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Eat, Shop & Chill: Three places you must check out in Pilsen
There are plenty of places to eat in the Pilsen neighborhood, but you cannot leave without trying La Michoacana. This ice cream shop is a neighborhood staple. Serving up everything from funnel cakes to Mexican desserts such as paletas, La Michoacana is favorite all-year round. This place is also not hard to find. Just look for the bright pink facade, neon lights, and the line stretching out the door.
Now if you want to shop for some vintage apparel or furniture, head over to Second Chance Thrift Shop. It is like a treasure chest waiting to be unpacked. The deals are unbelievable and the pieces are timeless. Your trip to Pilsen will be made complete with one of the findings from their store.
For a night out on the town in Pilsen, head over to Thalia Hall. This historic opera house was constructed in 1892. It has undergone many changes over the years, but it is still a venue space to see some of the hottest acts coming to town. It is also a popular place to get married. Almost any night out of the week, there will be an event at Thalia Hall to check out, so don't miss it.


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These delightful books will astound and impress you! Tales with important messages, laugh out loud moments and superb illustrations. I always feel like a big kid when I read picture books and they are the best moments of my weekends. My children have a renewed interest in picture books this lockdown and we are thrilled with the ones recommended below!
Alone, written and Illustrated by Barry Falls, Published by Pavilion
Never Mess with a Pirate Princess, written by Holly Ryan, illustrated by Siân Roberts, Published by Little Tiger
Mammoth, Big Beast. Big City. Big Trouble written by Anna Kemp, illustrated by Adam Beer, published by Simon & Schuster
If my Dad were The Tooth Fairy written by Mark Sperring, illustrated by Matt Hunt, published by Simon & Schuster
Lionel The Lonely Monster, written and Illustrated by Fred Blunt, published by Oxford University Press
Rabunzel, written by Gareth P. Jones, illustrated by Loretta Schauer, published by Egmont (now Farshore)
DoctorSaurus, written by Emi-Lou May, illustrated by Leire Martín, Published by Little Tiger
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I read constantly and have more books than bookshelves, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Our engagement with Twitter has been fruitful – Lai Mohammed – Channels Television
Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed said on Thursday that the federal government’s engagement with the microblogging site Twitter has been fruitful.
He said this while receiving the United States Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Akunna Cook, at his office in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
Mohammed again explained the reason for the federal government’s ban on Twitter in the country, saying some people were using the microblogging site to sow disunity in the country.
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“Twitter has been suspended because it has become a go-to platform for those working to disunite this country,” he said.
“It’s a country of 200 ethnic groups, very multi-religious and there are a lot of fourth lines that Twitter was exploiting.
“Prior to the suspension, there were a lot of advisories and warnings. I am happy to say that our engagement with Twitter has been very productive and helpful for both parties. The outcome of this engagement will help us not only in our engagement with Twitter, but in our engagement with all social media platforms.
The minister also called for collaboration between Nigeria and the United States to reposition the country’s creative and cultural industry, especially to improve the quality of Nollywood films.
According to him, the Nigerian government is working hard to reposition the creative and cultural industry, which has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the sector’s immense contribution to the country’s GDP.
He listed some of the Nigerian government’s strategic interventions in the creative industry, including the Central Bank of Nigeria’s N22.9 billion creative industry funding initiatives; the billion naira industry bank Nollyfund; another 1 billion naira fund for fashion and beauty from the Bank of Industry; N-Power Creative and Project Act Nollywood Federal Grant.
In his remarks, Cook called on the Nigerian government to invest in the digital sector, saying it is the future of the nation.
She commended the Federal Government for the refurbishment of the National Theater in Lagos which she said will create an ecosystem and provide phenomenal opportunities for creative industry stakeholders.
The US official also pledged her country was ready to work with Nigeria to boost the country’s creative industry.

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Diversity, politics and revelations from the Nazi era will dominate the agenda when the Berlin film festival launches its 70th edition in the heart of the German capital this Thursday.
This edition opens with a large selection of films, with movies from Brazil and Argentina competing alongside the latest films from veterans like Abel Ferrara and anticipated features like The Roads Not Taken, which stars Javier Bardem and Elle Fanning.
’odos os mortos, by Brazilian film-makers Marco Dutra and Caetano Gotardo on slavery, and El fugugo, a film by Argentine director Natalia Meta, defined as a "psycho-sexual thriller," are in the running for the Golden Bear prize.
A total of 18 films are competing for the top prize of the festival, which is seen as a bastion of social cinema. American independent film star Kelly Reichardt will compete with First Cow, and Iranian Mohamad Rasoulof, whose government prevents him from leaving the country, will do so too with There is no evil’. Darkness and hopelessness predominate in this competition.
"Perhaps because the films we select tend to look at the present without hope; not to arouse fear, but because they want to open our eyes," explained Carlo Chatrian, the festival's new director with Mariette Rissenbeek.
This year's competition will be judged an international jury headed by British Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons, which also includes French-Argentine star Berenice Bejo.
The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony on Saturday, February 29.
Actress Helen Mirren will receive the Bear of Honour and two other famous females will also draw attention: Cate Blanchett, for her mini-series Stateless on migration, and Hillary Clinton, who is expected at the festival to present the five-part documentary Hillary’, about her life.
Chatrian and Rissenbeek, who took over from Dieter Kosslick after 18 years leading the festival, promised to reflect diversity not only in the selection of their films but also among their directors.
Of the 18 films in competition, six are directed or co-directed by women, down from last year's record (45 percent) but higher than at Cannes and especially Venice, whose 2019 edition only selected two women directors out of 21.
It includes Colombian director Camilo Restrepo's debut film, Los Conductos, and Argentine director Matías Piñeiro's new film, Isabella, about the female characters in Shakespeare's work.
In addition to Natalia Meta, Argentine Agustina Comedi is also hoping to win the Golden Bear for Best Short Film with Playback.
Brazil has a strong presence in with four films, including the documentary Nardjes, by director Karim Aïnouz, who won a prize last year in Cannes for his melodrama La vida invisible, about Eurydice Gusmao.
Also highlighted is O reflexo do lago, a film about Amazonian villages living next to the world's largest hydroelectric installations.
The Berlinale will also present El tango del viudo y su espejo deformante ("The tango of the widower and his deforming mirror"), a film that Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz, left unfinished due to lack of funds and early death. His former partner Valeria Sarmiento found the film's reels in 2017 and, together with a team of directors, decided to complete it, a task that took them almost three years.
Chatrian warned against "stamping" the Berlinale as a political event, yet politics will be front and centre in the 70th edition.
The anniversary has already been overshadowed by revelations that Alfred Bauer, the Berlinale's founding director, was a high-ranking Nazi.
The prestigious Alfred Bauer prize, previously won by the likes of Baz Luhrmann, was suspended after an investigation by newspaper Die Zeit highlighted Bauer's standing in the Nazi party.
On Tuesday, festival organisers announced they had commissioned the Munich-based Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) to investigate Bauer's role in the Hitler regime.

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News & Events
Rensselaer will host a webinar on May 6 titled “Lessons of Large Disasters for Post-Disaster Response,” beginning at 12:30 p.m. EST.
The Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program has named Rensselaer on its recent classification of colleges based on “value-added” measures.
Five Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute graduate students have been awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will host the 41st Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC) April 17-19.


