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Would you like to learn how to use graceful movement to help your clients to overcome mindset blocks?
My name is Darren Yap, I’m a tai chi teacher and EFT therapist. 15 years ago, I developed a system that combines tai chi and energy psychology (EFT) to help people to deal with mind gremlins, anxiety, addiction, stress and other emotional issues.
Called the EAST Method, I’ve now decided to give this system away in live online workshops because I realised that the world needs this right now!
By teaching you how to do this, you can help your clients… and by proxy, I’m helping more people! I love leverage!
As this is an experiential session, here are some things for you to consider.
Are you frustrated with how you show up in the world?
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In this workshop, you will learn simple techniques that get you out of your head and bring you back home to the body where you will discover the emotional blocks that are holding you back from the goals that you set out to achieve.
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The training will be completely free of charge because I am going to use these live sessions to develop my training delivery. Win-win.
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I am now offering more in-depth training in the EAST Method. It will be aimed at coaches who want to use movement to help their clients to overcome mindset blocks.
This training will comprise 6 weeks of training, 1 hour per week, with a bonus Q&A catch up after a month.
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Jackson charged with four counts of battery
GREENCASTLE -- A Greencastle woman remains lodged in the Putnam County Jail after an incident Saturday in which she allegedly injured four people with a knife.
Treva J. Jackson, 35, is charged with four counts of Class C felony battery by means of a deadly weapon, each punishable by up to eight years in prison. She has entered not guilty pleas to all charges, and a pretrial conference in the case has been set for Nov. 12.
Putnam County Superior Court Judge Denny Bridges set Jackson's bond at $20,000 cash only.
According to court records, Greencastle Police Department officers were called to Old Toppers Tavern at 3:30 a.m. Saturday in reference to a battery involving a possible stabbing.
Witnesses said the incident began in the bar when Jackson began verbally taunting another patron, Jessica Phares.
According to an affidavit for probable cause, Phares and Jackson first exchanged words, then traded punches.
"Jessica then reported that Treva grabbed her hair, and that was when several males intervened and attempted to break up the fight."
Witnesses said Jackson was brandishing a knife with which she injured Phares and three men who tried to break up the fight between Jackson and Phares.
Phares' boyfriend, Scott Hoover, is currently incarcerated in connection with the Dec. 15, 2007 prescription drug overdose death of Jackson's teenage son Dietrich Jackson. Phares was also initially charged in connection with Dietrich Jackson's death, but all charges against her were dismissed.
Court documents said witnesses heard Jackson tell Phares, "My son ain't breathing; you shouldn't be either."
Phares sustained minor lacerations to her left index and middle fingers when she tried to grab the knife away from Jackson, court documents said.
Also injured in the altercation were Toby Williams, who received a minor laceration to his right hand; Jeffrey King, who also sustained a minor laceration to his right hand; and Christopher Wasnidge-Williams, who sustained a minor cut on his right forearm.


A new report (pdf) from the Congressional Research Service synthesizes what is known, believed and speculated about the recent North Korean nuclear explosive test, and sketches out the options for U.S. policy.
“The most fundamental U.S. goals of the confrontation with North Korea are to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and to prevent an attack — either nuclear or conventional — on the United States or on its allies in the region,” the report says.
“The options available to U.S. policymakers to pursue these goals include the acceptance of North Korea as a nuclear power, bilateral or multilateral negotiations, heightened legal and economic pressure on North Korea, adoption of a regime change policy through non-military means, military action or threats, and withdrawal from the conflict.”
A copy of the new CRS report was obtained by Secrecy News.
See “North Korea’s Nuclear Test: Motivations, Implications, and U.S. Options,” October 24, 2006.
To empower new voices to start their career in nuclear weapons studies, the Federation of American Scientists launched the New Voices on Nuclear Weapons Fellowship. Here’s what our inaugural cohort accomplished.
Common frameworks for evaluating proposals leave this utility function implicit, often evaluating aspects of risk, uncertainty, and potential value independently and qualitatively.
The FAS Nuclear Notebook is one of the most widely sourced reference materials worldwide for reliable information about the status of nuclear weapons and has been published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists since 1987. The Nuclear Notebook is researched and written by the staff of the Federation of American Scientists’ Nuclear Information Project: Director Hans […]
According to the National Center for Education Statistics’ August 2023 pulse panel, 60% of public schools were utilizing a “community school” or “wraparound services model” at the start of this school year—up from 45% last year.


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The materials that are produced using two or more constituent materials are known as composite materials. The constituents may or may not have similar physical and chemical properties. Some of the everyday examples of composite materials are plywood, reinforced concrete and fiberglass. Depending upon the structure and materials being used these can be classified into metal matrix composites, ceramic matrix composites, thermoplastic composites, etc. Polyethylene, polyvinylchloride and polyurethane are used extensively as core materials for the formation of composites. The manufacturing of composite materials is done using a wide variety of techniques such as filament welding, lanxide process, z-pinning, tufting and fiber placement processes. Some of the other methods are pressure bag molding, resin transfer molding, braiding, slip forming, continuous casting, etc. This book is a valuable compilation of topics, ranging from the basic to the most complex theories and principles in the field of composite materials. Such selected concepts that redefine composite materials have been presented herein. Those in search of information to further their knowledge will be greatly assisted by this book.

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Preparedness for side effects and bother in symptomatic men after radical prostatectomy in a prospective, non-randomized trial
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2016
Many clinicians believe that preparedness before surgery for possible post-surgery side effects reduces the level of bother experienced from urinary incontinence and decreased sexual health after surgery. There are no published studies evaluating this belief. Therefore, we aimed to study the level of preparedness before radical prostatectomy and the level of bother experienced from urinary incontinence and decreased sexual health after surgery.
MATERIAL AND METHODS:
We prospectively collected data from a non-selected group of men undergoing radical prostatectomy in 14 centers between 2008 and 2011. Before surgery, we asked about preparedness for surgery-induced urinary problems and decreased sexual health. One year after surgery, we asked about bother caused by urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction. As a measure of the association between preparedness and bothersomeness we modeled odds ratios (ORs) by means of logistic regression.
Altogether 1372 men had urinary incontinence one year after surgery as well as had no urinary leakage or a small urinary dribble before surgery. Among these men, low preparedness was associated with bother resulting from urinary incontinence [OR 2.84; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.59-5.10]. In a separate analysis of 1657 men we found a strong association between preparedness for decreased sexual health and experiencing bother from erectile dysfunction (OR 5.92; 95% CI 3.32-10.55).
In this large-sized prospective trial, we found that preparedness before surgery for urinary problems or sexual side effects decreases bother from urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction one year after surgery.

