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Technical Analysis Strategies for USDJPY Forex Traders
The USDJPY forex pair, also known as the “Ninja,” is one of the most actively traded currency pairs in the forex market. It represents the exchange rate between the US dollar and the Japanese yen. As a forex trader, understanding technical analysis strategies specific to the USDJPY can help you make informed trading decisions and increase your chances of success in this volatile market.
Technical analysis is the study of historical price data and market trends to predict future price movements. It is based on the belief that historical price patterns tend to repeat themselves, and thus, by analyzing these patterns, traders can anticipate future market behavior. In the case of USDJPY, technical analysis can be particularly effective due to the pair’s sensitivity to economic and political factors.
Here are some technical analysis strategies that can be applied to USDJPY trading:
1. Trend Analysis:
Trend analysis is a fundamental technique in technical analysis that involves identifying the direction of the market. Traders can use various indicators such as moving averages, trend lines, and Bollinger Bands to determine whether the USDJPY is in an uptrend, downtrend, or range-bound. By following the trend, traders can increase their chances of success by trading in the direction of the market momentum.
2. Support and Resistance Levels:
Support and resistance levels are price levels where the USDJPY tends to find buying or selling pressure. These levels can be identified by analyzing previous swing highs and lows or by using technical indicators such as pivot points or Fibonacci retracements. By buying near support levels and selling near resistance levels, traders can take advantage of potential price reversals.
3. Candlestick Patterns:
Candlestick patterns provide valuable information about the psychology of market participants and can help traders predict future price movements. Patterns such as doji, hammer, engulfing, and shooting star can indicate potential trend reversals or continuation. By recognizing these patterns, traders can enter or exit trades at optimal levels.
Oscillators are technical indicators that oscillate between overbought and oversold levels, indicating potential market turning points. Popular oscillators used by USDJPY traders include the Relative Strength Index (RSI), Stochastic Oscillator, and Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD). By using these indicators, traders can identify overbought or oversold conditions and anticipate price reversals.
5. Fibonacci Analysis:
Fibonacci retracements and extensions are based on the Fibonacci sequence and are used to identify potential support and resistance levels. By drawing Fibonacci levels from swing highs to swing lows or vice versa, traders can determine areas where the USDJPY is likely to reverse or continue its trend. Fibonacci levels can also be used in conjunction with other technical analysis tools for confirmation.
6. News and Economic Events:
While technical analysis focuses on price movements and patterns, it is essential to consider fundamental factors as well. News releases and economic events can have a significant impact on the USDJPY exchange rate. Traders should be aware of economic indicators such as interest rate decisions, GDP reports, and employment data, as they can create volatility and affect the direction of the market.
In conclusion, technical analysis strategies are valuable tools for USDJPY forex traders. By analyzing historical price data, identifying trends, support and resistance levels, candlestick patterns, oscillators, Fibonacci levels, and considering fundamental factors, traders can make more informed trading decisions. However, it is important to remember that no strategy is foolproof, and risk management should always be a priority.

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Last weekend, Alexa and I went to an Edgar Allan Poe exhibit, “Evermore: The Persistence of Poe,” at the beautiful Grolier Club on the Upper East Side. It was a delicious, early Halloween treat for a Poephile like me! The exhibit was filled with all sorts of Poe ephemera and memorabilia, including rare manuscripts, first editions, and personal items. There were even a few keepsakes that, in my opinion, crossed the line into creepy obsession, such as this actual preserved lock of Poe’s hair!
Here’s a first edition of Poe’s only novel-length work of fiction, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym:
Here’s a poster to a movie I wish existed. If it did, it would undoubtedly be my favorite movie ever!
I was especially pleased to see this Richard Corben comic-book adaptation of “The Fall of the House of Usher” as part of the exhibit. It reminded me not only that I had a copy of it as a youth back in 1984, but that Corben’s amazing artwork really got under my skin and stayed with me. (I’m only sorry the cover is partially obscured here by glare.)
I have a tonne more photos from the exhibit over at Flickr. The exhibit is running at the Grolier Club through November 22nd, free of charge. If you love Poe even half as much as I do, you owe it to yourself to check it out. It’s amazing.

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Evaluation of In-Barn Feeder Management Prior to Marketing to Reduce Feed Cost, Improve Carcass Yield, and Impact on Economic Return
finishing pigs, carcass characteristics, feed withdrawal
A total of 695 mixed sex growing-finishing pigs (600 × 241, DNA; initially 242.7 ± 1.36 lb) were used in a 14-d trial to determine the effects of feed withdrawal before the first and final marketing event on carcass weight, carcass yield, and economics. Pens of pigs were assigned to 1 of 3 treatments in a randomized complete block design. There were 24 pens per treatment and 9 or 10 pigs per pen. Treatments consisted of none, 6, or 12 h of feeder closure prior to loading pigs on the truck at both the first (2 weeks before final marketing) and final marketing to achieve approximately 12, 18, and 24 h of feed withdrawal prior to harvest at the processing plant. There was no evidence of differences (P ≥ 0.10) for ADG, ADFI, or F/G during the 14-d period between the first and final marketing event. However, pig BW at time of loadout, with 24-h of feed withdrawal prior to harvest were lighter (P < 0.05) than those with only 12 h of feed withdrawal both at first marketing event and the last. Pigs that had access to feed (12 h withdrawal prior to harvest) gained weight during the marketing day, while pigs with 18 or 24 h of feed withdrawal lost weight. For carcass characteristics, pigs at final marketing with 12 h feed withdrawal prior to harvest had increased (P < 0.05) HCW compared to those with 24 h feed withdrawal. There was a tendency (P = 0.055) for a treatment effect with pigs undergoing 12 h feed withdrawal prior to harvest having a 1.1 lb heavier HCW than those with 24 h feed withdrawal. When evaluating carcass yield, using live weights for all pigs 24 h prior to harvest, pigs in the final marketing group with 12 h of feed withdrawal prior to harvest had greater yield (P < 0.05) than those marketed with 24 h of feed withdrawal. However, when evaluating carcass yield using live weights 12 h prior to harvest for the final marketing and overall, pigs marketed at 24 h of feed withdrawal had greater yield (P < 0.05) than the other two treatments. Conversely, in the first marketing event, pigs with 12 h of feed withdrawal had decreased yield compared to pigs with the 18 and 24 h of feed withdrawal treatment. There were no differences in backfat, loin depth, and lean % between treatments. Feed consumed on the day of marketing and feed cost per pig were increased (P< 0.05) for pigs marketed with 12 or 18 h of feed withdrawal prior to harvest compared to those with 24 h feed withdrawal. In conclusion, there were no differences between the treatments on HCW and carcass yield at the first marketing event. However, in the final marketing event, differences were observed between the 12 h feed withdrawal prior to harvest and 24 h feed withdrawal prior to harvest treatments on HCW and carcass yield. Carcass yield was greatest for those with 12 h of feed withdrawal prior to harvest at the final marketing event. Also, as expected, pigs with a longer time of feed withdrawal had reduced feed consumption and feed cost/pig on the day of marketing. Thus, saving in feed cost would have to offset the reduction in carcass weight value to justify withholding feed for greater than 12 h prior to harvest.
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Cordoba, Hilario M.; DeRouchey, Joel M.; Goodband, Robert D.; Tokach, Mike D.; Woodworth, Jason C.; and Gebhardt, Jordan T.
"Evaluation of In-Barn Feeder Management Prior to Marketing to Reduce Feed Cost, Improve Carcass Yield, and Impact on Economic Return,"
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It's winter! This is a fantastic season of falling snowflakes, biting frost,hot drinks,warm blankets and fairytales for children and adults. It brings us the most exciting Christmastime !!! This season really makes adults feel like kids. Maybe this is the reason we like winter so much!
This lovely wintry poem is one of those outstanding creations,which let us see,hear and feel like the author did it many years ago. It's a masterpiece,and we are ready to read and enjoy it!
Late lies the wintry sun a-bed,A frosty, fiery sleepy-head;
Blinks but an hour or two; and then,
A blood-red orange, sets again.
Before the stars have left the skies,
At morning in the dark I rise;
And shivering in my nakedness,
By the cold candle, bathe and dress.
Close by the jolly fire I sit
To warm my frozen bones a bit;
Or with a reindeer-sled, explore
The colder countries round the door.
When to go out, my nurse doth wrap
Me in my comforter and cap;
The cold wind burns my face, and blows
Its frosty pepper up my nose.
Black are my steps on silver sod;
Thick blows my frosty breath abroad;
And tree and house, and hill and lake,
Are frosted like a wedding cake.
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CHEMPRO Engineering Suite includes all of the features of SiNET and adds analysis of 2-phase flow and a rigorous 3-phase flash. You will quickly become proficient in Flash calculations without needing to run a complicated process simulator. Just select the type of flash calculation desired, enter the feed properties, and specify the stream composition. Quickly solve 2-phase and 3-phase flash computations for mixtures of pure and/or pseudo-components using the AIChE DIPPR Database and API published methods. The flash drum on the main screen automatically changes from vertical to horizontal when 3-phases are predicted.
Ease of Use
The THERMA Pro interface provides a visual representation of the feed and flash drum for entry of data. Select adding Pure Components, Psuedo Components, or Generating Psuedo components by clicking on their icons in the middle of the screen. Next, enter the mole or mass percent of each pure and pseudo component. The total percentage will we shown in red until it equal 100% and will then turn green. Then the Run Flash Calculations button will become activated so that the flash calculations can be performed. Results of the phase split and the properties for each phase are displayed in output grids on the main screen and the View Stream Properties screen.
Pseudo Components, SRK and NRTL parameters
Pseudo components can also be automatically generated by entering either a D86, D2887, or TBP crude assay along with the API or Specific Gravity. The generated pseudo components and calculated mole percentages are placed into the flash so that only the stream properties need to be entered to determine the phase split and properties of each phase. A databank of accurate SRK-KD and NRTL parameters is included that is automatically selected for component pairs -providing high quality 2-phase and 3-phase flash results. Use the View Binary Parameters button to display coverage of binary pairs. Experimental VLE data to create custom binary parameters for any system of interest is available from DDBST (www.ddbst.de).
SINET Fluid Flow Simulator is included in CHEMPRO - Click Below to View


