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8-Cell (4s2p / 8s1p)
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|CH4040 Specification Summary
|HEIGHT: 58mm / 2.25"
LENGTH: 180mm / 7"
WIDTH: 122mm / 5"
WEIGHT: 360g / 12.7oz
|5-Pin Standard Connector.
|Green flashing: Charging
Green solid: Charge complete
Red solid: Error
119x38x60mm, 500g/18oz
UL listed, CE Compliant
|CH4040A: 110V N. USA 3-pin cord
CH4040E: 220V Euro. 2-pin cord
CH4040U: 240V UK 3-pin cord
CH5000X: No AC cable included
The CH4040 dual bay, simultaneous smart charger is a standalone unit which provides the capability to carry out charging on any two "N-Series" Inspired Energy batteries at the same time. The CH4040 works with every smart, standard Li Ion and NiMH battery in the Inspired Energy "N-Series" portfolio irrespective of size, shape, voltage, or capacity. So you can recharge a 12V NiMH battery and a 3.6V Li Ion battery if you wish. With its multi-voltage power supply, the CH4040 works throughout the world. Variants are available for use in North America (CH4040A) Europe (CH4040E), the UK (CH4040U).
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What's In The Box?
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- Inserts for battery packs
- Power supply
- Mains Lead (refer to international options)
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Sample Finance Manager Cover Letter
Hello There,
I have an outstanding Career in the Chicago land automobile business, I am able to deliver results with incredible energy! I have the passion and the drive to close deals and manage salespeople. I have spent my entire career in this industry as a manager in both sales & finance and look forward to the beginning of my next chapter.
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I believe that the combination of my sales and store management experience is well-suited to the position you have available. I have enclosed copy of my resume with additional information about my qualifications. Thank you for your consideration, I look forward to speaking with you and setting up a time to interview.


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Starting with Tuesday, Jackie Brewer of the Fab Five edged out Melissa Steinmuller of the Snipes for Bowler of the Week honors.
Both gals bowled 30 pins over their handicaps, but Jackie's higher pin count across the scoresheet gave her the nod for this week's lead spot. Go Jackie! The efforts of sister Guttersnipes — Jo-Jo, Jenny, Cathy and Rita (aka Kresak, Zahler, Driscoll and Gates, respectively) all supported
Melissa's big night and the Snipes grabbed all 11 points from the Fabulous Five. Yes, it really happened — the mighty Fabulous Five have fallen! (more…)


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New Year's Day Bike Ride Raises Money For Center Of Hope
A New Year's Day tradition in Sioux Falls continues in 2017.
Hundreds ride in Spoke-n-Sport's 30th annual bike ride this afternoon.
The group took off on Minnesota Avenue around 1 p.m.
The crew biked through downtown to Falls Park and back, biking ten miles total.
The ride is free, but the bike shop accepts donations for the Center of Hope, which is a ministry that gives bikes to those in need.
"It's actually the biggest organized one-day bike ride in the region, east of the river," says Spoke-n-Sport owner Chad Pickard. "It's a novelty, it's New Year's Day, there's not a lot of other things going on, and it's just a good way to start of the year on a bike with friends and family cruising around town."
Organizers say the event typically collects around $1,000.


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Outsider Doctor Mounty took command in deep stretch and held off the late challenge of heavily-favored Projected to win the G3 Baltimore/Washington International Turf Cup by a head at Laurel Park Sept. 29.
It was the first Graded Stakes victory for the five-year-old horse by Street Sense, who was second in the Listed Henry S. Clark Stakes over the same turf course in April.
Bred in Kentucky by G. Watts Humphrey Jr., Susan Keller, Vicki Oliver & G. Watts Humphrey III, Doctor Mounty is out of On A Roll, a full-sister to Multiple Stakes winners Ender's Sister (Listed Florida Oaks, etc.) and Ender's Shadow (Listed Tokyo City Handicap, etc.). Doctor Mounty himself is a half-brother to Multiple Stakes winner and Graded Stakes-placed Dabster (third, G2 San Diego Handicap).
Doctor Mounty becomes the 56th Stakes winner for his sire, Champion Street Sense, who has been on a hot streak of late. Last weekend, Street Sense's talented three-year-old son, McKinzie, returned off a layoff to win the G1 Pennsylvania Derby. Earlier that same day, his son Aztec Sense captured the PA Derby Champion Stakes on the same card.


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Growing up on a farm, I always had a lot of energy. As a teenager someone said to me, "I used to babysit you. I have never met a two-year old who was so exhausting." (How do you even respond to that?) In high school I ran cross country and track but at 18 I was moved far from home (long story) and didn't have the opportunity to exercise anymore. Looking back at pictures it's easy to see that I got a little fluffy. Not to worry though. In my early 20's I discovered volleyball, eventually playing competitively in beach tournaments. In those pictures I'm back to my lean, athletic self.
When life moved on from volleyball I continued to go to the gym and lift. But the intensity wasn't there. I no longer had a workout partner or the competitive motivation. I would go regularly, take a break and go regularly again (sound familiar?).
In my mid 30's I was soft again, but not in the girlish way I was at 20 but in a thick-around-the-middle-I-have-no-waist kinda way. When I complained about it people would tell me I was "crazy" and that I was skinny. But I didn't feel it. I bought a hybrid bike (halfway between a road bike and a mountain bike) and started riding 10-20 miles at a time (weather permitting). But the weight just kept creeping on.
About the time I finished my doctorate in psychology and started my coaching and speaker training business (Champion Performance Development) in my late 30s another nagging problem arose. My cholesterol started to do more than just creep upwards and doctors started to nag me about taking a statin (cholesterol lowering drug).
By 45 I was twenty pounds overweight and my cholesterol hit 256. I was working out 5 days a week religiously and biking 50-100 miles a week. But nothing was touching my weight or my cholesterol. My doctor was adamant that my cholesterol level was causing damage to my cardio vascular system.
I relented and picked up the prescription. One of the (supposedly rare) side effects of statins is muscle damage. Within 6 weeks of starting cholesterol lowering drugs my shins ached so badly I couldn't sleep. I called my doctor and told her, "This is simply not going to work." She didn't fight me on it (she knows there's no point) but she did express grave concern about my heart.
It was about that time that Russ and I decided to go on the superhero diet (Don't look it up. It's not really a thing and it didn't work). After two months of that failing to budge the scale or my cholesterol downward, we started talking about options. And that is where Whole Food Muscle Club started.
Continue reading the Whole Food Muscle Club bio below.
I started working out with a plastic-covered weight set from Sears when I was 12 or 13 years old. I subscribed to all the muscle and fitness magazines at the time to help me learn how to workout and rolled the weights out from under my bed to use them after school. I was determined to look like the guys in those magazines!
As soon as I was old enough to drive I joined a local gym. At the time the only people who really worked out were either bodybuilders (how defined and proportional can you look) or powerlifters (how much can you lift). The gym I joined happened to be a bodybuilders' gym. They were all friendly and helped me learn even more. Before long I became one of the most knowledgeable people there.
