Why are the date and time on the reports different?
When you transfer memory data using oximeters that have internal clocks, the study start date and time are obtained from the oximeter, and reflect the time at which a valid saturation was first observed. The clock in the oximeter must be set to the correct time. If you are using oximeters that do not have internal clocks, the dates and times are dependant upon your entry after the data has been transferred.
If you are using the Nellcor N-200 for memory transfer, and the only problem is an incorrect year, this is because the N-200 does not send the year in its memory data, and the PROFOX software uses the year from the computer. Just set the computer date and time correctly. If you have transferred oximetry memory data, and then discover that the oximeters clock was incorrectly set, you may change the date and time of the oximetry test by selecting "Change date & time of current study" under "Utilities" in the main menu.
Why is the appearance of the printed report different?
When you select Print, make sure the correct printer is selected in the "Print" dialog box. If the report appearance is still wrong, make sure that you have the most recent printer device driver installed for the printer. If not, obtain and install the most recent printer device driver available for your printer. Most printer drivers can be downloaded for free from the printer manufacturer's Web site.
What are the computer requirements for the PROFOX programs?
2. CD-Rom drive (24x speed or higher).
3. 25 Mb of available disk storage (hard drive).
4. Video card, with minimum 640×480 resolution (800×600 or higher is recommended).
5. At least one available Serial communications port or USB to serial adaptor.
My laptop computer does not have a serial port it only has a USB port. How can I transfer data?
You can purchase a USB to 9-Pin Serial Converter DB9 similar to the Tripp-Lite USB to serial converter.
Why isn't the oximetry data transferring?
If the transfer program does not collect data, but continually states "Waiting for oximetry data…" you may have the serial cable connected to the wrong serial communications port, or have the wrong serial port selected by the software. To select a different serial port, click on the "Serial communications check" under "Utilities" in the main menu.
The serial cable may be incorrect. Please refer to the cable specifications in the PROFOX manual supplied with your software.
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Are you able to resist hugging a giant tree? Or reaching out to touch a special tree? I am not. Besides being able to walk right up to these trees and marvel in their magnificence, access to these tree also provides the opportunity to reflect on all of the American history they have been a part of.
It's fascinating to see the size of this tree in comparison to all of the forest around it. It indicates, along with the Beech below, that these trees were solo specimens in a field at some point. This accounts also for the width of the trees. Competition in a forest situation forces trees to grow upwards towards sunlight resulting in narrow trees. Trees out in the open can grow wide without the competition for sunlight.
A nice feature near these trees is the signage they have for the trees. While there is no other educational signage along the trail, these two trees are well interpreted. I especially appreciated the signage explaining why people should not carve into the tree bark. Beeches seem to be especially vulnerable to this with their smooth gray bark acting as canvas for so many tree maulers.
Both of these trees are in decline. The white oak has evidence of a lightning strike and the Beech appears to be struggling as well. But for now, they are here in their magnificence, continuing to provide ecological services and continuing to inspire and instill awe.
As you work way to or from these massive specimens, you will also find yourself traipsing through a large patch of Pawpaws (Asimina triloba). They were in bloom while we were there and the grove we were walking through went on for as far as the eye could see.
I never know just what I will encounter when venturing into a new park or forest or garden. The trick is to keep the eyes and the mind open, keep wandering and keep wondering.
Great post. Oh yes I am a tree lover.
Hi there. Thank you for stopping by and for following! Nice to meet another tree lover here!
Kathy, trees are one of my loves too. I connected with this blog on a few notes. One is the white oak. I grew up in a neighborhood where we had white oaks that were over 200 years old. Second is looking for Champion trees. On our property now, we have a large hemlock tree and a large hackberry tree. They are not Champions but are unusual to see in our area. Third, on our trip to Ireland last spring we learned that most of the trees were cleared for farming – how sad. Luckily, Killarney National Park is trying to preserve some specimen trees and we found one huge declining white? pine. By the way, the gardens there had the largest rhododendrons I have ever seen.
Hi Pam. Thanks for reading and for sharing your comments. Funny I'd like to visit Ireland some day but never thought of trees as one of the reasons to visit (it's one of the reasons I visit most other places I choose to go!) I'll have to make sure to keep that park in mind. Don't know if you watch CBS Sunday morning but they had a segment on the civil war witness trees that was fascinating and made me want to head on down and check them out. So happy my writing resonated with you. Best.


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const unsigned int MAX_THREADS = std::thread::hardware_concurrency();
unsigned long long largest_prime;
std::mutex LARGEST_PRIME_LOCK;

bool close_program = false;

//pre: fn takes no arguments.
//post: prints out the value of hte largest prime every 2 seconds.
void printLargestPrime() {
    while(!close_program) {
        LARGEST_PRIME_LOCK.lock();
        if (largest_prime != 0)
            std::cout << "the Largest prime is: " << largest_prime << std::endl;
        LARGEST_PRIME_LOCK.unlock();
        std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(2000));
    }
}

//pre integer_to_check must be declared and defined.
//post if number is prime and larger than largest_prime than largest_prime gets updated. No value returned.
void find_prime(const unsigned long long &integer_to_check) {
    Factor factor(integer_to_check);
    if(factor.check_is_prime())
    {
        LARGEST_PRIME_LOCK.lock();
        if (integer_to_check > largest_prime)
            largest_prime = integer_to_check;
        LARGEST_PRIME_LOCK.unlock();
    }
}

//pre: start and finish must be declared and defined with positive integers;
//post:functions ends when i reaches finish. looks for all prime numbers in interval by passing values into find_prime fn.
void findPrimeInInterval(unsigned long long start, const unsigned long FINISH) {

    if (start % 2 == 0)
        ++ start;

    for (unsigned long long i = start; i < FINISH; i+=2) {
        if (close_program) break;
        find_prime(i);
    }
}

//pre i and max_threads must be declared and defined with positive integers.
//post: no value returned. spawns threads to to calculate prime numbers in an interval.
void thread_spawner (unsigned long long start, unsigned int max_threads) {

    unsigned long long threads_interval_begin = start;
    std::future<void> *future;
    std::list<std::future<void>*> threads;

    // loops while program close command has not been given.
    while(!close_program) {
        if (threads.size() < max_threads) {

            try {
                future = new std::future<void>;
                // CREATES THREADS BREAKING PROBLEM INTO SECTIONS OF 3,000,000 EACH
                *future = std::async(findPrimeInInterval, threads_interval_begin, threads_interval_begin + 3000000ULL);
                threads_interval_begin += 3000000ULL;
                threads.push_back(future);
            }
            catch(std::system_error &e) {
                std::cout << "\n\nSystem error: " << e.what() << "\n\n";
                std::cout << &e;
            }

        }
        else {

            std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(1000));

            for (std::list<std::future<void>*>::iterator itr = threads.begin(); itr != threads.end(); ++itr) {

                std::future<void> *thread = *itr;
                auto status = thread->wait_for(std::chrono::seconds(0));

                if (status == std::future_status::ready) {
                    delete *itr;
                    itr = threads.erase(itr);
                }
            }
        }

        start+=2;
    }
    while (threads.size() > 0)
        for (std::list<std::future<void>*>::iterator itr = threads.begin(); itr != threads.end(); ++itr) {
            std::future<void> *thread = *itr;
            auto status = thread->wait_for(std::chrono::seconds(0));
            if (status == std::future_status::ready) {
                delete *itr;
                itr = threads.erase(itr);
            }
        }

