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This is a terrific way to fix salmon...and it's so easy to do. The marinade mellows the fish flavor, and the dill sauce is a wonderful complement. I once served this recipe to 12 people from the Pacific Northwest who declared it was the best salmon they'd ever eaten!
-Deb Essen, Victor, Montana
TIP: Spreadable cheese makes a tasty sauce for grilled fish. It comes in several flavors and can be found in the specialty cheese section of your grocery store.
Grilled Salmon with Cheese Sauce, developed by our home economists, uses just five ingredients. The creamy sauce complements the delicate flavor of the salmon, and the tomatoes make a colorful, nutritious side.
I love salmon, but my husband doesn't. So I combined flavors I knew he liked to create this recipe, and now it's the only salmon recipe he will eat. It’s so easy and only requires a handful of ingredients. —Nicole Clayton, Prescott, Arizona
My husband and I got this recipe from a chef in 1982...and we've never served salmon any other way since then! Everyone loves the mild-tasting marinade, and out here in Washington friends are always asking me for the recipe.
Here's my go-to entree for a warm-weather cookout. The salmon has a rich, grilled taste that's enhanced by the savory blackberry sauce. It's a nice balance of sweet, smoky and spicy. —Stephanie Matthews, Tempe, AZ
My garden is often my cooking inspiration. Because I have a large berry patch, I especially enjoy using just-picked berries in savory dishes to add natural sweetness and sometimes a bit of tart. —Roxanne Chan, Albany, California
We eat fish on Fridays, so I like to experiment with different types. I pulled salmon, spinach and avocado from the fridge for these wraps. My kids loved them, and I love them, too, because they're delicious and they contain all four food groups right in one handheld meal. —Jennifer Krey, Clarence, New York
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This recipe first came about using leftover salmon and slaw. Now we plan to make it all the time. It's a nice alternative to burgers and always well-received at parties. The salmon can also be broiled. —Edrie O’Brien, Denver, Colorado

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In 434 Rua passed away, making their nephews Attila and you will Bleda, the new sons from his sister Mundzuk, responsible over all the brand new united Hun people. Next year, Attila and you can Bleda encountered the imperial legation within Margus (present-big date Pozarevac) and, every sitting with the horseback regarding Hunnic style, discussed a successful treaty: new Romans assented not only to go back the latest fugitive tribes (who have been a pleasant aid against the Vandals), as well as in order to double the earlier in the day tribute out-of 350 lbs of gold, unlock its segments to help you Hunnish buyers, and pay a ransom money of seven solidi for each Roman removed prisoner from the Huns. The newest Huns, happy with the fresh new pact, decamped about empire and departed on the interior of the fresh continent, perhaps to help you consolidate and you can bolster its empire. Theodosius made use of this chance to bolster the walls out of Constantinople, building this new city’s very first sea wall, and build up their edging protections along side Danube.
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Theodosius had removed the latest river’s protections in response into the Vandal Geiseric’s take out of Carthage into the 440 together with Sassanid Yazdegerd II’s attack away from Armenia within the 441. It kept Attila and you can Bleda a very clear street owing to Illyria to your this new Balkans, that they occupied within the 441. New Hunnish armed forces, having sacked Margus and you will Viminacium, grabbed Sigindunum (progressive Belgrade), and Sirmium prior to halting their procedures. Good lull followed through the 442, when Theodosius remembered his soldiers regarding North Africa and bought a beneficial large the fresh new dilemma of coins to finance operations against the Huns. Having produced these arrangements, he imagine they secure in order to refuse this new Hunnish kings’ requires.
Attila and you will Bleda answered from the stimulating the venture into the 443. Hitting over the Danube, they annexed the military locations from Ratiara and effortlessly besieged Naissus (progressive Nis) with battering rams and you can running systems-army elegance that was the newest on the Hun repertory-after that driving over the Nisava they grabbed Sardica (Sofia), Philippopolis (Plovdiv), and you may Arcadiopolis. It encountered and you may shed the new Roman push additional Constantinople and have been only stopped of the their insufficient siege gadgets able to breaking the latest city’s massive walls. Theodosius admitted overcome and you can sent Anatolius to discuss tranquility terms and conditions, that happen to be rougher versus earlier in the day treaty: the fresh Emperor offered to hand over off six,100000 lbs of gold since punishment for having disobeyed this new terminology of your pact in intrusion; the new yearly tribute try tripled, ascending to 2,one hundred weight when you look at the gold; and also the ransom for every Roman prisoner flower to help you twelve solidi.
Its dreams satisfied for some time, the Hun leaders withdrew on the inside of its kingdom. Based on Jordanes (following the Priscus), a bit inside serenity following the Huns’ withdrawal from Byzantium (most likely around 445), Bleda passed away, and you can Attila grabbed the newest throne to own himself. There clearly was much historical speculation whether or not Attila killed their aunt, otherwise if or not Bleda passed away for another reason.

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The Daily Beast: We are about to enter the age where there will be two classes of internet input: the fast track for those that will pay for it and a slow wire for everyone else. The Federal Communications Commission approved a set of net neutrality rules today, and nobody is happy. While liberals claim the FCC has caved to pressure from carriers, right-wingers are calling the new rules a government takeover of the Internet. Follow up:
Follow up:No matter what you think about the new rules, however, they signal an important turning point in the development of the Internet. We are going from Phase One, where everything is free and open and untamed, into Phase Two, which is all about centralization, consolidation, control—and money.
Because don’t kid yourself. Money is driving all of this. As in: Hey, we’ve created this marvelous new platform for communicating with each other. We’ve demonstrated that very large sums of money can be generated by sending stuff over these wires. Now let’s figure out who gets what.
Today’s new FCC rules grant two big concessions to carriers. First, the rules will apply to wired broadband connections, but they will pretty much leave wireless alone. Second, carriers remain free to create “fast lanes” on the Internet. They can charge Internet companies to ride on the faster pipes, and perhaps also charge consumers more money to get access to those speedy services. Read more......

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At the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31, 2005, the mood was far from celebratory in the cardiac surgery waiting room of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. The tension was simply too great.
“When the ball went down in Times Square,” said Michelle Knighton. “No one said ‘Happy New Year.’”
Her son, Jacob, was in the midst of emergency heart surgery. Cardiothoracic Surgeon Peter Wearden, MD, PhD, was replacing part of the 10-year-old’s aorta that had ruptured just hours before when the Knighton family was preparing for a quiet New Year’s Eve at home in suburban Pittsburgh. The rapid response of the Knighton family, paramedics, emergency room personnel and the surgical team at Children’s saved Jacob’s life that night.
His broken heart mended, he is alive today and back to normal life, with the exception of not being able to play contact sports like other boys his age. For Jacob, there’s a sad irony to that detail, as it was his drive to play sports that first introduced him to Children’s.
Born with clubfoot in both of his feet, Jacob has had a succession of corrective surgeries throughout his childhood. Coincidentally, he had been a patient at Children’s for another procedure only nine days prior to his emergency New Year’s Eve visit. Orthopedic doctors had placed an external fixator device on his left foot and leg.
Clubfoot, one of the more common congenital conditions, affects bones, muscles and tendons. The heel points downward and the forefoot turns inward. In severe cases, such as Jacob’s, a child learns to walk on his ankles due to the twisted position of the feet.
Competitive by nature, the lanky youngster did not let his condition keep him from sports activities. He started riding dirt bikes at the age of four, according to his mother. More than anything, he wanted to play vigorous sports like football, baseball and basketball. Thanks to the corrective treatments, by the time Jacob was 10, his right foot was appreciably normal, but procedures were still required for his left foot. “He just never gave up. He said ‘I want to play football, basketball, baseball and just be normal,’” explained Mrs. Knighton.
