Smith, Haddin bail out tottering Australians
Smith, Haddin bail out tottering Australians
Indore: Deputation of KN Chaturvedi as Exam Controller of Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya ( DAVV) is ending in the middle of first semester exams. February 4 will be his last day in the university. When he would bid adieu to this university, the first exam exams starting on January 6 would be midstream.
Sydney: Steve Smith savoured an Ashes Test century on his home Sydney Cricket Ground Friday to put Australia in a strong position for a 5-0 series clean sweep over beleaguered England.It was the 24-year-old’s second hundred of the series and his third in Ashes cricket as he combined with the irrepressible Brad Haddin to shift the momentum Australia’s way after the home side was tottering at 97 for five. Smith, who hit
Ujjain: The Lok Aayukta sleuths caught a police sub- inspector ( S- I) red handed accepting bribe of Rs 1000 from an autogarage owner here on Friday.
Ujjain: Two bike borne miscreants robbed off a girl’s gold chain near SS Hospital at 3 pm on Friday. Police registered an FIR against unidentified accused under Section 392 of IPC. According to Madhav Nagar police, victim Ritu Lashkari, 27, resident of Manchhaman Nagar was riding on Activa along with his younger
Grenoble (France): Michael Schumacher’s family hailed the Formula One legend as a fighter ‘who will not give up’, as he spent his 45th birthday on Friday lying in a coma in a French hospital following a skiing accident.The retired seven-time world champion slammed his head against a rock on Sunday while skiing in the French Alps and has had two operations to remove bleeding and pressure on his
Ujjain: Several Muslim clerics under the leadership of City Quazi Khaliqurrehman on Friday charged the Anti- Terrorist Squad ( ATS) of the Madhya Pradesh Police for unnecessarily targeting the Muslim youths in the name of their involvement in fake terrorist activities.
Kolkata: India’s top shot-stopper Subrata Paul is neither excited nor intimidated in his endeavour to become the first player in independant India to play for a first division club in Europe as he gets ready for his six-month stint at Denmark’s FC Vestsjaelland.
Ujjain: An eve teaser was thrashed badly and was handed over to police by angry crowd on Friday. Accused eve teaser had been teasing a girl working at Hero Honda showroom located at Dewas Road for long time. According to Madhav Nagar police, accused eve teaser uvraj, son of Bhupendra Singh, resident of Ved Nagar was arrested for teasing a girl at Dewas Road. Accused had been sending obscene SMSs
Ujjain : Some unidentified miscreants stole a purse belonging to a woman from Hotel Vikramaditya on Thursday night. The purse was containing gold & silver jewelry, mobile phone, driving license and keys. Victim lodged a complaint at Neelganga police station.
De Kock, Corey on IPL teams’ wish-list
Ujjain: Collector BM Sharma took a meeting of officials regarding land allotment at Brahaspathi Bhavan at 1 pm on Friday. Collector asked concerned officials to prepare a list of such allotment of lands for officials departments in the district where land allotted was more than the requirement.
Mumbai : Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) President Manikrao Thakre has indicated that former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, who is being investigated in the Adarsh scam, will be politically rehabilitated and participate in the election campaign.
Chennai: Yuki Bhambri and India’s singles challenge came crashing down at the ATP Chennai Open as the the Delhi youngster lost his quarterfinal 3-6, 3-6 to fifth seed Canadian Vasek Pospisil, here on Friday.It was a humongous task for India’s big hope Yuki to take on the world number 32 but he was subdued in the 69-minute contest and could never really trouble his rival.
Ujjain: After the installation of biometric thumb impression machine at district hospital on January 1, most of the staff members are still reluctant to record their presence through the machine. Hospital administration will take action against those who would not record their presence on the machine.
Mumbai : A 26-year-old resident doctor working with the Jaslok Hospital was found dead by her colleague in the campus room where she resided. She allegedly committed suicide by injecting herself with an overdose of anesthesia. However, no suicide note was found at the spot.
Bangalore: Exemplifying growing political activism of top professionals and corporate figures, Captain Gopinath, who pioneered the low-cost airline business in the country, on Friday joined the Aam Aadmi Party.
Abu Dhabi: Sri Lankan captain Angelo Mathews hit a pugnacious hundred to pull Sri Lanka out of trouble on the fourth day of the first cricket Test against Pakistan in here on Friday.Mathews notched up 116 not out under pressure for his second Test hundred and put on invaluable 138-run partnership for the fifth wicket with Dinesh Chandimal (89) and 99 for the unfinished sixth wicket with Prasanna
Ujjain: 41 beneficiaries who got registered for the houses to be built by MP Housing Board ( MPHB) in 2008 have been waiting for possession of houses. Six years have been past since 41 members got registered for 1500 square feet deluxe MIG houses.


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Adhesion testing for the reliability of microelectronic devices
Adhesion testing methods for very small wiring levels in microelectronic devices [back-end- of-line (BEoL) levels], are critical for the manufacturing and reliability testing of modern microelectronic structures. However, very few measurement techniques exist, and moreover, they do not allow the inclusion of product-identical size scaling or realistic structures in the study of interface properties. Therefore, an in-situ nanoindentation-based SEM approach was developed at Fraunhofer IKTS. It enables investigating product-like copper via structures that are just a few micrometers in size – and thus for the first time analyzing the interfaces of individual industrially manufactured vias.
Optimized micromechanical experiments
For the new approach, a nanoindentation system is installed inside the vacuum chamber of a scanning electron microscope (SEM). This makes it possible to accurately position the wedge-shaped indenter tip on the micron-sized test structures. The test structures are designed as cantilevers (top image). For the investigations, a load is applied to the cantilever at its freestanding side using the indenter tip (a); the force is then converted into a tensile force through a hinge via (b). This hinge via then engages, across the rear via (c), on the via underside of the interface under investigation. This causes the interface under the rear via to delaminate. In the recorded load-displacement data, the delamination event is indicated by a severe load drop (middle figure).
High variability of test structures
The test structures are prepared using the copper damascene process, which is widely applied in the industrial manufacturing of BEoL structures and generates test structures with a large variety of designs. This allows for other experimental designs, such as the testing of interfaces for different loading modes. Also, the process generates a high number of identical test structures to ensure that measured data are statistically well reproducible.
By slightly altering the manufacturing sequence, it is also possible to create different interfaces on the test via. Important interfaces with regard to the reliability of BEoL structures exist, for example, between copper, silicon nitride, diffusion barriers, and silicon oxide. The bottom image exemplifies the cross-section of a delaminated interface between copper and a diffusion barrier (indicated by a red arrow).
The interfacial delamination made quantitatively accessible by this method forms the basis for FEM simulations which support reliability testing and help improve the design of interconnect structures in microelectronics.