}

//pre: num_to_factor must be decalared and defined with positive integer.
void factor_number (const unsigned long long &num_to_factor) {

    Factor factor(num_to_factor);
    factor.factor_int();
    factor.print_factors();
    if (factor.is_prime) {
        LARGEST_PRIME_LOCK.lock();
        if(num_to_factor > largest_prime)
            largest_prime = num_to_factor;
        LARGEST_PRIME_LOCK.unlock();
    }

}

void check_if_prime(const unsigned long long &num_to_factor) {

        Factor factor(num_to_factor);
        if (factor.check_is_prime()) {
            std::cout << num_to_factor << " is a Prime \n";
            LARGEST_PRIME_LOCK.lock();
            if (num_to_factor > largest_prime)
                largest_prime = num_to_factor;
            LARGEST_PRIME_LOCK.unlock();
        }
        else std::cout << num_to_factor <<" is not a Prime\n";

}

//pre: base_value and max_threads must be delcared and defined with positive integers.
//post:
void run_continuous_calculations(const unsigned long long &base_value, const unsigned int &max_threads) {
    bool thread_spawn_running = false;
    std::string command  = "";
    std::future<void> future;

    future = std::async(thread_spawner, base_value, max_threads);
    thread_spawn_running = true;
    while(!close_program) {

        std::cout << "Enter Command: ";
        std::cin >> command;
        std::cout << "\n";

        if (command == "q" || command == "Q") {
            close_program = true;
        }
        else if (command == "L" || command == "l") {
            LARGEST_PRIME_LOCK.lock();
            if (largest_prime != 0)
                std::cout << "the Largest prime is: " << largest_prime << std::endl;
            else {
                std::cout << "no prime found yet \n";
            }
            LARGEST_PRIME_LOCK.unlock();
        }

        else if (command == "m" || command == "M") {
            std::cout << "l - prints largest current prime\n q - quits program\n";
        }

        else
            std::cout << "Invalid command 'm' for menu \n";

    }

    std::cout << "closing program please wait for threads to stop \n";
    std::cout << "...\n";

    if (thread_spawn_running) {
        while (future.wait_for(std::chrono::seconds(0)) == std::future_status::timeout) {
            std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(100));
        }
    }
}

int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
    int c,
        max_threads = 0;
    unsigned long long base_value = 0;
    char * end;
    bool l_flag = false,
         c_flag = false,
         b_flag = false;

    if (MAX_THREADS == 0) {
        std::cout<<"System Max Threads 0. \n Program Exiting\n";
        return 0;
    }

    while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "lc:b:f:c:")) != -1) {
        switch (c) {
            case 'f' :
                unsigned long long number_to_factor;

                if (*optarg == '-')
                    throw std::invalid_argument("must pass in positive integer");

                try {
                    number_to_factor = std::strtoull(optarg, &end, 10);
                }
                catch (std::exception const & e) {
                    std::cout << "number to factor must be a positive integer \nerror: " << e.what() << std::endl <<"program terminating \n";
                    abort();
                }

                factor_number(number_to_factor);

            case 'l' :
                l_flag = true;
                break;

            case 'c' :
                c_flag = true;

                if (*optarg == '-')
                    throw std::invalid_argument("xmust pass in positive integer");

                if (l_flag) {

                    try {
                        max_threads = atoi(optarg);
                    }
                    catch (std::exception const & e) {
                        std::cout << "thread limit must be a positive integer \nerror: " << e.what() << std::endl <<"program terminating \n";
                        abort();
                    }
                    if (max_threads > MAX_THREADS)
                        max_threads = MAX_THREADS;
                }
                else {
                    unsigned long long num_to_check;

                    try {
                        num_to_check = strtoull(optarg, &end, 10);
                    }
                    catch (std::exception const & e) {
                        std::cout << "argument must be a positive integer \nerror: " << e.what() << std::endl <<"program terminating \n";
                        abort();
                    }
                    check_if_prime(num_to_check);
                }

                break;

            case 'b':
                b_flag = true;

                try {
                    base_value = std::strtoll(optarg, &end, 10);
                }
                catch (std::exception const & e) {
                    std::cout << "base number input must be a positive integer \nerror: " << e.what() << std::endl <<"program terminating \n";
                    abort();
                }
                break;

            default:
                abort();
        }

    }

    if (b_flag || (c_flag && l_flag))  {
        if (!b_flag) {
            std:: cout << "Enter Base Number 'must be positive integer'\n";
            std::cin  >> base_value;
        }
        if (!(l_flag && c_flag))
            max_threads = MAX_THREADS;
        run_continuous_calculations(base_value, max_threads);
    }

    return 0;
}

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How Things Work: Winglets
You know those things on the wingtips of airliners that stick straight up? This is why you're seeing more of them.
George C. Larson
British Airways Boeing 747 with winglets. Adrian Pingstone
Winglets reduce wingtip vortices, the twin tornados formed by the difference between the pressure on the upper surface of an airplane's wing and that on the lower surface. High pressure on the lower surface creates a natural airflow that makes its way to the wingtip and curls upward around it. When flow around the wingtips streams out behind the airplane, a vortex is formed. These twisters represent an energy loss and are strong enough to flip airplanes that blunder into them.
Winglets produce an especially good performance boost for jets by reducing drag, and that reduction could translate into marginally higher cruise speed. But most operators take advantage of the drag reduction by throttling back to normal speed and pocketing the fuel savings.
Several airliners use them. The Airbus A319 and A320 have very small upper and lower winglets. The longer-range twin-engine A330 and four-engine A340 have conventional winglets, as do Boeing 747-400s. Aviation Partners, a Seattle, Washington company, has a new design it calls a "blended" winglet. The Boeing Business Jet (opposite, top), a derivative of the Boeing 737, has a set of the firm's eight-foot winglets with a curving transition from wing to winglet that is characteristic of the company's design.
In 1976, shortly after an energy crisis sent fuel prices skyward, Richard Whitcomb, a NASA aerodynamicist, published a paper that compared a wing with a winglet and the same wing with a simple extension to increase its span. As a basis for comparing both devices, the extension and the winglet were sized so that both put an equal structural load on the wing. Whitcomb showed that winglets reduced drag by about 20 percent and offered double the improvement in the wing's lift-to-drag ratio, compared with the simple wing extension.
The aspect ratio of a wing is the relationship between its span and its chord-the distance from leading edge to trailing edge. A U-2 has a high aspect ratio; an F-104 has a low one. A wing with high aspect ratio will provide longer range at a given cruise speed than a short, stubby wing because the longer wing is less affected, proportionally, by the energy lost to the wingtip vortex. But long wings are prone to flex and have to be strengthened, which adds weight. Winglets provide the effect of increased aspect ratio without extending the wingspan. One rule of thumb says that for an increase in wing-bending force equal to that of a one-foot increase in span, a wing's structure can support a three-foot winglet that provides the same gain as a two-foot span extension.
The airflow around winglets is complicated, and winglets have to be carefully designed and tested for each aircraft. Cant, the angle to which the winglet is bent from the vertical, and toe, the angle at which the winglets' airfoils diverge from the relative wind direction, determine the magnitude and orientation of the lift force generated by the winglet itself. By adjusting these so that the lift force points slightly forward, a designer can produce the equivalent of thrust. A sailboat tacking sharply upwind creates a similar force with its sail while the keel squeezes the boat forward like a pinched watermelon seed.
If winglets are so great, why don't all airplanes have them? Because winglets are a tradeoff: In the highly visible case of the 777, an airplane with exceptionally long range, the wings grew so long that folding wingtips were offered to get into tight airport gates. Dave Akiyama, manager of aerodynamics engineering in Boeing product development, points out that designing winglets can be tricky-they have a tendency to flutter, for example. "We find that it really doesn't matter what kind of wingtip device you use-they're all like span," he says. "The devil is in the details. Span extensions are the easiest and least risky." In the past, winglets were more likely to be retrofitted to an existing wing than to be designed in from the start, but now that is beginning to change. Unlike those tailfins on cars, winglets really work.
George C. Larson | READ MORE
George C. Larson served as editor of Air & Space from 1985 to 2005. He is currently an inactive pilot, but holds a commercial pilot's license, with instrument and multi-engine ratings. He is between airplanes at this time, but has owned or operated a Grumman American AA-5B Tiger and a Mooney 201. He has been writing about aviation since 1972, when he joined the staff of Flying Magazine.

