November 27, 2016
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The “Pro-Am Titans” parquet debut was a complete success. With four dancers, Geinzendorf dance professional Christoph Holczyk competes for three days of the tournament.
Gainserndorf. “What a great weekend! Last week’s competition at the InterContinental in Budapest was followed by another dance tournament at the Golebiewski Hotel in Wisła, Poland,” says Holczyk, who is excited about the current championship show.
In Budapest, the professional dancer completed a total of 84 dances in all dance categories with the ladies Krista Kramer, Lucia Fröschel, Evangelia Fegoli and Krista Schäringer. But it showered 43 gold medals and five silver medals.
The following weekend, the pentathlon won 16 gold and five silver medals in Wisla. The ladies put a total of 42 laps on the floor.
The search for a dance partner is successful
The principle of the Pro-Am Dance Competition is easy to explain. Ladies and gentlemen who no longer want to find a dance partner and also want to avoid the usual partner conflicts, have taken the opportunity to distinguish themselves with a professional dancer.
Amateur dancer Lucy Weikendorf swears by this principle. I was so confused that I couldn’t find the right dance partner. Now I have a dance partner and I can be sure that I will be professionally guided during the dances, ”the dancer is happy with her successes with professional dancer Chris.
Groß-Enzersdorf’s Christa Scharinger takes the same line, as does the rest of the new dance family, which hails from Vienna.
This type of competition always attracts dance lovers and usually lasts for two days. What sets them apart is the lavish atmosphere that gives these dance tournaments a special ball-like sparkle.
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A group of Finnish researchers has developed a new process that improves the recycling of textiles and other fibres.
The VTT Technical Research Centre near Helsinki has created a cylindrical extruder that can treat long fibres without cutting them. As a result, recycled materials can be used to produce long-fibre composites. So far, tests on the prototype’s performance with various plastics, fibres and textiles are said to be ‘promising’.
Suitable for mixed input
‘Many textile recycling processes are only suitable for products containing homogeneous fibres,’ says Pirjo Heikkilä, senior scientist at VTT. ‘However, textiles are often a mix of fibres and many products comprise different layers. The new extruder opens up a revolutionary opportunity to recycle mixed textiles and materials without having to separate fibres or components,’ she explains.
The prototype has a screw diameter of 30 cm instead of the 3–4 cm typically found in conventional devices of the same output. This large diameter, combined with a shallow screw channel, makes it possible to mix components of porous and lightweight materials and ensures the mixed mass is compatible with the next stage of the production process.
Heikkilä describes the extruder as ‘compact and easily transportable’. The unit is only two metres long, weighs around 1.5 tonnes, and can be mounted upright. Its design enables accurate temperature control. The design also offers cost savings because it is far less expensive than traditional mixing twin-screw extruders.
The innovation was inspired by the idea from VTT research scientist Hannu Minkkinen that materials can rotate around the device’s hollow cylinder. According to Minkkinen, the prototype has already exceeded expectations and VTT is actively looking for a commercial partner to scale up the project.
Also interesting: a recent VTT study found that 5% of all of the world’s spare parts could be stored digitally for 3D printing. Very old or rarely needed parts are especially suitable for digitalisation and 3D printing, owing to high value but low demand. Warehousing such spare parts is not viable.

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Global Military Aircraft Engines Market Study 2015-2025, by Segment (Jet Engines, Turbine Engines, Other), by Market (Fighter Aircraft, Transport Aircraft, Helicopters), by Company (GE Aviation, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls Royce)
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Now free and open to non-Friends, our lively Art Book Club meetings take place on Sundays from 2.30–4pm, hosted by Jacintha Hutton. Book Club books are available in the Pallant Bookshop at 20% discount to attendees.
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By default, students have to start making their loan payments six months after they graduate. But, if you can afford it, you have the option to repay your student loans while you are still in school.
This may or may not be the right option for everyone. Understanding the pros and cons of making early payments will help you make a decision that is right for you.
Pros of Repaying in School
Pay Less Overall: The biggest advantage of repaying student loans while you are still in school is obvious—the earlier you pay off your student loans, the lower the accrued interest amount, which means you will save a substantial amount just on the interest rates itself. Don’t forget, your loan accrues interest even while you’re still in school. If you repay early, it means you’re at least paying off any interest you accrued during your time in college.
Debt-to-Income Ratio: Early payments also help to lower your debt-to-income ratio, which increases your likelihood of getting approved for a mortgage or any other loan after you graduate.
Of course, the peace of mind you will get from knowing that you are free from debt cannot be overlooked.
Cons of Repaying in School
Time / Focus: To start repaying loans, you have to have income and to have income, you need a part-time job. This will take time and attention away from your studies, which can affect your grades.
Stress: College can feel like a juggling act sometimes. Between classes, study, activities, hanging out with friends, and part-time jobs, adding student loan repayments on top of it can frazzle a student’s nerves.
Some students need that 6-month grace period, others can handle the balancing act while they’re still in school.
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Write 7 pages thesis on the topic isentropic expansion of ideal gas. By recording and using relevant pressure measurements with the help of suitable pressure gauges. The value of the specific heat capacity of air could be calculated. A relatively low percentage error in the readings and average value very close to the expected value (precision value) led to the conclusion that the experiment and the simulated adiabatic expansions were quite precise and reliable.
The specific heat (C) is critical because it determines how quickly a substance will heat up or cool down. It is a quantity of heat that is required to change the temperature of 1 kilogram of a substance by 1 degree Celsius. Specific heat capacity is a quantity central to the thermodynamic analysis of a substance.
In this experiment, the pressure was the best parameter to monitor and evaluate, and thus an equation relating the specific heat and the two pressure readings had to be derived. The derivation required the application of the first law of thermodynamics to the adiabatic expansion process and using the ideal gas law, making an assumption that the air behaves like an ideal gas.
