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We're frequently asked "how much essential oil should I use in this formula"? And we give some commonly used range of percent concentrations. Through testing, however, we've realized measuring the amount of essential oil for this is a little more complex than one would think.
The reason being is that each essential oil has a different number of drops per unit (we use milliliters, which we'll use to explain the calculations here) and each essential oil has a different number of drops per milliliter.
When a recipe, or your blending wishes, call for a particular % concentration of essential oil in a carrier (this is often the case in skin care formulas), the calculation can be made like this:
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Great, so how do we measure that? Easy if you have to measure 1.5ml and you have a pipette with 1/2ml graduations. But 0.3ml? Unless you have a pipette marked with 1/10th ml graduations, you'll have to count drops. But how many drops IS 0.3ml?
It's not widely known that each essential oil dispenses a different number of drops per milliliter. The number varies widely: using a pipette or eye dropper that dispenses 20 drops per ml of WATER, you'll find there are nearly 50 drops of some essential oils per ml.
So to be accurate, you want to know the number of drops per ml of each oil you're measuring. And we've measured the number of drops per ml of each essential oil currently in stock at Ananda, and put it all together in this table. So to measure 0.3ml of an essential oil like High Elevation Lavender, which has about 40 drops per ml using a standard glass eye dropper or pipette, one multiplies 0.3 x 40 to get 12 drops.
This difference is due to a factor called 'cohesion', which is how strongly the molecules in a liquid stick together. Water has a fairly high cohesion, so it takes a weightier drop to separate from the liquid still in the pipette. Essential oils in general have lower cohesion, likely because there's so many different molecules (venturing into unknown territory here :) that they don't pack together so closely like H2O.
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The Riverside County seat has been held by the republican party for years.
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Harira is a Moroccan soup that is served during Ramadan to break the day's fast. It is most often prepared with lamb and perfumed with spices like turmeric and cinnamon. Boneless chicken thigh meat generally has a silkier texture and more depth of flavor than chicken breast meat (though chicken breast meat can be easily substituted if you prefer). My favorite saffron comes from Kashmir, a state in northern India. Its color, aroma, and taste are headier than Spanish or Persian saffron, and its depth of flavor and color is stronger. To get the most flavor from saffron, use a mortar and pestle to grind the threads into a fine powder.
Heat the oil with the ground peppercorns, cloves, and cinnamon stick in a large pot over medium-high heat for 1 minute. Add the onions and cook until they're soft and lightly browned around the edges, 3 to 5 minutes, stirring often. Add the chicken and cook until the meat releases its liquid and the pan dries, about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Mix in the turmeric, Aleppo pepper, and salt and cook for 4 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the fresh tomatoes and cook until they release their juices, about 1/2 minutes, stirring often and scraping any browned bits from the bottom of the pot. Add the chickpeas, canned tomatoes, and water and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer for 35 minutes. Stir in the saffron, Toasted Cumin, Garam Masala, and the chopped cilantro. Taste for seasoning and serve.
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A friend of mine needs your assistance. He lives on the top/second floor of his condo and his toilet wont flush right. He says the toilet spins the water and doesnt do anything. He has tried plunging, 3' auger, draino gel, muriatic acid, and pressurized water device. He said while trying those the toiliet would occasionally flush right but then he would try again and back to spinning water. Any clues? Thanks:thumbsup:
There may be a few reasons.... but if the toilet is the only problem in all the plumbing devices... all other devices like sink/bath tub...etc. works very well... then I would think the problem will be the toilet seat or its installation ... some toilet seat have too little exhaused hole causling clogging easily or bad design or damage internal surface...etc..... may need to change for a better quality toilet... why I said that... happened to me few months ago... and now everything works so well after I changed the toilet...
So when the water just spins, does it overflow? Or does the water level rise, then drain, but not flow out fast enough?
I'm no pro plumber, but my understanding is that toilets work based on siphon action, that means the escaping water creates a vacuum/suction to pull the water/waste through quickly. If it's flowing very slowly, then something is slowing the suction effect. Clogged pipe or improper venting may cause this and this problem may not be noticed in the other fixture drain lines.
I was guessing the vent, too.