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I didn’t become an atheist the way I became Lithuanian. Becoming Lithuanian was as simple as being born. Becoming an atheist took most of my life. It began when I was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church when I was two months old.
There’s no doubt that Catholicism put the fear of God into me. As far back as second grade I remember thinking that I should just give up and be a nun so as to be assured of a good chair in paradise, any chair at all really. Otherwise life was just too stressful; there were too many pitfalls. Already I was anxious and unsure. God’s good nature seemed always to be riding on my behavior.
As a result of my fears, I was pretty much a goody-two-shoes, making my First Communion and (horrors) my First Confession (a/k/a penance and reconciliation). First Confession was when I first realized that there was a sin for everything. Luckily, I was never short of a venial sin or two for the confessional. I attended the parochial elementary school around the corner, and the nuns’ convent (back then it was ALL nuns) was on the corner of my block. They walked home past my house. They were like minor celebrities, so graceful in their black and white habits, their flowy veils.
One nun stands out as a treasure: a young, lovely, happy seventh grade teacher who brought the very best out of each of us awkward children on the cusp of our teens. Even the chronically naughty, poor learners and the sullen boys who had been passed on for their age and size rather than for any proper achievement responded, even excelled. We all shone! She brought us music and singing and even square dancing in the limited classroom space. I out and out loved her and sometimes walked home with her past my house to hers.
Sometimes I fantasized about a romance between her and the young priest of the parish. Of course, the principal Mother R was jealous of her success, and in the second semester of that year she was banished to the third grade and we got the ancient Sister Theophane (I kid you not), probably conscripted out of retirement. Sister Theophane was not long for the real world. She would tap on the blackboard with her chalk to make a point and then go to the door to see who was knocking. We could contain neither our mirth nor our rage at losing our beloved teacher.
Much has been written about the casual and possibly sadistic cruelty of some teaching nuns and priests of the day, and I have no intention of going there. I will just say that parents were not involved in our school lives in the way of now and we were pretty much on our own. By eighth grade graduation, I possessed a certain amount of cynicism about his henchmen but retained my faith in God’s interest in my doings.
Public high school followed. I simply cannot recall how my religious education continued. Mostly I had discovered BOYS, and between trying to capture the interest of one or more of them and struggling to rise to an academic standard unknown to me in the little parochial school, I simply kept up the Catholic devotions demanded at home: Sunday Mass; weekday mass and Stations of the Cross during Lent, abstinence from meat on Fridays, novenas, etc.
Confessional sins moved on to carnal topics. One priest told me that my conscience was too tender to ever commit any serious sin. Boy, was he wrong! God loomed large in a romantic kind of way, and almost all of my very bad poetry made mention of either him or heaven.
As the years and marriages passed, my religious faith continued to frame my decisions, cushion my disappointments and serve as the main source of my social life. I gained knowledge of bishops and priests who had significant women “friends,” pastoral methods I found personally barbaric and even learned about one of our own parish priests who had been removed to another parish because of molesting children in ours. A woman of the times, I energetically protested everything that could be protested, but eventually I always exonerated the Church, saw it as fallible but not malicious.
I was one of the first two female lectors in our parish, headed the parish council, edited and published a parish newsletter. I also was on the side of women’s abortion rights, family limitation by whatever means necessary, married and women priests. A dichotomy brewed. God was my shepherd, but the flock of my unruly thoughts began to scatter. I was determined to believe, and while my faith did not keep me from grave “sins,” it continued to serve as a strong part of my identity. If now and then my beliefs felt a little hollow and irrational, I pushed those thoughts away. As the years went on, I sometimes felt my house of holy cards shudder but it did not fall.
So, what happened? If it was not inexplicable personal tragedy or disgust at a church so crucially flawed that it became impossible to defend or getting mad at God for the unfairness of life or the relentless suffering of humanity, what did happen when I was around 50 years old to make it all fall away like shaken dust?
One day after I’d moved to Albany a new friend asked me in a discussion no doubt prompted by my polling of others’ faith situations: ”Mary, don’t you think when you are praying, you are just reaching deeper into yourself for what it is you need?” I brushed off this inquiry, but it rang over and over like a bell in the years to follow, calling me to honor its truth.
So no big event took place but over a couple of years when I went back to college and opened my mind as well as my philosophy books, the struggle to believe what I feared to find unbelievable churned in earnest. Why was I so afraid to let go, I finally asked myself. Couldn’t I just for once give my mind some real freedom? If I hadn’t been mired in 50 years of beating the drum of the Church, what would I really think?
Soon what I could believe crept shyly but surely forth: The only gods are those we create to make sense of this often senseless world, to not feel so alone and powerless. I had been struggling for years to believe what just did not seem reasonable or even “good” to me. Denial had been my middle name. I knew all about “crises of faith” and the other emergency labels deigned to rein in religious disbelief. I had used them myself on others mercilessly. Now I felt compelled to acknowledge that the idea of a superpower that engineered evolution, never mind the creation story, seemed totally and utterly ludicrous.
Gradually, I came to understand that life is random. Tragedy or blessing, we are not being specially selected nor will intercessory pleas to gods or saints make any difference in the outcome. Only we can make a difference in ourselves and for each other. Scary. Only we can deal and cope. Scarier. It is not “pride” to take credit as well as blame, to be accountable to ourselves and for ourselves. It is grown up and responsible, humane and decent. Scariest.
Few want to acknowledge that life is ephemeral, that death is the end, that we will join the dust that fed our ancestors. Fewer still want to let go of the belief that deceased husbands, wives, brothers, parents, children are not happily waiting for us “on the other side,” that we will see them again. That reluctance is understandable.
If justice is not to be experienced on earth, we want a guarantee of it in the “next life.” The concept of an afterlife tidies up loose ends, and we romanticize it to the extreme. Think how many of our favorite films are stories of the dead returning to meddle in our lives? We are comforted by these stories. Our fears of death and the pain of losing those precious to us invite us to believe in eternal life. I have turned down that invitation. Now that I don’t believe in the judgment that was supposed to come on the heels of death, I don’t fear death either. I do continue to fear any agony that might be involved but at least I know I will be truly peacefully over.
Sure I hate the idea of not knowing the end of the story of everyone I love. ”But you won’t know you don’t know,” my husband reminds me, smiling. I smile back.
I also believe that our time here is precious, that we have an unknown number of days, years, minutes to make a little difference, ease a little pain, love and care for each other. We also owe responsible care to the world that is our home. I guess the bottom line is that I do not believe in a god or an afterlife, but I also don’t believe that lets me off the hook as a human being.