Following application of the fixator, Jacob went home on Christmas Day. Only six days later, as the family was settling in for a New Years Eve dinner, the crisis began. After soaking his foot, he told his mom that he didn’t feel well, so he was resting and watching a movie. He phoned his next-door-neighbor aunt to let her know dinner was almost ready. Suddenly, he started exhibiting signs of a heart attack, according to Mrs. Knighton, a medical assistant.
“He was screaming like I’ve never heard him do before, and he’s grabbing his chest and neck and saying ‘I’ve got pain. The pain’s real bad,’” she said. His eyes rolled back and he passed out. She phoned 911 and managed to revive him before paramedics arrived, but he was gray. The paramedics administered oxygen and said his blood pressure was low.
“I said get him down to Children’s right now.”
While heart attacks are rare in children, the Children’s Emergency Room team suspected that due to his recent orthopedic surgery he was suffering pulmonary emboli, blood clots that carried up to and settled in his lungs. That judgment moved Jacob quickly for a CT scan of his chest. What those images showed doctors, however, was not a clot in the lungs, but a surprising hematoma, bleeding around the aorta, and a swollen aortic root.
Cardiologist Jacqueline Kreutzer, MD, was on duty that night. “Nobody knew he had heart disease,” she said. And although Jacob’s condition initially appeared stable, “he was tachycardic and starting to show signs that he was losing blood volume into his chest.” The pericardium, the thin-walled sac that surrounds the heart, was filling with blood, and there was bleeding around the aorta. Moreover, the CT scan showed that the aorta was very enlarged, which is a sign of Marfan syndrome, a connective tissue disorder. An echocardiogram confirmed the CT scan’s findings.
Meanwhile, Dr. Wearden and Victor O. Morell, MD, director of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery, hurried to the hospital to prep for surgery on the failing boy. Although the operation would be risky, without the surgery the outcome was certain.
Before Jacob went into the operating room, his mother told him about what the doctors would do. “I told him he had to fight and fight hard – that I wasn’t done playing with him.”
During the operation, the surgeons found Jacob’s aorta had indeed ruptured in the dilated area. Were it even a slightly larger hole, Jacob likely would not have survived for the trip to the hospital.
In the early hours of that New Year’s Day, the surgical team replaced the dilated and torn aortic root as well as the aortic valve, which was also dilated, using an artificial aortic graft and valve. For his part, Jacob’s recovery was rapid, and ten days later he was discharged home.
“He has been doing beautifully from a cardiac standpoint,” said Dr. Kreutzer, adding that Jacob does not suffer from additional Marfan symptoms, which can include other heart defects, vision problems and skeletal issues, including longer-than-usual bones and misalignment. Doctors believe it is likely Jacob’s clubfoot condition is related to Marfan syndrome.
As the Marfan syndrome is genetic, doctors recommended other family members be checked for the condition. That led to the fortunate discovery that Jacob’s father shares some features of the syndrome affecting his aorta, which in turn has enabled Mr. Knighton’s doctors to monitor his previously unknown condition.
Jacob’s prognosis for the future is good. He takes oral medication to control clotting. He can engage in non-contact sports such as swimming, golf or jogging. The most serious concern in a patient with Marfan is the presence of aortic dilation and its potential for tearing. In Jacob’s case, that hurdle has already been jumped, leaving many days of play ahead.
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Your eyes want to believe but all you see is breaking us apart. My eyes, they stay with you to see what's on the other side of this world. If in the end we both should die, I'll stay with you. In my mind, planes on both sides, infinite but finite in their goal that each road leads us somewhere like a home.
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To help re-attach the airflow to the rear deck after the roof line, genuine aircraft vortex generators were installed. This helps to reduce drag and make the rear wing more effective.
The front of the car has many custom details for both appearance and performance. Cadillac STS HID projector lights are set into custom hand made housing to modernize the car's lighting. LED running lights and turn signals are used in custom vacuum formed housings and lenses.
The airdam is custom made and fitted with a functional splitter with a belly pan to add front downforce. For track use a larger splitter is fitted.
The car rides on fat 17×11.5 rear and 17×9.5 front HRE 505 wheels shod with Nitto NT05 tires, 275/40-17 rear and 225/45-17 front.
A 1983 vented Starion hood was used , modified for more radical venting to help cool the V8 engine. Venting also helps boost the splitter's effectiveness. Aerocatches keep the hood in place.
In the rear, taillights from a 89 Starion were tinted red and installed. The track only rear diffuser is shown in this picture which helps increase rear downforce.


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In honor of World Emoji Day, VISIT PHILADELPHIA®, the region’s official tourism marketing agency, today announced the launch of its sticker pack, featuring expressive Philly-themed illustrations and animations that locals and visitors can use in iMessage chats on iPhones and iPads.
The sticker pack features 33 shareable emojis that give Apple users a creative way to talk about the City of Brotherly Love in their private day-to-day messages. Graphics include an animated Liberty Bell with heart-eyes, a Philly cheesesteak, VISIT PHILADELPHIA’s own “XOXO” from the beloved With Love, Philadelphia XOXO® campaign and, of course, an illustration of Independence Hall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the birthplace of America.
“The popularity of messaging apps continues to grow, and people love to use emojis, graphics and illustrations in these conversations,” said Meryl Levitz, president and CEO of VISIT PHILADELPHIA. “We think it’s important that visitors and locals have a free, visual way to liven up their conversations about Philly, which is why we’re bringing our fun Philly emojis to Apple stickers.”
The Philadelphia Sticker Pack, featuring artwork designed by VISIT PHILADELPHIA’s in-house creative team, is available on the App Store here for iPhone and iPad users with iOS 10. To send a sticker by itself, users simply tap the sticker, or they can drag and drop a sticker directly on top of message bubbles, photos and other stickers in iMessage conversations.
VISIT PHILADELPHIA’s social media accounts communicate with more than 1.3 million fans and followers across 14 social media accounts about Philadelphia happenings. To keep the conversations going, VISIT PHILADELPHIA launched the Philadelphia Keyboard in 2016 and was one of the first destinations to introduce a set of custom emojis. The new sticker pack repurposes those custom emojis, which are no longer available in the Philadelphia Keyboard.
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On Greater Philadelphia’s official visitor website and blog, visitphilly.com and uwishunu.com, visitors can explore things to do, upcoming events, themed itineraries and hotel packages. Compelling photography and videos, interactive maps and detailed visitor information make the sites effective trip- planning tools. Along with Visit Philly social media channels, the online platforms communicate directly with consumers. Travelers can also call and stop into the Independence Visitor Center for additional information and tickets.

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A fire that forced several families out of their Richmond homes on Sunday night has been deemed suspicious, and Mounties have opened an investigation.
The apartment building in the 5800 block of No. 3 Road caught fire at about 11 p.m. No one was injured, but water damage made it impossible for a number of residents to return to their suites.
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CliniComp Upgrades Servers
Posted 17 February 2006 - 08:42 AM
The upgrade allowed the Department of Defense (DoD) to convert all its archived patient records from optical disc technology to online storage within the servers. Now, 28,000 medical personnel located throughout the facilities have secure online access in real time to 1.6 million patient records dating back to 1989. During each installation, a four-person CliniComp team, working remotely and from each of the hospitals, installed new production servers running in critical care units, plus server racks, power supplies and related equipment, with no loss of operating capacity to the DoD.
The server upgrade took place at the following facilities:
-- DeWitt Army Community Hospital, Ft. Belvoir, Va.
-- Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Wash.
-- Malcolm Grow Medical Center, Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
-- Martin Army Community Hospital, Ft. Benning, Ga.
-- National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md.
-- Naval Hospital, Camp Pendleton, near San Diego
-- San Diego Naval Medical Center, San Diego
-- Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu
-- Walter Reed Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
-- William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, Texas
-- Wright Patterson Medical Center, near Dayton, Ohio
"This project is a testament to the careful planning and a coordinated effort between CliniComp engineers and DoD hospital staff at each location," stated Carl Witonsky, vice chairman of CliniComp. "It also demonstrates the robust capabilities of the Essentris Reliance 247 architecture, which ensures constant availability through redundant servers and remote monitoring."
