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EveryGame Poker Review
EveryGame Poker wants to make a very good first impression and it starts with a large welcome bonus to help get players in the mood for taking some risks on the tables. This makes for soft competition and plenty of exciting hands in the low and mid ranges where the poker room gets most of its traffic. It hosts nice tournaments and will even run qualifiers for live events.
EveryGame Poker Bonuses & Offers 10 /10
200% Bonus On The First Deposit, Up To $1,000 - The first time you make a deposit at EveryGame it will trigger a 200% bonus that goes up to one thousand dollars for the code 1000ITP. Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Neteller, Paysafecard, EcoPayz, Skrill, Bitcoin
36% Rakeback - Get daily rakeback deals of 36% for both ring games and tournament fees.
Reload Bonuses - EveryGame sends promotions via email for existing players to receive reload bonuses. Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Neteller, Paysafecard, EcoPayz, Skrill, Bitcoin
A welcome bonus that stands out from the competition, loyalty rewards made simple for casual players and all sorts of freerolls and guaranteed tournaments will keep things exciting and rewarding at EveryGame Poker.
EveryGame Poker Banking Options 10 /10
EveryGame comes with a surprising amount of banking methods for an online poker room that is mostly aimed at players from the United States. With that being said, it has plenty of options for players from Europe and other parts of the world as well.
To add funds for playing poker online for real money, users at EveryGame Poker just need to create an account and go to the cashier. Here they will find multiple deposit options which can be used securely to complete transactions instantly.
EveryGame Poker Security & Regulation 10 /10
EveryGame is one of the most popular brands in iGaming so you can expect it to have perfect security and all of its options to be regulated for fair play.
The website is secured and verified at all times since it is possible to play right from the browser. For those who opt for the downloadable software, this application has been scanned and is free of any malware. Furthermore, EveryGame Poker is fully licensed in Curacao.
EveryGame Poker Games & Software 8 /10
The software from Cake Gaming used by EveryGame Poker is very reliable and will make for a quick and easy start every time from the lobby. It hosts all popular poker variants and a good amount of games.
With a nice style and realistic graphics, the software can hold its own against some of the bigger poker rooms available on the market and players will be happy to know that they can make some small changes to make the tables look like they like them to. Texas Hold'em is the main game variant but not the only one, with Omaha, 7 Card Stud and their Hi/Lo formats being available as well.
EveryGame Poker Compatibility 8 /10
With its downloadable software and instant play version available, EveryGame Poker provides good compatibility when it comes to desktop gaming. It does not have a dedicated mobile app at this time.
Playing from a Mac or from a Windows computer is very easy given the two versions of the poker room. They both have the same gaming options and the graphics are just about the same so it mostly comes down to personal preferences.
EveryGame Poker’s downloadable client software is only compatible with Windows PCs but there is an instant play option that gives you the opportunity to play games through your browser, without having to download a single file.
EveryGame Poker Freerolls 10 /10
EveryGame Poker doesn't just offer the one freeroll for new players and it actually has daily events for tournament tickets and monthly ones that will award real money prizes without requiring players to pay a buy-in.
There are three freeroll tournaments taking place every day and they are scheduled during the evening hours. The top 15 players receive tickets to different tournaments as prizes. For winning real money, there are Extra Freerolls every month, usually scheduled on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and they have prize pools of $150 or $250.
EveryGame Poker Tournaments 8 /10
Not only does EveryGame Poker host online tournaments but it also provides opportunities for players to earn entries to large live events.
The number of poker tournaments is quite low due to the modest traffic but there are always some events coming up to give players the chance to show off their skills in the good old fashioned way. The biggest tournament is the $5,000 GTD that has satellites running throughout the week to cover the $55 buy-in for less.
- The competition is very soft
- Easy to get into a big pot on the tables
- Friendly players make for a relaxed environment
- Tournaments have small fields usually
- Good options for Sit & Go events
- Great place for beginners
- Sharks are very rare
- Low traffic can cause issues
- Not all freerolls award cash
- High stakes tournaments not available
Traffic 6 /10
If you are looking for an online poker room with thousands of cash game players online at any time, EveryGame is not for you. If on the other hand you want something a bit smaller and more relaxed, it can certainly provide this.
The traffic at EveryGame Poker is modest to say the least. This is the case with the entire Horizon Poker Network, where you can expect to find an average of about one hundred ring game players. And it doesn't get a lot better when it comes to tournament players either. It is still enough to keep the action going and makes for a casual poker room.
Horizon Poker Network (EveryGame Poker) 6 Month Trend for cash game players: 150, 170, 170, 150, 130, 100
EveryGame Poker Customer Support
The services at EveryGame are very good and this includes customer support. It is always easy to contact a member of the team and the response provided to any question is detailed, polite and timely.
Live chat, email and phone numbers are open 24/7, every day of the year. The FAQs can be found on the website and are good for getting some extra information on main topics for online poker.
Live Chat Support
EveryGame accepts players from all over but does exclude places like Australia, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Romania and Russia. Thankfully though, players from anywhere else can enjoy online gambling here. They also have a great list of currencies on offer so you can be confident on playing in a supported currency.
EveryGame has a very generous rewards program. The EveryGame VIP program is called Loyalty Levels and will reward players with Frequent Player Points. These FPPs will allow players to collect them and at a later date, redeem them for cash prizes. For every $1 you rake in for cash games, you'll earn 1 FPP.
You can progress all the way to the top of the 50 Loyalty Levels pretty quickly and each level you go through has another set of tiers that you'll need to advance through which has a set of regulations you need to pass.
Management & Integrity
EveryGame is fully licensed and regulated and was originally founded back in 1983 as a sportsbook so you know that it can stand the test of time. After the surge of online poker in the early 2000s, EveryGame joined the ranks of the PartyPoker Network for a couple of years before getting involved with the Cake Poker Network, a partnership which still exists today.
Things to Improve
There aren't many things that we can fault EveryGame on. The poker room has some great sit 'n go games with easily achievable bonuses for regulars and new players. They started out early, albeit as a sportsbook, but nevertheless has been in the industry for a really long time which means you can be sure that when you spend and receive money, you'll be able to look forward to a fast, secure and easy process.
If we had to fault EveryGame on something, we would suggest that players who are looking for a lot of tournament games should probably look elsewhere. While they definitely do exist, there are other poker sites out there that offer a far more comprehensive list of tournaments and competitions.
Our Verdict of EveryGame Poker
EveryGame Poker is the place for you if you’re after a seriously reliable poker site that pays out quickly and is always on hand to offer you guidance and support. There might not be that many game variants here but Texas hold’em players will be spoiled with constant promotions, generous loyalty rewards and several freerolls a day.

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Why is it that poetry doesn't have a bigger audience then it currently has?
- EnguerarrardLv 71 year agoFavourite answer
It has a bigger audience in some parts of the world. In Russia poets fill sports arenas, and poets have a higher standing in the Latin world.
America is teeming with many thousands of semi talented hacks whom the public mistakes for the cream of the crop. This lowers the public evaluation of poetry overall.
There are a number of reasons for this. The confessional poetry of Sylvia Plath is raw and powerful, but it opened the door for hordes of wannabees who just expose themselves on the page with little art. Anyone unfamiliar with the world of literature picking up Charles Bukowski will wonder how he became so famous.
Understatement is a technique highly valued by the best modern poets, but for people unfamiliar with it, understatement tends to go over people's heads. For generations raised on screeching rock and roll and instant gratification, the subtlety of good poetry may just be boring.
- Man AbrierLv 51 year ago
Because it's poetry. It's not going to save your life or make your life any better. It's nice to read. You may memorize a few lines. It doesn't serve much purpose overall other than in art and expression.
- Les Than SpamLv 61 year ago
a bigger audience is not necessarily the best circumstance . . . I get away from the "big audience" . . .
- red2queenLv 51 year ago
Because one generation works too much to read, another would rather play video games, and another has multitasked hemselves into being unable to synthesize thought. The poets are those without generation.
- What do you think of the answers? You can sign in to give your opinion on the answer.
- Midnight BluesLv 71 year ago
I'll say because most people find it boring. At least that's the reason I don't read poetry.
- Anonymous1 year ago
Because sometimes the language is too figurative for the layman
- 7FlightsupLv 61 year ago
It's in the lyrics of songs, which has a big audience.
- RaviLv 41 year ago
Audience is there, resources are at fingertips.
- Pearl LLv 71 year ago
maybe people are just more interested in other stuff
- mokrieLv 71 year ago
I consider it a waste of time and boring as heck to read.

