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In Vitro Activity of Pyronaridine against Field Isolates and Reference Clones of Plasmodium Falciparum
G. E. Childs
G. E. ChildsU.S. Army Medical Component, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand
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B. Häusler
B. HäuslerMalaria Division, Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand
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W. Milhous
W. MilhousDivision of Experimental Therapeutics, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC 20307-5100
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C. Chen
C. ChenInstitute of Parasitic Diseases, China Academy of Preventive Medicine, Shanghai, China
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T. Wimonwattrawatee
T. WimonwattrawateeU.S. Army Medical Component, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand
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N. PooyindeeU.S. Army Medical Component, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand
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E. F. BoudreauU.S. Army Medical Component, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand
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Pyronaridine, a 9-substituted 1-aza-acridine, was assayed for in vitro activity against clinical and field isolates as well as characterized clones of Plasmodium falciparum. The in vitro antimalarial activity of pyronaridine was compared to activities of standard antimalarials against multidrug-resistant isolates of P. falciparum from eastern and northern Thailand using an assay based on the inhibition of schizont maturation. Isolates from eastern Thailand (n = 30) were susceptible to pyronaridine (IC50 8.40 nM), mefloquine (IC50 6.97 nM), and amodiaquine (IC50 12.7 nM) and resistant to chloroquine (IC50 361 nM), quinine (IC50 388 nM), and pyrimethamine (IC50 11,800 nM). The isolates from northern Thailand (n = 7) showed no statistical difference in susceptibility to pyronaridine (IC50 10.1 nM), amodiaquine (IC50 7.29 nM), and mefloquine (IC50 5.48 nM); however, isolates were significantly more susceptible to chloroquine (IC50 167 nM), quinine (IC50 248 nM), and pyrimethamine (IC50 1,980 nM). These data suggest a lack of cross-resistance between pyronaridine and either chloroquine, quinine, or pyrimethamine. Using the same assay system the in vitro activity of pyronaridine was evaluated against isolates from treatment failures of mefloquine or enpiroline from eastern Thailand. The IC50 values for mefloquine against five recrudescent isolates were significantly higher (IC50 16.4 nM) than the field isolates collected from the same region (IC50 6.97 nM); however, there was no significant difference in the pyronaridine susceptibility between the isolates from the field study (IC50 8.89 nM) and the isolates from the treatment failures (IC50 8.40 nM). These observations suggest a lack of cross-resistance to mefloquine following treatment failure with either mefloquine or enpiroline. Using an in vitro assay based on the measurement of the inhibition of nucleic acid synthesis the high levels of antimalarial activity of pyronaridine was further evidenced by the comparatively low IC50 values of the drugs against two reference clones, D-6 African (IC50 4.73 nM) and the W-2 Indochina (IC50 15.4 nM).


Yesterday's report about possible lineup changes at CUMULUS News-Talk WLS-A/CHICAGO at ROBERTFEDER.COM (NET NEWS 10/23) have led to confirmation TODAY by FEDER that STEVE DAHL will be exiting afternoons at WLS on DECEMBER 21st. DAHL will continue his long-running podcast at DAHL.COM.
In an email to FEDER, DAHL called the station "an uphill battle, and circumstances just didn't lend themselves to us being able to breakout like we hoped we would." But he added that "the podcast numbers continue to grow every day" and that CUMULUS would remain a partner in DAHL's podcast network.


negative: the video and motion are not exactly in sync; I presume that it may be fixed as a software update.
PadBot is alright. Unbeatable price!
Things I like? Looks good, simple app to drive it around, not noisy, light, auto-charge of the tablet.
Things that could be improved? The automatic return to charger feature (usually just tell people to end the call and put it back on the charger manually). A 'quick tips' section at the front of the manual would be brilliant, and also in the app itself. You can send pics through the app and swipe to tilt the camera, but it is hard to find that info.
The padBot, while having some problems like the automatic return to charger feature (gave a 4 for features and reliability just cuz of this), it still works quite well. Far better than I expected. It looks good, not like some of the other annoying appliances I have around my house (*cough-cough-vacuum-cleaner*cough-cough), so it fits in well. It moves smoothly even on low carpet and rugs. I do think the app needs work though to become more intuitive, I didn't know you could swipe the screen to tilt the head of the robot until a month or two after first using it.
I have a nice tablet on it so there have been no problems with friend and family and I hearing each other. Hmm..what else... The steering has lagged from time to time (as in you hit the button and it doesn't turn for a second or two and runs a second or two longer after letting go) but this hasn't caused any problems. The noise is not a problem, which was one of my greater worries, that it would be annoying if someone was driving it around.
So, the million dollar question..Would I recommend it to other people? Yes. Even if you don't use it all the time it is super easy to use and really fun for having family and friends check out the place and have more exciting chats.
Overall, I enjoyed using the PadBot, although it sometimes got laggy, which made controlling it pretty hard (that's why it it gets only 4 stars for Reliability). In order to drive the robot, you need to place an Android or iOS pad on the adjustable stand. Naturally, it's possible to put the pad upside-down, which is a non-existent problem if you use robots with static head. However, the PadBot has a pretty great feature – you can connect your device to the power source of the robot via a USB port, so that the battery won't die in the middle of your conversation. Again, this isn't a problem you would encounter with most of the other robots, but on the other hand, you get to use your personal pad, which saves you money and allows you to choose specific parameters for the camera. PadBot will automatically return to its docking station to charge itself, if its power runs low.
You control the telepresence robot via an app, installed on your pad or phone. It's not possible to use the PadBot from a computer yet, although Inbot Tech are planning to change that. For the moment, the PadBot works only with Apple and Google products, which wasn't a problem for me, but I guess could be a drawback for some. Moving around was very intuitive and easy, you can also tilt the head of the robot up and down. Steering away from obstacles wasn't hard either, as you get a visual representation on where an object is, thanks to the multiple sensors. I like that the app allows the user to choose the video clarity and robot speed, as my internet connection is not always great and these options helped me better control the PadBot. Other settings include Collision-Avoidance, USB Smart Charging and Robot Self Charging – you can toggle them on and off. The feature that I liked the most was the "auto-answer account", that allows you to access the robot without the need of human interaction.
The Padbot is a simple, easily navigable robot that uses a tablet as its eyes and ears. Remotely controllable through an app on your smart phone or tablet (but, curiously, not by desktop computer), the robot is easily directed by means of a vertical slider (up means forward, down means reverse) and a horizontal slider allowing you to pivot the robot right or left through a full 360 degrees. You can also adjust the Padbot view up or down by swiping up or down, in addition to also being able to pivot the robot right or left through swipes in those directions.
The Padbot's built-in sensors detect when it is in close proximity to an obstacle and warn you via a graphic showing a miniature Padbot and a red dot marking the approximate location of the obstacle relative to the robot. One nice feature is that you can send the Padbot back to its charger base if the battery is running low; I tapped the phone once to obtain the recharge button, tapped the button, and the Padbot navigated its way back to the charger. Another useful feature is the option to allow automatic answering, great for if the call receiver's hands are literally full, or if the receiver is unfamiliar with touchscreen or computer technology and might have difficulty responding manually.
I have to offer the disclaimer that my own test drive occurred under less than optimal circumstances. I was using an unfamiliar phone with a slow local DSL wireless connection to operate a Padbot in China from the West Coast of the USA, operating the robot in a cramped office space loaded with obstacles. Consequently, I experienced significant latency and had some resulting maneuverability problems and screen lag. Even so, I could get a good sense of the ease of operating the Padbot and was impressed with its smooth movement and simple but pleasing design. I could easily envision the Padbot becoming the general purpose telepresence robot of choice, useful for business teams and families alike.


