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- Level measurement for liquid media
- Level control and monitoring of defined levels
- Machine building
- Wastewater and environmental engineering
- Very compact design, measurements also in small volumes
- Temperature range -30 ... +140 °C
- Designs for pressure range of vacuum to 50 bar
The optoelectronic liquid level limit switch is used for measuring liquid level limits. This is widely independent of physical characteristics such as refractive index, colour, specific gravity, dielectric permittivity and conductivity. It can also be used in transparent containers due to a good suppression of ambient light.
The PNP OC transistor output may be connected directly to the input of a control system or energise an external relay. The output is short-circuit proof and current, voltage and power limited.
The switching status can be read directly on the sensor (green LED).


Temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD) causes debilitating jaw pain and headaches that are so severe, many people mistake them for migraines. Because their TMD is so severe, patients are often pushed in the direction of invasive surgery. Since they fear the prospect of painful surgeries that make permanent changes to the temporomandibular joint, patients are often willing to try any sort of TMD remedy, even if it sounds too good to be true. Unfortunately, this desperation has opened the door for companies, which seek to profit by selling gimmicky devices that fail to address the root cause of the disorder.
Recently, a company named Holistic Technologies issued a promotional media release pitching a product it claims has the power to relieve common symptoms of temporomandibular joint disorder. Dubbed “biofeedback headbands,” these products supposedly work by conditioning the user into making behavior modifications that will help relieve their TMD. According to the manufacturer, users wear a headband which has the power to sense jaw clenching during sleep. When users clench, the headband supposedly senses changes in the temporalis muscles at the temples. When it does, it emits a sound which prompts the user to stop clenching. According to Holistic Technologies, over time, this process will cause users to stop clenching their jaws during sleep, thereby indirectly relieving common TMD symptoms, such as headaches, neck pain, tooth pain and jaw pain.
Is it a Realistic Approach?
Unfortunately for TMD sufferers, biofeedback headbands aren’t a realistic approach to treating TMJ disorder. Any reasonable person can see a problem with a treatment that emits annoying noises during sleep. Not only is this likely to lead to frequent waking and sleep deprivation; it’s not likely to have any sort of impact on jaw clenching while a person is unconscious. It also fails to address the most common root cause of temporomandibular joint disorder: a misaligned bite.
An Effective Treatment
Holistic remedies such as acupuncture, massage, yoga and biofeedback headbands all have one thing in common: they cannot provide lasting TMD relief, because they cannot correct a sufferer’s misaligned bite.
On the other hand, Dr. Dunayer employs an effective TMD treatment strategy which provides his patients with TMD relief that stands the test of time. To learn more, contact his office today.


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A survey on the use of digital technologies among speech and language therapists (SLP’s)
DYNSEO conducted a survey of speech therapists to understand their needs for cognitive stimulation tools.
A big thanks to the speech and language therapists who responded to this survey. This allows us to build appropriate tools.
As a speech therapist, what kind of conditions do you treat?
We asked SLPs to rank the conditions they treat in order of importance between dyslexia, language impairment, stroke, MCI and Alzheimer’s.
It is 55% language disorders that are most commonly treated.
Most commonly treated disorders
Even though stroke is only 11%, 33% of SLPs put it in 2nd or 3rd place.
Here are the details concerning the management of each of the pathologies, the cognitive functions to be stimulated and how to do it.
Management of dyslexia
Dyslexia treatments by speech therapists
According to our speech therapists, the main cognitive functions to work on in dyslexia are:
- Memory and attention, auditory and visual,
- Executive functions,
- Mental flexibility,
- Planning and anticipation,
- Evocation and fluency disorders,
- Word memory, phonology,
- Spelling lexicon and syntax.
Speech and language therapists agree that in the case of dyslexia, it is important to stimulate the desire to overcome the disorder in a joyful and cheerful way.
Management of laguage disorders
Language disorder treatments by speech therapists
Stroke disorder treatments by speech therapists
The most common functions to be rehabilitated post-stroke are:
- Executive functions,
- And attention.
In a post-stroke situation, here are some ideas for retraining cognitive functions:
- To bring out verbal knowledge and skills,
- To represent real-life situations in the ecological environment,
- To carry out systematic exercises as well as practical exercises,
- To stimulate the working memory,
- To work on naming, designating, matching and inferring,
- To work on organizational tasks by including intruders.
Management of memory disorders
Memory disorder treatments by speech therapists
The main cognitive functions to work on in Alzheimer’s disease are:
- Verbal comprehension,
- Executive functions,
From the responses to the survey, it seems possible in Alzheimer’s disease to maintain the patient’s cognitive abilities, but it seems difficult to rehabilitate cognitive functions.
Attention, memorization and planning exercises are to be carried out with the patient while taking care not to infantilize him.
Finally, among the advice we have retained, maintaining the desire to communicate or to compensate for the short-term memory deficit is important. You can do so by using written or mental imagery.
What exercises or activities do you recommend to a patient in between speech therapy sessions?
Although the activities recommended by speech therapists are adapted to each patient, depending on their skills and disorders, the specialist interviewed gave us some very good ideas for cognitive stimulation exercises to do at home:
- Exercises the patient has already done in the session, that they’ve mastered in order to train,
- Reading the newspaper, doing crossword puzzles, learning short poems, writing recipes,
- Word games, scrabble, board games,
- Sound games.
As a speech therapist, how do you maintain the relation with your patients in-between sessions?
Most SLPs do not maintain contact with their patients in-between sessions. Some give preventive advice and recommendations; others maintain the link through a few emails.
What do you think of the use of tablet as a tool for cognitive stimulation?
50% of speech and language therapists think that the use of tablet as a tool for cognitive stimulation is a very good idea in the practice, whereas opinions are more mixed when it comes to at-home training.
Use of touchpads at home
Use of touchpads at the practicians’ office
Do you know of any cognitive stimulation software on PC / Tablet?
The software that was quoted to us are those of the companies Happyneurons, Gerip and DYNSEO.
Do you use them?
84% of SLPs use cognitive stimulation software on PCs and tablets.
20% of the SLTs surveyed use cognitive stimulation software very often and 60% sometimes.
What are the advantages of cognitive stimulation softwares in speech therapy?
Here is a list of the advantages and benefits of using such softwares on a tablet:
- The mobile tool is light and responsive,
- It is easy to use compared to a PC: the absence of a mouse makes face-to-face use possible,
- It has advantages over paper: it takes time into account and allows the creation of dynamic exercises,
- The exercises offered are varied,
- It can be used during interventions at home,
- The exercises can be done at home in-between sessions as a supplement,
- The support is very attractive for some patients,
- Finally, the tool allows for the automation of skills through regular training, particularly in the case of dyslexia.
What are the weaknesses in the use of tablet-based cognitive stimulation software by SLPs?
Here are the different weaker points that have been reported to us:
- The existing software does not allow to record personal data and to follow the evolution of a person on the exercises carried out,
- The exercises are not always customizable enough.
In addition, some obstacles to the use of tablet must be taken into account, in particular the fact that the touch screen can be a hurdle, particularly within the framework of re-lateralization of the hand during a hemiplegia for example, or the visual fatigue that it can induce.
Would you use a program offering at-home memory games to your patients, which would allow you to monitor their performance and progress on the Internet?
50% of SLTs might use software to monitor their patients’ progress remotely, 10% would.
What price (in euros) would you be willing to pay for a subscription to such service (per month)?
The speech therapists surveyed would be willing to pay between 10 and 20 euros for a monthly subscription to a remote monitoring software.
We hope that the results of this survey have been of interest to you and we would like to thank all the speech therapists who responded to our survey!
These products will interest you
The Dynseo memory game programs, and brain training, fun and cultural. Linked to a web-based monitoring platform, it offers personalized care.

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BHUBANESWAR: Tension ran high at Khurda, about 25 km from here, after miscreants gunned down a local BJP leader on Sunday late night. The deceased was identified as Manguli Jena. Khurda assembly segment that comes under Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha seat will go to polls in the third phase on April 23. Police said the killers came on a bike and opened fire at Jena near BJP office in Khurda. Protesting the murder, the aggrieved BJP observed bandh in Khurda from 8 am till 2 pm on Monday. Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik condemned the killing. "There is no place of bullets in the democracy. I appeal to our party workers to maintain peace. I have also spoken to the DGP and sought immediate arrest of the culprits," Pradhan tweeted. "There is no place of violence in democracy. I request the Election Commission to take strong note of it and direct the police to take action," Naveen tweeted.


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Developer Pack DLC Comes To Metro: Last Light
The Developer Pack, which allows players to "re-design" the gameplay of Metro: Last Light, is available now.
The Developer Pack allows players to experiment with all of the guns and their assorted attachments in a shooting range, pit AI monsters and soldiers against one another, and examine all of the game's assorted character models in the Metro Museum.
The pack also adds a new single-player level with The Spider's Nest. You'll have to use a brand new flame thrower to make your way through the assorted spider enemies and their webs.
The Developer Pack is included in the game's DLC season pass. Otherwise it's available for $3.99 on PlayStation 3, PC, and Xbox 360. Metro: Last Light's last DLC pack, Chronicles Pack, will be available later this month.
These sort of bonuses, like access to all the guns and their attachments, used to be relegated to cheat codes. It's disappointing that accessing these aspects of the game are now relegated to DLC, but at least there is someway to play with all the weapons for fun.