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The Socio-Religious Reforms and Organizations (Movements for social and religious reforms in India up to the 20th century) played a vital role in the upliftment of India.
Brahmo Samaj- Founded in August 1828
- By Raja Ram Mohan Roy– Also called the father of Indian renaissance
- Earlier it was Brahmo Sabha, later Brahmo Samaj in Calcutta.
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy (1772- 1833)– Also called Father of Indian Renaissance and the maker of Modern India. In 1814 founded the Atmiya Sabha in Calcutta.
- Adi Brahmo Samaj was later formed by Debendra Nath Tagore,
- Keshub Chandra Sen associated with Brahmo Samaj of India.
- The Brahmo Samaj worked on various reforms of religious, social, and cultural reforms.
- They opposed incarnation, sacrifices, Idolatry, priest existence, Sati, and other reforms in Hinduism.
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy Brought journal -Sambad kaumudi (1821), Mirat-ul-Akbar
- Tattva Bodhini Patrika by Devendra Nath Tagore
- Indian Mirror by Keshub Chandra Sen
- Tattva kaumudi, The Indian messenger, The Sanjibari, The Nayabharat, and Prabasi by Sadharan Brahmo samaj.
Young Bengal Movement- (1826-1831)
- Founded by Anglo Indian – Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (Taught at Hindu College). Other people associated with the organization were Rasik Krishna Mullick, Tarachand choker-Vati, and Krishna Mohan Banerjee.
- He supported Love, liberty, equality, Freedom, and Women’s right also.
Dharma Sabha – 1830
- Founded by Radhakant Deb in Calcutta.
- The theme of Dharma Sabha was to counter Brahmo samaj. It helped in spreading western education, condemned radical and liberal reforms.
Wahabi Movement- 1820
- Founded by Syed Ahmed.
- Other people associated with the movement – Vilayat Ali, Shah Muhhamad Hussain, Farhat Hussain, and Inayat Ali.
- Started from Rohilakhand and spread in Bengal, central provinces
- This was opposed British and they also fought against Sikhs.
Namdhari or Kuka Movement- 1849
- The movement across 1849-1871, founded by Balak Singh and Baba Ram Singh
- This movement among Sikhs, in NWF provinces and Punjab.
- This worked for various reforms in social, cultural, and religious reforms.
Rahnumai Mazdayasanan Sabha (Religious reform association for Parsis)- 1851
- Founded by S.S Bengali, Naoroji Furdonji, Dada Bhai Nauroji
- For improving the social conditions of Parsis.
- The journal Rast Goftar is associated with this organization.
Prarthana Samaj- 1867
- Founded by Atmaram Pandurang
- In Bombay
- The chief mentor was Govind Ranade
- They worked for the upliftment of women, the abolition of caste discrimination, and religious reforms from orthodoxy.
- widow remarriage and for raising of the age of marriage for both male and female.
Indian reform association – 1870
- Founded by Keshub Chandra Sen in Calcutta.
- Against child marriage, for the uplift of women status in society, to legalize the Brahmo Type marriage.
Satyasodhak Samaj- 1873
- founded by Jyotiba fule, in Maharashtra.
- This was against the domination of Brahman and for the upliftment of the lower caste.
- They also worked for untouchables and widows.
Arya Samaj -1875
- Founded by Dayanand Saraswati (Mulshankar) -1824-1883- in Bombay.
- He took inspiration from Vedas.
- His slogan was- “Back to Vedas”
- Satyarth Prakash was associated with his views.
- Arya Samaj fixed age of – 25 yrs. and 16 yrs. for boys and girls respectively.
- They asserted that the Veda is the book of true knowledge.
- Dayanand Anglo Vedic (DAV) schools were established.
The Theosophical Society- 1875
- Founded by Madam H.P Blavatsky (1831-91) was a Russian and Col. H.S. Olcott (1832-1907) an American.
- Annie Besant was one of its presidents.
- Founded in New York but its headquarters shifted to Adyar near Madras.
- Worked for social and religious reforms.
Seva Sadan- 1885
- Founded by Behramji M.Malabari in Bombay
- They worked for various reforms in the social and cultural field.
- This was against child marriage, forced widowhood, and helping women who were socially suppressed.
Indian National Social Conference – 1887
- Founded by M.G.Ranade and Raghunath Rao in Bombay
- Worked for social reforms.
Deva Samaj- 1887
- Founded by Shiv Narayan Agnihotri in Lahore.
- They followed The Ides of Brahmo Samaj in religious reforms.
- Social code Against bribe, gambling, alcohol consumption, and non-vegetarian food.
Ramkrishna Mission- 1897
- Founded by Vivekanand (NaredraNath Dutta)- (1863-1902) in Bengal.
- His guru was Ramkrishna Paramhansa (1834- 1886)
- worked to revive Hinduism on the basis of Ancient India’s religious Text and concept of Vedanta and Gita and other books.
- They were against cast discriminations, superstitions in Hinduism.
- They aimed to uplift women’s status and education system.
- Swami Vivekananda made a great impression at the Chicago Parliament of religion in 1893.
The servants of India Society- 1905
- Founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale in Bombay
- for Women uplift.
- For improvement of the condition of tribals.
The Indian Women’s Association- 1917
- Founded by Annie Besant in Madras
- for the upliftment of Indian Women
- All India women conferences held for women’s betterment.
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The K-Separator is placed on top of the aspiration cover of the JOEST separation table to pre-separate very light products. The feeding material is conveyed by a vibration or dosing feeder to the K-Separator. The vibration feeder spreads the product over the whole width of the separator and prevents at the same time that additional air enters the separator by using rubber curtains.
The product mixture is led into the separation zone and will be separated into heavy and light fractions by cross flow and counter current flow separation process. The ultra light fraction is exhausted at an aspiration socket. The heavy fraction gets in the separation table and will again be separated into heavy and light fraction (see description of separation table). The process air of the separation table is also used for the sifting, adjustments can be made by a flap inside the K-Separator.
Vibration feeder or dosing feeder for material intake (necessary)
Cyclone and/or filter installation with aspiration fan for the aspiration air of separator and separation table (necessary)
Please refer Separation Table
Additional height of the K-Sifter = 600 mm
Possible three-component-sorting via combination of K-Separator and separation table
No further process air necessary. The air of the separation table is used as process air for the separator
Very low construction hight of only 600 mm necessary
Low costs in comparison to a standard air separation installation
Bypass regulation to control the required separator air coming from the separation table is installed inside the K-Separator


Cipha Sounds is a DJ and media personality who got his start in New York as an intern for DJ Riz and Wildman Steve of Flip Squad. After joining Lil' Kim on a world tour for over a year, Cipha joined the Big Dawg Pitbulls crew and got a radio gig as a DJ on Funkmaster Flex's Hot 97 evening show. He would soon earn his own radio shows, Cipha Saturdays as well as The Cipha Sound Effect. As his reputation grew as a DJ, he began appearing on television as the house DJ on Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show and host of MTV's Direct Effect. Cipha started his own stand-up comedy series, Don't Get Gassed, in 2007.
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WENATCHEE – The Wenatchee Valley Skyhawks will play host to the Reno Express at Town Toyota Center on Sunday in round one of the American West Football Conference playoffs.
The Skyhawks faced Reno four times during the 2019 regular season in consecutive home-and-home contests between March 28 and May 4.
Wenatchee won two of the meetings during that stretch, both at home by final scores of 35-21 and 60-20. The Skyhawks lost their two road tilts with the Express, however. Dropping the first by a final count of 57-12 and then suffering a 1-0 forfeit in the second matchup.
Overall, Wenatchee was 4-2 on home turf during the regular season, outscoring their opponents by a margin of 104 points (303-199).
On the road, Reno was 2-4 overall through the 2019 campaign and were outscored by their opponents 253-137.
The winner of Sunday’s contest will advance to the league championship against either the currently winless Tri-Cities Fire or the currently undefeated Idaho Horsemen.

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Incorrect exhaust temperature readings
I’ve little doubt that you’re carrying out monitoring of your engine performance, but how effective is that monitoring at giving the information you really need?
I ask because we’ve just come back from the investigation of an engine failure, and one of our recommendations is to improve the way they collect this type of information.
The original investigation was around the cause of broken pushrods, and subsequent damage to the engine.
During the review of the engine and current running procedures, it was brought to light that the exhaust temperatures were being recorded by a hand-held thermometer, similar to this:
The problem was that this failed engine has water-cooled exhausts, so the reading being taken was completely false and not representative of the actual exhaust gases.
The better option was to use the exhaust pyrometers already installed in the manifolds and wiring them into the gauge panels. Even if the pyrometers were not fitted, or gauge panel not operational, we could have rectified this as we have done for other installations – details on this can be found here.
This isn’t to say the correct monitoring of the exhaust temperatures would have prevented the initial failure, but it would have certainly saved the amount of downtime and repair bill by being able to take action earlier.


Paul Ricard is the circuit where NewBlood by Morand Racing scored their best result to date.
16-year-old should benefit from Mowlem's experience.
A decisive performance ensured the King’s Lynn ace moved up two places on ELMS championship.
The victory has vaulted Alpine into the lead of the European Le Mans Series title standings just two rounds from the end of the campaign.
Dolan, Tincknell and Albuquerque place second in Austria.
Ferrari teams take LMGTE and GTC.
In LMP2 the battle is on between Thiriet by TDS Racing, which currently leads, ahead of JOTA Sport and Signatech Alpine.
Dolan, Tincknell & Albuquerque bid for second consecutive ELMS win
Dyson Racing currently stands second in the ELMS point standings.
The former Formula 1 driver was disappointed after losing out on another podium finish for the second race in a row.
Dolan, Tincknell and Albuquerque bounce back into title contention
Fastest lap by a McLaren driver and first non-Ferrari finisher.
Jan Charouz and Vincent Capillaire has finished in second place the second round of the European Le Mans Series, the 4 Hours of Imola.
The LMGTE and GTC qualifying session started at 09h45, with the prototypes following on track at 10h15. It was an exciting session and has offered an interesting starting grid.
All 37 entrants took part in both ELMS practice sessions at Imola Saturday.
Brown will be driving for the UK based team Gulf Racing in their Aston Martin Vantage GTE.


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Are you hard of hearing? Because Mourinho said he didn't know if it was a free-kick or a penalty.
Mourinho talking to SKY after the match.
"I don't understand how we don't have penalties, when the penalties are so clear, I don't understand. I go for the facts and it's a fact. In the Champions League this season we have good referees and to be fair to Mr Merk he was comfortable. But the penalty is a big chance for us to be 2-0. Then it would be a completely different game and a different story. I feel it is not fair. I hope after the game in the second leg we are not crying and thinking again about a big decision, because two years ago we were thinking about a big decision "
Mourinho in the press conference (afterwards)
"It's a handball for sure, there's no doubt. If it's inside the box and a penalty or outside the box and a free kick that's something I cannot say. But the handball is 100 per cent. The referee had a very good game but, like everybody in the game - me, the players, everybody - he made a mistake and his mistake was the Arbeloa handball. But it was a decision against us, a big one. If it's a penalty it's a big decision. If it's a direct free kick, you reduce the percentages for the possibility for being a goal."
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In the Microsoft Surface accident in New York aftermost week, they appear a new appliance alleged Your Phone. It will assignment with Windows 10.
The Windows buzz has been asleep for over two years now afterwards Microsoft aggravating absolutely adamantine to accord it momentum. They had alike acquired Nokia, a already bazaar ascendant buzz maker to accomplish Windows phones. But all of that did not assignment back there aloof weren’t abundant apps to accomplish it ambrosial for bodies to buy the handsets.
The Android app apery affection will be accessible as a allotment of the Your Buzz app for Windows 10. The app will be out with the Windows 10 October 2018 Update.
The app apery is easier to accomplish with Android because it is added accessible than iOS. Afterwards acknowledging the afterlife of Windows Phone, Microsoft took accomplish to acquire it and advance their apps to added Adaptable operating systems. This includes the absolution of MS Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for both Android and iOS.
They alike launched a launcher for Android alleged the Microsoft Launcher which has over 10M downloads. Microsoft launcher brings Microsoft’s own casework and Office apps connectivity to your Android phone’s home screen. It alike supports the Windows 10 Timeline affection acceptance you to resume Microsoft apps and sites beyond devices.
Microsoft has now appear to agreement with the actuality that bodies don’t charge the Windows OS on a phone, there are bigger OSes already active on majority of the smartphones. Microsoft is aggravating to embrace added OSes as the ‘mobile adaptation of Windows’. Android in particular, as it has beneath restrictions and allows assimilation of added features.
The audience video displays the use of the app on an Android phone, it is not bright whether it will accomplish it to iOS in the future. If you can admission Android apps on Windows PC, you are beneath acceptable to use your buzz while application a PC.
Microsoft announces new Surface accessories to enhance user productivity, with appearance and elegance
A decade of Android: Slayer of Blackberry, amateur of iPhone, mother of the avant-garde adaptable ecosystem
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Spain's Ignacio Garrido and his caddy look at a deer as they walk along the third fairway during the third round of the Irish Open held at Killarney Golf and Fishing Club on July 30, 2011 in Killarney. AFP PHOTO/PETER MUHLY (Photo credit should read PETER MUHLY/AFP/Getty Images)
Animals on the pitch
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A feisty marten interrupted a Swiss Super League soccer match this weekend. Here's a look at other animals that have interrupted games.