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At 08:47 03/10/2013 -0600, John Meyer wrote: >http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w108/pueblonative/FormulaError2_zps27abcf42.png >http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w108/pueblonative/Formulaerror1_zpsda33a4c4.png >Here are the worksheet names and the formula I am using. I haven't been following this thread, so take this with a pinch of salt, but I think I can see the problems here. Your source value in cell C1 of sheet Bonuses may look like "09-27-2013" but it is actually a date value formatted to look like that. I can see this from its right alignment (unless you have set this cell formatting manually). Your INDIRECT(ADDRESS... will retrieve this value, but not with the date formatting applied. I'm guessing, but I think the most obvious result would be the underlying date value (possibly 41544), the numbers of days from the date origin. Now your sheet is actually named "09-27-2013" - as text - and there is no sheet named "41544". Hence the error. You could enter the date in C1 as text. Type an apostrophe before the value and it will be interpreted as text (and left aligned by default). The result of your INDIRECT(ADDRESS... will now be the same text string and this will match the sheet name. But that's not the whole story. The result of the INDIRECT function is a text string representing the sheet name, but you cannot just append ".$E$1 ..." to this. Instead you need to concatenate these text strings as INDIRECT(ADDRESS(1;3;1;;"Bonuses"))&".$E$1 ..." but then you have another text string and you need to use INDIRECT() again to convert it to a reference. Try: =COUNTIF(INDIRECT(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(1;3;1;;"Bonuses"))&".$E$1:$E$2000");A2) If you wanted to retain the values in C1 and so on as genuine dates, you may be able to convert the date value to the appropriate text explicitly using TEXT(...;"MM-DD-YYYY") within your formula. But I can't get this to work; I think the problem is that sheet names that are numerical or perhaps start with a number need in this context to be surrounded by quotes - and it's difficult to see how you could add these. I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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... and did not even bother to tell me about this for at least 6 months . I just got a letter stating that the ridiculous settlement check was cashed by him and is in his trust account even though I hand delivered a letter to his office demanding disclosure of his negotiations with Ins.Co. and stating very clearly I would not accept any offers until I saw the contents of my file. I also sent a copy of this letter to the Ins Co's Attorney. I believe he had no right to accept this offer without my consent much less cash the check without my knowledge.He did nothing on the case for nearly a year. Never returned my calls or emails during this time and his office refused to show me my case file. I want to fire him but is it too late? Am I somehow stuck with his agreement with Ins.If I am stuck with what he did then on what legal grounds?Why would a neglectful, unethical Attorney be successful against my removing him as counsel for cause? I did not cause an accident and I have payed for it. This lame duck Attorney should get removed not paid, in fact he should be punished for exacerbating this already negative situation.I want him gone so someone else can do this right and from square one. He had no right to accept an offer or cash a check
It was unethical for the lawyer to act as you described. It is also criminal. Report him to the Florida Bar and the Sheriff or local law enforcement. Sue him.
Hire a new lawyer to pursue your original case. You will have an issue regarding whether the lawyer had the apparent authority to settle the case and bind you. I am not sure how this will play out.
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I would send the lawyer a certified letter advising him that you never gave authority to settle your claims and demand a complete copy of your entire paper and electronic file be sent to you within ten days. If you receive the file, meet with a reputable injury lawyer not associated with the first lawyer for advice. If you do not receive the file after ten days, file a bar complaint.Ask a similar question
If what the asker said was true, that the lawyer "settled" the case with no authority six months ago, that means the lawyer acted unethically, without authority, that the client's signature to the release was forged, and probably forged to the settlement draft also. It also means the lawyer deposited the settlement funds in his trust account without a correct entry in his trust ledger (best case), or just kept the money until the client asked about it. If the asker's statements are true, his lawyer is a thief and the lawyer's actions bring disrepute to the rest of us. Negotiating with such a person does a disservice to the profession. We had someone like that in Vero Beach. He still owes me $800 for a case I mediated for him. He was disbarred and is now in prison. A similar fate should await this asker's former lawyer. I would report him myself if I had his name and I was sure of the facts.
The case can not be settled without your signing the settlement documents, so you still have options. Fire that lawyer and hire a new one.
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Report this to the disciplinary board, and have a new lawyer pick up the ball.Ask a similar question
If you did not authorize the acceptance of the offer - you are not stuck with it. Your attorney had no authority to accept the offer. Speak with your attorney about this fact and put your position in writing. OF course you will have to prove that your claim is worth more than the current offer. If you get no response from your lawyer you can contact a local legal malpractice lawyer.Ask a similar question
If you didn't authorize the settlement or sign a release, you are probably not bound by his actions. You'd need to fire the attorney in writing and hire a new experienced lawyer to try to unravel this mess and give you a second opinion on your case as a whole.Ask a similar question
As long as you have not executed any release you should be okay. It's possible the money represents the limits of the insurance proceeds and the two of you need a meeting to discuss.
I'd sit down with the lawyer and then decide if you want to switch lawyers. Switching lawyers is a big deal and not something to do on a whim.Ask a similar question
Report him to the disciplinary board, and find a new attorney to undertake case. If you didn't sign a Release you should be in the clear! Riccardo Arcaro, Esq. Sarasota, FL
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Hearing on China's Energy Consumption and Opportunities
Testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
June 15, 2007
Kelly Sims Gallagher, Ph.D.
Director, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Members of the Commission, it is an honor to appear before you today.
I direct the research group on Energy Technology Innovation Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in the Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs. We aim to analyze, inform, and shape energy policy in the United States, China, and India, and we particularly focus on how to accelerate the development and deployment of advanced and cleaner energy technologies in these three countries. We have a number of current research projects in China in collaboration with Chinese partners including the China Automotive Technology & Research Center and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Thermoengineering Physics. Much of my own research since 1998 has been on energy and transportation in China.
The main points that I would like to make to you are as follows:
The economic and national security of the United States is now inextricably connected to China's energy consumption with respect to the environment, oil and gas security, and the economy.
Environmentally, Chinese energy consumption is already affecting the United States. Chinese air pollutants have been tracked and detected on the west coast of the United States. Indirectly, Chinese emissions of cumulatively built up in the atmosphere until now came from industrialized countries. Going forward, however, it is clear that China will be a top emitter of greenhouse gases along with the United States.
China is emerging as a major consumer of oil, and there is strong potential for China to become a major natural gas consumer as well, especially if it tries to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions. China became a net importer of oil in the mid-1990s, and is now the second-largest consumer of oil, and the third-largest oil importer in the world. About half of China's imports come from the Middle East, but Angola became the largest supplier last year, and indeed, China has invested heavily in energy resources in Africa. Although there have been a few new oil discoveries in China recently, Chinese reserves are on the decline. China has relatively few natural gas reserves domestically, and therefore uses virtually no natural gas in its power sector at this time. If China decides to increase its reliance on natural gas, China will likely import natural gas through LNG import terminals or by pipeline from central Asia or Russia. If China begins to import large quantities of natural gas from the Perisan Gulf and Russia, this could have serious geo-political implications.