I competed in my first bodybuilding event at 22. About that same time, I started playing semi-pro football. Neither of those things paid enough to pay the bills. I always had to have a "real" job as well. Two years later I stopped playing semi-pro to focus on bodybuilding, competing in Nationals and Junior Nationals, eventually winning the Gold's Classic, NJ.
At the ripe age of 27 I retired from competition to focus on being a full-time certified personal trainer; training bodybuilders, soccer players, football players and regular people trying to get in shape. I was also the nutritional expert for all of my clients. As registered trainer on the Mr. Olympia Tour I was able to travel Europe with my client (who was competing). After that tour ended I opened a World Gym where I continued to do personal training and nutrition coaching.
When I went to college in my mid-30s to pursue my interest in art and design, I also took athletic training and nutrition classes. But more often than not the professors were asking me to answer student questions about working out and nutrition. It was fun to realized I was the expert in the class!
Fast forward 20+ years after selling my gym and joining a different one. I met Robyn while working out. We clicked around being healthy; which for us meant working out regularly and eating (what we thought) was well. Soon our individual journeys merged into the Whole Food Muscle Club.
Continue reading the Whole Food Muscle Club bio below.
If you are ready to say goodbye to extra weight, sluggishness, inflammation, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure and/or high cholesterol by getting on, staying on and succeeding on your journey to health, we are ready and willing to enthusiastically support you!
This is how Whole Food Muscle Club came to be:
We were overweight and our blood work wasn't great so we went on what we called "The Superhero Diet." Don't look it up. It's not a real thing. We made it up. We decided we were going to eat like we thought a movie star would eat if they were getting ready to play a superhero. For an entire month, we got serious. No sauces or butter. Bread was out! We had always eaten "healthy" (we are after all both former competitive athletes), so baked chicken breast, ground turkey breast or salmon with a veggie (usually broccoli or peas) was easy. And going to the gym 5 days a week and 20+ mile bike rides were the norm. But our weight didn't budge.
Okay then. We will just double down! But towards the end of the second month still nothing. In fact, Russ jokes we might have gained three pounds. We don't remember how we got on the subject, but we started talking about eating less meat (likely Dr Robyn brought it up). Russ responded that he was concerned about protein (that is usually the concern). We decided to watch the documentary Forks Over Knives (NetFlix), just to see what we could learn. Why not?
That documentary changed our lives. We decided we would eat the meat and eggs we had in the house over the course of the next few weeks and not buy anymore. We were already eating oatmeal for breakfast. We switched out cow's milk for almond milk, started making things with beans instead of ground turkey and, because it was summer, we figured we could eat a lot of salads with chickpeas. If we had friends over or if we went out, we weren't going to worry about it.
Just those changes had the scale creeping in the right direction.
Six weeks in Dr Robyn when to see her doctor for what turned out to be just allergies (I told Russ that but he insisted I go). The doctor mentioned that she had been doing some reading about intermittent fasting and that the science seemed pretty solid. That was on a Wednesday. We got two books from the library and watched the BBC documentary Eat, Fast, Live Longer (YouTube). The following Saturday was our first fasting day.
Now the weight was steadily dropping at a pound or a little more a week.
Having friends over for dinner brought a realization. Dr Robyn was asked to make her "famous" turkey tacos. Great! Easy. But Russ said he didn't want to eat turkey. Could we make beans too? Sure. A week later we ended up throwing away what was left of a pound of turkey taco meat and a container of sour cream because we weren't going to eat it. The waste was ridiculous.
Several weeks later we had different friends over. Bean tacos were a hit! And we happily ate the leftovers. BUT we have easily a pound of cheese we had put out that didn't get eaten. It sat in our fridge, taunting us, until it got moldy and had to be tossed.
It was then that we realized that if we weren't willing to eat something because we thought it was bad for us, what were we doing feeding it to our friends?
Ten weeks after starting to change our eating we decided to get our blood work done, just to see if we were making progress. Both of us now had total cholesterol UNDER 200!
That was also when people started noticing our weight loss (we were both down about 15 pounds at that point) and asking what we were doing. What we were eating and how we could possibly be functioning without meat. On a whim one morning Robyn said, "We should do a Facebook live to show people our breakfast." Surprisingly, Russ agreed (not even begrudgingly).
The first one was awful. The lighting was bad. We had really no idea what we were doing. And we aren't sure anyone watched it.
The next day we did another one and it was a little better. We weren't trying to gain anything. If it helped one person make a change toward better health, that would be a win.
Then something unexpected started to happen. The more we learned (we, especially Dr Robyn, loves books, talks, lectures and documentaries about anything related to health), the more people started asking us questions. We started getting stories about how people were creating healthy change in their lives because of the information we were sharing. We started being asked, "Can you help me? I don't know where to start."
At that point we had a decision to make. While it was fun to learn and fun to share, we really couldn't take additional time away from our business that were paying the bills (Russ: www.RgBDesignGroup.com Robyn: www.DrRobynOdegaard.com). We started to brainstorm. How do we make this viable so we can help people who are clearly so thirsty for knowledge; while at the same time not end up living under a bridge because we aren't paying the mortgage?
We created a survey asking our growing audience what they would find the most helpful. From that the idea for Whole Food Muscle was born. From there, coaching, consulting, pantry revamps, success groups and workout plans began to take shape.
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Six ways to get more out of your yoga practice
Your yoga practice is called that because – duh – it requires practice! It also takes work, commitment, and patience. You will be elated by your good days and you will have to persevere through your bad days. You will learn and re-learn things. You will discover truths about yourself. You will notice how kind (or unkind) you are being to your body. Each time you step on your mat will be a complete and unique … Read More


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The Lord urges us to spread His gospel to everyone. His message is not only vital to our family and friends but to others we come in contact with. Continue Reading
The Lord urges us to spread His gospel to everyone. His message is not only vital to our family and friends but to others we come in contact with. Continue Reading
The Lord is looking for a few good men and women to fight for His cause. We can either be His disciples or lay down in our pride. Continue Reading
Oh the mercy of the Lord. Forgiveness is given to all those that repent. He has power to blot out the wickedness in our lives if we let Him. Continue Reading
The Lord is righteousness and we can feel His joy radiating in our lives. Eternal life is given to all those that believe in Jesus and walk in His ways. Continue Reading
The Lord can see how we truly feel for Him deep down in our hearts. If we love Him, we will believe and trust in Him always. Continue Reading
How amazing it would be to dine with the Lord and His servants. Abraham was ready to great them and opened His doors with gladness. Continue Reading
We must control our lusts before God. If we are easily given over to the flesh than there is something wrong with our lives. Continue Reading
When God is among us there is nothing He cannot do. He has a plan for everyone. We never know what is in store for us. Continue Reading
I gave You my heart and You had mercy upon me. I can feel your sweet forgiveness in my life. You came to me and gave me hope. Continue Reading
All those that strive to walk with God will be blessed in abundance. As you walk in His ways you will see His countless blessings. Continue Reading
We might have lost faith in God but He has never given up on us. Follow the Lord and Let your old life fade away. Come to Him and be born again in His love. Continue Reading
All those that believe in Jesus will be rewarded abundantly in heaven. The Lord is preparing a place for each of the faithful in His kingdom above. Continue Reading


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Lifestyle & Wellness Coash, Sharon Castle was announced as the March finalist for the Margaret Hirsch, Ilembe Chamber, Women in Business Achiever of the year competition for the Ballito branch recently. This award will put Sharon into the branch and regional finals and winners will be announced at a gala dinner to be held on the 11th May at Coastlands hotel in Umhlanga.