Morrissey's comeback single 'World Peace Is None of Your Business' will be released tomorrow (May 13).
The song is the title track, lead single and opener of the ex-Smiths frontman's upcoming album, which is due for a July release.
Fansite True-to-You has published the artwork for the track, and confirmed its digital release date.
It has been produced by Joe Chiccarelli in France and will be released by Harvest Records through Capitol.
In June 2011, the singer premiered new songs 'Action Is My Middle Name', 'The Kid's a Looker' and 'People Are the Same Everywhere' live in session on Janice Long's BBC Radio 2 programme.
The recorded sessions were released as single B-sides across CD, 7" and digital download formats of a re-issue of 1989 single 'The Last of the Famous International Playboys' in 2013.
The full tracklisting of World Peace Is None of Your Business is as follows:
1. 'World Peace Is None of Your Business'
2. 'Neal Cassady Drops Dead'
4. 'I'm Not a Man'
5. 'Earth Is the Loneliest Planet'
6. 'Staircase at the University'
7. 'The Bullfighter Dies'
8. 'Kiss Me a Lot'
9. 'Smiler With Knife'
10. 'Kick the Bride Down the Aisle'
12. 'Oboe Concerto'


text: A new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health highlights disparities in fine particulate matter (PM2.5) trends between American Indian (AI) and non-AI populated counties of the U.S. PM2.5 is one of several air pollutants regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with the current annual standard set at 12μg/m3. Downward trends in PM2.5 concentrations were steeper among the non-AI populated compared to AI-populated counties. Although AI-populated counties had lower PM2.5 concentrations than non- AI populated counties in 2000, by 2018, their levels were higher. With most U.S. air pollution research conducted in urban settings, this is the first study to detail the extent of particulate air pollution levels and its potential health consequences among rural AI communities. The findings are published in the American Journal of Public Health.

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“Michael’s career has been defined by his commitment to the bureau, to its mission, and to the people we all serve,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in the release. “I am extremely appreciative of Michael’s decades of public service, most recently at the helm of one of the most complex missions in the federal government.”
Carvajal began his career in the bureau as a correctional officer in Texas in 1992. He was appointed as the director of the bureau in February of 2020 by former Attorney General William Barr.
During his term as the director, several key problems with the safety of prisons surfaced amid the pandemic. According to the Washington Post, one in three inmates in federal prison tested positive for COVID-19. Seven bureau employees and 275 inmates have also died from COVID-19.
Another major area of concern was reports of misconduct and corruption from prison employees, including an allegation of sexual misconduct from a prison warden and multiple reports of guards taking bribes from prisoners for allegedly sneaking drugs into the prisons.
Congressman Fred Keller, the chairman of the congressional Bureau of Prisons Reform Caucus, thanked Carvajal for his work with the caucus, including plans to make the bureau more transparent and accountable.
“I thank Director Carvajal for his service and work to address the challenges that America’s federal prison system faces,” Keller said in a statement shared with the Washington Examiner. “I look forward to continuing to work with BOP leadership and my colleagues on the BOP Reform Caucus toward our shared goal of reforming the BOP to better secure inmates and improve staffing conditions.”
No date for Carvajal’s retirement has been announced as the department is awaiting a replacement. Once a successor is named, a date will be released.

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Astronomers have found another planet, which they are calling HD 63433 D. The planet is tidally locked, meaning there is a dayside which always faces its star and a side in constant darkness.
This exoplanet is outside our solar system, and orbits around the star called HD 63433 (TOI 1726) in the HD 63433 system. Astronomers believe the exoplanet is younger than 500 million years old, which makes it the closets discovered earth-sized planet this young.
The Astronomers analyzed this system using data from NASA’s TESS Satellite, which spots planets when they cross in front of the star they orbit. The planet very close to the size of the Earth, with a diameter of 1.1 times the size of us. It’s also orbiting a star that’s similar to the size of our Sun. HD 63433 D orbits it’s star much closer though, giving it a 4.2 day long year and extremely high temperatures.
Temperatures on the planet can reach 2,294 degrees Fahrenheit (1,257 Celsius). Because of this, they also believe the planet lacks a substantial atmosphere.
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More Live - An honest review from a CL fan
Bill Hendricks, Jr. | League City, TX USA | 08/26/2002
(3 out of 5 stars)
"Without a doubt, Crystal stands-out among her peers in the Contemporary Christian music genre. Enjoying her music CDs for several years now, I couldn't wait to get home from the store to watch her live concert DVD. After viewing it, I thought the recording showcased her talents well, along with the good performance delivered by her band. That said, there were a few serious technical no-no's that should not have gotten by Metro1 Music's production crew. Most distracting was the apparent use of a white-hot spotlight on Crystal's face throughout the concert. The lighting over-kill resulted in giving Crystal a distracting "Casper" glow. In addition, the production had a decade or so earlier feel to it and did not seem as polished as it could have been. As for packaging, the keep-case liner notes were missing - strange. These concerns could easily be ignored if this were a budget DVD offering, however, this one is not. On a positive note though, Metro1 Music did include a B-side with some extras many will find appealing. Rating (1-5): Artistic 5, Technical 2, Packaging 2"
I WANT MORE!!!
Lily Jade | Melbourne, Australia | 05/25/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Love it love it love it! I love the music, and the sincerity that shines through Crystal's voice. Fantastic band, they played exceptionally well. I enjoyed every song and particularly the extras on the collectors edition DVD. Can't help but dance to the fast songs, and can't help but be moved by the slower songs. Even though there was an encore, I still wanted MORE!"
What A Woman!
Melody Crystal | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | 05/23/2002
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I was expecting a great concert and got exactly that. What the band lacked in stage presence they certainly made up for in musicianship. The camera work is a little unusual, but it doesn't take long to get used to. If you're a true Crystal Lewis fan, then you'll love this DVD. If the concert wasn't enough for you, there's some great outakes which show how she can turn some embarrassing moments into something comical. The film clip of 'More' as well as the making of the film clip. If you've not heard this divine woman of God before, then you'll certainly be converted once you've seen and heard her in action."