Economically, China's growing energy consumption presents both challenge and opportunity. The challenge is that as China imports greater amounts of energy, prices of these commodities could rise until supply catches up, and price spikes will be especially likely during supply disruption events. On the opportunity side, the Chinese energy sector is already large and growing rapidly so it represents an exciting market opportunity for U.S. energy companies. In 2006 alone, China installed 101 GW of new coal-fired power, 90 GW of which was coal-fired power. To put that astounding number in perspective, India's entire electricity system is 131 GW (2004 data). (2) In 2006, power generation equipment was the second-largest U.S. export to China, but unfortunately, U.S. exports represented only 4 percent of Chinese power generation equipment imports. (3) U.S. firms are not penetrating the Chinese market as much as other foreign firms. As China moves to upgrade its energy system, it will likely need to import more advanced energy technologies, and the United States should be positioning itself to be a much larger technology provider to China than it currently is in the energy sector.
From the standpoint of U.S. national interests, there are numerous policies that would be desirable for the Chinese government to adopt, such as more stringent passenger-car fuel-efficiency standards to dampen the Chinese demand for oil, a carbon tax to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, or more aggressive energy intensity reduction policies to reduce energy consumption and harmful air pollutants. It will be difficult, however, to persuade China to accept such policies if the United States has not itself adopted them.
China's energy-related challenges are many, including the need for energy to sustain economic growth, its rapidly increasing foreign dependency for oil and gas, the need to provide modern forms of energy to China's rural poor, the increasingly severe urban air pollution, the massive acid deposition across most of China's land area, growing concerns about global climate change and the need to rapidly reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, and access to advanced energy technologies to address all of the above challenges.
China's long-term energy security is not only dependent on having sufficient supplies of energy to sustain its incredible rate of economic growth, but it will be equally dependent on its ability to manage the growth in energy demand without causing intolerable environmental damage.
Only with the development and deployment of improved energy technologies can China achieve its targets for development and economic growth while avoiding energy conflicts and global climate change. The big questions, therefore, are:
The United States and China are now the two largest energy producers and consumers in the world. China presently consumes two-thirds as much commercial energy as the United States does, consumes one-third as much oil as the United States does, imports one-third as much oil as the United States (although China's oil import growth rate has been much faster in recent years); uses two-thirds as much electricity as the United States does; consumes almost twice as much coal on a per-ton basis as the United States; and has only 13% of the world's coal reserves compared with 27% for the United States.
Unlike in the United States, coal absolutely dominates the energy picture in China. Coal accounts for three-quarters of commercial energy supply in China and it also accounts for approximately 80% of China's CO2 emissions. (4) In 2006, China reportedly consumed 2.2 billion tones of coal, mostly in power plants and industry.
So far, the transportation sector is not a big consumer of energy in China, accounting for only 8 percent overall. (5) China's new fuel-efficiency standards and fiscal policies for fuel consumption for passenger cars will help to avoid a big increase in oil consumption there, but given the huge potential market for automobiles there, the fuel efficiency standards will need to be further strengthened and complimented by measures to reduce the demand for automobiles and fuel consumption if China is to avoid becoming the biggest oil-consuming country in the world.
According to the latest official data available, China currently emits about 15% of the world's total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning, as compared with 22% in the United States. China's per-capita emissions are one-sixth that of the United States. So, currently, the United States is the largest emitter in the world in both aggregate and per capita terms, but China is catching up quickly in terms of aggregate emissions. The International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook 2006 projects that China's greenhouse gas emissions will surpass the United States in 2009, and a subsequent report has indicated that China's emissions may surpass those of the United States as early as this year. Most of China's emissions come from the industrial and electricity sectors. As of 2000, electricity accounted for 52% of CO2 emissions (and 75% of China's electricity is consumed by industry) (6), cement accounts for 28%, iron and steel for 9%, and transportation for 8%. (7)
As I documented in my recent book, China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development(8), (The MIT Press, 2006), foreign direct investment can be a highly effective mechanism for the transfer of technology, but technology transfer (especially clean technology transfer), does not happen automatically. With respect to the automobile industry, I found that there was very little clean technology transfer for many years. There must be incentives in place to elicit clean technology transfer because the private companies do not find it in their interest to develop, transfer, and install cleaner technologies on their own. These incentives can take many forms, and the one that proved most effective in the case of the Chinese automobile industry was the establishment of emission standards for cars. Other incentives that could theoretically be effective include consumer demand in the recipient country for cleaner or more efficient technologies, requirements that cleaner or more efficient technologies be transferred in the private joint venture or licensing agreements, concern about a company's image in failing to transfer clean technologies to a developing country, or an international agreement that established rules for foreign direct investment.