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In the latest episode of BodyShop Business: The Podcast, Jason Stahl and Laura Gay, owner of Consolidation Coach, discuss the current state of collision repair shop acquisition. Topics they discuss include:
- What is your shop worth?
- What makes a shop attractive to a buyer?
- How long will the rapid pace of consolidation last?
- Is it still a buyers’ and sellers’ market?
- When will the window shut on shops that want to sell?
BodyShop Business: The Podcast is sponsored by OEC and CollisionLink Plus.
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Half Day Causeway Coast Iconic Site Tour
Showing off the amazing iconic locations of the area. View the incredible, breathtaking scenery of the world famous Causeway Coastal Route that is studded with sandy beaches and clifftop paths.
Walk and climb on the dramatic 60 million year old volcanic rocks at the Giant’s Causeway and see the cliffs and beaches of the North Atlantic coastline.
Bring Your Camera
Absorbing this epic landscape from the height of the van looking over the hedgerows. We balance driving with many stops for photo opportunities and discovery.
Sights and Sounds
A guided walking tour is provided at the Giant’s Causeway and the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge. The sounds of the crashing waves, the salty taste from the sea on your lips, the wind whistling past your ears, combined with the birds soaring above and the possible sighting of dolphins and seals – are all part of this legendary land’s beauty.
Flip, your local-guide and driver, from an Environmental Science background, will chat about the natural history, wildlife and industrial heritage that is on show throughout the tour. He explains the landscape’s incredible formation at the Giant’s Causeway and other sites along with stories that bring the place to life.
(THIS TOUR IS INDEPENDENTLY OPERATED BY GIANT TOURS IRELAND. IT IS NOT SPONSORED, ENDORSED, OR AFFILIATED WITH ANY LARGE TRACT LAND OWNING ORGANISATIONS WITH CHARITY STATUS)
|DEPARTURE/RETURN LOCATION||The Diamond, Ballycastle (or pick-up & drop-off at your Hotel or B&B if nearby by special arrangement)|
|DEPARTURE TIME||Please arrive by 9:00 AM for a prompt departure at 9:15 AM.|
|RETURN TIME||Approximately 1:00 – 1:30 PM.|
|WEAR||Comfortable layered clothing, hiking boots/strong shoes, hat, waterproof jacket & trousers & (fingers crossed) sunscreen.|
9:00 AM Meeting Time, departing promptly at 9:15 AM
View the stunning sights of the Causeway Coast –
The Rope Bridge at Carrick-a-Rede
Ballintoy Harbour & The Hidden Beach
The Giant's Causeway, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Be amazed by the incredible hexagonal volcanic; rock columns & hear the formation story of the site, and wider area, over millennia. Appreciate why the locals invented the myth of a giant stonemason; how else could ‘the stones’ have been created?

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Southern California is facing a unique public safety crisis caused by the large-scale illegal cultivation of marijuana. Over the past several months, residents of San Bernardino County and beyond have faced intimidation and coercion. Sheriff’s deputies have been shot at on their way to calls for service. Our public lands have been degraded through trash pollution and the use of dangerous illegal pesticides, and every day over three million gallons of water are stolen from our communities to support this illegal activity, even as law-abiding citizens are asked to cut back on water consumption.
These dangerous realities are the result of large-scale illegal marijuana cultivation that has taken hold across the High Desert, Morongo Basin and Eastern Sierra, invading our public lands and our rural neighborhoods, and threatening our communities and our fragile ecosystems. As of today, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department has approximately 1,000 potential grow sites under investigation, and the number of illegal grow operations in Southern California has increased in some areas by over 300 percent since 2019.
I recently joined the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department for an aerial tour of suspected grow sites in Phelan and El Mirage. I can relate firsthand that these are not minor backyard enterprises, but rather major operations run by criminal organizations. I saw compounds of hundreds of acres using man-made berms and gates to control access to their territory. I saw water transport trucks and storage tanks used to supply stolen water to the illegal plants next to trash piles and trailers skirting the barriers of the land. I saw rows and rows of greenhouses housing hundreds of thousands of illegal marijuana plants being cultivated using unsafe pesticides that put both the environment and consumers of the illegal product at serious risk.
The too often unseen cost of these illegal grow sites is the labor source behind them. A substantial portion of those arrested at illegal grows have been found to be victims of human trafficking, forced into servitude by the criminal organizations operating them. It is estimated that over half of the illegal grows in Southern California are run by foreign cartels. Convenient access from our rural communities to interstate highways along with close proximity to the southern border enable this trafficking of people and drugs both into our area and out of our state.
The unfortunate reality is that California law has enabled this crisis. In the process of legalizing marijuana in our state, we have also decriminalized the illegal production of marijuana and taken away the means to both effectively investigate and to prosecute these illegal operations. The growth of the crisis has been fueled by the fact that criminals who are arrested will ultimately face little or no consequences, as the fine for illegal cultivation at any scale is only $500. This is also unfair to the businesses who are following the law to cultivate marijuana legally in the jurisdictions that allow it, as they now face inequitable competition from unscrupulous actors willing to break the rules.
At the same time, our law enforcement has had their hands tied, with investigative tools such as wiretapping banned in cases of marijuana production, making it significantly harder to prove the additional charges needed for prosecution. Our law enforcement is forced to play whack-a-mole against recurring and relocating illegal grow sites as they fight to defend our public safety.
In the long term, this issue can only be addressed by revising the state laws that enabled this crisis and making large-scale illegal marijuana cultivation once again a felony. In the interim, the federal government can and should step in to help eliminate the illegal grows and the cloud of organized crime that surrounds them.
Over the past several months, I have partnered with local elected officials in California’s 8th Congressional District and with my colleagues in Congress to urge the federal government to take action to clean up the problem that California’s lax penalties have created in our rural areas. I’ve called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to employ the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to assist our local law enforcement agencies in bringing down these dangerous illegal grow operations, and urged him to use any authority available to address this growing crisis and prosecute these criminals to the fullest extent allowable.
Our efforts have borne fruit – just weeks ago, the DEA joined forces with local and state law enforcement to shut down major cartel-tied illegal marijuana grow operations in Los Angeles County, with over 200 warrants served. Additionally, the DEA is beginning to take a larger role in supporting our San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. This is an encouraging step forward, but there is still much work to be done.
Community residents are still facing heinous incidents of intimidation, coercion, and violence. They are watching the destruction of treasured Joshua Trees, the dumping of trash and pesticides on our cherished natural spaces, and the serious diminishment of the water resources their homes and schools rely on.
I recently introduced an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2022 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill that would reassign $25 million in proposed funding from the U.S. Department of Justice to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency to assist in combating illegal grows. Following my testimony before the House Rules Committee, the amendment was approved last week for consideration on the House floor.
It is critical that this and other legislation to address the crisis of large-scale illegal marijuana grows receives quick consideration and that lawmakers across California and the west act with urgency at all levels of government to defend our communities, our water, and our environmental resources against this threat. This problem can only be solved by government agencies at all levels working together.
Jay Obernolte represents California’s 8th Congressional District including northern San Bernardino County and Mono and Inyo counties. A video game developer and business owner, Rep. Obernolte serves on the U.S. House of Representatives committees on Natural Resources, Budget, and Science, Space, and Technology. He is also the freshman class representative to the House Republican Policy Committee.


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- Negotiations between United Airlines and its pilots continued late into the evening Friday without word of progress toward a tentative contract, union officials said.
The goal of the Air Line Pilots Association, which represents United's 10,500 pilots, was to reach a tentative agreement by Friday, union spokesman Herb Hunter said, with a contract in place by Labor Day. Hunter had not received word on the talks' progress or whether they would continue over the weekend.
The negotiations intensified during the last few days, as ALPA chairman Rick Dubinsky and three top United executives joined the talks. The United team includes Andy Studdert, UAL's chief operating officer; Bill Hobgood, senior vice president of people; and Jake Brace, senior vice president of finance. Negotiators are focusing on the difficult issues of compensation and job security, Hunter said.
"There's been a whole lot of good negotiating this week," Hunter said. "There's some high power at the table now."
United officials have expressed optimism that a deal is close, and U.S. Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater said Thursday that talks are moving toward the Labor Day goal.
United is negotiating a separate contract with its mechanics. Facing a potential breakdown in those talks, United Airlines officials said Friday they will limit forced overtime for maintenance workers to "actual emergency situations."
The concession took some of the edge off a controversial decision by the airline to call operational emergencies at six airports, including Denver's, during the past 10 days. Under such an order, mechanics must report for assigned overtime or risk their jobs.
But talks with mechanics hit turbulence this week as United took a hard line with mechanics. In addition to the overtime order, the airline disciplined 36 maintenance workers in Los Angeles for allegedly participating in an organized sickout. The union plans to file grievances in that case, a spokesman for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said.
The airline's performance has hit a low this summer as pilots and mechanics refuse to work overtime, which the airline usually counts on to keep its full schedule of flights. United also says it's seen an increase in sick calls and minor mechanical write-ups.
Members of both unions say the airline hasn't hired enough staff to cover its needs.
The problems have abated since early August, and United canceled a relatively low 84 flights on Friday. Twenty-one were from pilot shortages and 53 were maintenance-related. The rest were due to weather or air-traffic control problems.
While none of Denver's approximately 700 United mechanics has been forced to work overtime yet, the move was unpopular among local maintenance workers. Several mechanics told The Denver Post they were angered by what they perceived as hostile treatment from United's management.
"The operational emergency was not an appropriate solution to United's problems," IAM international president Tom Buffenbarger said in a statement released Friday morning. "Our members are among United's most valuable assets and deserve to be respected accordingly."
Under the new agreement, reached late Thursday by United and IAM officials, "mandatory overtime at United will be restricted to actual emergency situations, and will only be used following full contractual exhaustion of voluntary overtime opportunities," the IAM said.
United officials say relatively few of its 15,000 mechanics have been forced to work overtime. Airline spokesman Kurt Ebenhoch said Friday that about 80 workers in Chicago, Los Angeles and Indianapolis were assigned mandatory overtime this week.
Workers in Washington and Portland, Ore., also have been affected.
"We are committed to working in cooperation with the IAM on this issue," Ebenhoch said. "We do intend to limit the amount of overtime as requested by the IAM leadership." The mechanics are negotiating separately from 35,000 other United ground employees who are represented by the IAM, including ramp workers, customer-service representatives, reservations agents and cargo workers. The negotiations for both groups are expected to take another four to six weeks.
Pilots and ground workers both are seeking compensation for the pay cuts they took when the company implemented its employee stock-ownership program in 1994. But both groups also want job-security assurances, particularly relating to United's planned acquisition of US Airways.
Of particular concern to pilots is how the carriers will merge their seniority lists, which dictate their pay, the size of planes they fly and their control over scheduling. US Airways pilots generally have higher seniority because United has grown quickly in recent years and added many pilots.

