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29¢ American Sign Language
Issue Date: September 20, 1993
City: Burbank, CA
Printed By: Stamp Venturers
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforations: 11.5
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Birth Of Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
Keller was born with the ability to see and hear but lost both senses when she was 19 months old to scarlet fever or meningitis. Over time she developed her own system of about 60 home signs. She could also identify people walking to a room by the vibrations in their footsteps.
When Keller was six, her mother read about the successful teaching of a deaf and blind woman in Charles Dickens' American Notes. Her mother then consulted a doctor who led her to Alexander Graham Bell, who was working with deaf children at the time. Bell referred them to the Perkins Institute for the Blind, where they were introduced to 20-year-old Anne Sullivan. Sullivan was also visually impaired and agreed to become Keller's teacher, marking the start of a 49-year-long friendship.
Sullivan officially began teaching Keller in March 1887. She taught her to communicate by spelling out words in her hand. Keller initially had trouble with the lessons, but Sullivan had a major breakthrough when she ran water on one of Keller's hands while making the sign for it on the other. Keller soon wanted to know the names of everything else in her world.
With Sullivan's teaching, Keller was soon able to attend a school for the deaf before being admitted to Radcliffe College. When she was 24, Keller graduated, making her the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. She soon learned to speak so she could deliver lectures, and found she could understand people by "reading" their lips with her hands.
Keller soon became famous around the world as an advocate for people with disabilities. She visited 25 different countries delivering motivational speeches. She was also a suffragette, pacifist, and socialist. In 1915, she founded the Helen Keller International organization which researches vision, health, and nutrition. She also helped to found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Keller was also an accomplished writer, publishing 12 books and several articles. Her birthday was proclaimed Helen Keller Day in 1960.
After suffering a series of strokes in 1961, Keller spent her final years at home but also worked to raise funds for the American Foundation for the Blind. In 1964, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Keller died on June 1, 1968.
Click here to read Keller's autobiography.
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1993 29c American Sign Language: Recognizing Deafness
1993 29c American Sign Language: "I Love You"
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1993 29c Classic Books
1993 29c Columbus' Landing in Puerto Rico
1993 29c Joe Louis
1993 29c Dean Acheson
1993 29c AIDS Awareness
1993 29c Circus
1993 29c National Postal Museum
1993 29c Cherokee Strip Land Run
1993 29c Black Heritage: Percy Lavon Julian
1993 29c Broadway Musicals
1993 29c Contemporary Christmas: Greetings
1993 29c World University Games, Buffalo
1993 29c Sporting Horses
1993 29c Country Music Legends, booklet stamps
1993 29c Oregon Trail
1993 29c Traditional Christmas: Madonna and Child
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1994 29c Black Heritage: Dr. Allison Davis


"Putting away the Alleluia for Lent is like putting away a favorite toy for a while – to appreciate it better later."
"Lent" comes from the Anglo-Saxon word lencton – meaning "spring" or "lengthening" from the time of year when the days grow long. Some believe that the word "Lent" may derive from the Latin lentare, which means "to bend." This understanding reinforces a sense of Lent as a time of preparation for personal and collective transformation. Having nurtured ourselves through Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, Lent becomes the time to look truthfully at ourselves and make changes.
The Church has the custom of not speaking or singing the word "Alleluia" during Lent. Alleluias are joyful proclamations, which we put away during the more contemplative season of Lent. Putting it away for Lent is like putting away a favorite toy for a while – to appreciate it better later. Churches often take banners down; eliminate flowers in the sanctuary. Our Sunday readings and prayers take on a more penitential tone.
A symbolic ritual to help children move into this season is to "say goodbye" to the Alleluia. Decorate a banner or poster board with the word "Alleluia" in large letters. Everyone can participate in decorating the poster with markers, glitter, stickers, sequins, etc. Using the below prayer, it can then be 'veiled,' put in a dark corner or closet of the church.
The alleluia(s) can also physically buried if the ground in your region is not frozen or covered with snow (make sure you put it in a waterproof bag or container and mark the spot!). On Easter, there can be a celebration as it is unburied!
Leader: It's time to say goodbye to our friend, the alleluia, to let it rest for a while, so that it will return to us at Easter full of enthusiasm to remind us again who we really are: loved children of God.
Prayer: Lord God, our creator, as we bury this sign of heaven's song, help us to turn ourselves to living a good Lent. Help us to give up things that stand between us and your love, and walk with Jesus on the road that leads us closer to you. We give up our alleluia only for a while so that we may make a more beautiful music in our heart and life when we sing it again at Easter. Amen.
Leader: You are now invited to say your own good-bye to the alleluia, if you wish.
Prayer: Lord, we have given up for a time the song of heaven so that we may prepare our hearts and minds to be ready for heaven. Help us, in Jesus, to die to selfish habits that keep us from you and to live more fully your peace and joy. Help us to be renewed in your Spirit as we live this Lend. Amen.
Sharon Ely Pearson is an editor and the Christian Formation Specialist for Church Publishing Incorporated (CPI). She is the author/editor of several books, most recently The Episcopal Christian Educator's Handbook and Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Theologies of Confirmation for the 21st Century.


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Joint commitment for a circular economy
Henkel is founding member of new global "Alliance to End Plastic Waste"
Global challenges need global solutions – this is why nearly 30 companies from the plastics and consumer goods value chain today launched the new "Alliance to End Plastic Waste" (AEPW). The Alliance will develop and bring to scale solutions that will minimize and manage plastic waste. It will also promote solutions for used plastics by helping to enable a circular economy. Building on its existing efforts for sustainability and its commitment for a circular economy, Henkel joined the Alliance as one of the founding members.
"As a global consumer goods and industrial company, we at Henkel want to contribute to ending plastic waste. Developing sustainable solutions for this challenge will only be possible if we engage and collaborate across the entire value chain – from suppliers, trade partners, consumers and organizations through to governments," says Hans Van Bylen, Henkel CEO and President of the German Chemical Association VCI.
Commitment across the plastic value chain
The Alliance has committed over 1.0 billion US dollars with the goal of investing 1.5 billion US dollars over the next five years to help end plastic waste in the environment. Members are chemical and plastic manufacturers, consumer goods companies, retailers, converters, and waste management companies – they represent the range of companies that make, use, sell, process, collect, and recycle plastics. The Alliance has been working with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a founding strategic partner.
The global Alliance has the mission to advance solutions to eliminate plastic waste in the environment, especially in the ocean. Therefore, it will develop and execute Alliance-sponsored projects along with individual, company-directed investments that drive progress in four key areas:
Infrastructure development to collect and manage waste and increase recycling
Innovation to advance and scale new technologies that make recycling and recovering plastics easier and create value from all post-use plastics
Education and engagement of governments, businesses, and communities to mobilize action
Clean up of concentrated areas of plastic waste already in the environment, particularly the major conduits of waste, like rivers, that carry land-based plastic waste to the sea
Reinforcing Henkel's efforts for sustainable packaging
"Our decision to become a founding member in the Alliance reinforces our commitment to promoting a circular value chain for plastics, as demonstrated by our strategy and ambitious targets for sustainable packaging," says Hans Van Bylen.
By 2025, 100 percent of Henkel's packaging will be recyclable, reusable or compostable*. At the same time, the company aims to use 35 percent recycled plastic for its consumer goods products in Europe. To drive progress toward a circular value chain for plastics, Henkel follows a comprehensive approach.
Henkel is engaged in several cross-industry initiatives to drive innovation in packaging development and to find effective solutions which can be implemented on a large scale. The company is member of the New Plastics Economy (NPEC), an initiative led by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation that brings key stakeholders together to redesign the future of plastics. NPEC is aiming to build momentum toward a plastics system based on the "circular economy" principle.
When developing more sustainable solutions for its product packaging, Henkel closely collaborates with partners along the value chain. Alongside its own innovations, Henkel recently invested 5 million British pounds into an impact fund from Circularity Capital to further promote a circular economy.
Henkel also supports different organizations and initiatives which drive progress for the improvement of recycling infrastructure allowing for a circular economy. Since 2017, the Plastic Bank is an important strategic partner for Henkel. The social enterprise offers solutions to both the environmental problems of plastic waste and the social challenges posed by poverty and the lack of employment opportunities. The local communities can return collected plastic waste and exchange it for money, goods, or services. In this way, value is created from plastic and it does not end up in the waterways or oceans. Henkel has already successfully integrated this so-called Social Plastic into selected packaging.