Sharon, who has helped many successful entrepreneurs to realise their full potential, commented on why she just loves doing what she does ," I love coaching! Watching people choose change in their lives and feel empowered to continue to shift and grow is what enlivens me and gets me up every morning. I am passionate about people development and growth and encouraging individuals to take ownership and accountability of their lives and their performance in the workplace. I have always taken an interest in personal development and transformation in my own life and business, and have researched and participated in numerous courses, seminars and programs for over 30 years. My interest and relentless pursuit of knowledge has taken me all over the world both as a student and more recently as an Internationally known speaker and Lifestyle and Wellness Coach."
COE of Hirsch's, Margaret, started the Margaret Hirsch Women in Business Achiever of the year competition in all of the areas in which Hirsch's operates throughout the country because she could see how she – and Hirsch's – had benefited from the business accolades she has received over the years. "Winning business orientated awards has been wonderful – both for Hirsch's and for me personally, and I would like to see this happening to other women in business. As women, we tend not to be assertive enough. There are so many fantastic women out there who are not coming forward to be acknowledged for their contribution to the business world, and I would like to encourage them to come forward and enter the competition." She explained.
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Michelle Marie's Patisserie
Chef Michelle Marie has been making custom wedding cakes in Sonoma County for nearly 25 years. From casual to elegant, our cakes taste as wonderful as they look because they are always made fresh and from scratch. Every cake we make is a dream-come-true presentation! We know because we hear that all the time from our brides.


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Intel® Parallel Computing Center at Purdue University
Published on April 16, 2018, updated December 4, 2018
Principal Investigator:
Alex Pothen is a professor of computer science at Purdue University. He led the founding of the Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC) research community, which now holds biennial conferences organized through the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He directed the CSCAPES Institute, a pioneering multi-institutional research center for developing parallel graph algorithms on leadership-class supercomputers. He is currently involved in the Exascale Computing Project of the U.S. Department of Energy. He is an editor of the Journal of the ACM, and was editor of SIAM Review and SIAM Books. He has mentored more than twenty PhD students and postdoctoral scholars. He is a Fellow of SIAM.
We consider a paradigm for designing parallel algorithms for computing significant subgraphs of graphs through approximation algorithms. Algorithms for solving these problems exactly are impractical for massive graphs, and possess little concurrency.
We explore this paradigm by considering a matching problem and an edge cover problem. Given natural number b(v) for every vertex v in a graph, a maximum weight b-matching is a set of edges M such that at most b(v) edges in M have v as an endpoint, and subject to this restriction, the sum of weights of the edges in M is maximum. Similarly a minimum weight edge cover in the graph is a set of edges C such that at least b(v) edges in C have v as an endpoint.
Algorithms for solving these problems exactly require only polynomial time, but they are still impractical on massive graphs. Approximation algorithms can deliver solutions that are guaranteed to be within than a constant factor of the optimal solution, and can do so in time nearly linear in the size of the graph. However, these algorithms do not have much parallelism, and hence we explore the design of new approximation algorithms with high levels of concurrency.
For b-matching, we have designed a b-Suitor algorithm that is based on vertices making proposals to match to their neighbors. This is related to a Suitor algorithm for computing 1-matchings designed by Fredrik Manne and Mahantesh Halappanavar. This algorithm is also related to the classical Gale-Shapley algorithm for the Stable Matching problem. Our implementations show that the b-Suitor algorithm is currently the fastest algorithm on serial, shared memory and distributed memory computers.
The b-edge cover problem has a Greedy approximation algorithm with an approximation ratio of three / two; however, here the effective weight of edges need to be dynamically updated, which limits the concurrency severely. We have reduced this problem to one of computing a b'-matching for a suitable value of b'(v), and this avoids the dynamic weight update problem. However, this is accomplished with a worse approximation ratio of two. The minimum weight b-edge cover problem is also rich in the space of approximation algorithms, and we consider nine such algorithms in this project. We are implementing the new approximation algorithms on a multicore shared-memory and distributed memory multiprocessors.
The b-edge cover problem and b-matching problem have applications in graph-based semi-supervised machine learning ad well as adaptive data anonymization problems. We are exploring the effectiveness of these algorithms and comparing them to earlier approaches.
- January 31, 2018, Parallel Graph Algorithms Through Approximation, Purdue e-Pubs
- Arif Khan, Alex Pothen and S M Ferdous, 2018, Designing Parallel Algorithms via Approximation: b-Edge Cover, Proceedings of International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 12 pp.
- S M Ferdous, Alex Pothen and Arif Khan, 2018, New Approximation Algorithms for Minimum Weighted Edge Cover, Proceedings of SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing, 12 pp.
- Ariful Azad, Aydin Buluc and Alex Pothen, January 2017, Computing maximum cardinality matchings in parallel on bipartite graphs via tree-grafting, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 28(1) 44-59, (doi 10.1109/TPDS.2016.2546258)
- Arif Khan, Alex Pothen, Mostofa Ali Patwary, Mahantesh Halappanavar, Nadathur Satish, and Narayanan Sundaram, November 2016, Designing Scalable b-Matching Algorithms on Distributed Memory Multiprocessors via Approximation, Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference (SC16), pp. 773-783. (doi 10.1109/SC.2016.65)
- Arif Khan, Alex Pothen, Mostofa Patwary, Nadathur Satish, Narayanan Sunderam, Fredrik Manne, Mahantesh Halappanavar and Pradeep Dubey, 2016, Efficient approximation algorithms for weighted b-Matching, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 38(5), S593-S619. (doi 10.1137/15M1026304)


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The Company
Elvara is a Barcelona registered
company founded in 2001 by Derek Simes and Murray Marr, dedicated to helping
importers, distributors and major retail chains source a diverse range of
quality Spanish wines. Our twin aim is to secure national agencies for the
wineries with whom we work, thus creating long-term benefits for both producer
and importer.
We are compact team, with a
strategy of focusing exclusively on Spanish wines, becoming specialists in our
field, and concentrating on core markets such as the UK and Ireland where we are
familiar with the geography and culture. We currently have two offices, Barcelona where Derek is
based, and Edinburgh from where Murray operates. With
the benefit of a foot in both camps, this enables us to be close to our source
bodegas as well as customers in principal end markets.