Before the Chinese government set its first emission standards for cars, which went into force in 2000, neither the Chinese domestic companies nor the foreign joint venture partners installed pollution control devices in the automobiles. But, as soon as the standards were promulgated, all the joint venture firms complied, which required the transfer of catalytic converter technology to China. With respect to fuel efficiency, the Chinese consumer has tended to demand fuel efficient cars because it generally cares about fuel costs more than the U.S. consumer. This consumer demand led to some design modifications for vehicle models being introduced into the Chinese market before there was a fuel-efficiency standard, but, again, it was not until 2005 when China's first fuel efficiency standards took effect that there were significant technological changes. Theoretically, the joint venture contracts could have provided a stronger incentive for cleaner technology transfer if the Chinese side of the automotive joint ventures had bargained harder for such technology, but they did not for a variety of reasons. Again, the lack of a policy framework on the part of the Chinese government prior to 2000 created a lack of incentive for technology transfer, and therefore a lack of leapfrogging to cleaner technologies in the automobile industry. Now that the Chinese government has passed more stringent pollution control standards, and scheduled even more stringent fuel efficiency standards that will take effect in 2008 for passenger cars, the Chinese auto industry is catching up quickly environmentally, and will likely leapfrog beyond where the United States currently is with respect to fuel-efficiency technology in the Chinese car fleet.
Beyond the automobile industry, we have seen a lack of leapfrogging in other major energy-consuming sectors. Most worrying from the standpoint of climate change is the power sector, dominated by coal, where more than half of China's power plants are smaller than 300 MW. In fact, there are more than 5,000 plants that are smaller than 100 MW (24% of total capacity), resulting in very poor energy efficiency and high emissions of SO2, NOx, and CO2. There are a handful of supercritical plants, and the first ultra-supercritical pulverized coal plant came on line in November 2006 (Huaneng Group Yu-Huan plant). Thirty-four more ultra-supercritical plants are under construction. (9) Because of the strong imperative to provide sufficient electricity to keep the economy growing in the face of chronic electricity shortages, the Chinese have been building relatively inexpensive, inefficient, sub-critical power plants. The sub-critical plants are generally highly polluting in terms of SO2 and NOx, and they are also carbon-dioxide intensive. Pollution standards for SO2 and NOx have not been enforced well, so compliance has been poor. Also, these plants cannot be easily or cost-effectively retrofitted to capture and store carbon dioxide when and if China decides to cogreenhouse gas emissions, so China is effectively locking into a high CO2-emission future with each new plant that it builds of this kind. Again, the lack of an effective policy framework results in very weak incentives for Chinese and foreign firms alike to install more expensive pollution-control technologies.
For many years now, the Ministry of Science & Technology (MOST) in China has supported an aggressive research and development program for advanced coal technologies, and this is beginning to bear fruit with the new super-critical, ultra-supercritical, and coal-gasification polygeneration plants that are being demonstrated and deployed to a limited extent now. In general, the significantly higher cost of the more advanced, efficient power plant technologies from foreign companies have proven prohibitively expensive. The first planned integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) coal plant, for example, was halted due to the unexpectedly high costs of the foreign technology at the time. This problem motivated the Chinese government and electricity companies to redouble their efforts to produce their own indigenous technology, and now three IGCC plants using indigenous technology are planned for the current 5-year plan.
I would recommend four priorities for enhancing U.S.-China energy cooperation to address the effects of China's energy use, and to encourage private-sector adoption of greater energy-efficiency and cleaner technologies.
First, as soon as the United States has established a domestic mandatory program to reduce greenhouse gases, the United States should ask China to adopt one as well, unique to its own circumstances. At the same time, the United States should consider forming a bilateral or multilateral investment fund to accelerate the deployment of low-carbon technologies in China. This fund could provide low or no-interest loans or direct grants for major new industrial facilities or power plants that utilize low-carbon technologies. Without policies in place that effectively require the use of low-carbon technologies (e.g. CO2 performance standards or carbon taxes) or incentive programs that make the use of low-carbon technologies financially attractive (e.g. coal gasification loan guarantee program), the private sector will have no incentive to develop, transfer, and deploy low-carbon energy technologies in China. The establishment of concrete greenhouse-gas policies in both the United States and China is of the utmost urgency.
By using the cheapest technologies currently available, China is rapidly locking into high greenhouse-gas-emitting industrial facilities and power plants for decades. Coal use in China's industrial and electric power sectors is growing very rapidly, and many of the plants and facilities that are being built will last for multiple decades. The lifetime CO2 emissions from the coal-fired power plants projected to be built worldwide in the next two decades will be equivalent to all the CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants from 1751-2000. (10) According to the reference case of the International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook, 55% of the incremental coal-fired electricity generation between 2004-2030 will take place in China. CO2 emissions from Chinese coal-fired power plants alone are expected to be 5450 MMT CO2 in 2030, business as usual (equivalent to 13% of global emissions in that year. (11) Of course, construction of high- CO2 emitting facilities is happening in the United States too, but at a slower rate. The rapid growth in energy-related planand infrastructure in China is expected to continue during the next few years, so "leapfrogging" to lower-carbon technologies in the near term is absolutely critical. One cannot imagine that China will pre-maturelyretire their new power plants or factories (just as the United States would not)
Second, there is much scope for enhanced energy-technology cooperation between the two countries. Joint research, development, and demonstration projects can be valuable for both countries, and they also can be a mechanism for bringing the U.S. private sector in contact with Chinese partners. While there has been ongoing technology cooperation between the U.S. Department of Energy and Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology through the protocols on fossil energy and energy efficiency and renewable energy, it has been inadequate and underfunded. High priority areas include research, development, and demonstration of carbon capture and storage, renewable energy, energy storage, and energy efficiency technologies.