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One of the fun things we do from time to time is looking at what our friends in Europe are getting from the same brands that sell in the US. Europe is often ahead of us in some areas, so it's a glimpse at what might be coming our way. This time, it's the Festool Mobile Workshop. Well, technically, it's the Mobile Werkstatt, but Workshop is what that translates to from German.
It's a pretty ingenious idea, really. The foundation is a rolling base that holds Systainers and has a couple of shelves with adjustable heights. The pegboard-looking piece on the back folds out to create a workbench. Those holes are the same as what you see on Festool's MFT Multifunction Table series for their clamping kits.
The Festool Mobile Workshop is ideal for a mobile Pro since it lets you carry everything you need in one setup. Of course, items like your Kapex miter saw and CT dust extractor are still going to have to roll in separately, but it's a nice system to keep your smaller gear organized and easy to transport.
The basic setup starts around 475 euros (no table) for a basic setup through 790 euros for the full setup. That converts to roughly $550 – $920 in our currency. Of course, there's no guarantee that we'll get our version of the Festool Werkstatt or that the pricing structure will be the same.


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Q: Aggregation of large (bilions of rows) datasets over PostgreSQL database I'm struggling to find the right way how to aggregate large amounts of data.
Considering a database with average expextected incoming load of about 200 (500 peak) new rows per second, we wil reach one bilion rows within first three months. The expectation is to hold the data for at least 10years. Table will be pretty much static, no UPDATEs, no DELETEs, just INSERTs.
Is it real to expect the PostgreSQL server (with proper hardware and configuration) will manage such large amounts of data for querying or is it bad idea?
Now the requirment is that each customer will be able to generate aggregated reports for his transactions (could be tens or even hundreds of millions, depending on his criteria), including those recently added.
I can think of few teoretical aproaches such as views, materialized views, direct querying, precalculating using triggers to another table. Each of those have its impacts, positives, negatives. For example I can't even imagine refreshing materialized views.
Does anyone have experience with such tasks? Any insight is apprecitiated. Even infrastructure tips, third party tools, anything helpful. My biggest concern now is the software solution to create, not HW scaling.
Cheers.

A: You should use partitioning for your table. Split your table into several tables, say, by month. Partitioning is a private case of inheritance in Postgresql.

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Top 5: Shawn Michaels Dream Matches
Top 5: Shawn Michaels Matches
Classic Rivalry: Shawn Michaels vs Kurt Angle
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Shawn Michaels: The Heel
Retrospective: The Rise of Shawn Michaels
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CM Punk vs Daniel Bryan: The 2012 WWE Trilogy
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WIRTB Review: Daniel Bryan's Time in WWE
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By @Cool_Calm_Chris
I cannot stress enough how important Daniel Bryan and CM Punk were to WWE and to professional wrestling. With the acquisition of these two future hall of famers and their impact on the WWE, they were the last two real stars that the WWE made in the PG/Reality era. As two of the biggest names on the independent circuit, Daniel Bryan and CM Punk validated their worth in the WWE through their technical ability as well as their ability to draw a crowd to respond to them. While the two have had a number of matches in the past, their three matches for the WWE Championship in 2012 were a masterpiece which helped bring a fresh flavor to the championship scene.
In November 2011, CM Punk won the WWE Championship against Alberto Del Rio at Survivor Series. This victory would begin the 434 day reign as champion for the "Best in the World" and still stands as the longest championship reign in the modern era. Around the same time in December 2011, Daniel Bryan would cash in his Money in the Bank contract at the Tables, Ladders, and Chairs event on the newly crowned champion the Big Show to win the World Heavyweight Championship. While CM Punk would begin a feud with Chris Jericho over the WWE Championship on RAW, Daniel Bryan would begin to develop a heel persona through his on-screen relationship with AJ Lee as the World Heavyweight Champion.
The two would wrestle each other for the first time in WWE on RAW in February as the WWE Champion and the World Heavyweight Champion respectively, but much was left to be desired. At Wrestlemania 28 the two would have very different nights, as Daniel Bryan would begin the event with an 18 second loss to Sheamus for the World Heavyweight Championship and a surprising YES! chant from the crowd. CM Punk however would have one of the best matches of the night, as he would defeat Chris Jericho for the WWE championship in a classic match later on in the night.
After the two finished their rivalries with Chris Jericho and Sheamus at Extreme Rules, their paths would cross. With Daniel Bryan earning the right to be the number one contender, the two would meet for the WWE championship at Over the Limit in May of 2012. The two put on a technical masterpiece as they wrestled a back and forth contest for over 25 minutes with CM Punk picking up the victory over Bryan in controversial fashion. Daniel Bryan would apply the Yes! Lock to Punk and while the hold was still applied, Punk would reverse the move turning Bryan over on his back. Punk would get the pin and immediately after tap to the Yes! Lock that Bryan still had applied on him. This controversy would play into a rematch down the line at No Way Out, however with the most unlikely of additions.
Fresh off a very lackluster rivalry with Randy Orton, the Big Red Monster Kane would find himself involved in the WWE Championship picture with Daniel Bryan and CM Punk. Along with the addition of Kane, AJ Lee would find herself involved in this storyline through a personal interest in CM Punk and Kane, as well as her past history with Daniel Bryan. The addition of Kane and AJ Lee helped bring more intrigue to the storyline and helped add another layer to the match. The size difference Kane has over CM Punk and Daniel Bryan helped showcase the Big Red Monster as, well, a monster. The three men gave us a classic match as AJ Lee would interfere in the match and find herself knocked off the apron by Kane accidentally. This distraction would help Punk catch Kane with the GTS and pick up the victory while Daniel Bryan was knocked out on the outside.
With Kane taking the loss, Daniel Bryan still found himself unable to take the WWE Championship from CM Punk. Going into their match at Money in the Bank, AJ Lee would become more of the focus as she would be the special referee in their match. The storyline going into the match was that AJ Lee desperately needed the attention of Daniel Bryan and CM Punk, however they were focused on the WWE Championship. Her involvement in the match overshadowed the title a bit, but these two still put on what some consider to be the best of their three championship matches.
With the rules being a little bit more loose than they were in their previous matches, Bryan and Punk had more room to work with foreign objects. AJ Lee would leave the match early as she would head to the back after being knocked off the apron, and this definitely helped the focus return to the two men fighting for the championship. Most of the match was contested on the outside, as the referee just watched as both men would brawl throughout the entire ringside. Just like their match at Over the Limit, the action was back and forth through the entire match as both competitors left everything in the ring. Towards the end of the match, AJ Lee would return after a superplex from Bryan to Punk. From there, the match would get even more brutal as she would leave a chair in the middle of the ring for which Bryan would pick up and hit Punk repeatedly with. The match would finish with CM Punk putting Daniel Bryan through a table with a backdrop off the top rope and AJ Lee counting the pinfall.
While this would be the last pay per view match for the two, it definitely was not a sour ending to the rivalry. Punk would continue his historic reign as champion through the rest of the 2012 while Daniel Bryan would become tag team partners with Kane, form Team Hell No, and capture the WWE Tag Team Championship. While there was much left to be desired out of both wrestlers' careers, fans were more than happy to have this trilogy of matches for the richest prize in all of sports entertainment. CM Punk and Daniel Bryan are often seen as the trailblazers of the Independent circuit and this trilogy of matches definitely helped pave the way for the talent we see in the WWE today.

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TECHNOTRONIC is the act that first rocked the international dance community to its core in 1989. The collaboration of unique musical talent that unexpectedly pushed house music into the mainstream; it is the band behind the house anthem "Pump Up The Jam".
Aiming to fuse hip-hop and house, TECHNOTRONIC was the brainchild of the Belgian producer Jo Bogaert who collaborated with the vocal talent of Manuela Kamosi (Ya Kid K) to devastating effect. Their first single was the groundbreaking "Pump Up The Jam" – a track that took the world by storm and one which is now considered a seminal house classic. Originally recorded as an instrumental, the track eventually reaching #2 in both the US Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart in late 1989/early 1990, becoming the first song in the house music genre to achieve commercial status. Follow up singles such as "Get Up! (Before The Night Is Over)", "This Beat Is Technotronic" and "Move This", all enjoyed extensive chart success throughout the world.
TECHNOTRONIC's debut album titled "Pump Up The Jam" was also a major success and their total record sales are now somewhere in the region of 14 million.
At the peak of their original success, TECHNOTRONIC played live shows opening for the likes of Madonna as well as making TV appearances on 'Saturday Night Live', 'The Arsenio Hall Show' and 'It's Showtime At The Apollo'. Throughout the 1990s they went on to release albums and further singles such as "Move It To The Rhythm" while their music also featured in a number of high profile Hollywood films.
TECHNOTRONIC remain in huge demand and are destined to reclaim their ownership of the dance floor.