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While Mississippi State University welcomes its new president, the state College Board and Legislature should see the need for restoring stability and openness in the university system.
If there is a legacy of this Board and retired higher education commissioner Tom Meredith, it is that public confidence was damaged. Tuitions have been raised repeatedly, university heads essentially have been chosen in secret and spending priorities and practices questioned.
The secrecy that has been the official presidential search policy with this Board is to a great extent to blame for public loss in confidence. A public university system cannot survive without firm public support.
Yet, at every turn, from increasing tuitions nine times in 10 years to cloaking its decisions, the Board under Meredith seemed intent on excluding public input.
It has reached the point that the Legislature now is considering proposals to go back to the Bilbo-era politics of having each university with its own board of trustees. While the frustration is understandable, such a change in governance could spell the demise of an efficient university system.


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British Transport Police officer dies after contracting coronavirus
Tributes have been paid to a “kind and thoughtful” British Transport Police (BTP) officer who has died after contracting coronavirus.
Chief Constable Paul Crowther announced the death of Detective Constable John Coker, 53, who died on Friday night (April 17) after becoming ill last month.
“John has been part of the BTP family for over a decade and became a detective constable within the CID department at Euston where he was much loved and respected by all those he worked with,” said Mr Crowther.
“His colleagues remember a man who was charismatic, kind and thoughtful and took everything in his stride. He will be greatly missed by all in the force”.
Mr Coker is survived by his wife and their three children.

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No one knows more about being displaced as a starting quarterback than Hall of Famer Kurt Warner. As an undrafted free agent with the St. Louis Rams in 1999, he parlayed an injury to Trent Green into back-to-back Super Bowl appearances and two MVP awards.
But Warner’s stardom was short-lived. By 2003, he was on the outs in St. Louis, replaced by Marc Bulger, and in 2004 he signed a free agent deal with the New York Giants. That season, however, the Giants had obtained their quarterback of the future in Eli Manning.
Warner’s Giants’ career lasted just nine games. After leading the Giants to a 5-4 record, head coach Tom Coughlin replaced Warner with the rookie and instead of the Giants contending for a playoff spot, they lost six straight games before ending the season with a victory over the Dallas Cowboys to finish 6-10.
Warner went on to Arizona the next season and would lead them to a Super Bowl berth several years later.
On Thursday, Warner was at the Giants’ first training camp as an analyst for the NFL Network and spoke candidly about the Giants’ current quarterback situation in which Manning is in the last year of his contract and the Giants are seeking to replace him with rookie Daniel Jones.
Warner believes the Giants are going to give Manning more rope than they gave him, it seems. If the Giants are winning, Jones’ tenure as the starter will be delayed. But if not, all bets are off.
“There’s a lot more flexibility with this situation because of who Eli is and the ability to kind of let this thing really play out instead of having to sit here and look for the first opportunity to get Daniel,” Warner said. “I don’t think the Giants are going to be doing that and think it can help ease the situation a lot more than these situations where teams are really looking for that first opportunity to say, ‘OK, let’s put him in.'”
Warner did not say one way or the other which was the right path to take, but there is something to getting a young player the reps early on rather than have him sit and watch as a rookie.
“You’ve got to learn what you can and cannot do at this level,” he said. “What the timing looks like and you just can’t get that without being in game-type experiences. Again, you can learn but you can’t learn nearly everything without playing.”
We’ll see what the Giants do here with their quarterbacks. Head coach Pat Shurmur said Thursday the plan for Daniel Jones is “full steam ahead.” So much for no quarterback controversy.


OPPO officially launched the R9 Plus along with the R9 in China back in March this year. It comes in both 64GB and 128GB storage variants, however, only the former was on sale. Now, the OPPO R9 Plus 128GB edition has gone on sale in China. It is priced at CNY 3599 (US $553 / INR Rs 36,791 approximately) whereas the 64GB sells for CNY 3299 (US $507 / INR Rs 33,724 approximately). The company has sold above 180,000 units of both R9 and R9 Plus on the first day of sale itself.
The OPPO R9 is also available in certain Asian markets including India as the OPPO F1 Plus. However, the R9 Plus is not available outside China as of now. Lets have a recap of the specifications now.
OPPO R9 Plus 128GB Specifications
The OPPO R9 Plus features a 6-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Full HD AMOLED display and a screen-to-body ratio of 79.3%. It is powered by an octa-core (Quad 1.8 GHz ARM Cortex A72 + Quad 1.2 GHz A53) Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 (620) processor along with Adreno 510 GPU. It has 4 GB of RAM and comes with 128 GB of internal memory which can be expanded up to 128 GB via microSD card. It runs on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop with the latest ColorOS 3.0 custom skin on top of it. The body of the device is made up of 6063 aluminium alloy.
The R9 Plus houses a 16 megapixel rear camera with LED flash, f/2.0 aperture, 5P lens, Sony IMX298 sensor, Phase Detection Auto Focus (PDAF), which is capable of shooting 4K videos. On the front, it comes with a 16 megapixel front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture and 78.1-degree wide-angle lens for your selfies and video calling. It has Hybrid Dual SIM (Nano + Nano) support where the second nano SIM slot can be used as a microSD card slot. It is 7.4 mm thick and weighs 185 grams. It has a fingerprint sensor embedded in the home button which can unlock the phone in just 0.2 seconds.
The R9 Plus includes 4G LTE with VoLTE support, 3G HSPA+, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (Dual Band), Bluetooth 4.1 and GPS as connectivity options. The phablet houses a 4,120 mAh battery under the hood which supports VOOC Flash Charge. A 5 minutes charge will give up to 2 hours of talk time. The OPPO R9 Plus 128GB variant is available in Rose Gold and Golden color variants.


MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATED) More than four months since the impeachment trial began, Chief Justice Renato Corona will finally take the witness stand on Tuesday, May 22.
He is expected to explain the $12-million in “fresh deposits” that the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) disclosed in its report to Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales. In her testimony before the impeachment court, Morales also disclosed that in a span of 8 years, Corona had 82 dollar accounts in at least 5 local banks.
On Tuesday, May 15, his lawyers said the Chief Justice was not resigning or giving up, despite declarations that the game was over, following disclosures by Morales. Lawyer-analysts like Ateneo School of Government Dean Tony La Viña said Morales’s testimony was a game changer.
“Tuloy po ang laban. Wala itong atrasan (We are pursuing the fight. There’s no backing out),” one of Corona’s spokespersons, Rico Quico, told reporters.
Quicho said Corona, who had dismissed Morales’s testimony as a “lantern of lies,” is prepared to face the verdict of the impeachment court.
But, according to La Viña, the bar the Chief Justice must hurdle to be acquitted is “much higher now than before.”
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile initially instructed the defense to present Corona on Monday, when the trial is expected to resume, but defense counsel Judd Roy asked for more time to prepare the Chief Justice.
Lead defense counsel Serafin Cuevas said the defense team will no longer call any other witnesses; Corona will be their last witness.
He asked the court instead to give them until Tuesday to present Corona so they will have enough time to go over the AMLC report that Morales presented to the court via a PowerPoint presentation. Enrile agreed.
“So that you would not think we are biased against him, granted. But there will be no more postponement,” Enrile said.
He also directed the Senate secretariat to furnish both the defense and the prosecution soft copies of the PowerPoint presentation.
Corona is being accused of failing to disclose in his Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth his multimillion-peso bank accounts and real estate properties. – Rappler.com


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These BOOBIES athletic knee highs are made from super stretchy, pale pink cotton with hot pink lettering and hot pink and purple trim. These supple socks’ll have ‘em all bouncing off the walls! Like an awareness ribbon for your feet, wear ‘em proudly, all the way up to your knees!
One Size Fits Most.
Gumball Poodle Socks are 75% Cotton, 17% Polyester, 5% Spandex, 3% Rubber.
Machine Wash Cold. Hang Dry.
Made in China.