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Education ranking of Montana’s cities is a little rude
Montanans may be slightly above average in intelligence, but some cities and towns in Big Sky Country are less bright than others, according to a ranking by the website Roadsnacks.net based upon towns’ education and dropout rates.
Here are the dimmest 10 Montana cities, with the worst first, according to the website:
1. Shelby, 2. Hamilton, 3. Laurel, 4. Anaconda, 5. Glendive, 6. Polson, 7. Sidney, 8. Hardin, 9. Miles City, 10. Great Falls.
School dropout rates hurt Shelby, with a 16.5 percent of students quitting early, but Hamilton, with a huge 26.5 percent dropout rate, had the worst of the bottom 10. Great Falls’ number of residents without a high school diploma, and dropout rate, both stood at around 9 percent, slightly lower than the state average, Roadsnacks said.
In these rankings, Kalispell finished 12th and Billings, Montana’s largest city, finished 13th. Rated smartest were Bozeman, Belgrade, Whitefish, Helena and Missoula. Bozeman and Missoula each sport large universities, and Helena is the seat of state government.
It’s not surprising people in university towns are more highly educated, on average, than other cities, but it’s a good thing officials are working hard to reduce dropout rates around the state.
The report looked at 22 Montana cities and towns and only considered education level and dropout rates. For more on the report, visit roadsnacks.net.
Quote of the Week
“We’ll trade you five administrators and four draft picks for Waded Cruzado. Cruzado, she’s a success story. You’ve got great leadership there.”
— UM professor Douglas Coffin, quipped in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle wishing for Cruzado, Montana State University, to take the helm at the University of Montana.
Number of the Week
That is how much the average U.S. subscriber spends annually to rent a set-top box from their cable company.
The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 along party lines to begin crafting rules intended to spur competition in the set-top box market by developing technology standards so third-party devices and apps could decode pay-TV signals.
Such a move would let consumers purchase boxes from technology companies instead of renting them from their cable or satellite provider.
Darby musher Jessie Royer became the first three-time champion of the Race to the Sky sled dog race Monday morning as she narrowly beat out Great Falls endodontist Brett Bruggeman in the 300-mile race. Bruggeman was just four minutes behind Royer, who crossed the finish line at 8:39 a.m. She finished the race with 11 dogs. Bruggeman finished with 10 dogs.
The finish was on bare ground, but there was snow cover along most of the route.
Jenny Greger of Bozeman won the 100-mile race, and Holden Paul of Rexburg, Idaho, won the 100-mile juniors race as he beat out Spencer Bruggeman, Brett’s son for the title.
Congratulations to all competitors, both the two-legged and the four-legged.
Bumper Sticker of the Week
“Insanity is saying the same thing over and over and expecting your children to listen.”
–Spotted Friday on a blue Subaru Forester with vanity plates at Lippi’s Kitchen.