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Several weeks ago I did a make and take at Celebrations in Mapunapuna. I decided to make some as gifts for the office girls. The kokeshi are erasers. First we hot glued all the loose pieces of her body together then we placed screws on the top of her head and I added the key rings. Here, I cut some tags from sizzix, Inked
A Sakura stamp by dandelion designs and colored it in with copics. A touch of glitter in the middle of the flower and that was it. I think I'll just put them in plastic bags and consider them ready for gift giving!


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It’s not every day the explosives disposal unit is brought to the Regina General Hospital.
The “bomb squad” was called to the hospital parking lot Saturday night at about 9:30 because of a suspicious package.
Police say it was a little out of place so it was examined by the explosives disposal unit as a precaution.
No explosives were found. It turns out the package only contained medical supplies.

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Towards synthesis of the E. coli ribosome: in vitro characterization of 23S rRNA methyltransferases RlmE, RlmJ and RlmMView all posters
Uppsala University, Sweden
The biggest hurdle to synthesizing the E. coli ribosome in vitro is reconstituting several post-transcriptional modifications of the peptidyl transferase center (PTC) of 23S ribosomal RNA (1). The modification reaction whose knock out produces the most significant growth defect is methylation of the ribose 2’O of U2552 by RlmE (2). Two other modification reactions of the PTC are performed by the recently-discovered enzymes RlmJ (3) and RlmM (4) which methylate the base of A2030 and the ribose 2’O of C2498, respectively. These two nucleotides are adjacent in the ribosome due to a tertiary interaction between A2030 and C2498. All three enzymes use S-adenosyl-methionine as the methyl donor. In this study, all three enzymes were overexpressed in His-tagged form and their reactions assayed and optimized using reverse transcription and tritium-incorporation assays. RlmE required the full 50S ribosomal subunit as a substrate, as previously demonstrated (2). In contrast, RlmJ and RlmM were both found to specifically methylate 23S rRNA in unmodified form, facilitating substrate recognition studies. Domain V alone was sufficient for recognition by RlmM (5), while RlmJ only required a 26-nucleotide stem loop. This work should aid future ribosome reconstitution from transcripts for directed evolution of ribosomes and synthesis of a minimal cell. References 1. Forster, A C, Church, G M (2006) Mol Syst Biol, 2(45), 1. 2. Caldas T, Binet E, Bouloc P, Costa A, Desgres J, Richarme G (2000) J Biol Chem. 275(22), 16414. 3. Golovina A Y, Dzama M M, Osterman I A, Sergiev P V, Serebryakova M V, Bogdanov A A, Dontsova O A (2012) RNA, 18, 1725. 4. Purta E, O’Connor M, Bujnicki J M, Douthwaite S (2009) Molecular Microbiology 72(5), 1147. 5. Punekar A S, Shepherd T R, Liljeruhm J, Forster A C, Selmer M (2012), Nucleic Acids Res, 40, 10507.

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Improving productivity, opportunities and constraints in agriculture, forestry, and fishing, as well as new technologies and innovation, occupied one of the work tables at the event, in preparation for the Food Systems Summit 2021 to be held by the United Nations in September.
According to the digital website Caricom Today, a commitment to implementing low-carbon development pathways, green production processes and innovation financing for financial education was also on the agenda of the regional meeting.
Director of the Agricultural and Industrial Development Program of the Community Secretariat, Sean Bo, confirmed that the dialogue will lay the foundations for a transformation in the Caribbean, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
For his part, the United Nations Resident Coordinator, Didier Tribuck, pointed out that small island states are currently facing multiple crises, including climate change and natural disasters, which negatively affect development and the achievement of the sustainable development goals.
Tribook emphasized the critical role that sustainable food security plays in helping to create a more equitable world.
The Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Agricultural Cooperation (IICA), Manuel Otero, specified that farmers should be heard, because without them there would be no food.
“Science and technology are essential for decision-making on these issues, and agriculture is part of solving problems like climate change,” Otero said.
The CARICOM Secretary organized the meeting with Resident Coordinators from the United Nations, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Food Program and IICA.
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Chesapeake Bay BridgeFriday, September 25th, 2015
P. Flanigan & Sons recently completed a unique job at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. This project called for removal and replacement of the concrete leading into the eleven toll booths. Encompassing an area 400 feet in length, over 150 feet across, and 12 inches thick, this job required 4,000 cubic yards of concrete.
The concrete was placed over 12 inches of RCGAB, which came from our Winchester Facility. Below that, underdrain was placed every 50 feet, using #57 stone. All of this work took place between October 7, 2014 and March 20, 2015, in order to avoid complicating beach traffic. To complete this job, P. Flanigan crews milled and replaced 700 feet of asphalt leading into the concrete.


Last year, Dustin Kensrue announced he was moving north to be a worship leader at Mars Hill Bellevue, just outside Seattle. Earlier this year, Kensrue put out a more ’80s/The Cure/Duran Duran-style worship record under the name The Modern Post. Now, Kensrue is back with a new solo record using his given name. Following up his alt-country record, Please Come Home, Kensrue takes on his new role as a worship leader and turns the music style he previously wrote in Thrice into a contemporary worship record. The record itself is all over with styles. It kicks off with an upbeat song called “Rejoice”; this song could be heard in any suburban mega-church. (I would bet next year some of these songs will be played in churches all over the world.) Upping the beat per minute on a remake of a The Modern Post song, “Grace Alone,” Kensrue turns it from a synth/Cure-style song to more of a song you would hear at a youth church service. If you were hoping the record was going to have a more somber tone that follows the record’s first single, I am sorry to break your heart, but it isn’t that way. In fact, it has some great, uplifting tracks, but as a full record, it is a bit of a letdown. I like it a little more each time I listen to it, but it wasn’t an immediate favorite.
Idle Threat's latest EP, 'Nothing is Broken for Good,' paints a serendipitous picture of what comes from hope in the future: 'The record is definitely about loss and hope through that loss.'Full Feature More from Idle Threat
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Planned for the summer, 'Big Vibe' was moved to the Fall as COVID swept the nation. It turns out, the vibes were exactly the breath of fresh air we needed. HM contributing writer Danielle Martin talks with Seaway vocalist Ryan Locke about the band's new era, how they formed their sound for 2020, and why Harry Styles belongs in their lives.Full Feature More from Seaway
Almost 27 years after the band's first studio album, P.O.D.'s message is arguably more important than ever. "I believe (our message) is even more relevant now than it was then. If you really listen to 'Youth of the Nation,' we still have these tragedies going on. There’s a lot of searching still going on out there."Full Feature More from P.O.D.


Get ready for the new battle between Nokia X Edge Plus 2020 vs Xiaomi Mi 10 with quad 108MP cameras, 12GB RAM. Check out the result of this combat below!
Nokia X Edge Plus 2020 vs Xiaomi Mi 10 specs
Nokia X Edge Plus 2020 is an upcoming high-end Nokia phone series which should debut this year. Meanwhile, Xiaomi Mi 10 arrives with a fantastic camera system. With the first round, in the display, the Nokia X Edge Plus 2020 specs feature a 6.5-inch Super AMOLED (3840 x 2160 pixels). Whereas, Xiaomi Mi 10 specs offer a 6.67-inch Super AMOLED with a resolution of 1080×2340 pixels. As a result, the Xiaomi phone comes first in thís round.
In terms of the platform, the two handsets run on Android 10 as the operating system. In hardware-wise, these two smartphones work on Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chipset. On the other hand, the Nokia device boots a 512GB of inbuilt storage and two options of RAM: 10GB/ 12GB. Besides, the Xiaomi machine sports an 8GB/ 12GB of RAM and 128GB/ 256GB of inbuilt storage. So, both teams tie this time.
Why don’t we keep on to the optics department? In details, the Nokia X Edge Plus 2020 camera includes a quad 48MP + 16MP + 8MP + 2MP lenses setup on the rear. Additionally, there is a dual 32MP front-facing snapper. On the contrary, Xiaomi Mi 10 camera comes in quad-lens on the back. It consists of a 108MP + 13MP + 2MP + 2MP sensors and single 20MP shooter for taking selfies and video calls. Regarding the battery, the Nokia device houses a 7200mAh juice box while the other figure bears a smaller 4780mAh.
Nokia X Edge Plus 2020 vs Xiaomi Mi 10 release date and price
Nokia X Edge Plus 2020 release date expected to be launch in the third quarter of this year. Moreover, Xiaomi Mi 10 released on February 14. Talking about the cost, the Nokia X Edge Plus 2020 price starts at $350 ~ Rs. 26,460. Furthermore, the Xiaomi Mi 10 price falls around $570 ~ Rs. 42, 983. Which one do you choose? Leave us a comment on your opinion!