CliniComp, Intl., delivers powerful clinical information solutions developed specifically for acute-care hospitals, including academic medical centers, military facilities and other acute-care providers, as well as integrated delivery networks. CliniComp tools enable clinicians to document care, monitor processes, identify patient outliers and utilize actionable data to perform best practices in the clinical environment. This results in reduced medical errors, increased efficiency and enhanced patient care. CliniComp's tools for supervisors and managers deliver broad functionality to improve patient care and reduce risks. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in San Diego, CliniComp serves over 40 installed hospital clients, including Sharp HealthCare, UCLA Healthcare, Lee Memorial Health System and Walter Reed Army Medical Center. To learn more, visit www.clinicomp.com or call 800-350-8202.
Posted 15 July 2008 - 07:27 AM
Approximately 320 nurses and 160 physicians at Baptist Health are documenting on and accessing clinical information stored in Essentris from all perinatal service areas, including the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The large, not-for-profit health system is integrating the solution with Siemens Medical Solutions’ Lifetime Clinical Record® system to standardize perinatal care documentation and provide physicians real-time access to patient data across the continuum of care.
“The successful go-live at South Miami is a critical milestone as we strive to fulfill our vision of standardizing evidence-based perinatal care to enhance quality and patient safety enterprise-wide,” explains Melissa Foster Barthold, MSN, RN-BC, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, Manager, Nursing Informatics at Baptist Health South Florida. “We are two-thirds of the way toward eliminating paper-based documentation to substantially improve clinician workflow. By using Essentris to provide evidence and standards-based documentation, we also minimize variability in care and documentation and empower our nurses and physicians to make more informed decisions that will enhance care delivery.”
Barthold added, “The system installation was on time and was one of the smoothest we have ever experienced for a project of its scale. Our ‘super users’ supporting nurses at every shift, coupled with powerful collaboration among our team of nurses, I.T. professionals and CliniComp’s implementation team, significantly contributed to our success. It was a tremendous team effort.”
To further streamline information flow to clinicians, South Miami interfaced Essentris with a clinical data repository that provides a longitudinal view of a patient's lifetime medical record. Charted data from the baby’s delivery summary note will be transmitted from Essentris to the Siemens Lifetime Clinical Record (LCR), which physicians access via a Web portal from Siemens. CliniComp and Baptist eventually will port all data residing in Essentris to LCR, enabling the latter’s parent, Baptist Health, to create a patient’s lifetime record. South Miami also has integrated Essentris with several bedside monitors, ventilators and incubators in the NICU.
“The new system has been great for us because documentation now is much more accurate and timely,” said Colleen Rodriguez, nurse manager of the South Miami Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. In addition, the nurse can now pull information such as vital signs or ventilator settings from the monitors without having to stop hands-on care of the patient.
“Baptist Health’s strong commitment to transform clinical practice by giving clinicians instant and complete access to monitored data and the maternal and newborn chart was what drove us throughout this project. Their focus on meeting the end-user needs created a powerful synergy between our two organizations, and the results speak for themselves,” said Alan Portela, Chief Operating Officer, CliniComp, Intl. “In leveraging Essentris to help create a paperless environment, Baptist Health is delivering safer, more efficient and high-quality care.”
Baptist Health installed Essentris at Homestead Hospital May 2007. It will roll out the solution to more than 425 additional users at 584-bed Baptist Hospital of Miami in late fall.
Essentris Perinatal is uniquely designed to manage clinical workflow across the entire continuum of perinatal care. It provides integrated modules for fetal surveillance, maternal charting and Neonatal (level 3) ICU management. The system captures and links all episodes of care, including mother to baby information, into an electronic medical record. Essentris Perinatal is built on the award-winning Essentris platform, a multidisciplinary, hospital-wide charting and surveillance solution.
About Baptist Health South Florida
Baptist Health South Florida is the largest faith-based, not-for-profit healthcare organization in the region. Affiliates of Baptist Health include Baptist Hospital of Miami, Baptist Children’s Hospital, South Miami Hospital, Homestead Hospital, Mariners Hospital, Doctors Hospital and Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute. Baptist Health also offers a variety of healthcare services, such as outpatient diagnostic and treatment facilities and home health. For more information, visit http://www.baptisthealth.net
CliniComp is a leading provider of an intelligent, reliable inpatient electronic health record and surveillance solution suite to leading hospitals and health systems. In its nearly two-decade history, CliniComp has been a pioneer in bridging the gap between the back-office and the bedside by extending existing HIS and ancillary systems to the point of care. The Essentris enterprise solution maximizes IT investment and enforces consistent workflow across all aspects of patient care. Essentris’ use of a single, interdisciplinary, electronic chart enables caregivers to easily access and view of the total clinical experience and provides a new generation of real-time clinical surveillance and analysis tools. The result is a dramatic improvement in quality and safety of patient care, outcomes and clinical decision-making. Essentris is deployed at approximately 70 client sites, including UCLA Healthcare, Baptist Health South Florida and Tenet Healthcare Corporation. CliniComp also has a sizable deployment across the Military Health System, covering more than 45 percent of all Department of Defense beds. For more information, visit www.clinicomp.com or call 800.350.8202.
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Jodi Amendola, 480-664-8412 ext. 11
Posted 06 September 2008 - 08:53 AM
Dallas-based Tenet initially will deploy CliniComp’s Essentris Perinatal in the labor and delivery (L&D) units of seven of its facilities in 12 states, with additional installations planned for 2009 and 2010. Subsequently, additional Tenet facilities will replace current documentation processes in their L&D units with Essentris Perinatal.
A team from Tenet and CliniComp collaborated to configure the perinatal-specific clinical documentation application to best meet the needs of the Tenet facilities. The final, standardized solution was successfully piloted and installed at St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Essentris Perinatal enables hospitals to align documentation with best practice models and provide a methodology to maintain documentation corresponding with changes in regulation. The establishment of uniform documentation will meet standards of care practices from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Academy of Pediatrics and the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses. The solution also supports reporting requirements from the Joint Commission.
“We are very excited by Tenet Healthcare’s decision to install the Essentris Perinatal system at seven of its hospitals," said Alan Portela, chief operating officer, CliniComp, Intl. "As a leader in perinatal documentation, our systems have evolved to meet the market’s demand for specialized functionality, combined with enhanced liability protection. We look forward to working with Tenet.”
Built on the award-winning Essentris platform, which provides an intelligent, reliable inpatient electronic medical record and surveillance infrastructure, Essentris Perinatal is uniquely designed to manage clinical workflow across the entire continuum of perinatal care. It provides integrated modules for fetal surveillance, maternal charting and neonatal (level 3) ICU management. The system captures and links all episodes of care, including mother to baby information, into a longitudinal electronic medical record.
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This little guy Claus has been an amazing addition to our family. We couldn’t be happier! Thank you so much Winsome Wheatens for the experience you shared to help us in the beginning with our new pup. He learned to ring the bell to go outside within the week. He is super smart!
Totally in love with my new puppy from Winsome Wheatens! Susanna was incredibly kind, communicative & accommodating to my situation! Would definitely recommend this breeder if anyone is looking for a pup! Here is 7 month old Roosevelt (formerly known as Baxter!)
I wanted to give you a quick update on Marley. She is adjusting well and growing like crazy. She and Cole are quickly becoming best friends. They play together almost all day and night, only stopping for meals and naps. Cole sleeps outside her crate at night, and they’ve even started napping together.
She’s close to 15 lbs and the Wheaten color is coming in more each day. She’s full of energy and keeping us on our toes. She’s adjusting to the crate, leash, and potty training, and learning new commands each day. We are so thankful to have her join our family and so thankful you gave her to us. I hope you’re all doing well in your move, and have a joyful Christmas with family and friends.