Third, the United States government should negotiate a bilateral agreement with the Chinese on oil security. Since China is not a member of the International Energy Agency, but it is now one of the world's largest oil consumers, the United States should negotiate an agreement with China on oil reserve and stockpile data disclosure and the release of oil stockpiles in the event of an emergency.
Finally, and perhaps most difficult, the United States should significantly bolster its cooperative activities related to capacity building for energy and environmental data collection and reporting, policymaking, institution-building, and enforcement. As a developing country, China still lacks many of the necessary institutions, policies, and enforcement mechanisms that are needed to foster vibrant markets, technology transfer, and environmental protection. This is particularly the case at the provincial and county level in China.
(1). firstname.lastname@example.com
(2). Energy Information Administration, India Country Analysis Brief, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC, January 2007.
(3). U.S. China Business Council, "US-China Trade Statistics," downloaded from http://www.uschina.org/statistics/tradetable.html.
(4). Energy Information Administration, International Energy Outlook, U.S. Department of Energy, 2006.
(5). National Bureau of Statistics, Statistical Yearbook of China, Chapter 7: Energy, 2005.
(6). China Energy Database, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
(7). Center for Clean Air Policy, "Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in China," November 2006.
(8). MIT Press, 2006.
(9). Lifeng ZHAO, "Progress and Development of Clean Coal Technology in China," Presentation at Energy Technology Innovation Project seminar, Harvard University, February 13, 2007.
(10). As calculated by David Hawkins, Natural Resources Defense Council.
(11). International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook2006, OECD/IEA, Paris, 2006.


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MAY 16, 2014 — On May 16, 2014, the Culver-Stockton College Board of Trustees elected Dr. Kelly M. Thompson as the twenty-sixth president of Culver-Stockton College. She has accepted this nomination and will begin her duties July 1, 2014. Thompson, the College's first woman president, replaces Richard Valentine, the College's first alumnus president, in this position.
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The battle for enterprise smart phone supremacy is still young, but with any luck at all we're already seeing a potential end-game. A new set of "hints" indicate that VMWare, one of the foundations of the virtual computing world, has set its sights on smart phones as the next platform deserving a virtual future. Srinivas Krishnamurti, VMware's head of mobile phone virtualisation opened up about the virtual smart phone future to Tim Lohman of ComputerWorld Australia, and the interview is most interesting.
I found out about the interview from a brief article on virtual smartphones at Gizmodo. The fact that it's in the Gizmodo queue could lead you to think that this is all about the consumer market, but I think that, like server and desktop virtualization, it will have the largest impact on enterprise IT departments.
I'll grant that there will be consumers who jump on this but, like so many lines around IT these days, the line between consumer mobile and enterprise mobile is getting awfully fuzzy these days. For the folks in the data center, though, a VMWare solution that made it easier to provide a single application image for whichever smart phone the individual wants to buy or choose would make life a lot easier. As security and vulnerability management issues become more critical for smart phones, solutions like the probable VMWare product (I'll throw in the caveat since it's not a fully-released product and we're in an industry that has had the occasional planned product that never really shipped) will be lifesavers for IT groups charged with making sure that The Bad Guys don't use smart phones as fast lanes into the enterprise data.
The biggest deal about this is that it's another big step toward treating smart phones as just another legitimate enterprise platform. Many companies are moving in that direction already, but others are waiting for the genre to mature -- and this is a real move in that direction.
I've got a list coming up of the top ten things I'm looking for in mobile enterprise for 2010. I'd love to see your list (or just individual items you think should be on mine). Let me know what you think -- and check back soon for the beginning of the list.


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Re: Redefining the minus operator
Ben Kovitz wrote:
> Is there a way in Mathematica to redefine the minus sign to stand for a
> function of your choosing?
> For example, I'd like to be able to do something like this:
> In[1]:= Subtract[a_, b_] := MINUS[a, b]
> In[2]:= FullForm[x - y]
> Out[2]:= MINUS[x, y]
> In[3]:= 1 - 0
> Out[3]:= MINUS[1, 0]
> What actually happens is:
> In[2]:= FullForm[x - y]
> Out[2]:= PLUS[x, Times[-1, y]]
> In[3]:= 1 - 0
> Out[3]:= 1
> Naturally, I'd also like to redefine the plus sign, too. When Plus[a_,
> b_] is redefined as PLUS[a,b], then x + y indeed evaluates as PLUS[x,
> y]. But Mathematica still simplifies if there are numbers in the
> expression: FullForm[1 + 0] comes out as 1.
> Ben Kovitz
> Humboldt State University
This is definitely an unwise thing to do unless it is just for interest
or you have a very specialised application in mind. However, the first
thing to realise is that you don't want to redefine Plus - that is too
late in the translation process and also extremely disruptive to the
rest of Mathematica. What you need to do is add extra definitions to
MakeExpression to change the translation from BoxForm. The following
code is designed to work in StandardForm:
restructure[{a_}] := a;
restructure[{a_, "+", b_, c___}] :=
restructure[{RowBox[{"PLUS", "[", a, ",", b, "]"}], c}];
restructure[{a_, "-", b_, c___}] :=
restructure[{RowBox[{"MINUS", "[", a, ",", b, "]"}], c}];
restructure[{"+", b_, c___}] :=
restructure[{RowBox[{"PLUS", "[", b, "]"}], c}];
restructure[{ "-", b_, c___}] :=
restructure[{RowBox[{"MINUS", "[", b, "]"}], c}];
MakeExpression[RowBox[s : {___, "+" | "-", ___}],
StandardForm] := MakeExpression[restructure[s], StandardForm]
Notice that this code will also translate +a into PLUS[a] and -a into
MINUS[a]. Also 1+2 is translated into PLUS[1,2]
I would be interested to know what you want to do with this code - as
there may be better ways to solve your problem.