In thermodynamics, an isentropic process is a process that takes place from initiation to completion without an increment or decrement in the entropy of the system. In other words, the entropy of the system remains constant. Entropy is a form of energy.
If a process is both reversible and adiabatic, then it is an isentropic process. An isentropic process is an idealization of an actual process and serves as a limiting case for an actual process. For an adiabatic process, there is no transfer of heat energy.
Before the experiment, the atmospheric pressure, P2 was measured using the barometer so as to determine the absolute pressures of the cylinder. In a similar way, the room temperature T1 was measured using the mercury in a glass thermometer.
The vessel was gradually pressurized to 5psig and the air supply turned off followed by the closing of the valve in order to isolate the compressed air inside the tank. .


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Grantham Town cruise through to next round of FA Trophy
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Grantham Town eased their way through to the next round of the competition with a confident display at a chilly Meres on Tuesday night.
Lee Shaw gave the Gingerbreads the lead in the 19th minute.
Three minutes after the break, Felipe Barcelos doubled the home side’s advantage to lay the foundations for the second half.
Grantham went 3-0 up on 80 minutes through Harry Clifton, and Barcelos sealed victory eight minutes later.
The Gingerbreads will now host Matlock Town in the second qualifying round on Saturday, November 12.


Some of you are probably wondering what my thoughts about this are by now. Ya know, Roseanne show getting canceled all of a sudden over a tweet Roseanne herself posted on twitter making fun of former Obama official, Valerie Jarrett. The reason Roseanne is in hot water for this is ’cause Roseanne made a joke about comparing Valerie Jarrett to Planet of the Apes and Muslim Brotherhood. Of course, liberals and the die-hard left are outraged… calling her racist and they’ve even gone as far as calling Roseanne supporters racist too. Sickening.
When will the left ever apologize for their harassment and bullying toward people who don’t think the same way they do? The left has said 10x’s much worse things to people on the right. So it’s okay to call Donald Trump an ape too? It’s okay to make fun of his weight and pick on his so-called health problems? It’s okay to pick on his hair and other things???
It’s okay for the left to call conservatives all kinds of nasty and horrible names like racists, white supremacists, nazis, misogynists, bigots, homophobes, teabaggers, islamaphobic and on and on and on????
It’s okay for left-wing TV personalities such as Bill Maher, Joy Behar, Kimmel, Keith Olberman, Rosie O’ Donnell and others to spew their hatred toward Trump and conservatives?
This is the media’s view of the world: it’s good to be a liberal and bad to be conservative. Messed up.
As far as Roseanne comparing Valerie Jarrett to an ape and a Muslim, she did nothing wrong, in my opinion. I thought it was funny and she’s so right on that. Liberals are upset ’cause it’s racist and Valerie is a black woman. Really? Um, no. Valerie is not a black woman at all. If you look at her skin, she’s definitely white. I don’t see how it’s racist at all. Just stupid libtards looking for a reason to call Roseanne a racist.
This whole thing was planned out and orchestrated by the media. They wanted Roseanne’s show pulled off the air and they got it. They waited for Roseanne to say something stupid and they jumped in on the opportunity to make her look bad. This is just more liberal double standards and hypocrisy like usual.
The left never gets hold to account for their horrible things they said and did, but it’s conservatives are always the ones that are getting in trouble. It’s so sickening.
Never apologize to the left; no matter how outraged and offended they get. I never did. We’re in an age where conservatives get in trouble for saying certain things even if there’s nothing wrong with them. Always stick to your guns and never cave into the left. I never did.
Roseanne didn’t do anything wrong and you know it, too. She got attacked ’cause of her support for Trump and for her “free thinking” beliefs. Period. End of story. When it was announced that Roseanne’s comeback show was going back to ABC, I predicted ABC would be the wrong network for it after the same network cancelled “Last Man Standing” over politics.
I’m tired of the ass-kissing toward Obama and his former administration officials.
Once again Valerie isn’t black, she’s an Iranian woman. She’s not African-American at all, lol. So what Roseanne did wasn’t racist.
I’m tired of the term “racist”. Most overused term in history. Come up with new attacks, idiots.
With all this being said, I stand with Roseanne Barr. All this makes me love her even more now. Her show will possibly be moved over to FOX which means even bigger ratings.


Especially in an age where technology is even more readily available to kids, who dabble around on the keyboard with their nutella-smeared sausage fingers, it's easy to fall into a trance-like state while fiddling with software and become obsessed with making something look aesthetically pleasing.
But aestheticism is an essential part of documentary journalism... at least a big one. An awfully shot video, home video style with shaky hands and uncontrolled zooming, puts people off and in worst cases, deters from the content. And even aesthetics cannot rescue an image from an audience being unfazed with it because they have been over-saturated with images like that (to name a crude example, a starving child in Africa).
Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas more or less brings this up in an interview.
Susan Meiselas in an interview with Ken Light [Traub, Heller and Bell, The Education of a Photographer (New York: Allworth Press, 2006), 42-47].
There is an ongoing challenge for us, as documentarians, to be committed and engaged, while at the same time innovative. I fear we have deadened out. [...]
Why aren't people interested in what we documentarians are passionate about? Why are we such a small ghetto?
Doing documentary work is not just building the relationship and shooting. It's also finding the spaces, be they magazine pages, books, or exhibitions spaces, to transform and present the world we see differently. [...]
The interesting question is, will there be a further extension of the vocabulary and the language of documentary? Can we go further than we've gone?
The need to aestheticize your work in innovative ways is challenging and necessary for the sheer financial survival of a visual storyteller as she says. And to extend her theory, the internet forces photographers/videographers not only to be innovative in style, they also need to figure out a way of being innovative within the framing/meshing of a story. Or it seems like their editors need to.
