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As a foodie and sensory scientist, the bar set for my taste buds is pretty high, especially when it comes to artisinal products. Luxe has nailed it! I can't wait to purchase more to accompany my wine and cheese plate when entertaining!
I'm not a big "preserves" person, however, I wanted to try something new and give a friend a neat Mother's Day gift. The pear + rosemary + brandy jam is amazing. The taste was so rich and delicious. I ended up keeping both jars and buying my friends flowers instead.
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Vsevolozhsk, Russia – Nokian Tyres is resuming tire manufacturing at its factory in Vsevolozhsk, the company announced 4 April.
Production was set to restart 6 April “as previously” planned, said Nokian, adding that a government decree on restrictions in movement did not apply to the factory.
Nokian shut down the Vsevolozhsk plant on 30 March for a week. The Russian site rolls out15.5 million units per year of passenger car and light truck tires.
In a 2 April decree, the Russian president extended the Covid-19 “non-working regime” of paid holidays across the country until the end of April.
The provisions, Nokian said, do not apply to the Vsevolozhsk factory, “as it is a continuously operating enterprise and it is thus allowed to continue normal operations.”

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I will be showing Frames - Director with the excellent Transition Gallery at Sluice Art Fair, which is happening in London to coincide with Frieze art fair this October, on the weekend of 16&17th. The Frames series of work involved me watching different films garnered from different films lists that all had a different structural reasoning, i.e Best Picture Oscar winners, top ten most profitable films or in the case of the paintings being shown, the top ten (or rather 11) films as voted by Directors in a significant poll. Each film was scrutinised for a single image (out of 24 frames for every second) that would fall outside or not be integral to the plot, certainly something unremarkable or unremembered to a normal viewing of a film. Each image is then transferred back to 35mm leader film strip, albeit this time with hand painted oil paint as opposed to that an image captured by the camera. Neither the names of lists or the films watched are revealed to the viewer. The image is freed from film to become painting. Perhaps.... For more information about Frames please read Chris Clarke's essay here http://www.andrewbracey.co.uk/page25.htm
Transition Gallery will be showing the work alongside other artists including Michael Ajerman, Annabel Dover, Emma Talbot, Mimei Thompson, Jessica Vorsanger and Transition directors, Cathy Lomax, Alli Sharma and Alex Michon. The display sounds like an interesting construct, in Transitions words....
"For Sluice Art Fair Transition is showing Strip, an exhibition made up of groups of specially selected 2D works by 20 artists presented with a distinct nod towards the filmstrip. All of the artists featured in Strip employ a sequential approach to their varying subject matter. But although each ‘strip’ is composed of works made in a series, adjoining frames do not necessarily correspond to each other. There are in fact no traditional narrative structures; instead it is for the viewer to create their own connectivity."
For more details please visit http://www.transitiongallery.co.uk/htmlpages/strip.html
and for more details about Sluice art fair, please visit http://www.sluiceartfair.com/

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TORONTO – Municipalities can get green energy projects faster if they want them but still can’t say no if they don’t under new Feed-In-Tariff program rules, Energy Minister Chris Bentley announced Thursday.
“We’ve listened very carefully about where to locate these projects,” Bentley told a crowd of green energy advocates and industry players at Ryerson University.
The long-anticipated FIT review, which also slashed FIT subsidies from renewable energy as expected, will give priority to any project that can show it has local support, Bentley said.
There will also be 10% of capacity that are set aside for projects with “significant Aboriginal involvement.
Local opposition – especially to industrial-size wind farms – devastated the governing Liberals’ rural caucus and left the party with a minority government.
Progressive Conservative MPP Vic Fedeli said the changes will not satisfy rural communities who wanted more ability to say no.
“This doesn’t fix the real problem,” Fedeli said. “It still removes the public’s venue away.”
On the price side, the Ontario Power Authority will now offer contracts for small rooftop solar projects at 54.5 cents a kilowatt hour, down from 80.2 cents a kWh.
Wind drops to 11.5 cents a kWh from 13.5 cents and solar ground-mounted under 10 kilowatts falls to 44.5 cents a kWh from 64.2 cents.
Prices for water projects, biomass, farm biogas, biogas and landfill gas all remain the same.
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It has been a while since we last had a decent vampire film. In the wake of Twilight mania, most filmmakers seem keen to avoid the movie monster like the plague. It’s a shame as vampires, most specifically Dracula, have been gracing our screens almost as long as films themselves have been around. Given their expansive cinematic history, doing something different with vampires is always a difficult task, but every now and then something comes along to change that. Enter Origin Unknown.
Pedro (Daniel Martínez) has spent years of his life working alongside a local drug cartel. After finally beginning negotiations for his freedom, he and his family are hiding out in a high-tech fortress whilst they wait for the terms to be agreed upon. The house itself has practically everything one could need to keep themselves safe, but the complex is also surrounded by a small army of guns for hire. All is going well, that is until one of the walls is breached. Worried that it’s the cartel coming to finish him off, Pedro orders his men to investigate. There they find a young girl, Lina (Paulina Gil), who Pedro welcomes into his house. Shortly after, the house comes under fire from a cloaked group of mercenaries whose only mission seems to be – kill the girl. Pedro is then placed in an awful position, does he surrender Lina to save his family? A deadly siege ensues and it soon becomes apparent that Lina might not be as innocent as Pedro assumes.
Director Rigoberto Castañeda is clearly a person familiar with vampire fiction, and rather than do something completely new, he instead borrows from several sources, mixes them together, and generates something unlike that which we have seen before. It’s a bold choice and one that he manages to pull off, his eclectic blend of inspirations and influences making for a very entertaining watch. Origin Unknown pulls in elements of Assault on Precinct 13, the television series Arrow, Let the Right One in, Blade, and a plethora of old school martial arts movies. It’s a tantalizing combination of action, suspense, and emotion that really takes the viewer on a rollercoaster ride. Stylistically, Castañeda follows a more traditional action thriller model, although it does include several split screen sequences that layer the film with a comic book feel.
The plot itself is fairly basic, but with so much going on visually and tonally, the familiar narrative offers a welcome respite. Considering the fast-pace and short time frame of the story, it’s no surprise that character development isn’t a key feature. The only character afforded any real elaboration is that of Lina, outside of that, the characters tend to remain fairly static and one-note. This can be forgiven though as when the action gets going, Unknown Origin becomes really special.
Who knew that home invasion, vampire-hunters, creepy kids, martial arts, and a high amount of action was what we needed to forget all that sparkly vampire nonsense? Castañeda clearly had an inkling and his instinct has paid off. The result is one of the most intriguing and exciting vampire films in years.
by Kat Hughes