Please note that this is a rather unusual piece of code, so TEST IT WELL
before you rely on it.
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The Excel Columns function receives an Excel range and returns the number of columns that are contained within the range.
The syntax of the function is:
Where the array argument is the Excel range for which you want to return the number of columns.
The following spreadsheet shows three simple examples of the Excel Columns function.
Note that the above functions were calculated in Excel 2010. Therefore, the formula in cell A3 (which returns the number of columns in the whole of row 1 of the spreadsheet) returns the value 16,384, as this is the number of columns in Excel 2010. If this example were run in Excel 2003, it would return the number 256.
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Like many entrepreneurs who run seasonal businesses, John Gidden needs working capital during the quiet months. So when the Victoria-based businessman became frustrated with traditional banks "becoming more and more difficult to deal with," he decided to take advantage of a merchant cash advance.
The co-owner of Victoria Ice Cream and Fudge Factory and Oh Gelato uses the advances to help fund his businesses. "They offer a very flexible solution to our financing needs," Mr. Gidden explains. "We pay down the advance during our busy season. We can then go back and draw on them again in the winter season if more capital is required from time to time."
A merchant cash advance is a purchase of future debit- and credit-card sales. Business owners receive cash for future revenue, and in return, funders recoup their advances by automatically withholding a percentage of daily electronic transactions until the initial amounts are repaid, plus margins.
"The funder takes the sales risk," says David Gens, founder and CEO of Vancouver-based Merchant Advance Capital Ltd. "If the business ends up processing a lower volume of transactions, the funder must wait longer to receive their funds."
Borrowers give Mr. Gens access to their debit- and credit-card processing information, and he takes 2 per cent to 10 per cent of daily sales.
Mr. Gens says the total fees charged for a merchant cash advance range between 20 per cent and 40 per cent of the funds advanced, depending on the size and risk of the deal. For example, a retail customer recently received an $80,000 advance in return for $100,000 of future debit and credit sales. Ten per cent of sales are being forwarded to Merchant Advance Capital until the funder recoups the $100,000.
He admits the percentage is higher than the 5-per-cent to 25-per-cent business financing interest rates typically charged by Canada's major banks. "You can't compare apples to oranges," explains Mr. Gens, adding his clients are usually unable to get help from banks.
He says merchant cash advance rates are higher because the deals involve higher risk. "If a business goes out of business, we end up taking a loss," Mr. Gens adds. But, he says, his company will make reasonable efforts to work with a closed business to recoup its debt.
Only seven financing companies are currently offering merchant advances in Canada. The self-regulating industry has been in operation across the country for about six years, though merchant cash advances have been available in the United States for 15 years.
Not everyone is enamoured with the concept. Keir Clark, senior wealth advisor with ScotiaMcLeod, warns against merchant cash advances. "There is a high cost," he says, adding that businesses have to pay back much more than they borrow.
He advises entrepreneurs to have a realistic funding plan that includes affordable financing options.
Small business financing blogger Ami Kassar shares Mr. Clark's view of merchant cash advances. "They come at a price." That price is a large financial burden until the merchant cash advance is repaid, Mr. Kassar says.
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He says entrepreneurs considering this type of financing must do their homework, shop around, and secure the best repayment terms possible.
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Maryland will play at Syracuse on Monday, November 27 when the two teams take part in the 19th annual 2017 Big Ten-ACC Challenge as announced by the conference offices today.
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Melo Trimble will look to be the latest Terrapin to enter the professional ranks when the 2017 NBA Draft commences on Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The two-round draft will be televised live on ESPN.
Maryland men's basketball rising sophomore forward Kevin Huerter has been named one of 18 finalists for the 2017 USA U19 World Cup Team.
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Rising sophomore Kevin Huerter has accepted an invitation to attend the 2017 USA Basketball Men's U19 World Cup Team training camp June 18-25 at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In addition, redshirt freshman Joshua Tomaic will compete at the U19 World Cup for Spain when the tournament tips off in Cairo, Egypt from July 1-9.
The Maryland men's basketball team will travel to Syracuse for the 2017 Big Ten/ACC Challenge as announced today by ESPN.
Head coach Mark Turgeon spoke about the team's upcoming summer workouts and the recently concluded spring sessions during the Terps on Tour event last Thursday at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
The Big Ten and Big East Conferences announced Wednesday the matchups for the Gavitt Tipoff Games, with Maryland hosting Butler at the XFINITY Center on Wednesday, Nov. 15 on either FS1 or the Big Ten Network. Tipoff will be announced at a later date.
Rising sophomore forward Justin Jackson announced Wednesday that he will return to the University of Maryland for his sophomore season.
The Friends of Maryland Basketball (FOMB) hosted its annual end-of-the-year dinner Thursday at the Congressional Country Club to celebrate the 2016-17 season.
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Thousands of workers protested for a third day Wednesday after Bangladesh's worst garment factory fire as police arrested three managers over claims they stopped employees from leaving the burning plant.
At least 5,000 workers left their factories and joined the protests, pelting plants with stones and streaming through the main streets of Ashulia industrial area, just outside Dhaka and home to 500 manufacturing outlets, police said.
"They were demanding justice for the fire victims and arrest of the Tazreen owner," Faruq Ahmed, a senior Dhaka police official said.