Duncan has been adjusting really well to life with us. He seems to enjoy his crate and sleeps soundly through the night, and he already has a few favorite toys. He has been eating and using the bathroom normally too. As far as his temperament he is a joy to have, he is sweet and playful. Everybody he has met has fallen in love with him instantly. We brought him to see our relatives on thanksgiving and I think he was more popular than we were!
Anyway, we just wanted to respond and tell you how happy we are with Duncan. Here are a few pictures of him we think you will like.
~Jennifer and Trevor
We are enjoying our little “Maizie” more and more each day. I wish I had half the energy she does! I try to walk her everyday about two or more miles. She is getting used to the leash and loves her walks. If we can’t walk, than we play in the yard and she runs her little heart out. So much fun to watch. She is doing pretty well with the housebreaking and learning commands to come, sit or stay. She has a very good appetite too! I am thinking about getting her trimmed after the first of the year, especially around the face and legs so she doesn’t look so “wooly”. I just love her fuzzy face though and don’t want to have too much taken off.
Maizie has been a blessing for me. I love her to pieces! I wanted to add that we have a “circle” in our home. The kitchen and living room are connected by two hall ways and when she gets her spurt of energy she runs this circle as fast as her legs can carry her. She slides sideways on the hardwood floors and it just makes me laugh. She is a joy.
George has been amazing. He slept through the first night and has had very few accidents. He loves everyone we meet and has the best little personality. He has learned his name and comes running when we call. He has officially taken total control of the house! Not really but he thinks so. He is doing very well with time in his crate also. I think if we just let him run all day, he would. He is also walking fairly well on his leash. We are getting a baby gate today so he will quit running up the stairs and we have to get him since he is not ready to come back down. You guys did a great job with these little guys. He is very social with people and other dogs. We love him! I totally recommend you and your great Wheaten puppies. ~~Sandy
Our little girl is doing very well! The boys renamed her, so we now call her “Cookie”! 🙂 She is very sweet, great with the boys, loves to play and learns quickly! She is doing very well with house training and has also learned the command “sit “!
She is always happy to see us, most especially the boys when they get home from school- her little tail doesn’t stop wagging!
Her first visit with the veterinarian went well, and she is scheduled to go back in a couple of weeks.
Thank you so much for our little girl! She has brought our family so much joy!
I wanted to tell you how happy she has made our home. She is a ball of energy and is always making us laugh. She is such a good puppy. My entire family loves her to pieces. She’s so goofy and affectionate. She just eats up all the attention. When we first got her, she cried a lot the first night — which was expected of course. By the second night though, she was sleeping six hours through the night! We couldn’t believe it. Within a week, she was going at least six hours each night in her crate — and she would go to the door whenever she had to go potty! She is such a smart and beautiful dog. We’ve taught her plenty of tricks and she’s always surprising us with her intelligence. She can be stubborn at times, but we love that about her. Thank you so much for breeding such a wonderful bunch of puppies. We are so happy we got our Wheaten through you. You made the process easy and we could tell she came from a loving family. Thank you to you and your family for giving us such a bundle of joy!
Just a quick note to say THANK YOU and to let you know how much we are enjoying the puppy we adopted between Christmas and New Years. He has truly added many smiles and entertainment to our home. Rascal was the perfect choice for us and goes on many outings with us – even enjoys plane rides in our plane (isn’t real happy about bumpy rides). Goes to the farm to cut wood (not real sure about the horses), and loves the market. Please know that you have an open invitation to visit with him and us.
~Dianne and Eric
The ride home was great. The first night was a little more of a challenge, but it’s over! Every night’s been getting a little better, and he’s a real dear. He’s already a deeply cherished part of the family. The girls are smitten. Thanks for all your work in getting us connected with the right puppy. We really enjoyed meeting you, too!
I wanted to send you a follow-up email and just tell you how wonderful Chloe is! I couldn’t be happier that she is in my life and I wanted to thank you for everything! She is the SWEETEST little girl and unbelievably smart. She had mastered housetraining at about 4 months! She is such a snuggler and loves all her new toys. She is also a star dog on our block-people come up to me all the time and recognize her from the park or around the neighborhood-they all just think she is the cutest! We frequent the dog park and she has made some dog friends-she just has such a blast.
Wheaten are the best dogs ever!
We thought we were done raising dogs after having had two Wheatens over the past 20 years. Our son (7) started pressuring us and I started looking. We found Winsome on the web and they had the perfect puppy for our family. I reached out to Susanna via text and she was extremely responsive and were were able to close the deal, figure out the logistics of picking up a dog near St. Louis (we live in Dallas) and negotiate the final price, it was a very professional transaction.
She and her family were such a pleasure to work with and now we have the best newest member of our family with us. Oakley is amazing, has adjusted so well and is of a perfect temperament. I’m waiting for the Wheaten to come out ?
Thanks again for all the help in making this family decision become a reality!
Rory is such a sweet pup and we love having her with us! She recently turned one and is nearly full grown. She is very friendly and loving and has a bit of a stubborn streak! Winsome Wheatens made the dog adoption process very smooth and easy and you can tell they take great care of their puppies!
Lola (4) and Brooks (6) bring us, and all those they meet, constant joy. They are SUCH characters and we are so grateful to have them!
I want to share a picture of Bruno’s first birthday. He loved eat his cake and play with his new toys. He really had a Blast birthday
Playful, lovely and smart dog
We are so thankful with our little Bruno such a good boy, he is adapting very well to us and his new home. He still have some pee accidents in the house but he is getting better. Bruno enjoy play with his toys, run in the backyard and explore new areas his is the Boss right now. He loves eat his Eukanuba food and his treats. We have 3 full days and I feel he learn so quick; every day learn something new. We are happy in this new adventure with him. Some pic of Bruno watching daddy practice golf.
Love Frinzi family.
We just wanted to give an update on Tucker! This boy has brought so much laughter back into our home and he is the sweetest, most loving pup we have ever met and we are so lucky to have him in our family! He just saw snow for the first time and absolutely loves it! He never wants to come inside. His first birthday is quickly approaching and we are hoping to have a little party for him with all of his friends in the neighborhood! Thank you so much for our sweet guy!
The Lambert Family


Compressor maintenance essentials, maintenance Daquan
Bengbu Auto Compressor Co., Ltd. warmly reminds users:
Good maintenance is the basic guarantee for the safe operation of the compressor unit, prolonging the service life, and reducing operating costs. For this reason, the maintenance of the unit should be carried out in accordance with correct operating procedures. The maintenance of the compressor unit is divided into preventive maintenance, every shift, every ten days, half a year, one year, and three years. Careful maintenance records should be made after each maintenance operation.
(1) Preventive maintenance
1. In the maintenance, the first thing to do is to clean, whether it is lubricating oil or cooling water, it should be kept clean.
2. Ensure that there is enough lubricating oil in the crankcase and lubricator, and prevent water or impurities from entering the lubrication system.
3. The cooling system should be filled with cooling water, and no air blockage or leakage is allowed.
4. Before starting the unit, put the piston in different positions, and press the pump with the manual oiler to pre-lubricate the cylinder and piston rod. (Not needed for oil-free machines)
5. For the unit that has just been started, do not load it immediately after it is started. It should be left idling, and the standby group should be heated before loading (it is necessary in winter)
6. During the operation of the unit, avoid overload operation.
7. For abnormal noises and leaks during operation, stop the machine to find the cause, and then start the operation after troubleshooting.
(two) maintenance every shift
1. Check and eliminate the oil, gas, and water leakage of the unit, and keep the surface of the equipment and the environment clean.
2. Monitor and check the working conditions of the lubricating oil tank, oil injector, crankcase oil level, and oil pump; each part of the unit is running for abnormal noise and vibration.