domain: design


One in three U.S. adults say they’ve been personally affected by an extreme weather event in the past two years. In 2021 alone, the U.S. experienced more than 60 extreme weather and climate events.
That’s why AT&T has been working with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory for several years to develop projections of how climate change will drive increased natural disasters over the next 30 years.
We started this project so we could help inform efforts to create a more resilient network, which is critical for the millions of people who rely on the connectivity we provide. While we’ve made significant investments to increase network resilience, the unprecedented climate impacts of the last few years have reinforced the need to take further action to prepare for today’s changing environment.
At first, we focused on modeling inland flooding caused by rainfall, coastal flooding from hurricanes, and wind events across four southeastern states.
But we know flooding and winds are not the only weather events that have become more frequent and severe due to climate change. And we know climate change is not limited to specific communities, states or regions.
Today, I’m proud to announce that we have expanded our forward-looking data to include insights around future wildfires and droughts across the contiguous 48 states. As always, this data is available to the public, which allows not only AT&T, but also the people and the communities we serve to apply it to their own climate adaptation efforts.
The new datasets are available for download here. Later this year, we’ll release additional data on coastal and inland flooding and high-intensity winds for the lower 48 states.
Our network teams across the country are beginning to use information generated from our Climate Change Analysis Tool (CCAT) to make data-driven decisions to improve resilience and better serve our customers.
For example, our teams can use the tool to understand impacts and assess risks, shaping network activities such as new infrastructure build sites, and the relocation or retrofitting of existing equipment. This helps us to better prepare and support our customers, including America’s first responders and the communities they serve.
We are also committed to working with external organizations to further increase awareness and use of the climate data. We have already worked with Argonne, The National Fish & Wildlife Foundation, EcoRise, the New York Power Authority and a group of five universities in the Southeast on resilience projects. We will continue to look for opportunities to build on these efforts with additional organizations, particularly NGOs, that would like to use the data.
Truly adapting to climate change requires close collaboration between the public, private and nonprofit sectors. It’s an area where you don’t compete; you collaborate. The data we’re releasing today is one piece to help solve the climate puzzle, and we look forward to the next steps on our journey toward making the U.S. a more climate-resilient country.


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Creamy Cauliflower Soup
These pictures do not do the soup justice, it was delicious! This recipe is vegan-friendly but will appeal to the masses. It's thick and creamy and perfect for a fall day. Cauliflower is a good source of many vitamins and minerals, including dietary fiber, vit C, vit K, Potassium, and folate. The recipe also includes pinto beans and cashews which are great sources of dietary fiber and healthy fats, respectively. You can also make it with chicken broth and topped with parmesan, if meat and/or dairy are typically in your diet.
1 head of cauliflower, roughly chopped
5 leaks, thinly sliced, the white part only
2 cloves of garlic, minced
7 cups of vegetable broth
1 can of pinto beans, drained
Salt to taste
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1. In a large pot, heat up the EVOO with a medium flame. Add in the garlic and leaks and sauté for about 5 minutes.
2. Add in the cauliflower and sauté for another 4 minutes.
3. Add in the broth, bring to a boil, then let simmer for 20-25 minutes, until the cauliflower is soft. Remove heat, and let sit for 5 minutes.
4. Add in the pinto beans and cashews, and let sit for another 5 minutes.
5. Blend the soup in batches until all the soup is blended and creamy.
6. Season with salt to taste.
Feel free to top with parmesan, chives, or dill (to taste)!
This made about 13-14 cups, or 4-5 bowls. Enjoy:)

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Fungi grown in pure cultures produce DNA- or RNA-containing particles smaller than spore size ( 3)-beta-D-glucans. In the 29 PM(1) samples, cultivable fungi were found in six samples and with a median concentration below detection level. Using microscopy, fungal spores were identified in 22 samples. The components NAGase and (1 --> 3)-beta-D-glucans, which are mainly associated with fungi, were present in all PM(1) samples. Thermophilic actinomycetes were present in 23 of the 29 PM(1) samples [average = 739 colony-forming units (CFU) m(-3)]. Cultivable and 'total bacteria' were found in average concentrations of, respectively, 249 CFU m(-3) and 1.8 x 10(5) m(-3). DNA- and RNA-containing particles of different lengths were counted by microscopy and revealed a high concentration of particles with a length of 0.5-1.5 microm and only few particles >1.5 microm. The number of cultivable fungi and beta-glucan in the total dust correlated significantly with the number of DNA/RNA-containing particles with lengths of between 1.0 and 1.5 microm, with DNA/RNA-containing particles >1.5 microm, and with other fungal components in PM(1) dust. Airborne beta-glucan and NAGase were found in PM(1) samples where no cultivable fungi were present, and beta-glucan and NAGase were found in higher concentrations per fungal spore in PM(1) dust than in total dust. This indicates that fungal particles smaller than fungal spore size are present in the air at the plants. Furthermore, many bacteria, including actinomycetes, were present in PM(1) dust. Only 0.2% of the bacteria in PM(1) dust were cultivable.
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Because microalgae are known for quick biomass growth and nutrient uptake, there has been much interest in their use in research on wastewater treatment methods. While many studies have concentrated on the algal treatment of wastewaters with low to medium ammonium concentrations, there are several liquid waste streams with high ammonium concentrations that microalgae could potentially treat. The aim of this paper was to test ammonium tolerance of the indigenous algae community of Lake Mälaren and to use this mixed consortia of algae to remove nutrients from biogas digestate. Algae from Lake Mälaren were cultivated in Jaworski's Medium containing a range of ammonium concentrations and the resulting algal growth was determined. The algae were able to grow at NH4-N concentrations of up to 200 mg L(-1) after which there was significant inhibition. To test the effectiveness of the lake water algae on the treatment of biogas digestate, different pre-cultivation set-ups and biogas digestate concentrations were tested. It was determined that mixing pre-cultivated suspension algae with 25% of biogas digestate by volume, resulting in an ammonium concentration of around 300 mg L(-1), produced the highest algal growth. The algae were effective in removing 72.8±2.2% of NH4-N and 41.4±41.4% of PO4-P.
The increased demand for waste wood (WW) as fuel in Swedish co-combustion facilities during the last years has increased the import of this material. Each country has different laws governing the use of chemicals and therefore the composition of the fuel will likely change when combining WW from different origins. To cope with this, enhanced knowledge is needed on WW composition and the performance of pre-treatment techniques for reduction of its contaminants. In this study, the chemical and physical characteristics of 500 WW samples collected at a co-combustion facility in Sweden between 2004 and 2013 were investigated to determine the variation of contaminant content over time. Multivariate data analysis was used for the interpretation of the data. The concentrations of all the studied contaminants varied widely between sampling occasions, demonstrating the highly variable composition of WW fuels. The efficiency of sieving as a pre-treatment measure to reduce the levels of contaminants was not sufficient, revealing that sieving should be used in combination with other pre-treatment methods. The results from this case study provide knowledge on waste wood composition that may benefit its management. This knowledge can be applied for selection of the most suitable pre-treatments to obtain high quality sustainable WW fuels.
This study describes a novel wastewater treatment technology suitable for small remote northern communities. The technology is based on an enhanced biodegradation of organic carbon through a combination of anaerobic methanogenic and microbial electrochemical (bioelectrochemical) degradation processes leading to biomethane production. The microbial electrochemical degradation is achieved in a membraneless flow-through bioanode-biocathode setup operating at an applied voltage below the water electrolysis threshold. Laboratory wastewater treatment tests conducted through a broad range of mesophilic and psychrophilic temperatures (5-23 °C) using synthetic wastewater showed a biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5) removal efficiency of 90-97% and an effluent BOD5 concentration as low as 7 mg L-1. An electricity consumption of 0.6 kWh kg-1 of chemical oxygen demand (COD) removed was observed. Low energy consumption coupled with enhanced methane production led to a net positive energy balance in the bioelectrochemical treatment system.
Interest in liquid biofuels production and use has increased worldwide as part of government policies to address the growing scarcity and riskiness of petroleum use, and, at least in theory, to help mitigate adverse global climate change. The existing biofuels markets are dominated by U.S. ethanol production based on cornstarch, Brazilian ethanol production based on sugarcane, and European biodiesel production based on rapeseed oil. Other promising efforts have included programs to shift toward the production and use of biofuels based on residues and waste materials from the agricultural and forestry sectors, and perennial grasses, such as switchgrass and miscanthus--so-called cellulosic ethanol. This article reviews these efforts and the recent literature in the context of ecological economics and sustainability science. Several common dimensions for sustainable biofuels are discussed: scale (resource assessment, land availability, and land use practices); efficiency (economic and energy); equity (geographic distribution of resources and the "food versus fuel" debate); socio-economic issues; and environmental effects and emissions. Recent proposals have been made for the development of sustainable biofuels criteria, culminating in standards released in Sweden in 2008 and a draft report from the international Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels. These criteria hold promise for accelerating a shift away from unsustainable biofuels based on grain, such as corn, and toward possible sustainable feedstock and production practices that may be able to meet a variety of social, economic, and environmental sustainability criteria.
Whilst life cycle assessment (LCA) boundaries are expanded to account for negative indirect consequences of bioenergy such as indirect land use change (ILUC), ecosystem services such as water purification sometimes delivered by perennial bioenergy crops are typically neglected in LCA studies. Consequential LCA was applied to evaluate the significance of nutrient interception and retention on the environmental balance of unfertilised energy willow planted on 50-m riparian buffer strips and drainage filtration zones in the Skåne region of Sweden. Excluding possible ILUC effects and considering oil heat substitution, strategically planted filter willow can achieve net global warming potential (GWP) and eutrophication potential (EP) savings of up to 11.9 Mg CO2e and 47 kg PO4e ha(-1) year(-1), respectively, compared with a GWP saving of 14.8 Mg CO2e ha(-1) year(-1) and an EP increase of 7 kg PO4e ha(-1) year(-1) for fertilised willow. Planting willow on appropriate buffer and filter zones throughout Skåne could avoid 626 Mg year(-1) PO4e nutrient loading to waters.
In this study two wet microalgae cultures and one dried microalgae culture were co-digested in different proportions with sewage sludge in mesophilic and thermophilic conditions. The aim was to evaluate if the co-digestion could lead to an increased efficiency of methane production compared to digestion of sewage sludge alone. The results showed that co-digestion with both wet and dried microalgae, in certain proportions, increased the biochemical methane potential (BMP) compared with digestion of sewage sludge alone in mesophilic conditions. The BMP was significantly higher than the calculated BMP in many of the mixtures. This synergetic effect was statistically significant in a mixture containing 63% (w/w VS based) undigested sewage sludge and 37% (w/w VS based) wet algae slurry, which produced 23% more methane than observed with undigested sewage sludge alone. The trend was that thermophilic co-digestion of microalgae and undigested sewage sludge did not give the same synergy.
Manure is one of the most common substrates for biogas production. Manure from dairy- and swine animals are often considered to stabilize the biogas process by contributing nutrients and trace elements needed for the biogas process. In this study two lab-scale reactors were used to evaluate the effects of trace element addition during co-digestion of manure from swine- and dairy animals with industrial waste. The substrate used contained high background concentrations of both cobalt and nickel, which are considered to be the most important trace elements. In the reactor receiving additional trace elements, the volatile fatty acids (VFA) concentration was 89% lower than in the control reactor. The lower VFA concentration contributed to a more digested digestate, and thus lower methane emissions in the subsequent storage. Also, the biogas production rate increased with 24% and the biogas production yield with 10%, both as a result of the additional trace elements at high organic loading rates. All in all, even though 50% of the feedstock consisted of manure, trace element addition resulted in multiple positive effects and a more reliable process with stable and high yield.
Tekniska verken i Linköping AB (publ.), Department of Biogas R&D, Box 1500, SE-581 15 Linköping, Sweden; Department of Microbiology, BioCenter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7025, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden. Electronic address: firstname.lastname@example.org.
The effect of increasing organic loading rate (OLR) and simultaneously decreasing hydraulic retention time (HRT) during anaerobic digestion of sulphur- and nitrogen-rich thin stillage was investigated during operation of continuously stirred tank laboratory reactors at two different temperatures. The operating strategies and substrate were set in order to mimic an existing full-scale commercial biogas plant in Sweden. The reactors were operated for 554-570 days with a substrate mixture of thin stillage and milled grain, resulting in high ammonium concentrations (>4.5gL(-1)). Initially, one reactor was operated at 38°C, as in the full-scale plant, while in the experimental reactor the temperature was raised to 44°C. Both reactors were then subjected to increasing OLR (from 3.2 to 6.0gVSL(-1)d(-1)) and simultaneously decreasing HRT (from 45 to 24 days) to evaluate the effects of these operational strategies on process stability, hydrogen sulphide levels and microbial composition. The results showed that operation at 44°C was the most successful strategy, resulting in up to 22% higher methane yield compared with the mesophilic reactor, despite higher free ammonia concentration. Furthermore, kinetic studies revealed higher biogas production rate at 44°C compared with 38°C, while the level of hydrogen sulphide was not affected. Quantitative PCR analysis of the microbiological population showed that methanogenic archaea and syntrophic acetate-oxidising bacteria had responded to the new process temperature while sulphate-reducing bacteria were only marginally affected by the temperature-change.
Complex policy-making situations around bioenergy production and use require examination of the operational environment of the society and a participatory approach. This paper presents and demonstrates a three-phase decision-making framework for analysing the operational environment of strategies related to increased forest bioenergy targets. The framework is based on SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis and the Simple Multi-Attribute Rating Technique (SMART). Stakeholders of four case countries (Finland, Germany, Norway and Slovenia) defined the factors that affect the operational environments, classified in four pre-set categories (Forest Characteristics and Management, Policy Framework, Technology and Science, and Consumers and Society). The stakeholders participated in weighting of SWOT items for two future scenarios with SMART technique. The first scenario reflected the current 2020 targets (the Business-as-Usual scenario), and the second scenario contained a further increase in the targets (the Increase scenario). This framework can be applied to various problems of environmental management and also to other fields where public decision-making is combined with stakeholders' engagement. The case results show that the greatest differences between the scenarios appear in Germany, indicating a notably negative outlook for the Increase scenario, while the smallest differences were found in Finland. Policy Framework was a highly rated category across the countries, mainly with respect to weaknesses and threats. Intensified forest bioenergy harvesting and utilization has potentially wide country-specific impacts which need to be anticipated and considered in national policies and public dialogue.