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Questions & Answers
You need an Apple TV or an iPad on your home WiFi to be able to activate it away from home.
By JonSab on May 17, 2018
By myztero on May 8, 2018
It is an American power strip, you need buy an adapter for it.
By Haruka Miyamoto on May 4, 2018
Assuming you’re talking about volts and not amps. Your circuit may be 20A or 15A, but if it has the “traditional” wall socket, yes this will work. However, if you want to power a dishwasher or washing machine then your answer is “NO”, because the power strip does not support a typical 220V cord/plug.
By Hilario Magallanes on April 11, 2018
The device, which I am using with great pleasure to control lighting and electric fans in my office, makes no claim to be a surge suppressor protecting from irregularities in the household electric current. To the best of my knowledge, no power strip device can protect against a direct lightning strike.
By Jonathan David Leavitt on March 7, 2018
Yes, it can.
By Quinto on April 10, 2018
I believe the buttons work without having setup the strip beforehand.
By Esmaeil Khaksari on January 10, 2018
No, It cannot support Alexa at this moment. It just supports Apple homekit devices.
By Melgar on January 8, 2018
It cannot support the Alexa Skill, it supports Apple homekit devices.
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August 31, 2017
『アップルHomeKit』に準拠したデバイス。具体的には、iPhoneのアプリ『ホーム』に登録することでコントロールすることができる。それはつまり、Siriでこれらをコントロールできることを意味している。 まず注意点だが2.4Ghz帯のWiFiに接続し、その配下にこれらのグッズを登録する。5Ghz帯と両方持っているルータだと分かりづらいので、一台残してあるAirMacの配下にセットしてみた。設定画面で2.4Ghz帯のWiFiに接続し、その後一番下に出てくるデバイス名を選択し、登録する。 その場合、PINコードを入力することで、配下として認識される。これらのグッズはKoogeek社のアプリ『Koogeek Home』もありそれでもコントロールできるのだが、『アップルHomeKit』の方だけでも使えるようだ。 『アップルHomeKit』の方は、正に純正アプリなので使い勝手はとても良い。これから、おのおのの電源にON/OFFの命令をリモートでできる。すごく便利だ。電源のコントロールというのは、IoTの第一歩だと思う。それを、『アップルHomeKit』を使って、Siriでできるのだ。すばらしい。 それ以外にもアップルのデバイス3台を充電できる設計になっている。とても便利だ。よく考えられた商品でオススメです。
August 26, 2017
I love Koogeek's entire line of products. I love how I can use Apple Home and control them all, and I even have my Apple TV has a hub so I can theoretically be able to turn an outlet on and off from anywhere in the world. The USB outlets are just available for use and do not come with an on/off switch themselves. Each individual outlet is its own entity within the unit and you can restrict access to any and all of them with just a quick couple series of app buttons. I love this and all their products since I can use Siri to control them or just use the app. All my Koogeek items are in one simple app- my Apple Home App. I am 100% pleased!! All in all, this power strip (surge-protected) unit is great!
By Laura Smith
October 5, 2017
This was the best purchase I made ever. I have been thinking with home automation for years and in recent months I discover this product. I purchased this item because I was very interested in seeing how well will it work with my Iphone and my music devices. The quality of this power outlet is great. You can see and feel when you hold it that is made with high-quality materials and is not heavy at all. Setup of this device in Apple Home could not have been easier. I really loved how everything fit perfectly and that I can control all my devices even if I'm far away. It's so interesting that Koogeek has a lot of really good products at affordable prices because this power outlet it could cost more easily but they offer very good price and quality. One part of the package came broken but I imagine that was from the shipping company, although the product was in very good shape. All the lights of the product worked well, it connects very fast with the wifi, and I had one speaker that wouldn't charge with any USB charger and with this outlet it charged very well so I'm very happy as I almost thrown away the speaker haha. I highly recommend it!
September 19, 2017
Like many people my phone is always on me and the more things I can do with it the better. I got this power strip for use in my game room because it's a smart outlet and surge protector and with frequent power outages where I live that's a necessity. The fact that I can control this with my phone makes it that much better. You can only control the three outlets not the usb ports which I don't have a problem with but someone else might. It was easy to connect I have been using it for awhile and have not had any issues. You can set up scenes and have things turn on or off in the morning, night, I am very happy with it.
September 17, 2017
Worked out very well. I like the spacing out of the plug connections. It comes with 3 outlets protected from surge. Plugged it in and it worked just as I needed. It was easy to set up and easy to use. Recommended for the lazy and remote turn on for security. So far so good with this power strip. I was able to install the app on my cell phone as well as on my Alexa. I can control it remotely now from either device. It was easy to set up and took no real time at all to add it to Alexa. It is nice to just say "Alexa, light on" and I can do things while being lazier. Also, when not at home I can do it without like I use to with a timer so if someone is watching the house they will not see the light going on at the same time each day.
By D and M
September 7, 2017
I have several smart outlets now and I like them. This one is great because it integrates the surge protector with the smart outlet and has usb charging ports. I use this to at my entertainment center where I want to have the surge protection but also want to be able to remotely power the devices. I often have things charging by the tv so the usb charging ports are also coming in very handy. The setup was easy and the directions were simple to follow. The app is working great so far and I have not had any issues. I would recommend this to others that want find the benefits of wifi outlets.
By Freindly Tech
November 11, 2017
This is a great product right from the get-go. I noticed that it was fairly heavy which is usually a good sign of a well built electronic device. Upon putting my phone charger into the outlet, I was able to control each individual outlet with a manual push button switch. I have an Android and I downloaded the Koogeek app. Unfortunately, it does not work with Android devices, but in regards to a useful surge protector, it definitely works great and I like the ability to turn off each individual outlet when needed (think fan turnoff without turning off your computer!) I compiled a list of pros and cons of this product and it is listed below: Cons: - To control via app, you need an Apple device. Pros: - Well built - Controls each outlet separately - Fairly inexpensive versus other surge protectors Overall it's a great product even if you don't have an Apple product.
By King Ed.
November 10, 2017
This is a smart 3 outlet surge protector, with three separate "switches". The powerjacks each have an individual on/off switch as well. The set up requires the Koogeek app The built quality is great, feels like a top notch product. The Koogeek app is very easy to use and allows you to remotely switch on / off the three powerjack, you can also automate to turn a device on/off at predetermined times, bonus is that can also monitor how much power is consumed by the device making it easy to check on power vampires. Intergration with Apple homekit is a breeze. Scan a code, name the devices and you can control it with your iphone or ipad. Devices sync to the cloud so you're covered every which way. The only thing I wish it would do is also do a better job of working with Alexa. Even tho I enabled the skill in the alexa app, it never finds the devices so that's kinda sad. But the homekit in combo with Siri voice commands works great.
November 9, 2017
This is a great buy. I have been tinkering with home automation for decades and in recent years things have gotten really interesting. I purchased this item because I was very interested in seeing how well it would work with my iPhone to control a fan I have in my workshop. The quality of this thing is top-notch. When you first hold it, you can tell that it is not made cheap, it has a nice weight to it, you can feel the quality in the types of materials that were used to make it. This device is not perfect, however. When I first plugged it in, I found out that all three outlets were in the OFF position. I think the outlets should come ON by default. Also, it took more force than normal to insert electrical plugs into the receptacles. When the plug finally went in, it felt as if something was scraping against it. It just did not feel 'normal'. Setup of this device in Apple Home could not have been easier. Instructions are not really needed but, I can see how some people may get confused while setting this up. it would be nice to have a simple 1, 2, 3... step-by-step guide printed somewhere on the packaging just in case. Apple Home makes setup of this device a snap. You simply scan the numbers on the stickers at the bottom of the unit. Apple Home will guide you through the process but Apple Home seems to have a bug that shows a completely black image, making your scan a bit difficult. You can always tap the numbers in yourself, too. I was a bit annoyed that Apple Home would not let me rename the outlets during initial setup of the device. However, I was able to rename them just fine after completing the initial setup. It would be nice if this item was also compatible with the Wink 2 hub, making it compatible with the Amazon Echo and just about everything else but since it only supports Bluetooth connectivity, it will only work in Apple Home. It should be noted that the item description clearly stated this item was designed for HomeKit, so I knew what I was getting into. Operation of the outlets is straightforward, you get three onscreen buttons to activate/deactivate each outlet. Tap on a button, and it will toggle between those two states. Easy. This device is operated via Bluetooth, so it can be controlled up to 30 feet away. For me, the range was closer to 40 feet. The inclusion of three USB charging ports on this device is a great feature. I plugged my two iPhones and my iPad simultaneously and all three charged quickly. My iPad (Gen 3) seemed to charge a lot faster than it does with the stock Apple charger and that was a nice surprise. It normally takes all day to charge the iPad from zero but it reached 100% in just a few hours. I did not notice any improvement in the charging time of either iPhone (5s and 6Plus). Also, there are no mounting holes in the back of this unit. So, if you are like me and like to keep your power strips mounted on a firm surface, then be prepared to use velcro or some other method. If the outlets were not so tough to plug into, I would have given this 5 stars. Had it also been compatible with Wink, I would have rated this a must-buy. All in all, this is a quality unit with good features at a fair price and deserving of a four-star rating. You won't be disappointed.
By Mark Schauer
November 2, 2017
It can connect to your WiFi network and you can control each port individually. For example, if you have a lamp plugged into the middle port, you can remotely turn that on or off, thus powering (or turning off) the lamp. It also has three USB ports; two designated for "iPhones" and one for "iPad." The reason for all of these quotes is because I do not have a smart home, nor do I own any apple devices. I'm a college student with an Android phone, and I thought it would be cool to have a smart, surge-protected power strip. All that aside, it works great as a power strip, has great build quality, and the USB ports charge my phone nearly as fast as my standalone fast charger does.
By Amber Burton
September 14, 2017
My son and daughter in law love this. They own apple everything and are trying to be "smart" about how things are done in their home. I bought this one for them because I (and now they) love that they can have their living room lamp plugged in and if they are gone when it gets dark they can use their phones to turn the light on. This makes them and their fur baby happy. It is a heavy duty power strip and the cord is nice and thick. They have had 3 things plugged into the strip along with all 3 USB ports being used at the same time. The strip nor the devices overheated and they all charged just as fast as though they were using the original chargers.
By Scott Wellington
September 10, 2017
Another quality product from Koogeek. I already had the Koogeek Smart Plug, so setup of the Surge Protector was quick and easy. With a few button presses, the Surge Protector was linked up with the Koogeek Home app (on an iPhone). The app makes it easy to turn any of the three outlets on or off through your smartphone. You can also set schedules through the app (for example, have a light come on at 7pm and turn off at 11pm). I like that the power bar also includes USB charging ports. These can't be controlled or scheduled through the app, but it's nice to have them available on the bar.
By Tim Tapscott
September 5, 2017
Man, I have to say, I'm very pleasantly surprised by this smart plug. Koogeek seems to have done it (mostly) right. For starters, I am experimenting with Alexa vs. Homekit, so I have both types of compatible devices in my home. It's rare to find something that works with both seamlessly. I was first surprised by the packaging and instructions. The app is seamless, helpful, has good directions, and isn't buggy in my experience. The paper manual is very well written with great directions that worked for me first try. My only issue with this is Alexa integration. Don't expect it to work. I purchased one of their P2 smart plugs, the only one that claims to work with Alexa, and it doesn't. So, I'll be sticking with HomeKit for all my Koogeek products. Not a major problem, but would sure be nice. I don't know if that's an easy firmware fix or not, but hopefully so. Overall, this is 100% worth the money compared to the rest of the market. It's well made, feels sturdy and expensive, and works well too. I love the device-level control and energy monitoring! I can't wait to work these into other areas of the house!
September 3, 2017
Yes, there IS a difference in plug strip surge protectors! And THIS one is a GREAT one! Yes, you can get one for less money but I guarantee that it will not be as good as this one is! This one is HEAVY DUTY. You can tell the difference when you are holding it in your hand. It is well built and works GREAT! It has 3 charging ports, 2 marked for your phone and one marked for your iPad. And THIS powerstrip can be used with Apple Homekit! You can control and monitor the devices or items plugged into the power strip in real time. Right there or remotely! How cool is that!? I give this power strip FIVE STARS and suggest that you try it as well! I think that you will be as happy with it as I am!
By Randy Bottoms
August 29, 2017
The KOOGEEK Model 01US "SMART" power strip has 3 individually addressable power outlets. After you download the Koogeek APP from the APP store, you will be able to individually control 3 different AC power plugs from anywhere using your cell phone. The power strip connects to your home WiFi network, giving you control over whatever you plug into the strip. You can even control the 3 devices using Siri because like all Koogeek products, the power strip works with the "APPLE HOMEKIT". The power strip also has 3 USB outlets and can be used to charge most any device requiring usb power. The maximum load of the power strip is 15 Amps..
August 28, 2017
This smart power strip surge protector from Koogeek is great product if you are considering automating your home . This smart surge protector allows you to re-use your existing gadgets, electronics and instead makes the source smart. The surge protector comes with three 3 pin plugs which each can be controlled individually with the app and / or physical button and 3 USB charging ports. The app itself is very intuitive and easy to use and you can not only remotely switch on / off any gadget connect to it but also set routines timers and custom schedules etc. Along with setting timers, you can also monitor how much power is consumed by the device making it a very useful device. Along with app, you can also configure home kit on your iDevice to make this voice controlled via Siri.
By Pete Giron
September 15, 2017
September 9, 2017
This is a sturdy, heavy weight smart surge protector/WiFi power strip. I like the way the three 3 pin prongs outlets hold the cords well. We have a summer cottage which I wanted to be able to remotely turn specific lights on and off, etc when we aren't personally there. This power strip is working well for us. We already have a Koogeek light bulb which we control through the Koogeek Home app so just added the power strip as well.
September 9, 2017
This was super easy to setup. You need to download Koogeek home from the App Store. If you have multiple outlets you can name them on which room and location they are in and then you can name each plugin to whatever is plugged into it. Then you can remotely turn off each plugin. So if you use it in your bathroom and you forget to unplug your curling iron, just login and turn off that specific plug.
By Chary Akmyradov
September 6, 2017
This is a great 3 outlet smart plug which is working with my iPhone. The set up requires the koogeek app and after the installation it just works great. I was able to control my connected devices separately. I have not yet done any automation but will work on it. Time will tell us how reliable this product is. So far I liked this device.
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World AIDS Day is coming up and thought I would talk about how serious a problem HIV has really become all around the world in honor of the day.
World AIDS Day is a day to Bring education, awareness and very important funding to a disease that some people simply don't think about anymore.
World statistics are growing every year and not just in Africa. All countries are effected by this virus and we really need to educate people and our children better. This year 191 countries are participating in the observance and most are offering free testing, seminars, and rallys.
Right now according to Avert over 33 million people are infected with HIV and over half of them contract the disease before they're 25 years old and end up dying before they are 35 years old.
Learn more about the disease at web MD.
In the U.S. where I live we have a pretty serious problem as well. Here's a chart I got from Your STD Helps World AIDS Day section.
Now those are some serious numbers especially in big city areas like NYC.
The real problem though is how people perceive these numbers. Often people don't think that it will happen to them or think that no one really is infected around them and that's just not true. Let me tell you a couple story's of a good friends of mine.
I had a good friend that worked hard all their life and had a good rounded family and was a pretty decent guy. He was a Marine and got called off to war. When he came back after two tours he was hurt pretty bad and was prescribed some heavy duty pain killers which he slowly got addicted to. When his leg had healed he was still addicted but had no way to get the medicine that he learned to love so much (sad but very common) since he wasn't able to work he started hanging out in bars and meeting some not so good people. Long story short he developed a heroin problem. Little did he know that the guy he was getting it from had not just HIV but full blown AIDS. Well his story is a little different then what I'm sure happened but he is now HIV positive and while it is his fault he kind of fell into that scene. He had never done drugs before he got addicted to the pain killers. And that's just one story and that was in one of the least HIV problem states in the list above.
I now live in Denver, CO and I live in the gay district called Capital Hill. I live here because it's right in metro Denver and it's cheap. Plus my neighbors are nice and it's a safe neighborhood. I don't go out much but I've met a few gay men out here and they're a blast! Except out of the four that I know one has HIV and he knows lots of others that have it as well in the gay community. They are high risk people. They don't use protection, they have multiple partners, and some of them simply don't believe that HIV is even real and just propaganda, according to my infected friend.
This kind of mentality is all over the country which is why more education is needed. Whens the last time you saw an HIV PSA on t.v.?
The point I'm trying to make is that people trivialize the disease and think that it's not all around them, but it is. Heck my friend the Marine lived in the middle of the woods. I would never had expected HIV out there and that's really the problem. People just don't think it's right there.
So where ever you live in the world and country see what's going on in your area because there are events everywhere and see if there is anything you can do. If your not comfortable with that then at least make sure all the people around you are educated.
What do you really know about HIV and AIDS? Does anyone here know anyone that has HIV? Chances are someone you once new is at least connected with someone that has it. And while that's not as big a deal as say cancer it is spreading and it can get a lot worse without more education.