Progress toward sustainability in packaging will only be possible if stakeholders from all stages in the packaging value chain work together. This is why Henkel also drives initiatives to raise customers' and consumers' awareness of the need to use resources like plastic responsibly, to enable them to help create a closed circle for plastics. Therefore, the company has set itself the goal to reach more than 1 billion consumers with targeted information on recycling.
* excluding adhesive products where residue may affect recyclability
More information on the "Alliance to End Plastic Waste" can be found at
endplasticwaste.org.
More information on Henkel's packaging strategy and targets can be found at
henkel.com/sustainability/positions/packaging.
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Expanded strategic framework promoting a circular economy
Creating smarter packaging
We drive progress towards a circular economy by creating smarter packaging for the benefit of people and the planet. Our mission is to include materials from sustainable sources into smart designs to close the loop. (henkel.com)
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I have been greatly enjoying, as I wrote last week, the television series "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel." This has gotten me thinking about the pleasure of serial forms of art–namely what we find in literature and television. Many great works by canonical authors were serialized in newspapers, such as those by Dickens or Tolstoy. A neuroscientist or psychologist could explain the psycho-physiological processes in the brain, but I'd like to take a literary stab at explaining why we like episodic entertainment. Why is this such an important, time-tested way of engaging with an audience?
-A premise that hooks us in. There is something that grabs the reader from the get-go. The stakes are high, there is something about the situation that makes us want to know more.
-Investment in the characters. How else do we get into a story if not through the characters? Is the character an underdog or victim? Hero(ine)? Or is it an ensemble cast, perhaps a family that has some sort of a crisis? We need to feel allied with these persons immediately, or at least one, so that it is enough for us to want to follow her/his/their journey(s).
-An intriguing plot. This is very crucial. How does the writer unfold the story neatly, little by little, with expert pacing? How does each episode or chapter or section deliver just the right amount of drama at the right time? It takes extreme skill as a writer to know exactly how much to give the reader or viewer, the right "dose," so to speak.
-An engaging story. This is closely tied to the premise, but even if the premise is strong, if the story doesn't deliver and hook us in, we will lose interest.
-Knowing when to cut us off. I almost feel that the writer has to take us up to the top of a mountain to the point where we could fall over the cliff, and then to stop that particular episode or chapter. That way, we are completely hooked and the greatest amount of dramatic tension is generated.
-Multiple plot lines, most often. We are reading character A's journey toward getting married, but also about character B's illness and impending death. Alternating A's and B's plot lines keeps us very intrigued, so that way when the episode drops off with A, the writer picks up with B.
-Playing with our anticipation and expectations. We are waiting for next week's installment, wondering if Mr. X will be sentenced to jail or if Mrs. Y will get the opportunity she has been longing for. The wait gives us a chance to reflect on the various possible outcomes, and when we get the next installment, we might be completely surprised as to what happens.
What could we criticize about this kind of art? Well, one could easily say it is formulaic, and that would be very true. Make sure the right amount of dramatic tension happens in each part of the series, a classic Freytag's Triangle. Some might argue that it is teasing the reader or viewer, and perhaps even a weakness on the writer's part, not being able to continue with the story or plot line, but having to break it up. It also relies on very traditional narrative forms, and so metafiction or non-traditional narratives would not work well. Finally, each segment or episode has to fit a particular length or time limit, and this might not always be useful. Sometimes a particular scene has to be drawn out to give it more emotional weight. So this serial/episodic manner of telling a story relies heavily on structure.
There is room for both, the traditional and nontraditional narratives. We like both for different reasons. In the modern world, we see serialization globally, be it in telenovelas, Hindu myths made into TV series, or dramas on Netflix. Traditional narratives and serials give us a deep-rooted sense of familiarity, the artistic equivalent of comfort food, be it macaroni and cheese, rice and lentils, or kimchi jjigae.
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Windows 11 SE Laptops Just Arrived to Wage War on Chromebooks
Microsoft wants to take Google's lunch money with the launch of several new Windows 11 SE laptops.
Phillip Tracy
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Microsoft set the stage for a battle against Chromebooks when it released Windows 11 SE late last year, and now the troops have arrived in the form of low-cost laptops designed for students.
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Is This the End of Apple's Lightning Cable?
Hey Google, Where Did My Watch's Battery Life Go?
Acer, Asus, Lenovo, Dell, and HP all announced today new budget notebooks running on the cloud-based version of Windows 11. These devices, which will join the $250 Surface Laptop SE, were built specifically for K-8 classrooms, a market owned by Chrome OS but one seeing declining sales in recent months.
Microsoft knows it's late to the game and is clearly hoping the simultaneous launch of some dozen education-focused laptops will help its fledgling OS make up some ground. While the success of Windows 11 SE isn't guaranteed—as past spinoffs of Windows have proven—this new fleet of laptops gives educators a range of options to consider and put up against the robust portfolio of Chromebooks.
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Now, let's talk about those choices. HP, the leading Chromebook vendor, is debuting the ProBook Fortis G9, a 14-inch notebook with a 1080p anti-glare display, Wi-Fi 6 support, and a 3.7-pound chassis with textured surfaces to prevent it from slipping out of small hands. If it does, the laptop has "reinforced corners" and rubber trim. The keyboard is also spill-proof so teachers won't have to worry about those unavoidable accidents. A Windows 11 version is available now for $369, while the Windows 11 SE option will arrive in April; pricing will be revealed closer to launch.
HP is releasing an 11-inch model as well as a Chromebook version of the Fortis.
Acer is going small with the TravelMate Spin B3, an 11-inch convertible laptop whose main highlight is military-grade durability. That just means it passed a handful of tests that ensure it can withstand harsh conditions, like those in a grade school classroom. This device runs on Intel Pentium Silver or Celeron processors and promises 10 hours of battery life. The Spin B3 is an existing laptop being updated with Windows 11 SE. The current Windows 10 Pro model goes for $417 so we expect the SE version to cost slightly less.
Asus is also getting into the game with the memorably named BR1100F, an 11.6-inch laptop with an optional touchscreen. This one might be good for an art class because it comes with stylus support and has a 2-in-1 design for use as a tablet. It, too, has a rubberized chassis and can be equipped with 4G LTE connectivity. Most interesting, perhaps, is Asus's claim that this has a modular design so it's easy to service the cover, keyboard, touchpad, and palm rest. This is another update to an existing model that is available for around $400.
Several other laptops are either adding Windows 11 SE as an option to existing devices or launching new products. Dell's Latitude 3120 and Latitude 3120 2-in-1 have new chassis with 11-inch panels and are powered by Intel Celeron and Pentium processors. Like the others, they have textured front and back covers and use scratch-resistant glass, though teachers shouldn't put too much confidence in those claims.
And finally, JP IK is releasing a Windows 11 SE laptop called the Leap T304 for just $219. The laptop has an 11.6-inch, 1366 x 768-pixel display, 4GB of RAM, a 128GB SSD, and a rotatable 2-megapixel webcam. Lenovo, which launched a handful of Chromebooks today, is bringing Windows 11 SE to the 100w, 300w, 500w, and 14w laptops.
With these new laptops, Microsoft is flexing long-running partnerships with PC makers to put pressure on Google. But to really compete against Chrome OS, Microsoft will need to convince educators and IT admins that Windows 11 SE isn't just another watered-down version of Windows, but a purpose-built OS made to be as responsive, cost-effective, secure, and easily managed as the platform they're almost certainly already using.
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Review: 'Redeployment' By Phil Klay In his short story collection, former Marine Phil Klay takes his experience in Iraq and clarifies it, lucidly tracing the moral, political and psychological curlicues of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
This is FRESH AIR. It's been 11 years since the United States invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein. Most of the early stories to come out of that war were by journalists, but in recent years fiction writers have been exploring the war in such acclaimed novels as "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" by Ben Fountain and "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers. The latest to win acclaim is "Redeployment," a collection of short stories by Iraq veteran Phil Klay.