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Prosopagnosia is a disorder of visual perception defined by the inability to recognize faces in the absence of impairments to lower-level vision or intellect. It can result from damage to ventral occipital regions of the brain, or can be present from birth with no known brain anomalies. Prosopagnosia is particularly striking because of the importance of face recognition to everyday social interactions. Indeed, faces appear to be a special class of stimuli for which the brain has developed a highly complex and integrated processing system. This system appears to be compromised to varying degrees in patients with prosopagnosia.
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- Brain injury
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The HygroVue™5 Temperature and Relative Humidity Sensor is designed for general meteorological and environmental monitoring applications. It uses the SDI-12 communications protocol to communicate with any SDI-12 recorder, simplifying installation and programming. The sensing element is easily changed in the field, reducing downtime and calibration costs. It is the entry-level sensor in the HygroVue™ line of relative humidity and temperature sensors.Read More
The HygroVue 5 sensor has a user-replaceable chip element that incorporates both a temperature sensor and an RH sensor. Each element is individually calibrated with the calibration corrections stored on the chip.
Electronics within the HygroVue 5 control the measurement made by the sensor element, apply temperature and linearization corrections to the readings, and present the data via SDI-12 to a data logger.
A stainless-steel mesh filter minimizes the effects of dust and dirt on the sensor, while allowing air exchange around the sensor element and reducing the chance that condensation remains inside the filter cap. A small PTFE membrane filter is bonded to the surface of the element, which prevents any finer dust or mold from directly influencing the measurement.
The sensor housing is designed to withstand permanent exposure to all weather. It fits into a range of radiation shields, including compact shields such as the RAD06 6-Plate Solar Radiation Shield.
For improved reliability, the sensor is factory fitted with a fixed length of cable, and the sensor body is then potted to completely seal the electronics and cable joint. A range of cable lengths is available.
|SHT35 derivative (specially coated for reliability)
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|Sensor is normally powered all the time. If power is switched off, allow 1.8 s for sensor to power up.
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|IP67 (electronics housing)
|Outer glass-filled polypropylene cap fitted with a stainless-steel mesh dust filter with nominal pore size of < 30 µm. The sensor element is fitted with a PTFE protective film with a filtration efficiency of > 99.99% for particles of 200 nm or larger size.
|Tested and conforms to IEC61326:2013
|The sensor element is individually calibrated during manufacture.
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|12.5 mm (0.49 in) at sensor tip, maximum 16 mm (0.63 in) at the cable end
|115 mm (4.52 in) sensor only, without cable
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|130 s (63% response time in air moving at 1 m/s)
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Digital SDI-12 output which is fully SDI-12 V1.3 compliant (verified with an SDI-12 Verifier (www.sdi-12-verifier.com/). It is compatible with SDI-12 V1.4 recorders.


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Ladakh, or Little Tibet, has been home to a thriving culture, based on frugality and co-operation, for more than a 1000 years. Centuries of ecological balance and social harmony are now under threat from the pressures of Western consumerism.
"The book that has had the greatest influence on my life is Ancient Futures, about tradition and change in a remote corner of India that has never been subjected to the brutality of the modern, global economy." * Zac Goldsmith *
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Number Of Pages: 240 Published: April 2000 Publisher: Ebury Publishing Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 21.3 x 13.6
Weight (kg): 0.28
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Many people do not realize that beyond the initial beginnings of tennis that the sport can actually be very dangerous. Yet at the same time even those who do realize that it is dangerous often do not realize just how important it is
Over on Designboom at the moment, there's a fantastic interview with Min Wang, design director for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, and Dean of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). For the past five years his design studio,.
Aplicación oficial de los Juegos Olímpicos 2012 para Android
Olympic Stadium London by Populous, who aimed to create the most sustainable Olympic stadium to date, reducing the amount of steel and concrete needed, making it one of the lightest stadia of the modern era.


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Hearing Their Voices
Logona e Tau Leo Ha Lautolu
By Teresa Mānea Pasilio
Download Logona e Tau Leo Ha Lautolu | Hearing Their Voices in Vagahau Niue and English (2MB PDF).
Read and listen to the eBook
Select the arrow to turn the pages and the speaker to hear the story.
The eBook works best on a tablet, laptop, or desktop computer.
Stories for older children
You can find more books for older children at Literacy Online.

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Amazon has had a major security flaw discovered in its password system, but luckily there’s an easy fix.
It seems as if security flaws are coming at us all to often this year and no company, regardless of their stellar reputation and performance is immune. The latest victim is none other than Amazon. The online retailer that sells everything but the kitchen sink – upon further review you can buy those also – has had a major security breach. Considering they have my address, telephone number and multiple credit card numbers this is worrisome.
The issue is that hackers could get into your Amazon account if they input a password that is similar to yours. To be more specific, the Amazon password system is only concerned with the first eight digits in your password, after that it’s open season. Your password could be “ILikeBreadAndButter” but if a bad guy happened to guess the first eight digits, which would be “ILikeBre” the rest really wouldn’t matter. They could put in “ILikeBreakfast” or “ILikeBre12345” and they are in, on a shopping spree on your account.
There is some good news, as this seems to be isolated to older accounts. We don’t know when the new password system went into affect, therefore it’s unknown if passwords created last month or last year are vulnerable. The solution is pretty simple, head on over to your Amazon account and change your password. Once that is completed, even if your account was created on the old password system, it will no longer be an issue.
This is just another reason to keep up to date on security issues and make you password difficult to guess, no matter what type of portal you will be accessing.
What steps do you take to make your passwords hard to guess? Do you change them often or use some randomly generated passwords that mean nothing to you or anyone else? I want to know in the comments below.


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I’m Eric Soper, DMD. I serve the Burlington community with dental services including Pediatric Dental Care. I provide dental services to the greater Cincinnati area from our comfortable and friendly dental office.
If you are looking for a dentist, we invite you to contact us. I am currently accepting new patients and would love to serve all of your dental needs including Pediatric Mercury-Free Dentistry, Pediatric Dental Care, and Pediatric Oral Hygiene.
Whiten, Straighten, or Get Rid of the Silver
There are many economical procedures that will allow you to achieve a bright and healthy smile. There are effective tooth whitening services that whiten smiles dramatically. If you would like to straighten your teeth, you also have numerous orthodontic options. Still, have silver amalgam fillings? How would you like to have them replaced with white fillings? When you open your mouth wide, your teeth will look like they did before you ever had tooth decay!
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Kat Dahlia kept it real during her appearance on “106 & Park.” The Miami-born singer, who is signed to Sylvia Rhone’s Vested in Culture/Epic Records, discussed the origins of her name, her most embarrassing moment, and meeting Snoop Dogg, who she plans to get in the studio with soon.
She also performed an acoustic version of her single “Gangsta.”
“It touched a nerve with some of my family,” she said of the gritty record.
Kat’s debut My Garden is due in September and her three-song EP is now available on iTunes.
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Introduction: DIY IPhone 5s Solar Charger With CAD
The purpose of this project is to make a solar charger for any phone or any device that supports USB charging The charger is fully dependable on solar energy as the only power source. The main objective is to create it using affordable materials and make to whole process easy enough to understand and reproduce for other people around the world.
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Step 1: What You Need
Black (negative) and Red (positive) wires
4 “AA” Battery Holder (RadioShack) $3
4 AA Batteries
PARALLAX Solar Panel 6V@1W,125x63mm (eBay from China) - $13
PLA Filament for 3D Printer (optional)
Altoid Tin (optional)
3D Printer (optional)
There are two version that you can make depending on wether you own a 3D home printer such as Maker Bot. If you do, you can either download my design and print it or design you own. If you don't have 3D printer and want to go more low-budget, you can use Altoid Tin or anything else as the main structure for this charger.
Step 2: Wire Terminal
Wire terminal is basically the brain of this charger. It is necessary to bring energy from the sun to the batteries and then from batteries to the actual device. The wire terminal can be easily purchased either in Radio Shack or anywhere else online. I have personally used one from IKEA SUNNAN LED table lamp because of the reverse-engineering process. After you get your wire terminal, you have to solder and connect the wires to solar-input, battery-input and energy-output as indicated on a chart above.
Step 3: Pick the Right Batteries
We will need some rechargeable batteries that are reliable and can provide enough current to charge a phone. I have decided to use Dantona "AA" 1.2V/1000mAh Ni-Cd Batteries, which provide enough current and are also very cheap and reliable and you can get them in any Radio Shack store.
Step 4: Pick the Right Solar Panel
The choosing of the right solar panel is the similar process as picking the batteries. We need to make sure that the solar panel will provide the batteries with enough power and also enough voltage. The minimum voltage should be 5 Volts but I have decided to go with 6V Solar Cell because of the diode and the switch, which can consume some volts too. I bought one on eBay for about $13 PARALLAX Solar Panel 6V. It is also important to pick a prefect measurement for the tin or your own design so it fits perfectly.
Step 5: Connecting Everything Together
Now we will need to connect everything to the terminal to create a circuit. First, let's start with the bottom, which will connect to the solar panel. Than we can work our way up and connect the wires to the battery holder. And then lastly, connect the top to the usb cord or a usb port that you can purchase in Radio Shack also.
I have decided to use a USB cord that I had in my disposal and just connected the wires together. By connected I meant either solder everything together, which will hold everything much tighter and safer or you can just use non-conductive tape, which should aslo work fine.
Step 6: Testing the Prototype
The next step will require little patience but don't worry. It will pay-off. Since we already connected all major parts together, we need to test if everything works. Put the solar panel on the windows for a while (three or four hours) and just leave it charge. After you come back, it's time to cross your fingers and connect usb charger to the usb cord and hope that everything will charge. It did? Awesome!
If you had any problems, just check if all the wires all properly connected and also if the device doesn't require more volts than you can provide. You should measure it with the Voltmetr if you have any issues and then check if the device doesn't require more. But it really shouldn't.
Step 7: Create a Structure
Now, it is important to create something to cover the wire terminal with. I have decided to go with the harder, more expensive way but it is also very efficient and can be easily personalized. I have decided to go this way because I wanted my iPhone 5 to charge on the back of the cover. If anyone is interested in my design and can 3D print, you can download it here. I used Google Sketchup to design it and I can highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in creating his own. It's a great program and it's avalaible for free!
Also, if you want to go with the cheaper way, you can just buy an Altoid Tin and put verything inside. It's your choice.
Step 8: Put Everything Together
Now, It's time to add everything together and seal the deal. Put the wire terminal inside of the structure, cover it with the top and finally connect the solar panel again. After that, I used super glue to make everything hold better.
Step 9: Charge Your Phone!
If you follow the instructions closely, you should be able to charge your phone right now without any issues. Thank you for following my tutorial and hopefully you enjoyed it!