We work across a range of trade channels and are currently
sourcing wines from some 14 producers covering 20 Spanish D.O. regions. Our
business is strictly ex-cellar with our importer clients buying directly from
our partner bodegas. Most of our producers also offer tailor made wines for
We are committed to sourcing the authentic taste of Spain, through a
broad portfolio of carefully selected wines using mainly indigenous grape
varieties. Many of our partner bodegas have been with us from the start, whilst
one of our fundamental objectives is to constantly seek out new and interesting
bodegas where quality and commercial value stand out. To date, our travels
across the vineyards of Spain have taken us
to a multitude of bodegas of all shapes and sizes.
The Founders
Derek's previous life before Elvara involved a variety of international sales and marketing roles in the tobacco and drinks sectors based in Spain, Chile, Colombia, USA, Poland and Switzerland. This extensive experience in Hispanic markets included twelve years in Latin America and ten years in Spain where he specialised in establishing distribution structures for major multinationals.
His love of wine and Spain in particular lead him to withdraw from the corporate multinational life and settle in Barcelona, at which time he formed Bodegas Elvara with ex multinational colleague, Murray. Derek has lived in Spain for twenty five years; his local knowledge of the culture, language and general way of things strongly supports his prime role in Elvara of working closely with our partner bodegas and sniffing out new potential suppliers.
Following a short career in the Royal Navy post graduation, Murray's twenty-five years international experience with blue-chip multinationals in the consumer goods field demonstrates a balance of operational and strategic activity. This ranges from classic brand marketing through a variety of new business development assignments to joint ventures in emerging markets. In particular, during 12 years with a leading UK brewer, a comprehensive understanding of the drinks trade in UK and Ireland was established with extensive knowledge of the trading channels and regions. Geographical scope has centred on Switzerland, France and the UK, complemented by new business ventures in Russia, Central Asia and Latin America.
During his multinational career, Murray lived in mainland Europe for 15 years, eventually settling back in his home country of Scotland from where he continues the Elvara mission of promoting the unique attributes of Spanish wine, whilst drawing inspiration from a new found love of Spain and its many facets.


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Are you tired of playing ping-pong with your water chemistry, fixing one problem only to throw another value out of balance? Do you want to check the work of you pool chemistry management company to be sure that they are maintaining proper chemistry balance? Or do you have a green mosquito breeding ground/swamp you want to look like a pool?
If yes is the answer to any of these questions you have come to the right place. I am going to explain to you the relationships behind each piece of the water chemistry puzzle to make the process less confusing. I will also explain the parameters necessary to maintain our product giving you a baseline. If you happen to have a product other than ours the relationships and chemistry advice will still apply, but you will have to check your manufactures use and care guide.
Our use and care guide calls for these parameters.
I like to compare water chemistry to a royal court. If chlorine is king, then calcium is definitely the queen. From there all the other parameters play supporting roles behind these two agents. PH, total alkalinity and sequest fall into the queens realm and stabilizer cyanuric into the kings.
Chlorine is king,
Responsible for keeping water looking pristine. It acts as a disinfecting agent killing algae, bugs and any other unwanted pests. It essentially keeps your pool from turning into a swamp. Stabilizer Cyanuric acts as the kings accountant minimizing spending where unwanted. It keeps the chlorine stable in a pool environment. To keep it short if your chlorine levels are swinging all over the place or the 1-3ppm recommended chlorine isn't quite cutting it. Take a look at your stabilizer cyanuric levels. Too little and chlorine will break down. Too much and your chlorine will be ineffective at doing its job.
For more information on chlorine visit our Free Chlorine vs Total Chlorine blog post.
Calcium the Queen.
Is your grout disappearing, your pool surface etching or falling off into the depths of the deep end…..you may want to pay the queen a visit.
When it comes to keeping the hard structures in you pool in pristine working order; calcium is at play. When not maintaining calcium and the rest of the queens court: PH, alkalinity and sequest, your surface and grout can take a major hit. They work together to create conditions where your water wont readily leech calcium from your calcified structures. Soft(low calcium) acidic(low PH) water will eat away at these structures in your pool, which is why it is recommended that you keep your water slightly basic and hard.
In this court alkalinity and PH are twins.
Alkalinity acts as a buffering agent in your pool helping to keep your PH slightly basic and stable. So if you have trouble with PH swings test your pool check to ensure the alkalinity is up to your user recommendations. Maintaining alkalinity will make maintaining PH far easier.
Last but not least there is sequest. Sequest helps within the court to ensure that the minerals in the hard water do not fall out of solution and stain your surface. When the conditions are right these minerals will drop out of solution and give your pool a yellowish stain. Maintaining your sequest will prevent that.


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First there were selfies. Then there were selfie sticks. Now comes a new phase: selfie booths, which some stores and other businesses are adding as a sort of next-generation photo kiosk.
In the age of ubiquitous social media, these booths and rooms seem to be the latest way to engage customers and build a brand.
At several branches of the optical company Warby Parker, myopics unsure if those tortoiseshell frames are really "them" can jump into the on-site selfie booth, snap off some images and email them to friends and family for a second (and third, fourth and fifth) opinion.
At Paintbox, a nail studio in New York City, clients can get a manicure, then insert their hands into a photo box where their latest coat of metallic teal will be immortalized.
And at Doomie's, a vegan restaurant in Toronto, there is a dedicated selfie room where patrons stand in front of a mirror, snap a photo and post it to social media, often with a caption like "just emerged from my food coma."
"When we were planning the restaurant, we wanted clever ways to promote it and differentiate it, and the younger demographic always wants something Instagram-able," said one of Doomie's owners, Hellenic Vincent De Paul.
The restaurant had an unused basement room, so Mr. De Paul painted the floor white and had the walls papered in cartoons by an artist known as Vegan Sidekick. Now, at least half the restaurant's first-timers under the age of 35 visit the selfie room, Mr. De Paul said. On evenings when there is a wait for a table, patrons sometimes while away the time posing and posting.
The novelty has prompted a lot of publicity, including by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
"The room definitely helps our business," Mr. De Paul said. "When we launched, we were covered by CBC and other news outlets just for the selfie room, and it's a talking point on social media. A lot of people are like, 'Let's go to the vegan restaurant with the selfie room.' "
While places like Doomie's in Toronto are setting aside designated areas for people to take pictures with their own phones, other businesses are installing booths designed to take superior selfies. Devotees know that pictures taken in specially lit booths come out far better than a cellphone snapshot.
Here is a sure sign that the selfie booth is officially ready for its close-up: The Tracy Anderson Method, a fitness chain with a high-end cult following — Lena Dunham is an acolyte, and Gwyneth Paltrow is a partner — installed just such a nook in its new 6,000-square-foot studio on East 59th Street in Manhattan. (So much for never letting them see you sweat.)
Morgen Schick, a Ford model turned beauty and anti-aging guru, sidled into the bright white photo booth on a recent morning and pondered the tools she could use to embellish her selfie: props in the booth include tiny flags festooned with hearts and a pair of weights — and there are four photographic filters, all designed to flatter like mad.