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Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
Date & Time
October 29, 2021, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Canceled
The Department of Music presents Pro Voce Washington.
Founded in 2019 by a group of classical musicians who teach at universities and colleges in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, Pro Voce Washington promotes exceptional vocal music through public performances, mentoring, and education programs for young vocalists. The ensemble features Seyoung Jeong, soprano (UMBC, The Catholic University of America); Min Jin, tenor (Towson University); Eun-Ah Roh, soprano (Northern Virginia Community College); Min Sang Kim, counter tenor (Northern Virginia Community College); and William Chang, piano (Montgomery College).
Program information is forthcoming.
$15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens, and $5 for students. (This event is free for UMBC Department of Music students, faculty and staff.)

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Console gaming was changed forever 25 years ago when Super Mario was released on the N64. At the risk of giving away my age, up until then, every game I had ever seen or played on a console, tape deck or floppy was either 2D or wireframe (cough).
I had recently arrived at university at the age of 19. The guy across from me in the student halls had just bought an N64 with Super Mario N64. Of course, compared to a modern gaming console, the N64 is puny, but in 1996, a 64-bit processor, from which the console takes its name, was almost twice as powerful as anything else on the market. Honestly, it is a bit like comparing Apollo 11 to an Apple Watch 6, but you can see below how the N64 stacks up against today’s Nintendo Switch.
|Row 0 - Cell 0
|64-bit NEC VR4300 @ 93.75 MHz
|ARM 4 Cortex-A57 cores @ 1.02 GHz
|4-64 MB Game Pak
|32 GB (expandable up to 2TB with SD card)
|Up to 1080p via HDMI
Now, these days, it’s hard to explain a world where every screen you ever saw had a tube and animation standards were set by Roger Rabbit. Back then, the Clone Wars was a comic book, people were still uncertain whether Boba Fett had escaped the Sarlacc, and there were rumors that George Lucas might have extra footage of Jabba the Hutt… it was a desert wasteland of answers.
I remember opening the door to my dormitory room and looking across the hallway to my neighbor Dave’s room. That evening, it was filled with captivated eyes, and before I knew it, I was invited to look at his new purchase. Staring at a triumphant Mario masterfully navigating scenes of vertigo and intrigue, the faces of the enchanted audience displayed an uncomfortable wonder at the scene depicted on the screen. As Mario leaped over yet another gaping chasm to a beautiful, green patchwork meadow I found myself asking, “WTF, why was this so unsettling?”
I can’t understate what a moment this was. I was feeling a little giddy just watching. Up until then, there wasn’t much in terms of mind-bending game programming. I recall the famous grand leap on Ghost Valley 2 in Super Mario Kart SNES, which back then, made me feel a little ill (mainly because of the speed and commitment needed to land it - Oh how I loved landing it!). Then there was the groundbreaking motion-capture work of Another World and Flashback (yeah, right, we are talking old-school). And let’s not forget the yawning expanse of Elite Frontier except you mostly had to imagine it. But this was something else. It was really THREE DIMENSIONAL!
I had to admit, it was the scale at which Nintendo extrapolated the perspective that made me queasy. Queasy in a sky-diving, or bungy jumping kind of way, not a “this is gonna take me until next month” kinda way. Super Mario, in that year for the UK public (at least), broke a literal dimensional wall. It created an appetite for 3D games, like GoldenEye 007 and Doom, which, I would suggest, laid the groundwork for VR as we currently see it.
Needless to say, I spent many hours of the following months in Dave’s room conquering the vertiginous terraces of Princess Peach’s castle in my quest to rescue her from Bowser. The new god-like feeling of panning and zooming the perspective, in glorious three dimensions, took a long time to fade. It was made possible by Nintendo’s bizarre and not entirely ergonomic three-handed controller which had a mini joystick on its central strut.
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Even after Princess Peach had been emancipated and Bowser vanquished, it was this controller that would find its way into my hands before the PlayStation’s, and not just because of the various ways you could hold it. To its credit, the PlayStation did offer Ridge Racer (a famous 3D graphics forerunner) but Sony's console didn't give me the satisfaction of hunting Sean Bean, or for that matter, my friends, which GoldenEye did. The four-player split-screen versus version became a staple at house parties for years to come.
Nowadays, we don’t think anything of simulated three-dimensional space. Actors are regularly filmed for motion capture in games. Lucasfilm has spent these last decades upending the entire approach by developing a dedicated lightstage to integrate actors with animation in real-time and create the Mandalorian (which is amazing right?). Today you can even attend digital classes in 3D-VR! But in 1996, just being able to calculate an extra axis in animated space was enough to be unreal in an "unpacking reality" kind of way — and we have Super Mario N64 to thank for the spectacle.
Peter (PJ) Norman has worked in the photography, film, and music fields since graduating with a Music Science degree in London in 2000. He moved to New York in 2009 to be a freelance producer and creative and has been based in the city ever since. His film work has been accepted to multiple International film festivals including Sundance and Locarno, and his passion for music has led to contributions on more than 10 full-length albums. Peter will occasionally test and write about things that inspire him for Laptop Mag when he isn't helping on the multimedia side of things. He is happiest when lost in the play of light and sound with his Nikon FM2 and a roll of black-and-white film.