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Summary: A circuit-specific gender difference in ventral hippocamps to nucleus accumbens (vHPC-NAc) neurons is dependent on testosterone and causes more susceptibility to stress in females.
Source: Michigan State University
Depression affects women nearly twice as much as men, but unraveling the brain’s blueprint that regulates this behavior, let alone identifying specific molecular differences between sexes, has proven difficult.
Michigan State University researchers, however, have found and flipped a switch in the brain, revealing a single circuit in mice that activates during stress and is controlled by testosterone. The results, published in Biological Psychiatry, focus on the activity between neurons in the ventral hippocampus, which become active under stress and emotion, and their activation of nucleus accumbens neurons, critical players in reward and motivation.
“What makes these findings stand out is not only identifying this new circuit,” said A.J. Robison, MSU physiologist and lead author of the study, “but also observing and confirming how it drives different behaviors in males and females.”
Oddly enough, many circuit-specific animal model studies involving depression-related behaviors don’t include female subjects. This gap exists despite sex differences in several depression-related brain regions, including the hippocampus, Robison added.
To help close this void, Robison and a team of MSU scientists focused on this hippocampus-accumbens circuit and saw that the activity in male brains during stress was significantly lower than in females, and this required testosterone. When they removed testosterone, however, the male mice began expressing depression-like behaviors.
Conversely, the team observed increased circuit activity in female brains, but when testosterone was introduced, the neurons quieted, and the female mice became resistant to the depression-like behaviors.
“Even with our best antidepressants, such as Prozac, we don’t know exactly how they work,” Robison said. “This is the first time we’ve found a circuit that drives this sexually different behavior; other scientists can now explore how this could translate to identifying new therapeutic targets in humans.”
Robison’s group used chemogenetic tools to manipulate specific circuit activity in the mouse brain in this study. Such tools may inform the development of “genetic medicine” for the treatment of human diseases in the future.
Funding: This research was funded in part by the National Institutes of Mental Health, the National Institutes of Neurological Disease and Stroke, the National Institutes of Drug Abuse and the Avielle Foundation.
Additional MSU scientists who contributed to this research include: Elizabeth Williams, Claire Manning, Andrew Eagle, Ashlyn Swift-Gallant (now at Memorial University of Newfoundland), Natalia Duque-Wilckens, Sadhana Chinnusamy, Adam Moeser, Cynthia Jordan and Gina Leinninger.
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Androgen-Dependent Excitability of Mouse Ventral Hippocampal Afferents to Nucleus Accumbens Underlies Sex-Specific Susceptibility to Stress
Background Depression affects women nearly twice as often as men, but the neurobiological underpinnings of this discrepancy are unclear. Preclinical studies in male mice suggest that activity of ventral hippocampus (vHPC) neurons projecting to the nucleus accumbens (NAc) regulates mood-related behavioral responses to stress. We sought to characterize this circuit in both sexes and to investigate its role in potential sex differences in models of depression.
Methods We used male and female adult C57BL/6J mice in the subchronic variable stress model to precipitate female-specific reduction in sucrose preference and performed gonadectomies to test the contributions of gonadal hormones to this stress response. In addition, ex vivo slice electrophysiology of transgenic Cre-inducible Rosa-eGFP-L10a mice in combination with retrograde viral tracing to identify circuits was used to test contributions of gonadal hormones to sex differences in vHPC afferents. Finally, we used an intersecting viral DREADD (designer receptor exclusively activated by designer drugs) strategy to manipulate vHPC-NAc excitability directly in awake behaving mice.
Results We show a testosterone-dependent lower excitability in male versus female vHPC-NAc neurons and corresponding testosterone-dependent male resilience to reduced sucrose preference after subchronic variable stress. Importantly, we show that long-term DREADD stimulation of vHPC-NAc neurons causes decreased sucrose preference in male mice after subchronic variable stress, whereas DREADD inhibition of this circuit prevents this effect in female mice.
Conclusions We demonstrate a circuit-specific sex difference in vHPC-NAc neurons that is dependent on testosterone and causes susceptibility to stress in female mice. These data provide a substantive mechanism linking gonadal hormones to cellular excitability and anhedonia—a key feature in depressive states.

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Turck (Germany) has added a variant with a CANopen interface to its QR24 encoder series. The wear-free QR24-CAN variant is equipped for use in mobile machines and industrial applications.
SHORT LATENCY TIMES AS WELL AS A CYCLICAL and event-driven communication are two of the benefits of the CANopen protocol, which is frequently used in this application field. These applications include crane and lifting technology, transport systems, construction machinery, and special machine building. The first pilot customers are already using the contactless encoder with the CANopen interface in the construction machinery and wind power sector. The CANopen port supports bit-rates from 10 kbit/s to 1 Mbit/s according to CiA 301, CiA 305, and device profile CiA 406 3.1. A terminating resistor can be switched in via the CANopen device access.
As with other QR24 models, the sensor and the positioning element of the encoder are fully potted and designed as two independent and fully sealed units that withstand vibration or shocks on the shaft.
Wear-intensive ball bearings or seals that lead to machine downtimes or long maintenance times are not required.
Thanks to its mounting concept using adapter rings, the permanently sealed IP69K encoders can be fitted on standard shafts with diameters up to 20 mm. As well as the stainless steel variants, Turck offers the encoder as multi-turn or single-turn versions with an SSI interface, incremental output, and analog voltage/current output.
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President Barack Obama Wednesday said many proud gun owners backed sensible measures to stop an epidemic of firearms deaths, as he fought to keep his reform drive alive.
Obama flew west to Colorado, a state where gun rights and frontier spirit is strong, but which has also seen lawmakers push through new firearms laws following a movie theater shooting last year and the Newtown school massacre.
In excerpts of a speech he was to give at a police academy, the president argued that there was no contradiction between his plans to protect US citizens and a constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms.
“I’ve gotten stacks of letters from proud gun owners … who tell me how deeply they cherish their rights, and don’t want them infringed upon — but they still want us to do something to stop the epidemic of gun violence.”
The president also lamented delays in Congress over passing new gun crime measures following the horror at Sandy Hook elementary school in December.
“It’s now been just over 100 days since the murder of 20 innocent children and six brave educators in Newtown, Connecticut shocked this country into doing something to protect our kids,” Obama said in the excerpts.
“But consider this: over those 100 days or so, more than 100 times as many Americans have fallen victim to gun violence.
“Every day we wait to do something about it, even more are stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun.”
Obama scheduled his trip, and another visit to Connecticut next Monday amid fears that ambitious plans to reform firearm laws are in deep peril.
Earlier, White House hopes of enacting a new assault weapons ban and curbs on high capacity magazine clips are now fading, so the centerpiece of Obama’s efforts is likely to be a bid to expand background checks for gun owners.
But even that fallback plan appears under threat in Congress, where Republicans as well as Obama’s Democrats face tough re-election races next year in heartland states where gun culture runs strong.
Obama’s visit to Denver Police Academy took him just a few miles from the scene of a mass shooting in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado last year in which 12 people were slain.
One of the president’s top aides admitted Wednesday that some in Washington were getting “cold feet” on gun reform, despite national polls showing 90 percent of Americans favor stronger background checks.
“Washington tends to be a lagging indicator of public opinion,” Obama senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer said, adding that he remained confident that stronger gun legislation would emerge from the aftermath of Newtown.
“What the president wants to sign is the strongest gun bill he can sign,” Pfeiffer told a breakfast meeting hosted by the Politico news organization.
“We have to make sure that whatever we do is better than current law. We are going to look at any compromise that comes forward.”
Some Republicans, who feel any new laws would infringe on the constitutional right to bear arms, warn they will filibuster legislation expected to be brought up in the Senate after Congress returns from a recess next week.
But it is not just Obama’s Republican foes who are standing in the way of change — some on his own side are also in a tough spot.
Several Democratic senators, like Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Kay Hagan of North Carolina, face difficult political choices that could trap them between their president and conservative constituencies.
Lawmakers in Colorado, which Obama won on the way to re-election in November, have passed new gun laws requiring expanded background checks and limits on the size of magazines for assault weapons.
Opponents of expanding federal background checks argue that they would involve a government registry of firearms which may be unconstitutional.
They also fear that such a scheme would make it tough for family members to hand guns down through generations, or would prove prohibitive in rural areas where people may live many miles from gun stores used to process checks.
The top gun lobby group, the National Rifle Association (NRA) argues that guns are not the problem.
An NRA task force released a report Tuesday calling for more armed guards in US schools, following the Newtown killings.
Mnuchin begs Chris Wallace: Take the president ‘very literally’ except on being ‘the chosen one’
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin insisted on Sunday that Americans should take President Donald Trump's hyperbolic comments "very literally" -- but he allowed for some exceptions.
During an interview on FOX News Sunday, host Chris Wallace noted that Trump had recently "ordered" companies not to do business with China.
"When the president says something, how seriously, how literally should we take it?" Wallace asked.
"I think most of the time, you should take it very literally," Mnuchin insisted. "I think sometimes he says things that are meant to be a joke."
White House spokesperson ridiculed for ‘pathetic’ spin on Trump’s trade war admission: ‘Does she think we believe that?’
Hours after Donald Trump blithely admitted that he had "second thoughts" about his trade war with China that has damaged the U.S. economy and helped set the stage for a possible recession, White House spokesperson Stephanie Grisham was forced to issue a clarification about the president's comments.
Addressing Trump's G7 response about his tariffs, widely interpreted by the press as expressing some regret, Grisham issued a statement saying the president meant that he wished he had increased his market-destroying tariffs even more.
"The President was asked if he had ‘any second thought on escalating the trade war with China,'" White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham relayed. "His answer has been greatly misinterpreted. President Trump responded in the affirmative - because he regrets not raising the tariffs higher."
Here is why Trump is obsessed with Greenland
They say that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. Remember that President Harry Truman tried to purchase Greenland in 1946; now, in 2019, President Donald Trump is trying to do the same thing.
This article first appeared in Salon.
To be clear, Trump’s farcical, “absurd” idea — to borrow the adjective used by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen — is not happening, and was never going to happen. As Frederiksen pointed out, Greenland is “not for sale." Trump, for his part, has not backed down from the idea.