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The BET Awards took place digitally on Sunday and featured several performances to uplift the black community during a time of unrest, including performances by some gospel notables.
BET’s “Sunday Best” judge and award-winning singer Jonathan McReynolds and country singer Kane Brown tag-teamed the BET Awards performances last night in social distancing fashion.
McReynolds kicked off their performance with his song “People,” which describes the emotional trauma people inflict on each other.
In a recent interview with The Christian Post, the singer, author and Columbia College faculty member said the song’s release comes at an interesting time, while everyone is in quarantine. However, the true meaning is about not esteeming people more than God.
Below are some of the lyrics he belted out during the mainstream award show:
They are the best and the worst you’ve created, loving and hating and opinionated, loners in basements and those congregated
Deliver me, far from the peace, from ashore I was sinking, deep in the ocean of thoughts they were thinking, don’t know what validation I was seeking
Deliver me from people, people, when you said you could heal me from many things, did you mean people, people, deliver me
‘Cause I can’t point ’em out, I won’t say their names, I don’t know the damage or which one to blame, it’s just people, people, deliver me
Brown, who is not a gospel artist but a popular country star, also spoke of God in his song, “Worldwide Beautiful,” which proceeded McReynolds’ performance. Brown began his performance singing the lyrics, “White churches, black churches/Different people, same hearses/It’s kinda hard to fight with each other/Laying down in the ground, six under/At every show I see my people.They ain’t the same, but they’re all equal/One love, one God, one family.”
Gospel pioneer Kirk Franklin won the “Dr. Bobby Jones Best Gospel/Inspirational” award for his song “Just for Me” on Sunday, an award The Clark Sisters were also nominated for.
For the final performance, gospel star Kierra Sheard took to the stage with her mother, gospel royalty Karen Clark-Sheard, to leave viewers with a spirited moment of faith and hope.
The duo performed Kierra’s song “Something Has to Break,” the new anthem off of her latest self-titled album. The song is a petition to God for relief or solution during tumultuous times.
The duo belted out:
I feel it in this room, Holy Spirit move, cause when You have Your way something has to break
Tear down every lie, set the wrong thing right, cause when You have Your way something has to break