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In June, Bernie Carbo`s mother decided life had become too painful. She drank a cupful of drain cleaner, and after the chemicals ate away at her insides for 45 days, she was dead.
Six weeks later, Carbo`s grieving father died after a massive heart attack. Bernie Carbo, his parents` only child, succumbed to depression and stress himself, and three weeks later admitted he was an alcoholic.
So on Oct. 15, Carbo sought relief in the manner that was most natural for him.
He dropped 30 pounds. He bought some cleats.
He started playing baseball again.
''Baseball forgives,'' Carbo says as he tugs on the uniform of the Winter Haven Super Sox of the newly created Seniors Professional Baseball Association.
Carbo, 42 and as outgoing and sincere as ever, has come full circle. And because of people like him and SPBA Commissioner Curt Flood, so has baseball. Carbo, who joined the Cincinnati Reds in 1970 as the game`s first hippie, and five years later launched perhaps the most dramatic homer hit against the Reds, last swung at a pitch in the major leagues with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1980.
He hated the game when he departed, convinced that the lifestyle, salary disputes and restrictive policies of management had robbed him of his youth and his sanity. He gave his glove and his spikes away. He kept what was left of his pride.
Carbo moved back to his home town of Wyandotte, Mich., 20 miles south of Detroit, and opened a hair salon, a move that surprised none of the outfielder`s former teammates. He didn`t touch a baseball-or exercise-until last year, when he began coaching a local high school team.
When he received a letter from SPBA founder Jim Morley in January, Carbo thought seriously of a reunion with his first love. When his string of personal tragedies struck, he saw it as the perfect tonic.
The Super Sox offered him a job with the curious title of community relations director-designated hitter, a position that would pay him $18,000 to play and $32,000 to relate. He sold his hair-cutting business, which had never netted him more than $17,000 in a year. He sold his home in Michigan and bought one here the same day, toting his wife and three teenage daughters south with him.
''The karma was just right,'' he said. ''I felt I needed to get away. I needed an escape. Baseball was part of it.
And bantering playfully with former teammates such as Bill Lee, Jim Willoughby, Ferguson Jenkins and Rick Wise has proved therapeutic for a man who never felt he had to mask his emotions. The improbability of such an opportunity is not lost on Carbo.
It used to be that baseball was the only thing that didn`t make Carbo grin.
He burst onto the scene with the Reds in 1970 after hitting .361 with Triple-A Indianapolis and being selected as the minor-league player of the year. He hit .310 with 21 homers in 365 at-bats for the Reds in 1970, and was chosen rookie of the year.
''But I was the rebel,'' he says. ''I was baseball`s first hippie. I showed up with long hair, blue jeans, a T-shirt and sandals. Nobody on the Reds even owned jeans. They thought I was a freak.
When the Reds offered Carbo just over the league minimum of $12,000 to play in 1971, he held out of spring training. He did the same thing the next year and approached Marvin Miller, then executive director of the players association, about challenging baseball`s antitrust exemptions.
''It was almost me instead of Andy Messersmith who was the one who helped get free agency,'' Carbo says.
Carbo was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals and then to the Boston Red Sox, for whom he hit the dramatic pinch-hit, three-run homer in the eighth inning to tie Game 6 of the 1975 World Series against the Reds, making Carlton Fisk`s famous game-winning homer off the foul pole possible.
When the Red Sox tried to cut his salary by 20 percent the next year, Carbo found himself playing in Milwaukee, where he suffered a nervous breakdown.
''And if it weren`t for baseball,'' Carbo says, ''I don`t think I`d know how to deal with those things. In baseball, you can go 0 for 4 one day and come right back the next and go 4 for 4.


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Bury Mercury > Sport
Football club blasts League: 'Either it is unsafe to play football with spectators.... or not'
Mike Bacon
Ram Meadow, home of Bury Town - Credit: Archant
The directors of Bury Town Football Club have hit out at the Isthmian League, as the Blues season continues to be suspended.
The Ram Meadow club, who are in Isthmian North, have played just four league games so far this campaign. And the fear is the season will not get finished.
The Isthmian League is part of the 'Trident League' group of Leagues - Isthmian, Southern and Northern, who all elected not to re-start in November - but now the Northern Premier League is re-starting on Saturday. The Isthmian League is not. Something the Bury directors are asking questions as to why.
Bury Town chairman, Russell Ward
In a statement, the directors of Bury Town said:
Bury Town FC remain disappointed that the Isthmian League continues to suspend its season in light of the tier systems across the country, despite the fact that there is no national lockdown and paying crowds are permitted at non-league matches in all tiers.
When the 'Trident Leagues' elected not to re-start as planned in November, it was based on a vote from every club in all three leagues. As the majority of clubs in the Northern Premier League were in Tier 3 and not permitted spectators at the time, the vote was in favour of not re-starting the season.
What is also disappointing is the Northern Premier League have now chosen to break away from the 'Trident Leagues' partnership and their season is re-starting for clubs who wish to take part on Saturday 19th December. The Isthmian and Southern Leagues remain suspended. We presume this is the end of the 'Trident Leagues' partnership going forward?
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It is also hard to understand that the Football Association insist that their FA Trophy and FA Vase fixtures go ahead as planned, either it is unsafe to play football with spectators at our level or it is not.
Having only played 4 league matches heading into the 2nd week in January, it will be hard for us to see a way to complete all our League fixtures. Pressure will be put on our players to play up to three times a week to complete the season.
We were prepared to re-start the season despite the restrictions on crowd levels and food and drink sales and make the best of a bad situation, unfortunately others were happy to sit back and put obstacles in the way of every suggestion.
We would like to thank our players, staff, sponsors and supporters for your continued support and we hope to have some positive news in January.
Bury Town Football Club
Non-League Football