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Wilco will be playing at the Palladium Ballroom on Friday, October 9th!
For the last 2 years I've been waiting for Wilco to announce they would be coming to Dallas. Wilco had announced their tour dates back in the Spring of 2009 and Texas was nowhere on the list. So this comes as a huge surprise for all the Texas fans out there when they announced the additional Texas cities to their tour.
For those of you unfamiliar with Wilco but want to check them out, buy the album Sky Blue Sky or Mermaid Avenue with Billy Bragg. If you want to check out a couple songs first, I recommend Hate it Hear or Impossible Germany. Although California Stars with Billy Bragg is what ultimately turned me on to Wilco, their down-to-earth tone in Hate it Hear is what sold me. Ticket prices or information has not been released. Public on sale begins Saturday Aug 1, 2009 at 10:00am via Ticketmaster.
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New activated sludge processes that utilize sorption as a major mechanism for organics removal are being developed to maximize energy recovery from wastewater organics, or as enhanced primary treatment technologies. To model and optimize sorption-based activated sludge processes, further knowledge about sorption of organics onto sludge is needed. This study compared primary-, anaerobic-, and aerobic activated sludge as sorbents, determined sorption capacity and kinetics, and investigated some characteristics of the organics being sorbed. Batch sorption assays were carried out without aeration at a mixing velocity of 200 rpm. Only aerobic activated sludge showed net sorption of organics. Sorption of dissolved organics occurred by a near-instantaneous sorption event followed by a slower process that obeyed 1st order kinetics. Sorption of particulates also followed 1st order kinetics but there was no instantaneous sorption event; instead there was a release of particles upon mixing. The 5-min sorption capacity of activated sludge was 6.5±10.8 mg total organic carbon (TOC) per g volatile suspend solids (VSS) for particulate organics and 5.0±4.7 mgTOC/gVSS for dissolved organics. The observed instantaneous sorption appeared to be mainly due to organics larger than 20 kDa in size being sorbed, although molecules with a size of about 200 Da with strong UV absorbance at 215–230 nm were also rapidly removed.
Citation: Modin O, Saheb Alam S, Persson F, Wilén B-M (2015) Sorption and Release of Organics by Primary, Anaerobic, and Aerobic Activated Sludge Mixed with Raw Municipal Wastewater. PLoS ONE 10(3): e0119371. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119371
Academic Editor: Zhi Zhou, Purdue University, UNITED STATES
Received: November 27, 2014; Accepted: January 13, 2015; Published: March 13, 2015
Copyright: © 2015 Modin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Data Availability: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files.
Funding: The project was funded by the Swedish Research Council Formas (http://formas.se/), grant number 2012–1433. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Modern wastewater treatment is dominated by the activated sludge process, which was developed over 100 years ago . Organic compounds are biologically oxidized in an aerated tank. Then, the sludge is typically separated from the treated effluent in sedimentation tanks, partly returned to the inlet of the aerated tank, and partly wasted as excess sludge (or waste activated sludge, WAS) . Alternatively, membrane filtration can be used to separate the activated sludge from the treated water .
In many existing and emerging activated sludge process configurations, rapid sorption of organic compounds from the wastewater onto the sludge plays an important role for the removal. Existing process configurations that rely on sorption as a major removal mechanism include contact-stabilization  and adsorption-biooxidation (AB) [5,6]. In the contact-stabilization process, the influent wastewater is mixed with activated sludge in a contact tank having a short hydraulic retention time (HRT) of e.g. 15 min. Organic compounds are assumed to rapidly sorb onto the sludge, which is separated from the treated water in a sedimentation tank. The settled sludge is then aerated in a stabilization tank to oxidize the sorbed organics, before being recycled back to the contact tank. The AB process is a two-sludge system consisting of a high-rate activated sludge process (the A-stage) operated with a short solids retention time (SRT) of 3–12 hours. In the A-stage, organics are removed mainly by sorption onto the sludge. The low-loaded B-stage is then used e.g. for nutrient removal and oxidation of the organic compounds remaining in the wastewater after the A-stage [7,8].
Directing WAS to the primary settlers to be mixed with the primary sludge in a wastewater treatment plant is another quite common practice to utilize the sorptive capacity of the WAS and improve the dewatering properties of secondary sludge [2,9,10]. However, scientific studies on the effect of activated sludge addition on organics removal in primary sedimentation are scarce. Yetis and Tarlan  found that addition of WAS improved sedimentation of suspended solids in raw wastewater under certain conditions. Tests were carried out with sludge cultivated at different solids retention times and generally concentrations above 1600 mg total suspended solids (TSS)/L gave the best results. However, no information was provided about dissolved substances. Ross and Crawford  carried out full-scale tests comparing primary settlers that either received or did not receive WAS. However, they did not see any significant differences in the organics content in the effluent from the settlers.
New activated sludge processes based on sorption as the major mechanism for organics removal are also emerging. As energy-efficiency and carbon footprint are becoming more and more important for wastewater treatment plants , high-rate activated sludge processes similar to the A-stage of an AB process are being investigated [13,14]. A high-rate activated sludge process with short solids retention time (SRT) is potentially more energy-efficient than a low-rate process with long SRT because less oxygen is needed per mass of organic material removed and more excess sludge is produced, which can be converted to biogas in an anaerobic digester. Thus, a high-rate process could both cut electricity consumption because of lower aeration requirements and increase energy output (in the form of produced biogas) for a wastewater treatment plant .
Sorption-based processes have also been investigated as an enhanced form of primary treatment. Huang and Li  recycled primary sludge and mixed it with the raw wastewater before primary sedimentation. Enhanced organics removal could only be obtained after the primary sludge had been aerated in a stabilization tank. A COD removal efficiency of 40% could be obtained which was 35% higher than with primary sedimentation alone. Zhao et al.  investigated a bioflocculation-adsorption, sedimentation and stabilization process for enhanced primary treatment. They obtained total COD removal efficiencies of 70–80%. Both of the processes referred to here are very similar to the contact-stabilization process.
To design and predict the performance of sorption-based activated sludge processes for enhanced primary treatment or for more energy-efficient wastewater treatment, studies investigating the sorption capacity of sludge are needed. The goal of this study is to quantify the sorption of particulate and dissolved organic compounds onto different types of sludge available at wastewater treatment plants. We compare primary, anaerobic, and aerobic activated sludge as sorbents for wastewater organics. For aerobic activated sludge, we also investigate the effect of starvation on sorption capacity, determine sorption kinetics, and investigate some characteristics of the sorbed organics.
Materials and Methods
Collection of sludge and wastewater
Activated sludge, primary sludge, anaerobic digester sludge, raw municipal wastewater, and treated effluent samples were collected at the Rya wastewater treatment plant, which treats about 4.4 m3/s of municipal wastewater from the city of Gothenburg, Sweden. Permission to take samples at the plant was granted by Gryaab. The activated sludge basins at the plant have a solids retention time of 3–5 days and consist of an anoxic pre-denitrification zone followed by an aerobic zone. The basins are aerated using a diffused aeration system. Activated sludge samples were collected near the outlet of the aerobic zone. Primary sludge refers to sludge collected from the primary settlers. Anaerobic sludge was collected from a mesophilic digester treating sludge generated at the plant. The raw municipal wastewater refers to the influent to the plant before it had passed any treatment steps. The treated effluent refers to the final effluent from the plant collected after disc filtration, which is the final treatment operation. Starved activated sludge, which was used in some experiments, was obtained by keeping 8-L activated sludge in an aerated tank stirred at 200 rpm using a 4-bladed propeller (10 cm diameter) for 1, 3 and 6 days without the addition of substrate. All experiments and analyses were carried out less than 8 hours from the time samples were collected at the plant.
In the sorption tests, 100 mL of sludge suspension was mixed with 600 mL of raw municipal wastewater in 1-L beakers containing paddles (width 5.5 cm, height 3 cm) stirring the mixtures at 200 rpm. The velocity gradient in the beakers was estimated to 4.3 s-1 (the calculation is described in S1 File). After 5 min, mixing was stopped and the sludge-wastewater mixtures were allowed to settle for 30 min. Then, approximately 100 mL of the supernatant was collected for analyses. The sludge suspensions were prepared by centrifugation of the desired sludge volume at 1300g, decantation of the supernatant, and resuspension in 100 mL of effluent water. In control tests, 100 mL of effluent without added sludge was added to the 600 mL of wastewater. Measurements of conductivity, total suspended solids (TSS) and volatile suspended solids (VSS) concentrations, sludge volume (SV) and sludge volume index (SVI), particulate organic carbon (TOCp) and dissolved organic carbon (TOCd) concentrations, and absorbance measurements at 650 nm (ABS650) and 254 nm (ABS254) were carried out to characterize the samples and measure removal of organic compounds. All experiments were carried out in room temperature (about 22°C).
Statistical methodology for the sorption tests
On each sampling day, the removal efficiencies of particulate and dissolved organic carbon were compared under three conditions: (1) addition of treated effluent (control), (2) addition of low concentration of activated sludge (0.30–0.39 gTSS/L), and (3) addition of high concentration of activated sludge (1.04–1.27 gTSS/L). The concentrations of added sludge refer to the final concentrations in the wastewater and sludge suspension mixtures. Duplicate tests were carried out for each condition. Paired-sample t-tests were conducted on the removal efficiencies for the different conditions. The null hypothesis was that there would be no difference in the removal efficiency with and without sludge addition. The null hypothesis was rejected if the two-tailed p-value was less than 0.05.
To determine the rate of sorption, kinetic tests were carried out using similar conditions to the sorption tests described above. After 1, 5, 10, 15, 30, 60, and 120 min of mixing, 50 mL of solution was withdrawn from each beaker and allowed to settle for 30 min in a separate vial. A sample of the supernatant was analyzed for ABS650 as a proxy for TSS concentration. A centrifuged sample (5 min at 4000g) was analyzed for ABS254 as a proxy for TOCd concentration . Repeated measurements of ABS650, ABS254, TSS, and TODd of several wastewater and sludge samples from seven different sampling occasions showed strong correlations between ABS650 and TSS concentration (R2 = 0.99), and ABS254 and TOCd concentration (R2 = 0.94) (S2 File). On one of the test days, high-performance size exclusion chromatography (HPSEC) was carried out to investigate the fate of organic molecules of the size range 100–20 000 Da during the kinetic sorption tests.(1)
where dC/dt is the rate of change of organic sorbate concentration, C, with time, t (mg/L·min), k is the first order rate constant (L/mgVSS·min), a is the residual concentration (mg/L), and X is the activated sludge concentration (mgVSS/L).
The rate constant, k, and residual concentration, a, were found using Excel Solver by fitting the experimental data to Equation 2.(2)
where C(t) is the organic sorbate concentration at time t, and C0 is the initial concentration.
Azide inhibition tests