Design and characterization of 90 GHz feedhorn-coupled TES polarimeter pixels in the SPTpol camera
The SPTpol camera is a two-color, polarization-sensitive bolometer receiver, and was installed on the 10 meter South Pole Telescope in January 2012. SPTpol is designed to study the faint polarization signals in the Cosmic Microwave Background, with two primary scientific goals. One is to constrain the tensor-to-scalar ratio of perturbations in the primordial plasma, and thus constrain the space of permissible inflationary models. The other is to measure the weak lensing effect of large-scale structure on CMB polarization, which can be used to constrain the sum of neutrino masses as well as other growth-related parameters. The SPTpol focal plane consists of seven 84-element monolithic arrays of 150 GHz pixels (588 total) and 180 individual 90 GHz single-pixel modules. In this paper we present the design and characterization of the 90 GHz modules.
The current state of Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (CMB) research is in transition from primarily studying temperature fluctuations (of order K rms) to also mapping the faint CMB polarization signals (of order few K rms) on the sky. Two major cosmological results are expected to come from analyzing maps of CMB polarization. The first is either a detection or an upper limit on the amplitude of primordial gravity waves, which would provide a direct probe of the era of inflation and offer the first concrete insight into the energy scale at which inflation occurred. The second is a measurement of the weak lensing signal of CMB radiation due to the gravitational effect of large scale structure between us and the surface of last scattering. This weak lensing signal provides a means of constraining neutrino mass through its effect on the history of structure growth.
The South Pole Telescope underwent an upgrade in the austral summer of 2011-2012, during which a new, polarization-sensitive camera was installed. The upgraded telescope and new camera, collectively referred to as SPTpol, is among the most sensitive CMB polarimeters currently in operation. The SPTpol focal plane consists of seven 84-pixel monolithic polarization sensitive feedhorn-coupleed detector arrays at 150 GHz (588 pixels, 1176 detectors total), and 180 individual feedhorn-detector modules (180 pixels, 360 detectors total) at 90 GHz. Each 90 GHz pixel is a self-contained module consisting of a feedhorn and waveguide piece mounted to a base containing two independent, crossed bolometers with connections for readout and physical mounting to the focal plane. The bolometers couple via PdAu resistive resonators to a single circular waveguide mode. The resistive resonators are mounted on a SiN island along with MoAu transition edge sensors (TES) used for readout. In this paper, we discuss the thermal, electrical, and optical design of the 90 GHz pixels, and review the pre-deployment characterization of their properties.
2 Design of 90 Ghz Pixels
2.1 Optical Design
Polarization transmission fidelity, azimuthal beam symmetry, and maximum optical coupling efficiency are the primary optical design considerations for the 90 GHz detector modules. We use a smoothwall profiled-feed to maximize beam symmetry for a linearly polarized detector, in a simple and easy-to-machine design compared to corrugated feeds . Symmetric beams are required for good common-mode subtraction between polarized detectors oriented at to each other, which is essential for minimizing leakage of temperature anisotropies into differenced-detector polarization signals. Metal mesh low-pass filters in the optical system skyward of the feedhorns define the upper band edge and block high frequencies, while the lower edge of the band is defined by the 2.35-mm waveguide diameter at the back end of the feed. Radiation is coupled from the waveguide to the TES island through lossy PdAu bar resonators deposited on a SiN membrane.
Initial designs for the optical elements of the 90 GHz detectors were generated using HFSS simulations to model the optical performance of a mounted single-bar absorber . We chose a long, thin bar as the absorber shape to optimize coupling to the TE11 spatial mode supported in the waveguide. Initial prototypes had absorbers made of Au/Cr bilayers, but the material was changed to PdAu to allow for a good impedance match between the absorber and waveguide fields with a thinner and thus easier-to-manufacture layer. Simulations informed the absorber geometry (as summarized in Table 1) and location within the waveguide that maximized coupling between incident radiation and the absorber at the center of the optical band. The simulations predict co-polar coupling of 93% averaged across the band, a cross-polar coupling of less than 0.1%, and confirmed that the second (TM01) mode that turns on near the upper edge of the band does not couple appreciably to the absorber structure . Further HFSS simulations were used to establish acceptable limits of detector misalignment, and showed that minimal performance loss resulted from radial translations within the waveguide up to 75 m, rotational misalignment of less than , and changes in distance between the aborbers and backshort of less than 100 m. In the final configuration, the two single-detector wafers are mounted face-to-face at a separation of 25 m, achieved by laying 25 m diameter wirebonds between the detectors’ Si support structures.
|Absorber width||18 m|
|Absorber length||1300 m|
|Distance between absorbers||25 m|
|Waveguide diameter||2350 m|
|Distance from absorber to backshort||1080 m|
|Width of waveguide break||150 m|
|Width of choke||840 m|
|Distance from TES to waveguide||150 m|
2.2 Thermal design
Our detectors see a baseline optical loading background of photons from the CMB, atmosphere, and various emissive instrument elements in the optical path. They are also biased with electrical power via the resistive TES. For a thermal link with a power law temperature dependence, the total quiescent power deposited on the TES thermal island from both optical and electrical bais raises its temperature above the cryogenic bath according to
where is known as the saturation power when it is sufficient to drive into its transition, and depends on the materials and geometry of the TES and thermal island. The background optical loading from CMB, atmosphere, and instrumental emission for SPTpol is pW, which represents the theoretical minimum saturation power for a TES detector. Electrical power comes from the dissipation of readout current in the resistive TES and is easily tunable to provide a desired saturation power based on the TES design. For fixed optical power loading, increased electrical bias power allows for more stable, linear operation over a wider range of observing conditions by reducing the impact of optical power fluctuations on the TES response, but also leads to increased noise due to a larger . In SPTpol, the target electrical-to-optical power ratio at the TES transition temperature, , is 2.5:1, which represents a safety margin to ensure stable operation. Saturation powers of 25 pW at the 300 mK bath temperature set by SPTpol’s He10 cryogenic cooler, result in a target of 510 mK. Design dimensions for these thermal performance targets are listed in Table 2.
Normal resistance of the TES depends on the thickness of the Au layer, and is constrained by readout requirements in SPTpol to be , while is determined by the ratio of the Mo and Au layer thicknesses. The target of 510 mK and target of 1 result in typical thicknesses of (20 nm)/(30 nm) for the Mo/Au layers. Both the TES and the PdAu bar absorber are deposited on a 1 m thick film of SiN, which is patterned into a rectangular thermal mass with 8 long, thin legs connecting it to a support frame at the thermal bath temperature. Thermal conductivity between the island and the bath is set by the geometry of the legs, which are each 10 m wide, 1 m thick, and 1350 m long for a target saturation power of 25 pW . Electrical leads to the TES in the form of Nb traces run along two of the legs to the TES but do not contribute appreciably to the thermal connection.
|SiN film thickness||1 m|
|thermal island length x width||3300 m x 200 m|
|thermal standoff leg length x width||1350 m x 10 m|
|TES length x width||70m x 40 m|
Steady-state performance as discussed above determines the TES bias parameters, but response to small, time-dependent signal fluctuations resulting from the telescope scanning across a CMB field is also a key design criterion for these detectors. At a bias power, , and resulting TES temperature and resistance, and , this response is parameterized by the dynamic thermal conductivity,
between the TES and the bath, and electro-thermal loopgain, , of response to optical power fluctuations defined as
Response to a time-varying signal depends on the optical time constant, , which reflects the time scale of thermalization between the absorber and the SiN island, and the TES thermal time constant, , where is the TES heat capacity. SPTpol 90 GHz detectors have , such that overall detector reponse is dominated by the latter.
We operate our detectors with a constant voltage bias applied across each TES, which results in their operating in negative electrothermal feedback (ETF) mode. With negative ETF, an optical power fluctuation in the absorber changes the TES temperature and thus its resistance, inducing an electrical power fluctuation in the opposite direction of the optical power fluctuation and driving the TES back towards its bias point. The strength of this compensatory effect is parameterized by the ETF loopgain from (3), which is tuned to meet requirements for detector sensitivity, operational stability, and linearity. The loopgain speeds up the thermal response time of the TES to
where is the effective time constant of the feedback power fluctuation. Higher loopgain and a reduced time constant im prove linearity and sensitivity are improved over a wider range of fluctuation amplitudes and frequencies. However, stability depends on the bandwidth of loopgain-induced compensatory fluctations being smaller than the effective bandwidth of the detector readout scheme, as discussed in section 2.3.
2.3 Electrical Design
SPTpol detectors are read out with a digital frequency-multiplexed (DfMux) readout system, in which each TES is biased at a frequency between 400 kHz and 1.2 MHz, with a comb of 12 multiplexed detectors sharing electrical bias lines. CMB signals appear as small modulations between roughly 0.1 - 20 Hz in the detector time-ordered data, depending on the telescope scanning speed and on-sky scale of the CMB fluctuations. Each TES is wired in series with a 24 H inductor and a capacitor, C, that sets its bias frequency at , where the impedance of the L and C components of the circuit cancel each other, placing the full bias amplitude across the TES resistance. A comb of 12 parallel LCR TES channels is placed in parallel with a 30 m shunt resistor, which sets the voltage across the entire comb. Current through the detector comb is recombined and read out by a SQUID amplifier, before being demodulated by warm electronics. Resonant peaks are nominally spaced 60 kHz apart.
In the DfMux readout system, the frequency dependent impedance of the resonant circuits used in the bias comb places limits on the useable signal bandwidth for each detector. At the bias peak, where the signal frequency is , the impedance of the series LC portion of circuit is zero, and current through the TES is simply . Modulations in TES resistance result in amplitude modulations of the carrier current that show up as sidebands to the carrier, and are thus attenuated by the nonzero off-resonance impedance of the bias circuit. Impedance for each leg of the network is
Signals that modulate the carrier amplitude at a frequency are attenuated by the dependence of on , which serves to reduce the amplitude and shift the phase of these off-resonance signals. The signal bandwidth around each resonant peak is parameterized by the L/R time constant, , which is 28s with 24 H inductors and biased of 0.8 . In addition to reducing the magnitude of carrier amplitude modulations, the LC circuit phase-shifts them, which results in TES instability if the electrothermal feedback has not been suppressed before significant interaction with the electrical filtering impedances. The stability criterion relating the electrical and thermal time constants is [7, 8]. Thus, for our readout system, a critical design criterion is that ms, which sets an upper limit on .
Initial prototypes for the SPTpol detectors consisted of a bare TES as described above, with geometry matching target steady-state thermal parameters. However, these designs resulted in values of and that were insufficient to maintain stability and linearity under expected operating conditions. Using a solution implemented in the previous phase of SPT operations (SPT-SZ), we added a PdAu layer (called bling) that increases the heat capacity of the TES. After several prototype designs, we settled on an L-shaped bling made of 400 nm thick PdAu with a volume of 5000 m for a target of 10ms.
Adding bling serves to increase , however the bare MoAu TES has such a high that the loopgain was too large for stable operation. Our solution was to pattern Nb structures onto the TES itself, which leads to an interaction between the superconducting Nb and Mo/Au TES bilayer that widens the superconducting transition and reduces . Figure 2 shows R(T) profiles for a standard MoAu TES and test detectors with the addition of different Nb patterns on the TES. Our final design consists of rows of 3 m diameter dots with 11 m separation, which provides stable performance with acceptable loopgains.
3 CHARACTERIZATION OF 90 GHz PIXELS
3.1 Optical Measurements
Optical coupling efficiency was measured by modulating the temperature of a beam-filling blackbody load and measuring the corresponding electrical power in the TES transition. At a constant stage temperature, the total dissipated power at a given point in the transition is constant, and is composed of , where is the total coupling efficiency to the emitted optical power from the load. We account for a transmission efficiency factor resulting from the imperfect transmission through the various band-defining and heat blocking filters, as well as the optical coupling efficiency factor , which parameterizes the coupling of the detectors to the optical power incident on the feedhorn aperture. Assuming unity emissivity of the blackbody load and 99 transmission of one infrared blocking filter, 95 transmission of five band-defining and harmonic blocking filters, the total filter transmission is 77. As shown in Figure 4, the optical coupling efficiency assuming single-moded and diffraction limited performance of the feedhorn and waveguide, is then 87, which is within expectations based on HFSS simulations of the band-averaged absorber-to-waveguide coupling . The transmission band from a Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) illuminating the deployed focal plane is shown in Figure 5.
Optical loading while looking into a 300 K load, as in laboratory testing, drives these detectors above their transition. However, our final 90 GHz TES design with Nb dots and PdAu bling included a small but significant R(T) slope even in the normal regime, so some measurements, including polarization efficiency, were made using the normal-detector response to a large signal. We illuminated the detectors with a chopped signal sent through a polarizing grid assumed to be 100 efficient. The response to a strong chopped signal as a function of grid angle was recorded for two crossed detectors. In this case, one detector was successfully biased in its transition due to an anomolously high resulting from accidental glue deposition on one of the thermal legs, while the other was in its normal regime but with responsivity sufficient for a high signal-to-noise measurement. The results as shown in Figure 6 are normalized to the maximum response from each detector and plotted with a linear fit to , where is the polarizer angle. From the fits, both detectors show a cross-polarization response of of the maximum copolar response, and a relative alignment of .
3.2 TES Electrothermal Properties
The static TES thermal parameters and can be measured together by using a series of TES current vs. bias voltage (I-V) load curves taken at various bath temperatures with a negligible optical load. Optical loading is insignificant if the detectors are inside a light-tight 300 mK enclosure, and see less than 10 of the total design loading if their beams include only the inside of the 4 K thermal enclosure. Each I-V curve sees the detector pass through its superconducting transition at a roughly constant electrical power, a result of a decrease in both input bias voltage and TES resistance. Using the electrical power required to drive the detector to as a function of bath temperature, we fit for the static heat transfer equation (1). Figure 7 shows the data and the resultant fit. We find a good agreement with the target thermal parameters of 510 mK , 25 pW , and thermal conductivity exponent n=3, consistent with phonon transport through the SiN legs.
Electro-thermal stability of the TES is a key element in the performance of production detectors. The ideal measurement of ETF is the TES response to incident optical power fluctuations at different frequencies. However, the low-G design of the SPTpol 90 GHz detectors precludes such a direct measurement. Our solution is to use a technique called the “Lueker tickle” to mimic a modulated optical load through use of the eletrical bias system. The tickle utilizes a second bias channel with a small amplitude, , and a frequency offset from the carrier frequency by . When the two signals are combined and sent to the TES, the resulting eletrical bias power beats at frequency F and with an input amplitude . We sweep over a range from 3 Hz - 10 kHz and record the TES response amplitude as a function of the input beat frequency, normalizing to the detector response at 3 Hz. Figure 8 shows an example of this measurement, illustrating the change in electro-thermal response as a function of depth in the transition (i.e. at various values of ), and tickle frequency. We can use the time constant of single-pole low pass filter fit to the data as a measurement of the loopgain of our detectors, according to Equation (5).
Noise performance is critical to achieving the sensitivity required to extract a meaningful signal from CMB polarization. The basic noise model for our detectors is a white noise component with a 1/f component at low frequency due primarly to slow modulations in atmospheric loading. Each pixel’s net polarization signal is derived from the difference of the individual bolometer timestreams, which ideally removes any non-polarized signal common to both detectors. The white noise level is a combination of Johnson noise in the electrical readout circuit, thermal flucuation noise from the link between the TES and the bath, photon noise from the optical loading on the detector, and a small component of SQUID readout noise. We seek to operate in the background-limited regime, where the overall noise is dominated by the photon noise component, which is approximately 70 for typical loading conditions. In the background limit with current optical loading, our on-sky sensitivity is limited by the statistical fluctuations of incoming photons and thus can only be improved with more detectors and longer integration times. Figure 9 shows a sample noise spectrum from a single pixel, with both X and Y polarized detectors and their difference, along with a reference dark spectrum taken from a different detector prior to deployment. The dark spectrum consists of Johnson noise, thermal fluctuation noise, and a small readout noise component, while the on-sky spectra introduce the background loading noise.
In January of 2012, we deployed a 768 pixel polarimeter on the South Pole Telescope as part of an upgrade to the SPTpol phase of operations. The 90 GHz band will be observed with 180 crossed-detector modules comprised of a profiled feed and two independent polarization-sensitive detectors mounted face-to-face in a circular waveguide. Each detector couples to CMB radiation via a resistive PdAu absorbring bar, which couples optical power to a SiN thermal island on which is mounted a Mo/Au bilayer transition edge sensor. Temperature fluctuations in the CMB are converted into modulations in the TES resistance which are read out by SPTpol digital-frequency multiplexed electronics. We find detector optical coupling efficiency of 87, consistent with similuations, along with excellent polarization efficiency to minimize leakage of temperature into polarization signals. We also confirm background-limited noise performance with stable electro-thermal loopgains and TES under nominal loading and bias conditions.
Acknowledgements.Work at Case Western Reserve University, the University of California - Berkeley, the University of Colorado - Boulder, and the University of Chicago is supported by grants from the NSF (awards ANT-0638937 and PHY-0114422), the Kavli Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Work at Argonne National Lab is supported by UChicago Argonne, LLC, Operator of Argonne National Laboratory (”Argonne”). Argonne, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Laboratory, is operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. We would aslo like to acknowlege support from the Argonne Center for Nanoscale Materials. The McGill authors acknowledge funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and Canada Research Chairs program. Matt Dobbs acknowledges support from an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.
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The recent Ontario Human Rights Tribunal decision of Wickham v Hong Shing Chinese Restaurant 2018 HRTO 500 provides some important reminders on employer liability for racial profiling. The adjudicator found that the Applicant and his three friends were racially profiled when they were asked to pre-pay for their meal at a sit-down Chinese food restaurant.
In August 2017, the federal government launched a $73 million work-placement program for students through paid co-op opportunities in industries such as science, engineering and skilled trades. This is one of many examples of recent initiatives attempting to attract more people into the skilled trades. Both federal and provincial governments have acknowledged a shortage of
This posting builds upon an earlier one entitled “#2 Mental health or physical disabilities that deal with the duty to accommodate”. As indicated in that post, the duty to accommodate is always a tricky exercise and one that should be treated with the utmost circumspection. The Accommodation Process The Ontario Human Rights Code lists a
Mental illness can be a taboo subject that employers shy away from discussing. Mental Illness accommodation often makes employers cringe because they either do not recognize a need to accommodate or do not know how to engage in appropriate and necessary accommodation. In the recent Northwest Territories case of Thorson v. The Government of the


