeze(2, 'minionId2');
    const action3 = freeze(3, 'minionId1', 'minionId2', 'heroId1', 'heroId2');
    let minionState = minions(initialMinionState, action1);
    expect(minionState.minionsById.minionId1.frozenFor).to.equal(1);
    minionState = minions(minionState, action2);
    expect(minionState.minionsById.minionId2.frozenFor).to.equal(2);
    minionState = minions(minionState, action3);
    expect(minionState.minionsById.minionId1.frozenFor).to.equal(3);
    expect(minionState.minionsById.minionId2.frozenFor).to.equal(3);
  });
  it('should handle KILL', () => {
    const action1 = {
      type: KILL,
      characterId: 'minionId1',
    };
    const minionState = minions(initialMinionState, action1);
    expect(Object.keys(minionState.minionsById)).to.have.lengthOf(1);
  });
  it('should handle SUMMON', () => {
    const action1 = { minionId: minionId1 } = summon('playerId1', 0, 'CS2_231'); // wisp
    const action2 = { minionId: minionId2 } = summon('playerId1', 1, 'EX1_556'); // harvest golem
    const action3 = { minionId: minionId3 } = summon('playerId2', 2, 'NEW1_030'); // deathwing
    let minionState = minions(undefined, action1);
    expect(minionState).to.eql({
      currentSequenceId: 1,
      minionsById: {
        [minionId1]: {
          id: minionId1,
          cardId: 'CS2_231',
          name: 'Wisp',
          sequenceId: 1,
          maxHealth: 1,
          health: 1,
          attack: 1,
          divineShield: false,
          exhausted: true,
          alreadyAttacked: false,
          windfuryUsed: false,
          frozenFor: 0,
          effects: [],
          auras: [],
        },
      },
    });
    minionState = minions(minionState, action2);
    expect(minionState).to.eql({
      currentSequenceId: 2,
      minionsById: {
        [minionId1]: {
          id: minionId1,
          cardId: 'CS2_231',
          name: 'Wisp',
          sequenceId: 1,
          maxHealth: 1,
          health: 1,
          attack: 1,
          divineShield: false,
          exhausted: true,
          alreadyAttacked: false,
          windfuryUsed: false,
          frozenFor: 0,
          effects: [],
          auras: [],
        },
        [minionId2]: {
          id: minionId2,
          cardId: 'EX1_556',
          name: 'Harvest Golem',
          sequenceId: 2,
          maxHealth: 3,
          health: 3,
          attack: 2,
          divineShield: false,
          exhausted: true,
          alreadyAttacked: false,
          windfuryUsed: false,
          frozenFor: 0,
          effects: [],
          auras: [],
        },
      },
    });
    minionState = minions(minionState, action3);
    expect(minionState).to.eql({
      currentSequenceId: 3,
      minionsById: {
        [minionId1]: {
          id: minionId1,
          cardId: 'CS2_231',
          name: 'Wisp',
          sequenceId: 1,
          maxHealth: 1,
          health: 1,
          attack: 1,
          divineShield: false,
          exhausted: true,
          alreadyAttacked: false,
          windfuryUsed: false,
          frozenFor: 0,
          effects: [],
          auras: [],
        },
        [minionId2]: {
          id: minionId2,
          cardId: 'EX1_556',
          name: 'Harvest Golem',
          sequenceId: 2,
          maxHealth: 3,
          health: 3,
          attack: 2,
          divineShield: false,
          exhausted: true,
          alreadyAttacked: false,
          windfuryUsed: false,
          frozenFor: 0,
          effects: [],
          auras: [],
        },
        [minionId3]: {
          id: minionId3,
          cardId: 'NEW1_030',
          name: 'Deathwing',
          sequenceId: 3,
          maxHealth: 12,
          health: 12,
          attack: 12,
          divineShield: false,
          exhausted: true,
          alreadyAttacked: false,
          windfuryUsed: false,
          frozenFor: 0,
          effects: [],
          auras: [],
        },
      },
    });
  });
});

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Telltale on further Walking Dead games: "This is the end of Clementine's journey, and that's as much as I'll say"
July 20th, 2018 - 12:23pm
By Natalie Clayton, Staff Writer
Telltale creative director Kent Mudle isn't ruling out future entries in the studio's Walking Dead series of games.