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Christian Boltanski has been one of France's greatest contemporary artists. Since 2005, he has been welcoming viewers to register their heartbeats with the aim of recording the sounds in his library. The Heart Archives – les Archives du Coeur – has been already exhibited in galleries around the world: Paris, Stockholm and Milan – to name a few. As of February 8th , Warsaw will host the artist's recent source of fresh participants.
Each recording is saved separately into three copies: One copy is sent to the Teshima Island in the Seto Inland sea, where the artist assembles meticulously his unprecedented collection of heartbeats.
Presently, his collection contains over 30 thousands items; the second copy is to be stored in the archives at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Ujazdowski Castle; Finally, the third recording will be at the participant's disposal on a CD.
The Center for Contemporary Art in Ujazdowski Castle held a retrospective view of Christian Boltanski's work in 2001.
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Sensors 2013, 13(8), 10123-10150; doi:10.3390/s130810123
Abstract: The bell-shaped vibratory angular rate gyro (abbreviated as BVG) is a novel shell vibratory gyroscope, which is inspired by the Chinese traditional bell. It sensitizes angular velocity through the standing wave precession effect. The bell-shaped resonator is a core component of the BVG and looks like the millimeter-grade Chinese traditional bell, such as QianLong Bell and Yongle Bell. It is made of Ni43CrTi, which is a constant modulus alloy. The exciting element, control element and detection element are uniformly distributed and attached to the resonator, respectively. This work presents the design, analysis and experimentation on the BVG. It is most important to analyze the vibratory character of the bell-shaped resonator. The strain equation, internal force and the resonator's equilibrium differential equation are derived in the orthogonal curvilinear coordinate system. When the input angular velocity is existent on the sensitive axis, an analysis of the vibratory character is performed using the theory of thin shells. On this basis, the mode shape function and the simplified second order normal vibration mode dynamical equation are obtained. The coriolis coupling relationship about the primary mode and secondary mode is established. The methods of the signal processing and control loop are presented. Analyzing the impact resistance property of the bell-shaped resonator, which is compared with other shell resonators using the Finite Element Method, demonstrates that BVG has the advantage of a better impact resistance property. A reasonable means of installation and a prototypal gyro are designed. The gyroscopic effect of the BVG is characterized through experiments. Experimental results show that the BVG has not only the advantages of low cost, low power, long work life, high sensitivity, and so on, but, also, of a simple structure and a better impact resistance property for low and medium angular velocity measurements.
The bell-shaped vibratory angular rate gyro (abbreviated as BVG) is a novel shell vibratory gyroscope, which is inspired by the Chinese traditional bell. It senses angular velocity through the standing wave precession effect. The Bell-shaped resonator is a core component of the BVG and looks like the millimeter-level Chinese traditional bell, such as QianLong Bell and Yongle Bell. BVG has not only the advantages of low cost, low power, long work life, high sensitivity, and so on, but also a simple structure and good anti-impact performance for low and medium velocity angular measurements [1–4].
The classic vibratory shell solid wave gyro includes: a hemispherical resonator gyro, a cylinder gyro, a ring vibratory gyro, a disc plant vibratory gyro, and so on [5,6]. Those are high accuracy mechanical gyros, which have a high quality factor (Q factor). At present, the HRGis the highest accuracy of coriolis vibratory gyros and has many mature products. It is widely used for aircraft navigation, strategic accuracy systems, oil borehole exploration, planetary exploration, etc. [7,8]. HRG has attracted many researchers, such as Lynch and Shatalov, about modeling the theory, processing the signal, analyzing the error, etc. [9–11]. The future development direction of HRG will be achieved through micromechanics . The cylinder vibratory gyro is designed by Innalabs, Waston, BAE, and is widely used for some low and medium precision occasions, such as oil borehole exploration and vehicle navigation [13,14]. There are many researchers researching this. For example, Loveday analyzed the error of the cylinder vibratory gyro and presented an analysis method about the imperfect cylinder resonator ; Kristiansen researched the nonlinear model of the cylinder resonator and presented a control method and observations ; Wu Xuezhong analyzed the character of resonator vibration, temperature and error and presented a method of error compensation [17,18]. A ring vibratory gyro is widely used in MEMSand has many types. However, the accuracy is lower and lower than HRG [19–22]. The hemispherical resonator of HRG is made of quartz, which does not bear high impact. Besides, HRG used electrostatic excitation and capacitance detection, which are complex and expensive. The cylinder vibratory gyro is made of metal and uses the piezoelectric element to excite and detect. However, the impact resistance property, accuracy and vibration stability are restricted by the structure of the cylinder. Pointing to this condition, Innalabs uses the quartz to fabricate the resonator. In this way, the cylinder vibratory gyro improves accuracy and stability. However, the impact resistance property and cost are influenced by the material . In conclusion, a high impact resistance, low cost, high performance gyro is in great need for the current market.
The proposed bell-shaped vibratory angular rate gyro is inspired by the traditional Chinese bell. Changing the resonator structure of the traditional vibratory gyro improves accuracy and impact resistance. There are many characteristics of the traditional Chinese bell, which includes beautiful sound, vibration stability, a steady mode shape, good impact resistance, etc. Therefore, the project group decided to use the bell structure to make the vibratory gyro, which is named the bell-shaped vibratory angular rate gyro; the resonator is bell-shaped. It is made by a constant modulus alloy, using piezoelectricity to excite and detect. This improves the impact resistance property and maintains the advantages of low cost and high performance. It is desired that the bell structure improves the performance of the gyro. For the novel structure of the gyro, the project group published an article, which describes the design procedure and preliminary experimentation and does not deeply analyze the theory of the BVG. Besides, the angle of the standing wave precession is detected through a capacitance sensor . In the 1970s, Lynch and other researchers proposed a bell gyro. It is the same as a hemispherical resonator gyro, different from the BVG [25–27]. Since then, there has been no other resource published.
There are many problems using a bell structure to make a gyro. It is difficult to analyze the bell-shaped resonator, because the vibratory character is very complex and the middle surface is not described using the single linear function. To summarize, the revolution vibratory shell finds a method to solve the vibratory problem of a bell-shaped resonator. For the HRG, VA Matveev and other researchers used the theory of a thin shell to analyze the character of a hemispherical resonator. He presents the equilibrium differential equation and derives the governing equation . This method is an important method for HRG, currently. Shatalov, Kristiansen and others used the Hamilton principle to analyze the character of the HRG and presented a simplified equation [10,16]. Leissa and others used the Ritz-Rayleigh analysis method to research the character of many types of revolution shell in the vibration control field. However, it only analyzes the natural frequency based on assuming the mode shape [28,29]. For the bell-shaped resonator, it chooses the thin shell theory to solve the problem. Others methods have many hypotheses that are not appropriate for a bell-shaped resonator [1,30]. The structure of a bell-shaped resonator chooses the parabolical structure. It is convenient to analyze and model. Based on the structure, this paper analyses the vibratory character of a bell-shaped resonator and designs the prototypal gyro.
In this article, we explore bell-shaped resonator structure and present the design, analysis and experimentation of the BVG. The important work is as follows: to design the structure of a bell-shaped resonator and present the principle of the work, shown in Section 2. In Section 3, a theoretical analysis of the proposed resonator is performed using the theory of thin shells. The strain equation, internal force and resonator's equilibrium differential equation are derived in the orthogonal curvilinear coordinate system. On this basis, the mode shape function and the simplified second order normal vibration mode dynamical equation are obtained. In Section 4, the coriolis coupling relationship about the primary mode and secondary mode is established. The method of the signal processing of the BVG and the control loop of the prototype are presented. In Section 5, to analyze the impact resistance property of the bell-shaped resonator, which is compared with other shell resonators using the Finite Element Method, demonstrates that the BVG has the advantage of better impact resistance. In Section 6, a reasonable method of installation and a prototypal gyro are designed. The gyroscopic effect of the BVG is characterized through experimentation. Experiment results show that the BVG has not only the advantages of low cost, low power, long work life, high sensitivity, and so on, but also a simple structure and better impact resistance for low and medium angular velocity measurements. Finally, some important conclusions are drawn.
2. Design Concept
2.1. The Structure of the Gyroscope
The core component of the BVG is a bell-shaped resonator, which influences the performance of the gyro directly. The key of the BVG is the structure of the bell-shaped resonator. The bell-shaped resonator is inspired by the traditional Chinese bell, as shown in Figure 1. As far as we known, there are many characteristics of traditional Chinese bells that includes beautiful sound, vibration stability, steady mode shape, high impact resistance etc. The technology of multiple surface fusions is very important. However, it has not been explained clearly until now . It is convenient to describe a bell-shaped resonator using the revolution parabolic structure, which maintains the vibratory character of the traditional bell, as shown in Figure 2.
The bell-shaped resonator looks like the traditional bell, which is designed by a parabolic structure intuitively. In order to reduce the cost and design procedure, the structure of the top, middle and bottom merge into a parabola, and this is achieved to integrate the design. This merge does not change the vibratory character of the structure. The position of the excitation electrode and the detection electrode is very important for the BVG. For the actual bell, to excite bell vibration, one uses a stick to hit the wall of the bell. The vibration effect is very significant. However, the bell-shaped resonator selects the position on the wall of bell. In order to ensure the power consumption and cost of the gyro, it controls the mode shape and detects the precession of the standing wave based on piezoelectricity. The piezoelectric elements are attached to the wall of the bell-shaped resonator to excite the primary mode and detect the second mode. Using the isolated hole reduces the disturbance between neighboring electrodes, as shown in Figure 3.
2.2. Working Principle
The BVG sensitizes angular velocity through the standing wave precession effect. The eight piezoelectric elements are attached to the wall of the bell-shaped resonator uniformly, as shown in Figure 4. Based on the inverse piezoelectric effect, excitation electrodes excite the bell-shaped resonator, and the resonator produces a work mode, which is named the primary mode or the excite mode, shown in Figure 5a. For the vibration shell, the same work frequency has two types of modes, which are different, 45°. The other mode is named the second mode or sensitive mode, shown in Figure 5b. The coriolis couples them. The amplitude of the second mode is proportional to the input angular velocity and produces the standing wave precession. In Figure 6, when the angular velocity is applied to the axis of symmetry counterclockwise, the sanding wave angle changes. The precession angle is –ϑ and proportional to the frame rotation angular velocity.
During practical application, the stress wave propagates on the resonator, causing the standing wave, and the piezoelectric elements sensitize the stress wave and solve the angular velocity. In order to reduce the influence of piezoelectric elements when the resonator is rotated and to improve the excitation efficiency, the elements should be set near the constrained boundary. Such an excitation type is like the principle of leverage, using a small amount of force to achieve a large deformation to improve the excitation efficiency.
The piezoelectric elements chose the PZT5A, which was polarized in the thickness direction. The first and fifth elements contract and expand while applying an alternating current signal (in Figure 7a). When the top of the elements are bounded, the contraction and expansion force will transfer to the bend force (in Figure 7b) and excite the shell vibration. The piezoelectric elements and resonator are attached together by conductive adhesives. Controlling the painting procedure makes a rigid connection between them. The one pole of elements connected to the resonator is the GND, the others are the signal of the input or output. The piezoelectric element senses the vibratory signal based on the piezoelectric effect. Using the third and seventh element feedback signals and the first and fifth excitation elements, standing wave steady control is achieved. The control loop includes an amplitude control loop and a frequency control loop. With particular emphasis, the work mode of the BVG is the force-rebalance mode [15,18]. The second and sixth elements sensitized angle of precession is used as the controller input to drive the fourth and eight elements to restrain the precession of standing wave. The amplitude of restrain variable is proportional to the angular velocity and is used as the output signal of the BVG after calibration.
3. Modeling and Simulation
For the shell vibratory gyro, the analysis of the resonator vibratory character is very important and focuses on the mode shape function, precession factor and natural frequency. The BVG is a novel structure in the vibratory gyro field and has a unique vibratory character. The analysis of internal force distribution and the equilibrium differential equation are presented using the theory of thin shells. It derives the simplified second normal vibration mode dynamic equation based on the parameters of the gyro.
3.1. Coordinate System
The bell-shaped resonator is a parabolical structure and described in the orthogonal curvilinear coordinate system (φ, θ, v), shown in Figure 8[32,33]. In the Cartesian coordinate system, oxyz, the axis of symmetry is axis z. The cross-section is shown in Figure 8b. The origin is used as the peak of the parabola, described in coordinates as:
In Figure 8, the principal curvature is the direction of the meridian and circumference, respectively. The three axis are (φ, θ, v), where φ is the angle between the normal vector of the tangent and the axis of symmetry on the bell-shaped resonator; θ is the circumference angle; v is the thickness of the resonator. The variable basic relationship is as follows in Appendix A.
In the orthogonal curvilinear coordinate system, it is not only convenient to describe the point motion, but also to express the thickness of the resonator. The vibratory character of the bell-shaped resonator is presented in this coordinate.
3.2. Shell Equations of the Resonator
Based on the theory of thin shells and the Kirchhoff-Lyav hypothesis, the bell-shaped resonator's character as presented includes the relationship of internal force, the equilibrium differential equation and the dynamic equation [1,34,35].
3.2.1. Strain Equation
For the isotropic three-dimensional elastic shell element, the middle surface geometric equation of the bell-shaped resonator is obtained in the orthogonal curvilinear coordinate system, (φ, θ, v). It can be expressed as:
3.2.2. Internal Force
Based on the transformation relation in the orthogonal curvilinear coordinate system and the expression of internal force in the theory of thin shells, the internal force of the bell-shaped resonator is presented. Using the relations between the mechanical force and stress, one can derive the mechanical membrane forces and bending moments for the bell-shaped resonator [32–34]:
3.2.3. Equilibrium Differential Equation
According the the D'Alembert principle, if the sum of force and inertial force and the torque are all equal to zero, which is applied to the isolated unit, then the unit is in a state of equilibrium. The bell-shaped resonator is fit for this principle. As far as we know, the middle surface of the bell-shaped resonator cannot stretch. The three components of tangential displacement in the shell bending equation are equal to zero. It can be expressed as :
The normal force and shearing force are equal to zero:
Therefore, we can derive the equilibrium differential equation (for specific derivation, see Appendix B):
The angular velocity, Ω, is along the axis of symmetry in the inertial space; the expression is:
According to the Coriolis Theorem, the absolute velocity of point P motion relative to inertial space can be expressed as:
The absolute acceleration is as follows:
The load of rotation is the load of the middle surface on the bell-shaped resonator and derived in:
3.3. The Second Order Normal Vibration Mode Dynamical Equation
To solve the Equation (15), the displacement vector of an arbitrary point in the bell-shaped resonator is developed according to the second order normal vibration mode, which is not stretched:
Substituting Equation (23) into Equation (22), the differential equation is about p (t) and q (t). Calculating using Maple finds that the equation is too complex to solve using the traditional method. For the HRG, the equation is easier than the BVG, which is solved through the Bubnov-Galerkin method [36-38]. The equation of BVG is too complex to simplify (for specific derivation, see Appendix C).
For Equation (22), the equilibrium differential equation and dynamic equation are presented, which include control force and torque. It means that the governing equation of the control loop is achieved about the bell-shaped resonator. For the Coriolis Vibratory Gyro, the simplified second order normal mode of the resonator is the second order orthogonal spring system. It can be expressed as [1,10,39,40]:
The precession factor is:
The typical analytical method does not solve this complex problem, but it clearly describes the vibratory procedure, the force and equilibrium relation. In practice, the Finite Element Method is widely used for the bell-shaped resonator to analyze the natural frequency, mode shape and work mode.
3.4. Mode Shape of Resonator
Analysis of the vibratory character is based on the theory of thin shells. It is very necessary to know the overall mode shape of the bell-shaped resonator. The modal simulation is presented using FEM. The main structure parameters of the resonator are as follows: L1 = 21 mm, R1 = 11 mm, H1 = 0.7 mm, L2 = 9 mm, L3 = 15 mm; as shown in Figure 9. The material parameters and simulation condition is followed in Table 1. The modal analyzed results show the work mode shape in Figure 10, and the natural frequency is: 5, 909.3 Hz. The mode shape is a four antinode shape.
Using the mode shape function of Section 3.3, the simulation result is shown in Figure 11 in Matlab. This demonstrates that the Equation (25) is similar as the result of FEM. However, the amplitude of the mode shape is different between them. The reason is about the error of simulation and amplitude coefficient.
4. Governing Equation and Signal Process
The mode shape control about the standing wave on the circumference is very important for the BVG. Equation (27) describes the second order normal mode of the resonator that is a traditional second order spring system. This type of equation is a simplified Foucault Pendulum function. The form of the standing wave is the foundation of the governing equation and signal process of the BVG. The transversal surface of the standing wave of the bell-shaped resonator is shown in Figure 12.
The transversal surface of the standing wave is the vibratory ring. On the ring, there are two rigid axes, p and q. p is the axis of the primary mode, and q is the axis of the second mode [41,42]. Coriolis force couples the motion between two axes, p and q. In Figure 12, the pn is the control axis of p (first and fifth element); pp is the sensitive axis of p (third and seventh element); qn is the control axis of q (second and sixth element); qp is the sensitive axis of q (fourth and eighth element). The relationship of p and q is described in Equation (27). In the literature [15,16,36,39], researchers present the general vibratory equation for the coriolis vibratory gyro:
The diagram of the BVG signal process method is shown in Figure 13. The control loops include an amplitude control loop, a frequency control loop, a quadrature control loop and a rate control loop [13–15,18]. The authors had written an article about this in the The 32nd Chinese Control Conference . It will be published in July 2013.
5. Analysis of Impact Dynamic
The bell-shaped vibratory angular rate gyro's greatest strength is its remarkable impact resistance property. Using FEM to compare the hemispherical resonator gyro , the cylinder vibratory gyro  and the novel ring vibratory gyro  in the 20,000 × g gravitational field, the stress cloud charts are shown in Figure 14. All the gyro have the same height (21 mm), the same edge width (22 mm) and the same thickness (0.7 mm) using Ni43CrTi. The simulation condition is the same same as the paper .
The maximum stress of HRG is 181 MPa; the cylinder vibratory gyro is 1,600 MPa; the novel ring vibratory gyro is 3,000 MPa; the BVG is 151 MPa. The result shows that the bell-shaped resonator has the best impact resistance property. Based on the mechanics of materials, the tensile strength of Ni43CrTi is 500 MPa. Therefore, the bell-shaped resonator does not get damaged in 20,000 × g. During the impact process, the resonator produces a small deformation. It is quickly restored after the impact. The control loop also can restrain the influence of the small deformation, too.
6. Fabrication and Experiments
The main structure of the BVG includes the bell-shaped resonator, a fixed axis and a foundation. These connect together through mechanical technology, as shown in Figure 15. The procedure is as follows:
Step1: The piezoelectric element with the wire attached on the wall of the bell-shaped resonator;
Step2: The fixed axis fastens the bell-shaped resonator to the foundation;
Step3: The wire connects to the insulated joint on the foundation.
Finally, the 9 wires connected to the signal process system include 8 wires of piezoelectric elements and GND. The wires connect to the circuit board through the insulated joint, which is installed on the foundation. The prototypal bell-shaped resonator is shown in Figure 16.
The experiment of the bell-shaped resonator includes: natural frequency test, mode shape test, coriolis test and gyroscopic effect test. The natural frequency and mode shape have been tested in . In this paper, it focuses on the other test.
6.2.1. Coriolis Test
The sine alternating current signal (Vpp = 10V) is applied to the first and fifth element. In order to readout the signal clearly, the output signal of the piezoelectric element is processed by the operator amplitude and summed by the piezoelectric element with the same axis. In the test, the Lissajous pattern is a good method to analyze the coriolis effect about the two axes, p and q. The oscilloscope that was chosen is the Tektronix TDS 3032B. Channel 1 connects to the pp axis, used as x. Channel 2 connects the qp axis, used as y. When Ω = 0, the picture is as shown in Figure 17a. When Ω ≠ 0, the picture is as shown in Figure 17b.
During the test, the bell-shaped resonator is in an uncontrolled situation. The frequency split of the tested bell-shaped resonator is 0.5 Hz. In the static state, the two axes exit the vibratory coupling. This described Lissajous pattern is not the line. When the angular velocity is applied to the sensitive axis, the couple effect is very obvious and the standing wave produces precession. The bell-shaped resonator is already sensitive to the coriolis effect.
6.2.2. Gyroscopic Effect Test
The prototypal BVG includes power, a signal sample board and a signal processing board, as shown in Figure 18.
The BVG is fixed on the high-precision angular velocity turntable to test the gyroscopic effect. The results are shown in Figure 19. According to the original output of the BVG, only thick calibration of the BVG is convenient for analysis. The range of the BVG is about ±300°/s. The zero drift curve is shown in Figure 19a. The noise of the gyro is very large, and the signal to noise ratio (SNR) is low. The dynamic experiment curve is shown in Figure 19b,c. Using the 50 Hz FIRfilter, the zero drift instability is 22.5°/h and linearity is 1.24%. This index can be controlled by the filter. The index is poorer than the other shell vibratory gyro [13,14,18]. The reason for the poor performance is as follow:
The manufacturing technology has imperfections. Specifically, the piezoelectric element is difficult to stick on the resonator with a curved surface of variable curvature.
There is no temperature compensation for the bell-shaped resonator. The long work time leads to a change of the frequency and influences the drift. The bell-shaped resonators vibratory characteristics change as the temperature changes.
Structure processing error and control loop error exist. Improving the method of restraining the frequency split and designing the control loop is needed.
The parameters of the governing equation of the bell-shaped resonator are not exact.
In the future, important work is needed: improving the manufacturing technology and the control loop design, designing a temperature compensation method, etc. The performance of a prototypal BVG is not satisfactory, but the method of design and analysis is demonstrated perfect.
Based on the orthogonal curvilinear coordinate system, the equilibrium differential equation using the theory of thin shells is presented, and the motion of the point on the bell-shaped resonator is described. The vibratory character of the resonator is analyzed with the input angular velocity. On this basis, the mode shape function and the simplified second order normal vibration mode dynamical equation are obtained. The Coriolis coupling relationship about the primary mode and the secondary mode is established. The method of signal processing of the BVG and the control loop of the prototype is presented. To analyze the impact resistance property of the bell-shaped resonator, which is compared with the other shell resonator using the Finite Element Method, demonstrates that the BVG has the advantage of better impact resistance property. A reasonable means of installation and the prototypal gyro are designed. The gyroscopic effect of the BVG is characterized through experimentation. The experimental results shows that the zero drift instability is 22.5°/h and linearity is 1.24%. The index is poorer than other shell vibratory gyros. The main reason is: the manufacturing technology has imperfections; there is not any temperature compensation; structure processing error and control loop error exist; the parameters of the governing equation of the bell-shaped resonator are not exact. In the future, important work includes improvement of the performance of the BVG. In conclusion, the BVG has not only the advantages of low cost, low power, long work life, high sensitivity, and so on, but also a simple structure and better impact resistance for low and medium angular velocity measurements.
This work is supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (Grant No.61031001, 61261160497).
A. Variable Basic Relationship
The variable basic relationship is as follows:
Differential of arc length:
Differential of volume:
Radius of curvature:
Domain of definition:
B. Equilibrium Equation
According to the theory of thin shells, the basic equilibrium is as follows in Equation (37):
For the orthogonal curvilinear coordinate system:
Using the hypothesis condition in the paper, the equilibrium differential equation is derived.
C. Solution of Equilibrium Equation
Substituting the variables into Equation (41), it is derived by the Bubnov-Galerkin method, as follows:
For the orthogonal curvilinear coordinate system:
The dynamic equation of the bell-shaped resonator is derived through the integral operation. However, the equation is too complex to solve. Using the difference method solves this equation, maybe. This work is ongoing.
Conflict of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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|Young modulus (GPa)||196.76|
|Yield strength (MPa)||500|
|Simulation method||Transient dynamic|
|Mesh generation method||Free|
|Release ratio||1E – 4|
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In the tit-for-tat battle at the top of the Premier League, it is Liverpool who can strike the first blow this weekend.
A chance, then, for Jurgen Klopp's side to extend their lead over the champions to seven points once more. Liverpool did what they needed to at Brighton last weekend, and another victory this time around against the Eagles would keep them in a very good position indeed.
Klopp's men won 2-0 when the sides met at Selhurst Park back in August, but Palace are the last team to beat them at Anfield in the league - though that came all the way back in April 2017.
Here, Goal takes a look at everything you need to know ahead of Saturday's game...
The problems are mounting for Jurgen Klopp, who this week lost Trent Alexander-Arnold to a knee issue that could keep the youngster out for up to four weeks.
Gini Wijnaldum is another concern, having been unable to train due to a knee problem of his own. Adam Lallana has also been absent and looks unlikely to be involved this weekend. Joe Gomez and Dejan Lovren will miss out, though both are expected back in some form of training next week.
Rhian Brewster and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, meanwhile, are long-term absentees.
Liverpool do not have any suspended players for this game.
Liverpool Likely Line-Up
It will be a case of 'needs must' as far as selection is concerned, with Klopp picking those who are fit enough to last 90 minutes. With 11 days between this game and Liverpool's next fixture, there is at least some breathing space.
James Milner is likely to replace Alexander-Arnold at right-back, while Joel Matip should come in alongside Virgil van Dijk at centre-back. That would allow Fabinho to move into midfield alongside Jordan Henderson.
After that, it is a question of whether Naby Keita or Xherdan Shaqiri are preferred to balance out the 4-2-3-1 system. The smart money will be on Shaqiri.
Crystal Palace team news
Hodgson has a dilemma in goal, with both Vicente Guaita and Wayne Hennessey suffering injuries during last weekend's home defeat to Watford.
That could mean a first appearance of the season for the 39-year-old Julian Speroni, who hasn't appeared in a competitive game since December 2017.
Elsewhere, Pape Souare is the only other absentee.
TV Channel & Kick-Off Time
The fixture will be not be broadcast live in the UK, due to its 3pm kick off time. Highlights can be found on Match of the Day, BBC One at 10.30pm.
In the United States, the game can be watched live on television on NBC Sports, kick-off 10am ET.
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Liverpool have won five of their last six Premier League games against Crystal Palace, including the last three in a row. They’ve never won four consecutively against the Eagles in the top flight.
Crystal Palace have won three of their last four Premier League visits to Anfield to face Liverpool, though they did lose this fixture last time out in August 2017.
Liverpool are looking to win seven consecutive Premier League home games for the first time since January 2014.
Liverpool are unbeaten in their last 31 Premier League home games – they last had a longer run in the top-flight between February 1978 and December 1980, a club record run of 63 home games without defeat.
Liverpool haven’t conceded more than once in any of their last 16 Premier League home games, keeping 12 clean sheets in that time (four goals conceded).
Crystal Palace are looking to win three consecutive away Premier League games for the first time since May/August 2015, and the first time within the same season since February 2015.
Crystal Palace have failed to score in six of their last seven Premier League games against sides starting the day top (W1 D1 L5), with the exception being a 2-1 win at Chelsea in April 2017.
Liverpool’s Sadio Mane has scored more Premier League goals against Crystal Palace than he has against any other side in the competition (6).
Mane has scored in his last three Premier League games against Crystal Palace – he’s never scored in four in a row against an opponent before.
Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah is currently on 48 Premier League goals (46 for Liverpool, 2 for Chelsea). He’s looking to become the first Egyptian and eighth African player overall to score 50 in the competition.