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The Big Sandy Walk to Cure Diabetes is scheduled for Sept. 28 at Big Sandy Community & Technical College Prestonsburg Campus. To help raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the first Miss Hope For A Cure-Stepping Out For Diabetes Pageant is scheduled to be held Saturday, Aug. 24, at Jenny Wiley State Resort Park. This pageant, which is being put on by Floyd County native and Type 1 diabetic Emily Hall, will raise money for “Team Emily,” which in return will go directly to JDRF.
Several title holders from across the Bluegrass will be on hand at the first ever Miss Hope For A Cure-Stepping Out For Diabetes Pageant. Titleholders included fourth runner-up to Miss Kentucky and the current Miss Magoffin, Alison Lovely, Miss Bluegrass Area Annie Franklin, Miss University of Pikeville Hannah McIntosh, Pre-Teen Harlan County and second runner-up Petite Miss Kentucky Hailey Hamilton, Miss Teen East Kentucky Kirsten Conn, Miss Floyd County Holly Thompson, and Miss Mountain Laurel UPike/Miss Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival first runner-up Brittany Rowe.
The pageant will feature entertainment from these local title holders and will begin at 6 p.m. Contestants ages newborn to age 24 are welcome to enter and anyone may enter the photogenic competition, as you do not have to be a contestant to enter this phase of competition.
Registration for the Big Sandy Walk to Cure Diabetes begins at 11 a.m., Sept. 28, with the walk scheduled to start at 12:30 p.m. The walk will feature entertainment, kids activities, special guests, food, walk team t-shirt design competition, door prizes, and much more. You may visit The Big Sandy Walk to Cure Diabetes on Facebook, as well as the Team Emily for a Cure Facebook page. Anyone interested in more information about Miss Hope for a Cure may contact Mandy Stumbo at (606) 377-6157.


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I’ve been lucky enough to see singer-songwriter Passenger live three times now, and each time, he never ceases to impress me with his infectious energy, crowd involvement, funny travel stories, and remarkable music. Last month, I had the pleasure of seeing him in Portland, Oregon with my friend Shayna, who bought me tickets for Christmas! (Click the picture above to see a clip of Passenger performing his song “Life’s For The Living.”)
Michael Rosenberg, also known as Passenger, is most famous for his single “Let Her Go,” which, he jokes, often gets confused with the hit Disney song “Let It Go.” He formed the initial band, Passenger, with singer and friend Andrew Phillips in 2003. They produced one album, then the band broke up in 2009. After that, Michael continued to pursue music on his own, keeping the stage name Passenger as he busked around the world solo. He is good friends with singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, and performs with him often. My favorite duet of theirs is “Heart’s on Fire.”
Each of Passenger’s songs tell a story. Focusing on themes of life, loss, laughter, love, change, travel, stars, summer nights, fear, shimmering waves, growing old, and his views of the world, Passenger captures vivid scenes and memories through his music. His latest album is titled Young As the Morning Old As the Sea.
Before Passenger came on stage in Portland, the fabulous Paper Kites performed, an Australian band who formed in 2010. This was a fun surprise for me–I listen to The Paper Kites regularly, and I even played one of their tracks recently on my weekly college radio show. They rocked! I was standing directly in front of the guitarist, who had so much energy and incredible skill. I even met the guys after the show (see above), and talked to them about my music blog and radio show. They were pretty stoked to hear that I had played them on the air. Along with being enormously talented, these guys are so funny and kind. Check out their latest album “Twelvefour,” here, and click here to watch a clip of their performance in PDX. (Pictures below are mine.)
My friend and I were first in line about 2 hours prior to the concert, and ended up being front row once we got inside the venue! It was amazing to be at the barrier–I’ve only ever experienced it at one other concert. Passenger was so interactive with the crowd–he responded to fans shouting compliments, and talked to all of us as if we were old friends of his. Being so close to him standing on the edge of the stage as the lights reflected off his guitar and the beads of sweat on his forehead made the whole experience so raw, real, and incredibly fun.
Passenger told a few different stories through out his set. He started by explaining the story behind his song “Travelling Alone,” from his album Whispers II. Michael said he initially struggled to write this song–he had the first half of it written, but wasn’t sure how to continue it.
He recalled the day when he had crossed paths with an Australian man who was travelling alone. The man explained that he and his wife had saved up to go on an extravagant trip together after their children had grown up, but she had died before they had been able to go. To honor her memory, the man decided to take the trip anyway. Along the way, however, he found that it was more difficult than he expected–he began to feel further away from home, and further from his wife, than he ever had before: “He said ‘I’m a long way from the Gold Coast. Furthest I’ve ever known. Oh and this just ain’t my home. It was my wife’s idea, but she’s no longer here. She left me travelling alone.’
The other half of the song is written about a woman Michael met during his travels. Her husband left her, and she told him the story: “‘See, ten years with this man. And a life time of plans. Oh, and I loved him to his bones. Now I’ve lines on my skin…And he’s traded me in. He left me travelling alone.'” Michael described to us the process of intertwining the two stories in order to weave the song together. Although the two stories are very different from each other, they shared a common theme of lost love experienced in different ways. Listen to it here!
Passenger played a mix of old and new tracks during his concert–one being “27,” a fast-paced, witty single that tells the story of his life up to the age of 27. Before performing it, he reminded the crowd of the importance of doing the things that make you happy, regardless of what anyone else might think. He wrote “27,” during a time in his life where he felt he had to “sell out to get sold”–he struggled to create music that he knew producers and record labels would enjoy, but not necessarily content that brought him joy. I sang along to every word!
After his final song, the encore was loud enough to break the glass windows. He had wrapped up the show with his single “Scare Away the Dark,” a fan favorite that features a distinctive chorus of “oh, oh oh, oh, oh oh no’s” that the crowd continued to belt even after Michael had left the stage. After a few minutes, he came back on and finished up the show with “Holes.” Click the photo below to watch the fun encore!
After the show ended, Shayna and I took our chances and waited outside in the rain in hopes of meeting Michael. After about an hour or two, he came out and greeted us! He was so kind, asking us if we enjoyed the gig. I gave him a big hug, telling him that we loved the show, especially since we were lucky enough to get front row. “Oh yeah, I saw you dancing and singing!” he responded with his thick British accent. We chatted for a few minutes about Portland and music before he hopped onto his tour bus.
Overall, it was an unforgettable night! Thank you to Passenger for being such a down-to-earth, talented performer, and Shayna, who made this night possible 🙂