Speaking to IGN at this year's San Diego Comic-Con, Mudle was questioned on Season 4's billing as 'the final season'. He responded, briefly, confirming only that this was the end of one particular story in the universe, implying the potential for further releases.
"This season is the end of Clementine's journey, and that's as much as I'll say on that," said Mudle.
The Walking Dead arguably popularised Telltale's distinct brand on Season 1's launch back in 2012. Since then, Telltale has not only continued with the series, but explored spin-off stories like 500 Days and Michonne - to say nothing of their rapid expansion into other licenses.
If we do see another Walking Dead from the studio, it's not likely to be in Telltale's outdated engine. Hopefully, company culture can improve alongside its technology
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Andres Hurtado visited the set of "Préndete", this January 13, and came face to face with Melissa Paredes. The presenter of "Sábado con Andrés", with his characteristic humor, toured the entire studio demanding the work team, including the panelists. When approaching the actress, she called him "Chibolín", a nickname that she does not like to be told publicly. The comedian got upset and approached his coworker to warn her. "I don't want to become Gisela and throw you out", Told him.
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19th World Computer Championship
Today, just like a few months ago in Ladies First, I had the choice between two recent world championship events : a computer championship and a Women's championship. This time I let the women wait and added the 19th WCCC - 2011 Tilburg to my page on the World Championship : Computer Chess. The official site at Grappa.univ-lille3.fr (Groupe de Recherche en Apprentissage Automatique at Université Lille 3) hadn't been updated yet, so I relied on the DGT site (DigitalGameTechnology.com) at World Championship Computer Chess 2011 for the PGN game scores and crosstable. Thanks to DGT for the timely information.
Last year I declined (or perhaps neglected) to include the 18th World Computer Chess Championship (Software), which was held for the first time. What's the difference between the two events?
The World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) for the Shannon Trophy will be contested by teams who have no restriction placed on them as to their choice of hardware.
The World Chess Software Championship (WCSC) tournament will be held at the same location, after the WCCC. This will be a uniform platform event using computers loaned by the host organisation. In each game played in this tournament the two computers will be, so far as is possible, identical with respect to their hardware capabilities: number of cores, processor speed, memory size.
This year's WCCC was the first since The Rybka Affair hit top-level computer chess like a sledge hammer. Was the shunning of Rybka a wise move or a witch hunt? The debate continues on forums wherever computer chess is dicussed; see, for example, World Computer Chess Championship (2011) on Chessgames.com.
Labels: Computers
Missing Zonal Clippings
After adding the clippings for the current cycle -- see Zonals for the Current Cycle (C25) and TWIC Clippings for the Current Cycle (C25) -- to my pages on the zonals, the next step is to identify which events have no clipping. For each cycle, the table on the left shows how many events have no related clippings.
It should be relatively easy to find crosstables for many of the events in recent cycles. The high number of missing clippings for C18 & C19 is most likely due to events listed on my index page, World Chess Championship Zonals, as zonals, when in fact they aren't. I'll work through the table as time permits.
Labels: Zonals
Kramnik on Kramnik
In the first decade of the new millenium, three world class chess players -- Kasparov, Kramnik, and Anand -- in that order, ruled the roost. Kasparov was the dominant split-title World Champion going into the decade, Kramnik was his hand-picked heir apparent, and Anand flew FIDE's flag at the beginning of the decade gaining the unified title near the end.
Over the past few months, we've been treated to a steady stream of Kramnik interviews, most of them posted on the relatively new site Whychess.org. In No Nose for Navigation on my main blog, I criticized the site for technical reasons, but there's no question that content is its strong point.
After the 2011 Candidates Event, we listened to the top players sound off in Interviews Past and Present, where Kramnik was eliminated in the semifinal round. A little later he won the annual Dortmund tournament, and has been holding forth ever since. Here he talks mainly about Dortmund and a little about Kazan (links to Whychess.org unless otherwise noted).
Kramnik: "It's unlikely I can compete with Carlsen long-term", 4 August 2011
Video interview Vladimir Kramnik, 3 August; Chessvibes.com
He was less successful in the Russian Championship Superfinal, finishing in a tie for 3rd-5th.