"That's not bad," said Ms. Schick, 52, examining herself on the screen before clicking. "There isn't a filter to make me look 25, but that's O.K. We're embracing the now."
She had taken her first Tracy Anderson post-workout all-aglow selfie the previous day and here she was back for an encore — even though it meant she would be late for her catapult cardio class.
"I don't know if you've taken a class here, but you leave everything on the bouncy floor," she said. "Tracy meets you where you are, and that's awesome. I'm a 5-foot-10-inch size-10 woman who's in menopause. That's what I love about the photo booth — it meets you where you are, too."
When Paintbox, a studio specializing in "nail art," opened in Soho three years ago, a photo box with a manicure-cam and changeable backgrounds was as critical to the success of the operation as emery boards and orange sticks. Clients are presented with a colorful keepsake of their manicure, and, should they choose to post it online — well, they could just help Paintbox expand its business through viral marketing.
"We have a lot of people from out of town, and the photo is like a souvenir of their visit that they can share with their friends," said Eleanor Langston, founder and chief executive of Paintbox.
Brides, she said, come in with their wedding attendants for manicures and take photos of their freshly burnished nails, one hand piled on top of another.
"It's really cute," Ms. Langston said. "The girls get very excited about doing the picture — it's our gift to them." (When shared on social media, of course, it's a gift that keeps on giving.)
The photo booths at Warby Parker, which are installed in nine of the company's 50 stores, serve two purposes: to help customers get feedback from friends and families about the frames they are considering, and — in an experience not commonly associated with optical shops — to give them a good time.
The chain's newest store, on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, encourages customers to take 15-second videos in front of a green screen with 12 different backdrops. In the Miami store, you can lounge on a plastic raft — presumably wearing shades — while a camera on the ceiling snaps your picture.
"Glasses are one of the only things people wear on their face, and they want to make sure they look good in them, and they want to get feedback from family and friends," said Dave Gilboa, one of the company's founders and a co-chief executive. "We thought putting photo booths in the stores where we have room would be a fun way to make that process easier."
Would-be purchasers of face furniture can take photos of themselves trying on multiple frames; the stores will email or tweet them the images. Customers are also provided with two sets of photo strips.
"Consumers have more choices than ever about where to purchase products, so we try to be thoughtful about the design of our stores and to have an unexpected element that creates a nice diversion," Mr. Gilboa said. "These booths do take up space. We dedicated a pretty significant piece of the store on Melrose to the green-screen concept. But we're always thinking about creating new experiences, even if it means not maximizing our selling space."
At the new Tracy Anderson Method — so far the only one with a selfie booth — people in classes like catapult cardio and "attain definition" have lined up to snap selfies and post them on Instagram. Should they choose, they may tag the photo with the fitness chain's hashtag: #tamily.
The idea for an on-site photo booth came after there was such an offering at an employee holiday party two years ago. "We had so much fun with it, and I couldn't believe how good the pictures were," said Maria Baum, the chief executive of Tracy Anderson Method and a partner in the business. "It made me think we should have this for our clients, too."
In her company's notoriously — and proudly — strenuous classes, "people feel so good and happy after a workout," Ms. Baum said. "They're proud of their results. It's, 'I did this today, and yay me!' and they like to take a selfie to mark that moment in time and post it on Instagram."
Social media, Ms. Baum said, "has become increasingly important to our business. We have six studios, but we want to reach everyone in the world."
At SoulCycle — a chain of indoor cycling classes, pictures are also a similarly important way to market and inspire, but SoulCycle keeps them strictly old-school and local. Bulletin boards at every studio display snapshots of riders taken with Polaroid cameras that are kept handy at the front desk.
"It started as a community builder," said Gabby Cohen, SoulCycle's senior vice president for brand strategy and public relations. "Photos are really important to us. They're part of our cultural currency. You feel connected to something when you're part of something visually."
Some clients use those Polaroids to take selfies. And when the photo pops out, they take a cellphone shot of it and post it to social media, Ms. Cohen said. "There's something very retro fabulous about that."


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It is always a good thing to incorporate nature in our home's interior. Doing that will give is the feeling of closeness to nature even if we are already inside our house. There are many ways to do that like adding some plants, acquiring wooden furniture and many others. Some even prefer to add some glass walls and windows to let the natural light in. All of these you can apply even to a modern interior We all know that today's trend is modern design but it won't stop you from adding some natural touch to it. And yes, modern interior style tolerates nature's look as it make use of furniture made from wood and even organic decors too. Now, let us take a look at some dining areas that reflect a natural modern design. A Royal View
Image: The Sky is the Limit Design The legs of the table is obviously from wood and it was left as is to retain its "tree-look". Cohen Residence
Image: CTA Architects Engineers Aside from the wooden dining table, the house also maximized the use of wood for its architecture. Sophisticated Getaway
Image: DKOR Interiors Inc.- Interior Designers Miami, FL The concept of the table is similar to that of number one but this has a neater style which just fits the white modern dining chairs. Parisian Modern Flat – Pacific Heights
Image: Sutro Architects White modern table paired with chairs that have a twig inspired look! The lighting brings that natural impact to the space. Naturally Modern
Image: Choice Wood Company The colors can already tell us that this really has that natural appeal in a modern setting. Bellevue Hill Sydney
Image: Rudolfsson Alliker Associates Architects We are not sure if the chairs used rattan but it appears that way. Whatever material is used in it, it sure perfectly captured the look of rattan for that natural touch. Lovell Residence
Image: Quezada Architecture Apart from the wooden walls and ceiling, the colors of the chairs as well as the wooden table could pull-off a natural modern space. The GO Home Passive House
Image: GO LOGIC Well, everything is already obvious here and we don't have to tell you what made this part of the list today! 19th Century Farmhouse Renovation
Image: Kate Johns AIA The area rug is interesting and the entire dining area is just dashing especially with the bookshelf. Urrutia Design
Image: Urrutia Design A blue dining room that really has that modern look and natural feel in one in its addition of plants in the area. Dining Metro
Image: FORMA Design Serene and cozy dining room in white with a glass top dining table that has a wooden leg. W Residence Dining Room
Image: Urbanspace Interiors Luscious off-white, floor to ceiling velvet draperies add drama to the space. But what really completes the look is the Moooi Paper chandelier and the leather of the Molteni & C Who chairs. Abramson Teiger Lima Residence
Image: Abramson Teiger Architects The favorite Eames chairs that we can see in many interiors is paired with this wooden dining table with a glass at the center. Lu-In+Dave: Squirrel Hill, PA
Image: Adrienne DeRosa The scheme in the dining room is a testament of balance with interplay between shapes and materials. Upper West Side Combo
Image: StudioLAB, LLC Custom floor to ceiling Ash wood veneered doors accentuate the height of doorways and blur room thresholds. We hope you liked this list that we gave you today. Did you pick your personal favorite? You see, it isn't really hard to combined natural and modern styles. It is just a matter of creativity. Now, if you still have some time, come take a look at some modern dining rooms which sure are pure modern! But you will see different colors combinations as well as set ups in them. Be back for more here on Home Design Lover!