Fincantieri SI is the result of the company’s diversification strategy in highly promising sectors. It is the Group company that deals with the design, manufacture, and supply of innovative integrated systems in the field of plant design and industrial electrical, electronic, and electromechanical components. More specifically it devises solutions that can govern and control all the ship’s vital functions, guaranteeing high performance in terms of energy efficiency, comfort, and safety.
The company manages the entire integrated electrical package, offering the shipowner turnkey products, which range from the most sophisticated propulsion systems to on-board electrical auxiliaries, providing an after-sales assistance and maintenance service throughout the entire life cycle of the ship.
Fincantieri SI is developing a series of studies in the emissions world, trying to find the best green technological solution, to the problem of the ships’ huge emissions. The company is engaged in studies / projects to reduce emissions for maritime transport, addressing both the issue of electrification of ports and ships.
The company has designed and supplied the electrical propulsion systems of the last nine ships built for the Italian Navy (an aircraft Carrier, 7 frigates and 1 Logistic support ship). Then has developed and supplied energy storage systems of more than 5 MWH for a couple of ro-pax ships.
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- Fincantieri SI will use its expertise in the marine industry to analyse the needs of the maritime transportation and to identify the main needs and boundary conditions of the market. Meanwhile we will define the main emission regulations that will affect the market in the next 5, 10 and 15 years.
- We will also provide support for the work of the other WPs thanks to its experience in the installation of electrical propulsion systems and of energy storage systems on board of ships.


Time magazine lauded Eviation’s Alice last year, ranking it as one of the 100 Best Inventions of 2019. Alex Fitzpatrick compared its green goodness to the GHG-loaded nature of commercial aviation. “Flying is dirty work—the aviation industry emits nearly a quarter of total transportation-related greenhouse-gas emissions in the U.S., according to the EPA. One way to clean it up could be Eviation’s all-electric Alice, an Israeli-made nine-seater meant to convince the gas-guzzling aviation world that electric power is ready for takeoff. “The real innovation is in the lightweight materials rather than the batteries and motors and controllers and all that,” says Eviation CEO Omer Bar-Yohay. If successful, the design could pave the way for larger electric commercial aircraft. Alice, which has a range of 650 miles and should be quieter than gas-powered aircraft, begins flight testing in 2020.”
The bright future for the tri-motored airplane, which shone at the Paris Air Show and a prototype of which was about to undergo ground and flight testing at Prescott, Arizona, was darkened by a late-night fire. The fire caused extensive damage to the craft. AIN Online reports, “A fire broke out during ground testing of Eviation’s all-electric Alice aircraft on January 22 at Prescott Regional Airport in Arizona. The company said that the fire is believed to have been caused by a fault with a ground-based battery system. It has yet to confirm how extensively the prototype aircraft might have been damaged in the incident.
“The Prescott Fire Department was on standby for the planned test and quickly extinguished the fire, which caused no injuries. Eviation has begun an investigation into the full cause of the fire and has not said how the incident might affect plans to begin flight testing the aircraft.”
An interview airport manager Robin Sobotta on the following morning does not give a great deal of added detail.
Two over Alices were being brought to the states for evaluation and eventual test flying at Moses Lake, Washington. Eviation has had at least 20 suppliers working on various sub-assemblies for the aircraft. Batteries, stated to be by Kokam in 2019, constitute a large portion of Alice’s total mass, and even CEO Omer Bar-Yohay told reporters at the Paris Air Show that, “It’s basically a huge battery with some plane painted on it.”
Karl Kaser, Dipl. – Ing. and CEO of Kasaero GmbH in Stuttgart, is one of Eviation’s suppliers. In an email to your editor, he explained his company’s role in the design of the plane’s wings. “We have been designing the structure of the wing and support the production in a consortium with Singapore companies and the German Fraunhofer Institute.”
His company web site tells of the international cooperation that made the completion of Alice’s wings in exceptionally speedy order. “Eviation has made it: The design and construction of the innovative new electric aircraft design “Alice” were completed in record time for the Salon Internationale de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace.
“The dedicated development team of the Composite Cluster Singapore and Kasaero, in cooperation with the Fraunhofer IGCV in Augsburg, structurally dimensioned and designed the high-performance wing of the Alice in just 8 months.”
You can read the comprehensive overview of the partners’ work on Alice in this issue of Business Focus magazine.
We wish for a full and thorough investigation into the cause and an equally swift resolution. We hope for the best for all involved.


text: The combined PROSPECT leaf optical properties model and SAIL canopy bidirectional reflectance model, i.e. PROSAIL, has been used for about fifteen years to increase our understanding of plant canopy spectral and bidirectional reflectance in the solar domain and to develop new methods of vegetation biophysical properties retrieval. It links the spectral variation of canopy reflectance with its directional variation. This link is the key to simultaneously estimate biophysical/structural canopy variables for applications in agriculture, plant physiology, and forestry at different scales. PROSPECT and SAIL are still evolving: they have undergone recent improvements both at the leaf and the plant levels and became one of the most popular radiative transfer tools in these domains due to their ease of use, their robustness, and because they have been validated by many lab/fleld/space experiments over the years. This paper is intended to review this subject, which has been extensively researched in optical remote sensing.