The objective of this investigation was to study the residual laxity and slippage in suspensory modality of the tibial fixation methods of soft tissue graft (ACL) using suture disc and interference screw by comparing the results of tensile and fatigue tests.
5 cm on each side using double folded graft for fixation.
Specimens were divided into two groups (8 for each group), according to the fixation technique, as group A and group B.
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LA indie-rock duo Foxygen hit First Avenue in Minneapolis on Sunday night and played an incredibly fun hip-swinging show. The band is touring behind their new release Hang, and the smallish crowd that made it out was treated with killer dance grooves and moves by Sam France, Jonathan Rado, and their full backing band.
In contrast to the last time the band played First Avenue and singer Sam France fell off the stage in a stupor and ended the show, this time around it was straight up good times. Foxygen rocks, and I hope they make it back to Minneapolis again soon.

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Chinmaya Kumar argues that Bihar’s economic growth can spur further poverty reduction if the state government removes binding constraints for agricultural growth.
Bihar’s turnaround under the leadership of Nitish Kumar – from a badly governed, economically backward state, to the fastest growing state in India – has received widespread attention. This turnaround story assumes greater significance because Bihar’s economic decline and divergence from rest of the India had been an extremely long and continuous process, rarely reversed by major economic and political changes that transformed many other states of India.
The permanent settlement regime imposed by the colonial government sowed the seeds of Bihar’s decline, and continues to hinder its development even now (see Banerjee & Iyer 2005). Even after the independence, the central government adopted several discriminatory policies such as freight equalisation, which led to the further economic marginalisation of Bihar. Successive state governments in Bihar also contributed to its economic decline by plundering public resources and ignoring the state’s developmental needs.
Bihar’s average economic growth since 2005, when the current government came to power, has been more than 11 per cent, which is often termed a ‘miracle’ considering the extremely low level of economic growth under previous regimes. This spectacular economic progress has, however, recently been questioned for its negligible impact on poverty reduction (Acharya, 2013).
According to National Sample Survey (NSS) data, the percentage of people living below the poverty line (BPL) was 54.5 per cent in 2004-05, which reduced only marginally to 53.5 per cent in 2009-10. This is surprising as many states with lower economic growth saw much higher poverty reduction during this period. While many commentators use this evidence to jump to the conclusion that Bihar has pursued a growth model that benefitted only the rich, a closer look at the data suggest that it would be a mistake to take the poverty figures of 2009-10 seriously. This is mainly because 2009 was not a ‘normal’ year as Bihar (and many other states) faced severe drought that resulted in 11 per cent reduction in agricultural output, which in turn lowered the income level of around 76 per cent of households that are dependent on agriculture and allied activities for their livelihood.
Poverty estimates based on the 2011-12 round of NSS data, recently released by the Planning Commission of India, is consistent with this hypothesis. It shows that percentage of BPL population in Bihar is only 33.74 per cent, which means a massive 20 percentage point reduction within two years. This is incredibly high and can be true only if 2009-10 was an outlier year.
Let’s therefore disregard the estimates of 2009-10 and compare the estimates of 2004-5 with 2011-12 for further analysis. How do we rate Bihar’s 20-percentage-point reduction in poverty over a period of seven years, when Bihar’s average growth rate during that time was almost 10 per cent? On ranking 20 bigger states of India in terms of total poverty reduction during this period, we find that Orissa tops the list with 24 percentage points, followed by Maharashtra, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan, all of which report an approximately 20 percentage points’ reduction in the poverty ratio. The good news is that Bihar is in the top three states in terms of total poverty reduction, which dispels the myth that Bihar’s growth had little impact on poverty reduction.
However, Bihar’s performance is not as impressive as its growth rate: many other states with lower rates of economic growth managed similar reductions in the poverty level. Clearly, Bihar needs to make its economic growth more pro-poor.
Given the fact that two thirds of Bihar’s population is dependent on agriculture, boosting agricultural growth is likely to be the most effective way of enhancing the poverty-reducing effects of economic growth. The government of Bihar has prepared a long-term roadmap for agriculture that attempts to address some of the challenges, but it seems that the biggest constraint to agricultural growth in the state is the government’s inability to implement land reforms. West Bengal, Bihar’s neighbouring state, which was also under the permanent settlement regime under the colonial government and faced similar problems in the agriculture sector, managed to implement land reforms in late 1970s that have had a major impact on agricultural growth for decades (Banerjee et al 2002).
The Government of Bihar did set up a land reforms commission in 2006 but has not been able to implement its recommendations due to strong opposition from the upper castes who continue to wield immense political power. Admittedly, it might not be politically feasible for the current government to take up radical land reforms measures such as land redistribution. But it is possible to strategically implement some of the less sensitive land reforms on a priority basis: updating land records, tenancy registration, and better enforcement of tenants’ interests. Even these second best reforms, as Besley & Burgess (1999) have shown, are associated with significant poverty reduction. The tenancy reforms lead to poverty reduction through various channels. First, increased tenurial security leads to higher investment in land, which raises long-term productivity and the income level of the cultivators. Second, tenancy registration allow the sharecroppers/tenants to avail benefits of several government programmes that are generally available only for owner cultivators. Third, these reforms also result in higher agricultural wages, which improves the welfare of landless households.
Bihar’s economic growth, which was more than 14 per cent in the last financial year, continues to defy the recessionary forces that India is facing. However, the extent to which this spectacular growth translates into poverty reduction depends on the government’s ability to remove binding constraints for agricultural growth.
Chinmaya Kumar is a Country Economist for the International Growth Centre’s India-Bihar programme.
Acharya, Shankar (2013), “Progress and Poverty in Bihar”, in N.K. Singh & N. Stern (eds), The New Bihar, Harper Collins.
Banerjee, Abhijit, and Lakshmi Iyer (2005). “History, Institutions, and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India.” American Economic Review, 95(4): 1190-1213.
Banerjee Abhijit, Paul Gertler & Maitreesh Ghatak (2002). Empowerment and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bengal, (with. Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 110, No. 2, April 2002
Besley Timothy and Robin Burgess (2000), “Land Reform, Poverty and Growth: Evidence from India” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 105(2).