HRSG Expansion Joints
A Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) is an energy-recovery heat exchanger designed to recover waste heat from a hot flue gas that would typically be vented to the atmosphere and convert it to steam. HRSG expansion joints used in these applications can reach temperatures in access of 2500*F. As the exhaust gases are ducted away from their source to the steam generator, expansion joints are used to connect the equipment.
In power generation, gas turbines are used to turn electrical generators and the waste heat from the jet engine is ducted to a HRSG to generate steam that powers a secondary electrical generator (which is steam driven). In these plants, Zepco has designed and installed HRSG expansion joints on the combustion air inlet ducts to the combustion turbine, as well as the joints on the gas outlet to the HRSG and stack breeching. On the HRSG itself, we also build penetration seals, which are designed to seal the HRSG casing to any pipes that are penetrating through the casing.
The combustion air joints are typically molded rubber or Teflon and operate under 300*F. The exhaust gas penetration seals can see gas temperature up to 1200*F and are composite type joints.


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MOSCOW, Sept. 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- PJSC Sovcombank announced the signing of the debut syndicated facility agreement with a group of international banks in the amount of USD 200 000 000 with one year maturity. The loan will be used for trade related and general corporate purposes and bears interest rate of 3m Libor + 1.7% p.a.
Citibank N.A., London branch, OOO HSBC Bank (RR), ING Bank, PJSC ROSBANK and Commerzbank AG acted as Mandated Lead Arrangers.
ING Bank N.V. acts as coordinator and facility agent under the transaction.
"This debut syndicated loan is an important milestone in developing of Sovcombank's international activities. It demonstrates Sovcombank's high level of credibility, successful business model and sound financial results recognised by global financial institutions. We express gratitude to our partners and are confident in further fruitful cooperation," said Dmitry Gusev, Chairman of the Management Board of Sovcombank.


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In November 2008, the announcement that London’s Metropolitan Police’s Human Trafficking team would have its Home Office funding cut from April 2009 represented a major setback to official efforts to fight human trafficking in the UK. The Human Trafficking Team was young, set up as recently as March 2007 and the news of its closure came soon after the team helped secure a major conviction (please see blog post 25 November 2008 ) in which six young men were given heavy sentences in connection to the trafficking of a sixteen year old Lithuanian girl in 2006. With funding slashed (the Team was fully funded by the Home Office Reflex Project) the Human Trafficking Team could not hope to continue its vital work. How could we take seriously the government’s promise to crack down on human trafficking?
Thanks to agitation and pressure from a number of organisations including STOP THE TRAFFIK, the Home Office have agreed to delay the ending of funding until 2010. Meanwhile, they have increased funding for the UK Human Trafficking Centre in Sheffield, which coordinates intelligence nationwide, and are providing funding for further supported accommodation for human trafficking victims.
Many thanks to those who helped bring pressure to bear, and STOP THE TRAFFIK eagerly awaits further news of progress in this area.