3. Check whether the compressor system inlet and outlet pressure, temperature and oil pressure are normal.
4. Check the anchor bolts of the unit and the fastening of each connection part.
5. Check and remove the liquid accumulation in the separator.
6. Check whether the control instruments are working normally.
7. Check whether the electrical equipment is working properly.
(Wednesday) Maintenance every ten days (250 hours)
1. All the contents of each class maintenance.
2. Check the coupling connection.
(four) monthly maintenance (700 hours)
1. All the contents of every ten days of maintenance.
2. Check the oil level of the lubricating oil storage tank and replenish new oil appropriately.
3. Check the pressure drop of the lubricating oil filter. The allowable pressure drop is not more than 0.042MPa. When this value is exceeded, the filter element should be cleaned and purged. (This is not required for compressors with splash lubrication)
4. Fill the bearing of the water pump with grease of the specified brand. (Only refer to the compressor with closed water circulation cooling)
5. Check and clean the compressor inlet and outlet valves, and replace damaged parts.
6. Check the tightness of the cross pin and piston rod lock nut.
7. Check the filter element of the clear separator and the separator drain device.
(Five) Semi-annual maintenance (4000 hours)
1. All the contents of monthly maintenance.
2. Check the working reliability and sensitivity of all safety protection devices, instrument control and electronic control systems, and adjust them.
3. Check and adjust the dead center gap of the compression cylinder piston so that the cylinder head end is twice the crankshaft end gap (cold state).
4. Replace all the oil in the crankcase and clean the crankcase.
5. Check and adjust the alignment of the coupling or the parallelism of the pulley.
6. Remove the positive dust on the compression cylinder, piston, piston ring and exhaust port, check and record the wear of the piston ring, cylinder, and piston ring opening clearance and lateral clearance, and repair or replace if necessary.
(Saturday) One year maintenance (8000 hours)
1. All the contents of the half-year maintenance.
2. Clean and check lubrication devices, lubrication system pipelines, valves, pumps and other parts, replace and repair damaged parts.
3. Check the locking of the main bearing cap bolts and connecting rod bolts.
4. Check the piston ring of the compression cylinder, the steel gasket of the intake and exhaust valve and the air valve spring, and replace the worn and damaged parts.
5. Eliminate the radiator and the dirt inside and outside the cooler, check for leaks and blockages, and remove them.
6. Check and record the wear of the piston rod.
7. Check the wear and sealing condition of the piston rod packing, and replace the worn parts.
8. Check and record the clearance of the crosshead guide chute.
9. Check and replace the vulnerable parts of the unit.
(seven) three-year maintenance (24,000 hours)
1. All the contents of one-year maintenance.
2. Check the main components of the main engine, such as bearing bushes, journals, connecting rods, connecting rod copper sleeves, crossheads, crosshead pins, crosshead slides, pistons and tie rods, cylinders, clearance cylinders, etc., for wear and damage. Circumstance, and repair and replace as needed.
3. Check the corrosion and damage of various piping systems, pressure vessels and valves, and conduct internal and external inspections and hydraulic tests on pressure vessels and piping in accordance with pressure vessel safety management regulations.
(8) Maintenance of long-term storage unit
1. Drain the cooling water of the cooling system.
2. Drain the lubricating oil in the crankcase, clean the oil in the tank, the crosshead guide and other parts, and evenly coat the crankcase, crosshead guide, connecting rod, crosshead, piston rod and packing. High-quality anti-rust grease.
3. Clean the compression cylinder and each valve, and apply anti-rust oil.
4. Clean the compression cylinder and piston, and apply clean lubricating oil.
5. Coat all exposed metal surfaces of the unit with anti-rust grease.
6. Take necessary measures to prevent the unit from being exposed to the sun, rain, wind, sand or harmful gases in the atmosphere. Prevent the loss and damage of parts and tools.
Please refer to the above content and the requirements of the factory manual of Auto Compressor for regular maintenance of the compressor.


Recent Advances on Mathematical Modeling and Control Methods for Complex Vehicle SystemsView this Special Issue
Probabilistic Harmonic Calculation in Distribution Networks with Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
Integrating EV charging station into power grid will bring impacts on power system, among which the most significant one is the harmonic pollution on distribution networks. Due to the uncertainty of the EV charging process, the harmonic currents brought by EV charging stations have a random nature. This paper proposed a mathematical simulation method for studying the working status of charging stations, which considers influencing factors including random leaving factor, electricity price, and waiting time. Based on the proposed simulation method, the probability distribution of the harmonic currents of EV charging stations is obtained and used in the calculation of the probability harmonic power flow. Then the impacts of EVs and EV charging stations on distribution networks can be analyzed. In the case study, the proposed simulation and analysis method is implemented on the IEEE-34 distribution network. The influences of EV arrival rates, the penetration rate, and the accessing location of EV charging station are also investigated. Results show that this research has good potential in guiding the planning and construction of charging station.
Car industry has been developing for decades at a cracking pace. In order to pursue better performance and higher utility of vehicles, many valuable researches have been done to address the issues like adaptive control, mathematical modeling, and fault diagnosis [1–3]. In recent years, the pressure of fossil fuel shortage and other environmental problems leads to high-speed development of electric vehicles (EVs) due to their emission-free characteristic and effective utilization of renewable energy [4, 5]. The promising trend of EVs attracts plenty of researchers to concentrate on the functioning and the influence of electrical vehicles. Unlike conventional vehicles, the power supply of EVs mainly comes from local power distribution system through EV charging stations [6, 7] and that will lead to impacts on distribution network. In order to study the impacts, the EV charging station should be modeled properly and many factors need to be taken into consideration.
The impacts of EV charging station integration can be divided into two categories basically. The first category contains the influences induced by uncoordinated charging of large amounts of EVs such as voltage deviations, thermal overloads, increase in losses, and decrease in voltage stability [6, 8–10]. Researches have investigated aspects including the different EV penetrations on distribution network investment , the long-term operating capacity reserve , and transformer life . Coordinated charging strategies are proposed [12–15] to promote the distribution gird’s ability to hold more EVs without reinforcements, improve voltage profile, and reduce power losses.
The other category is the impacts brought by high rating nonlinear switching devices in EV chargers  and the typical one in this category is harmonic pollution. Harmonic pollution will shorten the life span of transformers, reduce the utilization of transmission lines, and interfere with the signals of measuring and protection equipment. Therefore, studying the harmonic pollution brought by EV charging stations is of great importance. Paper  establishes a stochastic aggregate harmonic load model to study the harmonic characteristics of EV charger. Paper  presents a harmonic simulation method to study the harmonic impact of EVs. Paper  develops an approach to decrease the harmonics in a high EV penetration grid, and the harmonic load flow is used to model the distorted grid and identify the worst bus based on the typical daily load curve.
In most of the calculation, the worst situation of harmonic of charging station was used. However, the probability of the worst situation is rare in daily life. In most of these studies the harmonic currents are generated by individual EV charger. The random characteristic of charging behavior was not considered in the calculation of charging station harmonic and was hardly consistent with the actual situation in our daily life. Besides, there are limited studies focused on the system level to evaluate the harmonic distortion of charging stations.
In this paper, this problem is investigated from single equipment to the entire system. First, a simplified simulation model of EV charger is used to analyze the harmonic characteristics. Second, based on the queuing theory and charger model, a mathematical simulation method to get the probability distribution of charging station state is proposed, considering the influences of random factors, electricity price, and waiting time. The statistics of the simulation results are performed to obtain the probability distribution of total harmonics. Third, through the probability harmonic power flow, the probability characteristics of probability distribution of charging stations’ influences on system harmonics are analyzed. At last, the key factors, including the arrival rate, penetration rate, and the access location of EV charging station, were analyzed based on a modified IEEE-34 system.
2. The Working State Model of EV Charging Station
2.1. Model the EV Charger
In order to analyze the harmonic characteristic of EV charging station, the basic working model of a single EV charger needs to be built first. In this paper, we consider a kind of currently the most widely used EV charger. This typical EV charger consists of a three-phase uncontrolled rectifier and a high frequency DC/DC converter which are coupled with a high frequency transformer . The output voltage and current of the charger are controlled by feedback control equipment in the high frequency DC/DC converter. Since elaborately modeling the EV charger is too complicated, it consumes much time for the simulation.