Kramnik to retire in four years?, 16 August
Kramnik: For me chess is a great love, 18 August
Then, in the longest interview I can remember him giving, he touched on many subjects, including three important title matches: 2000 vs. Kasparov, 2006 vs. Topalov (unification), and 2008 vs. Anand. His comments on the Topalov match brought responses from both Azmaiparashvili and Makropoulos, central figures in FIDE's bungled handling of the cheating accusations.
Kramnik on chess, Anand, Topalov and his future, 31 August
Azmaiparashvili responds to Kramnik, 31 August
30 years after, 27 October; 'Makropoulos responds to Kramnik's accusations'
Later he had much more to say on the 2000 Kasparov match.
Kramnik on the Shirov and Kasparov controversies, 13 October
He then won the Univé tournament in Hoogeveen, and came back to the subject of the current World Championship cycle.
Kramnik: "I'm a little more concerned about ratings just now", 25 October
That's a good show for a man who has often been indifferent in his attitude toward the chess public. It's clear from the comments to many of those intervews that he remains enormously popular with chess fans.
Labels: C22: 2005-07, C23: 2007-10, C24: 2008-12, C25: 2011-13, Interviews, PCA/WCC/etc.
ICCF World Championships (2011 Status)
Once again, here's my annual look at what's happening at the top of correspondence chess. The current status is shown in the following table, which is based on last year's post, ICCF World Championships (2010 Status) As before, the asterisk ('*') means the winner is known and the PGN game scores are available.
20 * (PGN?) 2004-11 Lehikoinen, Pertti (FIN)
21 * 2005-08 Oosterom, Joop J. van (NED)
22 * 2007-10 Dronov, Aleksandr (RUS)
23 2007- Started 2007-12-31
What's changed? The 20th championship has finished (see 20th World Champion on ICCF.com for an announcement) and the 27th has started. That makes three crosstables to be added to my page World Chess Championship : Correspondence Chess. In other news, the ICCF forum closed near the end of last year -- Forum, 'As decided at the 2010 ICCF Congress the ICCF Forums are now closed' -- but lives on at Archive.org : iccf.com/forum/*.
Labels: Correspondence
More Feedback on Zonals
Returning to A Feedback Loop for Zonals, ebutaljib responded with a number of additional points which I've added to the appropriate zonal clippings (all marked '[Ref. BI220357]').
C03 : 1954-57
In Svidler, Grischuk and Ivanchuk qualified for... what exactly? [Chessvibes.com], where he copied my post on FIDE's Got a Secret, ebutaljib stirred the pot some more and revealed that FIDE had indeed changed its mind on the format of next year's Candidates event (see also RIP Candidates Matches? on Whychess.org). It appears from the comments on Chessvibes that the events behind the unification process in 2002-2006 have faded into the haze of history. Is there a good summary somewhere on the Web?
Labels: C22: 2005-07, C23: 2007-10, C25: 2011-13, Zonals


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import { SelectOption } from '../../../models-table';
import DefaultTheme from '../../../../services/emt-themes/default';

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  pageSizeOptions: SelectOption[];
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 *     </Footer.PageSizeSelect>
 *   </MT.Footer>
 * </ModelsTable>
 * ```
 * References to the following contextual components are yielded:
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 * * {@link DefaultTheme.Select | Select} - selectbox with list of available page size options
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export default class PageSizeSelect extends Component<PageSizeSelectArgs> {
  protected elementId = guidFor(this);

  protected get inputId(): string {
    return `${this.elementId}-page-size-select`;
  }
}


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All the settings you can access through .Peek UI are available through code and can be read or overwritten.
Saving step cannot be ommited. Indeed, it will ensure settings that were modified are written to the disk and are accessible to the whole .Peek application.
.Peek Storage is thread safe, so the thread you are accessing it from does not matter.
IPreprocessBuild.OnPreprocessBuild which happens just before the build starts.
When it is called, .Peek will start counting the time used to build and get the VCS commit ID of your project. Note that if beforehand some files were not commited, .Peek will add -unsync behind the commit ID.
IPostprocessBuild.OnPostprocessBuild which is called once the build is done.