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Squeezed Middle Named Word Of The Year
Oxford Dictionaries has announced its word of the year, and it is a true reflection of British society over the last 12 months.
"Squeezed Middle", a term coined by Labour leader Ed Miliband to describe the large portion of society most affected by Government cuts and the economic downturn, has won the accolade in both the UK and the USA, which normally selects a different word.
Some press reports have complained about the fact that the winner of word of the year is a phrase, but compound nouns have distinct meanings and therefore act like words, so that argument is a red herring. Instead, we should focus on just what this year's winner and runners-up say about the state of the country today.
Wordability has frequently mentioned that new words and usages come from all sides, with technology a particularly rich vein, though music, sport and television also contribute their fair share of neologisms.
But squeezed middle comes straight from news reporting and shows that this year, minds have been concentrated on serious issues. This is reflected by the other words on the shortlist, which are other brand new words, new usages of existing words or words gaining particular prominence: Arab Spring, describing events in the Middle East earlier this year; Occupy, the movement to occupy prominent buildings as a protest over perceived economic injustice; Phone Hacking, the much-publicised practice of intercepting people's phone messages; Hacktivism, gaining unauthorised access to networks for political reasons; and Sodcasting, the only non-newsworthy item on the shortlist and the act of playing music through your mobile phone in a public place.
What this list shows us is the power of the media and the way that when particular stories start to grow and gain coverage, they have to have a neat word to encapsulate their essence. Coining the right one can help to define the argument and create a perception in people's minds about what the story is about. The internet and 24-hour news need these words and then become the perfect vehicles for disseminating this.
As well as really getting to the heart of what the economic crisis means for millions of people, I think there is another reason why squeezed middle works so well. It sounds like it always existed. When you hear the phrase, you assume it is a demographic description that has been used for eternity, rather than a phrase of the times, and this slightly timeless quality probably explains why it has stuck.
As for my word of the year? Well, since this blog has only been operating for a short time, I can suggest Doing a Tevez, Shovel-Ready and Haircut as possible candidates. But of course, there can only be one winner, and I look forward to seeing it in every dictionary next year. For me, the word of the year for 2011 is of course Wordability.
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Hamburger Badmintonmeisterschaften werden seit der Saison 1955/56 ausgetragen. Sie stellten in den ersten Jahren die zweithöchste Meisterschaftsebene im Badminton in Deutschland dar und waren die direkte Qualifikation für die deutschen Meisterschaften. Mit der Einführung der Norddeutschen Badmintonmeisterschaften in der Saison 1961/62 wurden die Titelkämpfe um eine Ebene tiefergestellt.

Titelträger

Weblinks
badminton.de

Deutsche Badmintonmeisterschaft
Erstveranstaltung 1956
Badmintonwettbewerb in Hamburg
Liste (Badminton)

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Aleksandr Anatolievici Romankov (în , ) este un fost scrimer sovietic specializat pe floretă, laureat cu cinci medalii olimpice, inclusiv una de aur, în trei participații la Jocurile Olimpice. A fost cvintuplu campion mondial la individual (în 1974, 1977, 1979, 1982 și 1983) și triplu campion mondial pe echipe (în 1974, 1979 și 1982).  Pentru performanța sa, a fost înclus în anul 2004 în Guinness World Records și în 2013 în Hall of Fame-ul Scrimei al Federației Internaționale de Scrimă.

Din 2006 până în 2012, a fost președintele Federației Belaruse de Scrimă.

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Legături externe

  Alexander Romankov pe Fundația "Viitor Scrimei"

Scrimeri olimpici sovietici
Scrimeri la Jocurile Olimpice de vară din 1976
Scrimeri la Jocurile Olimpice de vară din 1980
Scrimeri la Jocurile Olimpice de vară din 1988
Floretiști
Medaliați olimpici cu aur sovietici
Medaliați olimpici cu argint sovietici
Medaliați olimpici cu bronz sovietici


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Are you wanting to convert to RCA from an HDMI equipped FoxBox?
Or do you have a non HDMI FoxBox, and want to go from that to Amp?
You're already on the right track. Have you got iQ4's audio output set to MPEG.
I'd try Optical out from the Samsung to your converter.
Don't forget to change the settings on the Samsung.
So, HDMI from iQ4, to Samsung.
From Samsung, use the Optical out from it, to your converter, then en route to your Krell.
But yay you've sorted it. Sweet.
Best to use a HDMI Audio Splitter.
This will split the audio from the HDMI to either a fibre optic audio or analogue line level output (RCA red and white) to connect to your amplifier.


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McCormick taps IBM AI to help create new seasoning products
Brittany A. Roston - Feb 4, 2019, 6:55pm CST
Spice company McCormick has revealed that it tapped IBM's artificial intelligence to bolster its flavor expertise. The company plans to launch a new product line called ONE later this year that features recipe mix flavors for a handful of popular dishes, including New Orleans Sausage and Tuscan Chicken. The new offerings are the by-product of McCormick's vast data and IBM's AI.
As with scent, flavor is a science. A vast number of spices exist that can be used to create a huge number of flavor combinations, but developing these new recipes takes time. Experts are tasked with not only identifying spices for any particular recipe, but also figuring out the right proportions in which to combine them, all the while considering things like individual variations in taste perception and culture preferences.
McCormick approached IBM about using its artificial intelligence technology to augment its existing work, the company revealed in an announcement today. According to IBM, its AI algorithms are able to help predict substitutions for formulas, the right ratios of materials for a recipe, and even how people are likely to respond to the flavor.
As well, the AI can predict how novel a system-generated formula is. McCormick was able to bring a huge amount of applicable data to the table, according to IBM, including its historical flavor formulas, test results from experiments and consumers, raw materials available for use, and more. The project between the two companies has been ongoing for four years.
Sometime around this summer, McCormick plans to launch its new ONE product line with flavor creations made possible, in part, by IBM's AI. The company explains that its artificial intelligence was able to help McCormick come up with flavor solutions that were otherwise missed while speeding up the entire process.
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South African leader King Charles III's first state visitor
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London—King Charles III on Tuesday welcomed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to London for a milestone first state visit of his reign.
Gun salutes were fired across London as Charles and Queen Consort Camilla were joined by heir to the throne Prince William and his wife Catherine to greet Ramaphosa for a ceremonial welcome at Horse Guards Parade.
The monarch and Ramaphosa, both dressed in dark overcoats against the November chill, inspected the guard of honour together.
The parties then travelled to Buckingham Palace in a carriage procession escorted by mounted soldiers from the Household Cavalry.
The route along The Mall was decorated with the British and South African flags with the band of the Scots Guards playing the national anthems of both countries as the king and his guest arrived at the palace.
The two-day visit sees Charles finally presiding over proceedings after decades playing a supporting role to his mother Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September.
For Ramaphosa, a protege of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, however, it comes amid political difficulties and a threat of impeachment at home.
In the last state visit of Elizabeth's record-breaking 70-year reign, the queen hosted US president Donald Trump and his wife Melania in June 2019.
Later in the day, Ramaphosa will visit parliament for an address to both the upper and lower houses.
A tour of Westminster Abbey will include the memorial stone for Mandela, who served as president of South Africa between 1994 and 1999.
In the evening, Ramaphosa will attend a state banquet at Buckingham Palace.
Ramaphosa is also due to visit Downing Street for talks with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
'Turbocharge growth'
At the start of the visit, the UK and South Africa governments announced the launch of the next phase of the UK-South Africa Infrastructure Partnership.
"South Africa is already the UK's biggest trading partner on the continent, and we have ambitious plans to turbocharge infrastructure investment and economic growth together," Sunak said.
Trade with South Africa, the continent's second biggest economy, is worth £10.7 billion ($12.7 billion) a year.
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the choice of Ramaphosa for Charles's first state visit was a sign of the UK's "enduring commitment" to Africa, even as it eyes new partners in Asia post-Brexit.
But he added: "It's important… that we also show that it's not going to be at the expense of the incredibly important partnerships we have through the Commonwealth, through international fora, as well as the bilateral relationship (with South Africa)."
As well as trade, climate change and Charles's vision for the Commonwealth are also expected to be discussed during the visit.
But political problems in South Africa threaten to cast a shadow over the ceremonial pomp and splendour of the state visit.
Ramaphosa is at risk of impeachment for allegedly covering up a crime, accused of concealing a multi-million-dollar cash theft.
He faces an accusation that he failed to report a heist at his luxury cattle farmhouse in which robbers took four million dollars in cash, and instead organised for the robbers to be kidnapped and bribed into silence.
He has faced calls to resign and the deeply divided ruling African National Congress (ANC) is due to hold a vote on its leadership in December.
The president has acknowledged a burglary but denies kidnapping and bribery, saying he reported the break-in to the police.
South African lawmakers will discuss next month the findings of a special panel tasked with establishing whether Ramaphosa should face impeachment.
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A beautiful townhouse tucked away in the Beyoglu district of Istanbul is not only the residence but the shop of Interior Designer Asli Tunca. One-of-a-kind antiques and Ottoman-inspired reproductions are showcased with restrained simplicity. Bare marble and wood floors are framed by steel-framed windows and doors which open to a graveled courtyard garden. The eclectic collection of antiques and artifacts artfully displayed throughout the residence and garden define the minimalistic and luxurious style the designer is known for.
This is a repost from November 2013.
Me too! It makes me want to visit Istanbul.