Our critic-at-large John Powers says that Klay captures the complicated experience of fighting in Iraq more completely than anyone before him.
JOHN POWERS, BYLINE: Here is an old joke you may have heard. How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? Answer: You wouldn't know; you weren't there. This joke gets told in "Redeployment," a stingingly sharp short story collection that itself addresses the gap between the American soldiers who fought in Iraq and those of us back home.
It was written by Phil Klay who does know because he was there. After graduating from Dartmouth, he enlisted in the Marines and served as a public affairs officer in Anbar province during the 2007 surge. Klay's time there gave him something valuable that, consciously or not, he was surely looking for - great material.
Of course, countless writers start with great material and reduce it to mulch. Klay takes his experience and clarifies it, lucidly tracing the moral, political, and psychological curlicues of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Like Tim O'Brien and his great Vietnam book, "The Things They Carried," Klay is conscious of how lived life gets translated into stories.
His first-person tales take us inside an array of characters from a Marine who tells us about handling dead bodies to a chaplain offering guidance to soldiers whose closeness to violent death makes them skeptical about God. In the blackly hilarious story "Money is a Weapon System," a provincial reconstruction official tries to rebuild the area near Tikrit only to have a fortune in American aid be lost to local corruption and an American millionaire's demented mission to teach the Iraqis baseball.
The wrenching title story "Redeployment," begins the whole book with two short, chilling sentences: We shot dogs. Not by accident. And weaves this into a metaphor for both the war and for returning home. Now, writers in earlier times often took a grand, even god-like view of war - think of Tolstoy in "War and Peace" - or at least, they stayed comfortably inside the action in novels like "The Naked and the Dead" or "The Thin Red Line."
War stories these days tend to be fractured and self-conscious as if a grand overview would be false. Klay quite pointedly doesn't offer a big vision, only a mosaic of smaller ones. In fact, what makes him so good is the way he can carry us from the battlefield to the strip bar, from the funny to the harrowing, to the heartbreaking.
This may have something to do with the nature of America's most recent wars. Where World War II felt conceptually clean - our soldiers were fighting an evil enemy's army - the wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan have been anything but. They've involved moving among civilians you're theoretically trying to save but who may try to kill you and whom you often kill back, sometimes accidentally.
Such warfare is more surreal than clean and it feels even more disorienting when stoked by video games, knocked out by Ambien, and speaking in the obfuscating patois of military acronyms, the soldiers are performing a dangerous and brutal mission they suspect their country doesn't really believe in and would rather not think about. Heck, Americans won't even go to movies about our ongoing wars.
Klay makes you feel the physical and psychic cost demanded of our soldiers in Iraq and he may be even better on what it means to return to an America that pays gaudy lip service to honoring the troops yet doesn't try to understand their service. Because we have a volunteer army, our soldiers and vets remain weirdly invisible to their fellow countrymen.
Some of "Redeployment's" keenest moments show us returning soldiers' frustration in trying to communicate their disturbing, often inevitable experience to people who greet them with cliches, however well meaning. As one vet tells us, there's a perversity in me that when I talk to conservatives makes me want to bash the war and when I talk to liberals, defend it.
"Redeployment" is so wonderfully written it's a pleasure to read, yet it's hard not to be sad about what an ill-conceived mess the war in Iraq proved to be. After so much money and sacrifice, you'd hope to wind up with stories happier than the ones Klay tells us. Which isn't to say that he smacks us with an obvious or strident political message; on the contrary, you're struck by the gnawing, sometimes stunned ambivalence that Klay's characters feel about the whole enterprise.
His vets usually wind up feeling diminished, even soiled, by what they had to do in Iraq but also superior to the America they were doing it for. You risked your life for something bigger than yourself, one explains, how many people can say that?
GROSS: John Powers writes about film and TV for Vogue and Vogue.com. He reviewed "Redeployment," Phil Klay's new short story collection. You can read an excerpt on our website freshair.npr.org.


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Ross Taylor: WTC win has made up for 2019 World Cup heartbreak
England had won the 2019 World Cup final against New Zealand via a controversial boundary count rule after 100 overs and a subsequent super over produced a thrilling tie.
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"After the heartbreak of 2019 World Cup, WTC win is definitely the highlight and I think probably makes up for that," Ross Taylor said (File Photo). - GETTY IMAGES
Senior New Zealand batsman Ross Taylor feels the World Test Championship triumph has "probably" made up for the heartbreak of the ODI World Cup final two years ago.
England had won the 2019 ICC World Cup final against New Zealand due to a controversial boundary count rule after 100 overs and a subsequent super over produced a thrilling tie. "I guess at the start of my career, there were a few ups and downs," Taylor told reporters during a virtual media interaction on Wednesday.
"We played in a few inconsistent sides, but, no, I guess over the last few years, the team has built into a fantastic consistent side and after the heartbreak of the 2019 World Cup, this is definitely the highlight and I think probably makes up for that," he added.
RELATED | ICC set to award same points for each match won during second WTC
It was a fitting end to the WTC final as Taylor and skipper Kane Williamson remained unbeaten to ensure an eight-wicket win over India for their maiden world title. Taylor hit the winning runs and then came a moment he will never forget.
"Once the winning runs were hit, walking off with him (Willamson) and the discussions afterwards, it is something that I will never forget. It was still touch and go when I went out there to bat, to get through that hard period and Kane's been a fantastic captain and ambassador for the game and our country," said Taylor.
"And for him to be out there and on that last ball before, he sort of gave me a stare: 'hurry up and finish it' so that he does not have to. So it was nice to hit the boundary and celebrate what was a tough cricket match with a lot of hard work over the last two or so years."
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module Controls
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Why CIOs are Switching to Hybrid IT Solutions
Industry Solutions February 21, 2019
Source: ©2015 CenturyLink.
As CIOs know all too well, the continuously accelerating pace of business change is driving extreme demand for IT infrastructure agility. New competitors continually emerge as the Internet dissolves market barriers, M&A activity reshapes industries and globalization drives rapid expansion into new territories. Rising customer expectations add pressure to continually enhance the customer experience. And now that IT systems underpin virtually all customer and supply chain interactions, IT solutions must be 100 percent available — always — even as they meet that demand for extreme agility.
All of this means IT organizations must deliver new business capabilities faster, even as their budgets are being squeezed. "In this fiercely competitive landscape, many companies don't even have time to put together detailed business cases before they respond to competitive changes. If you don't take advantage of the right technologies to move quickly, you will get left behind," says Elizabeth Shumacker, Vice President, Global Products & Solutions Marketing at CenturyLink Business, a global provider of managed services on virtual, dedicated and colocation platforms.
The drive to maximize IT agility in support of new business needs (e.g., digital customer experience; big data analysis) while holding down cost is leading many CIOs to re-imagine their core IT infrastructure. They're outsourcing a growing proportion, utilizing an array of different "hybrid" approaches. This reimagining enables them to focus more of their resources on delivering business applications — not managing data centers and day-to-day IT infrastructure updates. In fact, a recent survey of 550 IT leaders revealed that for at least the next five years, most organizations will use just such a hybrid mix of outsourced services — data center colocation, managed services and cloud — along with in-house systems.
• In about two years, colocated data center services will be the most prevalent model.
• In five years, outsourced managed services and cloud will be most widely used, while colocation remains important.
• While all forms of IT outsourcing remain important, after five years cloud services outgrow other outsourcing models.
The research also demonstrates how today's clouds do not meet all companies' needs, partly because of CIOs' concerns over security and performance, and partly due to the particular requirements of specific applications for which clouds are not yet well suited. For each organization, the right blend of services will change over time as business priorities shift, cloud computing matures, and new technologies emerge.
The research truly crystalizes this fact: the old IT model of building and operating data centers on your own has simply become too unwieldy for most firms.
Instead, many CIOs are choosing data center colocation services as the first step on their infrastructure outsourcing journey. This is not only because of the high capital expense and expertise required to build data centers, but also because it can take months or years to bring them online. Also, a business already may have made capital investments in equipment that it needs to depreciate over time.