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As the United States moves forward this year with a new president, will the world's perceptions of this country change? With so many problems besetting the nation at home, will the Obama administration be successful at stepping up to the global challenges and improving the country's reputation abroad?
Already, President Obama is charting a new course of action for Iraq, closing Guantanamo, and working to improve the diplomacy toward the Middle East. From these changes, are attitudes toward America shifting?
Join panelists as they share their thoughts on America's foreign relations.
Carlos Felix Corona
Carlos Felix Corona is Consul General of Mexico. Corona works in Divisions of National Treaties and UN Political and Security Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City.
Gloria Duffy is President and CEO of The Commonwealth Club of California.
Gloria Duffy previously served as US Special Coordinator for Cooperative Threat Reduction and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration. Her mission was to convince the countries of the former Soviet Union to give up their weapons of mass destruction, and to prevent the spread of their nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and material.
In years prior, she was the first Executive Director of Ploughshares Fund, a public charitable grant making foundation in San Francisco; Assistant Director of the Arms Control Association, a public interest group in Washington, DC; editor of Arms Control Today, and a resident consultant at the RAND Corporation.
A San Francisco native, Dr. Duffy holds M.A., M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Columbia University in New York, and an A.B. magna cum laude from Occidental College in Los Angeles. Gloria has also worked with the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, and been a member of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation since 1980.
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Hesham el Nakib is Consul General of Egypt. Hesham el Nakib serves various posts at the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Yasumasa Nagamine is Consul General Yasumasa Nagamine graduated from Tokyo University and joined Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1977. He graduated from Oxford University in 1980.
Mr. Nagamine has worked in the Asian Affairs Bureau, Treaties Bureau, European Affairs Bureau, North American Affairs Bureau and Foreign Policy Bureau. His overseas assignments have included the Embassies of Japan in Washington D.C., New Delhi and London. He began his tenure as the Consul General of Japan in San Francisco in September 2007.
Rolf Schuette, the German Consul-General in San Francisco, has a long and distinguished career in the German diplomatic service, having served in Russia, in Israel, and at the United Nations, among other posts. He is also well known as a speaker on human rights issues.
He has worked extensively to promote German-Jewish dialogue and his publications include an important essay, "German-Jewish Relations, Today and Tomorrow," which was published by the American Jewish Committee in 2005.
Akiva Tor is Consul General of Israel in the Pacific Northwest. Tor is the previous World Jewish affairs advisor to the President of Israel.