With one of the nation's highest rates of skipping (either a few classes or a whole day), the Boston School District is trying some unconventional tactics in its campaign against absenteeism, including making sure all 100 students in Greater Egleston Community High School have a new Swatch with a built-in alarm this fall.
Beatriz Zapater, director of Greater Egleston, an alternative high school, decided to make a bid for a grant after asking a gathering of students how many had alarm clocks. ''Only 6 hands out of 80 went up,'' she said. ''This is something practical to try.
The watches, which the students got on Friday, are only a tiny piece of a $2.5 million districtwide war on truancy, with grant money for a variety of carrot-and-stick approaches coming from private and Federal sources.
The $7,000 for Greater Egleston's watches, for example, was donated by Andy Wilson, the founder of Boston Duck Tours, which puts tourists in refurbished World War II amphibious vehicles and rumbles them around Boston streets and then up the Charles River. Mr. Wilson has also given $60,000 to the English High School, a public school in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston, which will give a cash prize every week to the student with the best attendance.


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we have been well conditioned for pace of change with consumer electronics over the past 10 years and I think that has occurred to a lesser degree with the rapid advances in auto features even in current ICE fleet - im pretty sure their will be a health "bargain" orientated market for older EV technology if the underlying quality holds up - despite any gap in features with newer models.
Article on latest report on cost comparison https://thedriven.io/2019/04/17/electric-cars-cheaper-than-petrol-diesel-from-2022-as-battery-costs-plummet/?utm_source=RE+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5ba60f7e40-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_16_11_47&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_46a1943223-5ba60f7e40-40268281 New analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance suggests that from 2022, the cost of electric cars will start to drop below that of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. It has been noted, not least by today's recent poll issued by the Climate Council, that many drivers are waiting until electric cars are at least as affordable as ICE equivalents before making the switch to electric. They may not have to wait long. As noted by Nathaniel Bullard at Bloomberg, " The crossover point — when electric vehicles become cheaper than their combustion-engine equivalents — will be a crucial moment for the EV market." For this reason, BloombergNEF regularly assesses the cost of purchasing EVs against equivalent ICE models, and Bullard notes that the disparity between EV/ICE pricing is getting smaller every year. In this year's bottom-up analysis, the figures indicate that as soon as 2022, large EVs in the EU will be cheaper than their ICE equivalents. The reason behind this is by and large due to falling battery prices – which for years amounted to around half the total cost of an electric car. But that percentage is less and less, with batteries in today's EVs only accounting for a third of the total cost. By 2025, BloombergNEF's analysis predicts it will be as low as 25%. Falling battery costs are not the only contributor to price parity for EVs, author of the BloombergNEF report Nikolas Soulopoulos notes. Chassis and body costs will also drop, he says, while the same are likely to rise for ICE vehicles that will need to add measures to comply with stricter emissions targets. Additionally, with market demand increasing for electric cars, large-scale production (and hence per unit cost reductions) of electric drivetrains will also become a factor in falling EV prices – in fact, Soulopoulos suggests that by 2030, motors, inverters and power electronics costs could be 25-30% less than today's costs. The figures from BloombergNEF's analysis adds weight to similar recent reports, such as one from the International Council on Clean Transportation that says that electric cars could be cheaper than petrol/diesel as soon as 2025. Another, issued in January by market analysis and research firm Deloitte, says that with 21 million EVs predicted to be on the road by 2030, the total cost of ownership for EVs could be on par with ICE equivalents as soon as 2021 in the UK, and globally by 2022. This would be good news for Australians, who are seemingly putting off buying a new car over the next four years while they wait for more electric options. With half of 861 Australian voters surveyed in the poll issued today by the Climate Council saying they will wait until electric cars are as affordable as petrol and diesel equivalents, price parity for electric cars won't come a moment too soon. So if we just agree to accept this prediction as accurate surely we would have to see 50% of all new cars sol in Australia being electric by 2030!!! That's another 7 years on with additional technology advances. Sure ICE might try and compete in some segments and cut costs but if most of the main players head down this path its almost a done deal. Now of course these predictions could be wrong - but buy how much - are we really thinking that in 2040 or 2050 the vehicle fleet will be run by petrol or diesel? I think its much more realistic that change will come in the next 5 to 10 years and it will be really fast - and I can tell you from direct experience the public servants who should be planning for this are a long way behind the technology - as are most of the politicians. - think about it - even if only one party is finally talking about this as a realistic option do you think they are ahead of the game - do you think they are that smart!!!! Governments in Australia have been asleep at the wheel on transport policy for the past 2 decades - and the past 5 years in a really big way - blind freddy new we where heading for massive change! Ask yourself are feeling lucky punk? Do you think you can rely on state and federal governments to get the policy setting and infrastructure planning right?
just listened to toady's episode of conversations with Richard Fidler - interviewing Mark Scott - no direct reference to electric cars - but a great discussion about change and his experience/perspectives with technology change in media/society - eg apple iphone, streaming etc - great insights into how little "the experts" actually understood what was coming at them so quickly - we don't know what will happen for certain but all those that question the pace of change we might see should listen to this - just to help us all open our minds as to what might occur!
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is that a Nissan with a merc badge on it?