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LA MIRADA – The question, an obvious softball, dropped at the feet of La Mirada High School freshman Taylor Jones.
The area’s fastest girls cross country runner, Jones wasn’t sure how to respond before Wednesday afternoon’s practice at La Mirada Regional Park.
Again she was asked – this time, however, by her coach, Ralph Casas.
“At the beginning of the season, did you expect to make it to state?”
Casas questioned, perhaps not even sure of the answer himself.
With her back to the sun, Jones squinted before answering.
“Of course,” she said with a certain certainty. “That was the goal from the beginning. That’s what I’ve been working toward.”
Jones is scheduled to compete at 8:30 a.m. in Saturday’s CIF State Division II Championships at Fresno’s Woodward Park.
Such a query seemed unnecessary earlier in the season.
The 13-year-old began her prep career in such a surprisingly dominant fashion.
Jones claimed her first-ever event, the Don Bosco Tech Invite, by winning the freshman race in a mark of 17 minutes, 57 seconds.
The time broke the freshman-course mark, and it was the sixth-fastest ever.
Jones continued her torrid pace, racking up wins at the Woodbridge, Dana Hills and Warren Stauffer invitationals.
“I think I liked Woodbridge the most,” Jones said.
“It was the first time I saw some really good competition. Plus, the course was challenging.”
Against national talent, Jones (17:25) clipped San Clemente’s Molly Mann (17:26) for the rated race win.
The season, it seemed, was just an hors d’oeuvre to the postseason.
Problems arose, however, midway through the year.
For starters, Jones and her La Mirada teammates sat out the Clovis Invite at the season’s midway point because of a flu outbreak. That withdrawal kept the La Mirada native from getting her first taste of the state course.
While Jones easily breezed to two Suburban League wins, her next big meet, the Mt. San Antonio College Invitational, didn’t end well.
Despite having a six-second lead at the one-mile point in her event, Jones tumbled and fell close to the 1 1/2-mile marker and could not continue.
“I just slipped. I can’t really explain it,” Jones said.
While the fall may have discouraged some, Jones slowly returned to form.
After solid showings at the Arcadia Apache Invitational and league finals, where she claimed the Suburban League crown, Jones returned to Mt. SAC in the CIF-Southern Section Division 2 prelims.
That’s where the freshman excelled against the likes of national power Saugus in taking fourth (18:12).
“It felt good to run against the best,” Jones said. “I got my confidence back and knew I could run with those girls.”
The next week, Jones and her Matadores teammates competed in the CIF-SS Division 2 Finals back at Mt. SAC.
While La Mirada missed qualifying to state, Jones advanced.
Jones finished 12th overall in Division 2 with a course-record mark of 18:08 while becoming La Mirada’s second-ever runner to advance to state.
“It’s a great feeling to make it to state,” Jones said.
“The season is long, and to get to this point is rewarding.”
As practice wound down, Casas asked another question.
“What would be your reaction if you finished in the top 20 (at state)?” Casas inquired.
“That’s my goal. So I guess I would really be happy,” Jones responded with a deadpan face.
“What would be your reaction if you finished in the top 10?” Casas countered.
“I guess I would be really, really happy,” Jones finished with a slight smirk. “That would be something.”
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Part I: Uncertainty Quantification Need: Risk, Policy, and Decision Making
Pasky Pascual, Environmental Protection Agency, US
In 2007, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences issued a report, "Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: a Vision and a Strategy," which proposed a vision and a roadmap for toxicology by advocating the use of systems-oriented, data-driven predictive models to explain how toxic chemicals impact human health and the environment. The report noted the limitations of whole animal tests that have become the standard basis for risk assessments at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. That same year, in response to the recall of the pain-killing drug, Vioxx, Congress passed the the Food and Drug Administration Act (FDAA).Vioxx had been approved for release by the U.S. government, and only belatedly was it discovered that the drug increased the risk of heart disease. This presentation suggests that these two events anticipate the need to build on developments in genomics, cellular biology, bioinformatics and other fields to craft predictive models that provide the rationale for regulating risks to public health and the environment. It suggests that both are a step in the right direction, but that long-standing issues of uncertainty in scientific inference must be more widely appreciated and understood, particularly within the regulatory system, if society hopes to capitalize on these scientific advances.
Mark Cunningham, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, US
In early 2011, a task force was established within the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to develop proposals for a long-term vision on using risk information in its regulatory processes. This task force, established by NRC's Chairman Jaczko, is being led by Commissioner Apostolakis, and has a charter to "develop a strategic vision and options for adopting a more comprehensive and holistic risk-informed, performance-based regulatory approach for reactors, materials, waste, fuel cycle, and transportation that would continue to ensure the safe and secure use of nuclear material." This presentation will discuss some of the issues being considered by the task force in the context of how to manage the uncertainties associated with unlikely but potentially high consequence accident scenarios.
An Industrial Viewpoint on Uncertainty Quantification in Simulation: Stakes, Methods, Tools, Examples
Alberto Pasanisi, Electricité de France, France
Simulation is nowadays a major tool in industrial R&D and engineering studies. In industrial practice, in both design and operating stages, the behavior of a complex system is described and forecasted by a computer model, which is, most of time, deterministic. Yet, engineers coping with quantitative predictions using deterministic models deal actually with several sources of uncertainties affecting the inputs (and eventually the model itself) which are transferred to the outputs, i.e. the outcomes of the study. Uncertainty quantification in simulation has gained more and more importance in the last years and it has now become a common practice in several industrial contexts. In this talk we will give an industrial feedback and viewpoint on this question. After a reminder of the main stakes related to uncertainty quantification and probabilistic computing, we will particularly insist on the specific methodology and software tools which have been developed for dealing with this problem. Several examples, concerning different physical framework, different initial questions and different mathematical tools, will complete this talk.
Living with Uncertainty
Patrick Gaffney, Bergen Software Services International, Norway
This talk describes 12 years of experience in developing simulation software for automotive companies. By building software from scratch, using boundary integral methods and other techniques, it has been possible to tailor the software to address specific issues that arise in painting processes applied to vehicles and to provide engineers with results for real-time optimization and manufacturing analysis. The talk will focus on one particular simulator for predicting electrocoat deposition on a vehicle and will address the topics of verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification as they relate to the development and use of the simulator in operational situations. The general theme throughout the talk is the author's belief of an almost total disconnection between engineers and the requirements of computational scientists. This belief is quite scary, and was certainly unexpected when starting the work 12 years ago. However, through several examples, the talk demonstrates the problems in attempting to extract from engineers the high quality input required to produce accurate simulation results. The title provides the focus and the talk describes how living under the shadow of uncertainty has made us more innovative and more resourceful in solving problems that we never really expected to encounter when we started on this journey in 1999.
Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis: From Regulatory Requirements to Conceptual Structure and Computational Implementation
Jon Helton, Sandia National Laboratories, US
The importance of an appropriate treatment of uncertainty in an analysis of a complex system is now almost universally recognized. As consequence, requirements for complex systems (e.g., nuclear power plants, radioactive waste disposal facilities, nuclear weapons) now typically call for some form of uncertainty analysis. However, these requirements are usually expressed at a high level and lack the detail needed to unambiguously define the intent, structure and outcomes of an analysis that provides a meaningful representation of the effects and implications of uncertainty. Consequently, it is necessary for the individuals performing an analysis to show compliance with a set of requirements to define a conceptual structure for the analysis that (i) is consistent with the intent of the requirements and (ii) also provides the basis for a meaningful uncertainty and sensitivity analysis. In many, if not most analysis situations, a core consideration is maintaining an appropriate distinction between aleatory uncertainty (i.e., inherent randomness in possible future behaviors of the system under study) and epistemic uncertainty (i.e., lack of knowledge with respect to the appropriate values to use for quantities that have fixed but poorly known values in the context of the particular study being performed). Conceptually, this leads to an analysis involving three basic entities: a probability space (A, SA, pA) characterizing aleatory uncertainty, a probability space (E, SE, pE) characterizing epistemic uncertainty, and a model that predicts system behavior (i.e., a function f(t|a,e) that defines system behavior at time t conditional on elements a and e of the sample spaces A and E for aleatory and epistemic uncertainty). In turn, this conceptual structure leads to an analysis in which (i) uncertainty analysis results are defined by integrals involving the function f(t|a,e) and the two indicated probability spaces and (ii) sensitivity analysis results are defined by the relationships between epistemically uncertain analysis inputs (i.e., elements ej of e) and analysis results defined by the function f(t|a,e) and also by various integrals of this function. Computationally, this leads to an analysis in which (i) high-dimensional integrals must be evaluated to obtain uncertainty analysis results and (ii) mappings between high-dimensional spaces must be generated and explored to obtain sensitivity analysis results. The preceding ideas and concepts are illustrated with an analysis carried out in support of a license application for the proposed repository for high-level radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
Interpreting Regional Climate Predictions
Doug Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research, US
As attention shifts from broad global summaries of climate change to more specific regional impacts there is a need for statistics to quantify the uncertainty in regional projections. This talk will provide an overview on interpreting regional climate experiments (physically based simulations based on coupled global and regional climate models) using statistical methods to manage the discrepancies among models, their internal variability, regridding errors, model biases and other factors. The extensive simulations being produced in the North American Regional Climate Change and Assessment Program (NARCCAP) provide a context for our statistical approaches. An emerging principle is adapting analysis of variance decompositions to test for equality of mean fields, to quantify the variability due to different components in a numerical experiment and to identify the departures from observed climate fields.
William Oberkampf, Sandia National Laboratories, US (retired)
Within the technical community, it is instinctive to conduct uncertainty quantification analyses and risk assessments for use in risk-informed decision making. The value and reliability of some formal assessments, however, have been sharply criticized not only by well-known scientists, but also by the public after high-visibility failures such as the loss of two Space Shuttles, major damage at the Three-Mile Island nuclear power plant, and the disaster at the Fukushima plant. The realities of these failures, and many others, belie the predicted probabilities of failure for these systems and the credibility of risk assessments in general. The uncertainty quantification and risk assessment communities can attempt to defend and make excuses for notoriously poor (or misused) analyses, or we can learn how to improve technical aspects of analyses and to develop procedures to help guard against fraudulent analyses. This talk will take the latter route by first examining divergent goals of risk analyses; neglected sources of uncertainty in modeling the hazards or initiating events, external influences on the system of interest, and the system itself; and the importance of mathematical representations of uncertainties and their dependencies. We will also argue that risk analyses are not simply mathematical activities, but they are also human endeavors that are susceptible to a wide range of human weaknesses. As a result, we discuss how analyses can be distorted and/or biased by analysts and sponsors of the analysis, and how results of analyses can be miscommunicated and misinterpreted, either unintentionally or deliberately.
Panel Discussion: UQ and Decision Making
Mac Hyman, Tulane University, US (Moderator)
Sandy Landsberg, Department of Energy, US [Opening Remarks]
Larry Winter, University of Arizona, US [Opening Remarks]
Charles Romine, NIST, US [Opening Remarks]
Part II: Uncertainty Quantification Theory
Bayesian Analysis for Complex Physical Systems Modeled by Computer Simulators: Current Status and Future Challenges
Michael Goldstein, Durham University, UK
Most large and complex physical systems are studied by mathematical models, implemented as high dimensional computer simulators. While all such cases differ in physical description, each analysis of a physical system based on a computer simulator involves the same underlying sources of uncertainty. These are: condition uncertainty (unknown initial conditions, boundary conditions and forcing functions), parametric uncertainty (as the appropriate choices for the model parameters are not known), functional uncertainty (as models are typically expensive to evaluate for any choice of parameters), structural uncertainty (as the model is different from the physical system), measurement uncertainty (in the data used to calibrate the model), stochastic uncertainty (arising from intrinsic randomness in the system equations), solution uncertainty (as solutions to the system equations can only be assessed approximately) and multi-model uncertainty (as there often is a family of models, at different levels of resolution, possibly with different representations of the underlying physics). There is a growing field of study which aims to quantify and synthesize all of the uncertainties involved in relating models to physical systems, within the framework of Bayesian statistics, and to use the resultant uncertainty specification to address problems of forecasting and decision making based on the application of these methods. Examples of areas in which such methodology is being applied include asset management for oil reservoirs, galaxy modeling, and rapid climate change. In this talk, we shall give an overview of the current status and future challenges in this emerging methodology, illustrating with examples of current areas of application.
Les Hatton, Kingston University, UK
For the last couple of centuries, the scientific method whereby we have followed Karl Popper's model of endlessly seeking to refute new and existing discoveries, forcing them to submit to repeatability and detailed peer review of both the theory and the experimental methods employed to flush out insecure conclusions, has served us extremely well. Much progress has been made. For the last 40 years or so however, there has been an increasing reliance on computation in the pursuit of scientific discovery. Computation is an entirely different animal. Its repeatability has proved unreliable, we have been unable to eliminate defect or even to quantify its effects, and there has been a rash of unconstrained creativity making it very difficult to make systematic progress to align it with the philosophy of the scientific method. At the same time, computation has become the dominant partner in many scientific areas. This paper will address a number of issues. Through a series of very large experiments involving millions of lines of code in several languages along with an underpinning theory, it will put forward the viewpoint that defect is both inevitable and essentially a statistical phenomenon. In other words looking for purely technical computational solutions is unlikely to help much - there very likely is no silver bullet. Instead we must urgently promote the viewpoint that for any results which depend on computation, the computational method employed must be subject to the same scrutiny as has served us well in the years preceding computation. Baldly, that means that if the program source, the method of making and running the system, the test results and the data are not openly available, then it is not science. Even then we face an enormous challenge when digitally lubricated media can distort evidence to undermine the strongest of scientific cases.
Michael Eldred, Sandia National Laboratories, US
Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is a key enabling technology for assessing the predictive accuracy of computational models and for enabling risk-informed decision making. This presentation will provide an overview of algorithms for UQ, including sampling methods such as Latin Hypercube sampling, local and global reliability methods such as AMV2+ and EGRA, stochastic expansion methods including polynomial chaos and stochastic collocation, and epistemic methods such as interval-valued probability, second-order probability, and evidence theory. Strengths and weaknesses of these different algorithms will be summarized and example applications will be described. Time permitting, I will also provide a short overview of DAKOTA, an open source software toolkit that provides a delivery vehicle for much of the UQ research at the DOE defense laboratories.
A Compressive Sampling Approach to Uncertainty Propagation
Alireza Doostan, University of Colorado
Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is an inevitable part of any predictive modeling practice. Intrinsic variabilities and lack of knowledge about system parameters or governing physical models often considerably affect quantities of interest and decision-making processes. Efficient representation and propagation of such uncertainties through complex PDE systems are subjects of growing interests, especially for situations where a large number of uncertain sources are present. One major difficulty in UQ of such systems is the development of non-intrusive approaches in which deterministic codes are used in a black box fashion, and at the same time, solution structures are exploited to reduce the number of deterministic runs. Here we extend ideas from compressive sampling techniques to approximate solutions of PDEs with stochastic inputs using direct, i.e., non-adapted, sampling of solutions. This sampling can be done by using any legacy code for the deterministic problem as a black box. The method converges in probability (with probabilistic error bounds) as a consequence of sparsity of solutions and a concentration of measure phenomenon on the empirical correlation between samples. We show that the method is well suited for PDEs with high-dimensional stochastic inputs. This is a joint work with Prof. Houman Owhadi from California Institute of Technology.
Scott Ferson, Applied Biomathematics, US
Interval analysis is often offered as the method for verified computation, but the pessimism in the old saw that "interval analysis is the mathematics of the future, and always will be" is perhaps justified by the impracticality of interval bounding as an approach to projecting uncertainty in real-world problems. Intervals cannot account for dependence among variables, so propagations commonly explode to triviality. Likewise, the dream of a workable 'probabilistic arithmetic', which has been imagined by many people, seems similarly unachievable. Even in sophisticated applications such as nuclear power plant risk analyses, whenever probability theory has been used to make calculations, analysts have routinely assumed (i) probabilities and probability distributions can be precisely specified, (ii) most or all variables are independent of one another, and (iii) model structure is known without error. For the most part, these assumptions have been made for the sake of mathematical convenience, rather than with any empirical justification. And, until recently, these or essentially similar assumptions were pretty much necessary in order to get any answer at all. New methods now allow us to compute bounds on estimates of probabilities and probability distributions that are guaranteed to be correct even when one or more of the assumptions is relaxed or removed. In many cases, the results obtained are the best possible bounds, which means that tightening them would require additional empirical information. This talk will present an overview of probability bounds analysis, as a computationally practical implementation of imprecise probabilities that combines ideas from both interval analysis and probability theory to sidestep the limitations of each.
Hermann Matthies, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Parametric versions of state equations of some complex system - the uncertainty quantification problem with the parameter as a random quantity is a special case of this general class - lead via association to a linear operator to analogues of covariance, its spectral decomposition, and the associated Karhunen-Loève expansion. This results in a generalized tensor representation. The parameter in question may be a number, a tuple of numbers - a finite dimensional vector or function, a stochastic process, or a random tensor field. Examples of stochastic problems, dynamic problems, and similar will be given to explain the concept. If possible, the tensor factorization may be cascaded, leading to tensors of higher degree. In numerical approximations this cascading tensor decomposition may be repeated on the discrete level, leading to very sparse representations of the high dimensional quantities involved in such parametric problems. This is achieved by choosing low-rank approximations, in effect an information compression. These representations allow also for very efficient computation. Updating of uncertainty for new information is an important part of uncertainty quantification. Formulated in terms or random variables instead of measures, the Bayesian update is a projection and allows the use of the tensor factorizations also in this case. This will be demonstrated on some examples.
Part III: Uncertainty Quantification Tools
Desperately Needed Remedies for the Undebugability of Large-scale Floating-point Computations in Science and Engineering
William Kahan, University of California at Berkeley, US
If suspicions about the accuracy of a computed result arise, how long does it take to either allay or justify them? Often diagnosis has taken longer than the computing platform's service life. Software tools to speed up diagnosis by at least an order of magnitude could be provided but almost no scientists and engineers know to ask for them, though almost all these tools have existed, albeit not all together in the same place at the same time. These tools would cope with vulnerabilities peculiar to Floating-Point, namely roundoff and arithmetic exceptions. But who would pay to develop the suite of these tools? Nobody, unless he suspects that the incidence of misleadingly anomalous floating-point results rather exceeds what is generally believed. And there is ample evidence to suspect that.
Accurate Prediction of Complex Computer Codes via Adaptive Designs
William Welch, University of British Columbia, Canada
There are many useful classes of design for an initial computer experiment: Latin hypercubes, orthogonal array Latin hypercubes, maximin-distance designs, etc. Often, the intitial experiment has about n = 10d runs, where d is the dimensionality of the input space (Loeppky, Sacks, and Welch, "Choosing the Sample Size of a Computer Experiment," Technometrics 2009). Once the computer model has been run according to the design, a first step is usually to build a computationally inexpensive statistical surrogate for the computer model, often via a Gaussian Process / Random Function statistical model. But what if the analysis of the data from this initial design provides poor prediction accuracy? Poor accuracy implies the underlying input-output function is complex in some sense. If the complexity is restricted to a few of the inputs or to local subregions of the parameter space, there may be opportunity to use the initial analysis to guide further experimentation. Subsequent runs of the code should take account of what has been learned. Similarly, analysis should be adaptive. This talk will demonstrate strategies for experimenting sequentially. Difficult functions, including real computer codes, will be used to illustrate. The advantages will be assessed in terms of empirical prediction accuracy and theoretical measures.
Peter Challenor, National Oceanography Centre, UK
The Managing Uncertainty in Complex Models project has been developing methods for estimating uncertainty in complex models using emulators. Emulators are statistical descriptions of our beliefs about the models (or simulators). They can also be thought of as interpolators of simulator outputs between previous runs. Because they are quick to run, emulators can be used to carry out calculations that would otherwise require large numbers of simulator runs, for example Monte Carlo uncertainty calculations. Both Gaussian and Bayes Linear emulators will be explained and examples given. One of the outputs of the MUCM project is the MUCM toolkit, an on-line "recipe book" for emulator based methods. Using the toolkit as our basis we will illustrate the breadth of applications that can be addressed by emulator methodology and detail some of the methodology. We will cover sensitivity and uncertainty analysis and describe in less detail other aspects such as how emulators can also be used to calibrate complex computer simulators and how they can be modified for use with stochastic simulators.
Brian Smith, Numerica 21 Inc., US
The test harness TH is a tool developed by Numerica 21 to facilitate the testing and evaluation of scientific software during the development and maintenance phases of such software. This paper describes how the tool can be used to measure uncertainty in scientific computations. It confirms that the actual behavior of the code when subjected to changes, typically small, in the code input data reflects formal analysis of the problem's sensitivity to its input. Although motivated by studying small changes in the input data, the test harness can measure the impact of any changes, including those that go beyond the formal analysis.
Part IV: Uncertainty Quantification Practice
Maurice Cox, National Physical Laboratory, UK
We examine aspects of quantifying the numerical accuracy in results from a measurement uncertainty computation in terms of the inputs to that computation. The primary output from such a computation is often an approximation to the PDF (probability density function) for the measurand (the quantity intended to be measured), which may be a scalar or vector quantity. From this PDF all results of interest can be derived. The following aspects are considered:
1. The numerical quality of the PDF obtained by using Monte Carlo or Monte Carlo Markov Chain methods in terms of (a) the random number generators used, (b) the (stochastic) convergence rate, and its possible acceleration, and (c) adaptive schemes to achieve a (nominal) prescribed accuracy.
2. The production of a smooth and possibly compact representation of the approximate PDF so obtained, for purposes such as when the PDF is used as input to a further uncertainty evaluation, or when visualization is required.
3. The sensitivities of the numerical results with respect to the inputs to the computation.
We speculate as to future requirements in the area and how they might be addressed.
Antonio Possolo, National Institute of Standards and Technology, US
Model-based interpolation, approximation, and prediction are contingent on the choice of model: since multiple alternative models typically can reasonably be entertained for each of these tasks, and the results are correspondingly varied, this often is a major source of uncertainty. Several statistical methods are illustrated that can be used to assess this uncertainty component: when interpolating concentrations of greenhouse gases over Indianapolis, predicting the viral load in a patient infected with influenza A, and approximating the solution of the kinetic equations that model the progression of the infection.
James Glimm, State University of New York at Stony Brook, US
Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) for fluid mixing depends on the lengths scales for observation: macro, meso and micro, each with its own UQ requirements. New results are presented for each. For the micro observables, recent theories argue that convergence of numerical simulations in the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) should be governed by probability distribution functions (pdfs, or in the present context, Young measures) which satisfy the Euler equation. From a single deterministic simulation in the LES, or inertial regime, we extract a pdf by binning results from a space time neighborhood of the convergence point. The binned state values constitute a discrete set of solution values which define an approximate pdf. Such a step coarsens the resolution, but not more than standard LES simulation methods, which typically employ an extended spatial filter in the definition of the filtered equations and associated subgrid scale (SGS) terms. The convergence of the resulting pdfs is assessed by standard function space metrics applied to the associated probability distribution function, i.e. the indefinite integral of the pdf. Such a metric is needed to reduce noise inherent in the pdf itself. V&V/UQ results for mixing and reacting flows are presented to support this point of view.
Visualization of Error and Uncertainty
Chris Johnson, University of Utah, US
As former English Statesmen and Nobel Laureate (Literature), Winston Churchill said, "True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information." Churchill is echoed by Nobel Prize winning Physicist Richard Feynman, "What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth." Yet, with few exceptions, visualization research has ignored the visual representation of errors and uncertainty for three-dimensional (and higher) visualizations. In this presentation, I will give an overview of the current state-of-the-art in uncertainty visualization and discuss future challenges.
Adrian Sandu, Virginia Tech, US
Data assimilation reduces the uncertainty with which the state of a physical system is known by combining imperfect model results with sparse and noisy observations of reality. Chemical data assimilation refers to the use of measurements of trace gases and particulates to improve our understanding of the atmospheric composition. Two families of methods are widely used in data assimilation: the four dimensional variational (4D-Var) approach, and the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) approach. In the four dimensional variational (4D-Var) framework data assimilation is formulated as an optimization problem, which is solved using gradient based methods to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of the uncertain state and parameters. A central issue in 4D-Var data assimilation is the construction of the adjoint model. Kalman filters are rooted in statistical estimation theory, and seek to obtain moments of the posterior distribution that quantifies the reduced uncertainty after measurements have been considered. A central issue in Kalman filter data assimilation is to manage the size of covariance matrices by employing various computationally feasible approximations. In this talk we review computational aspects and tools that are important for chemical data assimilation. They include the construction, analysis, and efficient implementation of discrete adjoint models in 4D-Var assimilation, optimization aspects, and the construction of background covariance matrices. State-of-the-art solvers for large scale PDEs adaptively refine the time step and the mesh in order to control the numerical errors. We discuss newly developed algorithms for variational data assimilation with adaptive models. Particular aspects of the use of ensemble Kalman filters in chemical data assimilation are highlighted. New hybrid data assimilation ideas that combine the relative strengths the variational and ensemble approaches are reviewed. Examples of chemical data assimilation studies with real data and widely used chemical transport models are given.
Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratory, US
Computer architecture is changing dramatically. Most noticeable is the introduction of multicore and GPU (collectively, manycore) processors. These manycore architectures promise the availability of a terascale laptop, petascale deskside and exascale compute center in the next few years. At the same time, manycore nodes will forces a universal refactoring of code in order to realize this performance potential. Furthermore, the sheer number of components in very high-end systems increases the chance that user applications will experience frequent system faults in the form of soft errors. In this presentation we give an overview of architecture trends and their potential impact on scientific computing in general and uncertainty quantification (UQ) computations specifically. We will also discuss growing opportunities for UQ that are enabled by increasing computing capabilities, and new opportunities to help address the anticipated increase in soft errors that must be addressed at the application level.
Rafi Muhanna, Georgia Tech Savannah, US
Latest scientific and engineering advances have started to recognize the need for defining multiple types of uncertainty. The behavior of a mathematical model of any system is determined by the values of the model's parameters. These parameters, in turn, are determined by available information which may range from scarce to comprehensive. When data is scarce, analysts fall back to deterministic analysis. On the other hand, when more data is available but insufficient to distinguish between candidate probability functions, analysts supplement the available statistical data by judgmental information. In such a case, we find ourselves in the extreme either/or situation: a deterministic setting which does not reflect parameter variability, or a full probabilistic analysis conditional on the validity of the probability models describing the uncertainties. The above discussion illustrates the challenge that engineering analysis and design is facing in how to circumvent situations that do not reflect the actual state of knowledge of considered systems and are based on unjustified assumptions. Probability Bounds (PB) methods offer a resolution to this problem as they are sufficiently flexible to quantify uncertainty absent assumptions in the form of the probability density functions (PDF) of system parameters, yet they can incorporate this structure into the analysis when available. Such approach will ensure that the actual state of knowledge on the system parameters is correctly reflected in the analysis and design; hence, design reliability and robustness are achieved. Probability bounds is built on interval analysis as its foundation. This talk will address the problem of overestimation of enclosures for target and derived quantities, a critical challenge in the formulation of Interval Finite Element Methods (IFEM). A new formulation for Interval Finite Element Methods will be introduced where both primary and derived quantities of interest are included in the original uncertain system as primary variables.
Wayne Enright, University of Toronto, Canada
In the numerical solution of ODEs, it is now possible to develop efficient techniques that compute approximate solutions that are more convenient to interpret and understand when used by practitioners who are interested in accurate and reliable simulations of their mathematical models. We have developed a class of ODE methods and associated software tools that will deliver a piecewise polynomial as the approximate solution and facilitate the investigation of various aspects of the problem that are often of as much interest as the approximate solution itself. These methods are designed so that the resulting piecewise polynomial will satisfy a perturbed ODE with an associated defect (or residual) that is reliably controlled. We will introduce measures that can be used to quantify the reliability of an approximate solution and how one can implement methods that, at some extra cost, can produce very reliable approximate solutions. We show how the ODE methods we have developed can be the basis for implementing effective tools for visualizing an approximate solution, and for performing key tasks such as sensitivity analysis, global error estimation and investigation of problems which are parameter-dependent. Software implementing this approach will be described for systems of IVPs, BVPs, DDEs, and VIEs. Some numerical results will be presented for mathematical models arising in application areas such as computational medicine or the modeling of predator-prey systems in ecology.