Ahmed was referring to the garment factory in Ashulia where a weekend blaze left at least 110 people dead and more than 100 injured.
Police fired hot water from a water cannon to disperse the crowd while more than 100 factories declared an impromptu holiday for the day, fearing the protests would spread into larger-scale industrial unrest.
Police have arrested three managers of the factory hit by the weekend fire, following charges that they stopped workers from leaving the plant by insisting that an alarm was just a routine fire drill.
Dhaka police chief Habibur Rahman said the managers allegedly told panicked workers they had nothing to worry about when the fire started on Saturday night.
"All three are mid-level managers of Tazreen. Survivors told us they did not allow the workers to escape the fire, saying it was a routine fire drill. There are also allegations they even padlocked doors," Rahman said.


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I tried Miracle Patch Grow on my lawn I raked a lot of moss from it and so there is big area of bare grass,I covered the area with Miracle Grow compost and I applied the patch grow.I did this just over two weeks ago and I just about see some blades coming through but not too many is it early days to see progress
Getting back to my problem I noticed on You Tube in Canada a front garden was in bad shape these men mowed the lawn and put piles of compost down and covered the whole area so there was no grass showing and then they reseeded it, they never showed if it worked.
Maybe a bit early to sow seeds we had a frost this morning but will tackle the soil which is very wet at the moment
I have a small lawn but I have a lot of moss in it this year, so I treated it with moss feed and weedkiller I racked out the dead moss but my lawn looks bare.I just wondered If I should dig over that bad area and throw some seed compost over it with grass seed.
Thanks for that I also have a Bees Jubilee clematis which flowers in in spring and late summer but I never get late summer flowers,should I leave that till feb to prune
I have a wonderful summer flowering clematis which as no more flowers on it,can I prune it back hard or leave it till Febuary
Thanks for your reply I will plant out the the clematis I will have three empty pots any suggestions for nice for plants for pots
I have a Bees Jubilee Clematis in a pot which never as many flowers I just wondered if I should put it in a bigger pot is it best to prune it after flowering,and with the summer flowering Clematis when is the best time to prune I must say I am dissapointed with the ones in the pots as opposed to the three I have in the borders
I have a Choisya in my garden and it as grown too big for the borders,I need to cut it back hard when is the right time to do it and would I lose it if I do this.


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Definition of gather
gatheringplay \ˈgath-riŋ, ˈga-thə-\
transitive verb
1 : to bring together : collect tried to gather a crowd gathered firewood
2a : pick, harvest gather flowersb : to pick up or amass as if by harvesting gathering ideas for the projectc : to scoop up or take up from a resting place gathered the child up in his arms
3 : to serve as an attraction for : accumulate books gathering dust
4 : to effect the collection of gather contributions
5a : to summon up gathered his courageb : to gain by gradual increase gather speedc : to prepare (oneself) by mustering strengthd : to gain or regain control of gathered his wits
6 : to reach a conclusion often intuitively from hints or through inferences I gather that you want to leave
7a : to pull (fabric) along a line of stitching so as to draw into puckersb : to draw about or close to something gathering her cloak about herc : to bring together the parts of gathered her hair into a ponytaild : to assemble (the signatures of a book) in sequence for bindinge : to haul in the sailors gathered the sails
intransitive verb
1a : to come together in a bodyb : to cluster around a focus of attraction
gathererplay \ˈga-thər-ər also ˈge-\ noun
Examples of gather in a Sentence
Give me just a minute to gather my things and then we can leave.
The coach gathered her players together.
She gathered her hair into a ponytail.
The child was gathering flowers to give to his mother.
The police are continuing to gather evidence relating to the crime.
Volunteers have been gathering contributions for the new library.
A crowd began to gather on the sidewalk.
The players gathered together to hear the coach's game plan.
The bicyclists gathered speed as they went downhill.
Origin and Etymology of gather
Middle English gaderen, from Old English gaderian; akin to Middle High German gadern to unite — more at good
First Known Use: before 12th centurySee Words from the same year
Synonym Discussion of gather
synonyms see in addition infer
Definition of gather
1 : something brought together: such asa : a puckering in cloth made by gathering (see 1gather 7a)b : a mass of molten glass collected for use in glassblowing
2 : an act or instance of bringing together
Origin and Etymology of gather
derivative of 1gather
First Known Use: 1555See Words from the same year
GATHER Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of gather for English Language Learners
: to bring (things or people) together into a group
: to choose and collect (things)
: to get or take (things) from different people or places and bring them together
Definition of gather for English Language Learners
: a fold formed when cloth is pulled together
GATHER Defined for Kids
Definition of gather for Students
1 : to pick up and collect They gathered wood for the fire.
2 : to choose and collect gather fruit I'm gathering facts for my report.
3 : to come together in a group or around a center of attraction A crowd gathered on the sidewalk.
4 : to gain little by little gather speed
5 : to bring or call forth (as strength or courage) from within
6 : to get an idea : conclude I gather you don't agree.
7 : to draw together in or as if in folds She gathered her cloak about her.
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(Technology history until 1984 by Ray Gaskins)
It all began in the spring of '68 when a call went out to B&G to send some men to help unload a truck parked in front of Johns Auditorium. A small crowd gathered as the men wrestled the huge crates into the basement. " What's in those crates." someone was heard to say,"pianos?"
"Heck no," Gerry Engel replied, "an IBM computer. But we won't be uncrating it today. We have to wait until the IBM engineer arrives tomorrow."