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The UOS-100 from Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.
, Twinsburg, OH, combines ultrasonic emitters, receivers, and a control interface, and is designed to enhance error-proofing in demanding industrial assembly applications. The system lets you determine the position of a tool or object in 3D space without needing complex mechanical systems, such as articulating arms. The system takes propagation time measurements and outputs calculated X,Y,Z coordinates of the object to be positioned. One UOS-100 control interface can monitor and control up to 4 workstations simultaneously.


Lawley and Overdale Parish Council’s Chairman, Councillor Raj Mehta, is back to deliver a video update for June 2022.Continue reading
A notice of election has been posted to fill the vacant councillor position left by Lee Vidor’s resignation last month.
The by-election will be for one councillor for the Parish Ward of Lawley & Overdale (Central Ward). Continue reading
Our Parish Environmental Team (PET), as part of the Community Action Team (CAT), has been out and about in Lawley and Dawley Bank this week, doing a bit of pruning and weeding! We’ve also got some good news about some recent fly-tipping incidents.Continue reading
As the nation gears up to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee (and extra time off), it’s worth taking a step back and focussing on rubbish for a moment.Continue reading
Lawley and Overdale Parish Council’s Chairman, Councillor John Yorke, is back to deliver a video update for May 2022 and the past 12 months.Continue reading


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The first part of this post is a guest post by one of our readers, Brandy, who has made her own version of Merida from BRAVE and how she made her. The second part of the post is my review of the movie BRAVE after seeing the pre-screening last week.
The Making of Brandy’s American Girl Merida
This project was very near and dear to my heart. My oldest daughter Jayla as you all know is in LOVE with American Girl dolls, but has never really gone gaga over the Disney princesses. Now, if you ask my youngest daughter, Jemma, she could tell you anything and everything about the Disney princesses. When Jayla found out that the new Disney princess in the movie, Brave, was Scottish she flipped out with excitement! My husband’s family is Scottish. When the Brave advertisements showed that the new princess movie was based in Scotland, Jayla fell in love with the character. Jayla loves learning about her Boyd family history. So, I got creative….
I purchased a used doll off of EBay. This was my first doll purchase off of EBay so I was very nervous. I was searching for a blued eyed doll with freckles..to match the Merida character. I got lucky and found a perfect doll. She needed very little cleaning. All limbs were tight.eyes worked perfect.and strings were long. Her hair was very dry and frizzy, but that didn’t matter…she was going to get a new wig. The wig was found on EBay from BAVAS International. They sell doll repair kits, wigs, and accessories.
The beautifully well made dresses are from an Etsy shop called the Enchanted Designer. The gold boots are from American Girl. They go with the Cecile and Marie Grace line. The black cape is from an Ebay shop called Sewingirl269.
Of course all dolls have to have accessories! I found a toy bow and arrow set on amazon.com. I then made a target out of card stock and laminated it.works out great because the suction cup arrows can actually stick. I then made an arrow carrier out of a cut down tin foil tube. I covered the tube in brown felt. Next, I added a string so the carrier can be tied around the doll’s waist. I added a few decorated metal tacks to the top.
Can’t wait to give this to her this weekend!
Char’s Review of the Movie BRAVE
Last week I had the opportunity to go see the movie BRAVE in 3D as part of a pre-screening. I took Natalie who is 10, my son who is almost 16 and his friend who is 15. Wearing the 3D glasses was fun and the 3D effects are not just in a scene or two – they are all throughout the movie. You literally feel like you are in the scenery.
I don’t want to spoil the movie for anyone who goes to see it so, here are my thoughts:
Things I liked:
- Merida’s character! She is just the coolest princess Disney has come up with yet. She is smart, caring and not afraid to stand up for herself.
- The animation was phenomenal – from the Scottish countryside scenes to the archery scenes and everything in between.
- I loved the whole storyline and the way it evolved – I can’t tell you much about it because I will give the movie away, but let’s just say, it is a great lesson for parents and children – we can learn from each other.
- My favorite scene is pretty early on when Merida leaves the house all upset and heads off on her horse Angus. She does a little archery practice at high speed, on horseback, through the woods and it is just WOW!
- The humor in the movie is sprinkled throughout and some is just slapstick that kids of all ages but some of it goes right over the kids’ heads and only grown ups will get it.
Things I didn’t like:
- This movie is scary in parts and there is no two ways about it. If you or your child get scared easily – you may want to wait for it to come out on DVD so you can fast forward through the scary stuff.
- The bears. Yes, I know they were an essential part of the story, but I think they may have been a bit over done.
After the movie I asked everyone their opinion. Nick and his friend Abby LOVED the movie and gave it an A. They got all the humor, appreciated all the details in every scene, and were not bothered by the violent bear scenes. Natalie, on the other hand, went back and forth between laughing and being terrified the whole time. She gave it a C because she was scared so much. I really think the movie is best suited for kids ages 12 and up, however, some younger kids will love it and others will be bothered by the loud noises and bears. You have to know your child!
Would I go see the movie again? YES! I definitely would. Natalie will probably wait a few years to see it again on DVD.


I currently have three bicycles:
The original DL-1 was designed as part of a British Army contract and functioned as the official British Army bicycle. Produced by Raleigh in Nottingham from 1913 until 1985, it had only fairly minimal changes made to its design throughout its production run. The DL-1 served as the standard British Police bicycle for many years. They are still manufactered under license by Raleigh Denmark, which is where the frame from mine originates. This has the advantage of being a DL-1 without having the non-standard Raleigh threading on the fork and bottom bracket shell. I use this bike as my everyday transportation.
The history of the Brompton and its development has already been written more eloquently than I could have. The Brompton has a large following of dedicated fans, for the sole reason that it is arguably the best folding bike on the market, and has been for many years. The M3L is a 3-speed (mine has the Sturmey Archer hub) with mudguards but no rack. I was also fortunate enough to acquire a Brooks B67 with mine. I use it to do the things none of my other bikes could, such as travelling on a Virgin Train, bus or taking into a pub. The Brompton is already eclipsing many of the uses for which I own the Raleigh Twenty…
Eventually I grew so fond of the Brompton that I replaced it, with another Brompton. This time I added three more gears, the rear rack and the P-type ‘touring’ handlebar; a P6R in Cycling Embassy arctic blue and black livery. The P6R has since become the bike I use most.
The Yuba Mundo is a cargo bike manufactured by Yuba Bicycles. It is designed to carry loads of up to 200 kg and its specification was chosen for the maximum worldwide availability of common replacement parts. This means dérailleur gears, freewheel and 26 inch wheels. The bike is solid and reliable, if not overly pretty. My Yuba Mundo is a V2 and it is used for a variety of tasks; mainly shopping, carrying items too large for the DL-1 and riding in snowy or icy conditions.
I have also sold or retired several bikes:
Revolution Cuillin Sport ’08:
I owned this bike from Summer 2008 until Spring 2010. It was my first “serious” (as in, not a piece of crap) bike. I bought this because I fell for the sporty image of cycling promoted by the bike shops, as well as my lack of awareness of any bikes other than these or road bikes. We had many good times together, but after buying the Yuba Mundo, I realised how uncomfortable and impractical this bike was for 99% of the riding I did; urban, transportation riding. Luckily I found a more sporty owner for it and it now lives on riding trails and dirt paths rather than spending all of its time on the road with slicks. I replaced it with the Kona Africa Bike.
Kona Africa Bike:
I purchased this bike after the Yuba Mundo showed me what riding a bike could feel like. This particular model appealed to me because of the accessories it came with and the fact that for every 2 of them sold in the Western World, Kona donated one to aid workers in some of the most deprived parts of Africa and Asia. I was very happy with this bike, the only downside was that the seat-tube angle was too steep; the bike had the rather unfortunate “comfort” geometry. This wasn’t a problem on shorter rides, but after about 25-30 km I started to feel the limitations of the bike. When I saw the Raleigh DL-1 at an unmissable price, I decided to replace this bike with that. It has since been given away to help someone else discover the joys of upright cycling. For shorter, urban riding it is ideal.
The Raleigh Twenty was produced from 1968 until 1984. In 1977 it was Raleigh’s most popular model and possibly the best selling bicycle in the UK. The advantage of this is that there are a lot of them still around, they are solid, well built and dirt-cheap. My Raleigh Twenty was mainly used as a loaner bike for guests, although I did ride it when I needed to leave a bike locked up outside for a long time, in a high crime area, or need to take a bike on a busy train. A pair of Twentys can be carried on the Yuba Mundo.
Sadly, after buying the Brompton, I no longer had much use for the Twenty, nor the space to store it.
It would appear that the Danish DL-1 has conventional caliper brakes vs lever brakes per Nottingham?
did you have a drum brake on the front wheel of the twenty? great paint work anyway.
I need to strip a Triumph Traffic Master but I can’t work out how to remove the front fork. There’s a nut just below the front lamp bracket but I’m not sure what kind of spanner I need to use. Any advice you could give me would be most appreciated.