Handling the Holiday Season's Time Crunch
Corporate seminars are helping workers stay serene and solvent this month amid the multiple responsibilities of home and job
When more than 100 employees of a San Francisco insurance company gather for a lunch-hour seminar on "Breezing Through the Holidays" today, many will be drawn by its optimistic title and by the hope of simplifying the busiest season of the year.Skip to next paragraph
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As she always does when she leads these seminars, Candace Acevedo, director of education for Consumer Credit Counseling Services, will ask participants a searching question: "What does Christmas mean to you?
Is it going out and buying tons of gifts, or giving of yourself?" Urging her audience to consider the spiritual nature of the holidays, she will offer practical solutions for remaining solvent and serene in the midst of multiple demands on budgets and time.
Ms. Acevedo's seminar is one of a small but growing number of corporate-sponsored workshops taking place across the country this month to help workers balance jobs and home responsibilities. The sessions, usually conducted by outside consultants and family specialists, reflect a growing awareness on the part of some managers that workers have commitments during the holidays that add extra pressure to their day-to-day duties.
"Employers want to support their employees, because often people who are conscientious at work are also conscientious parents and spouses who are trying to keep it all together in other areas of their lives," says Lila Steiner, marketing director at Concern, a Mountain View, Calif., program that conducts seminars. "Often the most valuable employees are struggling the most, because they're so conscientious."
In an age of downsizing, when employees may be working longer, efforts to simplify take on even greater importance.
"We're seeing more and more employees who work 12-hour shifts and must do the holidays on top of that," says Diane Mokrzycki, director of employee market services at The Partnership Group in Philadelphia.
In Acevedo's workshops, a primary focus involves keeping spending in check. "We let people know they should set limits and come up with a budget plan before they even attempt to go shopping," she says. "Don't use gift-buying to cover up feelings you might have that 'I should have done this or that during the year.' A $500 leather jacket is not going to do it."
Some topics are predictable: shopping, gift-giving, decorating, and entertaining. Many seminar leaders address the common tendency for families to set unrealistic expectations, then feel disappointed when celebrations fall short of their hopes.
One big culprit during the holidays, leaders find, is a lack of communication. "Tell your family, 'Let's talk about how you want the holidays to be and how we can all pitch in,'" says Lisa Poelle, a principal at Work and Family Focus, a consulting organization in San Jose, Calif. "Involve the kids if you can, so they can help instead of being done for. Really begin to set an example of what the season is about - sharing and caring."
Other discussions involve more-abstract issues, such as relationships. Linda Miller, a corporate trainer at Concern, offers the example of a newly married couple: "His family does it one way, her family does it another way. They're caught in the middle."