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Define dunce. dunce synonyms, dunce pronunciation, dunce translation, English dictionary definition of dunce. for my father would say that I was an utter dunce at the French language; that the head mistress of my school was a stupid, common sort of women that Lamonde's "Grammar" was a wretched book--even a worse one than Zapolski's.
Sure, a dunce cap looks dumb now, but that wasn’t always the case. (Photo: Alan Levine/Flickr) The dunce cap has long been a visual symbol Author: Eric Grundhauser. Dunce definition is - a slow-witted or stupid person. Did You Know. Students take the philosophy exam, the first test session of the baccalaureate exams at the Pasteur high school in Strasbourg.
‘The bac’ is blamed for leaving many pupils on the scrap heap. Dunce of Magic Family High School Entrance Part (Volume 1) (Dengeki Bunko) (Japanese) Paperback Bunko out of 5 stars 36 ratings Book 1 of 27 in the 魔法科高校の劣等生 /5(27). Buy Rimi Hanger Adults Naughty Victorian School dunce Hat Unisex Book Week Fancy Dress Accessory One Size: Shop top fashion brands Hats & Caps at FREE DELIVERY and Returns possible on eligible purchases1/5(2).
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Victorian punishments were very harsh. The teachers liked strict dicipline in classes so the punishments had to teach a permanent two most used punishments were the dunce's hat and the dunce's hat was a heavy metal hat placed on the bad childs head then they would stand up on a 3 legged stool till the teacher told them to get down.
Happens all the time in Our Gang shorts when they're in school.; Pete's Dragon () has the titualar character Pete get a dunce cap put on his head, among other things, by his teacher when he gets in trouble for things that Elliot (the dragon) has actually done as well as his seemingly farfetched claims that "It was Elliot!" Iron Man 3: "Dummy" is wearing one while sweeping up Tony's lab.
I am a sucker for book lists, as you know, and was intrigued when I saw this list over at : Twenty-Five Most Hated Books. Then I read the list, and was shocked. Check it out: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer ( votes) Catcher in the Rye by J.D.
Salinger (90) Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James (90) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (53). Mary Ruefle is the author of many books, including Dunce (Wave Books, ), which is both a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and the LA Times Book Award; My Private Property (Wave Books, ), Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, ), Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, ), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Brand: Wave Books.
That dunce is with her on a few days vacation from a school for the feeble-minded.: Had she taken the teasing of the meaner girls in a wiser spirit, she knew they would not have sent her the dunce cap.: Fowell learnt very little at school, and was regarded as a dunce and an idler.: On the contrary, he dominated his fellows as absolutely as if he had been a dullard and a dunce.
Okay Dunce Two, we’re going to try a little experiment. Have you ever used a book suggester tool. Basically you type in the title of a book, then you get a list dunce of the school book results for dunce of the school book items. For instance, if I typed the words Don Quixote, then the book suggesters would try to give me a list of suggestions for books like Quixote.
This project is a redesign of the Farm to School Network's logo, and home web page to better communicate the organization's purpose and goals. magnolia cafe One of my hometown's favorite places to eat at midnight, I applied my passion for food and design in this re-imagining of the iconic restaurant's logo and branding.
Poem from a Charlestown, Mass., Edition of q2 Old-time Schools and School-books He that loves God, his school, and his book, will nodoubt do well at last; but he that hates his school andbook, will live and die a slave, a fool, and a dunce.
03» Children, obey your parents mihe Lord: for thi. The Surprise Exam is a random event where the player is asked to answer a few questions.
The dunce will teleport the player to a classroom where the exam can be started. Mordaut will ask the player two types of questions. One type requires the next object in a pattern to be found.
In the second type, he will present fifteen cards and a hint. The goal is to discover three cards related to. The dunce is an imp which appears to bring you to the Surprise Exam random event, and also appears walking in a circle on a stool, wearing a dunce cap.
During the Birthday event, he is to be dyed green in order to illustrate a green dragon for Da Vinci's painting. dunce (dŭns) n. A stupid person; a dolt. [After John Duns Scotuswhose writings and philosophy were ridiculed in the 16th century.] dunce (dʌns) n a person who is stupid or slow to learn [C from Dunses or Dunsmen, term of ridicule applied to the followers of John Duns Scotus, especially by 16th-century humanists] ˈdunceˌlike adj dunce (dʌns) n.
The dunce is an imp which appears to bring you to the Surprise Exam random event, and also appears walking in a circle on a stool, wearing a dunce cap. During the Birthday event, he is to be dyed green in order to illustrate a green dragon for Da Vinci 's painting. 25 sentence examples: 1.
He used to be a dunce at school. Michael may have been a dunce at mathematics, but he was gifted at languages. He was still the school dunce.
It is very impolite to call others a dunce. The globe-trotting dunce is. If the exam is successfully completed, the player will be rewarded with a book of knowledge after leaving the classroom.
Unlike the genie's lamp, only one book of knowledge may be owned at a a player already owns a book of knowledge, the player will receive an item instead.
📕 Closed Book. A closed, hardcover book depicted with a red cover on most platforms. Commonly used for various content concerning reading, writing, learning, 📘 Blue Book.
A closed, blue, hardcover book. Commonly used for various content concerning reading, writing, learning, and schooling. May also be used as a 📙 Orange Book. Whether your kids are heading off to school for the very first time or are old pros at navigating lockers and homework assignments, the books on this list are bound to entertain (and maybe even reassure) them.
Need help managing first-day-of-school jitters. No problem. Looking for. - Explore fcatsmith's board "Dunce cap", followed by people on Pinterest. See more ideas about Harvey wallbanger, Old school house and Teacher retirement parties.9 pins. In truth, Pennac was no dunce – but then the argument of his book is that no dunce is a dunce.
He is saying that everyone should have a teacher who can see what the dunce needs. - From Wikipedia: A dunce cap, also variously known as a dunce hat, dunce's cap or dunce's hat, is a pointed hat, formerly used as an article of discipline in schools. In popular culture, it is typically made of paper and often marked with a D or the word "dunce", and given to unruly schoolchildren to wear.
Duns Scotus was the originator of the instrument pins. The school day in Victorian times was in the mould of the modern day pm.
Children of a very young age were expected to maintain their best attention at all times and adhere to the rules of the school. School Equipment: Unlike today school equipment was very different in Victorian times.
A text for those curious about education as a context for creativity and collaboration, and for teachers who want to reconsider hierarchy in their classrooms, Jesse Ball's Notes on My Dunce Cap includes advisory material regarding the creation of syllabi and the manner in which groups may evaluate the work of an individual without harm.
Ball is renowned for the unique/5. Drawn from Ball\'s experiences teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Notes on my Dunce Cap includes advisory material regarding the role of the teacher, the creation of syllabi, and the manner in which groups may evaluate the work of an individual without harm.
Fireworks, fairs, and fireflies are just a few things that summer brings. After reading this book aloud, invite students to draw, write, or simply share their favorite summer events and adventures.
Summer Days and Nights by Wong Herbert Yee (Henry Holt, ) Enjoy this. The dunce row was a line of five empty desks snuggled against the right wall of the classroom.
The first desk in the row bore the sign that labeled it the dunce row. During the first week of school, we had a lesson on the uses for this row. You searched for: dunce. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and one-of-a-kind products and gifts related to your search.
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One of the new kids was the stupidest child anyone had ever seen. It made no difference how quickly or how slowly they tried explaining numbers to him; he would always end up saying something enormously dumb.
St Michaels School. Victorian School Life. In a law was passed making it compulsory for every child in Britain between the ages of 5 and 10 to attend school.
or told to put on an armband or badge with the word ‘dunce’ written on it. The Victorian teachers thought that the pupil would be embarrassed into making more of an effort. Synonyms for dunces in Free Thesaurus. Antonyms for dunces. 46 synonyms for dunce: simpleton, moron, duffer, bonehead, loon, goose, ass, donkey, oaf, dullard, dimwit.
Ronan Farrow, Emily Bazelon, Attica Locke, Michael Connelly and Colson Whitehead are among the finalists for the 40th annual Los Angeles Times Author: Margaret Wappler. : Dunce of Magic Family High School Entrance Part (Volume 2) (Dengeki Bunko) () and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at /5(K).
Fun interactive Graduation coloring pages for kids to color online. Graduation coloring page reader. Great mouse practice for toddlers, preschool kids, and elementary students. Dunce - part of the learn-to-read, read-to-me series of reading games. dunce translation in English-Czech dictionary.
Showing page 1. Found 95 sentences matching phrase "dunce".Found in 10 ms. Tall Betsy and Dunce Baby captures in print the oral heritage of Mariella Hartsfield's native southwest Georgia, a heritage that is slowly fading away, the casual victim of mechanization and mass media.
The tales in this collection range from the supernatural to the romantic, the sacred to the secular, and are populated by ghosts and witches, numskulls and "noodles," thieves, preachers, and Author: Mariella Glenn Hartsfield. Yep! And literally! Auctaully this happened. Let's go back to 2d grade wen I ayctauly had field trips: There was a schoolhouse in front of my middle school, that's like a rlly rlly old one.
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If all samples in a batch are unsuitable for dating, we reserve the right to charge an inspection fee of NZD50 plus the MPI fee of NZD35.^ Measured by CRDS (precision 0.3 per mil). Please read our pages on sample weight requirements, and if you are unsure about the suitability of your sample please contact us.They used pottery and other materials in sites to date 'relatively'.They thought that sites which had the same kinds of pots and tools would be the same age.During the period of a plant's life, the plant is taking in carbon dioxide through photosynthesis, which is how the plant makes energy and grows.
Most of the carbon on Earth exists in a slightly different atomic form, although it is chemically speaking, identical to all carbon.I have tried here to answer some of the frequently asked questions that I receive from students via email, as well as providing some basic information about scientific dating methods."Everything which has come down to us from heathendom is wrapped in a thick fog; it belongs to a space of time we cannot measure.After the war he became very interested in peaceful applications of atomic science.He and two students first measured the "half-life" of radiocarbon.