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Yale joins coalition to keep loans
Raymond Pacia 12:00 am, Apr 06, 2005
As Congress prepares for the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, Yale is joining its peers in pushing to preserve loan programs and prevent provisions officials believe compromise academic freedoms.
This spring, Congress is expected to push for spending cuts in the Higher Education Act in order to compensate for a deficit in the federal budget. Yale officials are fighting to save the Perkins loan program, which provides interest-free loans to students from lower and middle-class families. The program gives the students 10 years to repay the loans, with an opportunity for loan forgiveness if they join the armed service or perform community service.
As part of a plan to curb government spending, President Bush's fiscal year 2006 budget would recall the federal money invested in the program. Each year about 1,300 Yale students, mostly graduate and professional students, receive Perkins loans valued at as much as $6,000.
"We happen to think the Perkins loan program is great," Yale Director of Federal Relations Richard Jacob said.
Proponents of the program cuts have said the loans are not effective, since they apply to a relatively small slice of the population — only 3 percent of U.S. students at 1,800 institutions nationwide. Overall, Bush has substantially increased aid to universities with substantial boosts to funding for student loans and for Pell Grants, a federal grant commonly used to assist undergraduates, said Brian Reidl, a federal budgetary analyst for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.
"Those who perpetually want even more spending will never be happy," Reidl said.
Because the University meets the full demonstrated need of undergraduates, many of the financial aid programs authorized by the HEA do not directly affect Yale College students. But potential spending cuts would place a greater financial burden on the University, which would cover the costs out of its endowment. But the amount of funding approved for the HEA will not have a major effect on Yale, Yale President Richard Levin said.
"It's a concern, but from a quantitative point of view, it's not a big concern because Pell grants are a small portion of total financial aid," Levin said.
Yale officials said they are also carefully watching Congress for any proposals that they believe may intrude on the affairs of private institutions. One such proposal introduced in 2003 would have subjected universities to federal auditing depending on how rapidly the school's tuition increases in an effort to keep higher education affordable.
Riedl said he supports efforts to reign in higher education costs, but is uncomfortable with government regulation of universities.
"The better option might be not to raise financial aid, then see if universities stop raising tuition," Riedl said. "Financial aid often just serves to help universities fatten their bottom line without leaving students better off because universities are going to charge as much tuition they can get away with."
Another proposal — which officials at several top universities said is being pushed by for-profit educational institutions — would allow federal government oversight of academic credit for transfer students at private universities. Harvard University Director of Federal Relations Suzanne Day said she feels both proposals are misguided.
"They strike us as inappropriate, given we are private institutions, with revenue coming from private sources," Day said. "We have a sense of our own academic standards, and it's not necessary for the federal government to be looking into that issue."
Yale officials are conveying their position on provisions in the act by consulting with members of Connecticut's congressional delegation and with members of Congress, Jacob said. The House already has a draft bill of the act and is expected to begin debate later this spring. The Senate is moving along more slowly with the reauthorization process and still must begin reauthorization hearings and draft a bill.


Daniel Coker Horton & Bell is a trial firm – successful complex and commercial litigation is the cornerstone of our reputation. Daniel Coker's founding partner, Joe H. Daniel, prosecuted cases on both sides of the aisle involving everything from banking to business interruption when the "silk stocking" firms considered litigation unseemly. By the 1960s he was known for his skill and ethics in handling complex commercial, construction, banking and bonding disputes. On this foundation Mr. Daniel built the firm's commercial practice in which we strive to uphold his values of the highest legal ethics, hard work, disciplined but creative planning, and adaptive execution to deliver client objectives.
Our commercial/business litigation attorneys have successfully handled disputes touching almost every industry and type of claim which might be raised in modern business disputes. In handling these cases we draw on a team of ten active AV Preeminent rated lawyers, including a group recognized in Best Lawyers in America in Litigation (Banking & Finance, Commercial, Construction, Insurance, Securities, Mass Tort and Class Actions – Defendants, and Municipal Litigation); and Substantive Law (Construction, Corporate, Insurance, Energy, Natural Resources, and Oil & Gas). These attorneys are supported by a bench of talented young lawyers and the use of the evolving technology to continue pursuing our founder's values.


A showcase of book collections and personal libraries!
MissRed wrote: asan na ang picture engr. heldervert?
Hi! Here's my humble collection.
Tama ba na ilagay sa plastic ang libro? Parang eseseal inside the plastic?
i would like to see it like a dust jacket for softbound books but if a/c yung room mo then you can prob afford to let it be coz it's really nicer to feel the cover. but personally i feel secure kung nka plastic cover hehehe.
Pangarap ko magka bookshelf. Dumudugo puso ko kasi kakalipat lang namin ng house at nasa box pa silang lahat.


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Local Roundup: Delta swimming wins three events at State Championships
The Delta men and women's swim teams were at De Anza College in Cupertino this weekend for the CCCAA State Championships. Altogether, the programs combined to break six school records and win three individual championships.
The women's team finished fifth, which ranks as the best finish in program history. Maddie Wittkowske led the way, winning both the 200-yard freestyle and the 1650 free while taking second in the 500 free.
Wittkowske's times of 5:03.72 in the 500 and 1:51.71 in the 200 free were school records.
Other strong finishes for the women's team include Leti Mosqueda (seventh in the 100 free), Maddie Lincoln (sixth in the 400 IM) and Natalee Lamie, who set a school record on the way to a fifth-place finish in the 200 fly.
Delta's 400 free relay team (consisting of Lamie, Lincoln, Mosqueda and Wittkowske) and 800 free relay squad (Mosqueda, Lamie, Hunter Luna and Wittkowske) both finished second.
The men's team, meanwhile, finished 12th overall. Josh Hamby won the 3M, setting a school record with a time of 3:11.60, and also took second in the 2M.
Mustang teammate Julio Murguia was fourth in the 500 free and sixth in the 200 free, and Jordan Knapp was eighth in the 1650 free.
Loyola Marymount 10, Pacific 2 (6)
At Pacific, a seven-run first inning by Loyola Marymount led to a loss in Pacific's regular-season finale.
The Tigers were held to just four hits on the day, with Jessica Mabrey contributing a double.
Pacific finishes the season with a 17-32 overall record, and a 3-12 mark in the West Coast Conference.
It was also Senior Day on Sunday for the Tigers, honoring the team's four seniors: Kenya Lindstrom, Cailtin Reynolds, Taylor Covington and Samantha Young.
To report local college, varsity high school and pro scores and statistics, email sports@recordnet.com or call (209) 546-8282. The deadline for local results is 9:30 p.m. each night.


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Q: Proof of the convergence of a function at a point Here's the problem:
Let $I$ be an open interval and let $x \in I$.  Prove that if $f:I \setminus \{x\} \to \mathbb{R}$ does not converge to $L$ at $x$, then there are an $\epsilon > 0$ and a sequence $\{z_n\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ so that $\lim_{n \to \infty} z_n = x$, $z_n \in I \setminus \{x\}$ for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$ and:
$$|f(z_n)-L| \geq \epsilon$$
for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$.

Proof Attempt:
Suppose that $f$ does not converge to $L$ at $x$. Then, there exists a sequence $\{z_n\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ such that $z_n \in I \setminus \{x\}$ for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$ and $\lim_{n \to \infty} z_n = x$ but:
$$\lim_{n \to \infty} f(z_n) \neq L$$
That means that:
$$\exists \epsilon > 0: \forall N \in \mathbb{N}: \exists n \geq N: |f(z_n)-L| \geq \epsilon$$
The goal is to construct a subsequence of $\{z_n\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ with the desired property. Define the following set:
$$A = \{n \in \mathbb{N}: |f(z_n)-L| \geq \epsilon \}$$
Since $A$ is non-empty, it has a minimum element $min(A)$. Define $z_{n_1} := z_{min(A)}$. Once $z_{n_k}$ is obtained, consider the following set:
$$A' = \{n \in \mathbb{N}: (|f(z_n)-L| \geq \epsilon) \land (n > n_k) \}$$
This set is non-empty so it has a minimal element $min(A')$. Then, we defined $z_{n_{k+1}} := z_{min(A')}$. This defines a subsequence of $\{z_n\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ that converges to $x$ and also has the desired property. This proves the result.
Does the argument above work? If it doesn't, why? How can I fix it?