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On the way home from St Ives I called into Ely
and went into my favourite shops. I have a soft
spot for Ely because it is where I trained as a nurse
and I met and courted my husband there.
I first went into Ely Beads.
I love this bead shop it's like being in a sweet shop!
I collected together a mixed bag of beads ready to add
to my new piece of work based on Architecture and decay
of buildings.
The orange bead is for another fun 3D piece
I have in mind!!!
I love their inspiration wall in the Beading Workshop Area.
Vist their yummy site
I also went to Ely Bike Centre which has
one of the largest haberdashery and fabric
selection in the area.
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Man Robs Citizen's Bank Disguised As A Tree
A man robbed a Citizen's Bank in Manchester, New Hampshire dressed as a tree, according to the Union Leader. His clothing has been described as "adorned with tree branches held on by duct tape," and it was noted that "His short, dark hair and mustache were clearly visible between the leaves."
The paper sent a reporter to the man's address where residents "laughed about the incident" but "refused to discuss it."
He did not use a weapon and has been charged with one count of robbery.
Police rake in leafy robbery suspect [Union Leader via BoingBoing]
(Photo: Bank Surveillance Footage)
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Given the beauty world's obsessive interest in contouring faces in order to bring out the best features, it was only a matter of time before experts started using the same technique for hair. Enter hair strobing, a process by which hairstylists weave highlights and lowlights throughout your hair in a unique way that brings out your individual beauty and the facial features that make you special.
If you're searching for a more individualized approach to hair color–a look that will get your beautiful face noticed and not just your hair–Matrix SOCOLOR celebrity stylist Daniel Moon explains everything you need to know about hair strobing.
SHEfinds: What, exactly, is hair strobing and how is it applied?
Daniel Moon: Hair strobing is an individualized highlighting technique that is specific to one's natural hair color, face shape and skin tone. It is accomplished by applying wider strips of color for dimension and contrast and using color that are two shades lighter and two shades darker than natural hair color. It's hand painted since it's so specific to the individual.
SF: How does hair strobing differ from traditional highlights and balayage?
DM: The process differs from typical highlights in that it takes three steps rather than two. After you do the toning and highlighting process, you go back again and highlight to accentuate and build dimension.
SF: What colors are most often used in hair strobing?
DM: Strobing is mostly done on blondes, but anyone can do it! It's best to go two shades darker and two shades lighter than whatever your natural hair color is. You'll have a pretty, natural effect that will look like you just laid out in the sun for too long. One important tip: more color means more care, which means a weekly hair mask specific for color-treated hair like the MATRIX Biolage COLORLAST Mask, which will keep color from fading and add lots of moisture.
SF: Who is a good candidate for hair strobing? Which features can it bring out and how?
DM: It works best for people who wants their hair to be considered an added feature to their face and are looking for that extra "pop" to their hair color. The placement of the highlights emphasizes your skin tone and face shape and when the sun light hits your hair, it glistens!
SF: Which celebs are doing hair strobing justice and why?
DM: Gigi Hadid! Always looks so effortless and her hair accentuates her natural beauty! Her color is carefully placed.
SF: Can any hairstylist do hair strobing or does it require an experienced professional?
DM: I wouldn't pick a rookie to strobe your hair for the first time. You need someone a bit more experienced to look beyond color to incorporate facial features, where the light would naturally hit hair, etc.
SF: What can hair strobing accomplish?
DM: Strobing helps to give dimension and movement that is specifically catered to your face shape and natural hair formation. Just like contouring and strobing for the face, its meant to accentuate your natural beauty. Strobing opens up the hair just enough leaving light and lighter to sweep across the face.
For more beauty tips, check out this glitter roots hair trend is everything and the one thing you should never do to your wet hair.
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The mystique of sushi and geishaism (not a real word) seems synonymous with sexiness in modern sushi restaurants. Never more than present is the fine art of sushi more sexy than at RA Sushi Bar and Restaurant in Pointe Orlando on International Dr. With the building of Orlando Eye in full swing, there seems to be a tingling energy in revamping International Dr. RA Sushi is one of the newest additions to the many dining options that are popping up on the I-Drive. corridor.
RA Sushi is located in Pointe Orlando, which is a shopping and dining destination. Let me get this out and over with, except Downtown Orlando, nowhere else is paid parking. It seems a little overkill to have to pay for parking when everywhere else is free. Oh, they changed from manned pay booths to those machines. There is a replaying announcement to take your ticket with you and pay at the meter. I was there with very little parking garage activity and could not make out what the recording was trying to announce. I had to stand under a speaker to figure it out. Imagine when this garage is busy, would anyone be able to hear this message? Maybe they turn it up? Needless to say RA Sushi validates only valet parking. It might be wiser to valet park, get a validation, tip the attendant, than try to park in the garage and pay more. Just a thought.
Upon entrance you are faced with vast space that captivates with black ceiling and hanging bright red globes. The sushi bar anchors one side of the restaurant with a dazzling fish sculpture on the back wall. Back-lit wall invokes a mysterious and sexy glow with sushi chefs as moving silhouettes. Life-sized erotic female body form in various degrees of skin exposure provokes the senses. The long bar invites grazing of specialty cocktails or a few sake bombs. There is an equally sexy outdoor patio. Black furniture under red ceiling with the same hanging globes makes a very attractive setting for people watching or see and be seen. The setting of this restaurant adds a very adult tempo to the once family forward International Drive corridor.
With enough restaurants spattered across the US, RA Sushi has developed a very approachable and forward menu. Their Signature Sushi carry very creative and appetizing names. However, most of them include cream cheese. Maybe cream cheese is the signature? There are also common rolls, sashimi and nigiri found in most American sushi restaurants. Other items carry fanciful names but can be found in most restaurants. Of course there are some sprinkling of items unique to this chain. The sake selection is very limited for this caliber of restaurant. I expected a more varied and diverse list to include most categories. Nothing special on the beer list. Wine selections are well rounded. There are many choices of sake bombs and shots. We opted for a light fare.
Pomegranate Green Tea – delightfully refreshing.
Miso Soup – Too salty for my palate. Although, there was a generous helping of seaweed and tofu. The absence of MSG was delightful. Our server, offered that this was made extra robust for us to enjoy the full flavors as she does. Really? She actually went into the kitchen and whip up this soup. I find it hard to believe that this restaurant allows their servers to make miso soup broth rather than their chefs. I can see the server assembling this soup but not adjusting the "full flavor". Maybe I could be totally wrong….
Ginger and wasabi – for the table. This is a very efficient way for ensuring that these condiments are at the table rather than the sushi chefs having to put this on every plate.
Crazy Monkey Roll – Smoked salmon, mango & cream cheese topped with avocado, red beet tempura bits & cashews; drizzled with mango & sweet eel sauces. There was an abundant of cream cheese which rendered an otherwise exciting roll too creamy. The red beets added great texture.