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Govt Allows ‘Work From Anywhere’ Facility For BPO Employees
Bhubaneswar: The Centre on Friday issued guidelines that allow ‘work from home’ and ‘work from anywhere’ facilities for Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) employees.
The guidelines aim to simplify or remove frequent reporting and other obligations for Other Service Providers (OSPs) that include BPOs, KPOs, ITES and call centres among others.
With this, the registration requirement for OSPs is no more required. Also, BPO firms engaged in data-related work have been taken out of the ambit of OSP regulations.
Moreover, according to the new guidelines, the requirements such as deposit of bank guarantees, the requirement for static IPs, the publication of network diagram, and penal provisions have also been removed.
The new guidelines have also done away with several other requirements making it possible for these organisations to adopt ‘Work from Home’ and ‘Work from Anywhere’ policies.
Before the government’s announcement of the guidelines, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had tweeted, “The prowess of India’s IT sector is recognised globally and the government is committed to doing everything possible to ensure a conducive environment for growth and innovation in India.”
India’s IT sector is our pride.
The prowess of this sector is recognised globally.
We are committed to doing everything possible to ensure a conducive environment for growth and innovation in India.
Today’s decisions will especially encourage young talent in the sector!
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) November 5, 2020
“Committed to furthering ‘Ease of Doing Business’ and making India a tech hub! GoI has significantly simplified Other Service Provider (OSP) guidelines of the Telecom Department. Compliance burdens of BPO industry will be greatly reduced due to this,” the PM added.


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Joan Collins has spent nearly her entire life in the limelight: the Paddington-born actress made her stage debut at the tender age of nine, in a production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at London’s Arts Theatre, before training at RADA then running off to Hollywood at the age of 22. Here are her key roles in a colourful career on both big screen and small.
Land Of The Pharaohs
After losing the role of Cleopatra to rival Elizabeth Taylor, Collins made her Hollywood debut in Howard Hawks’s 1955 film Land Of The Pharaohs – a fictional account of the building of the Great Pyramid of Khufu. She played Princess Nellifer, a fiesty femme fatale who’d stop at nothing – including enduring the whip – to become ruler of Egypt.
The Stud/The Bitch
It was thanks to her performance in these two racy films 1970s films – both based on the novels of her sister Jackie – that Joan came to the attention of Aaron Spelling, who went on to cast her as Alexis Carrington in Dynasty. The critics, however, were less than impressed, and both movies were universally panned.
After landing the role of vengeful man-eater Alexis Carrington in Dynasty, Joan became a household name, though she wasn’t the first choice for the job: Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren both turned it down, and Jessica Walter was next on the call list until producer Aaron Spelling – now a friend of Collins’s -stepped in.
Joan was the third actress to play Alexandra Spaulding in the ludicrously long-running daytime US soap Guiding Light. Her version, which lasted six months from 2002, was described by TV insiders as ‘your typical rich bitch’ . No change there, then…
Joan’s days as a superbitch appeared well and truly over when she landed a guest-starring role in Miss Marple in 2008. She played Ruth Van Rydock, an old best friend of the OAP detective who suddenly comes in handy when it comes to riddle-solving…

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Irem may not be making any more R-Type games, but they have no problem licensing their classic shoot ’em up. DotEmu made a deal with Irem to bring the Bydo Empire to Android devices.
R-Type for Android is a direct port of the arcade game with touch screen controls. Players can grab a force and fire it through eight levels then register their top score to online leaderboards using OpenFeint.
R-Type comes out on September 12.