To reduce the complexity of the EV charger model, a simplification proposed in  is adopted here, where the high frequency DC/DC converter and battery load are replaced by an equivalent resistance. The simplified equivalent circuit is shown in Figure 1.
Based on Ohm’s law, the equivalent resistance can be calculated as where is the equivalent resistance of high frequency DC/DC converter, is the input power of the high frequency DC/DC converter, is the output power of EV charger, is the efficiency of high frequency DC/DC converter, is the output voltage of three-phase uncontrolled rectifier, and is the output current of three-phase uncontrolled rectifier.
According to (1), the equivalent resistance should be a function of the charging time to reflect the different output power in different charging stages. The empirical formula of during the charging process was obtained through fitting the actual-measured data , which can be put as where is the output power of EV charger, is charging time, is the time spot when charging mode turns from constant current charging to constant voltage charging, is the maximum charging time, and is the rated output power.
In , was treated as a constant; however, according to the simulation result in MATLAB/Simulink environment, the efficiency of the high frequency DC/DC converter varies with the output power of the EV charger . Their relationship is presented in Figure 2.
Using the curve-fitting technique, the expression can be obtained as
To illustrate the effectiveness of the simplified model in harmonic analysis, a comparison between the original and the simplified model (considering the varying efficiency during charging) has been made through simulating in MATLAB/Simulink environment. Simulation results show that the maximum error of the harmonic between the original and the simplified model is merely 0.45%, while the equivalent simplified model costs 40% less time than the original one. Therefore, the simplified model appears to be more effective and suitable, especially when repetitive calculations are required.
2.2. Build the Working State Model for an EV Charging Station
Analysis of the harmonic impact of EV charging stations requires knowing the harmonic currents injection of the charging stations to distribution network. With the EV charger simulation model mentioned in Section 2.1, the harmonic currents that one charger brings to the grid can be obtained in simulation software. The harmonic currents of the entire charging station can be calculated by adding up the harmonic currents generated by every charger in work. Therefore, it is necessary to build the working state model for the EV charging station to acquire the number and the status of working chargers.
To build the working state model, the charging process in the charging station, which depends on EVs’ charging behaviors, needs to be studied. Charging behaviors of EVs have much to do with the power conditions of their batteries. Normally, the power condition of a battery is measured by its SOC, which is defined as the available capacity in percentage of full charge capacity . The battery power needs to be adequate to ensure the normal operation of electric vehicles. With the battery power consuming, the SOC will keep dropping and may get down to an overdischarging state . When the battery power drops below a threshold value, the EV cannot work normally and thus needs to get charged at a nearby charging station. The charging process of an EV (as shown in Figure 3) can be modeled as a queuing process based on queuing theory (introduced in ), which can be summarized as “first come, first served.” The EV that needs charging adds to the tail of the queue when it enters the charging station. If there is no available EV charger, the EV will be waiting for an opening; if there is an available EV charger, it will get charged immediately. The EV will leave when the SOC reaches 100% or when there are some factors to make it leave early.
In [23, 24], the queuing theory is used to describe the charging process and it is proved feasible. In , a typical queuing model, M/M/c, is used to portray the customer streams of EV charging stations. The typical queuing theory assumes that the inter-arrival and service time are generally subject to exponential distribution. As for EV charging, it is feasible to assume that the interarrival time of two consecutive EVs is exponentially distributed but it will lead to large error to consider that the charging time also obeys exponential distribution. The charging time is a random variable influenced mainly by the initial SOC, the random leaving factor, the electricity price, and the waiting time, so it does not seem to follow any already known probability distributions. Therefore, the typical queuing model may not describe the charging behavior effectively.
In order to make the model more realistic, this paper adopts a numerical simulating method to study the EV charging process. First, the states of an EV charger should be modeled. The state of charger is determined by the SOC of the battery connected to it, where the range of SOC is from 0 to 100 in percentage. The battery charging process can be treated as a Markov process since the SOC of the next time spot is only related to the current SOC and has nothing to do with the SOC before, which can be put as follows: where is the current time and is the current state of charge.
In order to make it easier for study, we discretize the domain of SOC’s possible values. Figure 4 shows the transition of the states during charging. The SOC of the battery goes towards a higher level over the charging time if the EV does not quit at the middle of charging. If it does quit, the SOC of the battery goes to 100% directly. It is worth noting that 100% of SOC here means that the EV leaves and the charger is free. So there are two conditions that a state is treated as a 100% state. One is that the EV gets fully charged and leaves and the other is that the EV leaves in the middle of charging.
The diagram can be described in
means the transition probability from state to , is the incremental power in a simulation time unit, and is the probability of quitting before the EV is fully charged, which will vary due to the current value of SOC.
To start the simulation, the initial SOC should be given. Setting it to zero or some fixed low value will be inappropriate because the remaining SOC of last time is random. In fact, according to , the battery’s initial SOC obeys two-parameter distribution, whose probability density function is
Quitting probability needs to be pinned down to complete the model for EV chargers. Generally, it contains 3 components, including random leaving factor, waiting time , and electricity price .
The typical threshold value is set to 80%. Leaving earlier before SOC reaches will do some harm to the battery, so people usually do not leave earlier no matter how long they will wait or how much the electricity costs. When SOC is equal to or greater than the threshold , waiting time factor and electricity cost factor begin to work. The whole process can be illustrated by
Furthermore, is determined not only by the waiting time but also by the difference between the current SOC and the threshold . With the increasing of SOC, both the waiting time and the difference to will increase, which leads to a higher waiting time-related quitting probability. In (8), can be thought to be in a linear relationship with the product of the charging time and the difference between the battery’s SOC and in this study, where time coefficient is a constant:
is also decided by two components. One is the difference between the real-time electricity price () and the expected electricity price (), and the other is the difference between SOC and . The expression is shown in (9), where price coefficient is a constant:
Finally, a correction should be made to improve the model of charging process. It is noted that an EV driver may be scared off by a long queue or get impatient waiting in line and then decide to leave before getting the car charged, so the effective arrival rate is a little bit less than the arrival rate. The correctional charging process is demonstrated in Figure 5.
Considering the waiting time, the arrival rate is fixed in (10), where is the real arrival rate and is the fixed arrival rate. The directly leaving rate () is the product of the leaving factor () and the average waiting time () which can be acquired in the simulation of queuing process:
Using the model given above to simulate the activity of each EV charger, the state of the whole charging station can be simulated by the sequential Monte Carlo method. This makes the preparation for the calculation of harmonic distribution.
2.3. Calculate the Harmonic Distribution of Charging Station
The harmonic currents of the whole charging station can be calculated by adding up the harmonic currents of all EV chargers. However, the states of chargers are uncertain so the harmonics of the charging station cannot be calculated directly. Using the working state model built in Section 2.2, the states of chargers in an EV charging station can be determined at any time spot; then the simulation model of the entire charging station can be built in simulators to calculate the total harmonics. After simulation, the probability distribution of the charging station can be obtained through the statistical analysis of simulation results.
The simulation model of the charging station is built by the simplified models of EV chargers mentioned in Section 2.1. In each step of the EV charging station’s mathematical simulation, all the chargers’ output power is determined; thus, the equivalent resistance can be calculated through (1). After that, the value of equivalent resistance can be set in MATLAB/Simulink and then the harmonics of the charging station can be simulated for statistical analysis to acquire the probability distribution. Figure 6 illustrates the steps in a flowchart.