Of note, CIOs in a recent panel discussion voted "no" by a resounding 11-to-one margin when asked whether building your own data center is always the best strategy. "With the right outsourcing partner, you can leverage scale and free up your team from routine operations," notes Michael Hanken, Vice President of IT at Multiquip, a manufacturer of industrial products. Analysis by DCD Intelligence further illustrates the trend, showing that in North America, almost 25 percent of the data center footprint is already outsourced, and that footprint is expected to continue to expand at 15 percent annually.
Hybrid IT: Mixing and Matching Services to Business Priorities
Within the broader outsourcing trend, each company's business needs determine the optimal mix of services. "The questions are first, what are our business priories and metrics for success, and second what are the IT imperatives to drive these objectives?" says Steve Garrou, Vice President, Global Solutions Management at CenturyLink.
White Paper Hybrid IT Garrou explains that by analyzing an organization's business needs along several dimensions including risk and security, operating expense versus capital expense, and agility — it is then possible to determine the right mix of IT services to support those needs.
"Once you have identified the key requirements, it's like picking Legos," he says. "You need one set of Legos to build a ship; a different set to build an airplane."
-Steve Garrou Vice President, Global Solutions Management, CenturyLink Business
For example, one reason many CIOs are choosing data center colocation for their mission-critical applications is to mitigate risk. Data center colocation enables them to minimize disruption and maximize control over the applications, because the existing application and its servers can simply be moved to an external data center with highly reliable infrastructure and uptime commitments written into service level agreements (SLAs).
In some cases, data center colocation can also maximize agility, because it's the fastest way to get an existing application up and running in a new location. For example, an international law firm needed to quickly establish operations in several countries when it found its competitors building footholds faster in those markets — with IT services being a particular bottleneck. To support those operations, the law firm needed to provide local staff with secure access to applications storing case information. The fastest way to do that was to transfer the applications into a colocated data center. Migrating to cloud applications would have increased business risk due to the significant changes required, and added months to the process.
"Migrating lock, stock and barrel into a colocated data center environment is often the fastest, lowest-risk route for many companies."
Perhaps the information is in a legacy system, and the only people who know the system well are a few experts within the company. Migrating to another application or infrastructure may take more time; and then you have the question of how quickly users could learn the new application and find the data they need.
In addition, many CIOs choose outsourced data centers for disaster-recovery operations, or for legacy applications that aren't able to fully take advantage of virtualization; in other cases, regulatory compliance may require a high degree of control.
Financial services firms often choose data center colocation to ensure the security of mission-critical applications that carry proprietary information, even as they use cloud computing for other functions. More important than owning the data center is knowing where the data is "and understanding the controls around securing it and the infrastructure it runs on," says Matthew Oakley, Group Head of IT at global financial-services firm Schroders. Significantly, IT leaders surveyed last year identified security concerns and backup/disaster recovery among the top reasons for not using the cloud.
At the same time, those firms may take advantage of the cloud's on-demand elasticity for other purposes: to create development and test environments that can be quickly erected and just as quickly torn down once development is completed, or run proofof-concept tests of big data analysis algorithms, Garrou says.
Yet over time, as third-wave cloud services providers begin offering more enterprise-ready clouds (with integrated security, orchestration and management automation), it will ultimately make sense for businesses to move even mission-critical applications to a cloud. As cloud services mature, CIOs will be able to increase agility, security and scalability, while reducing cost by shifting applications to the cloud. Also important for enabling greater cloud adoption will be integration into enterprise IT processes, Garrou says. To that end, CenturyLink is using the ITIL process framework — which is widely used within enterprise IT organizations — to define and deliver outsourced services.
The on-demand elasticity and pay-for-consumption model of many cloud services is, of course, particularly attractive for meeting unpredictable business demands or workloads that tend to experience sharp usage peaks. But for workloads that are more predictable in nature, managed services based on dedicated infrastructure can be more economical, over time, Garrou explains.
For many CIOs, there's a more fundamental business reason that influences how they choose services within a hybrid IT model: the way they measure financial performance. "If a company is measured on EBITDA and capital performance, they're probably predisposed to capital expenditure, and will want to own their own data center equipment and maybe opt for colocation services," explains Garrou. Companies that do not favor capital expenditure are likely to purchase more of their technology as managed or cloud services.
Choosing a Hybrid IT Provider
Because most companies will use a hybrid IT strategy for many years to come, it makes sense to find a hybrid IT provider like MVDconnect, that can deliver a broad range of outsourced IT services from data centers across the globe, and be unbiased in helping plan and manage overall strategy for the optimal mix of IT services. "With the hectic pace of business change, many businesses cannot really know what they will need in 3-5 years," CenturyLink's Shumacker says. "They may expand into new markets, merge with other companies, or need to reduce their technology budget."
And IT organizations must ensure they can deliver quickly to meet demand from customers and their own business groups. "Consumer expectations are now very high," Shumacker says. "I want to do my banking whenever I have time, from my mobile app; I want to search and buy my airline ticket late at night; I want to watch my favorite TV show now, not on someone else's schedule. Those same expectations are reflected in demands from line of business owners — they don't want to wait months for IT to deliver an application or capability." That's the speed and accuracy MVDconnect willl serve you and your company.
"Consumer expectations are now very high…Those same expectations are reflected in demands from line of business owners — they don't want to wait months for IT to deliver an application or capability."
-Elizabeth Shumacker Vice President, Global Products & Solutions Marketing, CenturyLink Business
Key to a hybrid IT strategy is the ability to integrate outsourced and in-house IT services to ensure smooth delivery of business capabilities to users. Not surprisingly, in the survey of 550 IT leaders, 46 percent said their top priority when selecting an outsourcing supplier was the ability to provide end-to-end IT solutions — from assessments and planning, through delivery, to ongoing management and optimization. The next-highest priorities were scalability and expertise to help businesses at every stage of the outsourcing and application lifecycle (17 percent) and breadth and depth of services portfolio, so companies can tap into new services as business requirements change (15 percent).
For now, since companies are using data center colocation for their mission-critical applications, 100 percent uptime is just table stakes for providers, says Drew Leonard, Vice President, Colocation Product Management, at CenturyLink. That causes CIOs to look for more than contractual commitments — they also want to see a demonstrated history of reliability and a comprehensive set of policies and procedures.
In addition, perhaps sparked by the continuing spate of highprofile data breaches, businesses are focusing intensely on multilevel security — including physical security measures such as mantraps, locks and biometrics. And as they develop their hybrid IT strategies, businesses are also looking for the option to access advanced services including managed and cloud services as well as high-speed IP connectivity all within the same data center as their colocated equipment. This helps ensure lower latency and eases management and integration.
Conclusion: Hybrid IT Unlocks Infrastructure Agility
Despite justified excitement about cloud computing, the reality is that most businesses are adopting a hybrid IT strategy — and will use a mix of outsourced and in-house IT services as that strategy evolves over at least the next five years. To meet rapidly changing business needs, CIOs need to be able to select from a range of services that maximize agility while minimizing cost.
Many CIOs choose outsourced data centers for disaster-recovery operations, or for legacy applications that aren't able to fully take advantage of virtualization; in other cases, regulatory compliance may require a high degree of control.
Why CIOs are Switching to Hybrid IT Services:
• Ability to provide end-to-end IT solutions from assessment and planning to delivery and ongoing management and optimization.
• Scalability and expertise at every stage of the outsourcing and application lifecycles.
• Flexibility and agility to move IT workloads to the optimal platform throughout their lifecycles.
• Seeking 100 percent availability, and clearly defined SLAs.
• Strong multi-level security technology, policies and procedures.
• Scalability and global reach to accelerate business expansion into new markets.
• Proven expertise solving diverse business problems.
Source: ©2015 CenturyLink. All Rights Reserved. The CenturyLink mark, pathways logo and certain CenturyLink product names are the property of CenturyLink. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. Services not available everywhere. Business customers only. CenturyLink may change or cancel services or substitute similar services at its sole discretion without notice. 70041714 – WP150377
– Independent survey of 550 CIOs, IT Directors, VPs of IT, and senior IT managers commissioned by CenturyLink and completed in August 2013 by Vanson Bourne, a research-based technology marketing consultancy.