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What is the hottest topic in laser cutting industry?It must be a 10,000 watt laser cutter.In recent years, domestic laser cutting industry presents a rising trend, laser cutting machine equipment development is also more and more high quality.The power of laser cutting machine has developed from the initial kilowatt level to more than 10,000 watts, more and more high-power laser cutting machines emerge at the historic moment.
In modern industrial manufacturing industry, laser cutting machine is widely used in stainless steel, carbon steel, alloy steel, brass, copper, manganese steel, aluminum, aluminum alloy and other materials processing, and widely used in various heavy industry and light industry.The market size of laser cutting machine alone accounts for more than 40% of the whole laser industry. It is one of the important application equipment in all industries in Canada.Among them, the high-power laser cutting machine is widely loved by users.
The higher the power the laser cutter the higher the thickness of the cutting material.In the past, laser cutting machine can not cut or cut high thickness material pain point, the emergence of high-power laser cutting machine solves this problem well.
Stainless steel is a popular processing material.Prior to the advent of high-power laser cutting machines, the thickness of stainless steel that laser cutting machines could cut was limited to 12 mm.After the advent of. The equipment not only increases the thickness of stainless steel material from 12 mm to 50 mm, but also improves the cutting speed in the field of thin and medium thick plates.For example, when cutting stainless steel with a thickness of 10 mm, a 10,000 watt laser cutter may cut twice as fast as a kilowatt laser cutter.
Although the high power laser equipment is very efficient, but the high power fiber laser cutting machine also has the problem of high price.However, with the development of the laser cutting industry, I believe high jump power laser cutting opportunities are becoming more and more friendly.
In sheet metal processing, blanking is one of the important links, and blanking technology is the use of optical fiber laser cutting machine for blanking users can bring high precision and high efficiency of material processing, is a more popular intelligent processing equipment.Optical fiber laser cutting machine has a wide range of applications.Let's talk about the most important of fiber optic laser cutting machines.
1. Applications in household appliances and kitchen appliances industries
Household appliances and kitchenware are mainly made of stainless steel, iron, copper and other materials of relatively thin thickness.When the thickness of cutting material is small, fiber laser cutting machine can cut the material faster and better.In addition, the equipment die - less cutting precision, improve the output of range hood, washing machine and other household appliances.However, the traditional cutting technology, because of its fast cutting speed, needs more die, which wastes time and increases the cost;
2. Application of construction machinery
In the construction machinery industry, the circular hole plate is the most, optical fiber laser cutting machine has punch function, can directly determine the location of the hole.The equipment can use laser to directly cut materials, which saves the drilling process and improves the production efficiency, but the premise is that the diameter of the plate round hole is greater than or equal to the corresponding minimum diameter, and the roughness and diameter before processing must be within the cutting capacity of the equipment;
3. Application of agricultural machinery industry
The traditional agricultural machinery manufacturing still stays in the stamping processing mode, which will not only wear out more molds, but also keep the products as they are, which is not conducive to the updating of products.Optical fiber jumping laser cutting machine adopts program control, it can cut a variety of plates without mold and cutter, which is beneficial to the processing and production of agricultural machinery.
Are there surface defects in laser cut products?
Now metal laser cutting machine
has gradually entered the majority of manufacturers, a lot of laser cutting problems are more and more, let me give you a brief analysis.
The main reason for laser cutting machine to process plate burr is that the laser beam produces high energy on the surface of the product, which makes the surface of the product evaporate rapidly, so as to achieve the purpose of cutting.However, one key point we must pay attention to is the "auxiliary gas".When the product is irradiated and evaporated during laser cutting, the auxiliary gas is used to blow off the slag on the product surface.(Other USES, of course).In other words, if auxiliary gases are not used, the cooling slag will form burrs attached to the cutting surface, which is the main cause of burrs.
Another reason is parameter setting.When customers buy laser cutting machines, they must have professional operators to debug the equipment.If there are no problems above, then we can really doubt the laser cutting machine.
The burr problem of plate metal processed by laser cutting machine is solved.
1. Ensure air compressor is installed and auxiliary gases (oxygen, nitrogen) are used for cutting.
2. Find a professional operator to adjust the jumping laser cutter until everything is ok.


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Reeling 'Fashion Police' gets sidelined
After a commentary controversy and the departure of two high-profile stars, E!'s beleaguered Fashion Police is going on hiatus until September.
The network announced the decision late Tuesday in a statement: "We look forward to taking this opportunity to refresh the show before the next awards season. Our talented co-hosts Giuliana Rancic and Brad Goreski, along with executive producer Melissa Rivers, will continue their roles as we evolve the show into its next chapter for the legions of Fashion Police fans around the world."
The show took a couple of big hits in the last few weeks, with the departure of stars Kelly Osbourne and Kathy Griffin.
Osbourne departed a few days after objecting to a critical remark Rancic made about Zendaya's hair, for which Rancic apologized.
Comedian Griffin, who succeeded the late Joan Rivers on the fashion-commentary show, quit last week after just a short stay with the show, saying it didn't fit her style. "After seven episodes of Fashion Police, I discovered that my style does not fit with the creative direction of the show and now it's time to move on," Griffin wrote on Twitter.
E! issued a statement last week after Griffin's announcement. "We wish her all the best and are grateful for her time on the show, as well as the many laughs that she gave us all."


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Lu-Jean Feng, MD
Medical Director, Founder Board-Certified Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon
Presentation: Overview of My 31-year Experience on Explantation: Root Causes, Clinical Results, and Future Directions of Study
Dr. Lu-Jean Feng is an internationally renowned Microvascular Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon. She is the Founder and Medical Director of The Lu-Jean Feng Clinic. Dr. Feng graduated from Yale College and Yale Medical School and has been involved in medicine for more than 28 years. She is unique within her field, as female plastic surgeons comprise a very small percentage of the total industry due to the intensity and length of training required. Dr. Feng is widely recognized as an artist, surgeon and visionary for her many endeavors in the medical field and for her ability to help patients improve and maximize their overall health and well-being when all other avenues have failed. To date, Dr. Feng has patients from every state in the U.S. and from over 36 countries around the world. Over the years, Dr. Feng’s own personal beliefs and ideals regarding fitness, nutrition, and healthy living have evolved into every aspect of her practice. The Lu-Jean Feng Clinic opened in 1999, as a premier state-of-the-art outpatient surgery center. Today, the 15,000 square foot, 3-story building has been transformed into a total health and wellness center, incorporating many beneficial services under one roof; preventive medicine, medical-grade skin care services, laser treatments, infrared sauna, cryotherapy, ionic foot detoxification, hyperbaric oxygen, massage therapy, FengFit™ Cafe and Feng Fitness center. In 2011 Dr. Feng developed a line of healthy plant-based foods under the name, FengFit™ Plant-Based Cuisine. All surgery patients receive a quart of Dr. Feng’s highly nutritious fresh soup of the day along with Dr. Feng’s Signature Salad upon discharge from the facility. Dr. Feng has very high ethical standards and is a masterful technical surgeon who pays close attention to the most minute details and takes great pride in her work. Her latest pursuit involves helping her patients reach total health and wellness through her highly specialized Nutrigenomic testing and Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy program. Dr. Feng’s ultimate goal is to guide each and every patient to a more optimal state of health through proper nutrition, rigorous exercise, vitamins and supplements and replacement of essential bioidentical hormones. In other words, total and optimal wellness from the inside out to ensure vitality, slow the aging process, and provide protection from disease.
Specialty: • Cosmetic Surgery of the Face and Breast • Natural Breast Enhancement with Fat, Stem Cells and PRP • Painless/Drainless Abdominoplasty (Tummy Tuck) • Advanced Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) • Nutrigenomic Testing and Analysis Affiliations: • Board Certified by The American Board of Plastic Surgery • Privileges at University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center • Certified in Advanced Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy • Founder and Medical Director of The Lu-Jean Feng Clinic • Member of The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) • Member of American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery • Member of the International Visiting Committee at Case Western Reserve University • Member of the Age Management Medicine Group (AMMG) • Member of The Academy of Preventive & Integrative Medicine • Member of The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine Education: • Yale College - Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry • Yale Medical School - Doctor of Medicine • University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) -Residency in General Surgery • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) - Residency in Plastic Surgery • New York University (NYU) - Fellowship in Microvascular Surgery Major Accomplishments: • Attended Yale College at the Age of Sixteen • Internationally Renowned for Specialized Technical Skills in Microvascular Breast Reconstruction Using Autogenous Tissue • Former Head of Microvascular Plastic Surgery at Mt. Sinai Medical Center of Cleveland 1989 - 1999 • First Physician in Northeast Ohio to Successfully Transfer Tissue from the Buttock to Breast Following Mastectomy • Co-Investigator in the National Institute of Health Grant to Study the Immunology of Silicone • Television appearances on Dateline NBC, Good Morning America, Extra, Live on Five, Fox TV-8, WKYC TV-3, The Morning Exchange, MTV True Life, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills • Featured and Written About by The Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland Magazine, New Cleveland Woman, New Woman, Ms., and Shape • Featured and Written About in the following Books; Informed Consent by John Byrne and The Silicone Breast Implant Controversy by Dr. Frank B. Vasey • Seven Year Study and Research Paper, Analysis of Risk Factors Associated with Rupture of Silicone Breast Implants published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, September 1999, Vol. 104, No 4 • Pathology of Lymph Nodes From Patients With Breast Implants A Histologic and Spectroscopic Evaluation, published in Am J Surg. Path Volume 29, Number 4, April 2005 • Ellis Island Medal of Honor - New York City, May 2006 • Rainmaker Award - Healthcare, Cleveland, Sept. 2007 • Ten Year Study and Research Paper, Painless Abdominoplasty: The Efficacy of Combined Intercostal and Pararectus Blocks in Reducing Post-Operative Pain and Recovery Time, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, November 2010, Vol. 126, No. 5 • Developed a proprietary line of healthy foods under the name of FengFit™ Plant-Based Cuisine. • Understanding Breast Implant Illness Before and After Explantation: A Patient Reported Outcomes Study, published in Annals of Plastic Surgery, Volume 85, July 2020. • Invited Guest Speaker at the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery - Las Vegas - April 2020 - Topic: Breast Implant Illness • Improvement of Pulmonary Function After Removal of Breast Implants and Total Capsulectomy: An Objective Outcome Assessment in Breast Implant Illness, To be presented at the Plastic Surgery Research Council, Montreal, Canada, May 2020 Personal Data: • Born in Taipei, Taiwan and moved to the United States at age 12 • Enjoys exercising, traveling, playing tennis and reading • Avid fitness and nutrition enthusiast and NBA fan