Details of the steps in Figure 6 are given as follows.(1)Initialize the valid data, for example, the simulation step time () and the convergence criterion. Then start the mathematical simulation process.(2)Update the battery’s SOC in time through where is the time of simulation step, is the battery’s charging time, and is the total time of a battery’s SOC changing from 0 to 100 in percent.(3)Calculate the number of EVs which quit charging in time , considering the random leaving factor, the price of electricity, and the waiting time.(4)Calculate the number of EVs which arrive in time using the correctional arrival rate to increase the calculation accuracy. Then update the number of EV cars in charging station.(5)Give the initial SOC of each EV which arrives in time with (1). Then find the corresponding charging time () and output power ().(6)Arrange the EV cars in the queue for charging according to the “first come, first served” principle.(7)Calculate the output power by (2) and (3), and then the value of equivalent resistance can be obtained by (1).(8)Set the resistance parameters of each charger in the simulation model of EV charging station. Then start the simulation and record results of harmonic and total power in an array.(9)Keep simulation until the probability distribution of charging state meets the convergence criterion that Euclidean distance of probability distributions obtained using different simulation time must be within the range of allowable error, which can be put as where , stands for the difference of the th component of random variable in the th andth distributions obtained in different simulation time, stands for the number of variables, and stands for the allowable error.(10)Obtain the probability distribution of the charging state and the harmonics.
3. Probabilistic Harmonic Power Flow of Distribution System Integrating EVs
The influence of integrating EVs into the distribution network has a probabilistic nature due to the random and uncertain characteristic of EVs. Based on the probability distribution of total harmonic of charging stations, the probability characteristics of charging stations’ influences on system harmonics can be analyzed through the probabilistic harmonic power flow [10, 26]. From the simulation results of harmonics, we find that there is no typical curve that can describe the probability characteristics of charging stations’ harmonic. Thus in this research, the Monte Carlo sampling is used to calculate the probabilistic harmonic power flow.
Because the harmonic power brought by EV charging station is much less than the fundamental power in distribution network, the fundamental power flow and the harmonic power flow can be decoupled and calculated, respectively. Newton-Raphson method was used to calculate the fundamental power flow.
The harmonic models of load, transmission line, and transformer adopt the typical harmonic models in . Based on the harmonic model of electrical components and the result of fundamental power flow, time harmonic admittance matrix () can be obtained according to the harmonic analysis theory. Harmonic sources are treated as an ideal current source, so the time injection current matrix () can be obtained. The time harmonic voltage matrix () can be obtained by solving
After solving harmonic power flow at each time, the effective voltage () and total harmonic distortion of voltage () can be calculated through
After the calculation of probabilistic harmonic power flow based on Monte Carlo, the probability distribution of effective voltage and can be acquired. Then the probability characteristics of charging stations’ influences on system harmonics under different conditions can be analyzed.
4. Case Study
An EV charging station is connected to the original IEEE-34 test system at Node 23 through a transformer. The penetration power of the EV charging station is set to 15% in this case. Detailed information of the charging station is listed in Table 1.
The charging time of the EV battery from out-of-power to fully charged is 270 minutes. The parameters of the EV charger are listed in Table 2.
The arrival rate is set to 0.1 during the day and 0.2 at night since fewer people use cars at night and the electricity price is lower. According to the load curve, the load level during the night is lower than other times. The random leaving factor, the waiting time, and electricity price are considered during the daytime. The parameters of the working state model are listed in Table 3.
4.1. The Efficiency Analysis of Working State Model
In order to prove the effectiveness of the model proposed in this paper, the probability distribution of charging station’s state is calculated using two different models. The first is the conventional queuing theory model, in which the average service time of charger is 203 minutes. For in the typical model, the random leaving factor, the waiting time, and the price of electricity are not reflected. So in order to prove the effectiveness of the method proposed in this paper, these factors are ignored. The probability distribution of EV charging station’s state obtained using two models is shown in Figure 8.
From Figure 8, it is obvious that the probability distribution obtained by the typical model is similar to that by the proposed model.
The parameters of probability distribution of station state are listed in Table 4.
Among the parameters listed in Table 4, the expected number of working chargers and the number of chargers with the highest probability are the same, while the other two parameters are similar in two models. The simulation step time () is set to be 3 minutes in this case. If it is set smaller, the value of those similar parameters will get closer. Therefore, the method proposed in this paper can be used to simulate the charging process and calculate the probability distribution of charging station’s harmonic.
4.2. Result of Harmonic Probability Power Flow
Based on the working state model of charging station, the distribution of charging station’s total power and harmonics can be acquired by doing statistics on simulation results. The probability distributions of charging station’s total power during daytime and night are shown in Figures 9 and 10, respectively.
The distribution of harmonics of charging station can also be acquired. Based on the distribution, the expectation of the current amplitude, the harmonic content, and the expectation of the current angle during day and night are calculated, which are listed in Table 5. It is worth noting that only th () harmonics are listed because they are the major harmonics of EV charging station.
The expectation of current amplitude decreases with the increase of the harmonic order. It is easy to see that the low-order harmonic current accounts for larger proportion than the high-order harmonic. The harmonics with orders higher than 19 are not listed because the amplitudes are too small; thus, the influences are neglectable.
Based on the result of the probabilistic harmonic power flow, the probability distributions of root mean square (RMS) voltages of each node are obtained. The overranging nodes are listed in Table 6.
According to Table 6, there are 11 nodes whose RMS voltages are overrange. Among these nodes, Node 26 has the highest overranging probability. The probability distribution of voltage RMS of Node 26 is shown in Figure 11.
It can be seen that the distribution has a bimodal characteristic, which is due to the peak-valley load during 24 hours.
Based on the result of the probabilistic harmonic power flow, the expected of each node is calculated, which is shown in Figure 12.
From Figure 12, it can be observed that Node 23, the EV charging station node, and its neighbor node, Node 24, have very high expected . Generally, it is obvious that the expected of the node near Node 23 is high while the expected of the node far from Node 23 is low.
The probability distribution of of Node 23 is shown in Figure 13.
Table 7 lists the nodes whose is over range. There are 11 nodes whose probability of is over the range; 7 of them have an overranging probability that is higher than 49%. The result shows that the integration of EV charging station significantly affects the safety and power quality of the distribution network. So filter devices need to be installed to diminish the influence.
4.3. Influence Factors of Charging Station
In this part of research, the influences of the arrival rate, the penetration rate, and the accessing location of EV charging station on the probabilistic harmonic power flow are analyzed as follows.
(1) The Arrival Rate. First, the influence of arrival rate is studied. Calculations have been made when arrival rate is set to different values, 0.1 and 0.2. The results of the probabilistic harmonic power flow during daytime are listed in Table 8.
With the increase of the arrival rate, the harmonic distortion of the network becomes worse: two new nodes, Node 5 and Node 11, become overranging nodes. The influenced area becomes larger due to the increase of the arrival rate and so does the overranging probability. In fact, the overranging probability even reaches 100% at Nodes 22, 23, and 24. Therefore, it is easy to conclude that the harmonic pollution is more significant when the arrival rate increases.
(2) The Penetration Rate. The harmonic impact on the distribution network is studied during 24 hours when the penetration rate increases to 30%. The results of probabilistic harmonic power flow are listed in Table 9.
Compared to the results in Table 7, the number of overranging nodes has increased by 4, the influence area is larger than the original result, and the probability of over the range changes from 0.761 to 0.994 at Node 23. It can be seen that the impact on the power quality of the distribution network will be more significant when the penetration rate increases.
(3) Accessing Location. Situations where the EV charging station accesses Nodes 10, 23, and 34 are compared. The results are listed in Table 10.
From the results, two conclusions which are useful in EV charging station planning can be drawn. The influenced area when the EV charging station accesses to Node 10 is larger than that of Node 23. It can be interpreted in a way that Node 10 is the main feeder of distribution network so accessing it will result in a larger influenced area compared with accessing a branch feeder. When accessing location is Node 34, the influenced area and the degree of influence are smaller than that when accessing the other two nodes. That is because Node 34 is close to Node 15, which is connected with reactive power compensator that has an inhibitory effect on harmonics. Therefore, it can be concluded that it is better to set the charging station close to reactive power compensation devices or away from the main feeder.