– "Own our own data center? Why would anyone do that, CIOs ask," ZDNet, April 2, 2013 © 2014 CBS Interactive. http://www.zdnet.com/own-our-own-data-center-why-would-anyone-do-that-cios-ask-7000012955/
– North America Data Center Key Trends Report 2013-2014, DCD Intelligence, referenced at http://www. datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2014/01/15-growth-forecast-north-america-colocation-market-2014-0
-"Own our own data center? Why would anyone do that, CIOs ask," ZDNet, April 2, 2013 © 2014 CBS Interactive. http://www.zdnet.com/own-our-own-data-center-why-would-anyone-do-that-cios-ask-7000012955/
-Independent survey of 550 CIOs, IT Directors, VPs of IT, and senior IT managers commissioned by CenturyLink and completed in August 2013 by Vanson Bourne, a research-based technology marketing consultancy
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Could Muse cells inspire new cell-based therapies for stroke?
Recently published research from the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine (Sendai, Japan) and University of South Florida College of Medicine (FL, USA) has highlighted multilineage-differentiating stress-enduring, or 'Muse cells', as a promising start in the search for a cell-based ischemic stroke therapy.
Stem cells have attracted attention as a possible stroke therapy for several years; however, research has highlighted several drawbacks, including issues with accessibility and oncogenicity. Muse cells, on the other hand, are easily obtainable, non-tumorigenic and derivable from adult tissue. They also require no genetic manipulation, displaying inherent stem cell properties.
With this in mind, the researchers injected Muse cells stereotaxically into three sites within rat ischemic cortex, 2 days after transient middle cerebral artery occlusion. They then analyzed the effects for over 84 days, observing a high ratio of differentiation into neuronal cells, and improvement in neurological and motor functions compared with control.


It is a very modern design created with the vintage "rubbed" background effect in the loft style and light unobtrusive mosaic ornamental pattern in the small point technique. This ornamental pattern supplements the effect of an "aged" background, which makes the design more optimistic and memorable.
"Serpentine" design is a uni companion to "Eddy" design. In this stylish sole-colored design the structure similar to "Eddy" background was used. This is why it is an excellent addition to the previous design and can be combined with the "major" ornamental pattern joined with different colorations of one color group. For instance, the brown ornamental pattern can be combined with the beige sole-color one.


All fuel leading parts of a residential heating system have to be compatible with Fast Pyrolysis Bio-oil (FPBO). In scope of Task 5.1 standard burner components used in residential heating appliances have been tested in terms of long term operability with FPBO. For this report oil burner pumps are in the main focus of the investigation using a dedicated test setup.
Due to physical and chemical properties of FPBO, deposit formation in fuel leading parts is probably unavoidable. Deposit formation has been observed in several setups, in order to minimize the negative effects of deposit formation, (particle) filters were removed from the fuel supply line. For future fuel optimization it is therefore suggested to lower the concentration of solid particles and additionally limit particle size diameters to make the fuel filters more or less superfluous. Additional tests will be promoted in order to identify not only specific fuel components (or group of substances), which cause filter coating, but also burner components which ensure a long-term operability of FPBO.
Intermittent operation as it is typical in domestic heating applications using standard fuel pumps will be difficult to realize. During turn-off time sticky deposits settle at inner parts of the pump (e.g. gears) and can prevent a restart. The longer the turn-off time the less likely the pump will be able to restart. Alternative solutions should be investigated.
As observed during the test procedures wear and corrosion occur. However, these effects appear to be of minor concern at the present state of development. Nevertheless, reduction of acid and water content in the fuel would be beneficiary with respect to pump life time.
The present investigations have shown that special measures have to be taken for the domestic use of FPBO in residential heating systems, with respect to combustion appliances. This expectable fact requires a corresponding further development of the system components for FPBO combustion boilers.
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*This post is sponsored by Backcountry.com – where you score the best deals on the gear on this Hawaii packing list. Also, don't miss their Summer Camping Guide for their top gear picks for your summer adventures.
What are the best kind of shoes to wear hiking on muddy Hawaii trails?
Did I need a puffy for cold nights for the higher elevations at Waimea Canyon?
How could I best protect my skin from the hot sun with the right clothing and gear?
In this blog post, I share my detailed Hawaii packing list for hikers and outdoor enthusiasts that will ensure you are prepared for an adventure-packed vacation.
I love how flattering and comfortable this Carve Designs rashguard is. You can wear it surfing, SUPing, snorkeling, hiking, or even just lounging around. The extra coverage is great for active sports (where you might be worried about your swimsuit staying in place)…but even better, it protects your skin from the sun. Certain sunscreens contain harmful chemicals that are bad for your health AND the reefs, so wearing this rashguard helps reduce the amount of sunscreen I need to protect myself from painful sunburns. It comes in a few different colors to suit your mood…you can see pink and blue in the two photos below.
The lightweight, breathable Prana Revere Tanktop was built for active outdoors vacations. It wicks moisture, dries quickly and resists odor. Even when I got sweaty in the humidity, this Prana tank didn't stick to my skin or feel clingy.
If you're not a fan of tank tops or want more sun coverage Kim, BFT's Community Manager, swears by the Prana Foundation Short-Sleeve v-neck shirt. It's lightweight and great as a travel t-shirt that can survive the trail or a casual dinner out.
The Patagonia Houdini is hands-down the best lightweight (3.3 oz) windbreaker I've tried. It's also water-resistant which is great for Hawaii. It rains a lot on Kauai, but every rain storm we encountered was a warm one, so a traditional Gortex rain jacket would have left me a hot sweaty mess. Instead, this Patagonia Houdini provided a little extra protection when it started to drizzle. I also wore it during our doors-off helicopter ride where we encountered some pretty strong winds. It was the perfect extra layer, and for how little it room it takes up, it's kind of a no-brainer.
Confession…I get a lot of questions about my favorite sunhat…turns out I actually got it at a gas station in Escalante, Utah. If you are looking for something similar that has a wide brim and can protect your face and neck from the sun, this Pistil Luka Hat has a similar style.
Shoes for Hawaii are almost as important as your clothing! Since the weather and terrain can change drastically from day to day it's important to have sturdy footwear for exploring the trails & beaches.
Before our trip, I was doing a lot of research about the best shoes for hiking in Hawaii. I decided to leave my waterproof hiking boots at home and opted for a more breathable shoe made for wet, slippery, and muddy trails – which was exactly what we found. I first heard of Astral shoes from my three OARS River guides last summer, who were ALL wearing them because of how well they perform on wet rocks and slick surfaces. The model I decided on is the Astral TR1 Junction shoe, which provides incredible traction in a lightweight breathable hiking shoe. Many times I found myself in ankle deep mud, plodding through rivers, hopping over boulders, or climbing over tree limbs, and this shoe gave me confidence. The shoe is made of mesh, so it drains, but no rocks get in. It also has a sturdy toe and brim around the bottom of the shoe to give you stability on uneven surfaces. Every now and then I find a new piece of gear that I'm elated about…and these shoes are it.
These Olukai 'Awe' Awe Sandals are a stylish, but comfortable pair of sandals. Pair them with the North Face shorts I mentioned above to the beach or with a cute sundress for a nice dinner out.
If you've read my other packing lists recommendations, you know I love my Teva Hurricane Sandals! I rarely wear flip flops because they cause some tendonitis in my foot to flare up. Instead, I like sandals, like these Tevas, that are strapped to my foot so I don't have to use my toes to grip my sandals. The Teva Hurricane sandals are lightweight, but they still provide some structure and grip for walking around at camp at night or on a wet trail. They are constantly coming out with fun new colors and designs, and I also like that you can pair them with socks for chilly nights or on the airplane.
Hawaii is hot and having a cooler is pretty much a must unless you want to eat and drink all of your meals out. Remember, cocktails at a beachfront bar in Hawaii can be up to $20. We brought our Yeti Hopper 30 Cooler for drinks, sandwich fixings, and other staples we like to keep around. Our model can hold 24 cans of beer and plenty of ice. In the car, it kept the ice and the food cold for 2 full days before we had to replenish…and for a soft cooler, that is pretty amazing. We checked the Yeti Cooler with the rest of our luggage and used it to carry a few things that didn't fit in our normal bags. The shape makes it fairly compact, and it is also perfect for an overnight kayaking trip. However, if you don't ever plan on needing to strap it to a kayak, then I think the Yeti 18 Flip Cooler (which is smaller) is an easier shape to pack and carry around.