To quantify the effect of microbial respiration on the measured sorption rates of dissolved organics, experiments with sodium azide-inhibited sludge was carried out. The experiments were performed in a similar way as the kinetic tests with sampling after 1, 5, 10, 15, 30, and 60 min of mixing. Before the experiments, the sludge was exposed to approximately 0.2 gNaN3/gTSS for three hours , which is a load known to inhibit the respiratory activity of activated sludge . Sodium azide can cause deflocculation of sludge; therefore, controls with addition of azide-inhibited sludge to beakers containing treated effluent were run in parallel to quantify the release of organic substances by the sludge. Controls with live activated sludge were also run in parallel to allow direct comparison between azide-inhibited and live sludge.
Conductivity was measured using a probe (WTW TetraCon325). TSS and VSS concentrations were analyzed according to Standard Methods  using glass-fiber filter papers (Munktell, grade MGA). SV was analyzed by allowing the sludge to settle in a 1-L graduated cylinder and measuring the volume occupied by the settled sludge after 30 min. SVI was obtained by dividing the SV by the TSS concentration. TOCp and TOCd concentrations were analyzed by a total organic carbon analyzer (TOC-V, Shimadzu). The TOC was divided into TOCp and TOCd fractions based on filtration through a 0.45 μm membrane-filter. Cake layer formation on the membrane during filtration could potentially result in retention of smaller particles than 0.45 μm. To minimize this effect, samples were centrifuged for 2 min at 4000 g before being filtered. Absorbance at 650 nm (ABS650) and at 254 nm (ABS254) was measured with a spectrophotometer (UV-1800, Shimadzu). Specific UV absorbance (SUVA) was calculated as the ratio between ABS254 and TOCd concentration. SUVA is an indicator of the aromatic content of the dissolved organic carbon . HPSEC was carried out using a Shimadzu HPLC system equipped with UV and refractive index detectors, an Agilent Bio SEC-5 column (length 300 mm, diameter 7.8 mm, pore size 100Å), and a mobile phase made up of 100 mM NaCl, 8.3 mM KH2PO4, and 11.7 mM K2HPO4 being pumped at 0.5 mL/min. The molecular sizes of the eluted molecules were calibrated against retention time using polyethylene glycol standards (PEG-10 calibration kit, Agilent). The organic compounds in the sorption test samples were analyzed using the UV detector at wavelengths of 215, 230, 254, and 280 nm. Low molecular weight carboxylic acids (C1–C5) were analyzed using the same HPLC system equipped with an Aminex HPX-87H column (BioRad) and operated with a mobile phase of 5 mM H2SO4 pumped at 0.5 mL/min. The acids were detected at 210 nm.
Tests were carried out with wastewater and sludge collected at the treatment plant on eight different days. In the influent wastewater, the conductivity ranged from 791 to 1022 μS/cm and the TSS concentration ranged from 0.109 to 0.926 g/L. The activated sludge had a TSS concentration of 2.08–2.73 g/L, a VSS/TSS ratio of 70–73%, and a SVI of 70–96 mL/gTSS. The primary sludge and anaerobic digester sludge had TSS concentrations of approximately 47 g/L and 30 g/L, respectively. The treated effluent from the plant contained 11–13 mg/L of TOCd and negligible concentrations of TSS.
Net release of organics by primary- and anaerobic sludge
The original concentrations of particulate and dissolved organics and the final concentration after 5 min mixing and 30 min sedimentation in controls and tests with addition of primary- and anaerobic sludge are shown in Fig. 1. Tests with addition of primary sludge and anaerobic digester sludge showed a net release of organic compounds from the sludge into the wastewater. Compared to the controls, both anaerobic digester sludge and primary sludge released particles into the wastewater, which can be seen by the increase in ABS650 and TOCp values. The amount of released TOCp was related to the amount of added sludge. For anaerobic digester sludge it was 45.3–49.5 mgTOCp/gVSS, whereas primary sludge released 21.7–27.8 mgTOCp/gVSS. For dissolved substances, anaerobic digester sludge released 4.3–6.3 mgTOCd/gVSS, whereas primary sludge did not have a net release of TOCd. However, the ABS254 and consequently the SUVA increased with both sludges. This indicates that aromatic organics, such as humic acids, were released by the sludge. In the primary sludge, this release was balanced by an uptake of other organics resulting in no net change in the TOCd concentration.
The original TOC concentrations and absorbance values before sedimentation are also shown. Averages of duplicate measurements are shown with the error bars representing the individual measurements. An asterisk (*) above a column indicate that the removal efficiency was significantly different (p<0.05, n = 2) from the control.
Net sorption of organics by aerobic activated sludge
The change in TOCp and TOCd concentrations, ABS254 and ABS650 for the sorption tests carried out with aerobic activated sludge on seven different sampling days are shown in Fig. 2. The influent wastewater characteristics varied between the different sampling days, especially in terms of particulate content (see the original values of TOCp and ABS650 in Fig. 2). Addition of activated sludge generally appeared to have a small but positive impact on the net removal of both particulate (TOCp and ABS650) and dissolved (TOCd and ABS254) organic carbon. To verify that activated sludge addition did indeed have an effect on the removal, statistical analysis was carried out (Table 1). For the parameters ABS650, TOCp, ABS254, and TOCd addition of both low and high concentration of activated sludge always resulted in a statistically significant difference in removal efficiency compared to the controls suggesting that addition of activated sludge could improve removal of both particulate and dissolved substances. For all parameters except ABS650, there was also a significant difference in the removal between low (0.30–0.39 gTSS/L) and high (1.04–1.37 gTSS/L) activated sludge addition (Table 1). The average sorption of TOCp was 6.5±10.8 mgTOCp/gVSS while the sorption of TOCd was 5.0±4.7 mgTOCd/gVSS. Thus, the total organics sorption was 11.5±11.8 mgTOC/gVSS. There was no difference in the SUVA between the controls and the samples with sludge addition suggesting that the aromatic content of the wastewater organics did not change because of mixing with activated sludge.
Original refers to the concentrations before sedimentation. Control, low addition, and high addition refers to the concentration in the supernatant after 30 min sedimentation with zero (control), 0.30–0.39 gTSS/L (low addition), or 1.04–1.37 gTSS/L (high addition) activated sludge. Averages of duplicate measurements are shown with the error bars representing the individual measurements. ABS650 was not measured on sampling day 6.
Effect of activated sludge starvation
Starvation of activated sludge may free up adsorption sites, which would allow greater removal of organic compounds from wastewater . Therefore, activated sludge was starved for 1, 3, and 6 days and its sorption ability was compared to fresh sludge collected from the wastewater treatment plant (Fig. 3). After 1 day of starvation, the starved sludge performed approximately equal to the fresh sludge, both resulting in an improvement of the removal of particulate and dissolved substances compared to the control. Only for ABS650 and addition of low concentration of sludge did the starved sludge show significantly worse removal efficiency than the fresh activated sludge. After 3 days starvation, high addition of sludge resulted in significantly lower removal efficiency of ABS650, TOCp, and UV254. After 6 days starvation, addition of both low and high concentrations of starved sludge resulted in significantly worse removal efficiencies than fresh activated sludge for all parameters except TOCd. Under no circumstances did starved sludge perform better than fresh activated sludge. The reason may be that the fresh activated sludge was collected from the outlet of the aeration tanks at the wastewater treatment plant. Thus, organic substances taken up by the sludge in the treatment plant had already been metabolized and further starvation did not free up any additional adsorption sites. Instead, prolonged starvation (> 1 day) led to deflocculation of the sludge and release of particles (ABS650 and TOCp) and humic substances (UV254), which meant that addition of starved sludge to the wastewater had a negative effect on the removal efficiencies of these parameters.
The low concentration of the starved sludge was 0.28–0.32 gTSS/L and the high concentration was 0.97–1.13 gTSS/L. The original TOC concentration and absorbance values before sedimentation are also shown. Averages of duplicate measurements are shown with the error bars representing the individual measurements. Arrow pairs indicate that the removal efficiencies for two treatments were compared. An asterisk (*) above the arrow pair indicate statistically significant difference in removal (p<0.05, n = 2).
Sorption kinetics with aerobic activated sludge
The sorption kinetics was investigated with raw wastewater and aerobic activated sludge collected on two different days. The changes in concentrations of TSS and TOCd are shown in Fig. 4 while kinetic coefficients and R2-values for the fits are shown in Table 2. Upon mixing wastewater and sludge, an instantaneous increase in TSS concentration and decrease in TOCd concentration can be observed. The increase in TSS can be explained by release of small particles by the sludge. The decrease in TOCd suggests an instantaneous sorption of TOCd from the wastewater onto the sludge. Following this instantaneous sorption or release, sorption of both TSS and TOCd obeys 1st order kinetics.
The legends show addition of activated sludge in gVSS per litre. Control samples (Ctrl) did not contain added activated sludge. Symbols show measured data whereas lines were fitted using Equation 2. Each measurement point is the average of two replicate tests with the error bars representing the individual measurements.
Effect of azide inhibition
The rate of biosorption of dissolved organics was compared with live and azide-inhibited activated sludge. Azide treatment resulted in some release of organic substances by the sludge, ranging from 2.5 to 3.0 mgTOCd/gVSS in the two tests. This is shown by the higher starting concentrations of TOCd in the sorption tests with azide-inhibited sludge (Fig. 5A) compared to live activated sludge (Fig. 5B). However, both live and azide-inhibited sludge showed a near-instantaneous sorption event upon mixing with raw wastewater. The extent of near-instantaneous sorption was 2.0–2.1 mgTOCd/gVSS for live activated sludge and 1.0–1.3 mgTOCd/gVSS for azide-inhibited sludge. The rate of removal was 24–36 mgTOCd/gVSS∙d for live activated sludge and 30–48 mgTOCd/gVSS∙d for azide-inhibited sludge. First-order kinetics could be used to describe the data with kinetic coefficients of 0.014–0.020 L/gVSS∙d for both the live and azide-inhibited sludge (Table 2). However, using zero-order reaction rates provided equally good fits and the rates of removal shown above were calculated from the linear decrease in TOCd concentrations.
Fate of small molecules during sorption tests
The fate of small molecules (<20 kDa) in the sorption tests was investigated using HPSEC. In this size range, most of the organic molecules were smaller than 2 kDa (Fig. 6). Detection at wavelengths of 215, 230, 254, and 280 nm was carried out. However, the results at 215 and 230 nm were very similar to each other, and so were the results at 254 and 280 nm. Therefore, only the results at 215 and 254 nm are shown in Fig. 6. Organic compounds with functional groups such as carboxyls, carboxylates, aldehydes, ketones, and esters have absorption maxima near 200 nm , and these groups are likely detected in the HPSEC spectra at 215 nm. At longer wavelengths, aromatic organic compounds have absorption peaks. Benzene and more complex aromatic molecules such as humic acids have absorption peaks near 254 nm and this wavelength is often used as an indicator of natural organic matter in water . Proteins usually have absorption peaks near 280 nm because of the aromatic amino acids tryptophan and tyrosine . Fig. 6 shows samples after 1 min of mixing, thus the effect of the near-instantaneous sorption event can be observed. At 215 nm, there is a clear difference between sorption tests and controls for molecules of 200 Da and less. This suggests that small molecules such as carboxylic acids may have been rapidly taken up by the sludge upon mixing. At 254 nm, there is no obvious difference between control and sorption test samples for molecules smaller than 20 kDa. As the TOCd values in the kinetic tests were obtained by correlation with ABS254 values, this suggests that the instantaneous sorption of TOCd observed in Fig. 4 is due to dissolved organic matter larger than 20 kDa. The HPSEC spectra obtained after mixing 15 and 120 min are shown in S3 File. For the short wavelengths (215 and 230 nm) the sorption tests samples are still distinctly different from the control around 200 Da at 15 min. However, at 120 min the absorbance at this size range has increased drastically both for the control and test samples, possibly because of fermentation leading to the production of carboxylic acids. At the longer wavelengths (254 and 280 nm), the absorbance of molecules smaller than 200 Da decreases with time in the sorption test samples whereas the control samples remain fairly constant. At 120 min, there is a clear difference between the controls and the test samples. This suggests that prolonged mixing with sludge leads to uptake or conversion of the aromatic fraction of organic molecules smaller than 200 Da.