Rebuild placement DB¶
You have somehow changed a nova cell database and the
entries are now reporting different uuids to the placement service but
placement already has
resource_providers table entries with the same
names as those computes so the resource providers in placement and the
compute nodes in the nova database are not synchronized. Maybe this happens
as a result of restoring the nova cell database from a backup where the compute
hosts have not changed but they are using different uuids.
Nova reports compute node inventory to placement using the
hypervisor_hostname and uuid of the
compute_nodes table to the
resource_providers table, which has a unique constraint on the
name (hostname in this case) and uuid. Trying to create a new resource provider
with a new uuid but the same name as an existing provider results in a 409
error from placement, such as in bug 1817833.
This is likely a last resort when all computes and resource providers are not synchronized and it is simpler to just rebuild the placement database from the current state of nova. This may, however, not work when using placement for more advanced features such as ports with minimum bandwidth guarantees or accelerators. Obviously testing first in a pre-production environment is ideal.
These are the steps at a high level:
Make a backup of the existing placement database in case these steps fail and you need to start over.
Recreate the placement database and run the schema migrations to initialize the placement database.
Either restart or wait for the
nova-computeservices to report resource providers and their inventory to placement.
Run the nova-manage placement heal_allocations command to report allocations to placement for the existing instances in nova.
Run the nova-manage placement sync_aggregates command to synchronize nova host aggregates to placement resource provider aggregates.
Once complete, test your deployment as usual, e.g. running Tempest integration and/or Rally tests, creating, migrating and deleting a server, etc.