A headlamp is a Hawaii packing list essential if you plan on camping or even late night walks on the beach. The Black Diamond ReVolt Headlamp has multiple settings, including ultra bright and red night vision – which comes in handy when you want to have a conversation without blinding your friends–or when you're sharing a van with your significant other. It also has a locking mechanism to prevent it accidentally turning on in your bag. What really distinguishes this headlamp from the rest is that is works on rechargeable batteries that you can recharge using a solar panel or USB outlet. So while it may be slightly more expensive than the average headlamp, you won't have to carry extra batteries, which will end up saving you money and weight.
This compact Jetboil stove is one of the most efficient backpacking stoves on the market and it's perfect for exploring Hawaii. Weighing just under a pound, the Jetboil can bring 2 cups of water to a rolling boil in 2 minutes. With one fuel canister, which you'll have to pick-up once on the island, you can boil up to 42 cups of water, so you'll probably only need one canister for your entire trip. This lightweight cooking system is awesome for boiling water and making coffee (so you can save money on coffee out), as well as heating up simple meals.
**Don't forget you can't fly with fuel canisters but once you're on the island you can pick up fuel at Walmart or a hardware store.
Ryan and I had two different day packs on our Hawaii packing list – my camera backpack and my Mountain Hardwear Outdry Scrambler pack. Every day we hit the trail, we chose the Outdry. The Outdry is completely waterproof so you could hike in the rain, take it to the beach, or put the pack on the wet ground without worrying about what was inside. It's also made of a durable material that can withstand being thrown around on rugged terrain – like lava rock. The newest version of this pack has been upgraded with a pocket for a hydration bladder.
Who doesn't want to take a hammock nap on the beach in Hawaii? A hammock may sound like a luxury item to add to your Hawaii packing list…but this lightweight hammock by ENO will hardly take up any room in your bag. With their Helios suspension straps, set up between a couple of shady palms is a cinch.
Have you been to Hawaii? What else is on your Hawaii packing list for hikers and outdoor enthusiasts? We'd love to hear about your travels in Hawaii and how you prepared. Leave us a comment below.


How to use the 3 kinds of different lens?
3. Fish eye: please use the focus function for the camera, then you could make clear photo for it.
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title: Script to remove .svn directories from a project
description: A simple script to remove .svn folders from within a subversion project
author: Matteo Mattei
layout: post
permalink: /script-to-remove-svn-directories-from-a-project/
categories:
  - bash
  - linux
  - svn
  - tricks
---
When you want to distribute your own sources without any .svn directories is sufficient to create an export of the project with this command:

```
svn export svn://path_to_repository projectname
```

But often I have not access to the repository, so I remove any **.svn** directory by hand.

For a couple of directories is not a problem but today I have a big project with hundreds of directories, so I created a little script to help me:

```
find . -type d -name .svn -exec rm -r '{}' \;
```

Replace "." with your root folder.


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Incidence and outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with public-access defibrillation. A descriptive epidemiological study in a large urban community
Circ J. 2011;75(12):2821-6. doi: 10.1253/circj.cj-11-0316. Epub 2011 Sep 29.
Mie Sasaki 1 , Taku Iwami, Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Shinichi Nomoto, Chika Nishiyama, Tomohiko Sakai, Kayo Tanigawa, Kentaro Kajino, Taro Irisawa, Tatsuya Nishiuchi, Sumito Hayashida, Atsushi Hiraide, Takashi Kawamura
1 Department of Human Health Science, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
DOI: 10.1253/circj.cj-11-0316
Background: Detailed characteristics of those who experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) with public-access defibrillation (PAD) are unknown.
Methods and results: A prospective, population-based observational study involving consecutive OHCA patients with emergency responder resuscitation attempts was conducted from July 1, 2004 through December 31, 2008 in Osaka City. We extracted data for OHCA patients shocked by a public-access automated external defibrillator (AED) and evaluated the patients' and rescuers' characteristics. The main outcome measure was neurologically favorable 1-month survival. During the study period, 10,375 OHCA patients were registered and of 908 patients suffering ventricular fibrillation arrest, 53 (6%) received public-access AED shocks by lay-rescuers, with the proportion increasing from 0% in 2004 to 11% in 2008 (P for trend<0.001). Railway stations (34%) were the places where PAD shocks were most frequently delivered, followed by nursing homes (11%), medical facilities (9%), and fitness facilities (7%). In 57% of cases, the subject received public-access AED shocks delivered by non-medical persons, including employees of railway companies (13%), school teachers (6%), employees of fitness facilities (6%), and security guards (6%). The proportion of neurologically favorable 1-month survival tended to increase from 0% in 2005 to 58% in 2008 (P for trend=0.081).
Conclusions: Railway stations are the most common places where shocks by public-access AEDs were delivered in large urban communities of Japan, and among lay-rescuers railway station workers use AEDs more frequently.
Defibrillators*
Electric Countershock*
Japan / epidemiology
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest / mortality
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest / therapy*
Prospective Studies
Resuscitation* / instrumentation
Resuscitation* / methods
Urban Population*


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•Chemical Equilibrium occurs when the quantities of reactants and products in a reaction remain unchanged.
This means that a reaction may not proceed to completion.
The surroundings will have an effect on the equilibrium of a reaction. There are two types of systems:
•Open system- a system in which energy and matter can be exchanged with the surroundings. Eg. Fire burning outside.
•Closed system- a system in which only energy can be exchanged with the surroundings. Eg. Environment inside a space station. Equilibrium reactions occur in closed systems.
Reactions can be irreversable and reversable.
For example cooking an egg is an irreverable reaction whereas melting ice and then refreezing it is a reversable reaction.
An equilibrium reaction is one in which there is a forward and reverse reaction occuring at the same time. The reaction will reach a balance- be at equilibrium. A double headed arrow is used to show equilibrium of a chemical reaction.
DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM
Dynamic equilibrium is reached when the rate of forward and reverse reactions are equal.
At this point all concentrations of reactants/products and the temperature remain constant.
Using the Haber Process reaction as an example:
N2(g) + 3H2(g) <-----> 2NH3(g)
When the reactants are first mixed the forward reaction occurs and ammonia gas is produced.
N2(g) + 3H2(g)→ 2NH3(g)
As the reactants are used up in the reaction the amount of ammonia produced increases.
As the ammonia is being formed, the ammonia molecules react to form nitrogen and hydrogen gases. (The back reaction occurs)
2NH3(g) →N2(g) + 3H2(g)
When the forward and reverse reactions occur at the same rate, equilibrium has been reached.
What does the Equilibrium Law tell us?
The equilibrium constant can tell us the extent of the reaction.
•For values of K between 10^-4 and 10^4, there will be significant amounts of reactants and products still present.
•For very large values of K > 10^4 , the equilibrium mixture will be mostly products.
•For very small values of K < 10^-4 , the equilibrium mixture will be mostly reactants.
The effect of temperature.
•By experimentation it has been shown that the value of the equilibrium constant for a particular reaction depends only upon temperature.
•As the temperature increases:
-For exothermic reactions, the amount of the products decreases and so the value of K decreases.
-For endothermic reactions, the amount of the products increases and so the value of K increases.
BBC Bitesize equilibria
Diagram courtesy of OpenStax
THE EQUILIBRIUM LAW
Shows a relationship between the concentrations of the reactants and the concentration of the products at equilibrium. The ratio of the products to the reactants found to give the equilibrium constant - K.
K = [products]
[reactants]
For the equation:
aA + bB <------> cC + dD
K = [C]^c [D]^d
[A]^a [B]^b
Find the value of the equilibrium constant K, for the reaction below,
2 NO (g) + O2 (g) <-----> 2 NO2 (g)
where there is 0.082 M oxygen, 0.050 M nitric oxide and 0.010 M nitrogen dioxide.
Kc = [NO2]2
[NO] 2 x [O2]
K= (0.010)2 / [(0.050)2 x (0.082)] = 0.488M^-1
Summary of Le Chatelier's principle
Acidity constants
Acid and base equilibrium
Equilibrium constant


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ATLANTA, GEORGIA - FEBRUARY 03: General view of the Pepsi Super Bowl LIII Halftime Show at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on February 03, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Scott Cunningham/Getty Images)
Every year, thousands of people from all over the world tune in to watch the Super Bowl halftime show. The performance has become synonymous with the game itself!