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Overview of Powerstands Racing Rear Econo Stand - 00-00108-06
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Part 283092 fits the following machines
After assembly (which you do not need instructions), I locked the front brake, righted the bike off the kickstand and lifted it with the PSR ECONO REAR STAND myself.
Shook the bike while it was on the stand. This is all the stand I need. It is stable. Plan on getting the matching front stand for a complete winter storage kit.
I do not like the design of how the spool holders mount to the stand.
If the screw comes loose or breaks the holders can turn and I would guess could drop the bike.
I check those screws religiously before every use.
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Insane Video: ‘Encountering Christ’ at World Youth Day
Time and again we hear that one of the reasons for World Youth Day is to give the young an opportunity to ‘encounter Christ’.
This year’s ‘Catholic Woodstock’, as the secular press once nicknamed it, is being held in Lisbon, Portugal. It began on Tuesday, Aug. 1, and will conclude on Sunday, Aug. 6. Of course ‘Pope’ Francis is also scheduled to be there.
The official opening of World Youth Day yesterday took place with a Novus Ordo worship service celebrated by ‘Cardinal’ Manuel José Macário do Nascimento Clemente, who is the local patriarch there.… READ MORE
Tone-deaf new DDF prefect responds to critics…
Fernandez says his Book ‘Heal Me with Your Mouth’ was meant as a Catechesis for Teenagers!
Victor Manuel ‘Tucho’ Fernandez
The appointment of the new Prefect of the Dicastery for the Destruction of the Faith, Archlayman Victor Manuel Fernandez, has caused an uproar online among many of members of the Vatican II Church that are of a more conservative or traditionalist bent, and for good reason. Even the Modernist ‘Cardinal’ Gerhard Ludwig Müller, himself prefect of the Novus Ordo doctrine factory from 2012-17, is not thrilled with the choice.
There are various reasons to be upset, though not surprised, that Bergoglio should have selected the ghostwriter of Amoris Laetitia and other texts for the job of ‘top guardian of orthodoxy’, and they’re not all doctrinal.… READ MORE
Creepy masquerade mayhem…
Nightmare on Third Avenue: Palm Sunday Puppet Madness at St. Joan of Arc Church in Minneapolis
If you’re ever in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and want to check out a parish that is in “full communion” with the Vatican II Sect, we recommend you try “Saint Joan of Arc Catholic Community” at 4537 Third Avenue South. It’s one of those dynamic and vibrant social justice parishes where all are welcome, and it combines everything that is wrong with the Novus Ordo religion in one place. The Jesus Christ that is preached there is a sorry caricature of the Incarnate Son of God.… READ MORE
A flick so revolting, even secularists are in shock…
Italian Novus Ordo Bishops’ Newspaper defends Quasi-Pedophiliac Movie Cuties
(We have blurred grave immodesty and suggestive poses in this
snapshot from the movie, which is featured in the Avvenire article.)
This post is being written with tears in the eyes, a lump in the throat, and mixed emotions. The emotions are anger, sadness, and nausea.
Avvenire is the official newspaper of the Italian Novus Ordo bishops’ conference, the so-called Conferenza Episcopale Italiana (CEI). On Sep. 16, 2020, this paper published an article defending the disgusting, evil, and utterly revolting movie Mignonnes, which in the English-speaking world has been released under the title Cuties.… READ MORE
Denounces “slanderous piece of yellow journalism”…
SSPX responds to Church Militant Report on Sexual Abuse
[UPDATE 24-APR-2020 03:00 UTC: Church Militant‘s Response to SSPX]
Yesterday, Apr. 22, we reported on a Church Militant investigative piece about the Society of St. Pius X and sexual abuse. Today, the U.S. district of the SSPX has published a response.
For the sake of justice and to underscore that we are not interested in anything except a theological battle with the SSPX (and Church Militant, incidentally), we are reproducing the SSPX’s response in full below, with no changes made in any way, and will leave it uncommented:
… READ MORE
Horrifying, sickening, infuriating…
Report: Rampant Sex Abuse and Cover-Up by SSPX Clergy
UPDATES 23-APR-2020 18:39 UTC:
UPDATE 23-APR-2020 19:44 UTC:
UPDATE 24-APR-2020 03:00 UTC:
This is not a happy post to write. Contrary to what some will say, we’re not publishing this write-up because it’s a golden opportunity to slam the Society of St. Pius X. While we strongly oppose the Lefebvrist SSPX, we do so on theological grounds and not out of personal animosity.… READ MORE
Just an unfortunate coincidence, no doubt…
“Boy Lover” Symbolism?
Francis’ World Youth Day Vestments seem to feature Pedophile Logo
[UPDATED 02-AUG-2019 — see below]
First convened by the “Theology of the Body” mastermind “Pope Saint” John Paul II in 1985, the Novus Ordo phenomenon of World Youth Day has long been dubbed the “Catholic Woodstock” on account of the rampant occasions of carnal sin it offers due to the free mixing of large groups of young men and women, most of whom are dressed in shockingly immodest ways.
It may just be, however, that there is an even more sinister side to World Youth Day.… READ MORE
Modernist Apostate vs. Vicar of Christ
Francis vs. Pope Pius XI:
The Catholic Position on Sex Education
by Francis del Sarto
“More souls go to Hell because of sins of the flesh than for any other reason.”
–Our Lady to the children at Fatima on July 13, 1917
“The Least Serious Sins are the Sins of the Flesh.”
–“Pope” Francis to an agnostic French sociologist, 2017 (source)
Ever wonder how pretend-pope Francis wakes up in the morning? It could be that he has his clock radio blast the tango to get him going on the desired chaotic trajectory, after which he rises and consults his day planner to see what part of the Magisterium he’s scheduled to contradict that day.… READ MORE
Under headship of ‘Cardinal’ Danneels…
Official Belgian “Catholic” Paper Promoted “Ecumenical Working Group on Pedophilia” in 1984
On June 27, 2019, the French Novus Ordo magazine La Nef reported on a shocking discovery: In the mid-1980s, an issue of the Belgian “Catholic” weekly paper Kerk & Leven (Church & Life) published an advertisement openly and boldly promoting nothing less than the crime of pedophilia, that is, sexual relations between adults and children.
The La Nef report is entitled “When a Belgian Catholic newspaper promoted pedophilia” and can be accessed in the original French here:
According to the report, the Aug.… READ MORE