Black lines show controls without addition of sludge. Red lines show samples with addition of 0.97 g/L VSS. The vertical lines show the retention time of polyethylene glycol standards of known molecular weight.
Analysis with HPLC of low molecular weight organic acids (i.e. formic-, acetic, propionic-, lactic-, butyric-, crotonic-, and valeric acid) showed that neither of these were produced during the sorption tests. Thus, the increase in the UV absorbance (215 and 230 nm) of low molecular weight compounds after 120 min of mixing in the sorption tests was either caused by carboxylic acids larger than C5 or other small organic molecules containing functional groups absorbing at those wavelengths.
Three types of sludges were tested for sorption of organic compounds from raw municipal wastewater. Both primary- and anaerobic sludge had a net release of particles (>0.45 μm). Release of soluble substances (<0.45 μm) was lower; however, increases in the ABS254 values suggested that humic-like substances were released from the sludges. In this study, anaerobic sludge from a completely mixed mesophilic digester was used. It is possible that anaerobic granular sludge could have a net sorption of organics because of different surface characteristics and better settling properties than non-granular anaerobic sludge. Riffat and Dague  showed that anaerobic granules could adsorb milk from a synthetic solution. The sorption capacity ranged from less than 10 up to about 45 mgCOD/gTSS. This is similar to the 5-min sorption capacity of aerobic activated sludge observed in our study.
Recirculation of primary sludge to enhance primary sedimentation of wastewater has been suggested as an enhanced primary treatment technology . However, in that study they observed that sorption of organics from the raw wastewater could only be obtained if the sludge was aerated in a separate tank before being contacted with the raw wastewater. Thus, the primary sludge evolved into an aerobic activated sludge. This is consistent with results in our study, which showed that addition of primary sludge did not remove organics from the wastewater, but addition of aerobic activated sludge did.
The 5-min sorption tests with aerobic activated sludge showed average sorption capacities of 6.5±10.8 mgTOCp/gVSS for particulates. Assuming a COD/TOC conversion factor of 2.67 (see S4 File), this is equivalent to 18±29 mgCOD/gVSS. This is similar to the 0–30 mgCOD/gTSS sorption capacity observed by Rensink and Donker  for total wastewater COD in 10 min tests and the-40 to 100 mgCOD/gTSS sorption of non-settleable organics observed by Guellil et al.  in 60 min tests. The sorption capacity of 5.0±4.7 mgTOCd/gVSS for dissolved organics is also similar to the 0.9–16 mgTOCd/gTSS observed by Jorand et al.  in 15-min tests. Variation in sorption capacity between the different tests could depend on variations in both the activated sludge and the wastewater characteristics. The activated sludge appeared to have quite constant characteristics during the experimental period with SVI ranging from 70 to 96 mL/gTSS. The influent wastewater had more variable characteristics, which can be seen by the original values for ABS650, ABS254, TOCp, and TOCd in Figs. 1–3. However, no clear correlations could be found between any single of these parameters and sorption capacity. Instead, it is likely a combination of several different properties of the sludge and the wastewater that determine sorption capacity. Lim et al.  showed that operational parameters affecting sludge characteristics such as dissolved oxygen concentration, SRT, and pH can affect sorption capacity.
Sorption kinetics of wastewater organics onto sludge has previously been investigated in very few studies. Jimenez et al.  obtained a 1st order rate coefficient (k) of about 0.15 L/gTSS·min for non-settlable particulates (>0.45 μm), which can be compared to the 0.05–0.16 L/gVSS·min observed in our study. For organics smaller than 0.45 μm the k-values were 0.030–0.049 L/gTSS·min in Jimenez et al.  and 0.014–0.065 L/gVSS·min in our study. The observations that both sorption capacity and kinetic coefficients correspond quite well with values obtained from other studies carried out in different countries suggest that the sorption capacity and kinetics of aerobic activated sludge is quite consistent between different treatment plants.
New high-rate activated sludge processes that rely on sorption as a major removal mechanism for organic matter are emerging. For example, Faust et al.  operated a high-rate MBR and estimated the degree of mineralization of organics from as low as 1% at 0.2 d to 11% at 1 d SRT. This means that energy can be saved by minimizing the need for aeration and energy can be recovered by maximizing the fraction of the organics that e.g. can be converted to biogas. To be able to model and optimize this and other types of sorption-based process, further knowledge about the mechanisms and rates of sorption is needed. Currently, sorption of organics onto activated sludge is often assumed to be an instantaneous process. For example, this is the assumption made (primarily for particulate and colloidal substrate) in the commonly used activated sludge models developed by the International Water Association . Other studies have pointed out that sorption of organics is not instantaneous but can be modelled using kinetic equations , which is especially relevant for high-rate processes operated at short HRTs. In this study, we observed both a near-instantaneous sorption event and a slower sorption process obeying 1st order kinetics. The instantaneous sorption event occurred in less than 1 min of mixing, which was the time for our first sample. Tests with azide-inhibited sludge suggested that neither the instantaneous nor the slower sorption process was coupled to microbial respiration.
Further knowledge is needed about which fractions of the wastewater organics can be sorbed onto activated sludge. In all sorption tests, a significant residual organics concentration was observed in solution. HPSEC results showed that small molecular weight compounds (<200 Da) with strong UV absorbance at 215 and 230 nm were instantaneously taken up by the sludge upon mixing. However, the HPSEC spectra at 254 nm suggested that most of the organic compounds instantaneously sorbed were likely larger than 20 kDa. In a study by Dulekgurgen et al. , 43% of the dissolved COD in a municipal wastewater was associated with the size range 10 kDa-0.45 μm. Organics in this size range could include e.g. proteins, polysaccharides and humic acids . After the instantaneous sorption and up to a mixing time of 120 min, the content of aromatic organic compounds smaller than about 200 Da was gradually decreased either by uptake, sorption, or conversion by the activated sludge microorganisms.
The sorption and release of organic compounds by primary-, anaerobic-, and aerobic activated sludge when mixed with raw municipal wastewater was investigated. Only aerobic activated sludge showed net sorption of organics from the wastewater. Primary- and anaerobic sludge had both net releases of mainly particulate organics.
For aerobic activated sludge, the 5-min sorption capacity was 6.5±10.8 mgTOCp/gVSS for particulate organics and 5.0±4.7 mgTOCd/gVSS for dissolved organics. This is similar to values obtained by other researcher using activated sludge from other treatment plants. Prolonged starvation under aerobic conditions of the activated sludge (>1 d) did not improve sorption capacity, instead it led to deflocculation.
When activated sludge was mixed with wastewater, a near-instantaneous sorption of dissolved organics (<0.45 μm) could be observed followed by a slower sorption obeying 1st order kinetics. For particles, there was an instantaneous release of particles when sludge and wastewater was mixed, followed by sorption according to 1st order kinetics. The kinetic rate coefficient was 0.05–0.16 L/gVSS·min for particles and 0.014–0.065 L/gVSS·min for dissolved organics.
HPSEC results suggested that organic compounds larger than 20 kDa but smaller than 0.45 μm as well as small molecules (<200 Da) with UV absorbance at 215–230 nm were almost instantaneously removed from the wastewater when mixed with activated sludge.
S1 File. Calculation of velocity gradient in batch tests.
S2 File. Correlations between absorbance measurements and TSS and TOCd.
S3 File. High-performance size exclusion chromatography (HPSEC) profiles.
We thank Gryaab for making it possible to collect samples at the Rya wastewater treatment plant.
Conceived and designed the experiments: OM. Performed the experiments: OM SSA. Analyzed the data: OM SSA FP BMW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OM BMW. Wrote the paper: OM SSA FP BMW.
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AVONDALE, Ariz. — All Elliott Sadler could do was apologize and wonder what might have been as he walked from his wrecked race car and saw his hopes of winning the NASCAR Nationwide Series title diminish.
Sadler's late-race wreck Saturday at Phoenix International Raceway capped a dreadful day that began with him crashing his primary car in qualifying and then watching Ricky Stenhouse Jr. move closer to winning back-to-back series titles.
Joey Logano beat Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Brian Vickers on a green-white-checkered finish to score his series-high ninth win of the season, while Danica Patrick finished 10th — her second top-10 in the last three races.
Entering the race, Stenhouse and Sadler were tied for the points lead. Stenhouse placed third Saturday while Sadler was 22nd. Stenhouse leads Sadler by 20 points heading into next weekend's season finale at Homestead.
Stenhouse needs only to finish 16th next week to become the sixth driver in series history to win consecutive titles, joining Sam Ard, Larry Pearson, Randy LaJoie, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Martin Truex Jr.
Sadler's title hopes deflated when he made contact with Cole Whitt in Turn 3 while running 12th a lap before the scheduled finish. Brendan Gaughan also was collected in the crash.
"Sorry, guys," Sadler radioed his crew after the race. "I was just trying too hard. My fault."
It was all too familiar to how Sadler's title hopes essentially ended last year at this track with a crash.
"Same corner, same thing ... as last year," Sadler said. "It is like deja vu. Very hard to swallow because I felt really confident about our championship hopes. It's definitely going to be very hard to put this behind us.
"We're going to go down there (to Homestead) to fight but I definitely dug ourselves a hole."
Even with a 20-point lead, Stenhouse remained cautious.
"We've given up 20 points in one race, so it's not even close to over," he said. "We've got to make sure we do everything next week at Homestead. It's going to be tough. Obviously, I'm going to have to not push the limits as much as I like. I like going for race wins, too, so that's going to be a fine balance there. I want to win that race and the championship all at the same time."
It likely will take a day like Sadler had Saturday for Stenhouse to lose the championship. Sadler wrecked his primary car on his second lap of qualifying and had to go to a backup car.
"I wrecked the car in qualifying and put us in a bad spot, and we just could never get this car tuned in like quite like I wanted to," Sadler said. "And I probably just took too big of a chance on that last corner (in the race) and got loose and lost it."
While Sadler struggled throughout the 204-lap race, Stenhouse was steady unlike the last two races where he rallied from two laps down to win at Kansas and made a late charge to finish fourth last week at Texas.
"It was a solid day for us," Stenhouse said. "We didn't have to scramble near as much as the last two weeks, so that made it a lot nicer."
No one had it as good as Logano, who led 168 laps and beat Vickers on the late restart to win. Logano's ninth victory came in his 21st start as he runs a partial schedule this year.
Logano will move to Penske Racing after this season and he knows what he'll face when he runs in Nationwide next year against Joe Gibbs Racing.
"It's going to be tough to race against them," Logano said. "I know those Penske guys definitely have strong cars. I saw Brad (Keselowski, ninth) up there racing for the win today with me. That makes me excited about my future over there. I still want to finish off on the best note we can. It's cool to be out there to winning races."