Meshing it up
One way I have seen some web outlets try their luck in being innovative is in the integration of the image with an interactive graphic, giving the easily distracted online audience a second visual stimulation. In other words, offer your viewer another spectacle to look at.
In this example, a video piece about Chinese architecture by Travis Fox on the Washington Post the dots on the map track the video content. So when the presenter speaks about a certain building or monument, the respective locations/dots on the map start pulsing to give the viewer an instantaneous understanding of where the video is placing them.
Eliminating distraction (not necessarily innovative)
A countermove to the aforementioned framing is reclaiming the space on the monitor, also known as real estate in web lingo. Something I have discovered recently is the way in which a lot of standalone projects reclaim the space on your screen by filling up the entire browser, if not even the entire screen. Branding, as you have it with news website through headers and surrounding links, becomes secondary and is mostly hidden somewhere in a corner of the layout.
Here in theplaceswelive.com, which I mentioned before, the photographer is taking full advantage of the real estate offered on a web browser.
In another web project, http://www.livehopelove.com, does something similar with a full screen option that blocks out even other applications (in case people feel tempted to switch to another application).
Image as a component
Additionally, I believe that animation have done a lot to transform the moving image.
This video from the New York Times uses still images and audioslideshows intermeshed. The images you see below are placed on a virtual map. once the images come in focus, the voices of each individuals give an opinion about the most recent presidential election.
I'm sure similar animations have been there before. But this model is, more or less, referring to recurrent features you see in the newspaper, interactive audio features.
All in all, it feels as if the image has been re-contextualized. It's similar to what happened with images once they were cut out, processed and placed in articles in magazines. Except that now there are much more possibilities of what an author can intermesh an image with. Interactivity and animation programs have infiltrated the realm of journalism. (Whoopie!)
In some ways, the image not only stands alone but can and often has become a larger component of a multi-faceted experience competing for attention with all the amateur-to-professional content the world wide web has on offer.
That is, if you have a good connection and the proper computer for it (the digital divide is a whole different issue, I will hopefully get into here one day).


NGK Spark Plug Explanation
from DynoBike - Australia
I'm sure that many of you at some stage have been given the sales pitch on the horse power advantages of fitting brand X spark plugs. Take this as a warning: don't be fooled. My own personal experience with motorcycles would indicate that this line of approach can be very misleading.
In fact one manufacturer who we'll not name has been pushing this point very strongly and I am yet to see any proof behind this statement. I'm not saying that they are wrong, I just haven't seen any indication that they are right. One thing is certain though, we've had some problems with them. They have been the cause of many a misfire and they have a nasty habit of breaking in two when trying to remove them, resulting in many frustrating hours for us and many dollars for the customer.
Set out below is a guide to help you avoid all these problems and select the correct plug for your bike. Sometimes you can use alternative plugs, but you need to have an understanding of what the number on the plug means to ensure you're not stepping outside the limits of your engine's requirements. So the 1st rule is always go with the manufacturer's recommendations. The second rule is if you have any doubt give us a bloody call and save yourselves a lot of agro.
We recommend and use NGK plugs so the following explanations are applicable to NGK only.
The 1st letter prefix refers to the thread type and socket hexagon size. They range from 14mm thread down to 8mm on the smaller 4 cylinder 250 imports.
The 2nd and 3rd letter prefix is the construction feature. eg P for projected insulator nose, R for resistor type. The first number refers to the heat range. This is probably the most important code because it refers to the operating heat range and means that if you get it wrong serious damage to the engine is eminent. With NGK plugs the higher the number the colder the plug. Racing engines use cold plugs because they generate so much heat. If you have a fowling problem, common on two strokes, using a hotter plug can sometimes cure it. But if you're off to P.I. for a ride day you need to put that colder plug back in it. Also note that on other brands the heat range works the opposite, 5 is colder than 7 not hotter eg, Champion plugs.
The next suffix letter is for thread reach, which is also where you can come unstuck because if you choose a plug with a thread reach that's too long then it puts an interesting impression in the top of the piston, if it's too short then it won't reach inside the combustion chamber.
The next letter is again for construction features, eg P for platinum ground electrode, GV for racing plugs made of nickel alloy and centre electrode made of precious metals, S for copper core electrode etc, etc. Sometimes there is another number at the end meaning the plug gap which it is set at.
The following is a common motorcycle plug number DPR9EA-9
Explanation, 12mm thread 18mm plug socket, P for projected electrode, R for resistor, heat range 9, E for 19mm thread reach, A for specials and 9 for .9mm plug gap.
And there you have it, clear as mud eh. Don't worry if you're confused; as I said earlier the manufacturer has done all the hard work, so if you stick to his recommendations you can't go wrong. If it's for a seriously modified engine then your engine builder should know what you need to use.


US boxer Diaz starts Olympics strong
U.S. bantamweight Joseph Diaz Jr. got the Olympic boxing tournament off to an entertaining start Saturday with a stylish 19-9 victory over Ukraine's Pavlo Ishchenko in the opening bout.
British middleweight Anthony Ogogo won the hosts' first bout, beating the Dominican Republic's Junior Castillo 13-6 to thrill a raucous crowd at ExCel.
Ireland's John Joe Nevin and Darren O'Neill also rode the crowd's cheers to opening-round victories, while Diaz became a crowd favorite after the Los Angeles-area native put on a rousing display of speed and power.
An elite pro prospect, Diaz repeatedly snapped back Ishchenko's head with uppercuts and quick strikes during a dominant third round.


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The settlement is a victory for more than 2,800 female associates and vice-presidents who accused the financial service giant of systematically paying women less than their equally ranked male counterparts and denying them opportunities to move up from junior to senior roles.
The deal staves off a trial that was scheduled to begin next month. And courtroom proceedings would’ve likely coughed up damaging information about Goldman’s employee evaluation and promotion processes, employment law scholars told Bloomberg Law.