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Your furnace’s ability to warm the interior of your home is dependent upon a functional limit switch. Also known as a fan switch, it’s an essential furnace component. Whether you have a gas or electric furnace, there’s probably a limit switch inside of it. What is a limit switch exactly, and how does it work?
The Definition of a Limit Switch
A limit switch is a device that’s designed to regulate a furnace’s blower and protect the furnace from overheating. Furnaces, of course, contain a blower. The blower lives up to its namesake by blowing air over the heating element. As air moves over the heating element, it will pick up heat. This newly produced hot air will then travel into the ductwork where it’s distributed throughout your home.
The primary purpose of a limit switch is to synchronize a furnace’s blower with its heating cycles. The blower will automatically turn on when heat is needed, and it will automatically turn off when heat is no longer needed. If the temperature inside of your home is lower than the temperature for which your thermostat is set, the furnace and blower will run. The limit switch simply regulates the blower.
While they are used primarily to regulate the blower, limit switches also protect against overheating. Furnaces can get hot when running. If a furnace gets too hot, though, it may sustain damage. Limit switches protect furnaces from heat-related damage by automatically shutting them down. If the temperature of a furnace rises exceeds its normal and safe operating temperature, the limit switch will shut it down.
How a Limit Switch Works
Limit switches work by measuring the temperature of the air inside of the furnace. Your furnace won’t release the heated air immediately. Rather, the heated air will typically remain trapped inside of your furnace for a short period. After it has reached an appropriate temperature, the heated air will then be released. The limit switch is a device that tells your furnace when to release the heated air.
There’s a temperature sensor on limit switches. The temperature sensor will measure the temperature of the air inside of your furnace. If the air needs to be hotter, it won’t activate the blower. The limit switch will only turn on the blower once the air has reached an appropriate temperature. After kicking on, the blower will move the heated air through the ductwork and into your home’s living spaces.


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by John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival
It’s been almost seven months since I shared the stage in Park City, Utah, with Kevin Macdonald and the international filmmakers from the Life in a Day project. We had just created a kind of history: not only were we premiering a user-generated film to the Sundance audiences, we were simultaneously streaming it live to a global audience and taking their responses for a Q&A from Twitter and Facebook.
It’s hard to believe it’s been over a year now since we first started working with YouTube and Scott Free on the concept for this unique premiere at our Festival.
When it began, I said openly that it scared us at first (and it did). It was tough to know at that time that over 80,000 submissions would be turned into one unforgettable and moving film. Kevin and his creative team have done a remarkable job, and we are proud to have been a small part of all this.
Now, Life in a Day is hitting theatres near you. I encourage you to take your friends and family and watch it together. It’s a movie that sparks the best in us through the reflection we see in it of ourselves. It memorialized one special spin of the sun around our world.
Eccles Plays Host to Life in a Day Premiere
by Claiborne Smith. Originally published January 28, 2011.
The numbers behind Life in a Day are impressive: shot in a single day by non-professionals invited by YouTube and the Festival to submit footage of what one day in their lives (July 24, 2010) entailed, the 90-minute documentary was culled from 80,000 submissions that totaled more than 4,500 hours of footage. People living in 192 countries sent in their footage, at 60 different frame rates; it took the editors a few months in London just to sift through all the footage.
Those numbers, though mind-boggling, don’t reveal the film’s humanity, implicit in the notion that you can invite amateur filmmakers from across the globe to talk about themselves and end up with an engrossing film. In addition to premiering at the Eccles Theatre last night, Life in a Day and the Q&A that followed the film were streamed live on official Festival sponsor YouTube’s site to viewers around the globe.
Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald and producer Ridley Scott were attached to the project from its beginning, but Macdonald confessed at the premiere that he and the other professional filmmakers who worked on Life in a Day weren’t at all certain what kind of footage they would receive, or what to call the film. “We didn’t always call it a film,” he explained. “We called it an experiment, because in an experiment, you can fail.”
Life in a Day is composed of the beautiful little moments of life whose recollection we often neglect because they seem so routine – a striking, full moon; a woman in Bali making the elaborate daily offering to her gods; people fishing quietly for their food. But the film also offers a kind of cultural tourism, a rare opportunity to see into the lives of people across the globe, via unassuming, revealing footage that’s both personal and anthropological. Sitting on stage with the film’s editors and some 20 contributors from Peru, Russia, Bali, Ukraine, and other nations, Macdonald said that Life in a Day is “a personification of what film is about.” In other words, it reveals “basically that cultural differences are pretty skin deep.”
Last night, Sundance Institute was busy reaching out not only to global audiences via the Life in a Day screening but to indie film lovers across America who couldn’t make it to Utah for the Festival. Sundance Film Festival U.S.A. – an opportunity for indie film lovers to see films from the 2011 Festival in their hometowns, while the Festival is still happening – took place last night at screenings in theatres in nine American cities.
Whether filmgoers were at the Eccles Theatre watching Life in a Day, seeing it stream live on YouTube, or at one of the theatres participating in Sundance Film Festival U.S.A., they were part of Sundance Institute’s new horizon.
“What is really at our heart at Sundance Institute has always been a place for nurturing artists,” Festival Director John Cooper said at the premiere last night. But the Institute has refocused its attention on bridging the gap between the artist and audience. “Having this incredible amount of work that we see at this Festival find an audience” is a vital aspect of the Institute’s mission. Making it as easy as possible for indie film lovers to actually be able to see crucial, new indie film wherever they may be is something the Institute is working very hard at achieving, so that, as Cooper put it last night, “the independent film world reigns supreme and films are seen around the globe.”

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OpenBusiness ¬ª Blog Archive ¬ª Sellaband – A Truly Distributed Music Business Received this message today from Michel Bauwens: Today Johan Vosmeijer and Pim Betist of Sellaband.com will start writing about the goals and background of a real innovation in running a music business based on profit sharing and bringing together artists and music lovers directly. This is the start of a series by OpenBusiness.cc featuring cutting edge entrepenuers and thinkers. While ‘big music’ is in crisis and their business model seems increasingly outdated innovation is happening at the edges.
Mystic Awakening: Music of Final Fantasy VI Now a free download. Physical copies of the album are currently sold out. This CD contains 21 tracks arranged and performed by myself. The transcriptions were made with the intent to honor as many original details (keys, tempi, registers, chord voicings, sound layers) as pianistically reasonable. I felt that these tracks deserved more faithfulness and respect to the "original sound" verions than is usually heard in Final Fantasy piano arrangements.