HARBOR SPRINGS — Birchwood Farms Golf & Country Club has been recognized as Emmet County Recycling’s annual Recycler of the Year.
This award honors an organization committed to sustainable practices and environmental stewardship in the community.
According to a press release from Emmet County Recycling, the Birchwood recycling program first began with a letter from a young resident named Abby who expressed an interest in green initiatives at the club and in the community. General manager Paul Marazzo and the membership supported the effort to adopt eco-conscious practices and worked to transform the operations to minimize waste and promote recycling.
Through a partnership with Emmet County Recycling established in 2019, Birchwood added a drop-off location for residents, which has diverted 247.33 tons of recyclable materials from landfill over the course of five years.
The golf course and pro shop has also introduced refillable water bottles, which eliminates the need for single use water bottles and reduced their carbon footprint.
At the MacDonald house, Birchwood resident Eva MacDonald said they have made recycling into a family-oriented activity rather than a chore.
“Objects don’t go in the trash and live in the landfill forever, they can have a second life,” she said.
The organization also hosts the annual cleanup event called the Pride of Birchwood in a collective effort to preserve the natural beauty of Northern Michigan.
Emmet County staff will award the Recycler of the Year title to Birchwood Farms Golf & Country Club at a recognition event on April 18.
For opportunities for additional education, commercial recycling or to nominate someone for Recycler of the Year 2024, call (231) 348-0640 or email email@example.com.
This article originally appeared on The Petoskey News-Review: Birchwood Farms Golf & Country Club honored by Emmet County Recycling