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Friday, October 14, 2016
Souvenir Friday- Febraury 1966 Univeristy of Disneyland Newsletter
The next issue of the small employee publication from the University of Disneyland. The big news was the Walt Disney Productions annual report. I like the spin on Disneyland's contribution to the bottom line.


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(analog : digital) : (continuous : discrete) The Premises of Metaphor
how are things? Stairwell Installation Project #3: Michael Dumontier and Tom Elliott
March 23 – April 21, 2001
a response to the exhibition by Kevin Matthews
Between the world that is and anything else is imagination, to navigate and render conceivable. Here the compass is largely created by the mechanisms of poetry – analogy is how we provoke this mechanism into revolution; it is what How are things? ultimately pokes at with its own means.
The exhibition comes third in Ace’s Stairwell Project series, a series which seems to have a consistent motif: perhaps because of its spatial proportions, or its historical function as architecture, the stairwell seems to embrace art that somehow prods at the meaning of interstices and overlaps between conceptual realms. How are things? seems to articulate this by baring and probing the very mechanism of metaphor.
This is in no way straightforward, for it goes to the heart of the covenant between representation and vision, the codependence of image and imagination.
It makes more attractive the way that mathematicians express measurable analogy, or ratio – (a:b) : (x:y) = 1, if a is to b as x is to y. This is not usually so clean with words.
The stairwell is, at best, a slice of a world – perhaps, for the sake of this piece, a space between realities. Like poetry, it operates in a gap between boundaries to investigate the workings of the space it occupies as well as its implications for the larger world.
Poetic language itself – which, to be frank, is really all language – is premised on analogy, on drawing and representing things by crossing and comparing their identities.
Historically, Tom and Michael have made machines that eagerly abrade themselves, taking on jobs that wear them down gradually, consumed blithely with their understated missions. As if with endless, self-displacing patience, they chip and grind away, prompting the mind of the beholder to respond in tune. The machines in How are things? have that sort of life, but the authors are here more documentary poets than inventors; the devices probe the basic mechanism of metaphor, something neither Elliott nor Dumontier has engaged in such a direct way before.
On a more concrete level, these creatures are sound machines, governed by a system of timed switches whose apparati are eloquent and visible, orchestrated by a master program that switches between those whose sounds evoke a landscape of weather and those whose evoke a rhythmic soundscape of power construction tools.
The sounds are analogous and representational of everyday noises, like the pre-stylistic roots of musical instruments – i.e. the sound for rain sounds as rain does, the saw sound sounds like the sound that a saw sounds. Onomatopoeia is a key root of metaphor.
I’ll try to get at the heart of this with a comparison between comparisons: (analog : digital) : (continuous : discrete).
Technology in our world is often considered under a taxonomy of analog or digital. An analog representation of data is, as the term suggests, analogous; that is, it imitates a waveform or string in a physical mimicry, like contour lines in a drawing. Digital data is represented by a set of units, quantified and approximating analogy like a collection of points in a digital bitmap.
This distinction is itself analogous to the theoretical comparison between the continuous universe and the discrete universe, i.e. that the digital simulation or record is made up of some fundamental units, inherently suggestive of a grid or regime, while the analog is metaphor down (theoretically) even to the infinitesimal. A metaphysics of continuity is poetry itself; a metaphysics of digits allows poetry only at a gross level.
How are things? operates with analog tactics, to the point where analogy itself takes the foreground. That is, the essential relationship is between, for instance, the wind-sound-maker, the wind-sound, and wind as we construct it in our heads for the sake of comparison. What I think Elliott and Dumontier have really done is objectify the very premises of metaphor in the physical premises of the stairwell.
Such concrete reification assists a meditation on the workings of poetry. I mean to say that the installation uses its crude (-looking) machinery to prod not only at itself but also at the conceptual machinery underlying it all – subversive, clever, but best of all subtle.
Really, how are things?
Okay, now the pun. It may seem in a way facetious, but I think that Elliott and Dumontier mean very directly to investigate the phenomenon of things being, and by representation elucidate the way that the world sets out to be.
Art in such a conceptual space aims to chart our imagination, the parameters of possible worlds.
The metaphors of How are things? invoke a dwelling in several realms of simultaneous possibility. Two (or three) realities coexist in stairwell, perhaps implying even more possibilities.
We are in one world. The installation overlays two more onto ours, the sounds from which alternately fill the stairwell. Just flip the switch: in one world, a rainstorm occupies the foreground, in the other, incessant construction sounds, hammering and power tools. Under both are live sounds brought in by a microphone outside the back window of Ace.
The small differences and quiet similarities give an impression of infinitesimal and never-ending shades of reality: what if there were heavy weather right now or a large project being built? Why not? How do these vibrations of possibility, these windows on the not-at-all-farfetched, comment on how we confront and navigate our world?
There exists not only the poetic but also the political implication: the small intimations of parallel worlds in the slice of space that the stairwell describes stand in contrast to the growing stridency of voices around the world decrying the narrow path that the world’s future would follow were global capital to have its way and were fossil fuels to continue burning. That another world is possible is a watchword of global resistance.
How are things?, using the most eloquent of poetic structures, points to a localized manifestation of the possibility of alternate worlds, which in these times we certainly need ‹ especially if these worlds differ only in small ways from this one. The implications are manifold, from small environmental differences to endless clouds and fields of possibility.
With the example of the devices that populate Elliott and Dumontier’s installation we can pursue the building blocks of metaphor, seeing how just a few degrees of imagination can rebuild our world.
Kevin Matthews is a writer, print designer and visual artist as well as Ace Art’s current President. He has a degree in environmental studies (University of Manitoba, 1993) and is currently completing his BFA in Art History (U of M, 2001). Kevin has worked as the Editor in Chief for the Manitoban and is currently a designer for Canadian Dimension magazine. Kevin has written about site works, media installations, performance and visual art.