When it is called, the time elapsed to make the build is saved and the report generated. Note that at that moment, all the files that are in the project, but were not added to the build are considered as unused assets.
There is some situations you might not want to rely on the IPreprocessBuild.OnPreprocessBuild.
Indeed, when this Unity callback is called, .Peek will check your VCS status and starts counting how much time your build takes.
If ever your build pipeline is based on a custom script that executes some operations before Unity BuildPipeline.BuildPlayer is called, then when OnPreprocessBuild is called, your VCS may already have some local changes, or your build may already have taken several minutes, which will lead .Peek to display wrong information at the end of the build.


3 years old. Consume in the limits of daily physiological need.
6 months from date of production.
relative humidity no more than 75%.
Rye crispbread is recommended as a food stuff for special dietetic nourishment as the additional source of dietary fibers for normalization of gut organisms, increase the immunity, reduction in the risk of cardiovascular diseases, activation of memory, also in case of metabolic derangements, overweight and tendency to the allergic reactions.
Wheat - buckwheat crispbread is recommended as a food stuff for special dietetic nourishment as the additional source of dietary fibers for normalization of gut organisms, increase the immunity, reduction in the risk of cardiovascular diseases, activation of memory, also in case of metabolic derangements, overweight and tendency to the allergic reactions.
For all ages except children minor 3 years old. Consume in the limits of daily physiological need.
Store in the dry clean area at temperature (18+-5) C and relative humidity no more than 75%.
Wheat oat - maize crispdread is recommended as a food stuff for special dietetic nourishment as the additional source of dietary fibers for normalization of gut organisms, increase the immunity, reduction in the risk of cardiovascular diseases, activation of memory, also in case of metabolic derangements, overweight and tendency to the allergic reactions.
Wheat oat - barley crispbread is recommended as a food stuff for special dietetic nourishment as the additional source of dietary fibers for normalization of gut organisms, increase the immunity, reduction in the risk of cardiovascular diseases, activation of memory, also in case of metabolic derangements, overweight and tendency to the allergic reactions.
Wheat - oat crispbread is recommended as a food stuff for special dietetic nourishment as the additional source of dietary fibers for normalization of gut organisms, increase the immunity, reduction in the risk of cardiovascular diseases, activation of memory, also in case of metabolic derangements, overweight and tendency to the allergic reactions.
Wheat buckwheat - barley crispbread is recommended as a food stuff for special dietetic nourishment as the additional source of dietary fibers for normalization of gut organisms, increase the immunity, reduction in the risk of cardiovascular diseases, activation of memory, also in case of metabolic derangements, overweight and tendency to the allergic reactions.
Buckwheat crispbread has a pleasant aroma and flavour.It is an excellent source of balanced protein, dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals. It is made exclusively of buckwheat grains, under a unique technology, the time of thermal processing of grain is only fractions of seconds, which makes it possible to preserve all biologically valuable components.
Wheat - buckwheat crispbread with beta carotene has a pleasant flavour and is an excellent source of cellulose, B vitamins, iron, zinc, copper. Beta carotene – A provitamin - has an antioxidant effect, improves metabolism and prevents aging. The crispbread is made under a unique technology, the time of thermal processing of grain is only fractions of seconds, which makes it possible to preserve all biologically valuable components.
Low-calorie rye crispbread has a nice rich flavour and aroma. It is an excellent source of dietary fiber, B vitamins, iron, zinc, magnesium and minerals. It is made under a unique technology, the time of thermal processing of grain is only fractions of seconds, which makes it possible to preserve all biologically valuable components.
Three cereals with pumpkin seeds crispbread has a pleasant flavour. It is an excellent source of dietary fiber, minerals and trace elements. It is made under a unique technology, the time of thermal processing of grain is only fractions of seconds, which makes it possible to preserve all biologically valuable components.
Oat crispbread with bran has a pleasant flavour and are an excellent source of minerals and vitamins. It has a high natural content of dietary fiber that is essential for healthy diet. It is made under a unique technology, the time of thermal processing of grain is only fractions of seconds, which makes it possible to preserve all biologically valuable components.