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Growth in residential property prices is forecast to vary region-by-region in 2007/08, with Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra expected to show a modest pick-up in growth, according to a leading industry analyst and economic forecaster, BIS Shrapnel.
At the other end of the spectrum, price growth in the Perth and Darwin markets will begin to pull back as affordability has become a serious issue.
Despite the deterioration of affordability across the board after three 0.25 percentage point interest rate rises in calendar 2006, low unemployment and strong wages growth have meant that any serious shake out in prices has not occurred, according to BIS Shrapnel’s Residential Property Prospects, 2007 to 2010 report.
The report highlights a strong growth over the three years to 2010 is likely to occur in Brisbane, underpinned by strong underlying demand, more attractive affordability compared to the other eastern state capitals, strong economic conditions, low vacancy rates and solid rental growth.
Moderate price growth is expected to continue in Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra where prices are forecast to move roughly in line with wages growth, while the upturn will be delayed in Sydney as high prices continue to impact on affordability.
House price growth will be modest in Hobart, while Perth and Darwin will be affected by an easing of the resources boom exacerbating the recent deterioration of affordability, according to BIS Shrapnel.
“Economic growth has continued to be solid in 2006/07, with jobs growth remaining very strong,” said BIS Shrapnel senior project manager and report author, Mr Angie Zigomanis.
“High growth in employment is improving household confidence towards investment in residential property. At the same time, demand for housing is being boosted by high overseas migration, so demand for rental properties is rising strongly. Subsequent growth in rentals and improvement in yields will begin to drive some growth in investor demand.”
However, BIS Shrapnel forecasts the contribution of business investment will begin to taper off during 2008, leading to a brief pause in economic growth and prices before the next round of economic growth.
In addition, Zigomanis expects a further 0.25 percentage point interest rate rise by September 2007 will have a dampening effect on residential price growth across all markets in 2007/08, despite healthy underlying demand for new housing and a rising shortfall of dwellings in a number of markets.
BIS Shrapnel forecasts interest rates will then remain on hold and expect this stable interest rate environment, coinciding with continued wages growth, will facilitate an acceleration in both construction and price growth in most markets from 2008/09.
“The upturn in residential property price growth will be driven by significant pent up demand for new dwellings at the national level and in particular capital city markets,” said Zigomanis.
“This is already evident in tight vacancy rates in each of the capital city markets, with the rental situation expected to become even more acute over the next two years. This will drive strong rental growth which will result in improved yields and will have a flow through effect on investor demand for new dwellings and help to buoy construction levels.”
Outlook by region
New South Wales
House prices in Sydney decreased by 1% in 2005/06 and an estimated 2% in 2006/07. A forecast interest rate rise during 2007 and moderate economic growth in 2008 will likely have a further dampening effect on prices.
Total price growth over the three years to June 2010 in the Sydney market is forecast to be 8%. BIS Shrapnel expects a substantial deficiency in the number of dwellings will emerge in the Sydney market towards the end of this decade, making Sydney one of the leading price performers towards the end of this period as a very tight rental market buoys demand for residential property. However, in the short-term the upturn will be delayed as wages growth catches up with price levels and affordability improves.
Price levels in Newcastle and Wollongong are significantly lower than Sydney with these markets benefiting from an influx of residents due to the lack of affordability in the capital. Consequently underlying demand is relatively solid and BIS Shrapnel expects prices to hold up better in these centres. Total growth in the median house price in Newcastle during the three years to June 2010 is forecast to be 13%, while the total rise for Wollongong is forecast to be 11%.
Moderate growth is expected in Melbourne where affordability has not been as strained as Sydney and there is scope for a rise in the median house price that is broadly in line with growth in the average household income, according to Zigomanis.
The growth in Melbourne’s median house price has slowed considerably since 2003. The combination of modest price growth between 2003 and 2006 and wages growth has offset rising interest rates and the affordability measure for Melbourne has effectively remained steady in this period, according to BIS Shrapnel. Consequently there is evidence of stronger price growth coming through now and Zigomanis estimates 6% growth in the median house price in 2006/07.
Total growth of 18% is forecast for the Melbourne median house price over the three years to June 2010, with growth forecast to accelerate through to the end of this period as economic growth begins to gain traction.
The south east Queensland markets (Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast) are forecast to show the strongest price growth out of the major Australian centres through to 2010. These markets experienced slower conditions during 2004/05 and 2005/06, improving the affordability outlook.
The state has continued to experience strong underlying demand which has resulted in a deficiency of housing as economic growth has accelerated and wages growth remained strong. Strong population growth has continued and with the slowdown in residential construction, this has resulted in a significant deficiency of housing that Zigomanis believes will drive the upturn in this region.
Consequently, Zigomanis forecasts price growth in the Brisbane market to be 5% in 2007/08 as economic conditions ease, with growth forecast to accelerate through to 2009/10. Total growth in the Brisbane median house price of 22% is forecast over the three years to June 2010.
House prices on the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast have generally moved in tandem with Brisbane, and have also benefited from net interstate migration inflows, though both regions are expected to move into upturn later than Brisbane. In the Gold Coast, BIS Shrapnel forecasts prices to rise 16% over the three years to June 2010, while the Sunshine Coast is expected to increase by 15% over the same period.
Price growth in Townsville and Cairns remained strong in 2005/06 due to a more favourable level of housing affordability than south east Queensland and strong local economic conditions due to the resources boom. Growth in the median house price in these areas is forecast to remain strong in 2006/07, though is expected to slow in 2007/08 and 2008/09 as investment in the resources sector slows, with stronger price growth forecast to return from 2009/10, according to BIS Shrapnel.
As with Melbourne, moderate growth is expected in Adelaide where affordability remains relatively attractive compared to the eastern state capitals and Zigomanis believes there is scope for growth in the median house price that is broadly in line with growth in the average household income.
Growth in Adelaide’s median house price slowed to 4% in 2005/06 but improved marginally to an estimated 5% in 2006/07, despite the three interest rate rises during 2006. Total growth in the Adelaide median house price of 16% is forecast over the three years to June 2010, with price growth accelerating slightly towards the end of this period.
The Perth median house price has grown 184% between June 2001 and March 2007, underpinned by an increase in underlying demand and booming economic conditions led by strong investment in the resources sector.
However, Perth has become the second least affordable city in Australia to purchase a property (after Sydney) and BIS Shrapnel believes there are signs that price growth is now beginning to taper off.
Zigomanis believes property prices have overshot and that a mild correction is likely to occur over the next three years in the Perth market. As the growth in mining investment slows, economic conditions will not be sufficient to maintain further growth in prices, and BIS Shrapnel forecasts median prices to fall by a total 5% over the 2007 to 2010 period.
Following a 94% increase in the Hobart median house price in the two years to June 2004, growth slowed to 3% in 2004/05, before a modest increase to 6% in 2005/06, according to BIS Shrapnel.
Zigomanis estimates growth of 6.5% during 2006/07. Price growth is forecast to soften from 2007/08 through to 2009/10 as interstate migration once again reverts to an outflow, with total growth of 7% forecast over the three years.
Australian Capital Territory
Following a 5% decline in Canberra’s median house price in 2004/05, prices rebounded in 2005/06 and 2006/07 as strong growth in Federal Government employment and wages boosted interstate migration numbers, according to Zigomanis. Growth is expected to be moderate over the next three years, supported by solid household income growth, with a total rise in the median house price of 15% forecast for this period.
Darwin’s median house price increased by 25% in 2005/06, capping off total growth of 70% over the three years to June 2006, according to BIS Shrapnel. The Northern Territory’s residential property market has benefited enormously from the resources boom and very strong employment growth.
Zigomanis estimates the Darwin median house price increased 9% in 2006/07 and is forecast to grow by a minimal 3% over the three years to 2009/10 as an easing of the resources boom has a waning effect on demand.


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Cambridge Community Foundation was one of the first community foundations in the nation, established to make a difference in the lives of Cambridge residents. Created to serve as a vehicle for local giving and to address local needs, the Foundation has expanded its commitment to the power of philanthropy and to civic leadership over the past century.
The Wagner Foundation supports the Cambridge Community Foundation in its work to address the full range of challenges in Cambridge today. Famous as a leader in education, the City of Cambridge has also long been a national economic engine. Yet many residents continue to struggle. Homelessness and hunger remain chilling realities, and too many children grow up ill-equipped to thrive in the very economy that drives the city and the region.
Established in 1916 with the charter to serve the city of Cambridge, the Cambridge Community Foundation’s vision is to create a vibrant, thriving and inclusive community, with the culture of giving and opportunity for all.

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Helena Blackman and Rachel Anne Rayham open in The Sound of Music 08.04.2015
Tonight Helena Blackman and Rachel Anne Rayham open in Lebanon's premiere of The Sound of Music. Produced by 2U2C & Clapping Hands Productions, the beloved classic takes to the stage of the Casino du Liban in Beirut.
Helena plays the role of Maria and Rachel plays Louisa Von Trapp. Theshow will run until Tueday 14th April.


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