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In addition to damages, Goldman agreed under the settlement to allow an independent expert to investigate its evaluation and promotion practices, and conduct a pay-equity review for the next three year-end compensation cycles—wins the plaintiffs weren’t guaranteed at trial.
The agreement, which is before a federal judge in Manhattan for review and approval, could create a ripple effect on Wall Street, where all but one of the six biggest US banks is run by men and issues of gender discrimination and inequality have proliferated for decades, attorneys said.
“This is a huge milestone in addressing systemic gender inequality in the financial industry and bringing accountability,” said Zoe Salzman, a partner at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP.
“Hopefully, this is a real signal of willingness by the industry to tackle this issue in a more meaningful way and finally address it,” she said.
But the victory didn’t come without cost.
“It’s definitely a win for women on Wall Street. But it’s a really expensive, very hard-fought win,” said Elizabeth Tippett, a professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, who pointed out that the case has been in federal court for almost 13 years.
“It’s not going to be easy to replicate. If you look at the twist and turns of this case, the plaintiffs’ attorneys overcame so many procedural hurdles around certifying the case, obtaining discovery” and their ability to plead certain claims, Tippett said.
“This case, to me, seems like an exception rather than a rule because the amount of resources to keep this lawsuit going is truly astronomical.”
The dispute dates back to July 2005 when Cristina Chen-Oster, who joined the bank in 1997 and sold convertible bonds, filed a discrimination complaint with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The commission closed the case in 2010, releasing Chen-Oster to sue on her own in federal court along with two other female Goldman employees, all of whom sought to represent a class of thousands of women at the bank.
Goldman fought to require more than 1,000 women seeking to join the class to arbitrate their claims and to keep under wraps the names of some senior bank executives who were mentioned in internal complaints.
The settlement also grants relief to current and former employees who were either forced to opt out of the class or arbitrate their claims.
A representative for Goldman Sachs declined to comment beyond a statement the company issued at the time of the settlement. “Goldman Sachs is proud of its long record of promoting and advancing women and remains committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace for all our people,” Jacqueline Arthur, Goldman’s global head of human capital management, said at the time.
The company’s most recent partner and managing director promotions included the “highest percentages of women in the history of the firm,” Goldman said: the 2022 partner class was 29% women and the 2021 managing director class was 30% women.
Representatives for the plaintiffs didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Linda D. Friedman, founding partner of Stowell & Friedman Ltd., has brought several high-profile class-action lawsuits against financial firms since the 1990s. She said the Goldman case is “a perfect example” of how mandatory arbitration agreements make it difficult for workers to speak out about workplace issues and have their day in court.
Arbitration gives employers a “get out of jail free card,” Friedman said.
One of corporate America’s most powerful arsenals for warding off workplace discrimination claims, arbitration allows companies to remove the leverage that class-action status provides and force workers to resolve their grievances one-on-one in private.
Critics have long argued that this undercuts the justice system because it tends to favor companies. Arbitrators also are often retired judges or White men who don’t reflect the diversity of the workforce.
Congressional Action Needed
President Joe Biden last year signed bills into law ending forced arbitration for sexual harassment and assault cases, and voiding the use of some confidentiality agreements in employment contracts that prevent victims from speaking publicly about similar workplace misconduct issues.
But Friedman said lawmakers should take further action to curtail the use of mandatory arbitration in other work-related disputes not covered by the law, because Wall Street continues to lag behind the rest of corporate America in relying on this procedural tool.
“If a company doesn’t believe it has any accountability, it’s going to operate in a way that’s advantageous to the majority group on Wall Street, which is men,” she said. “If they had not had those mandatory arbitration agreements, the reckoning would’ve taken place a lot sooner.”
The Goldman case proves that litigation also “is not the most effective way” to curb discrimination and inequality in the workplace, Tippett said.
“Is every plaintiff going to survive all those procedural challenges?” she asked. “And what kind of plaintiff firm has all the resources to litigate a case for 13 years?”
The case also serves as a wake-up call for employers to regularly review their compensation, evaluation, and promotion practices to determine if they have a discriminatory impact on protected classes of workers, attorneys said.
“This is a good example that you can’t take comfort from the fact that their system didn’t overtly or explicitly discriminate,” Salzman said.
“With the systems and criteria they put in place, and the very unchecked discretion managers had and deployed, this case established that there was a discriminatory impact on women,” she said.
“It’s a very good lesson for” employers to “be mindful that a policy doesn’t have to be overtly discriminatory to have a discriminatory impact,” she said.
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Snow Early Next Week in Central Minnesota
It looks like we'll see some sun this weekend, but it's still gonna be cold. The snow moves in with a chance on Monday -- becoming more likely on Tuesday, with several inches of accumulation possible (and warmer next week). Stay tuned.
From the National Weather Service this Evening: A dry weekend is in store for the local area along with warmer daytime temperatures. For next week, a series of low pressure systems will bring some snow to the region from Monday through Tuesday. At this point, several inches of accumulation are possible.


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Tirali RE, Gulsahi K, Cehreli SB, Karahan ZC, Uzunoǧlu E, Elhan A. Antimicrobial Efficacy of Octenidine Hydrochloride, MTAD and Chlorhexidine Gluconate Mixed with Calcium Hydroxide. J Contemp Dent Pract 2013; 14 (3):456-460.
The aim of this in vitro study was to investigate whether mixing with calcium hydroxide [Ca(OH)2] affects the antimicrobial action of Octenidine hydrochloride (Octenisept), MTAD and chlorhexidine against Enterococcus faecalis and Candida albicans.
Materials and methods
Freshly grown cultures of Enterococcus faecalis, Candida albicans and a mixture of both strains were incubated in agar plates containing brain-heart infusion broth (BHIB). Zones of inhibition were measured at 24 and 48 hours. Statistical analysis was performed using Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA, both p = 0.05).