A: It works I think, except for one little mistake.
$\exists \epsilon > 0: \forall N \in \mathbb{N}: \exists n \in \mathbb{N}: |f(z_n)-L| \geq \epsilon$
I think you mean $\exists n\in \mathbb N:n\geq N\vee |f(z_n)-L|\geq \epsilon$


"I brought my wife lunch."
Can I not say 'przyniosłem żonie obiad'?
True, logically it's your wife unless you specify it differently, so it should work. Added now.
which is fem and which masc?
so Przyniosłam means a female speaker has a wife : homosexuelle?
a teraz to nie jest normalne?
Od niedawna staramy się akceptować, i tutaj akurat jest już akceptowane, więc powinno być zaliczone.
I don't know a good translation. Hmm... Wiktionary gives a translation "but", but also writes "used to introduce a new, conflicting fact".
So Rafkens claims that it's wrong that his answer was rejected, because the word "lunch" is used in Polish. So the statement that it is used in Polish conflicts with the fact that his answer was rejected as if it wasn't deemed correct.
"My wife is from Italy."
"I am American and my wife is German."
"My sister leaves lunch for me."
How can I improve my pronunciation ?


Uttar Pradesh Power Cooperation Limited (UPPCL) invited applications for recruitment to the post for Assistant Accountant under Group C. The candidates eligible for the post can apply through the prescribed format on or before 28 October 2016.
Last Date of Online Application: 28 October 2016.
Assistant Accountant: candidate should have completed Degree in Commerce (B.Com) or equivalent from a recognised University.
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The new video even features some New England Patriots, including Tom Brady, Vince Wilfork and even coach Bill Belichick.


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Forums » Professional Video Editing & Finishing Forums » Avid Media Composer - Mac » Source/Record (Y Key) default behavior.
Latest post Tue, Dec 4 2018 3:58 PM by ovidius. 15 replies.
Source/Record (Y Key) default behavior.
My memory is that hitting the "Y" key used to clear all segment tools and return you to the default mode where you are clicking to move the playhead around.
Somewhere around version 8 this changed? Now "Source/Record" simply means getting out of effects-mode as far as I can see – it doesn't clear the segment tools. When did this change? Can we have it back to the way it used to be? I really miss being able to hit the "Y" key and knowing what mode I was in. Now it's a mystery what the button/mode is for at all.
Re: Source/Record (Y Key) default behavior.
I miss this too. I think it was the advent of the SmartTool that changed the behavior. The problem is there is no way to deselect the SmartTools, only to toggle it.
Avid, many of us work in "source/record" mode for most of our editing –– please please make it so one button can bring me to that mode!
I think it's been like this since the introduction of the Smart Tools back in v5 - but I'm not sure, as this was quite a long time ago now!
Hitting Y returns you to Source/Record mode from Colour Correction, Effects or Trim mode. It will therefore 'cancel' any trim rollers on edits. But it doesn't cancel any segment selections, nor do I think it is intended to.
You can toggle all Smart Tools on/off with Shift/S. Perhaps this is what you need?
I've been told this, but my muscle memory says otherwise. I think maybe in version 6 and 7 there was a way to totally disable smart-tool or something? So then Y key returned you to the normal cursor behavior.
Having the segment tool selected should not be Source/Record mode to my mind. You are not using in and out points, it is not source/record mode.
What would you call the mode where you click on the timeline and it moves the "now bar" around and in/out points create a selection?
I find it super frustrating that Avid doesn't have a name for the mode most used by most editors.
I use the checkbox in the timeline settings menu that enables clicking timeline bar to deselect smart tools.
No offense, I'm not trying to be contrarian, but that isn't an answer.
I know all the methods for disabling or toggling the smart-tool. But if I'm in edit mode or effect mode, I press "Y" to get out. There's no good reason why "Y" shouldn't disable the smart-tool. Also, if I'm trying to get to source/record mode it is very possible that I don't want to be clicking with my mouse.
Why make the user do things two ways when they could sensibly do it one way?
Why call it source/record mode if you're slipping and sliding segments around only on the record side and not using in/out points?
Or think of it this way – why isn't there a single way to get to the mode I call "source/record"? It's the most common mode to be in for every editor I've ever worked with or for.
Non take, to each his own.
Although, looking in the command pallette, there's a "ST" key that seems to do exactly what you're looking for.
No that just toggles the smart tool. I have that mapped and have tried to use it instead of Y, but it isn't nearly as good as clearing all modes and entering "source/record", it's behavior is erratic when leaving effect or trim mode.
Which is why I miss what I believe the Y key used to do. I'm gonnna have to find a version 7 system somewhere to see if I'm crazy.
But regardless, I still feel that it smart-tool on is not "source/record mode", so at the vary least the Avid nomeclature is screwed up.
I don't entirely see your problem. You can mark In or Out points, make edits, and move the Position Bar around the timeline whether segments are selected or not .Segment selections are an integral part of Source/Record editing, not something separate from it. If you want to temporarily turn off Smart Tools entirely, you can do so (Shift/S), but they will gradually become re-enabled as you work and make different selections. This is as designed, and has been for a long time.
Ok, yeah, I see that, I guess I've somehow gotten lucky that when I'm exiting the pallettes (trim, effects, color) I've trained myselft to always use the Source/Record Button(as you like to do), but smart tools -- I just do differently. I guess the way I work, the smart tools are more of a gestural affair, so, it's never bothered me to do the 'click' to disable them (and that's coming from a serious hot-key guy).
I liked it the way it was before. Seems totally reasonable to me that "Y" would disable all tools.
I get that the way it works now is how Avid "intends" me to work, but I like pressing one button to get back to what used to be "source/record" mode. I don't see how changing this functionality would hamper anyone else. YOU can press Shift-S after going into "source/record" mode is the way I see it.