Beef Teriyaki Bento Box – served with miso soup, uchi no salad, rice, a pork gyoza & a vegetable spring roll. Although beef was ordered medium rare, it came out done. There is greens under every item, really, way too much.
Bara Chirashi – Tuna, salmon, yellowtail, shrimp, avocado & cucumber with Asian green vegetables, mixed with poki sauce; served over rice. This was a wonderful combination of flavors and textures. However, there were some stringy fish ends that added a chewy texture. Party in a bowl.
When we arrived at this restaurant we stood at the greeter stand for a good five minutes waiting. Greeter was absent, we figured maybe they were seating someone else, but the restaurant was empty. A bar tender was busy setting up the bar. A lone server wandered deep into the restaurant avoiding eye contact at all cost. The greeter finally showed up and was happy to seat us where ever we wanted. Our server meandered over, with the "Standard International Dr. Greeting", Have you been here before? No. Then went on ask for a drink order. No description of the menu? I already told you about the miso soup rendition, The Crazy Monkey Roll was in her top three rolls also. I welcome server interaction and recommendation. But I do not need validation on everything I order. This is my dining experience not yours. Frankly, I don't care what you like unless I ask you and while you are it wipe the fake smile off your face. If this is what guests of Orlando are going to experience then I suggest there is some adjustment. RA Sushi, don't make the cardinal rule of sin in believing that because your physical plant is exciting that you will flourish. The restaurant business is still a people business. Invest in your biggest asset, your staff and make Orlando proud to house you.


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This article was originally published in The Globe and Mail on May 2, 2017.
Ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets have been set on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border. But climate policies in Canada and the United States are beginning to go in very different directions. Canada need not change its overall course on GHG emissions, but it will likely need to make adjustments for the duration of the Donald Trump administration, while remaining on course for shaping a low-carbon economy.
The first step in responding to President Trump's climate policy is to determine whether there really is a problem on the horizon. The U.S. and Canadian economies are similar, but not identical, with structural differences nationally and regionally. Specific circumstances matter; a policy change on the U.S. side of the border does not automatically mean negative impacts on Canada. Each country has its own monetary, fiscal, micro-economic and trade policies, and a flexible exchange rate that acts as a shock absorber. Businesses adapt to these differences.
How might Canada cope with a divergence in climate policy by its dominant trading partner? The Trump administration has stated repeatedly its intention to move away from the Obama climate agenda. Mr. Trump signed an executive order to reverse course on the regulation of coal as a fuel for generating electricity, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has undergone a leadership change. Fuel-efficiency standards for autos are expected to be moderated, among other measures. The United States might even leave the Paris Accord on climate change.
Firms in Canadian sectors with intensive GHG emissions that are open to trade, such as petrochemicals or cement, could be exposed to a loss of competitiveness if U.S. environmental standards slip. For firms in these sectors, one policy option to level the playing field would be selective carbon tax rebates, or free emission permits under cap-and-trade. British Columbia has already chosen to rebate temporarily the provincial carbon tax to the cement sector, to help B.C. producers compete with cement imports from the United States.
There are already different environmental policies and practices at the state and provincial levels. Canadian provinces have introduced or are developing different approaches to pricing carbon. A pan-Canadian carbon price will be introduced by the federal government in 2018, with the revenues returned to the provinces. In the United States, California in particular is committed to pursuing a low-carbon policy agenda, regardless what happens under a Trump administration. California's state economy is by far the biggest in the United States, and larger than Canada's. Quebec and Ontario are taking steps toward linking into California's cap-and-trade system, specifically for purchasing emissions permits.
Meanwhile, the competitiveness of renewable technologies such as solar cells, wind and battery storage is improving rapidly. Major U.S.-based firms such as Wal-Mart are working to sharply reduce carbon within their business models and supply chains. Numerous U.S. electrical utilities are committed to decarbonizing the production of electricity. Indeed, base-load hydro-electricity imported from Quebec and Manitoba is central to the long-term strategy of U.S. states and utilities to reduce GHG emissions—even in states that voted for Mr. Trump.
The auto and light-truck sector deserves specific mention. The North American auto industry is highly integrated; more than 80 per cent of the light vehicles manufactured in Canada are exported, largely to the United States. This economic reality makes it hard for Canadian policy makers and the industry to diverge from the United States if American fuel-efficiency standards are relaxed. That said, rapid transformation is occurring in the auto sector—electric vehicles are becoming more price competitive and appealing to consumers, and automated vehicles are on the cusp of commercialization. In order to stay on course, Canada could rely more on ecofiscal policies at the gas pump to promote reduced vehicle fuel consumption.
Ultimately, the response of business investors on both sides of the border will be a decisive factor. Is Mr. Trump's climate policy a structural change in direction, or a four-year blip in a longer-term trend toward a low-carbon future? Other major economies and GHG emitters, notably the European Union and China, are unlikely to soften their commitment to limit and then reduce GHG emissions in the coming decades. The economic costs of climate-change inaction are also going to keep rising, contradicting the remaining deniers. Selective policy adjustment, not wholesale change, would be the reasonable Canadian response in a world where the United States deviates while other major regions do not.
Editor's note: "An earlier version of this story referred to B.C.'s assistance program for the cement sector as a temporary carbon tax rebate. In fact, it is a five-year adjustment fund to help the industry transition to lower carbon fuels; it covers only a small portion of the annual carbon taxes paid by the cement sector."
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By now, it should be evident that a great deal has been learned about the precise variables that control children's false memories and about how the mix of those variables leads to different patterns of developmental change in false memory. A key feature of the memory illusions that have been explored—narrative tasks in the constructivist tradition and word tasks in the verbal learning tradition—is that they are illusions of meaning: that false recall and false recognition are apt to occur when rememberers rely on meaning information that was instantiated by target materials. However, current theoretical analyses of this situation propose that more is involved. Those analyses are dominated by an opponent-processes principle, which is simply the idea that rememberers store and retrieve two basic forms of information, such as verbatim traces of the surface form of target materials and gist traces of materials' meaning content, with one type of processing supporting false memories ("Yes, I ate a hot dog, because that's what people usually eat at baseball games") and the other suppressing false memories ("No, I didn't eat a hot dog, because I clearly remember eating that cold, soggy slice of pizza") We have seen that the opponent-processes conception has been able to explain and, far more important, to predict a broad range of developmental findings. With narrative false memory, for example, we have seen that this conception was able to account for the conflicting age trends that have accumulated over the years in developmental studies of Bransford-Franks-type tasks. With false memory for words, we have seen that the same conception explains why Underwood-type tasks have usually produced age declines in false memory. The most important accomplishment, however, has been the prediction, some years before confirmation was obtained, of developmental increases in false memory for words. Such increases were predicted for tasks in which false-memory items access meanings that are repeatedly cued by target materials—most notably the DRM paradigm, but also tasks that involve repeated cuing of familiar taxonomic categories. Although this prediction is counterintuitive under the commonsense "memory gets better" view of development, it has been confirmed in so many recent studies that its validity is no longer in doubt. Crucially, the most recent studies in this literature have begun the process of drilling down to more precise hypotheses about the mechanisms that control age variability in false memory. In the end, it is findings from these tests of more precise hypotheses that will have the greatest yield in forensic work, as well as in theory development.