Mixing with Ca(OH)2 significantly increased the antibacterial effect of Octenisept (p < 0.05), but did not alter its antifungal activity. Only chlorhexidine showed more antibacterial and antifungal efficiency compared to its Ca(OH)2-mixed version (both p < 0.05). Mixing with Ca(OH)2 decreased the antibacterial efficacy of MTAD, but increased its antifungal effect (both p < 0.05).
These results demonstrate the differential effects of Ca(OH)2 addition on the antimicrobial action of the tested endodontic medicaments in vitro. Ca(OH)2 was as effective as its combination with all of the tested medicaments.
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Tirali RE, Gulsahi K, Cehreli SB, Karahan ZC, Uzunoğlu E, Elhan A. Antimicrobial Efficacy of Octenidine Hydrochloride, MTAD and Chlorhexidine Gluconate Mixed with Calcium Hydroxide. J Contemp Dent Pract 2013;14(3):456-460.
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Aiming to Enhance Agricultural Sector Through Knowledge Exchange
The AAKTP project facilitates knowledge exchange and capacity building in the agricultural sector.
The project will introduce new skills and the latest academic ideas to encourage strategic innovation in agriculture, aiming to enhance economic growth in the target nations.
The Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Prof. Kabiru Bala, recently secured this partnership with the UK university.
Prof. Bala represented ABU at the meeting held at the University of the West of Scotland, where discussions centred on the collaboration and partnership between the two universities.
Facilitating Collaboration Through the African Forum Scotland
These important partnership discussions were facilitated by the African Forum Scotland, particularly by Dr Festus Olatunde Ogunmola, the Director of the Centre for Policy Research and Development in Glasgow.
Prof. Bala was accompanied at the partnership meeting by Prof. Musa Abdullahi Mahadi, the Director of the Division of Agricultural Colleges (DAC) at ABU, and DAC’s Linkages Coordinator, Dr Usman Ibrahim, and Dr Emmanuel Opoola.
High-ranking officials from the University of the West of Scotland were also present:
- Deputy Vice-Chancellor Prof. Stephanie Pitticas
- Prof. Milan Radosavljevic,
- Prof. John J. Struthers, Director of the Centre for Africa Research and Economic Development,
- Dr Kingsley O. Omeihe of the School of Business and Creative Industries.
Looking Ahead: An Agricultural Partnership with Potential
This partnership showcases a significant step in agricultural innovation and knowledge transfer within Africa.
By focusing specifically on local SMEs in the target countries, the project has the potential to bring tangible benefits to these economies and their agricultural sectors.
The AAKTP project could bring about strategic agricultural innovation and stimulate economic growth in the participating nations by providing the latest academic insights and new skills.
Updates and further details on the partnership’s initiatives will be released as the project progresses.
This pioneering venture between Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) and the University of the West of Scotland promises to have a far-reaching impact on African agricultural development.
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Days of Our Lives' Camila Banus (Gabi DiMera) stars in new music video. Check it out here--->>
Days of Our Lives fan favorite, Camila Banus (Gabi Hernandez DiMera) is starring in a new music video. Banus will be appearing in the music video for the song “Que Tu Quieres,” by Avrii Castle featuring Siilva Music and Yashua. It is irected by Andres Monsalve. Banus teased fans of the upcoming music video via Instagram. Check out some sneak peek below!
🎶🎶Que Tu Quieres🎶🎶— Camila Banus Fans (@4CamilaBFans) September 8, 2019
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Having problems with an EDR setup binding. Sometimes it will work for a few minutes, sometimes a few seconds, sometimes it will not bind at all. Sometimes, it will lose the bind and the motors will keep running. Right now, it bound for a minute or so and then lost the bind. I have no LEDs lit on the Cortex and on the Joystick, solid green on Joystick and slow flashing red on Vexnet. Batteries are fully charged. All the latest upgrades have been made. We have 7 EDR units and this is the only one that is having problems. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Are you talking about motors or vexnet
I would recommend that you try updating the keys them selves, next try to bind the controller to the cortex with and A-to-A cable, then try binding again with keys
Thanks. I had previously updated the keys to most current. Cortex will bind with controller via the cable, however, after a little while the bind is lost and the only LED lit is the Vexnet LED on the controller with a fast red double flash. None of the Cortex LEDs are lit. I think there may be a problem somewhere in the electronics.
After I lose bind with the cable, I switch the cortex off, wait a bit, then switch it back on. I now have solid red Vexnet and Game on the Cortex with Robot not lit. On the controller, I have a solid red Joystick LED and a flashing yellow Vexnet LED. Then they all flash red and go back to the solid red and flashing yellow.
is the problem associated with a specific cortex? have you tried using a different joystick? is the joystick firmware up to date?
if the problem is associated with a specific cortex, or with a specific controller, and you know the firmware is good, I would inspect the USB port on the offending device, you may have a damaged port. an issue I have seen before is that something is covering a pin, it could be a piece of plastic just preventing a connection or a small piece of metal causing a short
Thanks Collin. Good thoughts. I have not tried using different cortex, controller combinations. I have no spares and the rest of the equipment is being used by other teams. All firmware is up to date. I have done visual inspections of all connectors with nothing looking suspicious. May have to pull a system from one of the other teams and do some testing.


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2014, Ross Lovegrove
Softcrete is a family of modular seats by the Italian brand Gufram, manufacturer of the iconic Pratone and featuring contemporary artists such as Maurizio Cattelan.
The oxymoron Softcrete is meant to contemplate the antithetical properties of hardness and softness. What appears to be a cold hard surface is in fact a special treatment applied to the comfortable Gufluac® polyurethane foam, where a proprietary texture replicates lifelike worn out concrete.