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In 2000, George David , a 16-year-old pre-degree student, is infatuated with Mary, the prettiest school girl in his area, a small region of Aluva, Kerala. George along with his friends Shambu and Koya, often follow Mary around in an attempt to talk to her but he is afraid of her father who beats up boys pestering his daughter. Mary is famous for her beauty, and is followed by other men too. Nonetheless, every time he gathers the courage to talk to her, something or the other comes up and George ends up disappointed. He is eventually heartbroken to know that Mary is in a relationship with another boy, also named George. She also asks his help to date safely without her family knowing. He helps her with a painful heart. The seriousness of life finally sinks in when George, Shambu, and Koya introspect about their academic future after a dismal performance in their year-end examination.
Five years later, in 2005, George and his friends enroll in college. One day, while on a ragging streak, George and his friends meet Malar, a new lecturer in their college, who happens to have a Tamil background. George instantly falls for her and seemingly gets her to feel the same about him. He is also impressed by her dancing talents as she performs an outstanding dance with his team. Convinced about their love for each other, he extends their relationship and contemplates marriage. Simultaneously, George’s college teacher, Vimal Sir also falls for her and tries to woo her with the help of his friend, a PT teacher, Shivan sir. Later that year, Malar goes to visit her family in Kodaikanal, accompanied by her cousin, Arivazhagan. who by tradition is supposed to be her would be. Weeks later, it is announced in the college that Malar met with an accident and consequently had left her job as the lecture. George and his friends immediately ride to Kodaikanal to see Malar. It turned out Malar lost part of her memory due to the injuries suffered in the accident. She fails to recognize George and is not able to recall her relationship with him. Subsequently, Malar marries her cousin, Arivazhagan and George attends her wedding reception with his friends.
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The God Machineby J.G. Sandom, T.K. Welsh
The coded journal of Benjamin Franklin. A hidden map. A legendary gospel. These are the first pieces to an ancient puzzle so powerful, it could destroy the very foundation of Christianity.
Once before, Joseph Koster unearthed one of the
A secret so explosive, the church always insisted it was just a legend. Now it'll stop at nothing to prevent its discovery...
The coded journal of Benjamin Franklin. A hidden map. A legendary gospel. These are the first pieces to an ancient puzzle so powerful, it could destroy the very foundation of Christianity.
Once before, Joseph Koster unearthed one of the church’s most deeply buried secrets . . . and it almost cost him his life. But some treasures are too hard to resist. And as Koster puts the pieces of the puzzle together, he discovers something even more startling … and infinitely more deadly.
Now, along with a beautiful engineer, Savita Sajan, Koster must race to decode Franklin’s journal before it falls into the hands of those who would do anything, kill anyone, to suppress it. But in a world of secret societies, ancient conspiracies, and Masonic puzzles, locating the prize is one thing … staying alive, another.
For as Koster and Sajan are about to learn, the same key that unlocks the doorway to Heaven … could open the portals of Hell.
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Tom Moody was working at the far end of the basement, kneeling on a plastic tarpaulin, when he first spied a corner of the box in the wall. It was nestled in a small depression, immediately beside the joist. It was made out of wood. Moody worked his trowel around the edges, and the dense compacted dirt, trapped for two hundred years, came undone, tumbled down. He wiggled the box from the hole.
In the bright glow of the work light, he could just make out a series of engravings on the top, scarred and covered in dirt: a Mason’s square and a pyramid; some kind of seal. There was a latch on one side. Moody pulled the box into his lap. He opened the latch, lifted the lid. Inside was a book of some sort, a kind of notebook or journal. He put the box on the floor. Then he removed his work gloves. He turned the cover of the notebook over and his heart skipped a beat as he picked out the signature: B. Franklin.
The fact of the matter is, Tom Moody shouldn’t have gone to work that day at all. He’d been up late the night before at that Thai joint on Bainbridge, in Center City, on a blind date with a girl he’d met on the Net. After his most recent string of failures, Moody hadn’t been expecting much. But the date had gone great. The girl’s name was Miranda. She had long brown curly hair and a big rack, and when he spotted her in the restaurant wearing that leotard—the way she was leaning with her hip out and her hand on the bar, the way she smiled at him when he called out her name—he knew that his luck had just turned. She was Catholic, too. They had stayed for Pad Thai and green tea, then gone dancing, and everything had somehow just clicked, in that weird freaky way that it does. At least sometimes. He had awakened beside her at dawn, still excited. His cell phone was ringing. It was Tony, his buddy from the union. There was a freelance gig, it turned out, at Franklin Court. If he was interested.
A tall bundle of muscle, with teal-colored eyes, a shiny shaved head and a nose ring, Tom Moody found a ten-dollar bill at the bus stop on his way to the hall. It was just lying there. He bent down, half expecting it to fly away or be pulled back by some invisible thread, but it just sat there, and he picked it up and stuffed it into the pocket of his leather jacket.
By the time he got to Franklin Court, he’d already bought two tickets for that night’s drawing of the Powerball Jackpot.
The job was pretty straightforward. The Independence National Historic Park had authorized some structural engineering work under Franklin Court, at the former home and print shop of Benjamin Franklin, off Market Street. Over the centuries, the buildings surrounding Franklin Court had shifted. Recent excavations had shown less-than-optimal support structures beside the new museum. They had to go in through the basement of the old house, excavate and shore up the supports.
Moody flipped through the pages of the journal in his hand. It was all nonsense, he decided. The sentences were blocked together in distinctive rows of three, but the letters didn’t link to form words. They seemed random, a jumble. Then he noticed a few words he recognized: The Gospel of Judas. And besides the familiar English alphabet, two foreign languages. Greek, Moody speculated. He’d seen it before at Greek diners. Plus some alien script.
“I found something,” said Moody, as he settled the box on Ian Wilson’s desk.
Short and round, with thinning hair combed adroitly across his bald spot, Wilson was the general contractor on the Park job, and the guy responsible for interfacing with the Independence Park Service officials. He generally worked over by Rittenhouse Square, but had set up a temporary office on Third Street and Chestnut. The space was Spartan: a desk and a chair; a PC; a secondhand file cabinet and a coffee machine.
Wilson wore a light brown windbreaker, with the name of the Little League baseball team he sponsored—The Thunders—stenciled on the front, and a blue button-down shirt. He glanced up from his paperwork. “What is it?” He glared at the dirt-covered box on his desk.
“In the north wall,” Moody said. “Just under the basement joist. Some kind of hiding spot, I guess. Go ahead. Open it.”
Wilson frowned. He reached over, unlatched the top and opened the box. “A book?” He looked up at Moody.
“A journal,” said Moody. “Or diary. And look at the front cover, on the inside.”
Wilson did so. He gasped as he saw the signature. There was no mistaking that florid horizontal double helix underneath the stolid script. B. Franklin. He turned a few more pages with care.
“It’s in some kind of foreign language,” Moody said. “But I don’t recognize it.”
“No,” Wilson said. “Not a language. A code, I’d guess.”
“I found a phrase,” countered Moody, feeling suddenly disheartened. It was as though, through Wilson’s single observation, the title to his remarkable discovery had been unceremoniously transferred. “Look, here,” Moody said. He stepped around the desk. He leaned across the surface and began to flip through the pages.
Wilson pushed him away. “Your hands are still dirty. Just show me.”
“Keep going. More,” said Moody. “More. There. Right there. See? On the bottom right.”
“The Gospel of Judas,” said Wilson. “In Greek and in Hebrew. The Gospel of Judas!” He whistled. “That’s a Gnostic text. The Gnostics were an early Christian sect, considered heretical by the organized Church.”
“Is that what that writing is? Looks different from the Jewish I’ve seen.”
“Right,” said Moody with a nod. “That’s what I meant.” This was not going as visualized, as manifested, he thought. That’s what Miranda had called it the previous evening at that Thai place. She had leaned in to him at the bar, all of a sudden, before they’d been seated, leaned in with her long brown curly hair. And she had told him that things only happened when you visualized them first, and when you were in harmony, in tune with the laws of attraction. Something like that. “Hey, Mr. Wilson. Do you think there might be some sort of finder’s fee . . . you know, for digging up the box?” Moody asked. “Not that I’m trying to take no advantage. Just wonderin’.”
“I doubt it,” said Wilson. “It’s a National Park. It belongs to the Feds. To the people, Moody,” he added and laughed. “You and me.”
“What are you going to do, give it to Thompson?” Larry Thompson was the curator of Independence Park. Moody had met him before, on another project three years earlier.
Wilson closed the journal, slipped the lid into place. He pulled the box toward his chest. “On the other hand, there might just be a reward,” he continued. “I could find out for you. Wouldn’t surprise me in the least. Play your cards right and this freelance gig might turn into something permanent. You never know, Moody. And you’re right, of course—Larry Thompson should see it. Right away.”
Wilson stood up. He reached into his pants and took out his wallet. It was stuffed full of papers, on a chain attached to his khakis. “Do me a favor, will ya?” He flipped open the wallet and pulled out a ticket. “Swing over to the garage by Christ Church and pick up my car. It’s a black Continental. Level three. I have to make a call before I leave. Then you can break early for lunch.” He pulled out a hundred-dollar bill. “On me.” There was a charm on the chain by his wallet, shaped like a small Mason’s square. “Meantime, until I hear what Thompson has to say, might as well forget about this box here. Probably not real, anyway. And you don’t want to go spoiling your chances of earning some reward now, do you?”
Moody took the ticket from Wilson. Then he took the hundred-dollar bill. The wheel of life had just turned. He was in harmony, in tune. What should he manifest next?
Benjamin Franklin sat at the table by the entrance to Tun Tavern, watching the late afternoon crowd amble by, waiting upon Henry Price. Located on the waterfront at the corner of Water Street and Tun Alley, the three-story beer tavern had been built in 1685 by Samuel Carpenter, whose apparent lack of imagination had resulted in his failure to come up with anything more interesting than Tun, the old English word for cask or barrel. Franklin took another sip of his pale ale and belched. Carpenter should have called it the Dun Tavern, he thought, based on the color of the patrons’ clothes, or simply Dung Tavern. After all, the tavern’s proximity to the river cast a malodorous pall across the establishment during these hot days of summer. That’s when he first spotted Price down the street. He was walking with two other gentlemen. Franklin stood up, downed his beer and wiped his lips on the back of his hand. This was it, he thought. The great day had finally arrived.
Henry Price was a thin man with a ferretlike face, bright chestnut brown eyes flecked with green and long straight black hair. He wore a simple dark frock coat and tricorne hat with a low crown, without trimming, that did little to reveal his profession. Born in London in 1697, Price had been admitted to the Freedom of the Company of Merchant Tailors by Patrimony on the first of July, 1719, but had emigrated soon thereafter, in 1723, to the port city of Boston. Only the year before, Franklin had learned, Price had opened his own shop between Water and State streets, and the business was doing quite well. More important—though not yet officially recognized by Viscount Montagu, Grand Master of the Moderns’ Grand Lodge in London—Price played the role of Provincial Grand Master to the Freemasons of the colonies, and had agreed, after some urging, to usher the twenty-five-year-old Franklin into the mysteries of the Craft.
Price entered the tavern. Franklin rose to greet him and noticed, for the first time, that the Grand Master was carrying a box under his left arm. “Brother Price,” he said. “How was your voyage?” Franklin examined the other two men. One was short and rather fat, wearing a wig of inferior quality. The other was tall with bad teeth.
Franklin and Price exchanged a quick handshake. “Fair sailing,” said Price. Then he turned toward his friends. “Fellow travelers from Boston,” he said. “Robert Tomlinson.”
The fat man made a slight bow.
“And Thomas Oxnard,” said Price, with a tilt of the head.
The tall man with bad teeth nodded almost imperceptibly. “You’ve started to make quite a name for yourself, Mr. Franklin. Some say you’ll be Postmaster General in no time.”
Franklin felt himself blushing. He had been dreaming of little else for the past year or more, and yet he had never considered his ambition to be so readily apparent as far north as Boston. Franklin had started to answer when Price interrupted him, saying, “Is the room ready?”
“It is,” replied Franklin. “Follow me.”
They made their way past the patrons to the rear of Tun Tavern. At the end of a long corridor, Franklin knocked on a door, and a small man with a bald head and crooked nose peered through the crack as it opened. He nodded at Franklin and let the men in.
The room was small, barely large enough to accommodate a dining table and four chairs. One window faced out onto Tun Alley. But it had been covered by curtains, Franklin noticed. Only the glow of a candle on the table revealed the men’s faces.
“This is the proprietor of the Tun, David Carpenter,” Franklin said.
“I know your father,” said Price. “How is Sam?”
David Carpenter beamed. “Fine, fine,” he said with an excess of zeal. “He sends you his best, Brother Price. And may I add that you’re looking particularly well.”
Franklin smiled to himself. Carpenter was no fool. He knew that if things progressed smoothly, the Tun would soon see more rituals and, with them, more customers, too.
“Oxnard and Tomlinson will set up the temple,” said Price. “You stay here with me, Ben, and I’ll dress you.”
Carpenter, Oxnard and Tomlinson slipped out of the room through a side door. When they had gone, Price turned and dropped the box he’d been carrying onto the table. He lifted the cover and Franklin took a step closer. There it was. Franklin could scarcely contain himself. His Freemason’s apron! And below it, a book.
Price reached into the box and removed the two objects. “Practice,” he said, as he poked at the book.
Franklin picked up the volume. He opened the cover and flipped through the pages.
“I’ve marked it,” said Price. He pointed at a long piece of ribbon which dangled down from the volume.
Franklin turned the pages, scanning the curious illustrations and diagrams within. He had almost reached the page in question when his eyes fell upon a symbol he recognized; it was the Greek letter phi. And below it, a picture of the Ark of the Covenant, with light shooting out of the sides just like lightning, transfixing the enemies of Israel who crowded about it. To the side, he noticed another strange diagram, with the words “The Gospel of Judas” in script just above it. “What’s this?” Franklin said, pointing down at the page.
Price looked over. He pinched his lips and replied, “Further back, Ben. By the ribbon.”
Franklin stared at the page. He could not tear his eyes away from that curious diagram, the circles and squares. The pattern was hypnotizing. With an effort, he glanced up from the volume, an expression of helplessness pinned to his face.
Price smiled. “I know. It’s the pattern. The God machine, Ben. Though it’s still incomplete.”
Price shook his head. “Further back, by the ribbon. Turn away, Ben. Or you’ll waste your whole life on a dream.”
“What’s the God machine?”
“Of that, we’ll talk later, if you’re up to it. But first, do you know all your lines?”
Franklin sighed. He flipped back to the page in the volume that was marked with the ribbon. He glanced at the text for a moment, then nodded and said, “I’m prepared, Brother Price. I’ve been practicing.”
“Very good.” Price picked up the apron. He flared it and the material wafted down to the surface like a tablecloth. Franklin stared at the intricate stitching.
The apron featured a black-and-white checkerboard pattern representing the floor of the Temple of Solomon—good and evil. It was framed by four pillars: In the rear were the pillars of Boaz; in the front, the two pillars of Enoch. Each was crowned by a globe. At the rear of the checkerboard pattern rose an altar, fixed with a compass and square. And above it, the six-pointed stars of the liberal arts—all seven of them; the all-seeing eye of the Grand Architect; and a rainbow, the great arch of heaven. The whole thing was bordered by a ribbon of red, white and blue. “It’s beautiful,” Franklin said. He drew in his breath. “It’s . . .” But he could not quite finish. The diagram from the book still swam in his head. He felt it imprinted within him, like the memory of the sun on his retina after closing his eyes.
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Born in Chicago, raised and educated throughout Europe, and a graduate of Amherst College, J.G. Sandom founded the nation's first digital ad agency (Einstein and Sandom Interactive) in 1984, before launching an award-winning writing career. Sandom has authored five adult novels, including Gospel Truths and The Hunting Club, and three young adult novels under the pseudonym T.K. Welsh, including The Unresolved and Resurrection Men. He resides in New Jersey.
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This was a great book. I really couldn't put it down. I had read the Gospel Truths several years ago and thought it was good, but this one was a page turner. I look forward to the next book with Joseph Koster.
The GOD MACHINE is perfect for night time reading. The characters are accessible and the thrilling plot moves fluidly. Even if you think you know what is going to happen at the end????; you keep reading to find out the conclusion. What Dan Brown has on Mr. Sandom , I do not understand. This book should be made into a movie. With the right screen play it would make money. Adam Bierman Princeton TV
I loved this book! I'm a huge fan of these kinds of thrillers and I must say this is one of the best out there. This book was fast paced, easy to read and kept me on my toes until the last page. I was already a fan after Gospel Truths but man oh man this one was way more exciting and more of a thrill ride! I read this book in one weekend and after burning dinner on the first night my husband went out and bought his own copy to see what all the fuss was about. He loves it! Since he's a math teacher and amateur contractor he loved Joseph Koster. It's high time a math nerd gets some excitement he said. I think that the Koster-Sajan combination is fantastic, they make the book even better and it's great to see a girl kick some a** too! If I had a God Machine I'd wish that J.G. Sandom not take so long between books. I can't wait for this to be made into a movie!! If you like books with action, adventure and really smart plots this is the novel for you!
One of the best books I have ever read. Right there with the great Dan Brown. I love Dan Brown much and look forward to the new one "The Symbol" This book is a page turner. It will keep you up. I have read The Gospel Truths and this one and both are great.Do your shelf a favor and buy it from B&N the best book sellers in the world! John Moore
I really enjoyed this book! It is a cross between the DaVinci Code and National Treasure. It really should be made into a movie. I am looking forward to reading THE GOSPEL TRUTHS.