A new method for studying the working status of EV charging stations is proposed in this paper, while considering the random leaving factor, the electricity price, and the waiting time. This method is proved to be effective through the comparison with the conventional queuing theory model. In this paper, this method is used to analyze the characteristics of harmonics from the charging station. The probabilistic harmonic power flow is used to analyze the impact of charging station’s harmonics on the distribution network. The proposed model can be directly applied in some other fields that involve charging station’s state simulation. In addition, other factors can also be considered in the simulation process. Since the method proposed in this paper is a simulation process, further study will focus on the mathematical theory of the charging behavior.
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.
This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 51277141).
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The 2016 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scotland’s international festival dedicated to experimental film and artists’ moving image, will open on Thursday 14th April with the Filmmaking Symposium; an unique event that in its past 3 years has proven to be immensely successful. Open to all, and aimed at both aspiring and established filmmakers or artists working within moving image, the Symposium features talks and presentations by revered filmmakers and leading industry figures. It provides a rare opportunity to meet and mingle with a range of experts closely involved the making, funding, and distribution of experimental films and artists’ moving image, along with students and fans of the arts. This year’s high calibre of internationally recognized speakers that will share their insights and experience are:
Leighton Pierce (Los Angeles, USA)
Filmmaker and Dean of CalArts School of Film/Video.
Leighton Pierce is an experimental filmmaker working with film, video, sound, and installation. Pierce’s work has been exhibited in major art museums and film festivals throughout the world, including The Whitney Biennial; Sundance Film Festival, San Francisco, New York, Tribeca, Ann Arbor, and Rotterdam film festivals, the Exploratorium, Montreal Museé d’Art Contemporaine, and The Sheldon Art Museum. Retrospectives of his works have been presented at venues including The New Zealand Film Festival, Lincoln Center, The Cinémathèque Française, Festival Nemo, the Pompidou Center in Paris, and at The Lisbon Biennale. He is currently Dean at the CalArts School of Film/Video.
Lucy Reynolds (London, UK)
Curator and course leader of the MRes: Moving Image at Central Saint Martins.
Lucy Reynolds is a lecturer and curator in artists' moving image. Her area of research focuses on expanded cinema and British avant-garde film of the 1970s. She is course leader for the MRes: Moving Image at Central Saint Martins and teaches the history and theory of artists' moving image at the University of Westminster, Goldsmiths College, LUX and the Arnolfini. She has presented talks on artists' film and video at arts venues across the UK. Her recent publishing includes Shadow Play in British Expanded Cinema, in Expanded Cinema, Afterall/Tate publications.
Madeleine Molyneaux (New York & Los Angeles, USA)
Director of Picture Palace Pictures, an international artist’ film Production Company.
Madeliene Molyneaux works with emerging and established artists across Europe and North America, developing, producing, and representing films, video projects, installations/exhibitions and transmedia work. She has worked on visual arts projects for Kevin Jerome Everson , Bill Morrison, K8 Hardy, David Jacobson, Phillip Warnell, Pierre Bismuth, Phil Collins, Gustav Deutsch and Possible Movements. As a curator and programmer, Madeleine has worked at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Festival du nouveau Cinema, and is currently on the moderating team of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Steven Bode (London, UK)
Director of Film and Video Umbrella, a commissioning agency for artists’ film.
Steven Bode is Director of Film and Video Umbrella, Britain's main commissioners and producers of artists' moving-image work. He has initiated nearly 200 hundred different projects, including major works from internationally-acclaimed artists such as Duncan Campbell, Isaac Julien, Mark Leckey, Gillian Wearing, Jane & Louise Wilson and Tacita Dean. Alongside this commissioning activity, he has curated large-scale group exhibitions and written extensively about video, film and contemporary art for several international publications and artists' monographs.
Bryan Konefsky (New Mexico, USA)
Artistic director of Experiments in Cinema.
Bryan Konefsky is a cultural worker dedicated to the advancement of un-dependent, experimental media arts. He teaches at the University of New Mexico and is artistic director of Experiments in Cinema. He is a panelist for the New Visions filmmaking awards, an adviser for Ann Arbor Film Festival, guest curator for the Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and juror for Videofest. Bryan guest lectures widely at universities and has published in a range of international journals. His own films have been presented at Blinding Light Cinema, Videoex, Erarta Museum, Paris Underground Film Festival, Cinema Ritrovato, Oslo Film Institute, European Media Arts Festival, Long Beach Museum of Art, Anthology Film Archives and Millennium Film Workshop.
All attendants of the Filmmakers Symposium will then be invited to the opening of a range of video installations situated around Hawick, including a guided walk by the participating artists. A light lunch is also included in the ticket price.
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An increased focus on research about diversity, inclusion, and under-representation in LIS... is important for increasing the diversity of LIS students, LIS faculty, and professionals librarians and administrators. The decision-making process of choosing a profession is significantly affected by whether individuals see people and issues with which they identify in the profession....Increasing the amount of attention paid to research in this area, including emphasis given to it in MLS education, will help people from populations currently underrepresented in LIS and librarianship identify with and see themselves as part of the field.
In a recent article, P. Jaeger argues that LIS literature should include more research about diversity issues. As Jaeger suggests in the above quote, representation in in LIS literature signals to any minority population that its presence is essential to health of a profession that claims to provide information services to diverse populations.
At first glance, this quote seems immaterial to providing information services to diversity communities. Most of our users will not read our literature; therefore, they will not care if they are not represented in it. But those who will ENTER the field may read the literature to see if their concerns are addressed by the profession. An African American male, I often review LIS literature to see if any recent articles about African American and/or male librarians. LIS seems rich in scholarly articles and books about diversity, but relatively poor in research about specific minority populations. Despite this scarcity, I will enter the profession. But I wonder how many other potential minority librarians will skip this opportunity because the professional literature mainly reflects the concerns of its dominant group?
And how will the absence of these potential librarians affect the perceptions of our minority user communities? Most likely most minority users may not care about the gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disability status, or age of their librarian. They must just want someone who can give them the information they need. But many others may not fully appreciate our services because they do not see others like themselves in the library. Or they may not think too highly of our profession because they do not see others who may understand and lived under the same social circumstance as they have. This prestige problem may be serious if these same people have to vote on a library millage. They may question a tax increase for an institution that seems largely "foreign" to them.
When I work the reference desk in Dearborn, MI, I serve our my patrons to the best of my ability. But I often find that African American and other minority populations (this include poor and working class whites) gravitate towards me. I think that the rarity of an African American reference assistant contributes to this attraction. But I also think my attitude towards people who are largely discounted intellectually is the main reason. I assume intellectuality is a universal human trait. As such, I collaborate with patrons, helping them find that intellectual core as we search for information. I want to believe that this is an example of being, as Abdullahi describes, a "socioculturally conscious" librarian (453).
I don't claim to be socioculturally competent than a dominant group librarian. But I think I can approach minority user populations with perhaps a bit more of a "lived" knowledge of oppression and racism that may be just concepts to my colleagues. If I can do that, just think of how the lesbian Mexicans, the straight Puerto Rican males, or disabled Arab females may bring similar competences to the field. However, if the LIS literature continues to not include these voices, these perspectives, how many will never bring their gifts to the profession--which will lose more opportunities to demonstrate its commitment to truly serving diverse populations.
Abdullahi, I. (2007). Diversity and intercultural issues in library and information science (LIS) education. New Library World, 108 (9/10), 453-459.
Jaeger, P., Bertot, J.C., & Franklin, R.E. (2010). Diversity, inclusion, and underrepresented populations in LIS research. Library Quarterly, 80 (2), 175-181.

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Mountains and clouds and snow are images that we can see and feel in Black & White. Black and white not only fits these images due to the colors or lack thereof, but also because of the shapes and scope and size of the grandeur played out before us. Whether you be above in an airplane or on the ground in a quant town with the mountains surrounding you, you can feel the enormity around and know that you are but a small piece of the puzzle in God’s creation.
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