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OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – Nicole Montalvo, a 33-year-old Florida mother, was murdered in 2019. Two men were convicted in April and sentenced to life in prison.
After being found guilty of second-degree murder, mistreatment of a dead human corpse, and tampering with physical evidence in the death of Nicole Montalvo, Otero-estranged Rivera’s wife, Christopher Otero-Rivera and Angel Rivera were sentenced Wednesday morning.
The judge sentenced the two to life in prison for second-degree murder, and 15 years and 5 years respectively for the other two crimes. Before handing down the sentence, the court stated that he could not “ignore the severity” of the murder and the grief it caused the Nicole Montalvo family as they sought for her in 2019.
Prosecutor Ryan Williams stated at the time of the trial’s conclusion that both men were eligible for life in prison.
Nicole Montalvo’s family members went out ahead of her sentencing, detailing their grief and sadness over her death. Christina Montalvo, her sister, said she is starting to feel a feeling of closure, but she isn’t sure if it will ever happen.
When people ask what happened to Nicole, Christina Montalvo always says she died as a result of domestic violence. “To say my sister was murdered by her estranged husband… and his father physically wounds me.”
“We are all victims of their chronic domestic abuse,” Nicole Montalvo’s twin brother said in a statement. Nicole Montalvo’s other brothers also spoke, emphasizing how his sister should be here and that she died with “a small piece” of the family.
Her brother, Steven Montalvo, said, “She’ll never get to convey the pain she feels, the pain she endured, what she went through, what she had to endure, she should be the one speaking today.”
Montalvo went missing in October of this year after failing to pick up her eight-year-old son from school. Her dismembered bones were eventually discovered buried on the Riveras’ property. Nicole Montalvo and Otero-Rivera had a kid together, however they were divorced at the time of her death. When she dropped their son off to her father-in-residence, law’s the two were going through a divorce.
During closing arguments, the prosecution claimed that the evidence proved the two men were guilty, while the defense claimed that more blood would have been recovered if Nicole Montalvo had been slain on the Riveras’ property on Hixon Avenue in St. Cloud.
Montalvo’s brother said justice was delivered after the guilty judgment earlier this year, but the tragic truth is that their brothers still don’t have their sister, and her kid still doesn’t have his mother.


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archives and collections
- Hans Richter, Archiv und Bibliothek
Material for the Dada publications; correspondence with museums, filmcompanies, with Marthe Prévot and Werner Schmalenbach, publishers (DuMont, Editions du Griffon, Thames and Hudson a.o.); correspondence between Frida Richter, Roberto Sanesi and Werner Haftmann; biographical documents, manuscripts; private photographs, clippings (1947-1984), invitations, documentation. More information (in German).
- Arnold Eagle Papers and Films related to Hans Richter
This collection documents the film collaborations and friendship of Hans Richter, and New York photographer and cinematographer, Arnold Eagle. It includes color film footage, out-takes and audiotracks for several of Richter's post-World War II films, as well as letters, notes, scripts, sketches, photographs, printed material and storyboards.
- Richard Huelsenbeck Papers
Papers of Richard Huelsenbeck, who edited several of Dada's important journals. The collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, some photographs, clippings and catalogues.
- [archive] The Papers contain a file of ca. 65 letters written to Huelsenbeck from Hans Richter that date from 1947 and 1952-1962 and contain discussions of current work and reputations, as well as recountings of pre-war Dada activities. The Richter file includes exhibition catalogues and Richter's script for Narcissus.
- [finding aid] Inventory of the Richard Huelsenbeck Papers, 1910-1978 / prepared by Teresa Morales (Getty Research Institute 1996, revised 2004).
- Yves Poupard-Lieussou Correspondence and Collected Papers on Dada and Surrealism
French scholar of Dada and surrealism, and vice president of the Association pour l'Étude de Dada et du Surréalisme. Collection consists of correspondence received by Poupard-Lieussou from artists, writers, publishers, critics, and scholars, mainly 1956-1979. Includes bio-bibliographic notes, drawings, photographs, printed materials, and manuscripts (some unpublished or rare texts) given to Poupard by his correspondents or sometimes hand-copied by himself.
- [archive] Series I. Letters from artists and writers, 1912-1984 contains a.o. 20 letters and 2 cards (1956-1971). This correspondence gives a glimpse of Richter as both a practicing artist and an interpreter of Dada. In the first few letters, he answers Poupard's questions about Dada and its surviving members, particularly Schwitters. Richter discusses the film, 8 x 8 , that he is currently making. In later letters, he discusses the Dada exhibition that traveled to Zurich and Paris. He feels that, as a member of the original group, he, and not some scholar, should be in control of it. Richter also collaborates on the portfolio in homage to Duchamp, organized by Poupard in 1968.
- [finding aid] Inventory of the Yves Poupard-Lieussou Correspondence and Collected Papers on Dada and Surrealism, 1905-1984 (bulk, 1956-1979) / prepared by Lesley Heins Walker and Onica Busuioceanu (Getty Research Institute 1999).
- Franz Roh Papers, 1890-1965
German art historian and pioneer critic of 20th century avant-garde, who took an interest in the study and development of photography as an art form. In addition, he served as faculty at a number of institutions, including the University of Munich. Roh studied and lived primarily in Munich.
- [archive] Organized in four series: Series I. Correspondence; Series II. Raoul Hausmann letters and writing; Series III. J.A. Baader letters and writing; Series IV. War diary and ephemera. Series II and III contain significant manuscript material. A long series of letters from Raoul Hausmann, most dating from 1946-1965, appears with a number of Hausmann's typescript essays and narratives, dating from 1921. Hausmann was closely associated with J.A. Baader's affairs during Baader's madness, and a number of Baader's writings and meditations are included in a separate file, most dated 1946.
- [finding aid] Inventory Franz Roh Papers / created by Carl Wuellner (Getty Research Institute).
- The International Dada Archive has extensive holdings of works by and about Richter. The Archive has microfilmed most of the Hans Richter Archive at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
- Hans Richter Papers
The Museum of Modern Art houses the Hans Richter Papers, 1929-1974. The bulk of the Archive was donated to the Museum Library by Hans Richter in 1969 with additional material given by Mrs. Richter in 1977 and 1978.
- IMAGE CREDITS
banner: Hans Richter in Hoppengarten Military Hospital (detail), 1916 [Collection of Marion von Hofacker]

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John on June 3, 2006 at 8:08 am
The latest victims of infanticide come out of the Boston area. This is particularly sad since Massachusetes has a safe haven law which allows mothers to drop off a newborn at a hospital without questions. But why bother with all that trouble when it’s so much easier to be “pro-choice.”
That’s the unfortunate part of relying on a euphemism for your entire philosophy of human life. Kids are smart enough to sort out what it really means in practice, i.e. “It’s your baby. You can flush it if you want to.”
Two babies dead because of a) immature kids having pre-marital sex and b) an abortion culture that makes the idea of flushing a baby seem like an acceptable option. The mothers of the dead babies should be found and prosecuted for murder. So should the people who encourage a & b for the sake of their bottom line. That would be these people.
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American rock band, The Killers, are set to return to the North-east later this year playing AECC’s GE Oil & Gas Arena on Tuesday 21st November 2017.
This announcement of a major UK and Ireland tour comes ahead of the and’s sold out show in Hyde Park this Saturday (8th July) and follows their hit-laden surprise set at Glastonbury last month.
The Killers recently released the video for their dazzling new single, “The Man”, the first taster of the new album ‘Wonderful Wonderful’ which is their first album since 2012’s chart-topping ‘Battle Born’. Recorded with the producer Jacknife Lee during album sessions in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the album is shaping up to be the band’s most forward-thinking yet; bursting with all of the blazing choruses and arena-filling anthems that make The Killers one of the world’s biggest and most beloved rock bands.
Anna Mackenzie, Senior Sales Manager at AECC, commented: “I’m absolutely delighted that The Killers are coming back to Aberdeen. After watching their Glastonbury set I had hoped they would include an Aberdeen date on this tour. Our Arena is perfect for this type of show, when they’ve played here in the past the audience have been bouncing from start to finish! Their new material looks like it will add another dimension for what’s set to be an amazing night.”
Tickets for the show are available Friday 14th July at 9am, priced at £55.00 plus booking fee, from Ticketmaster on 08444 77 9000 or online at www.ticketmaster.co.uk.
Tickets for The Killers’ November shows go on sale at 9am on Friday 14th July, with pre-sales ahead of that to members of the band’s fanclub, The Victims, and for fans pre-ordering the new album from www.thekillersmusic.com