In 2014 I worked on the expansion of the original 2007 collection, now resulting in a family of central elements, corner elements, coffee table and a chaise longue to allow for higher modularity.
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The second week of the first-ever Professional Fighters League playoffs are here. There are six weight classes where the winners of those eight-man tournaments will pocket $1 million, and the action continues tonight (Saturday, October 13th) from Long Beach, California.
PFL 9 is focused on the lightweights and light heavyweights. Atop the lightweight bracket is #1 seed Natan Schulte, who takes on #8 seed Johnny Case, brought in as an alternate after Brian Foster was removed due to injury. Light heavyweight’s top seed is Vinny Magalhaes, and he’ll be taking on Rakim Cleveland.
To make things more interesting, the quarterfinals and semifinals are on the same night, with the quarterfinals scheduled for two-rounds and the semifinals are three-rounds. In the event of a draw in the quarterfinals, the tiebreaker is whichever fighter won the first-round. Full tiebreaker rules can be seen here.
You can watch PFL 9 at 6:45 PM ET on Facebook Watch, where the bulk of the action is taking place, followed by the semifinal bouts on the NBC Sports Network main card at 9 PM ET/6 PM PT. For an event preview, check out Victor Rodriguez’s write-up.
Light Heavyweight quarterfinals:
Vinny Magalhães vs Rakim Cleveland
Emiliano Sordi vs Bozigit Ataev
Dan Spohn vs Sean O’Connell
Maxim Grishin vs Smealinho Rama
Light Heavyweight semifinals:
Magalhaes/Cleveland vs. Sordi/Ataev
Spohn/O’Connell vs. Grishin/Rama
Natan Schulte vs Johnny Case
Chris Wade vs Robert Watley
Islam Mamedov vs Thiago Tavares
Will Brooks vs Rashid Magomedov
Schulte/Case vs. Wade/Watley
Mamedov/Tavares vs. Brooks/Magomedov
Brandon Halsey vs. Ronny Markes (Light Heavyweights)
Ramsey Nijem vs. Yuki Kawana (Lightweights)

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That wasn't so awkward after all.
Barry Bonds gave the crowd at Petco Park a chance to be a part of history. They weren't going to waste it by ruining a moment none will likely forget.
The cheers outweighed the boos. Those standing and clapping as he rounded third and headed for home outnumbered those holding signs with asterisks on them.
Bonds wants desperately to break Henry Aaron's record at home. But tying it on the road wasn't so bad, either.
Bud Selig stood watching, hands in his pockets and a dour look on his face, as Bonds broke a weeklong drought to tie one of the greatest records in sports.
He didn't look too happy to be in Petco Park in the first place, even more unhappy that it was Bonds who tied the mark of 755 home runs set by his longtime friend.
Aaron was spared the misery. He decided long ago that Bonds could have his record, but would never have his blessing.
The 42,497 who packed the downtown home of the Padres weren't so judgmental. Sure, they booed Bonds at every opportunity, but when the line drive rocketed off his bat on a 2-1 pitch leading off the second inning and slammed against an advertising facade in left field, a lot of them were more than happy to celebrate -- albeit briefly -- with the suspect slugger.
Who could really blame them? They weren't sure if Bonds was ever juiced, but they knew their pitcher certainly once was.
Clay Hensley tested positive for steroids two years ago while in the minor leagues, drawing a 15-game suspension and little notice at the time. That will change now that his name is linked forever with Bonds -- or at least until some other unfortunate pitcher serves up No. 756.
The odds are that will happen sometime next week in San Francisco, where the Giants return home for four games against the Washington Nationals and three with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Adoring fans will cheer wildly every time he steps from the dugout, just as they booed him unmercifully every time they saw the No. 25 this week at Dodger Stadium.
Bonds long ago came to grips with the fact he would never be loved outside his own park, and even seemed to revel in the hatred spewed his way on this trip. Baseball was always apprehensive about Bonds tying or breaking Aaron's mark on the road, fearful that 20 years from now the video replays would show fans throwing giant syringes on the field as he went around the bases or turning around en masse to protest a mark that might have been chemically altered.
Instead, you'll see a lot of fans standing and cheering and a tender moment at home plate when Bonds picked up his 17-year-old son, Nikolai, and carried him for about 10 feet in a celebration mixed with equal measures of relief and jubilation. But we've seen tender moments before, and the sight of Mark McGwire going into the stands to hug members of the Maris family or hoisting his own son in the air somehow don't seem so special anymore.
ASK THE FANS
Bonds was at his surly best earlier this week when asked what the fan reaction would be if he tied or broke the record on the road.
"I don't know," he said. "Why don't you ask them?"
If you asked the fans at Petco on this night, it would be one of delight at just being there with a sprinkling of disgust for the person they were forced to celebrate.
In the stands down the left field line, a father told his son that he had just witnessed history. Neither were clapping, though, and when Bonds came up to bat again in the fourth inning the boy joined with many in the crowd as they booed him.
No one, in fact, was really sure what was proper decorum for this moment. Do you celebrate a record, or do you denigrate a man who grew suspiciously large and started hitting home runs in suspicious ways at a time when most men can barely see the ball, much less hit it.
They won't be the last ones to be conflicted because the debate about Bonds will go on for years. He may escape the fate of McGwire, who is now a baseball pariah, but he won't ever escape being part of the steroid mess.
He may never get in the Hall of Fame, despite his prodigious records. There's a chance he could even end up in prison.
He may one day be glorified, but there's a better chance he'll be vilified.
About the only sure thing right now is that he'll pass Aaron -- and soon.


Merry Christmas, Darling! You mean the world to me!