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The Artist: The Slip
Label: Flying Frog Records
Rating: **** (out of 5)
Slip's new album, "Does," comes to us via Flying Frog Records, a label founded by Allman Brothers' drummer Butch Truck.
Flying Frog's mission is to support new bands that "have the same passion and artistic integrity as the Allman Brothers." Note that "passion and artistic integrity" is different from "sounds like the Allman Brothers." The only thing that The Slip really has in common with the Allmans is the ability to jam out prodigiously.
The Slip is a trio, Andrew Barr on drums, Brad Barr on guitars and vocals, and Marc Friedman on electric bass. Collectively, they are able to find some exciting rhythmic grooves and explore them through jazzy improvisation. The songs are soaring, uplifting, and range through quite a lot of different grooves. Brad Barr's guitar rings like a bell, each note standing out or spilling across the melody in a burbling flow. Percussion is always interesting, ranging from tight and tasty jazz modes to energetic world-beat-inspired excursions. The bass, likewise, is tasty and restrained most of the time, but will suddenly burst forth into a dazzling run at a moment's notice.
This young band originally met in high school jazz band in the early '90s and all three members went on to briefly attend the Berklee College of Music. After bailing out of academia, they returned to Boston to become a staple of Beantown music scene.
"We had never really planned on keeping it a trio, but after playing together for so long, the band kind of took on its own life and we began to realize the inherent freedom within it." says bassist Friedman. "The trio really asks each musician to explore their full range of sound and to be fully present at all times, even if their presence is silent."
The Slip will be bringing it's exploratory sound to The Joyous Lake, 42 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, on Thursday, as part of WDST-FM's "Sessions." The show will be broadcast live on WDST, 100.1 FM.
Artist: Olatunji, Muruga, Sikiru
Album: "Cosmic Rhythm Vibrations"
Rating: ***** (out of 5)
Last week I was at an event in the extreme western reaches of New York called The Starwood Festival.
While Starwood offers workshops and classes on just about everything under the sun, along with concerts, parties, raves, and so on, one of the main emphases of the festival is on drumming and world-beat music. The great master of African drumming, Babatunde Olatunji, was scheduled to appear, but canceled at the last minute due to illness. In his place appeared a flamboyant character named Muruga Booker. Muruga taught drumming, sat in with the Merl Saunders Rainforest Band for a concert, then played a few sets with his own people, music ranging from traditional African drumming to some deep electronic funk.
Wandering the field as the event wound to a close, I bumped into Muruga on the field and told him how much I enjoyed the concerts. Without a word, he handed me a couple of CDs, including his 1995 album with Olatunji and Sikiru Adepoju, "Cosmic Rhythm Vibrations." While the album is five years old, it was entirely new to me (and I assume will be new to many people reading this now). Listening to it was a revelation. This is simply some of the finest percussion ever captured on CD, mostly acoustic hand drums with just a touch of Muruga's synthesizer in a few places.
Each of these musicians is great on their own, particularly Olatunji, who is legendary, really the living master of African drumming today. What takes this album into its own category of greatness is the chemistry between these three mighty drummers. The interplay of rhythms is transcendent and the passion of the performers evident in every moment.
I don't know how easy this recording is to find, but it is worth a bit of effort. Highly recommended.
Philip H. Farber is a free-lance writer living in the Hudson Valley. He writes a music column each week for Preview.