Sciaky, Inc., a subsidiary of Phillips Service Industries, Inc. (PSI) announced that its Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing (EBAM) technology was introduced to President Biden during an AM Forward address at United Performance Metals in Hamilton, Ohio on May 6, 2022. During the address, President Biden offered insight on how Congress can support innovations like Additive Manufacturing (AM) to improve America’s small- and medium-sized manufacturers, create high-paying jobs, and improve supply chain efficiency.
One of President Biden’s top economic priorities is to fight inflation by lowering costs that working families face, as well as lowering the federal deficit. Innovations like Additive Manufacturing can be leveraged as a major competitive advantage for manufacturers because it significantly reduces material costs, lead times and waste when compared with traditional manufacturing processes like forging.
President Biden identified five U.S.-based manufacturers to help oversee the adoption of new additive manufacturing activities from small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) suppliers. These five companies are GE Aviation, Raytheon, Siemens Energy, Lockheed Martin and Honeywell. AM Forward will be supported by Applied Science & Technology Research Organization (ASTRO), which is a non-profit organization.
Sciaky’s additive manufacturing process, known as Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing (EBAM), helped manufacturing giant Lockheed Martin save significant costs with the production of titanium propellant tanks for space satellites. With post-project analysis, Lockheed Martin reported savings of 80% on lead times, 55% on material costs and 75% on material waste. In addition, the 3D printed propellant tanks passed vigorous performance tests required for production.
“Sciaky is preparing plans to meet the needs of SME suppliers participating in the AM Forward program,” said Scott Phillips, President and CEO of Sciaky, Inc. “We will offer world-class EBAM equipment, training programs and technical support.”
As the most widely scalable metal additive manufacturing solution in the industry (in terms of work envelope), Sciaky’s EBAM systems can produce parts up to 19 feet (5.79 meters) in length. EBAM is also the fastest deposition process in the metal additive manufacturing market, with gross deposition rates up to 40 lbs. (18.14 kg) of metal per hour. EBAM brings quality and control together with IRISS – the Interlayer Real-time Imaging and Sensing System, which is the only real-time adaptive control system in the metal 3D printing market that can sense and digitally self-adjust metal deposition with precision and repeatability. This innovative closed-loop control is the primary reason that Sciaky’s EBAM 3D printing process delivers consistent part geometry, mechanical properties, microstructure, and metal chemistry, from the first part to the last.
Sciaky is exhibiting in booth 1427 at the RAPID + TCT Event in Detroit May 17-19, 2022.
For more information on President Biden’s AM Forward address, click here.
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Henrik Stenson will still have a role for Europe at the Ryder Cup despite failing to get into the team.
- Henrik Stenson selected a final vice captain for Europe’s Ryder Cup team – Golf Channel
- ‘My hands are wrecked’: How Bryson DeChambeau is preparing for the Ryder Cup *and* World Long Drive – Golf.com
- Henrik Stenson named as European Vice Captain for the 2020 Ryder Cup – RyderCup.com
- Rome Ryder Cup 2023 tickets go on sale – Wanted in Rome
- Ryder Cup 2021: Why the US will SMOKE Europe in Whistling Straits – Golfmagic.com


Masdar, one of the world’s leading renewable energy companies, has signed a contract to develop a ground-mounted solar power plant at Bee’ah’s iconic new headquarters in Sharjah.
The agreement was signed by Mohamed Jameel Al Ramahi, CEO of Masdar, and HE Khaled Al Huraimel, Group CEO of Bee’ah on the sidelines of WETEX 2019.
The solar plant will be backed by Tesla Powerpacks that will store excess energy to power the headquarters by night.
Khaled Al Huraimel, Group CEO at Bee’ah, said: “Sustainability is at the heart of our business and powering our new headquarters with clean energy is an important touchstone for us. Our new headquarters will embody our operational excellence in sustainability and technology as we strive to lead by example. Our deployment of solar energy will also contribute towards the UAE Energy Strategy 2050, which aims to increase the share of clean energy in the UAE’s total energy mix from 25 per cent to 50 per cent by 2050 and reduce the carbon footprint of power generation by 70 per cent.
Al Huraimel added: “We are proud to work with Masdar, a global leader in pioneering and innovating clean energy solutions, which will design, build and operate our solar power generation plant that will supply the headquarters’ electricity requirements. We are also addressing the solar energy intermittency factor with Tesla Powerpacks that will store the excess solar energy from the panels and feed it back to the building when required. We are expecting this blend of renewable energy and storage will help us reduce our carbon footprint dramatically.”
Bee’ah’s Zaha Hadid-designed building will also be the first AI-powered building in the UAE. Scheduled for completion in 2020, it aims to achieve LEED Platinum certification.
Mohamed Jameel Al Ramahi, CEO of Masdar, said: “Today’s announcement further strengthens our existing relationship with Bee’ah, with whom we are developing the first waste-to-energy plant in the UAE. Having installed some of the first rooftop and ground-mounted solar panels on government properties in Abu Dhabi, and with more than a decade of experience applying green building solutions at our Masdar City home in Abu Dhabi, we are delighted to have been chosen to develop the solar power plant of the new Bee’ah headquarters. It is also a great honour to be associated with a building inspired by one of the world’s most celebrated architects.”