If some types of false memories can increase with age, this has important implications for a baseline assumption that the law currently makes about age variability in false memory. The classical finding, mentioned earlier in this chapter, that the incidence of false-memory declines between early childhood and young adulthood has figured prominently in many trials, but especially CSA cases, in which evidence was provided by child victims or witnesses (e.g., Ceci & Friedman, 2000). That finding has been used to challenge children's competence to testify in pretrial motions and pretrial hearings and to challenge children's courtroom testimony as being unreliable, all on the specific ground that research shows that their statements are far more likely than adults' to be tainted with false memories (Brainerd & Reyna, 2005). For example, a common occurrence in CSA cases is that there are two versions of events that bear on a defendant's guilt. One version is exculpatory and one is incriminating, and one version is provided by adults and the other by children. In such circumstances, the law requires juries to render a verdict by assessing the relative credibility of the contrasting stories. If research shows that children's memories are invariably more likely to be tainted with false information than adults', then, other factors being equal, the adult version should be assigned a higher credibility rating.
This is precisely the thrust of much expert testimony in CSA cases. In fact, such expert testimony has become so commonplace and the research that supports it has been so widely disseminated in the popular media that judges sometimes rule against allowing it to be presented in court, on the grounds that the heightened susceptibility of children to false memories is well understood by jurors and, therefore, expert testimony is not needed to educate them on it (McAuliff, Nicholson, & Ra-venshenas, 2007). However, a key implication of the more recent research that we reviewed earlier is that the law errs when it makes such a baseline assumption about the fallibility of children's memories. More recent research demonstrates that the direction of age variability in false memory depends on specific storage and retrieval factors. Therefore, in particular court cases, the scientifically appropriate course for expert witnesses is to analyze the circumstances of each case to determine which factors are present that are known to affect age variability in false memory and to educate juries (a) on the results of their analysis and (b) on the research literature that substantiates the factors that have been identified.
However, some readers may be disposed to be uneasy about the applicability of findings from research on laboratory tasks that involve narrative false memory to legal cases and, still more, about the applicability of findings from research on false memory for words. We can do no better than refer them to contemporary discussions of this question by Howe et al. (2004) and by Reyna et al. (2007), both of whom explore the question in connection with the more extreme of the two situations, false memory for word lists. This gist of their discussion runs as follows.
Superficially, to those who are steeped in the study of everyday memory it might seem that false memories for words have little or nothing to do with the real-life events that are the stuff of forensic work. Perception is not necessarily reality, however. It is often the case in science that differences that seem to be fundamental at first blush fade out upon deeper consideration, and indeed, tasks such as the DRM paradigm and the categorized-list paradigm share some of the most basic features of foren-sically relevant memories. For that reason, these paradigms may be quite relevant to such memories. In familiar real-life crimes, such as robberies or assaults, there are certain events that are characteristic of those crimes (e.g., fear, threatening statements, weapons), so much so that they are formulaic elements of crime novels and the scripts that writers produce for movies and television programs. Thus, when children are witnesses or victims of familiar crimes, they are exposed to collections of target events that are interconnected in meaning by virtue of the fact that, like hot dogs and home runs at baseball games, the events are prototypical of those situations. In the DRM and categorized-list paradigms, too (and in narratives, by the way), children are also exposed to multiple targets that are related in meaning. As we have seen, children falsely recall and falsely recognize unpresented exemplars of these shared meanings, these errors are affected by theoretically specified variables, and these errors display age trends that can be predicted on theoretical grounds. Considering the extensive data base on these paradigms, therefore, it is not surprising that children would have false memories of events that cohere with the gist of crimes, or that those false memories could vary with age.
Further, in CSA and other crimes of abuse and neglect, the phenomenon of encountering multiple exemplars of a meaning (the gist of the crime) can occur across multiple exposures to that crime (Powell, Roberts, Ceci, & Hembrooke, 1999; Reyna et al.,2007). A hallmark of such crimes is that they may occur in children's homes, with the perpetrators being children's caretakers or even other children. When they do, children may be victims or witnesses of multiple instances of a crime. Each instance of the crime exposes children to events that share meaning with prior instances but that are not exactly the same in key details as prior events. Moreover, each subsequent exposure is apt to cue memories for earlier events from prior exposures, particularly if children access stable gist memories and realize that the different experiences are connected. If children are aware that later events are not exact repetitions of earlier events but are related to earlier events, the fact that those different events were part of different episodes may become blurred, interfering with accurate verbatim memories of the details of the individual events.
This problem of interference with verbatim memory is exacerbated by the fact that when children have been victims or witnesses of multiple instances of index crimes, spaced over extended time intervals, investigative interviews and sworn testimony often will not occur until months or years after the initial instances. In such circumstances, their memory reports of what happened may be highly accurate (especially the gist of what happened) but their memory reports of when it happened will undoubtedly be highly inaccurate. Powell et al. have reported data showing that this extrapolation from word-memory studies is indeed borne out in experimentation on children's memory for everyday events that are of forensic significance, and other examples of forensically relevant data have been reviewed by Reyna et al. (2002).
Howe et al. (2004) raised the following important consideration: Because the types of paradigms that have been the foci of this chapter rely on target materials that have nothing to do with crimes or with physical or psychological trauma, it might be thought that children would be less likely to develop false memories for such crimes than for word lists or sentences. However, these crimes involve gists, strong gists in fact, as surely as the list "black, blue, brown,green,pink,purple, red, and white" does. Hence it is not clear what the experimentally verified, as opposed to speculative, basis for such an argument would be. Perhaps the most obvious basis that might be invoked is that the events of crimes are usually experienced in conjunction with high levels of anxiety and stress, which may inoculate memory against falsification. Indeed, some research has shown that stress and anxiety lead to greater memory accuracy (Christianson, 1992). As Reyna et al. (2007) pointed out, though, experimental findings on how anxiety and stress affect children's false memories are equivocal. Further, there is a good deal of evidence in the adult forensic memory literature that the anxiety and stress of crimes foment false memories, rather than suppress them (e.g., Kassin, 1997, 2001), and there is also a good deal of evidence that adults can develop false memories of complex life experiences, including crimes, that are fraught with anxiety and stress (for a review, see Brainerd & Reyna, 2005). Thus, the fact that crimes normally involve stress and anxiety apparently does not inoculate people against developing false memories.
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The quality of a streamed video has many influences, of which two are the buffer time, and the number of interrupts. There is no definitive research on what is the best buffer to interrupt ratio for a given content. The focus of research for this IQP is the effects of buffering and interrupts on user quality of experience for online video, with a specific focus on Netflix and YouTube. This IQP attempts the answer the question of whether or not viewers prefer YouTube videos to have short initial buffers and Netflix videos to have minimal interruptions. This is achieved using online surveys with test videos of varying buffer times and number of interrupts.
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