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Blood glucose levels in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients should be well controlled to prevent complications. In addition to diet and the use of drugs, nutritional status is known also play a role in maintaining blood glucose. This study aims to determine the association between nutritional status and blood glucose level of T2DM patients. This cross sectional study using T2DM outpatients at Endocrine Unit of RSUD dr Soetomo Surabaya on January-February 2017. The variables were nutritional status (body mass index/BMI) and fasting blood glucose (FBG). Primary data collected by measuring the weight and height and secondary data by looking at FBG result from patient's medical record. The data was processed using SPSS program version 20. There were 65 subjects who met the criteria. The result showed 72.9% of patients had more nutritional status with an average BMI 26.06±4.625 kg/m2 and 61.52% had poor blood glucose levels with an average GDP of 142.17±44.012 mg/dL. Pearson test result showed an association between nutritional status and FBG with p value 0.04 and association coefficient value 0.256.


An Option to Force sequential session downloading, ie max one session active at a time via menu 'rules'/'performance' - is this currently possible? If so, how could it be implemented? If not, could it be added please?
This would be very useful to me for both the examining/optimising of the download order of a sites scripts and other resources, as well as for allowing all sessions to complete without stalling on low bandwidth/unreliable connections, like mine.
The same downloads stalling problem also applies to sites with many large .JS, .CSS & large image files loading simultaneously, for example. Using Fiddlers Autoresponder *Delay:xxxx doesn't seem to help much unfortunately. Limiting TCP connections both per server & globally via registry mods seem to be getting ignored in my Windows 10 Home. If anyone knows of any methods to accomplish this it is appreciated.
Throttling like this is possible today (and can be simplistically emulated by simply enabling Request Breakpoints) but because of how browsers work, download order should not be considered "stable."
"Stalled" responses will eventually time out, but the timeouts are VERY long by default.


Winter time is here, the days have become shorter and the evenings darker. For most of us it's the signal of cosy nights in and that Christmas will soon be upon us.
But for people with dementia this shift can have a dramatic effect on their behaviour.
Light plays a huge role in our sleep cycles. Everyone has an internal 24-hour 'body clock' which tells our bodies when to sleep. With the clocks going back recently we now have less light in the evenings, this can cause a disturbance to someone's internal clock and for people with dementia can trigger sundowning.
Sundowning may be caused by a number of reasons including loss of routine at a previously busy time of day, too little or disturbed sleep or too little or too much light. It can cause people to become of agitated, aggressive or confused during the late afternoon or early evening.
For people with dementia disturbances to their body clocks can be caused by the physical changes to the brain that happen as a direct result of the condition, however changes in timings caused when daylight saving time ends could further complicate things. It is believed that overstimulation and exhaustion caused by the changes from daylight saving time affect the brain and many carers have noticed that the symptoms of sundowning get much worse after the clocks change.
Alzheimer's Society recommends that you try to give the person something meaningful to do at the time of day that they are most affected, using past activities as a guide. Consider planning quiet and relaxing activities for late afternoon/evening and consider minimising daytime naps.
Exercise can be beneficial for helping someone to sleep and we always recommend people try to remain physically active after diagnosis to help them to continue to live well with the condition.
For further information or advice call the National Dementia Helpline on 0300 222 1122 or visit alzheimers.org.uk.