Fragrant crispbread with onions has a pleasant spicy flavour and is an excellent source of cellulose, vitamins and minerals. It contains natural onions and dill. It is made under a unique technology, the time of thermal processing of grain is only fractions of seconds, which makes it possible to preserve all biologically valuable components.
Crispbread with paprika has a pleasant flavour and sophisticated aroma. It is an excellent source of cellulose, vitamins and minerals. It contains natural paprika and allspice. It is made under a unique technology, the time of thermal processing of grain is only fractions of seconds, which makes it possible to preserve all biologically valuable components.
Wheat, fruits of Holy thistle, salt.
For all ages except children minor 7 years old. Consume in the limits of daily physiological need.
gut organisms, for prophylaxis of liver and gall diseases, hepatitis, cholecystitis, cirrhosis, malnutrition, anthropogenic, toxic and alcohol-induced liver injury, in case of overweight.
Holy thistle (Silybum) – prevents and facilitates recovery incase of liver injury. It also has antiulcer nature. Protects against a causative agents for neoplasms. Holy thistle is also known for its anti-oxidant action and anti-mutagenic activity.
Wheat, Echinacea purpurea (rootstocks and herbs), salt.
Wheat crispbread with Echinacea is recommended as a food stuff for special dietetic nourishment as the additional source of dietary fibers for normalization of gut organisms, activation of memory, rising of immunity, ability for mental and physical activity, reduction in risk of cardiovascular diseases. In case of overweight and tendency to the allergic reactions.
Echinacea purpurea strengthens immunity which is a natural protective ability of human body and prevents it from the infectious, chronic and acute diseases. This plant is useful in case of physical or psychological fatigue and stress and helps with metabolic normalization.
Wheat, rootstocks of Jerusalem artichoke, salt.
Wheat crispbread with Jerusalem artichoke is recommended as a food stuff for special dietetic nourishment as the additional source of dietary fibers for normalization of gut organisms, activation of memory, rising of immunity, ability for mental and physical activity, reduction in risk of cardiovascular diseases. Beneficial in case of overweight and metabolic derangements, overweight. Lowers level of sugar in blood and normalizes a blood pressure.
Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) helps to lower the sugar level in blood, stabilize blood pressure, strengthen immunity and reduce weight in obesity cases. It is a good prophylaxis and cure for gastrointestinal diseases. This plant prevents from the salt depositions in human body.
gut organisms, activation of memory, rising of immunity, reduction in risk of cardiovascular diseases. Wholesome in case of overweight and metabolic derangements.
Laminaria – is appreciated as storeroom of organic iodine, important microelements, vitamins and best natural absorbents, which clean organism from radioactive nuclide and toxic substances.


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Madeleine Dedieu-Peters est une compositrice française, née Madeleine Gabrielle Andrée Dedieu à Courbevoie le  et morte à Paris le .

Biographie
Madeleine Dedieu-Peters est élève au Conservatoire de Paris. Elle obtient dans la classe d'harmonie d'Auguste Chapuis un deuxième accessit en 1912 et un premier prix en 1913, puis dans la classe de contrepoint de Georges Caussade un premier prix en 1915 et un second prix de fugue en 1919.

En 1923, sa Sonate pour piano et son Prélude et fugue sur un sujet de Caussade à la harpe sont primés par la Société des Compositeurs de Musique.

En 1925, elle est lauréate du Prix Antonin Marmontel de la même société au titre de l'année 1924, pour l'écriture d'un quatuor à cordes.

En 1928, dans une chronique musicale de La Vie latine consacrée aux compositrices, H. Pérréard la cite parmi les meilleures de sa génération et mentionne ses quatuors comme « ayant du relief, de la vie, et beaucoup d'équilibre ». Paul Landormy signale également dans une édition de son Histoire de la musique le quatuor à cordes de Madeleine Dedieu-Peters, « qui témoigne d'un talent vigoureux et sain ».

Arthur Honegger (Comœdia, 24 octobre 1942) salue le travail du Quatuor Gabriel Bouillon au service de la musique de chambre contemporaine : ces musiciens ont mis à leur programme 1942-1943 Roussel, Chausson, Marcel Delannoy, Pierre Menu, Georges Migot, Magnard, Pierre-Octave Ferroud et Madeleine Dedieu-Peters, entre autres.