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from lldbsuite.test.lldbtest import *
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    @skipIfDarwinEmbedded # <rdar://problem/34539270> lldb-server tests not updated to work on ios etc yet
    def inferior_abort_received(self):
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Celebrating Baraka, Samsara, Koyaanisqatsi and other non-verbal films
Independent Films
A Visual Journey - Angkor Wat, Cambodia - a film by Anthony Ranville
Last updated by Darren on 31 January 2017
A Visual Journey - Angkor Wat, Cambodia, is a non-verbal film, created by Anthony Ranville.
"Explore the Khmer grounds of Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Witness first hand, the smiling stone faces built by an ancient and mighty civilization. See overgrown trees topple over crumbling walls. Observe monkeys that call Angkor Wat home. These famous ruins echo the work and craftsmanship from a spiritual civilization, told only now in the structures they built. "
MontMartre - a film by Gilles DE CAEVEL
Montmartre, created by Gilles DE CAEVEL, is a time-lapse film of Montmartre, Paris.
"This timelapse video had been shot during November 2015 et edited on December. Living in Suresnes, I chose one of the most prestigious district of Paris for this new video, 5 years after « une nuit parisienne and 2 years after « Empty Defense ». You can see some pics shooted on HDR or also in a normal view but all in 4K 2 :35 :1 for a cinematic tribute."
Matisco - a film by Sébastien Barrier
Last updated by Darren on 05 February 2015
MATISCO, directed by Sébastien Barrier, is a movie about Mâcon and Mâconnais in the South of Burgundy in France.
"Filmed mainly in chronophotography (timelapse, assembly of thousands of photos taken at regular intervals), this process allows to manipulate the time: the course of the sun and the shadows on the photographed subjects, the movement of clouds above the landscapes as well as the accelerated movements of the people in the city."
You can buy Matsico from Sébastien directly.
Check out the Behind The Scenes clips as well.
Artefact - A film by Kyle Hopkins
Last updated by Darren on 24 April 2014
Artefact is a new film by Kyle Hopkins, who previously made 360.
"Artefact is an atmospheric videoscape. A combination of location video and audio recordings made all around the world with an original soundtrack. It tells no specific story. It has no specific meaning. It is an attempt to arrange and combine digital recordings of reality and digitally generated sound into an aesthetically pleasing whole."
Visit the Artefact website: www.artefactproject.weebly.com
HEILD - Theatrical Trailer
HEILD is a non-verbal film by Petur K. Gudmundsson featuring Iceland.
"At last, Iceland´s first full-feature, non-narrative film. It has taken over three hard years to make. 2.5 years out shooting in Iceland, and 1.5 years of editing and post-production. This is by far the biggest project TPS has ever produced. The film has a whopping length of 70 minutes and was set out to present Iceland in a way it has never been presented before, using many elements of higher-end cinematography. I set out to finish the project in 2013 and at 45-50 minutes, but the project grew larger and after an insane amount of work, it became a full-feature.
There are places here everyone knows, but there are also thousands of well hidden places. To find these locations one has to be adventurous or a local, and to capture them right, one has to be creative and extremely patient.
The film is a TrailerPark Studios production and will release in february 2014, first in selected cinemas in Iceland, then globally in different film-festivals."
www.trailerparkstudios.net
HEILD - Theatrical Trailer from Petur K. Gudmundsson on Vimeo.
First trailer for Speechless: The Polar Realm, by Richard Sidey
Last updated by Darren on 30 November 2013
Breathtaking trailer for Richard Sidey's new film Speechless: The Polar Realm
Speechless : The Polar Realm (film trailer) from Richard Sidey on Vimeo.
Sedae - a non-verbal documentary by Daniel Smukalla
Last updated by Darren on 02 October 2013
Sedae is a non-verbal documentary by Daniel Smukalla.
From Daniel:
"I am a cinematographer / director living in South Korea. For the last few years, I have been working on a documentary about the various generations here in Korea and how the country's rapid growth and change resulted in many differences between the old and young, as well as urban and rural.
I am highly inspired by non-verbal documentaries, especially Baraka. While my film will have occasional voice overs from Koreans of different ages and backgrounds, it relies on the images to tell the stories of Koreans of different ages and backgrounds.
Here are some links with information from the film "Sedae":
Teaser Trailer: http://vimeo.com/71687675
Official Website: www.sedaechai.com
"Sedae 세대" (2014) Teaser Trailer from Daniel Smukalla on Vimeo.
Ancient Skies & Remnants by Grant Wakefield
Last updated by Darren on 11 September 2013
Grant Wakefield has completed his films Ancient Skies & Remnants:
"I'm delighted to announce that after over five years of work my high resolution films ANCIENT SKIES & REMNANTS are complete and the official website is now open at: www.ancientskies.info
ANCIENT SKIES is a 25 + 46 min. 'FullDome' immersive 4k resolution planetarium documentary that explores the connection between the Neolithic and the night sky. It features interviews with Dr. Edwin Krupp, Euan Mackie, Prof. George Eogan, Anthony Murphy, Martin Brennan and Prof. Clive Ruggles, with music by Steve Roach, Banco De Gaia and Zhenia Mahdi Nau.
ANCIENT SKIES - 25 min. VERSION - OFFICIAL TRAILER from GRANT WAKEFIELD on Vimeo.
REMNANTS is a 2k resolution, widescreen non-verbal timelapse film that charts the rise and fall of the Neolithic civilisation, featuring a 5.1 surround score by Tangerine Dream member Thorsten Quaeschning.
REMNANTS - OFFICIAL TRAILER - 01 from GRANT WAKEFIELD on Vimeo.
During production I traveled the length and breadth of the British Isles and Ireland, and was able to capture some unique events, including the first (so far as I know) timelapse sequences of Equinox sunrise at Cairn T and Equinox sunset at the western passageway of Knowth. I was also blessed with beautiful full moons and night skies at Callanish, The Ring of Brodgar, Pentre Ifan, West Kennett and Stonehenge.
ANCIENT SKIES (25 min. version) will go into FullDome theatre distribution shortly. REMNANTS had its world premiere earlier this year at the 'Widescreen Weekend' event in Bradford's superb Pictureville Theatre, and is currently being entered into various film festivals. A screening in my home town of Devizes, in association with the Wiltshire Heritage Museum, will hopefully take place in Oct / Nov, and in a similar time frame at Brighton's Duke of York's cinema.
Please visit the website for confirmed dates and times.
www.ancientskies.info
www.grantwakefield.com
REMNANTS reviews:
"... a wonderful short directed by Grant Wakefield. Filmed using motion controlled time-lapse photography, REMNANTS captures on film the thousands of complex stone monuments constructed by the Neolithic peoples of Northern Europe from 3800 to 1000 BC. Stunning 2k resolution and extraordinary music provided by Tangerine Dream member Thorsten Quaeschning."
- Bruce Campbell, CINEMA RETRO, Bradford Film Festival - 'Widescreen Weekend' 2013
"Through beautiful and hard-earned imagery Wakefield has created a moving inner journey that lets us to feel our connection to our ancient roots and the timeless turning of the earth. I loved it."
- Mark Magidson, producer BARAKA & SAMSARA
March - a Time Lapse Documentary by Liang Hu
March is a time lapse documentary by Liang Hu
It features the English city of Brighton, where I currently live.
Remnants by Grant Wakefield
Last updated by Darren on 13 March 2013
Remnants by Grant Wakefield receives it's World Premiere at the 19th Bradford International Film Festival (UK) on 27th April 2013.
Remnants will be shown at the Pictureville theater at the National Media Museum, which is a fantastic venue, so attend if you can.
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/Films/BIFF/2013/R/Remnants.aspx
You can checkout the two trailers below.
Samsara Blu-Ray & DVD
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This website is made with love, and does not make any money. Anything received from my wishlist will help to make the website better, Thanks, Darren.
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Digital and social media have become ubiquitous, seemingly essential pieces of infrastructure necessary for realizing a globalized society. Social media brings diverse groups of people together in productive and, at times, puzzling ways. Users from different cultures, genders, and generations have adopted social media in interesting manners, creating new norms and practices. As scholars of systems sciences, it is important for us to examine not only these new and various communication and behavioral styles but also to explore the design, impact and influence digital and social media have within these groups of users.
Digital Natives/ Digital Immigrants: does the difference still exist?
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Coach, the American leather goods company, has been on a buying spree over the last two years, acquiring shoe brand Stuart Weitzman and handbag brand Kate Spade. Today, it announced that Coach Inc. would be renamed Tapestry, which would be the holding company for all three brands.
The name search, conducted by the Carbone Smolan Agency, took two to three months, the company told the New York Times. A list of thousands was narrowed to "tens"; these were then tested for legal compliance and cultural associations in the brands' key markets.
The company settled on Tapestry because it was easily understandable and did not sound too corporate, particularly when you compare it to LVMH, Kering, and other brands in the $80 billion global premium fashion market.
"No offense, but the average person doesn't know what LVMH is," Chris Paradysz, industry expert and founder of PMX, a market analytics firm, told Fast Company.
Paradysz believes that the renaming has a lot to do with Coach's desire to simplify the brand for consumers in an effort to better connect with them. Doing this also ensures that each of the brands is able to maintain a separate identity, rather than bleed together into a single unit. "They've been careful not to pollute the brands they've built or acquired," he says.
The new name goes into effect at the end of October; the stock symbol will change to TPR from COH.