According to an article by 60 Minutes on CBSNews.com, twelve year old Jay Greenberg is a “prodigy on the level of the greatest [compositional] prodigies in history . . . the likes of Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Saint-Saens” (Sam Zyman, composer and teacher at Juilliard). At the age of twelve, Jay has already written five full-length symphonies, by ten he started attending Juilliard on a full scholarship, at age eleven he began studying music theory alongside third-year college students, and by fourteen he expects to finish high school. His ability is apparently innate, for neither of his parents are musicians and say that Jay began expressing a fascination with musical instruments as early as two years of age.
While everyone agrees that Jay has an impressive gift, composer and Juilliard professor Sam Adler makes a valid point, that, like Beethoven, only with constant questioning and searching, with maturity, will Jay become truly great. To hear the music in your head is a wonderful talent, but it takes work and study to effectively bring it about on the page for the rest of the masses to take part in and appreciate.
It will indeed be fascinating to watch the development of this young composer, and to see where his music will take us.
Christmas is coming soon, and what to get for your favorite violinist at home? According to a discussion board on Violinist.com, items on the violinist’s wish list might include:
– a metronome (very important for the growing musician — Parents, get one for your child!! I prefer the electronic ones, for their adjustable volume and compact shapes and sizes. But others prefer the old-fashioned mechanical ones for their long-standing reliability.)
– Violin-related artwork and knick-knacks (i.e. paintings, bookmarks, home-decor, keychains, etc.)
– Mozart chocolates (hmm . . . sound good!)
– Music gift certificates, sheet music, and CDs.
– Accessories, such as rosin, orchestral and practice mutes, tuning mechanisms, music stands, music stand light, pencil holder, a set of spare strings, shoulder rests (purchase some of these with caution and with recommendations from your teacher.)
– Gift certificate for a bow rehair, and a professional massage or spa treatment (two of my personal favorites!)
Just some ideas to get you started. Why not check out Woodwind Brasswind or Quinn Violins for these or similar gift ideas? And explore the many discussions on Violinist.com, ask questions, seek answers, and discover the secret, wacky lives of violinists all over the world.
On the evening of December 21st, I will be participating in a small concert put together by my mentor and friend, Kay Pech. The concert will feature new compositions and old favorites. For my part, I will be playing second fiddle with Ms. Pech on her unique composition for two violins, entitled “Overcast and Occasional Light Rain”, which creatively utilizes the instruments’ harmonics and pizzicato. My own featured composition will be “Contemplation”, a soothing fusion of two older pieces of mine: “The Dove” (for string trio) and “The Music Box” (for solo piano). I may also be invited to perform Anna’s Theme and Pope’s thrilling Variation on the Theme, from “The Red Violin Caprices” by John Corigliano (based on his score for the movie, “The Red Violin”). Come join us for this intimate event of music and creativity! Feel free to email me for more information.
Last evening at Quaker Gardens, my students and I performed for the elderly community. The recital was a big hit! Everyone there offered their compliments about how talented and prepared each one of my students were. The music selections were charming, featuring solos from Bach to traditional fiddle tunes, and the venue (and its audience) were lovely. Special thanks to Jo Ribnick for inviting us and handling the details of the event, Sharon Wright for her generosity and invaluable talent as coach and accompanist, and the parents for their support of their children’s endeavors, which is so important for success in any realm. Good job, everyone!
Come join me for these fun, end-of-the-qurater concerts at Cal Poly, Pomona!
– Nov. 18, 8pm: The MIDI Band (a majorly hip and happenin’ group!) will be performing a set of eclectic arrangements, utilizing MIDI technology and electric instruments. I will be among the musicians featured, playing on my electric violin. Included in our set will be my arrangement of the Petra tune “Breathe In”, and my brand new GarageBand hit, “Vortex Warped”.
– Nov. 30, Noon: The second half of the String Ensemble’s journey through American movie music, including the “John Williams Medley”, “Festival at Newport”, and the “John Barry Medley”.
– Dec. 2, 8pm: Joined by cellist Michelle Collar, violinist Valerie Boogaard, and organist/pianist Janet Noll, I will be accompanying the Concert Choir and Chamber Singers during Telemann’s “Laudate Jehovam”, one of their featured pieces for the evening.
– Dec. 3, 8pm: I will have the pleasure of joining the Guitar Ensemble for one of their featured pieces, “Sonata in E Minor” by Corelli.
Enjoy Music, Enjoy Life!
Well, I have recently encountered my first experience with GarageBand, a software application chock-full of various and loop-able tracks, which can be layered and mixed to create a tune. I admit I was more than skeptical about the prospect of “composing” with the aid of such software. However, the minute I started playing around with GarageBand, I began enjoying myself in the puzzle-like mixing and matching. To quote James, I, too, felt like a kid again!
As the “composer” I felt limited in the fact that I could not modulate to other keys or alter the meter in the middle of my piece. However, I did find that by layering a certain track with one harmonic implication over that of another one, the result was a tantalizing harmonic effect. The restrictions I was forced to work with actually encouraged my creativity, and my creation, “Vortex Warped” is one of which I am very proud. I’ve always wanted to do my own Dance Mix! Don’t forget to check out a few of my other pieces.
The composer of interest here is none other than the famous Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Austria has in its possession what is thought to be the skull of W.A. Mozart. The artifact has been kept from public view for over 100 years, due to the uncertainty of its origins. However, the Foundation has recently agreed to make the skull available for DNA testing. Archaelogists have opened a grave in Salzburg and exhumed the bodies of what may be the young composer’s father, Leopold Mozart, and other relatives. Experts plan on comparing what genetic material remains with those of the skull in question. Click here to see the full article.
If the skull is confirmed as that of our young musical genius, I wonder what things we can learn from the speciman? Or perhaps only the fascination of holding the 300 year old skull of such a celebrity will be enough.
Don’t forget! Our first rehearsal with Ms. Sharon is this Saturday, November 6. Please refer to your info letter for your scheduled rehearsal time.
If you have any questions about anything, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I am extremely proud of all of you, and I look forward to hearing you this Saturday!