Œuvres (sélection)

Trois Pièces pour quatuor à cordes, créées en 1920
Septuor pour flûte, trompette, cordes et piano, 1920
Trois Petits préludes pour orchestre (existent aussi dans une version pour piano à quatre mains), 1922, créés avec chorégraphie en 1925, et au concert par l'Orchestre Pasdeloup en 1926
Prélude et fugue sur un sujet de Caussade, pour harpe chromatique, 1923
Sonate pour piano, 1923
Deuxième quatuor à cordes, pour deux violons, alto et violoncelle, 1924, créé en 1927

Références

Liens externes

Compositrice française de musique classique
Élève du Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris
Naissance en juillet 1889
Naissance à Courbevoie
Naissance dans le département de la Seine
Décès en avril 1947
Décès dans le 14e arrondissement de Paris
Décès à 57 ans

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Key Comic #17: Back to the Future #1
Key Comic #16: Thor #165
Published by Jeremy at October 2, 2015
Thor #165
This post's Key Comic, Thor #165 is a ticking time bomb, last chance to get this comic, before it becomes an Elite key and the price increases blows up to be out of the reach of most collectors. Not a whole lot of time left before it explodes!
Another great comic masterpiece by the incredible creative team of writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, featuring the first full appearance of Him (Adam Warlock).
Adam Warlock is an extremely important and popular Marvel character that was introduced in the Bronze Age (another way of saying the seventies!).
It wasn't until a new up-and-coming writer/artist Jim Starlin worked on the character in the series Strange Tales, that Adam Warlock's adventures became more cosmic and epic in scope. The story of Adam Warlock mimics the events of the life of Jesus. Adam Warlock is born to be human perfection through an unnatural birth. He fought to save the world by fighting the demonic Man-Beast, dies on a cross, and is resurrected multiple times. He ascends to Godhood by acquiring the most powerful object in the Marvel Universe, the Infinity Gauntlet.
Adam Warlock by Jack Kirby
The Infinity Gauntlet is golden glove gauntlet that is meant to hold six immensely powerful gems called the Infinity Gems. Each gem represents a different characteristic and allows the user to command the power aspect of the gem. The six gems are the Soul, Time, Space, Mind, Reality and Power gems.
The Infinity Gems
Once the Infinity Gauntlet is completed with the six Infinity gems, the holder of the gauntlet gains virtual supreme power of omnipotence in the Marvel Universe. In the movie universe, the gems are called stones.
With the continuation of the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Avengers movie sequels, and the continuing hunt for the remaining Infinity stones to power the Infinity Gauntlet, it is only a matter of time, before this classic character makes an appearance in the Marvel movie universe.
Here are the other key Warlock comics to keep an eye out for, and continue the hunt:
Fantastic Four #66, 67 (cameo 1st appearances)
Thor #166 (2nd full Him/Warlock vs. Thor!)
Marvel Premiere #1 (finally named as "Adam Warlock")
Power of Warlock #1 (his first series #1)
Silver Surfer #44 (1st Infinity Gauntlet)
Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #45 (2015) has the NearMint of this comic at $900.00. The value has increased $500.00 (125%) since last year, and an overall increase of $845.00 since 1999. This comic has already increased $500 dollars in just the last year alone!
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This post's Key Comic, Thor #165 is a ticking time bomb, last chance to get this comic, before it becomes an Elite key and the price increases blows up to be out of the reach of most collectors. Not a whole lot of time left before it explodes! Another great comic masterpiece by the incredible creative team of writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, featuring the first full appearance of Him (Adam Warlock). Adam Warlock is an extremely important and popular Marvel character that was introduced in the Bronze Age (another way of saying the seventies!). It wasn't until a…
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First full appearance of Him (Adam Warlock)
Another classic comic by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee
Upcoming movie key comic
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Key Comic #20: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1
Key Comic #19: Star Wars #1
Key Comic #18: HellBoy- Seeds of Destruction #1


Scientists had previously thought that blood cells are created exclusively in the bone marrow from a special population of hematopoietic stem cells.