Performances by iconic artists like Prince, Michael Jackson, Maroon 5 and Beyonce are just a few that have left the world in amazement.
Shakira and Jennifer Lopez will perform together during The Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show on Sunday, Feb. 2.
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Here are a few of our favorite moments from Super Bowl history:
Bridgestone Super Bowl XLV Halftime Show
ARLINGTON, TX - FEBRUARY 06: Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas performs with Slash during the Bridgestone Super Bowl XLV Halftime Show at Cowboys Stadium on February 6, 2011 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)
Super Bowl XXXIX Halftime Show
JACKSONVILLE, FL - FEBRUARY 06: Singer Paul McCartney performs during the Super Bowl XXXIX halftime show at Alltel Stadium on February 6, 2005 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photo by Jeff Gross/Getty Images)
Pepsi Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show
SANTA CLARA, CA - FEBRUARY 07: Bruno Mars performs during the Pepsi Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show at Levi's Stadium on February 7, 2016 in Santa Clara, California. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
Pepsi Zero Sugar Super Bowl LI Halftime Show
HOUSTON, TX - FEBRUARY 05: Lady Gaga performs during the Pepsi Zero Sugar Super Bowl 51 Halftime Show at NRG Stadium on February 5, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
2003 Super Bowl XXXVII Halftime Show
SAN DIEGO - JANUARY 26: Singer Gwen Stefani and No Doubt perform during half-time of Super Bowl XXXVII between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Oakland Raiders on January 26, 2003 at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
Christina Aguilera And Enrique Iglesias Perform Together During The Half Time Show Of S
30 Jan 2000: Christina Aguilera And Enrique Iglesias Perform Together During The Half-Time Show Of Super Bowl Xxxiv Between The St. Louis Rams And The Tennessee Titans At The Georgia Dome In Atlanta, Georgia. <> Mandatory Credit: (Photo By Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
Super Bowl XLI: Pepsi Halftime Show
MIAMI GARDENS, FL - FEBRUARY 04: Prince performs during the "Pepsi Halftime Show" at Super Bowl XLI between the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears on February 4, 2007 at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
Pepsi Super Bowl XLIX Halftime Show
GLENDALE, AZ - FEBRUARY 01: Recording artist Katy Perry performs onstage during the Pepsi Super Bowl XLIX Halftime Show at University of Phoenix Stadium on February 1, 2015 in Glendale, Arizona. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images)
MTV Super Bowl Halftime
Justin Timberlake, Steven Tyler, Britney Spears, and Nelly on stage during MTV's Superbowl halftime show at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla.. 1/28/01 Photo by Scott Gries/ImageDirect
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DETROIT - FEBRUARY 5: (L-R) Musicians Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones perform during the "Sprint Super Bowl XL Halftime Show" at Super Bowl XL between the Seattle Seahawks and the Pittsburgh Steelers at Ford Field on February 5, 2006 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Brian Bahr/Getty Images)
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Madonna Recalls Emotional Fight to Adopt Daughter Mercy James: 'I Never Gave Up'
Mercy James was adopted from Malawi in 2007
By Jeff Nelson and Karen Mizoguchi
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Nearly eight years ago, Madonna went up against Malawi's highest court to win the right to adopt then-4-year-old Mercy James.
Fast forward to today, the songstress opened the country's first-ever pediatric surgery and intensive care center, which she named The Mercy James Institute for Pediatric Surgery and Intensive Care, after her now-11-year-old daughter.
At the opening ceremony on Tuesday, Madonna recalled the emotional three-and-a-half year journey she went through to call Mercy her own after she had successfully adopted son David Banda in 2006.
"I met Mercy soon after I met my son David, but they were living in different orphanages. David was in Mchinji in Home of Hope, and Mercy was here in Blantyre at Kondanani. Mercy was suffering from malaria, and David from pneumonia. And when I held each of them in my arms, I whispered in their ears, that I would look after them. And I promised them that they would grow up into strong and healthy adults," Madonna told the audience at the Queen Central Hospital.
"I was granted permission to adopt David first. And some time later, I filed a petition to adopt Mercy. But this time, the judge who was presiding said no. I was recently divorced, and she informed me, as a divorced woman, I was not fit to raise children and that Mercy James was better off growing up in an orphanage," the seven-time Grammy winner continued.
The adoption raised strong public reaction because Malawian law requires would-be parents to reside in Malawi for one year before adopting, which Madonna did not do. In addition, she was in the process of legally separating from second husband Guy Ritchie, citing irreconcilable differences. Mercy was placed at Children's Village following the death of her teenage mother.
"If you know me, you can imagine how I received this information. It's true, I am a freedom fighter. I am a feminist. I am a rebel heart. But I am also a compassionate and intelligent human being. And if you cannot give me a logical reason for the word 'no,' then I will not accept the word 'no.' I hired a team of lawyers, and I took my case to the supreme court, and it was not an easy battle," Madonna said in her moving speech.
"The adoption laws in Malawi had not been reformed since the early '40s, and it had not occurred to anyone to change them yet. So my argument was that women have been raising children for centuries, on their own … not to mention the fact that I was doing just fine raising my own three children," she said.
David's adoption had been rushed through because a court had granted an interim order, but Madonna faced more judicial pushback in Mercy's case.
"I never gave up. And I never backed down. And I believe that if you want something badly enough in life, the universe will conspire to help you get it. It may not be exactly when you want it, it may not come exactly when you think it's gonna come. It may not come in the package that you want it. But if you persevere, you will win," the entertainer emphasized.
Concluding, "I fought for Mercy, and I won. It wasn't easy. And with the blood, sweat, and tears of so many people here today, we fought for this hospital—and we won. So I'm here to say: never, ever give up on your dreams. Never stop fighting for what you believe in. And finally: Love conquers all."
All of Madonna's six children, except daughter Lourdes, were at Tuesday's ceremony. David Banda danced with kids from the Jacaranda School for Orphans, Rocco painted a mural in the hospital and Mercy James gave a speech, calling her mom "the bomb" — and then dabbed at the end.
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Madonna said the center has been up and running since the end of June, and the first surgery was completed last week, nearly two years after construction began on the center in 2015. The facility includes three operating rooms for children's surgery, as well as a day clinic and a ward with 45 beds.
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Pruned FFTs
Sometimes, people want to compute a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) where only a subset of the outputs are needed, and/or conversely where only a subset of the inputs are non-zero. Fast algorithms to compute this are, in general, known as "pruned" FFTs.
Unfortunately, the performance gains in general from pruned FFTs are quite modest. If you have a transform of size N where only K outputs are desired, the complexity is in general O(N log K), vs. O(N log N) for the full FFT, thus saving only a small additive factor in the log. (Similarly for K nonzero inputs.) This is discussed in more detail by the references at the end. In principle, the arithmetic count can be reduced (however slightly) whenever K < N, simply by discarding (pruning) unused operations from an ordinary FFT. Turning these arithmetic gains into actual performance improvements is much more difficult, however.
The problem is that optimizing an FFT requires a lot of effort, and is not just a matter of minimizing arithmetic cost on modern computers. By implementing a pruned FFT, you are gaining a small factor in the log, but you are sacrificing a significant part of the effort that went into optimizing full FFTs (even if you use an optimized FFT as a subroutine), and the latter can easily outweigh the former. Because of this, I would not recommend bothering to consider a pruned 1d FFT unless you want 1% of the outputs or fewer (and/or if 1% or fewer of your inputs are nonzero).
The most common case where people seem to want a pruned FFT is for zero-padded convolutions, where roughly 50% of your inputs are zero (to get a linear convolution from an FFT-based cyclic convolution). Here, a pruned FFT is hardly worth thinking about, at least in one dimension. In higher dimensions, matters change (e.g. for a 3d zero-padded array about 1/8 of your inputs are non-zero, and one can fairly easily save a factor of two or so simply by skipping 1d sub-transforms that are zero).