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ODU Authors Get Double Exposure in Nature Geoscience
Having an article published in one of the Nature Publishing Group journals is a rare accomplishment for university faculty members across the globe, and it speaks well of the academic/research credentials of an author's institution.
This month, the journal Nature Geoscience is featuring two articles that have Old Dominion University scientists as authors. Both articles were released Sunday, Nov. 11, through the journal's advance online publication process and will be published in the print version of Nature Geoscience at a later date.
Dennis Darby, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, is the lead author of an article reporting the discovery of a clear 1,500-year cycle in the Arctic Oscillation. This sheds light on climate trends elsewhere in the world. One of the co-authors is Chester Grosch, a professor of physical oceanography and computer science at ODU.
Peter Bernath, chair of the ODU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is one of the authors of an article reporting the first direct evidence that emissions of carbon dioxide caused by human activity are propagating upward to the highest regions of the atmosphere.
"This is a fine accomplishment, having two papers by scientists from Old Dominion published simultaneously by this prestigious journal," said Chris Platsoucas, dean of the ODU College of Sciences. "We are immensely proud of the work of professors Darby, Grosch and Bernath, and we congratulate them on these publications."
Nature Geoscience is an international monthly journal that is one of the sister publications of the weekly journal Nature. The Nature Publishing Group is headquartered in London, England.
A team of scientists led by Old Dominion University geological oceanographer Dennis Darby reports this week in an article slated for publication in the journal Nature Geoscience that it has identified for the first time a clear 1,500-year cycle in the Arctic Oscillation (AO), the surface atmosphere pressure pattern in the far north that greatly influences weather in the Northern Hemisphere. ( More )
A team of scientists including Peter Bernath, the chair of Old Dominion University’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has reported the first direct evidence that emissions of carbon dioxide caused by human activity are propagating upward to the highest regions of the atmosphere. ( More )

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Happy Friday! If you’re like me, you now spend the weekend anticipating the new version of Poldark on PBS Sunday nights. I still have vivid memories of being glued to the original series with my parents in late night reruns in the 80s. Watching Ross Poldark torn between Elizabeth and Demelza (and frequently thinking “won’t you wake up to what’s in front of you?”) I’ve been thinking about triangles. Last night at Merola’s wonderful Schwabacher Summer Concert a fabulous except from Verdi’s Don Carlo also made me think about the fascination of triangles (for those in the Bay Area, the concert is repeated Saturday at 2:00 for free outdoors at Yerba Buena Gardens).
The Mayfair Affair takes the Suzanne/Malcolm/Raoul triangle in some interesting new directions. This seemed a good time to ask what readers think of the current state of that triangle (is it even still a triangle?) and of literary triangles in general, and also to repost a post I originally put up in 2011 on Squaring the Triangle.
Have a great weekend!
“Squaring the triangle” is a term the playwright hero of S.N. Behrman’s No Time for Comedy flippantly uses to describe what he does writing romantic comedies. I was thinking about this last week watching one of my favorite television shows, The Good Wife. The heroine is back together, at least on the surface, with the husband who betrayed her. Peter Florek is a deeply flawed character, yet I find him likable in many ways, and in last week’s episode I genuinely believed him when he said he’d fallen back in love with his life. I almost found myself wanting their marriage to work out. And that’s despite the fact that I really like Alicia’s colleague and old love, Will, and most of the time I desperately want the two of them to get together.
That’s the key to writing a really fascinating triangle, I think. Having all the characters interesting and sympathetic enough that one is somewhat torn about who ends up with whom. Which of course can create problems with also having a satisfying happily ever after, if such an ending is the goal of the story. As I’ve mentioned before, I think one of my favorite plays/movies, The Philadelphia Story, does this brilliantly in that both Mike and Dexter are sympathetic and possible options for Tracy (both much better than her stuffy fiancé George). I think often the viewer isn’t quite sure who will end up with whom. And yet the ending feels very right (at least to me).
Both Vienna Waltz and The Mask of Night have several triangles. I don’t really want Mélanie/Suzanne to go back to Raoul, at least not in that way (or mostly not in that way, to paraphrase both Charles and Mel in Mask). But I’m very fond of Raoul and I can definitely see that tug between them. As Jeanne adeptly pointed out in last week’s comments, he represents a world in which Mel can practice her talents to the fullest and be herself, whereas in Charles’s world she has to work more behind-the-scenes (though she manages rather a lot of adventure in any case). Raoul ended up much more sympathetic than I had at first envisioned when I wrote Secrets of a Lady, and I think that makes the dynamic among the three of them much more interesting. Not to mention that in addition to the residual romantic tension, there’s a spy dynamic, ideological issues, and a father-son story between Raoul and Charles that takes on more prominence in Mask.
The plot of Vienna Waltz is more or less built on triangles–the triangle of Tatiana, Tsar Alexander, and Metternich which forms the set-up of the murder discovery and investigation; Suzanne/Mel, Malcolm/Charles, and Tatiana (which, whatever else it is or is not, is certainly an emotional tug-of-war); and real life triangles such as both Metternich, the tsar and Wihelmine of Sagan, and Metternich, the tsar, and Princess Catherine Bagration (Metternich and Tsar Alexander definitely carried their rivalry into the boudoir). And then there’s the triangle which is still very much an open question at the end of the book of Dorothée, Count Clam-Martinitz, and Prince Talleyrand. Dorothée isn’t sure at the end of the novel which man she’ll end up with, and that’s certainly a real life triangle in which I can sympathize with all three participants.
What do you think of triangles in books? What are some of your favorite literary triangles? Are there times when you’ve been dissatisfied with the resolution of a triangle?


Plasma carbon nanotubes are modified for pollutant monitoring and treatment
Plasma carbon nanotubes are modified for pollutant monitoring and treatment:
Plasma modification is a new process with short treatment time, no chemical pollution, no damage to the overall volume structure of materials, and only change the surface properties of materials. In recent years, the institute of plasma of low temperature plasma application laboratory, Chen Changlun, shao dong, polly, wang and other research using the low temperature plasma technology for surface cleaning of carbon nanotubes modified assembly, overcome the carbon nanotubes from the difficult solubility limit, greatly improve the level of its practical application.
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been modified and assembled by low temperature plasma technology, and a series of achievements have been made in the detection and treatment of environmental pollutants.
Ar/H2O,Ar/NH3 and Ar/O2 microwave plasma were used to treat the surface of carbon nanotubes, and functional groups containing oxygen and amino were introduced into the nanotubes to improve their hydrophilicity and make them into nanosolutions. These functionalized materials have a good application prospect for improving the biosorption and environmental adsorption of carbon nanotubes. Applied Physics Letter (2010, 96, 131504); Carbon (2010, 48, 939-948); The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2009, 113, 7659-7665); Some of the results were published in Diamond & Related Materials (in press). Two oral reports were also invited to the meeting.
Secondly, the surface of carbon nanotubes was activated by N2 radiofrequency plasma, and the organic monomers and natural polymers were grafted onto the surface of carbon nanotubes to prepare carbon nanotubes/organic composite. The surface of composite materials prepared by isoionization system contains a variety of functional groups, which have strong adsorption and complexation effect on persistent organic pollutants (POPs), toxic and harmful heavy metal ions, radionuclides, etc., thus improving the ability of composite materials to adsorb pollutants. Some results were published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2009, 113, 860-864). Chemosphere (2010, 79, 679-685); Plasma Processes and Polymers (in press, and selected for cover).
Due to the small size of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), it is difficult to recycle and reuse the organic/inorganic pollutants after adsorption. Conventional centrifugal method requires high speed, and filtration method is easy to cause filter membrane blockage, carbon nanotubes adsorbed pollutants into the environment, easy to cause secondary pollution. In order to solve the problem above, using the sol-gel method is a new type of nanometer materials, the material on the carbon nanotube assembly feng up the iron oxide, and then use N2 rf plasma activation/ferrite on the surface of carbon nanotubes, upper grafting organic monomer and natural macromolecular materials, was prepared with multiple composite magnetic nano materials, not only adsorption performance is good, In addition, magnetic separation technology can easily separate magnetic composite nanomaterials from solution, which solves the problem of difficult solid-liquid separation, and can be applied to practical work on a large scale.