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NFL Combine Positional Breakdown: What To Watch For
By Alex Kozora
If you're reading this, the 2015 NFL Combine is probably already underway and as I noted in my Chalk Talk for the week, while the event does have value, it has to be viewed in the correct scope. What is and isn't worth watching during what has become such a marquee event that is often over-analyzed.
Position by position, we'll break down the key areas to pay attention below.
Quarterback: As you'll hear a lot of analysts say, and accurately so, no one cares about a quarterback's completion percentage at the Combine. Everyone is acutely aware it's a foreign environment with receivers they've never played with before. All we want to see is the football thrown in a nice, tight spiral. If they're capable of throwing the NFL's most difficult routes, like the corner route. Do they have the strength and velocity to drive the throws that need it?
Most of the drills are irrelevant save for the one or two highly mobile quarterbacks.
It's not shown on TV but quarterbacks are also asked to grip the football away from their body. A camera man circles him all the way around, focusing on how the QB holds the football. One thing teams are looking for is seeing space between the palm and the ball. If there's isn't that space, the quarterback is gripping it too tight. An example below, with Tom Brady serving as the model. This video is distributed to all 32 teams.
Running Back: I'm more concerned about explosion than anything else at the Combine. Especially for the bigger backs, like David Cobb or Matt Jones. We know they won't run blazing 40 times; why hold it against them? If they show explosion and pop in the hole, like Cobb shows on tape, I walk away happy. If they don't have a nice ten yard split or 40 time, you go back and check the tape to see if they're athletic enough to succeed at the next level.
Shows in some of the drills, too. The reaction drill where the runner is brought through the hole and then motioned left or right by the coach. It shows the runners instincts to change direction in an instant. Want to see the back immediately and plant and explode off that outside foot (left foot if moving right and vice versa).
Though running backs are used out of the backfield more often, it's still not a strong suit for most. Tevin Coleman was used mostly on checkdowns while Cameron Artis-Payne has just 14 career receptions. Backs will be brought through receiver drills, releasing out of the backfield and downfield. Want to determine if they're natural catchers who can pluck the ball or if they're clunky who body catch and let the ball into their pads.
Fullback: There aren't many at the Combine, Alabama's Jalston Fowler is one of them, but they need to show something other than being big. Fowler is 252. They better show soft hands or some speed. Otherwise, there is no home from them in the NFL.
Wide receiver: We're running on air but I want to see fluidity in breaks. Does the receiver show the ability to run the whole route tree or is he limited? It's a great litmus test for the two Georgia Tech kids, Deandre Smelter and Darren Waller. Obviously, a limited tree in a triple option offense. Does the receiver maintain speed through his breaks or does he slow down as he hits the top of his steam? That's the question.
Again, these are drills that are run on air so it's easy to get a little lazy as the receiver. But I better not see that. Must treat these passes like it's the Super Bowl. Attack the ball, show a catch radius and pluck it away from their body. Don't let it into his pads. Receptions don't mean much if you're double-clutching and body catching the whole drill.
Additionally, I want to see these receivers track the ball while running nine (fly) routes. It's a guarantee some of these passes will be thrown off target – that's actually intentionally asked by the coaches to make the receivers find the ball. Can they adjust to a pass thrown to the wrong shoulder? Do they maintain speed or do they slow up as they look back? All important things you want to see. In a vacuum, just the receiver and the ball.
Tight end: Similar to the receivers. Want to see a player separate…literally and figuratively. Behind Maxx Williams, the class is a muddied mess. Someone put up a flashy 40 time or show explosion in the broad jump or vertical. Ten yard split to win off the line and a 40 time to show long speed down the seam.
Though the stance is obviously different, tight end is one position where you're often firing off the ball with your hand in the ground. There's a bit more value to it than say, running back or wide receiver.
Though it's a drill that coaches don't find relevant, the gauntlet has some merit. Shows a tight end hands and if he can catch passes cleanly down the line. Catch, toss the ball away, get your head around, and grab the next one. A player has to be quick-twitch in the gauntlet, capable of adjusting to passes at different eye levels down the line.
Offensive lineman: Clearly, no one cares about a 40 time. But the ten yard splits are important. Want to measure a lineman's explosion and burst, a critical trait every good lineman must have. Other agility drills like the short shuttle and three cone highlight that, too.
Bench press numbers are fun to look at but there's a lot of variables. A player with long arms is going to typically rep fewer times because they have to get the bar up higher. It's why Florida's Trenton Brown repped 225 only 20 times – he has whopping 36 inch arms. Conversely, a player with short arms should have better numbers.
The drills are really important for lineman. Pay close attention to the mirror and kickslide drill. In the former, the offensive lineman mirror in a straight line in a five yard space against another. It shows their ability to move laterally, maintain their base (not get too wide), while sinking their hips and having their hands ready to shoot.
The kickslide drill is another of my favorite. For the tackles, it is a relevant drill for Sundays – see if the tackle can explode off the line, cover ground with their initial steps, move on a 45 degree plane, while keeping their base. Exposes players that double over to seal the edge or ones that pop up too high.
Defensive lineman: The marquee event is ripping around the bags. Shows a defender's hip and ankle flexibility. Can they dip the edge or do they look stiff? Not nearly as useful without an opponent but you get a glance at it. For the big uglies, though, it isn't as useful.
Also like looking at their vertical and broad jump. Measures lower body strength and in turn, explosion. Want to see high numbers in each of those categories, especially for the ones considered to be quick-twitch.
Linebacker: It doesn't matter to me if you're a 3-4 edge guy, a 4-3 SAM, or a 3-4 ILB. You better be able to turn and drop or you're not playing in the NFL anymore. That's why this drill is vital for this group. Stay low when flipping you're hips, have a smooth, quick turn, and show off some natural hands.
Again, this all has to be done while playing fast. It's still a knock if you stay low but have to lose speed in the process. You're getting beat either way.
And if you're a conversion project, this is one of the first looks coaches and GMs have of you dropping. First step in the process but good first impressions are always a bonus. Those who are natural and those who are stiff, even if they haven't done it before, stick out. Expect Shane Ray to shine. Five tech Anthony Chickillo? Not so much.
Defensive backs: Speed is important here. 40 times start to matter. If a cornerback runs slow, people will try to drum up talk about being moved to safety. That's an overrated idea but still a talking point. The broad and vertical matter for explosion and I want to see agility in the shuttle and cone tests.
The weave or "W" drill is one of my favorite. Defensive backs start in their pedal and then explode out of it when directed by the coach. Take a 45 degree angle and then get back into your pedal at the bottom. Do that again and then catch the ball thrown at the end.
We're looking for corners with quick feet, who explode out of their break, all while staying low in their pedal.
It's simple but I love the final drill of the combine. The DBs are split up into two "teams," with a simple goal of turning, running downhill, and picking off passes. It's not difficult but there's a real competition that grows between the teams. You can feel the pressure. No one wants to drop a pass for their team. It's minor but a fun event to wrap up the week.
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Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of victory of the Indian Armed Forces in the 1971 Indo- Pak War on the 02nd August, 2021 at Raj Bhavan, Shillong
Hon'ble Governor Shri Satya Pal Malik participated at the online event where the Hon'ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi launched the digital payment solution e-RUPI on the 02nd August, 2021.
The Crystal Gayle Memorial Award for Excellence on Visual Arts organized by RITI Academy at Durbar Hall, Raj Bhavan, Shillong on the 12th August, 2021.
The Hon'ble Governor Shri Satya Pal Malik released the Special Cover on 'Khasi Mandarin' of the Department of Posts, NE Circle on the 13th August, 2021 at Raj Bhavan, Shillong.
"At Home" 75th Independence Day celebrations at Raj Bhavan, Shillong on the 15th August, 2021.
The Hon'ble Governor Shri Satya Pal Malik meets the Hon'ble Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shri Nitin Gadkari on the 18th August, 2021 at Raj Bhavan, Shillong.
A Musical evening was organized as part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations at Raj Bhavan, Shillong on the 20th September, 2021.
The Hon'ble Governor Shri Satya Pal Malik led the Raj Bhavan officers and staff to celebrate Gandhi Jayanti at Raj Bhavan by offering floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi, Father of the Nation on the occasion of birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on the 2nd October, 2021. He also distributed blankets to the staff of Raj Bhavan to mark the august occasion.
The Hon'ble Governor Shri Satya Pal Malik and the Hon'ble Chief Minister Shri Conrad Sangma recieves the Hon'ble Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu at Raj Bhavan, Shillong on the 04th October, 2021
A Cultural programme was organized in honour of the Hon'ble Vice President, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu's visit to the State at Raj Bhavan, Shillong on the 04th October, 2021
The Hon'ble Governor Shri Satya Pal Malik pay homage to the war heroes at the War Memorial Shillong on the 16th December, 2021
The Hon'ble Governor Shri Satya Pal Malik attended the 2nd virtual meeting of National Committee of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav chaired by the Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Ji on the 22nd December, 2021.
The Hon'ble Governor Shri Satya Pal Malik hosted a Pre- Christmas celebration with the staff and members of Raj Bhawan, Shillong on the 23rd December, 2021.
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Raven shoots and scores
Calgary's Raven Hockey fills a void in stick sizing, and the results have turned into a breakaway for growing hockey stars.
July 3, 2015 by Matt Powell, Associate Editor
Raven Hockey
Raven sticks outsold market heavyweights at one of Calgary's largest sports stores. PHOTO: RAVEN HOCKEY
Sean Reily knew something was a little off with his eight year old son Jack's game when he hit the ice with a new composite hockey stick he cut down by about eight inches.
"It was like he was playing with a shovel," says the Calgary hockey dad and founder of Raven Hockey, which was established to fill a void for youngsters stuck in a hockey stick purgatory between youth-, junior- and senior-size.
"He couldn't shoot! The junior stick was just too stiff."
Reily admits he's not a hockey guy, having not played the game as a youngster but when his son started playing Canada's game, he became interested and discovered there was a void to fill in the insanely competitive hockey stick market.
"There was nothing available under 50-flex," he says.
What his 40-pound son really needed was a 20-flex.
"When you cut a 50-flex down eight inches, it turns into something that more's like 75-to-80 flex. That's what (Russian NHL superstar) Alex Ovechkin uses, and he weighs more than 200 pounds."
Raven Hockey wants to fill the void for eight- to 12-year-olds by manufacturing sticks with flexes relative to their weight and strength.
Flex refers to the degree that a stick will bend when pressure of force is applied. Once the puck is loaded onto the stick, the player needs to be able to move the puck forward and shoot it effectively.
It's also about "puck feel" relating to the qualitative touch that allows the stick to behave like an extension of the player's body, increasing precision and release the puck with greater speed, spin and accuracy.
For example, a 100-flex stick, suited for most 200-pound NHL players, needs about 100 pounds of force behind it to flex by one-inch. Reily's rule of thumb is to use a stick with flex that's a little less than half of a player's body weight.
Reily, a salesman who currently works for a Calgary manufacturer of hearing aids, went home and asked himself, "Do I have something here?" Raven's goal is to build hockey sticks that provide performance demanded by the pros for players under 80 pounds.
Turns out Alberta Innovates thought Reily was on to something and provided a $15,000 technology grant to develop prototypes in a rigorous testing process at the University of Calgary.
Guillermo Salazar, a fellow hockey dad and now a member of the Raven team, works as an analytics consultant and had a connection to the biomechanical research department at the University of Calgary, which has a history of developing research for top sports manufacturers including Nike, Adidas and Taylormade-Adidas.
There, a series of prototype tests with a group of six- to eight-year-olds outfitted with a mixed bag of electrodes and sensors, measured swing speed, pressure and forces applied to the sticks. They found the key to proper kid-sized sticks was finding a sweet spot between height and flex.
Manufacturing challenges
"The kids were actually shooting properly – loading up, able to put their weight into the stick, and firing through," says Reily.
Raven has developed a fitting chart, to provide parents with a resource they can use in store to determine what suits the player best, similar to what golf club makers such as Ping do to fit particularly picky golfers.
The next step was sourcing the high-quality fibre and fibreglass weave to build the layers that make up the stick's lightweight foundation.
Getting the sticks made was a bit of a challenge in the beginning. First Raven went to China, working with a small contract manufacturer that provided them with moulds for 20- and 40-flex models. But Reily ran into problems when he wanted to further customize the moulds.
"They kept sending me the same stuff – none of the changes we wanted were being made," he says, and shipping the prototypes back and forth was costing him an arm and a leg.
So they looked elsewhere and landed in Mexico, teaming up with a small manufacturer known in hockey circles as the guy picky pros go to when they're looking for a piece of hockey-stick art.
This hockey "legend" likes his anonymity, so Reily and the rest of the Raven team signed a confidentiality agreement promising they wouldn't disclose his name.
The manufacturer is producing 300 sticks a week from 20-flex to 40-flex. A fourth model, a 50-flex, hit the market in May. The sticks cost $99 for a 20-flex and increase in $20 increments.
He approached one of Calgary's largest sports stores offering first crack at the sticks. A first run of 100 sticks sold in three days. Raven became the top-selling junior stick in the store, selling more units than all other brands – even Bauer, CCM and Reebok combined.
Reily now has Raven sticks in 19 stores across Canada, and has his sights set on increasing the company's retail presence targeting "mom and pop" franchises such as Source for Sports.
"There are 700 stores we could be in across Canada," he says. "Getting into 350 of those would be absolutely awesome."
In the meantime, the team is working on updating the look of its current models and on materials-related R&D Reily expects to hit the market within two years.
"We have to make sure things don't get old and stale," he says. "Kids are fickle."
In the words of famous Canadian hockey broadcaster Foster Hewitt: "He shoots, he scores!"
This article appears in the May/June 2015 issue of PLANT West.
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Hybrid Methods in Engineering
Editors-in-Chief: Renato M. Cotta, Mikhail D. Mikhailov
Hybrid Methods in Engineering is a journal that publishes full-length refereed contributions describing significant developments in hybrid numerical-analytical methods, and their application to the solution of practical engineering problems. The main purpose of the journal is to offer a specialized forum for developments in novel hybrid methods for engineering problems. Such approaches have experienced a revival over the last few years, connected with the need for increasingly robust and economical computational tools, that implement reliable error control schemes. The also recent development of mixed symbolic-numerical computations in engineering applications has opened up a new future for hybrid methods. Contributions from researchers in these new and challenging fields are encouraged. Articles published in this journal will fall into five main categories. The first will contain those contributions that describe new developments in hybrid numerical-analytical methods that have a practical application. The second category will concentrate specifically on the use and extension of mixed symbolic-numerical computational tools and software, including graphics and animation, in engineering problems. The third will contain contributions relating to the establishment of benchmark results obtained through hybrid methods, for reference purposes. These will provide a widely available source of reference material for practitioners from many engineering disciplines. The fourth category will be related to the covalidation of hybrid and numerical and/or experimental results. Finally, the fifth category includes articles that bring novel interpretations to the physical knowledge on a certain engineering discipline, allowed for by the use of hybrid methods and/or mixed computation algorithms. Examples that serve to illustrate and verify the proposed methodologies are strongly encouraged, as are descriptions of relevant engineering applications. Publication of computer programs will be considered if they show a considerable advance, are coded in a widely used programming language, and are of reasonable length and presented clearly. Articles prepared in notebook format are also acceptable and encouraged.
ON KAPLUN LIMITS AND THE MULTILAYERED ASYMPTOTIC STRUCTURE OF THE TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER
Atila P. Silva Freire
HYBRID SOLUTIONS FOR CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT IN FRACTURED POROUS MEDIA
Renato M. Cotta, M. Ungs, Mikhail D. Mikhailov
INTEGRAL TRANSFORM SOLUTIONS FOR ONE-DIMENSIONAL TRANSIENT FLOW AND CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT IN DUAL-POROSITY SYSTEMS
Rodrigo P. A. Rocha, Manuel Ernani C. Cruz
SOLUTION OF THE REYNOLDS-AVERAGED EQUATIONS FOR TURBULENT FLOW VIA INTEGRAL TRANSFORM AND ALGEBRAIC TURBULENCE MODEL
J. A. Lima, C. A. C. Santos, Luiz C. G. Pimentel
FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW ACROSS AN INLINE TUBE BUNDLE
Tomomi Uchiyama
INVESTIGATION OF INHALABLE AEROSOL DISPERSION AT CUBATÃO BY MEANS OF A MODELING SYSTEM FOR COMPLEX TERRAIN
Americo A. F. S. Kerr, Silvana A. do Nascimento, Domenico Anfossi, S. Trini Castelli