On October 26th, at noon in the music building 24, room 105, at Cal Poly, Pomona, the String Ensemble will be offering a unique and educational performance experience for free. We have broken up into seperate quartets, quintets, and sextets to perform arrangements of favorite American movie themes. Lecturer and instructor Kay Pech has organized an exhilarating quarter this Fall, focusing our studies on these various themes, beginning with the 1920’s and ending with present times. This coming Tuesday will be the first of our two concerts this quarter; here we will feature, specifically, American music from the ’20’s to the ’50’s. Each group will also announce their selected pieces and offer a short historic note on each.
Please join us for this event, and enjoy the history of American movie music, highly regarded around the world!


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Recently, the Marine and I attended an educational program about herbs and wild edibles at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View. I was astounded to find out how many wild edibles there are in the region, and just as excited to get home to our little neck of the woods and see what we had growing on our property.
To my surprise and delight, I found corn salad, dittany (a wild oregano that is fantastic in salads and sauces), lambs quarter, narrow leaf dock (which is quite delicious), may apple and, of course, the old Ozark standby's of poke and dandelions.
Who knew such a wonderful bounty was available right at our cabin door? Add that to our three garden beds, full of heirloom veggies, and we have a veritable feast available. Granted, you have to like feasting on salad, but hey - I'm Italian. Along with pasta and bread, salad is one of our sacred food groups. (I also include cannoli, but then again, I'm not a purist...well that and I just love cannoli, especially with powdered sugar).
I highly recommend attending one of the Folk Center's upcoming herb walks or any local herb walks/talks you hear about. It's pretty neat to find and try new things right outside your door, and I've found that adding a little bit of the "wild" to your meal can be quite the tasty treat.

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Big Ridge was first developed as a state park in the 1930s, but its human history begins much earlier. Survey crews discovered more than 20 archaeological sites there in the early 20th century, including several structures believed to be from the Mississippian Period—between 1000 and 1500 AD. A group of longhunters (frontiersmen of the late 1700s) also made their mark on the area, establishing a settlement that’s now beneath the lake created by the Big Ridge Dam. Today, the park is a beloved hiking destination, with both easy and difficult hiking options.
What Makes It Great
Big Ridge State Park is named for its natural features. Set in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, the park is defined by three major parallel ridges that give way to the fertile valleys below. Trails at Big Ridge range from short and easy to rugged and difficult.
Several of the park’s well-maintained trails lead to remnants of its human history. The easy Old Mill Trail (0.3 miles each way) leads to the Norton Gristmill, which operated as a grain mill for over a century. The Ghost House Trail, a moderately difficult 1.2-mile loop, is legendary for its spooky, inexplicable occurrences, including a phantom dog. The trail makes a stop at the Ghost House, once the home of the Hutchinson family, and the Norton Cemetery, where the Hutchinson patriarch has been known to show up in photos. In October, the park offers guided night hikes of the area—not for the faint of heart.
Big Ridge trails also offer a look at the area’s natural surroundings. The strenuous Big Valley Trail (1.7-mile loop) climbs to the top of Big Ridge and boasts incredible views of the valley, plus, in spring, dozens of species of wildflowers. This trail also accesses the rocky, strenuous Indian Rock Loop Trail, which, at 2.6 miles, is recommended for experienced hikers only.
Who is Going to Love It
Big Ridge offers something for everyone, from thrill-seekers to families with young kids. Several short, easy trails (under a half-mile) are ideal for groups with little ones, and the park offers affordable rustic cabin accommodations for those not ready to spend the night in the backcountry. Fifty campsites on Norris Lake offer great views and fishing, and backpackers looking to get away from it all can camp at designated backcountry campsites with a permit.
Directions, Parking, & Regulations
Big Ridge is just 25 miles north of Knoxville at 1015 Big Ridge Road in Maynardville, and is accessible year-round.
In the busy summer months, make reservations at the campground in advance. Note that the park requires campers to make fires with only certified heat-treated wood (available for purchase from concessioners in the park) to stop the spread of emerald ash borers. For backcountry permit information, call the park at 865-992-5523.


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New paper by Rodrigo Hernán Alves Rolo | The persistent reinvention of state-led planning policies in Argentina: exploring path dependencies and policy ruptures
This paper investigates the interplay between institutional continuities and transformations in the making of national planning policies in Argentina since the beginning of the twentieth century until 2015. Building upon evolutionary approaches to path dependence theory, in-depth interviews with planning experts and a re-mining of the historical planning literature in the country, the paper argues that the disruptive and transformative role assigned to exogenous macro-scale events in official accounts of Argentine planning history has been significant, yet regularly overestimated. The study first provides a concise review of these official narratives and, then, introduces an alternative interpretative key for the historical articulation of national planning policies. A shift of focus towards the underlying continuities in the power/knowledge nexus that shape institutional paths of policy evolutions reveals three inertia-building mechanisms: discursive assimilation, organizational solidification and expert adaptation. The inclusion of these mechanisms in historical policy analysis illustrates the potential of more nuanced depictions regarding how common standards to understand planning and govern policy-making unfold in/through complex contexts of institutional evolution. In this way, attentiveness to these elusive continuities in power/knowledge configurations may trigger or inform new and more acute narratives of the historical articulation of planning policy formations. KEYWORDS: Path dependence, policy ruptures, institutional legacies, Argentina
Rodrigo H. Alves Rolo is a human geographer; he holds a master’s degree in rural development from the University of Buenos Aires, and is currently a PhD candidate at the Cultural Geography chair group at Wageningen University. His PhD project focuses on the path, inter and goal-dependencies shaping the formation of planning policies in Argentina at the beginning of the twenty-first century. He is also interested in the political dynamics of planning policy formations, democratic governance and the limits of consensus building in collaborative decision-making.