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THUNDER BAY – Prime Minister Harper made the offer to Olivia Chow MP, the partner of the Honourable Jack Layton, Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition and Member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada for a State Funeral. Ms. Chow accepted. The Lying-in-State for Mr Layton will take place in the foyer of the House of Commons in Ottawa on Wednesday, August 24 and Thursday, August 25. It will be open to the public from 12:30 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday and from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday.
Canadians can also pay tribute to Mr. Layton as he lies in repose at Toronto City Hall on Friday, August 26 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on Saturday, August 27 beginning at 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, August 27, 2011, at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto. For more information on the State Funeral or to convey condolences to Mr. Layton’s family, Canadians can visit www.commemoration.gc.ca.
In Thunder Bay, a memorial service will be held for the late Jack Layton, Leader of the Official Opposition. A Book of Condolence for Layton’s family will be available for people to sign.
The non-denominational service will be open to the public:
Jack Layton Memorial Service
Date: Thursday, August 25
Location: Hillcrest Park
Books of Condolence may also be signed at the constituency offices of John Rafferty, MP and Bruce Hyer, MP during regular business hours. In lieu of flowers, Layton’s family has asked that people make a small donation to the Broadbent Institute: www.ndp.ca/inmemory

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I had a blood test today and have been told my HCG levels are only 18; they were looking for a result around 15. My progesterone levels were 'very good'.
I will be having the bloods done again Friday morning to see if the HCG levels increase.
Af is due today and my home tests have been resulting in very faint lines.
Has anyone had experience with low levels so early in pregnancy and what were your outcomes?

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STREAM: Starred - No Good
With expansive space and much grace, "No Good" by Starred is a song that's legitimately sparse and haunting. Vocalist Liza Thorn has a honey-laden voice that needs room to operate and echo, and guitarist Matt Koshak provides such a patient arrangement that the entire track just seems to float there. Really, it's a perfect song for napping in a cathedral or driving through New Mexico. Hear more on an upcoming 7-inch to be released by Pendu Sound.

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Huawei announced the Enjoy 10 Plus with a Kirin 710F SoC and a notch-less display earlier last month, and now the company followed it up with a slightly toned down vanilla Enjoy 10.
The Huawei Enjoy 10 feature a 6.39-inch display that has HD+ resolution and a punch hole in the upper-left corner for the 8MP selfie camera.
At the rear, the smartphone has a dual camera setup aligned vertically in the top-left corner which is a combination of a 48MP main and 2MP depth sensor units. The fingerprint reader that accompanied the rear cameras on the Plus variant is missing from the vanilla Enjoy 10, though.
Under the hood, the Huawei Enjoy 10 has a Kirin 710F SoC and it boots Android Pie-based EMUI 9.1. The smartphone comes in three memory versions – 4GB/64GB, 4GB/128GB, and 6GB/64GB. It also has a microSD card slot which allows storage expansion by up to 512GB.
The Huawei Enjoy 10 comes in four colors and packs a 4,000 mAh battery which charges through a microUSB port.
Huawei Enjoy 10 Specifications
- 2G bands: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – SIM 1 & SIM 2
- CDMA 800 & TD-SCDMA
- 3G bands: HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
- 4G bands: LTE (unspecified)
- Speed: HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A
- Announced: 2019, October
- Status: Release 2019, November 1
- Dimensions: 159.8 x 76.1 x 8.1 mm (6.29 x 3.00 x 0.32 in)
- Weight: 176 g (6.21 oz)
- Colours: Aurora blue, Acacia red, Magic night black, Sky blue
- SIM: Hybrid Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)
- Type: IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
- Size: 6.39 inches, 100.2 cm2 (~82.4% screen-to-body ratio)
- Resolution: 720 x 1560 pixels, 19.5:9 ratio (~269 ppi density)
- Android 9.0 (Pie), EMUI 9.1
- Chipset: Hisilicon Kirin 710F (12 nm)
- CPU: Octa-core (4×2.2 GHz Cortex-A73 & 4×1.7 GHz Cortex-A53)
- GPU: Mali-G51 MP4
- Storage/RAM: 64GB 4GB RAM, 64GB 6GB RAM, 128GB 4GB RAM
- Memory Card slot: microSD, up to 1 TB (uses shared SIM slot)
- Main Camera: Dual
- 48 MP, f/1.8, (wide), 1/2″, 0.8µm, PDAF
- 2 MP, f/2.4, depth sensor
- Features: LED flash, HDR, panorama
- Video: [email protected]
- Selfie Camera: Single – 8 MP, f/2.0
- Video: [email protected]
- FM Radio: Yes
- Loudspeaker: Yes
- Audio 3.5mm jack: Yes
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
- Bluetooth: 5.0, A2DP, LE
- GPS: Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS
- USB: microUSB 2.0, USB On-The-Go
- Sensors: Accelerometer, proximity, compass
- Battery Type & Capacity: Non-removable Li-Po 4000 mAh battery
- Charging: Battery charging 10W
Models: ART-TL00, ART-AL00, ART-AL00x
Huawei Enjoy 10 Price and Availability
The Enjoy 10 will go on sale in China from November 1. And as for the pricing, you will get
- 4GB/64GB model for CNY1,199 ($170/€150)
- 4GB/128GB variant for CNY1,399 ($200/€180)
- 6GB/64GB model for CNY1,399 ($200/€180)
Huawei Enjoy 10 Review Rating
We are yet to review the Huawei Enjoy 10 and so do not have a review rating for it yet. This section will be updated with our review rating and a link to the review page, as soon as we have a review ready.
Disclaimer: While we take the pains to ensure accuracy, we can not guarantee that the specs and information on this page about the Huawei Enjoy 10 are 100% correct. If you think that any information for the current phone is wrong or missing, please contact us.