Intestinal transplantation is the only long-term option for patients with Crohn's and other diseases if their intestines fail. But high rejection rates and life-threatening complications from immunosuppression have limited the success of human intestinal transplantation.
When a person receives a transplanted organ, the immune system often recognizes the new organ as foreign and destroys it. Powerful immunosuppressive drugs blunt these responses, but that makes the patient much more susceptible to infections and other complications.
How Do Blood Cells From the Donor Help the Transplant Recipient?
Analysis of circulating white blood cells in patients after intestinal transplantation suggests that the cells derived from the donated intestine have matured and been educated in the recipient to be tolerant of the recipient's own tissues. Likewise, white blood cells made by the recipient after the transplant may be educated to be tolerant of the donated tissue.
"We are clearly showing that there's immunological cross-talk between the two sets of blood cells that protects the transplant from the patient's immune system and protects the patient from the transplant," says Sykes.
The hematopoietic stem cells in the intestine are eventually replaced by a circulating pool from the recipient, the researchers also found.
Because patients with more donor blood cells had lower organ rejection rates, the results point toward new strategies for managing organ transplantation.
The intestine's reservoir of blood-forming stem cells was discovered when researchers — led by Megan Sykes, MD, director of the Columbia Center for Translational Immunology — noticed that the blood of patients who had received intestinal transplants contained cells from the donor. The researchers tracked the donor's blood cells back to their source: hematopoietic stem cells in the donated intestine.
The blood cells created from cells in the donor's intestine also may be beneficial to the transplant recipient. The more donor blood cells a patient had in circulation, the less likely they were to reject their transplants.
Seeding transplanted organs with additional hematopoietic stem cells from the donor may also increase donor-recipient cross-talk and boost tolerance of the transplant.
The researchers are planning a study that will try to boost the number of hematopoietic stem cells delivered during intestinal transplantation, hopefully leading to higher levels of donor blood cells in circulation, immune tolerance, and a reduced need for immunosuppressive drugs.
Other types of transplants may benefit from similar interventions, even for organs that don't appear to carry their own reservoirs of hematopoietic stem cells.
This study analyzed 21 patients who had received intestinal transplants.
Although the finding of a novel population of hematopoietic stem cells is exciting, it does not yet justify changes in the current standard of care.


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Q&A with Peter S. Rush
Peter S. Rush is the author of the new novel Wild World, which takes place in the early 1970s. He has worked as a reporter, a Peace Corps volunteer, and a police officer, and is CEO of a global management firm.
Q: How much was Wild World based on your own experiences as a student at Brown University and as a police officer?
A: My experience at Brown and as a police officer provides the context, texture and authentic characters in the book. But it is a novel that allows for the exploration of themes, settings and issues across a broad spectrum. When I was writing it, I tried to stay true to the time period in attitudes and opinions. When I finished, I realized how many of those themes are extremely relevant and important today.
Q: Did you need to do much research to write the novel?
A: I needed to go back to the era – 45+ years ago. I started with the
music because it was the social network for that generation. I found myself watching movies and reading newspapers from the time. I also dug through some memories boxes from then - letters, college papers, assignments to try to bring me back to the time and place before all our modern gadgets. It was fun to see how we lived in the "last century."
Q: How would you compare perceptions of police officers during the Vietnam War period in which the book is set, and today?
A: In that era, police officers were "pigs" and the enemy of the hippies. long hairs, blacks and other minorities. It was a us versus them mentality. The level of education and training on the police force was not extensive. While many of the police were motivated to do what they thought was right, the use of force was the first action. Has the situation evolved? Definitely. Does it have further to go? Absolutely.
Q: Did you know how the novel would end before you started writing it, or did you make many changes along the way?
A: The book went through extensive revisions along the way. This book is about the characters and the situations they encounter and must interact with. I want the reader to be there in the scene. I wasn't certain where the love story or the action would end when I began but I think it found the right place.
A: I won't call the next book a sequel but it takes some of the characters from the book on a different journey of that era – drugs and the allure of money. It is set after this book in the early '70s in Florida where smuggling drugs was almost as big an industry as the tourism.
Q: Anything else we should know?
A: I started my career as a working journalist and it provided me with the tools to tell a story. The challenge always is to tell a good story.