Another possibility, of course, is to simply use the naive DFT formula or the Goertzel algorithm, both of which have O(N K) complexity. These methods have the added advantage of only requiring O(K) storage if the N inputs are computed or read on the fly (a huge advantage in some applications). However, they are also generally less accurate than FFT-based methods when implemented in finite-precision floating-point arithmetic — the naive formula and Goertzel's algorithm have error bounds that grow as O(N3/2) and O(N5/2), respectively, compared to O(log N) for the FFT. The minimum K at which a pruned FFT becomes faster will depend upon the context, but we have observed benefits below from a pruned FFT (compared to Goertzel) for K as small as 10 with N of 105 (where Goertzel is orders of magnitude less accurate).
FFTW does not currently implement any general pruned FFT algorithm. However, in principle one can easily implement a pruned FFT algorithm on top of FFTW, and we describe the simplest such case below.
Another case that we experimented with once in the past is 3d FFTs with sparse inputs/outputs; you can see some sample code that we wrote for that at http://fftw.org/pub/fftw/sparsefft3-0.5.1.tar.gz.
Computing only the first K outputs of a DFT with FFTW
An important special case where one can easily achieve O(N log K) complexity is where one wishes to compute only the first K outputs of a DFT, where K divides N.
In this case, one simply computes N/K FFTs of size K, with stride N/K in the data, and then combines the output by summing with appropriate phase ("twiddle") factors. Essentially, you are performing "by hand" a single radix-K decimation-in-frequency Cooley-Tukey step, where you only compute one size-K block of the output.
(The dual problem is where only the first K inputs are non-zero, in which case you essentially just reverse these steps.)
More generally, if you want an arbitrary subset of K outputs, you would compute N/K FFTs of size K as below, and then each output is one output of a DFT of size N/K, premultiplied by twiddle factors. This general case is not implemented below, however. In principle, to gain maximum possible arithmetic savings, you should notice when you are computing more than one output of a given size-N/K DFT, and use a pruned FFT recursively, but this is much more complicated to implement and the practical gains are doubtful in general. More simply, you would just compute each output using the naive DFT formula with O(N/K) operations for each of the K outputs in the last step. (In the special case, below, where you want the first K outputs of the DFT, you are computing only the 0th output of each size-N/K DFT, and no additional pruning is possible.)
Note: the code below will often only yield substantial gains over the normal FFTW if K is much smaller than N (ideally by a factor of 100 or more, depending on your machine/compiler).
First K outputs of a complex FFT
Below is an outline of code to do this with FFTW3's complex FFT, operating out of place. Here, for simplicity, we assume that C99's complex.h header is available so that we can use complex arithmetic in C.
#include <fftw3.h>
const double TWOPI = 6.2831853071795864769252867665590057683943388;
fftw_complex in[N], out[N], twids[(K-1)*(N/K-1)];
fftw_plan plan;
/* plan N/K FFTs of size K */
plan = fftw_plan_many_dft(1, &K, N/K,
in, NULL, N/K, 1,
out, NULL, 1, K,
FFTW_FORWARD, FFTW_ESTIMATE);
/* precompute twiddle factors (since we usually want more than one FFT) */
for (j = 1; j < N/K; ++j)
for (i = 1; i < K; ++i)
twids[(j-1)*(K-1) + (i-1)] = cexp((I * FFTW_FORWARD * TWOPI/N) * (i*j));
...initialize in[N] data....
fftw_execute(plan);
/* set *only* first K outputs, in out[], to values for full size-N DFT: */
for (j = 1; j < N/K; ++j) {
out[0] += out[j*K];
out[i] += out[i + j*K] * twids[(j-1)*(K-1) + (i-1)];
fftw_destroy_plan(plan);
Notice that, while the inputs are transformed with stride N/K, the outputs have stride 1, so that each size-K sub-transform is stored as a contiguous length-K chunk in out. This is convenient because it allows us to overwrite the first size-K chunk, in-place, with the desired output (and is essentially what FFTW normally does internally for radix-K DIF). Other data arrangements could be devised, of course.
Of course, further optimizations are possible. You may want to plan with FFTW_MEASURE instead of FFTW_ESTIMATE if you are computing many FFTs. You probably also want to allocate the input/output arrays with fftw_malloc to ensure correct alignment and to avoid limitations on the stack size. Many games can be played with how the twiddle factors are computed (e.g. they can be stored in the order that they are used to improve locality).
We should also comment on the floating-point accuracy. For K = 1, the above algorithm is exactly the naive DFT, with the same floating-point accuracy. In general, then, for K much smaller than N, the accuracy of this code is worse than that of the full FFT, and approaches (from below) the error of the naive DFT formula. The accuracy could be improved by a number of techniques, quite possibly with negligible computational cost (e.g. by cascade summation), albeit with more code.
First K positive and negative frequencies
Now, if you really have complex data, then you probably want the K lowest positive and negative frequency amplitudes, where the negative frequencies are located at N-k (for k=1..K-1) because of aliasing. This can be accomplished by replacing the final loop above with:
/* set *only* first K outputs and the last K-1 outputs, in out[],
to values for full size-N DFT: */
out[0] += out[N - K];
for (i = 1; i < K; ++i) {
fftw_complex o0 = out[i], oN = out[(N - K) + i];
out[i] = o0 + oN * twids[(N/K-2)*(K-1) + (i-1)];
out[(N - K) + i] = o0 + oN * conj(twids[(N/K-2)*(K-1) + (K-i-1)]);
for (j = 1; j < N/K - 1; ++j) {
out[(N-K) + i] += out[i + j*K] * conj(twids[(j-1)*(K-1) + (K-i-1)]);
This code is a little more complicated, but the basic idea is the same. The only difference from before is that we generate two size-K blocks (minus one point) of the Cooley-Tukey output instead of one. (Here, the first loop is separated so that we can continue to operate in-place on out[].)
First K outputs of a real-input FFT
An even more common case is where you have real inputs, and you want only the first K amplitudes of the DFT output. (Here, because of the conjugate symmetry, there is no need to distinguish positive and negative frequencies.)
double in[N], out1[N];
fftw_complex out[K], twids[(K-1)*(N/K-1)];
fftw_r2r_kind kind = FFTW_R2HC;
plan = fftw_plan_many_r2r(1, &K, N/K,
out1, NULL, 1, K,
&kind, FFTW_ESTIMATE);
/* set K elements of out[] to first K outputs of full size-N DFT: */
out[0] = out1[0];
for (i = 1; i+i < K; ++i) {
double o1 = out1[i], o2 = out1[K-i];
out[i] = o1 + I*o2;
out[K-i] = o1 - I*o2;
if (i+i == K) /* Nyquist element */
out[i] = out1[i];
out[0] += out1[j*K];
double o1 = out1[i + j*K], o2 = out1[K-i + j*K];
out[i] += (o1 + I*o2) * twids[(j-1)*(K-1) + (i-1)];
out[K-i] += (o1 - I*o2) * twids[(j-1)*(K-1) + (K-i-1)];
out[i] += out1[i + j*K] * twids[(j-1)*(K-1) + (i-1)];
This is essentially the same as the very first case above, except that it takes into account that the sub-FFTs were of real data and so have conjugate-symmetry ("halfcomplex") output.
In this case, it is more difficult to compute the final output in the same array as the sub-FFT outputs, so we instead store the result in a separate complex array out[K], while using an auxiliary real array out1[N] for the outputs of the sub-FFTs.
Again, in realistic code you would probably allocate the arrays with fftw_malloc instead of on the stack. Various optimizations and other variations are possible, as before. The above code does not exploit SIMD instructions, even for the FFTW sub-transforms, because it uses FFTW's r2r interface. To exploit SIMD for the sub-tranasforms, you should change it to the r2c interface (which involves a different output format).
P. Duhamel and M. Vetterli, "Fast Fourier transforms: a tutorial review and a state of the art," Signal Processing 19, p. 259–299 (1990).
H. V. Sorensen and C. S. Burrus, "Efficient computation of the DFT with only a subset of input or output points," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing 41 (3), 1184-1200 (1993)
F. Woolfe, E. Liberty, V. Rokhlin, M. Tygert, "A fast randomized algorithm for the approximation of matrices," preprint submitted to Elsevier (2007). See section 3.3 (page 7). I am also grateful to Mark Tygert for his comments and experiences with pruned FFTs.