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Why NBC May perhaps Scrap the Primetime Hour It Wins in Rankings6 min read
NBC might eradicate an hour it wins in the ratings. Seems like a miscalculation, but the go could help Jimmy Fallon, Peacock, and the bottom line.
NBC is thinking of chopping the 10 p.m. hour of its primetime schedule and handing the programming responsibilities off to regional affiliate marketers, The Wall Street Journal documented August 26. “While NBC is the amount one network, we are always looking at strategies to assure that our broadcast company stays as strong as achievable,” a spokesperson commented to media, like IndieWire, just after the tale broke. “As a enterprise, our edge lies in our skill to present audiences with the content they adore throughout broadcast, cable and streaming.”
Alright, but how would killing a single-third of primetime programming accomplish that, accurately? We’ll get to it, but the real, unspoken explanation is much easier to detect, formal statement or no: It’s all about value-cutting.
Dwell athletics, a large drag on NBC’s bottom line, are increasingly high priced. Also not affordable is setting up out Peacock as an crucial participant in the ongoing and material-centric streaming wars. Eliminating an hour of linear television could assistance offset some of all those charges. It also doesn’t absolutely do away with a income stream: NBCUniversal still monetizes its affiliates by way of an advertisement-income split when local programming is on the air.
On the flip side, affiliates likely wouldn’t convert down the primo time slot to greater line their pockets. Community-sector information, like news, is a great deal less expensive to make — and 10 o’clock is greater than 11.
Even now, 10 p.m. is commonly the the very least-watched primetime slot as people today convert off their TVs and flip in. That implies it provides in the lowest amount of hourly income from countrywide advertisers. Partly offseting those factors is the actuality that 10 p.m. is the primetime hour with the most delayed viewing.
Relative to its levels of competition, NBC is additional prosperous in the really 10 p.m. hour it might abandon. From September 20, 2021 as a result of final Thursday, August 25, NBC’s leisure programming (so, no sports activities) averaged a .38 “live” rating. That range grows to a .56 with one particular 7 days of (largely) DVR capture-up viewing. Live + 7 Day is how linear tv ratings are commonly noted these times all ratings in this tale are Nielsen knowledge.
Meanwhile, CBS averaged a .32 Live + Exact same Day ranking ABC averaged a .29. With delayed viewing, the two CBS and ABC bounce to a .46 rating, an even larger sized lag guiding NBC. Yet again, CBS, which skews older than the other two networks, is initially in terms of complete viewers through the hour NBC is 2nd.
NBC, CBS, and ABC have delivered nationwide programming from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. — aka primetime — because the early times of television. Youthful broadcast networks (equally in terms of their lifetimes and demo arrive at) Fox and The CW now slash off their primetime programming at 10 p.m., handing the reins to affiliate marketers.
Doing away with the 10 o’clock hour from NBC’s (and only NBC) averages from that September-August interval, NBC would pass CBS in “live” viewers. In Nielsen’s Dwell + 7 Working day numbers, CBS would preserve a mere 5,000 overall-viewer advantage over NBC. To appear at things this way is equal elements unfair and realistic: On a primetime-averages basis, evaluating 8pm-10pm vs. 8pm-11pm puts those networks with the 10 p.m. hour at a disadvantage. Even so, which is very little new the marketplace already does this when ranking Fox and The CW with the authentic Massive 3 broadcasters.
A different good in the risk of removing 10 p.m.: Jimmy Fallon would get a head begin on his late-night rivals. At the moment “The Tonight Show” kicks off at 11:35 p.m., just like “The Late Clearly show with Stephen Colbert” on CBS and “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!” on ABC. With no 10 o’clock hour of primetime in the way, Fallon can commence at 11 p.m. — even 10:30, if the affiliate marketers concur to run 30 or 35 minutes of late-night community news (as they do presently).
All through the 11-month period we studied for this tale, “The Tonight Show” and Colbert tied in the important ratings demo, grown ups 18-49, with a .22 every. Colbert grows a lot more than Fallon does in delayed viewing not like scripted programming, on the other hand, communicate displays really don’t get a huge DVR lift. Kimmel trails the other two in excess of the present-day September-to-September season, averaging a .19 Live + Exact Day rating. Delayed viewing does not catch ABC’s Jimmy up to NBC’s.
No make a difference how you slice it, Colbert is way in advance of his immediate levels of competition in phrases of full viewers. Fallon delivers up the rear by that Nielsen metric, which counts anyone aged 2 or older. (Though they guaranteed keep new mothers and fathers up, there are not a ton of infants observing late-evening Television set.) In other phrases, previous late-evening Tv set king Fallon could absolutely sure use the edge. (Ought to there be a single hour of community programming as opposed to 30 or 35 minutes, Fallon may well reap no rewards.)
A single human being with information of NBC’s inner conversations instructed IndieWire that talks to dump 10 p.m. are preliminary. Any such change would be at minimum a calendar year absent significantly of the programming for NBC’s upcoming tumble agenda is by now done and the promotion is sold. Should this transfer go down, it would only affect NBC’s on a regular basis scheduled programming. In other terms, “Sunday Night time Football,” the Olympics, the Golden Globes, and any other distinctive could (and would) operate around this new hypothetical primetime cutoff NBC stations would adhere with the event programming.
This slide, NBC will air new sequence “Quantum Leap” at 10 p.m. on Mondays, “New Amsterdam” in the slot on Tuesdays, “Chicago P.D.” on Wednesdays, “Law & Get: Structured Crime” on Thursdays, and “Dateline” on Fridays “SNL Classic,” a rerun, airs in the slot on Saturdays. On Sundays in the tumble, TV’s best present “Sunday Night time Football” procedures the airwaves. The agenda turns more than in midseason and all over again in the summer months. Ought to NBC hand the 10 o’clock hour again to local affiliate marketers in the future, pretty a few shows would be canceled or moved to one more system.
NBCUniversal’s streaming providing, Peacock, has the bandwith and could use the content. And there is superior stuff here: “P.D.” is a key aspect of Dick Wolf’s “One Chicago” lineup (his “Organized Crime” is a lot less critical to the “Law & Order” universe), and within of NBC those who have noticed the “Quantum Leap” reboot are fairly energized about it.
Reducing the time and passing it back to affiliates would not be unprecedented, notably at NBC. Mark Lazarus, chairman of NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, not too long ago canceled Lilly Singh’s late-night time show at 1:30 a.m. the time slot went again to affiliates. Just like that call, Lazarus won’t make this one particular in a vacuum: His affiliate-relations section has a liaison who technically will work for NBCU but hand-in-hand with independently owned stations. Any choice will be collaborative.
There are about 230 non-NBC-owned NBC affiliate marketers about the place 11 other people (referred to as “NBC Local”) are owned and operated by NBCUniversal. People 11 NBC O&O stations, a lot less than 5 per cent of the grand complete, make up 30 percent of the all round national viewers.
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Money sought for smoke detectors
Program targets low-income areas
Published 6:30 am, Friday, December 21, 2001
Houston Fire Chief Chris Connealy is asking local business leaders to help pay to install 30,000 smoke detectors in low-income and minority areas of the city.
"I want to target communities in the past that have been overlooked by the Houston Fire Department," Connealy said Thursday at the kickoff for "Get Alarmed Houston," a program to raise money for smoke detectors.
"We want to put a 10-year smoke detector in every low-income residence throughout the city," Connealy said. "That's where the fire fatality problem is at, and that's where we're going to attack it head on."
Connealy said missing or broken smoke detectors contributed to 23 fire fatalities this year. Although that is fewer than the 33 fatalities last year, Connealy said it was still too high.
"This is a very solvable problem," he said.
The majority of the victims of this year's fire deaths were black, according to the department. Houston NAACP Executive Director Yolanda Smith said the statistics are alarming and that her organization will help get the smoke detectors where they are needed.
"The safety of our community is not only a civil rights issue, but it is also a human rights issue," she said. "NAACP is very excited about the partnership" with HFD.
Fire department crews have installed about 2,000 donated fire detectors in homes throughout the city this year and will soon begin checking for working smoke detectors in targeted parts of the city.
"This is a multiyear project," Connealy said. "It's a very ambitious project."
Fire department inspectors also will continue to crack down on apartment owners who don't install working smoke detectors in each unit. Owners can be fined $250 to $2,000 a day for each violation, fire officials said.
"We can't do this alone with just the Houston Fire Department," Connealy said. "We want to bring the whole community to this to attack this problem on all sides."

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As Bombardier heads towards preliminary design freeze of the CSeries later this year, the company has allocated the vast majority of supplier agreements for the new twinjet. It has also indicated that wireless in-flight entertainment technology could be mature when the CSeries arrives in four years' time.
Although not all CSeries contracts have been made public, Bombardier new commercial aircraft programme director Ben Boehm reveals that a total of 96% of billable materials have been allocated. One yet-to-be announced deal is the award for the electric brakes. Bombardier tested the technology in October on a Global 5000, which was equipped entirely with an all-electric braking system supplied from Meggitt.
The remaining 4% constitutes "consumables and the flightdeck seats", under which Bombardier is considering adding a J-shaped track for "easier ingress and egress", says Boehm.
Meanwhile the airframer, which aims to reach the final design freeze late next year, thinks that there is "a good chance" that wireless IFE may be viable when the CSeries enters service in 2013.
Major suppliers for the CSeries include:-
Other announced suppliers include:-
"The maturity isn't quite there yet to be definitive, but there is a good chance that by 2013, you could get on-board entertainment downloads to your laptop, or as a minimum, we could only provide power to the seat back video monitors, but their content wouldn't need a second wire, it would be transmitted wirelessly instead."
Boehm says that the airframer "is not in a rush" for this technology and is waiting to see how it evolves as the service-entry date approaches. "Our customers are saying the same," he adds.
If Bombardier does go ahead with a wireless fit, it could be the pioneer. Boeing abandoned plans to use the technology in the 787 two years ago. Although one hurdle - that the 802.11n technology's specification had not yet been ratified by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - has since been overcome, other issues persist such as concerns over the trade-off between weight saving and bandwidth.
Airbus has commissioned Bluebox Avionics to provide its wireless system for inclusion in the A380 demonstration mock-up in Hamburg. The test could assist Airbus in deciding if the technology makes sense for the A350 XWB.
Source: Flight International