--Interview with Deborah Kalb. Peter S. Rush will be appearing at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., in the Bloomberg Room at 6pm on Tuesday, Nov. 21.
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To describe this best, it is a carton box with a piece of cast iron inside. The package weights and size is the same as a box of live ammunition. The green line over the label is to show that the material is for training, and that it is not containing any live objects.
The intention is to use the ammunition box for trainings were the weight of ammunition is needed, and no live rounds to be present.
This type of box can also be found in the caliber 9x19.
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Mix your favorite chili ingredients in a Dutch oven. Cover and bake chili either in the oven or over the campfire for 2 to 2-1/2 hours. (Make sure if cooking over a campfire that you stir often.) Make 2 or 3 packets of cornbread mix according to directions. After chili has cooked, pour cornbread mix over the chili and cover. Bake for another 30 minutes. If using an oven, remove lid during last 10 minutes of baking. Remove from oven and slice as you would a pie. Spoon chili and cornbread into a bowl and enjoy. I made this for 10 people while camping and had no leftovers. Everyone loved it.


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PhilaPets prides itself on offering a unique service here in Philly - SOLO dog walking for no extra charge. Frankly, we just don't believe that pack walking results in the highest quality one-on-one attention that your dog truly needs while you're not able to give it to them. As a result, your pup will get the care and cuddling he deserves... and you will notice the difference!
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Q: Lan card not recognizing connected cable I have a system with Ubuntu Server 14.04 installed on it. The onboard ethernet port is faulty. As I want to setup DHCP server on it, I have installed two external LAN cards. I also have a leased line. When I plugin the cable directly into one of the lan cards, none of them recognize it. None of the lights turn on. If I plug this cable to a router and plug the output cable from the router to any of the Lan card, it works fine.
The cable when connected directly to my laptop works fine. In every case if the leased line cable is connected to any of the lan card on my server, it doesn't seem to work. Even the light don't turn up.
Can someone point me in a right direction.

A: You are using an ancient network card. From what I can tell, the RTL-81XX chipsets were released in 2001. That's 15 years ago. These chipsets do not appear to support Auto MDI-X, which supports my theory that you need a crossover cable. If you have a different, more modern system you could test with, connect the cable to that and see if you get link lights.
Your best bet is to purchase a modern network card that supports Auto MDI-X (which any network card made in the last 5-8 years will do).
If you can't do that, then you can re-terminate the cable from your provider as a crossover cable, but make sure you discuss this with your provider first.

A: A good thing to have in your toolbox is a Crossover Adapter which can be bought from Amazon for like $5-$10. This device allows you to convert any standard cable to a crossover without modifying the existing cable. This would allow you to test your current device to see if it is a Auto-MDX issue as others seem to believe it is.
In either case you should certainly purchase updated hardware.

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ADB Report: Energy Outlook for Asia and the Pacific (October 2013)
17 October 2013 |
Energy Outlook for Asia and the Pacific 2013
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has released the latest edition of its report, titled Energy Outlook for Asia and the Pacific 2013, this week. The report aims to identify policy, social, infrastructure, and technology issues that should be addressed to meet the future energy needs of members of the ADB in Asia and the Pacific. Key findings in the case of Indonesia include that the country's primary energy demand is projected to reach 445.4 Mtoe in 2035, up from 207.8 Mtoe in 2010 and that it may become a net importer of natural gas.
The report claims that "Indonesia will continue to be a net exporter of coal, while its dependence on oil imports will continue to increase." Meanwhile, the country is likely to turn into a net importer of natural gas sometime after 2030 unless new gas fields start production. The ADB thus advises that energy efficiency improvements should be prioritized to handle the growth in (imported) oil demand. Usage of coal is necessary for Indonesia's energy source diversification, while advanced coal technologies should reduce negative environmental effects of coal use.
"The primary energy demand of Indonesia is projected to increase from 207.8 Mtoe in 2010 to 445.4 Mtoe in 2035, at an annual rate of 3.1 percent. The energy mix will be dominated by oil, accounting for 30.1 percent of primary energy demand in 2035, followed by coal (28.8 percent); natural gas (20.7 percent); others including biomass, geothermal, and new energy sources (19.5 percent); and hydro (0.8 percent)."
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