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Chisunga is one of Malawi's better known teas. It is used quite extensively by the large tea blenders the world over. It has a character that tends to be somewhat malty but not overpowering. In tea tasting and tea blenders jargon, Malawi's (Malawi teas) are somewhat flavor neutral with reddish color, tending to mimic a Kenyan and generally slightly less expensive than a Kenya. Malawis are good for iced tea blends since they give good color and tend not to make the iced tea become cloudy.
Malawi, one of the more interesting tea producing nations is a landlocked country, bordered by Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Tanzania. The shortest distance to the sea from the center of landlocked Malawi is due south through Mozambique to the port of Beira. Regrettably, this route is fraught with danger. Mozambique has a considerable amount of guerrilla and anti-government activity (regardless of which government is in power). In the past it was not uncommon for rail lines and road links to be blown up or convoys attacked. As such, all the products from and for Malawi now take the following circuitous route. In the example of tea, it is trucked from Blantyre through a 150 mile corridor of Zimbabwe and then south to Johannesburg and finally by rail to the seaport at Durban, an overland route that is 1500 miles long compared to the 150 miles direct from Limbe to Beira. These problems were witnessed first-hand during a trip to Malawi in the late 1980's. During a stay at a tea estate called Zoa (on the border with Mozambique), there was a 6 hour battle taking place between two factions (the battle took place just 3000 yards down the road and across the river in Mozambique) Heavy caliber machine guns, mortars and two airplanes all entered into the fray. According to the estate owner, "Don't worry this goes on quite often."
Hot tea brewing method: Bring freshly drawn cold water to a rolling boil. Place 1 tea bag for each cup into the teapot. Pour the boiling water into the teapot. Cover and let steep for 3-7 minutes according to taste (the longer the steeping time the stronger the tea). Add milk and sugar to taste.
Iced tea brewing method: (to make 1 liter/quart): Place 5 tea bags into a teapot or heat resistant pitcher. Pour 1 1/4 cups of freshly boiled water over the tea. Steep for 5 minutes. Quarter fill a serving pitcher with cold water. Pour the tea into your serving pitcher straining the bags. Add ice and top-up the pitcher with cold water. Garnish and sweeten to taste. [A rule of thumb when preparing fresh brewed iced tea is to double the strength of hot tea since it will be poured over ice and diluted with cold water].
This rich, full bodied tea is what I grew up drinking in Malawi. I am SO thankful I can purchase it via the Internet now!


It's not easy to get the average person excited about electric cars, but the buzz at LCV2010 (the low carbon vehicle show) yesterday was palpable.
Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedfordshire was full of major manufacturers, famous designers, bold entrepreneurs and some of the cream of UK engineering talent. Despite all the challenges low-carbon vehicles still face, seeing so much enthusiasm and so many ideas all generated within our small island made you think that an electrified future may not that far off.
Perhaps the main reason that LCV made electric cars seem a more believable proposition was the amount of work being done to integrate them into our existing routines and expectations. Among the usual display of G-Wizs were electric BMWs, fuel cell taxis, hybrid Transits and a zero-emissions police car - a Mitsubishi iMiEV variant identical to the one currently being trialled by the West Midlands force.
Of course drivers still won't be changing gear, and are unlikely to hear a difference in the engine, but Lotus are hoping their licensed technology will make driving an electric car a more familiar and enjoyable experience to petrolheads – with synthesised engine sounds.
Europe, the US and Japan are all pursuing legislation to establish a minimum noise level for EVs and hybrids. And after nearly being run down by a virtually silent electric bus I could see why. However, as well as projecting sound outside the car to warn pedestrians, Lotus's technology pipes engine noise around the interior.
Offering a number of settings mimicking different-sized models, the technology uses the road speed to simulate gear changes and give drivers a better idea of what the engine is doing, as well as providing a feeling of greater control. Though some of the sounds were tinny and computergame-esque, others really could have you forgetting you were in anything but a normal car.
Plus the system can be personalised. 'We can make a mundane engine sound like a snarling sports car,' the Lotus engineer told me, before revealing the ultimate geek toy – the spaceship sound mode.
However good the simulation, EVs will always have requirements that conventional cars don't, charging being the obvious one. Still, a wealth of British firms are working on making that process faster, easier and cheaper. London-based Pod Point, for example, has introduced the first super-fast charger for the home. Fitted by a regular electrician, it claims to offer full battery repletion typically within three hours. And its sleek circular design fits neatly on the wall of the garage between the fuse box and the hosepipe rack.
Even better is the New Zealand firm that plans to launch a wireless charging system, removing the hazards and hassle of plugging in. And though it's not a British innovation, it's a good example of the UK's strength in the field. When I asked the CEO why he had come here to roll out the product he said it was an obvious choice: Britain had become a hub of activity and expertise for the electric vehicles industry. Looking around LCV, it was hard to disagree with him.
Custom engine noises to download – ideal for the facebook generation. Clarkson et al will have successors.
but "Wireless Charging"? how does that work? Not sure I'd want to get anywhere near a wireless signal carrying that amount of power . . . .
As a Jaguar driver I resent the implication that I am not used to driving at sustained speeds of less than 80 MPH. Has Mr Harris driven on the M25 recently?
Development of the EV will still depend on the batteries. Unitl they have many times more power and retention these cars will be a city runabout. It is a shame that all of the investment in EV's seem to be on body work build and power train development. If most of this investment or spare cash was collectively poured into battery development a breakthrough in this field would happen quicker and would reflect in new body designs and a more reliable and useful mode of transport would be developed. It is good to see the big companies spending time and resources in the current aim of producing an EV but this is nearly the cart before the horse syndrome.
Selling the concept to a majority of "joe public" – and "jane" of course – is probably the biggest challenge to the industry. While this event may attract businessmen as well as "Electric petrol-heads" The man in the street is very sceptical – until you explain the logic of "most users lifestyle suits electrics more than cars". e.g. charging while we sleep or work – driving for less than a couple of hours a day, etc. I haven't seen a real sales pitch yet… who will try it first?
Surely the power station to consumer transmission chain is lossy enough without introducing yet another loss mechanism with wireless charging?
I thought the fuel cell taxi was the most interesting vehicle present, but what a contrast between developments for city-based vehicles (electric, fuel cell, etc.) and for the commercials. There was a bus with what appeared to be a rather inadequate electric hybrid drive, and some other big trucks able to run on bio-diesel or CNG. So the advances seem to be passing by the commercial sector. Range and payload were the reasons as far as I could gather, but we should be able to do better !
Er, this palpable buzz…it wouldn't have anything to do with the local electricity sub-station working overtime to supply all those battery chargers?
I still can't quite understand why all electric vehicle groups can't have a standard battery pack for which a replacement can be swapped in a couple of minutes, a bit like pulling into a service station and filling up the petrol tank! Bigger packs for big vehicles, small packs for small vehicles – modular standard component parts and common connections making interchangeability between vehicle makes a doddle.
It can't be that simple though can it?
Not sure how the superfast charger works either. I'm only guessing but to charge a vehicle traction battery in 3hrs sounds likely to be a load of at least 20kW i.e. about 80amps on a standard 230V supply. All it needs is the 9kW shower and the cooker to be turned on as well and the main fuse which is likely to be 80 or 100amps will blow!
Electric cars are widely billed as being 'pollution free', when, in my view they should be billed as 'even more pollution somewhere else'.
Aside from the technical challenges of developing electric cars, and the limitations of the electricity distribution network, the inefficiently of power generation and supply lines must mean that electric will create significantly more pollution than vehicles equipped with modern internal combustion engines.
Electric vehicles may well improve air quality in our city centres, but until the capacity of nuclear and renewable sources is improved this will be at the cost of even greater carbon emissions overall.
One again, this is a case of pollution becoming too clean. If we were still burning fossil fuels using 1920's technology there would be no risk of global warming, as we would all choke on the smoke and fumes well before CO2 became an issue!
There is no such thing as a zero emissions car until the fuel powering it can be produced from zero emission feed stock.
Even so once produced this feedstock will still need power to process it into a useful form for powering cars.
Zero emissions are an oxymoron.
Do the spaceship noises come with laser gun noises as well? That'd be great fun….particularly at pedestrian crossings.
It is an interesting debate, but the crux of any electric vehicle is its battery storage capacity, range, and performance. How are the massively subsidised prices going to alter in the near future, and what is being done to address all these issues.
The noise is a problem, only a few days ago i saw a Prius travelling through a pedestrianised area and had many near misses. Why? people did not expect, or hear it coming, and before the critics jump on this, it was there legitimately. Perhaps the exhaust note of a Centurion tank is the best option.
This said, we still have to continue in other development areas to ensure our future success in this field.
Personally i will not look at one until it can do what my company BMW can, travel 700 miles with 4 passengers.
We had an EV trade show in Vancouver, BC, two nights ago. It reeked of government subsidy and much of it showed how little the manufacturer/designer side of the business thought we might get out of heavier conventional cars.
We can do much better and it will come with lighter stronger vehicles not converted overweight mini sized stuff. There is not much loss of carbon with a high tech vehicle yet – the manufacturing is very carbon intensive. I agree the artistry of the promotional material far exceeds the reality – besides it is the sun that warms the Earth, not carbon dioxide.
As a resident of a busy A road could I ask that the powers that be set the sound very very low and may be switch it off when the head lights are turned on. Until I read the bit about artificial noise I was looking forward to electric vehicles tip toeing past our house.
I suspect the issue with the "standard swappable battery pack" idea is cost based. These packs lose capacity with age so the swap economics would need to account for this as well as replacing defective packs.
Most of these EV's seem to shift the point of polution from the vehicle emissions to some other place. What is wrong with using rail prime moover technology to charge the batteries from a small internal combustion engine and thus reduce the overall carbon footprint of the vehicle.
If these are to be considered seriously on ecological grounds then the entire manufacturing process from obtaining raw materials to projected lifespan and cost of disposal at end of life have to be considered. As regards the article, I am glad to see that there is direct funding for research into a potentialy huge emrging market. The downside is the artificial engine noise – dear God, have we really come to this?
With regard to the idea of swappable standard battery packs. If one of the big problems is the variance in performance with age perhaps each pack should be fitted with a disharge rate / time monitor (surely not beyond the wit of the electronics bods). The user would then pay for the use they have had from the discharged set when changing over, rather than a nominal fee for the fresh set. Please note that I expect some shiney gee-gaw and a cut of the profits for this revoltuionary idea.
If all electric cars were put on charge at the same time as well as showers cookers etc. will the power stations be able to cope?
Swappable battery packs are not an option, and with good reasons; the firts being they have to be an integral part of the structure of the vehicle. This prevents them from being detachable units.
Insurance is another issue, there would be a massive fraudulent market for stolen battery packs, and no real way of tracing them.
If you bought a brand new vehicle and had swappable battery packs, would you want a secondhand one, possibly on its last legs. If it failed, who would be liable for the costs, and who would fund the charging sites and the huge numbers of battery packs required to be stocked.
Please forgive me S. Martin but whilst I am intrigued by your statement I must confess that I do not understand the reasoning behind it. I know that electric vehicles have been produced with the removable pack housed in a hollow central spine chassis. Why is this solution and other similar ones not acceptable? Whereas the form of a battery pack perhaps make them easier to steal than petrol their size and weight do not. Plus I presume a natural introduction would involve the secure provision for charging and storage at petrol stations or electric specific stations. Finally I would have thought that there would be a programme of planned obsolesence and withdrawal before ultimate failure. The setting up of a stock of spare batteries is thorny but not insoluble. The funding could come from a slight excess on the vehicle price or swapover charge.
Vehicles with removable battery packs are not meeting the proposed regulations for structural integrity, this is the issue. Where a removable battery pack is available, it is the insurers who have raised the issue of theft. This is because they have to be removed or changed easily and rapidly, so become a potential target, just like other stolen vehicle parts.
Are you aware of just how many Ford Transit's are stolen annually, and just for a criminal to remove the engine. This is a big problem for just one vehicle, now multiply it by every other vehicle on the road. You may say it is insurers over reacting, but they are the ones paying out, and we are the ones paying in.
Many figures have been put on the cost of constructing charging stations, and the cost of stocking them, some wildly misleading. Other problems are location, environmental emissions from charging have also been raised by several local authorities. Siting is also an issue, will local authorities have to provide them on prime city centre sites, and what criteria will they be exempt from.
None of the problems are insurmountable, but at what cost, and to whom.
1. Charging – Most people only have one vehicle, which has to meet all their requirements. So whilst overnight charging would be perfectly acceptable for commuting purposes (say 50 miles), it would not provide adequate range for extended journeys (e.g. 350 miles).
What is unacceptable about incorporating a relatively small Internal Combustion Engine, running at optimum effeciency, to charge the battery and extend the vehicle's range?
2. Mimimum Sound levels: Whilst some distinctive external sound may be required at low speeds, I see no need to add additional internal cabin noise (make it optional, perhaps?). At higher speeds the tyre noise will become significant anyway. For major roads, a reduction in vehicle noise would be a bonus to anyone living nearby!