Are Running a Serious Risk
On August 29, 2013 we posted Swiss Banks Agree to Plan to End Past US Tax Evasion Issues! where we discussed that the Swiss banks were ready to pay hefty fines for sheltering United States tax fugitives under the terms of a new deal given the green light by the Swiss government. t reflects the long-standing desire of the US to end the decades-long practice of Swiss banks, supported by their government, of providing safe haven for US tax evaders through a wall of secrecy and a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
Now the details of this agreement are coming to light. The US-Swiss agreement takes the form of a plea agreement as signified by its name, “Program for Non-Prosecution Agreements or Non-Target Letters for Swiss Banks.” It was signed for the United States by the US Department of Justice, not by the US Treasury Department, implying that US scrutiny of Swiss banks has progressed from tax matters to prosecution concerns.
20 per cent of the maximum aggregate value of all undeclared US accounts that existed on 1 August 2008,
30 per cent of the maximum aggregate value of the accounts opened between 1 August 2008 and 28 February 2009, and
50 per cent of the maximum aggregate value of accounts opened after 28 February 2009.
This exposes the institutions and persons to possible prosecution for Conspiracy to Commit US Tax Evasion and, for the individuals, Failure to File the Foreign Bank Account Report.
There is a major probability that the US persons who have or had accounts at Swiss banks were not all just tax evaders, but who also are or were hiding the proceeds of crimes committed in the United States, such as public corruption, fraud, money laundering and others.
These persons now have a higher probability of being prosecuted for these crimes and of having their Swiss money be the subject of asset recovery efforts by the US government or private sector victims.
In any case, all US persons who are Swiss account holders will have to answer to the IRS, which has a wide array of tools to determine the source and destination of funds.
In a statement announcing the agreement, Deputy Attorney General, James M. Cole said...
“Now is the time for all US taxpayers who hid behind Swiss bank secrecy laws or have undeclared offshore accounts in other… countries to come forward and resolve their outstanding tax issues with the United States.”
The agreement marks four avenues by which three categories of Swiss banks may find their way to softer treatment by the US. One category of Swiss banks, Category 1, is told the door to laxer US treatment is closed because they are under US criminal investigation. The US Justice Department has said 14 banks now fall in Category 1.
The four categories of banks and their treatment are as follows:
- Category 1 Bank: Any Swiss bank under criminal investigation by the US Justice Department as of August 29, 2013. This type of bank is not eligible to participate in the program.
- Category 2 Bank: Any Swiss bank that has “reason to believe” it may have committed tax or “monetary transaction offenses” under the US Code, but against which the US Department of Justice has not commenced a “formal criminal investigation.” This type of bank may request a Non-Prosecution Agreement (NPA).
- Category 3 Bank: Any Swiss bank that has not committed any tax or monetary transaction offenses under the US Code. This type of bank may request a “Non-Target Letter” from the US Department of Justice.
- Category 4 Bank: Any Swiss bank that is considered a “Deemed Compliant Financial Institution” as a “Financial Institution with Local Client Base” under FATCA, meaning a local Swiss bank. This type of bank may request a “Non-Target Letter” from the US Department of Justice.
The bank must also make an “in-person presentation and documentation” providing full details of its operations in English. It must also disclose the US accounts that were closed, their holdings
,and identify the “US person or entity affiliated… with each account,” including their “beneficial interest.”
The bank must promise to cooperate in treaty requests by the US for information on the US accounts.
The banks must also tell the US “the name and function of any relationship manager, client advisor, asset manager, financial advisor, trustee, fiduciary, nominee, attorney, accountant, or other individual or entity known to be affiliated with (the accounts).”
It must also provide “information on the transfer of funds into and out of the account on a monthly basis,” including cash deposits or withdrawals; if an intermediary, such as a financial adviser, attorney, accountant or others, facilitated transfers; the identity and location of financial institutions that transferred or received funds from the account, and the countries “to or from which funds were transferred.”
The Swiss banks must keep for 10 years pertinent records “relating to their US cross-border business” and, if requested, provide witnesses and information for US treaty requests for other information and documents.
The banks must close the accounts of “recalcitrant account holders,” as defined by IRS regulations and prevent employees from “assisting recalcitrant account holders.”
The banks must pay penalties of 20% of the “maximum aggregate dollar value” of all US Related Accounts they held on August 1, 2008, which was, generally, when the UBS US tax evasion conspiracy was exposed.
Meanwhile, FATCA, the other international dragnet from the United States approaches implementation on June 1, 2014.
Read more at: Tax Times blog


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Some of the most gorgeous women in Hollywood have been snatched up. No surprises there, but they also have some of the juiciest little black books. It's oh-so-fun rummaging through their pasts!
So, how much do you remember about stars like Blake Lively, Jennifer Aniston, and Nicole Richie before they tied the knot?
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After that I went to Hobbycraft where I got some card blanks - nice bright white ones - as I'm actually running out!! And then onto my local shop - Purple Butterfly where I had a lovely time "window shopping". I did actually buy some stash too - a new set of nesties - beaded circles, so pretty!!
And that's all for now - I'm off for a nice hot cup of coffee and get ready for the season finale of Silent Witness! See you tomorrow.


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MOSCOW, October 10. /TASS/. The American space agency NASA has not officially offered Russia to extend the service of International Space Station (ISS) until 2024, Russia’s space agency expert Yury Makarov told TASS on Friday.
“We are now considering possible extension of the ISS operation, which is to be finished by 2020. Our American partners have not made any official claims regarding the issue yet, though they have suggested extending ISS operation during the talks”, he said.
The expert said that ISS was not needed anymore, for all its resources and functions had already been employed in all kind of experiments at the near-Earth space. “The station can still be used for other experiments in the interests of various economic sectors, but the question is whether such experiments are profitable and efficient”, Makarov said.
The expert stressed that around one third of funds allocated for Russia’s Federal Space Program 2006-2015, were spent on ISS. Earlier, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Dmitry Rogozin, said that over 30% of the country’s federal budget is wasted to sustain the station; therefore, Russia does not consider it profitable to continue participating in the project after 2020.
Makarov added that the decision regarding the ISS operation would be thoroughly discussed between all participants of the project.


The City of Ottawa Owns a Lot of Natural Areas
If you’re looking to do field work around Ottawa, you might be surprised how much natural land is owned by the City. You can see for yourself using the geottawa browser.
The City website includes descriptions of some of the larger conservation areas.
How to Get a Permit
I couldn’t find a link on the City website, but was directed to one of the City biologists by a colleague in another agency. As she explained, formal approvals come from the Real Estate team, with direction from the biologists when the permit involves natural areas. The current requirements are:
- An administrative fee (fee may change each year)
- A security deposit required, depending on the nature of the work.
- Certificate of insurance, naming the City as additional insured.
- Who your signing authority will be on the agreement and their position.
- The anticipated start and end date of your study.
- An overview of the project, including equipment to be used.
- A map showing the study’s intended sampling location(s) (may be just property parcels, as listed in geottawa
Your first point of contact for this should be
firstname.lastname@example.org. Expect the process to take at least two
months, so start early.
Permits Aren’t Always Necessary
Projects that involve work that doesn’t differ from regular recreational use of the properties may not require a permit. If you can record your data from public trails without any special equipment or specimen collection, you might be able to proceed without a permit. That’s up to the City of course, so check with them.
I don’t work for the City, and this summary is based on my personal experience in 2023. It may change in future (or be inaccurate now), and may differ based on the details of your project.


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A gunman spotted outside an east-side service station was likely involved in a drug deal that had not gone well, according to a release from Madison police.
An employee at Seversin’s at 3401 Milwaukee St. called police at 3:46 p.m. on Friday when the gunman was spotted in the parking lot.
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