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The voltage gain of a single stage transistor amplifier is not sufficient for many practical applications. Higher gains can be obtained by connecting a large number of amplifier stages in succession (one after the other). Resistance-capacitance (RC) coupling is most widely used to connect the output of first stage to the input (base), of the second stage and so on. It is the most popular type of coupling because it is cheap and provides a reasonably constant amplification over a wide range of frequencies.
Fig. 1 shows the circuit arrangement of a two stage RC coupled CE mode transistor amplifier where resistance RL, is used as a load impedance and the capacitor C is used as a coupling element between the two stages of the amplifier.
Function of Circuit Components:
- Biasing and stabilisation network: The resistances R1, R2, and RE form the biasing and stabilisation network. It establishes a proper operating point, otherwise a part of the negative half cycle of the signal may be cut-off in the output. RE also reduces the variation of collector current with temperature.
- Input capacitor C1: Electrolytic capacitor C1 (~ 10 μF) isolates the input circuit for d.c. potentials and couples the a.c. signal voltage to the base of the transistor. If it is not used, the resistance of the signal source will be in parallel to RL and the bias voltage of the base will change.
- Emitter bypass capacitor CE: The capacitor CE connected across the emitter resistor RE is of large value (~ 100 μF) so that its reactance 1/ωCE is small. It, therefore, offers a low reactance path to the a.c. component of emitter current and thus bypasses resistor RE at audio frequencies. Consequently, the potential difference across RE is due to the d.c. component of the current only. If it is not used, the amplified a.c. signal flowing through RE will cause a voltage drop across it, thereby reducing the output voltage.
- Coupling capacitor C: The coupling capacitor C (~ 10 μF) transmits a.c. signals but blocks d.c. It couples the output of the first stage of amplifier to the input of the second stage. It blocks the d.c. voltage of the first stage from reaching the base of the second stage. Thus, the d.c. biasing of the next stage is not disturbed. For this reason, the capacitor C is also known as blocking capacitor.
When a.c. signal is applied to the base of the first transistor, it is amplified and developed across the load resistor RL. This amplified voltage is applied to the base of next stage through the coupling capacitor C where it is further amplified and reappears across the load RL of the second stage. Thus, the successive stages amplify the signal, and the overall gain is raised to the desired level.
Frequency response curve:
The curve representing the variation of gain of an amplifier with frequency, known as frequency response curve, is shown for a typical RC coupled amplifier in Fig. 2. It is divided into three regions. The voltage gain is substantially constant over a wide range of frequencies (middle frequency range) and decreases at low (< 50 Hz) and high (> 20 kHz) frequencies.
- At low frequencies (< 50 Hz), the gain decreases with decreasing frequency due to coupling capacitor C. As the frequency gets lower and lower, the reactance (1 /ωC) of the coupling capacitor gets higher and higher. Consequently, an increasing portion of the voltage drop takes place across C. Thus, the voltage reaching from one stage to the next stage decreases and hence the voltage gain drops. The other component due to which the gain decreases at low frequencies is the bypass capacitor C. As frequency decreases, the reactance of capacitor CE increases and becomes comparable to emitter resistance RE. Therefore, it cannot shunt the resistor RE effectively. A current passes through RE also developing an a.c. voltage. Then the effective input voltage to the amplifier i.e., the voltage between the base and emitter of the transistor, decreases. Consequently, the gain of the amplifier decreases. The lower the frequency, higher is the reactance of CE and greater is the reduction in gain.
- At mid-frequencies (50 Hz to 20 KHz), the voltage gain of the amplifier is uniform because resistor values are independent of frequency changes. As the frequency increases in this range, reactance of coupling capacitor decreases which tends to increase the gain but it simultaneously increases the loading of first stage which decreases the gain. These two factors cancel each other and hence gain at mid-frequency region remains approximately constant.
- At high frequencies (> 20 kHz), the voltage gain falls due to the capacitance that appears in shunt across the output. These capacitances consist of the collector capacitance of the transistor and the stray wiring capacitance. With increase in frequency, the reactance of these capacitors decreases and an increased part of the output is bypassed to earth. Consequently, the output voltage of the amplifier decreases and hence the voltage gain falls at high frequencies as is indicated by the bend in the curve of Fig 2. Moreover, at high frequencies, capacitive reactance of base-emitter junction is reduced. As a result, the base current increases and hence the current amplification factor β decreases.


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- By Joshua Keating
Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy
Judging by his appearance on CNN last night, parsing the president’s speech, recently fired State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley is making a transition to media pundit in record time. In an op-ed for the Guardian today, he addresses the reason he was fired, his desription of the treatment of accused WikiLeaker Bradley Manning as "stupid" and "counterproductive" during a speech at MIT.
Crowley starts by arguing that Manning is" rightly facing prosecution" and "if convicted, should spend a long, long time in prison." But, perhaps since he’s already been fired for them, doesn’t walk back his previous comments at all:
Private Manning’s family, joined by a number of human rights organisations, has questioned the extremely restrictive conditions he has experienced at the brig at Marine Corps base Quantico, Virginia. I focused on the fact that he was forced to sleep naked, which led to a circumstance where he stood naked for morning call.
Based on 30 years of government experience, if you have to explain why a guy is standing naked in the middle of a jail cell, you have a policy in need of urgent review. The Pentagon was quick to point out that no women were present when he did so, which is completely beside the point.
The issue is a loss of dignity, not modesty.
Our strategic narrative connects our policies to our interests, values and aspirations. While what we do, day in and day out, is broadly consistent with the universal principles we espouse, individual actions can become disconnected. Every once in a while, even a top-notch symphony strikes a discordant note. So it is in this instance.
To put it another way, if your own previously reliable spokesman is calling a government policy "stupid" in public, you probably have a policy in need of urgent review.