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Benefits of employees’ interaction are not hidden from anyone; this area has gained tremendous popularity during the recent years. Organizations are paying attention to employees’ interaction by developing plans in this regard. Employee’s interaction includes: employees’ interaction with organizations, employees’ interaction with the outside world and employees’ relations within an organizations. In this post I am going to discuss best practices of employees’ relations with each other within an organization. One of the reasons of disagreements among employees is lack of interaction among them. It causes friction among them and disturbs the overall organizational environment. Such issues can be sorted with the help of employees’ interaction plans. Furthermore, issues of employee satisfaction, engagement and development can also be sorted by implementing plans of employees’ interaction.
Before writing down the best practices of employees’ interaction I am going to give an advice to professionals about using best practices. Best practices of any field make it easier for the professionals of that field to perform functions. Best practices provide such a path that leads towards success. But in an effort to follow the best practices one fact should not be ignored that every organization has its own unique culture and circumstances that may differ from the one in which the best practices are being framed. Therefore, leaders, managers, advisors, supervisors and workers must not blindly follow the path of best practices of any discipline. They must first analyze the situation in which they are operating. After analyzing the situation they should decide which best practice may be applied in its true spirit and which needs alteration in accordance with the situation. Always try to find a middle way.
Develop a plan for employee interaction; it must be employee-centric.
Give official status to the plan.
Make employees collaborate with each other by implementing 360-degrees performance appraisals.
Leadership must inspire the rest; they must live by the values of the plan.
Announce it loudly and repeatedly that employees interaction is at place.
Vertical organizational structure may prove to be a hurdle in the way of the plan, thus make such arrangements which make organizational structure a horizontal one.
In order to familiarize employees with the plan organize training.
Involvement of employees is very important in this regard. Develop such programs that ensure employee participation i.e. employee connection champion program etc.
Feedback mechanism must be at place to have an overall idea about the plan. Develop employee-driven improvement processes.
Establishment of cross role and cross functional connections must be included among employee performance goals.

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Titans finish 0-2 on the week
RUTHVEN, ALTA – The Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire Baseball Team dropped a pair of games this past week. On Tuesday, the Titans fell 5-0 to Sioux Central and then on Thursday, lost 9-8 to Alta-Aurelia.
Justin Rodrigues pitched 4 1/3 innings against Sioux Central, giving up two runs (one earned) on one hit with six strikeouts and five walks. Andy Geelan pitched 2 2/3 innings and gave up three runs (two earned) on two hits with seven strikeouts and one walk.
The Titans finished with just two hits as Andrew Aeilts went 2-4. The Titans did draw five walks in the contest.
On Thursday, GT/RA led 8-6 heading into the bottom of the seventh inning, but Alta-Aurelia scored three runs to rally for the victory.
Taylor Enderson pitched 6 1/3 innings and gave up six runs (four earned) on four hits with two strikeouts and two walks. Rodrigues pitched two-thirds of an inning and gave up two earned runs on one hit with two strikeouts and two walks. Geelan pitched a third of an inning and gave up one earned run on one hit.
The Titans finished with 12 hits with Aeilts having a big night as he went 4-4 with two RBIs. Michael Girres finished 2-4; Kyle Dalen was 1-1; Marcus Girres was 1-2 with three RBIs; Jake Wagner was 1-3 and Kodi Ferguson and Rodrigues each were 1-4. Alex Hoffman went 1-5.
The Titans (3-6 overall) are on the road today as they bake on Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley at a tournament in LeMars. GT/RA is at Everly for a doubleheader on Monday.


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BAR HARBOR — Artwork by Beverly Bono will be on display in the periodicals Room at the Jesup Memorial Library during the month of October.
The oil paintings on display span 40 years of Bono’s career, including recent plein-air paintings.
The goal of her work, she said, is “to quiet my scientific left brain and let my right brain create loosely rendered, colorful paintings of the land and sea. How very fortunate I am to be surrounded by such breathtaking subject matter on Mount Desert Island!”
She was inspired to begin painting during her time spent with her Aunt Jane, who signed her up for painting lessons at age eight and nurtured her desire by giving her wooden painting box of oils and her wooden box of pastels. She has continued to do both but said oils are what she enjoys the most.
After years of working as a medical laboratory technologist, Bono began painting again after moving to the Florida Keys. She learned mostly by reading books and was inspired by the artists living and working in Gloucester on Cape Ann including Emile Gruppe and Charles Movalli.
When Bono and her husband moved to Bar Harbor to open the Christmas Spirit Shop, she focused on cultivating new artists for the shop and designing local scenes for them to interpret in their medium of choice.
One of these artists invited Bono to her weekly plein air group.
“That brought me back to my first love, art, and my second love, the outdoors,” she said.
Contact Laura Edwards at [email protected]


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News tagged with physiotherapy
A study from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that the drop in boys' physical activity during the teenage years levels off in early adulthood.
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(Medical Xpress)—One in three people with rheumatoid arthritis, regardless of their age, will fall once or more times a year, according to a new University of Manchester study.
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A new tool developed at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK's National Measurement Institute, could help improve the quality of ultrasound treatment for soft tissue injuries such as muscle strains and ligament ...
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Changing the way people think and move can have a huge impact on their experience of unexplained lower back pain, a study has found. ...
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Among patients with chronic unilateral lateral epicondylalgia ("tennis elbow"), a single injection of corticosteroid medication was associated with poorer outcomes after one year and higher recurrence rates compared with ...
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In 2010, researchers from Lund University reported that 60 percent of all anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions could be avoided in favor of rehabilitation. The results made waves around the world, and were met with ...
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A physiotherapy service based on initial telephone assessment has the ability to provide faster access to the service and cut waiting times, a study published today in BMJ suggests.
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Researchers at the University of Glasgow are hoping to help victims of stroke to overcome physical disabilities by helping their brains to 'rewire' themselves.
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(Medical Xpress)—The brain's perception of space can determine whether a part of a body which occupies that space is either healthy or "neglected".
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More costly, intensive treatment works no better than usual care at speeding up recovery from whiplash injuries, according to new research published Online First in The Lancet.
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(HealthDay)—Spinal steroid injections—the type involved in the current fungal meningitis outbreak in the United States—provide only short-term relief for sciatica-related leg and back pain, according ...
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(Medical Xpress)—Results from a systematic review and meta-analysis led by the University of Birmingham in the UK suggest that physiotherapy benefits people with Parkinson's disease in the short term (< 3 months).
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Fampridine (trade name Fampyra) has been approved in Germany since July 2011 for adult patients suffering from a higher grade walking disability (grades 4 to 7 on the EDSS disability status scale), as a result of multiple ...
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England should look to Scotland to solve its drinking culture, which has seen having a pint of lager become as cheap and freely accessible as downing a pint of milk, an expert at The University of Nottingham has said.
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(Medical Xpress) -- Tiny electric currents applied across regions of the brain can improve hand movements in recovering stroke patients for a short period, an Oxford University study has demonstrated.
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