text: Triple bill of fantasy thrillers. Len Wiseman's directorial debut 'Underworld' (2003) sees vampires battle with werewolves. Two underground communities, the sophisticated Death Dealers (vampires), and the feral Lycans (werewolves), have been battling for supremacy and hidden from the mortal world for centuries. That is until one night when one of their battles is witnessed by a young doctor, Michael Corvin (Scott Speedman). When a leading member of the Death Dealers, Selene (Kate Beckinsale), discovers a Lycan plot to kill the doctor she decides to follow him. But the more Selene follows him, the more attracted to the man she becomes - and becomes convinced that the Lycans are planning a major attack. When Corvin is attacked by a Lycan and becomes a werewolf, and a sworn enemy of her race, Selene finds herself in a dilemma. In 'Underworld 2 - Evolution' (2006), the battle between the Death Dealers and the Lycans turns even bloodier when a beautiful young Vampire warrior and a newly-turned Lycan with a mysterious past fall in love. Finally, 'Underworld: Rise of Lycans' (2009) tells the story of the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires and their onetime werewolf slaves. In the Dark Ages, young Lycan Lucian (Michael Sheen) emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Bill Nighy), the cruel vampire king who has enslaved them. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, Sonja (Rhona Mitra), in his battle against the Death Dealer army and his struggle for Lycan freedom.


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Highly sought after vintage CP Company Hinged Watchviewer Mille Miglia jacket from Spring/Summer 1996.
- Rare collector's piece
- Iconic Massimo Osti inspired design
- Stone grey garment dyed cotton/nylon blend
- Goggle hood
- Hinged watchviewer to left sleeve
L: (tagged as 48) Pit to pit 26 ins, collar to hem 30 ins, pit to cuff 17 ins.
Condition: Very good, lightly worn, original rubberised raso gommato lining has been removed with some traces remaining at the seams. Small area of light fraying on left cuff.