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On this date in 1975 Mozambique gained independence from Portugal, becoming the People's Republic of Mozambique shortly thereafter. After only two years of independence, the country descended into an intense and protracted civil war lasting from 1977 to 1992. In 1994, Mozambique held its first multiparty elections and has remained a relatively stable presidential republic since.
Between the 1st and 5th centuries, Bantu-speaking peoples migrated from farther north and west. Swahili, and later also Arab, commercial ports existed along the coasts until the arrival of Europeans. The area was explored by Vasco da Gama in 1498 and colonized by Portugal from 1505. At first Portuguese colonists settled the coastal areas, but eventually pushed inland. Arab traders into the 19th century used Mozambique as a source of slaves.
As communist and anti-colonial ideologies spread out across Africa in the 1960s, many clandestine political movements were established in support of Mozambican independence. These movements claimed that since policies and development plans were primarily designed by the ruling authorities for the benefit of Mozambique's Portuguese population, little attention was paid to Mozambique's tribal integration and the development of its native communities. This affected a majority of the indigenous population who suffered both state-sponsored discrimination and enormous social pressure. Many felt they had received too little opportunity or resources to upgrade their skills and improve their economic and social situation to a degree comparable to that of the Europeans. Statistically, Mozambique's Portuguese whites were wealthier and more skilled than the black indigenous majority. As a response to the guerrilla movement, the Portuguese government from the 1960s and principally the early 1970s, initiated gradual changes with new socioeconomic developments and egalitarian policies for all.
The Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) initiated a guerrilla campaign against Portuguese rule in September 1964. This conflict – along with the two others already initiated in the other Portuguese colonies of Angola and Portuguese Guinea – became part of the Portuguese Colonial War (1961–1974). From a military standpoint, the Portuguese regular army maintained control of the population centers while the guerrilla forces sought to undermine their influence in rural and tribal areas in the north and west. As part of their response to FRELIMO, the Portuguese government began to pay more attention to creating favorable conditions for social development and economic growth.
After 10 years of sporadic warfare and Portugal's return to democracy through a leftist military coup in Lisbon, which replaced Portugal's Estado Novo regime for a military junta (the Carnation Revolution of April 1974), FRELIMO took control of the territory. Within a year, most of the 250,000 Portuguese in Mozambique had left – some expelled by the government of the nearly independent territory, some fleeing in fear – and Mozambique became independent from Portugal. In an act of vengeance, a law had been passed by the then relatively unknown Armando Guebuza in the FRELIMO party ordering the Portuguese to leave the country in 24 hours with only 20 kilograms (44 pounds) of luggage. Unable to salvage any of their assets, most of them returned to Portugal penniless.
Starting shortly after the independence, the country was plagued from 1977 to 1992 by a long and violent civil war between the opposition forces of anti-Communist Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) rebel militias and the FRELIMO regime. This conflict, combined with sabotage from the neighboring white-ruled state of Rhodesia and the apartheid regime of South Africa, ineffective policies, failed central planning, and the resulting economic collapse, characterised the first decades of Mozambican independence. This period was also marked by the exodus of Portuguese nationals and Mozambicans of Portuguese heritage, a collapsed infrastructure, lack of investment in productive assets, and government nationalization of privately owned industries as well as widespread famine.
Mozambique held elections in 1994, which were accepted by most parties as free and fair while still contested by many nationals and observers alike. FRELIMO won, under Joaquim Chissano, while RENAMO, led by Afonso Dhlakama, ran as the official opposition. In 1995, Mozambique joined the Commonwealth of Nations, becoming, at the time, the only member nation that had never been part of the British Empire.
By mid-1995, over 1.7 million refugees who had sought asylum in neighboring countries had returned to Mozambique, part of the largest repatriation witnessed in sub-Saharan Africa. An additional four million internally displaced persons had returned to their homes. In December 1999, Mozambique held elections for a second time since the civil war, which were again won by FRELIMO. RENAMO accused FRELIMO of fraud, and threatened to return to civil war, but backed down after taking the matter to the Supreme Court and losing.
Since then, due largely to sweeping economic reforms Mozambique has stabilized. The resettlement of civil war refugees and successful economic reform have led to a high growth rate: the country enjoyed a remarkable recovery, achieving an average annual rate of economic growth of 8% between 1996 and 2006 and between 6%–7% from 2006 to 2011. The devastating floods of early 2000 slowed GDP growth to 2.1% but a full recovery was achieved in 2001 with growth of 14.8%. Rapid expansion hinged on several major foreign investment projects, continued economic reform, and the revival of the agriculture, transportation, and tourism sectors. In 2013 about 80% of the population was employed in agriculture, the majority of whom were engaged in small-scale subsistence farming. This still suffers from inadequate infrastructure, commercial networks, and investment, but is turning around.
From a cook's perspective one of Mozambique's most important agricultural products is the piri-piri pepper, aka African bird's eye chile, an essential ingredient in many African and Portuguese dishes. Piri piri is Swahili for 'pepper pepper.' Other English language spellings may include pili pili in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or peri peri in Malawi, deriving from the various pronunciations of the word in parts of Bantu languages-speaking Africa. Piri-piri is the spelling of the name as used in the Portuguese language, as in the Portuguese-speaking Mozambican community.
Plants are usually very bushy and grow in height to 45–120 centimeters, with leaves 4–7 cm long and 1.3–1.5 cm wide. The fruits are generally tapered to a blunt point and measure up to 8 or 10 centimeters long. Immature pod color is green, mature color is bright red or purple. Some varieties measure up to 175,000 Scoville heat units, that is, fiercely hot. I've grown piri-piri in pots on the deck of my house in the New York Catskills with great success. Seeds are readily available online, and can be started indoors in temperate climates and then transplanted outdoors when frosts are over and night time temperatures do not drop too low.
Commercial piri-piri sauces are also easily found. I always had a bottle on hand in Buenos Aires, although I had to mail order it because Argentinos hate even the mild heat of black pepper. I have not found it in China yet, but there is scarcely any need given the penchant for mouth-searing dishes in my current home in Yunnan province.
Use piri-piri, either as a plain pepper or as a bottled sauce in any dish that you want to kick up a bit. It makes an excellent marinade mixed with fresh lemon juice for barbecued chicken or shrimp. If your taste buds lean to the hot side, have at it !!
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Port Vale's longest-serving player, Adam Yates, has agreed a new contract with the club.
Yates recently made a recovery from an injury that had sidelined for the whole of last season.
However, the club have announced that Yates has formally signed a new contract ahead of the new seaosn.
The defender first joined the Valiants in 2009 and is just four games away from 250 appearances for the Valiants.