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Mike Babcock wouldn't claim a moral victory even if it was his only option.
So while the Maple Leafs coach was glad his players clawed back to gain a point against the Florida Panthers on Saturday night, Babcock didn't concur with the notion that rallying in the third period to force overtime might have been a morale boost for the Leafs.
Why? No such boost is necessary, and we would agree. A lack in confidence or morale is not an issue with the 2018-19 Leafs.
"I don't think morale is low," Babcock said after the 4-3 Toronto loss, the fourth time in five games the Leafs have not won. "I think morale has been great.
When the Leafs allowed two power-play goals on four Florida chances on Saturday night, they fell to 18th overall in penalty killing (78.2%) in the National Hockey League.
If the Leafs are serious about making a run in the Stanley Cup playoffs in the spring, and they are, there's going to have to be improvement when a Toronto player is sitting in the box. Below-average penalty killing in the playoffs, never mind average, won't cut it.
"(With) 200-foot clears, (winning) faceoffs and just sticking to the scheme," Babcock said. "It has not been as good as it was. It was on fire and then it has not been as good. We have to get back at it.
As for the Leafs' power play, all that skill and talent has not added up to much lately, as Toronto is 1-for-22 with a man advantage in its past six games.
The longer the special teams success, or lack thereof, is a factor in the outcome of games, the bigger the concern will be.
"We're trying to make adjustments, but at the same time we're not trying to do too much either," centre John Tavares said of the power play. "You don't want to get too far away from what makes you successful and it's just finding that right balance. Sometimes that's just the way it goes, doesn't bounce your way and other times it seems like everything is bouncing your way.
With eight goals in 33 games, Patrick Marleau is on pace for 20, which would move him into 28th on the NHL career list.
Marleau has 543 goals in 1,608 games and his next one will tie him with Maurice (Rocket) Richard for 30th. Marleau also has an opportunity this season to pass Michel Goulet (29th with 548 goals) and Ron Francis, who had 549 goals and is in 28th.
In 27th is Johnny Bucyk, who scored 556 goals.
At age 39, Marleau is a rare NHL breed, though 37-year-old Carolina Hurricanes captain Justin Williams has a solid reason that explains the longevity of himself, Marleau and few others.