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Danske Bank has selected specialist data management and analytics firm AquaQ Analytics to streamline its service by introducing automation to complete complicated manual tasks.
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CONTINUES TO IMPLEMENT COMMITMENTS FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE
Customs: Continue to carry out the commitment in the Declaration of Customer Service
In order to improve and improve the quality of implementation of the commitments set out in the Declaration on Customer Service, the General Department of Customs conducts surveys on enterprises in the country on the implementation of orange .
CBCC Mong Cai Customs Department, Quang Ninh Customs Department guided new policies for businesses.
Promote the role of enterprises in law enforcement monitoring
The General Department of Customs would like to pass the survey of enterprises will contribute comments on the aspects that have not been implemented in the implementation of commitments in the Declaration at customs offices at all levels. Identify commitments that have been made, not achieved, commitments that can be improved as well as the desire and needs of the business community for commitments and quality that the Customs Service should meet.
According to the Committee on Customs Modernization Reform, the General Department of Customs assessed the implementation of commitments under the Declaration on Customer Service in the four categories of content Including: Professionalism (working style of civil servants, professional qualifications when carrying out procedures, attitude of contact with people / Enterprise); Transparency (procedural information, law policy, public hot line, contact for problem solving, settlement of administrative procedures, dialogue with enterprises); Efficiency (clearance time, rate of goods inspection, administrative costs); Time to carry out administrative procedures (procedures for examination of dossiers, procedures for actual inspection of goods, procedures for handling tax exemption / reduction / refund dossiers, procedures for answering problems, procedures for settling complaints complaints, denunciations).
For the evaluation of the quality of business support services / services, the General Department of Customs collected the opinions of enterprises in two areas: online public services (online public administrative procedures, utilities provided on-line portal and other software systems); support activities (handling of requests after working hours, support, answers, support at customs office, support at headquarters).
The results of the survey will be reviewed by the customs office every quarter, every six months and every year. The assessment was conducted according to the statistical method based on the total number of votes collected in the evaluation period, the enterprise information and rating scale for the evaluation contents, combined with the causal analysis. , reasons and recommendations of customers. For items with low marks, the units shall propose and elaborate measures to remove and report to the General Department on matters beyond their jurisdiction.
A solution for customs reform
The survey of enterprises across the country on the implementation of commitments in the Declaration of Customer Service is one of the solutions for customs agencies to improve professionalism, transparency and efficiency in the implementation of the manual. customs clearance, as well as the promotion of monitoring among the parties. This is one of the activities of developing the Customs-Enterprise partnership.
At the Customs-Business Seminar organized by the General Department of Customs last week in Hanoi, Deputy Director-General of Customs, Mai Xuan Thanh, said that partnering activities bring understanding, consensus and co-operation. between the customs and the business community. In addition to the business community guide, the Customs also very interested in encouraging the business community to cooperate in building the customs is increasingly clean and strong.
Prior to that, at the end of 2017, the General Department of Customs also organized a survey, assessing the implementation of some commitments in the Declaration of Customer Service. Survey results have attracted many useful comments from the business community. The focus of the survey is on commitments that have not been evaluated or need additional evaluation. With specific indicators, the survey also collected a lot of positive comments of enterprises. For example, for the norm of completion of regular examination of documents (2 hours from the date of receipt of full dossier), there were 844 replies about the implementation of this commitment, of which 98% Accurately and quickly commit, only 2% of performance evaluations are slower than commitment. Some causes of delay were assessed by the Enterprise: customs officers carried out slowly, many records of gold flow, problems from both the customs and enterprises ...
For the norms of completion of the actual inspection of normal goods (8 hours from the time of full presentation of goods), there were 854 respondents, of whom more than 99% and faster commitment. For the criterion of completion of physical inspection of goods subject to specialized inspection (8 hours from the date of receipt of specialized inspection results), 837 respondents, Accurate and faster commit (more than 99%). With the target of completion of physical inspection of goods for large quantity, many types or complex inspection (not exceeding 2 days), there are 826 replies.
In most of them, the majority of enterprises also express their opinions on the wish to satisfy customs such as: Commitment on appearance and costume of CBCC customs, with 96.38% agreeing; Commitment on attitude and behavior, with 98.02% agreeing; The criteria in the commitment to support customers have been approved by the company at about 97% ...
According to the assessment by the General Department of Customs, the implementation of the commitments in the Customer Service Statement, the provincial and municipal customs departments have implemented mechanisms to ensure the supervision of customers for their operations. The customs clearance through the solutions: publicly post the hotline of customs offices at all levels, the telephone numbers, addresses and emails of the members of the group to settle problems, complaints and denunciations; publicizing administrative procedures; implementing the one-stop shop for administrative and public services; receiving information from the business community via information channels; Signing regulations on cooperation with business associations.
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