We all know the days from date calendar are changed by the month or the year. A month is not always 30 days. It can be 30, 31, 28 and 29 days. The average days in 48 months are 30.4375 day. And days from date calendar in a year is 365 days (common years) or 366 days (leap years), and every four year there will be a leap year, so the average days in a year may be 365.25 days.
If you are a team leader working a project, you want a exactly time duration calculation to record how much time you have spent in this project, you have record it in a number like 4.52 year (a year number with decimal place). There is a time calculation to tell you the day's number you want know. So you don't have to worry about it anymore.
So, you have install and run the time duration calculation, you want know the exact days you have spent in the project, you can input 4.52 in the years , the number of days will be show immediately is 1,650.9 days. You can also know about the months or the weeks you spent on the interface is 54.24 months or 235.8 weeks. The time calculator for hours can tell you the hours you spent are 39,622.3. By recording these numbers, you can compare your working efficiency by your working hours.
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The time calculation can also do some other things for you when you deal with time caculate problems. Like you have met your boyfriend or your girlfriend like 1year, 4 months and 3 days, and you want know the hours you two have meet each other. With the time calculator for hours, you only need to input the days from date calendar in the corresponding blank, than your answer is out like 11,760 hours. You can tell him /her with this number. How romantic!
There are more functions in this time calculator for hours /years, you caculate the difference between two times and more function waitng for your try. You can get Advanced Date Time Calculator by the following button.
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Dr. Caleb Winfrey was a merchant and practicing physician at Lone Jack, Missouri at the start of the Civil War. Winfrey joined the Missouri State Guard as a surgeon and served in that capacity during the Battle of Wilson's Creek. Elected captain of a company in 1862, Winfrey fought for the Confederates at the Battle of Lone Jack. Appointed chief surgeon in Shelby's Iron Brigade, Winfrey was present during the Battle of Cane Hill, Prairie Grove and Newtonia. Winfrey served as a surgeon during Price's 1864 invasion of Missouri and stayed behind after the Battle of Westport to care for the Confederate wounded. After the war, Winfrey settled in Pleasant Hill, Missouri, where he resumed his medical practice.
At the beginning of the war Dr. Winfrey was a merchant and practicing physician at Lone Jack. Geo. B. Webb, who had served with Doniphan in Mexico, was a prominent, citizen in the same neighborhood. Webb and Winfrey were David and Jonathan over again. In the summer of 1862 these two men called their mutual friends together and organized them into a Confederate company. Dr. Winfrey was elected captain and Webb lieutenant- In a few days the company had its baptism of fire at the battle of Lone Jack. After the fight Dr. Winfrey was made surgeon of the Second (Days') Regiment, with the rank of major. Lieutenant Webb became captain and served in this capacity until he fell mortally wounded at the battle of Byram's Ford, near Westport, in 1864. As Captain Webb languished with his death wound on the field, Dr. Winfrey took him up and cared for him for two weeks until he died, then buried him beside his comrades. The body was afterwards reinterred at Forest Hill Cemetery.
Dr. Caleb Winfrey was born December 8, 1823, in Surry County, North Carolina. At the age of nineteen he came west and located near Chapel Hill, famous for its college. Young Winfrey taught school for awhile, and then attended the Medical Department of the St. Louis University, from which he graduated in 1847. In June of that year he married Miss Elizabeth Shore and settled at Lone Jack for the practice of his profession. In 1861 he had a lucrative practice, owned a large farm, and was proprietor of a drug and general store at Lone Jack. He enlisted as surgeon in the State Guards, and accompanied Colonel Gideon W. Thompson to Cowskin Prairie. At the battle of Wilson Creek his skill as a surgeon was invaluable. He was present at the battle of Lexington. He spent a part of the winter of 1862 with his family at Lone Jack—a time full of danger and narrow escapes. In the spring he and Webb organized Company C, which fought its first battle at Lone Jack. At the beginning of the battle Dr. Winfrey found the Federals entrenched in his store and in his dwelling adjoining. He led his company against them, but was repulsed in a bloody conflict. After falling back, he rallied his men and in a second charge dislodged the enemy and held the buildings to the end of the fight.
After the battle of Lone Jack, Dr. Winfrey went south with Hays' command. He was senior surgeon of Shelby's brigade, and was present at the battles of Cane Hill, Prairie Grove, and Newtonia. He was at the second battle of Springfield (January 8, 1803). He remained here after the Confederates withdrew, in charge of the hospital until the wounded were able to travel, when he accompanied them as prisoners of war to City Point, Virginia, where they were exchanged.
From City Point he set out to rejoin his command, and on his way arrived at Vicksburg just before the beginning of the siege. He saw the battles of Champion Hill and Big Black, was in Vicksburg during the siege, and remained there until the place capitulated. He met and conversed with General Grant. The return trip across the Mississippi River was a dangerous one, but he arrived safe at Price's army, in camp at Camden. He was at the principal battles in the operations against Steel, and in the autumn of 1864 came with the command on Price's great raid.
The wounded at the battle of Westport required many surgeons and Dr. Winfrey, at the request of General Price, remained to care for his soldiers and dying comrades. He arrived at St. Louis on his way back to the army, when news came that Lee had surrendered.
After the war, Dr. Winfrey enjoyed a very large practice for years at Pleasant Hill, Mo. In 1879 he moved to Kansas City, where he still lives.
Webb, William L. "Dr. Caleb Winfrey." In Battles and Biographies of Missourians, or, the Civil War Period of Our State, 328–30. Kansas City: Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., 1900. https://archive.org/stream/battlesbiographi00webb#page/328/mode/2up.
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