Groundbreaking Research In Printed Electronics Using Voltera Dispensing Systems
See some of the diverse applications being developed using NOVA and V-One. Learn about printing biomedical tattoos, electrospray emitters, structural health monitoring, smart facemasks and more.
Estimated read time: 7 minutes
It seems there is news about novel products and research in the electronics industry almost every day, and one thing that is abundantly clear is that building the next generation of electronics means that electronics must be bendable, conformable to uneven surfaces, stretchable, and in some cases, even biodegradable.
In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the groundbreaking research by Voltera users.
Additively Manufacturing High-Performance, Low-Cost Electrospray Ion Sources for Point-of-Care Mass Spectrometry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Mass spectrometry depends heavily on electrospray ionization for the transfer of liquid samples to a gaseous state, allowing for a highly accurate analysis of the fluid’s composition.
In a clinical setting, mass spectrometry is used for:
- Metabolism deficiencies
- Steroid analysis
- …and more
Electrospray involves applying a high voltage to a liquid sample to generate an electric field, which then converts the liquid into tiny charged droplets. These atomized droplets split into charged ions which allow for the transition into a gas.
Clinical mass spectrometry faces issues pertaining to the development of strong sample processing. Furthermore, the use of internal emitters in the process of electrospray ionization presents difficulties such as sample clogging and multi-device integration.
The benefits of 3D printed emitters are:
- High resolution print results
- Cost effectiveness for bulk fabrication
As noted in his research, Kashkin used NOVA to dispense a silver nanoparticle-based ink onto an electrospray emitter mounting pad on a PCB using a 225 µm nozzle.
“...the silver ink is deposited on the electrospray emitter mounting pad on the PCB before the nozzle is retracted, stretching the ink into a pointed emitter; after that, the emitter is annealed at 100 °C. This novel approach to make electrospray emitters is fast (about 1 s to print the emitter and 5 minutes to anneal it) and requires no further surface coatings: the ~5 µm surface roughness is enough to wick liquids with a low contact angle on the emitter, allowing for electrospray to occur with volatile solvents such as isopropanol without further post-fabrication. Furthermore, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a direct printing method of working, ambient electrospray emitters in the literature.”
Inkjet and Extrusion Printed Silver Biomedical Tattoo Electrodes
Research conducted by Yoland El-Hajj et al. at York University in Toronto studied the applications of silver biomedical electrodes printed on tattoo paper.
Traditional biomedical electrodes are commonly used for electrocardiograms (ECG/EKG), electromyography (EMG), and electroencephalogram (EEG) procedures. These electrodes, however, “are susceptible to motion artifacts, can be uncomfortable for the user, and are unsuitable for long term use,” according to El-Hajj et al.
Their research compared two different printing methods for the electrodes — inkjet and extrusion, the latter being printed using NOVA. Both methods used silver ink due to its high conductivity, mechanical robustness, biocompatibility, and moderate cost.
Their findings indicated that while inkjet printed electrodes are better suited for signal acquisition on areas of the body engaged in higher movement, there was an issue with ink absorbing into the paper substrate. Extrusion printed electrodes (using NOVA) showed a lower sheet resistance and impedance, and also did not absorb into the paper substrate.
Inkjet vs. Extrusion Sheet Resistance
- Extrusion printed electrodes: 9.4 mΩ/sq
- Inkjet printed electrodes: 25.1 kΩ/sq
Inkjet vs. Extrusion Impedance
When summarizing how NOVA assisted her research, El-hajj observed that NOVA made printing on tattoo paper, a highly unconventional substrate, more efficient, and that calibrating materials and aligning patterns was easier compared to other printing methods, including inkjet.
A Robust Printed Strain Sensor for Large-Area Structural Health Monitoring
University of Southern California
The focus of this research was on providing preventative monitoring to reduce the impact of natural disasters on aging infrastructure.
Continuous structural health monitoring analyzes and detects deterioration and damage in infrastructure, providing real-time data useful for timely maintenance and preventing serious issues. However, current strain sensors have limitations that affect their potential. These sensors have more brittle properties which makes sensing on curved areas difficult. Moreover, their rigidity requires a uniform surface to bond for precise measurements. These limitations create a demand for robust and flexible strain sensors.
Using NOVA, the researchers developed multiple sensors by first printing with SE1502 from ACI Materials, a stretchable and conductive carbon ink, onto a 50 µm thick polyimide substrate. After thermally curing the first layer, a second layer was printed using a stretchable silver ink, SE1109 from ACI Materials. The entire sensor was then cured again and cut into multiple pieces to be connected to the readout system.
When printing both carbon and silver ink with NOVA, the results demonstrated sensing architecture capable of achieving high strain sensitivity while also exhibiting a highly robust interconnection to external readout electronics. Their research presents promising benefits for the future of structural health monitoring.
Smart Facemask for Wireless CO2 Monitoring
University of Granada
During the COVID-19 pandemic, facemask wearing was widely imposed by a number of countries, as recommended by the World Health Organization. While this helped reduce community transmission of the virus, there were concerns about potential adverse effects caused by prolonged usage — primarily CO2 rebreathing.
Pablo Escobedo et al., from the University of Granada in Spain, set out to develop a real-time sensing platform for gaseous CO2 inside FFP2 face masks (N95 or KN95 equivalent). This involved printing a flexible near-field communication tag (NFC) sensor and placing it in the FFP2 mask.
The sensor involved combining an opto-chemical sensor with a flexible NFC tag antenna which would track the wearer's CO2 exertion and transmit the data in real-time to a custom smartphone application for alert management, data processing, and data sharing. Because NFC technology relies on energy obtained from the electromagnetic field generated by a remote reader, the tags could operate without battery power, providing significant benefits like lower weight, less maintenance, increased comfort, and reduced environmental impact.
The tag was printed onto a 125 µm-thick PET substrate using Voltera’s flexible silver conductive ink. After the circuit was printed, the ink was cured and solder paste was dispensed onto the components’ footprints and via pads and the electronic components and bridges were manually placed on the soldered areas. The final phase was reflowing the tag and submitting it to various bending tests.
Following the printing process, the sensor was subjected to further testing, such as bend, ambient light, and sensor lifetime testing
Printing Electronics Directly onto Carbon Fiber Composites: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Wings with Integrated Heater for De-Icing
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are commonly used to deliver items and gather information in remote areas. They often encounter ice build up on their wings which greatly affects their flight performance. It distorts airflow, increases drag, and reduces maximum lift.
Research by Mohamad K. Idris, et al, from York University, involved printing a self-heating composite structure that can be integrated onto an aircraft's wings for de-icing.
The group used Voltera’s V-One PCB printer to print Creative Materials’ 120-07 silver conductive ink (26,000 - 30,000 cP) using a 225 µm nozzle onto carbon fiber weaves to produce a large-area heater. These silver electrodes are used to run an electrical current through the carbon fiber weaves, which enables power dissipation in the form of heat in order to de-ice the UAV’s wings.
The group determined their work “exploits the electrical and thermal conductivity of carbon fiber to create self-heating composites that could be integrated into UAVs for de-icing. The manufacturing of the integrated heating devices is based on commonly used composites manufacturing methods with the addition of a printing step to create electrical contacts. The devices were manufactured, and temperature measurements were taken using an infrared camera. Results show that the heating devices have been successfully fabricated and can achieve high temperatures suitable for melting ice on UAVs.”
As noted in the paper, “printing electronics on textiles is a challenge because of the large surface roughness of textiles.” They determined their work “presents a new method with the optimized parameters to use extrusion printing to print on textile composites, mainly carbon fiber weaves.”
Not only did researchers at York University develop a repeatable and scalable process for manufacturing carbon fiber-based heating devices, but also, “since extrusion printing is a contactless digital printing method, the proposed methods allow for the facile variation of the pattern design to create various types of electronic devices and circuits.”
Each paper mentioned in this article exemplifies the increasing demand of additive electronics worldwide, and further capitalizes on a wide range of technological applications. Voltera’s platforms not only streamline research and development processes, but they also offer users the ability to print high resolution with ease.
Do you have questions about printing electronics with one of Voltera’s platforms? Email us at [email protected].


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The Roche Cobas c311 analyzer provides a comprehensive menu of clinical chemistry of more than 100 analyses. Up to 45 analyses may be carried out at the same time. The high stability of the reagents in the unit and the batch-to-batch calibration optimize its use. All the reagents in the cassette are liquid and are ready to use, thereby minimizing the risk of contamination and manipulation.
The unit makes it possible to determine different parameters in samples of serum, plasma and urine obtained mainly from rats and mice, although the unit can also be used for the determination of human samples.
The parameters that can be determined include substrates and enzymes for evaluation of liver, pancreas, and renal capacity, evaluation of glucose metabolism, determination of metals and electrolytes, and a large variety of proteins, presence of drugs, etc.

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|Markowicz Fine Art and the National Hotel invite you to an Art Basel exhibition with world-renowned sculptor Carole A. Feuerman!
In celebration of Art Basel, the National Hotel will host an exclusive celebration and book signing party on Wednesday, December 2nd, from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. Attendees will enjoy one-of-a-kind art displays throughout the hotel, live entertainment, and cocktails & bites from Tamara Bistro. From 10 p.m. to 11 p.m., there will be a limited edition original silk screen print for sale made especially for the event.
Art collectors, artists, luxury brands and visitors on South Beach will be submerged in the ultimate art experience as they are swept away with incredibly hyper-realistic statues in and around The National Hotel. This is sure to be one of the stops art lovers and the public will dive right into during this international art fair. Art Basel is putting the spotlight on Miami once again as this year’s event will be bigger than ever with an increase in participating exhibitors and art galleries from around the world.
Actively sculpting and exhibiting today, Feuerman has been the subject of numerous museum retrospectives and innumerable art gallery one-woman exhibitions. Many of her works have been exhibited in public gardens and city streets around the world. Her work is in the collections of his majesty the Emperor of Japan, William & Hillary Clinton, Norman Brahman, the Caldic Collection, Ariella Wertheimer, and Malcolm Forbes. She has taught and given workshops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon Guggenheim Museum. She is in the permanent collections of eighteen museums including the City of Sunnyvale CA and the City of Peekskill NY.
The Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture Foundation was formed in 2011 in order to “generate excitement and passion for the arts” and to inspire and reward deserving artists with exhibition opportunities and internships for college credit and grants.
To RSVP to the Art Basel party and meet artist Carole Feuerman, please email email@example.com or call 305.758.1110 to make a reservation.
You can also register here
National Hotel: 1677 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, Florida 33139


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Secondary arsenic minerals in the environment: A review
0330264 - GLU-S 2012 RIV US eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Drahota, P. - Filippi, Michal
Secondary arsenic minerals in the environment: A review.
Environment International. Roč. 35, č. 8 (2009), s. 1243-1255 ISSN 0160-4120
Grant CEP: GA AV ČR KJB300130702
Výzkumný záměr: CEZ:AV0Z30130516
Klíčová slova: arsenic * secondary arsenic mineral * environmental sample * solubility * environmental stability
Kód oboru RIV: DD - Geochemie
Impakt faktor: 4.786, rok: 2009
Information on arsenic (As) speciation in solid materials is critical for many environmental studies concerned with As stability and/or mobility in natural As-impacted soils and mining or industrial sites contaminated by As. The investigation of these systems has provided evidence for a number of secondary As minerals that have often played a significant role in As mobility in the solid phase–water system. This paper presents a list of environmentally important secondary As minerals in contaminated soil and waste systems, summarizes the information about their origin, occurrence, environmental stability and thermodynamics, and proposes several important avenues for further investigation.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0176093


LOS ANGELES (AP) Jordan Adams scored 13 points to lead four other USC players in double figures, and the Trojans grabbed a 70-54 win over Oregon on Saturday.
McKenzie Calvert had 12 points all in the first half to help USC to a 37-29 lead at the break. Courtney Jaco, Brianna Barrett and Kaneisha Horn finished with 10 points apiece, and Alexyz Vaioletama led the Trojans (9-4, 1-1 Pac-12) with 13 rebounds.
Oregon’s Janitah Iamaleava made a basket with 14:05 left to play to bring the Ducks within eight, 49-41, but USC responded with seven-straight points. The Ducks scored three points to break up the run, but then went the next 4:45 without a basket, trailing by as many as 20 points.
Jillian Alleyne scored 20 points and grabbed 15 rebounds to lead the Ducks (7-5, 0-1), and Katelyn Loper added 16 points.