This was about the extent of the excitement that greeted the arrival of the College's first computer. The 67/68 college catalog, published in the summer of 1968 could manage only five lines in describing the new computer facility which was, for the first few months of its campus life, located in the basement of Johns Auditorium. The February 2, 1968 issue of the Tiger described the acquisition of the new computer in a single paragraph on page four.
The first record of a computer course offered by the college appears in the 1965/66 catalog, two years before the computer arrived. This course, simply titled Computer Programing, was first taught by Gus Franke using the FORTRAN IV language in 66/67. The first class consisted of five students, including Bob Deacle '69 who was immediately hired upon graduation to run the computer. How do you teach a programming course when you don't have a computer? Students would punch up their programs by hand and give them to Gus Franke who would take them over to Ashland and run them on Randolph-Macon's IBM 1800 computer. (Yes, they had a computer before we did.) One thing is for sure, you had to go over your program very carefully in those days because you didn't get very many runs.
Several things changed after the IBM 1130 arrived. For one thing the number of computer course offerings was increased from on to two and then to six. And now almost half of the students taking the courses were young women because Longwood didn't yet have a computer. This was all before my time, mind you. I didn't arrive until 1970, but that same IBM 1130 computer was still here and women were still flocking to our computer courses. It was a good machine, too good, perhaps. If you looked hard enough, there always seemed to be a way to get just a little more mileage out of it. Some called it the most cost effective machine IBM ever built. By the early 70's there were more than 5000 of these units world-wide and talk about software if it could be written on the 1130, it had been, several times.
In case you don't know the difference between an IBM 1130 and a Wang 320 calculator (Yes, we had one of those, too), perhaps the following will help. The 1130 was an early third generation computer that was introduced at about the same time as the IBM 360 (1965). It was a single user batch machine with card input, which meant that you had to stand in line with a deck of punched cards to run your program. It had a single platter hard disk with enough storage for one million characters, a printer capable of printing 80 lines per minute, and card read/punch that could read 300 cards or punch 120 cards per minute. There is a beautiful color picture of the 1130 on page 16 of the 1970 Kaleidoscope . This picture was taken after the 1130 was moved from the basement of Johns to what was the John Brooks Fuqua Computing center in Bagby Hall.
Gerry Engel and Bob Deacle pretty much ran the computer operation during those early years (1967-72). They developed a Student Information System, (SIS), which was used by the registrar. Registration in those days was a big affair, requiring most of the faculty and administration to get together down in Gammon Gym for a couple of nights to hand out course cards to students. These course cards were then batched together and read by SIS. SIS consisted of about 75 programs and was so complex that it would often "bomb out" in the middle of a run for no apparent reason. In 1971 Engel went away to get his doctorate but, instead of returning, he became head of computing at VIMS.
Perhaps Hampden-Sydney's most important contribution to computing during the early years was made by Bob Deacle when he successfully implemented the SNOBOL3 language on the 1130. This implementation was subsequently made available to COMMON, which distributed it, free of charge, to any 1130 user in the USA who requested it. Deacle was hired away form Hampden Sydney in 1973. Several years later, a friend of mine at Winthrop College, knowing of my interest in SNOBOL3, sent me a version which he said had been recently developed in France. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that this French version was simply our SNOBOL3 translated from English into French.
Tom Gee was brought in from Virginia Tech on my recommendation as a replacement for Bob Deacle. Tom was a very capable fellow and getting him was too good to be true literally. Through an oversight on our part he was never given a contract to sign. Thus, early in 1974, when he got a better offer, he was free to leave- and he did. It was up to me to step in and take over and I did. One of the first things I did was to totally rewrite SIS during the period 1974-75 and the new version, SIS II, was used until 1980.
Starting in about 1974, various efforts were made from time to time by various groups to replace the 1130. When Longwood decided to acquire an IBM System/3, there were those who thought it would be a good idea for us to do likewise. I opposed this because the System/3 would not have been good for our academic program the 1130 was older, but it was a better overall machine. Everything from going remote to UVA or VPI to sticking a bunch of PDP 11/23s around campus was studied and rejected over the years either because it was a bad idea or because the money to do it could not be found.
In 1976 I began a two-year leave of absence, leaving one of my students, Lee Brown '76, in charge. Lee was the right man for the job and executed it so well that Dean Mayo was prompted to say to me: "gee, you're not indispensable after all." I'm not sure how that was meant, but, having trained Lee, I took it as a compliment. Lee left in 1977 to attend graduate school at UNC/CH. His replacement, Frank Kluttz, was hired away from us shortly after I returned from my leave in 1978, so once again I found myself having to take over. During this time, a student, Paul Seay '79, was contracted by the Development Office to write an alumni system. the system was so large that the only way he could make it work was to use two disks - all the programs were on one disk and the data files were on another. Since we only had one disk drive, you can imagine the fancy footwork required to run the system. But it did work, even though it drove the 1130 almost beyond it's limits.
By 1977, IBM had dropped all software support for the 1130. This simply meant that there would be no further releases of system software. We could live with that. But what we were now facing, and could not live with, was IBM eventually dropping hardware support. Between 1977 and 1979, the quality of service seemed to be going down at about the same rate that the cost of service was rising. IBM seemed to be sending us a message get rid of the 1130. Thus, with our backs to the wall, Dan Poteet (the Dean), Merrill Espigh (the Registrar), and I teamed up in 1979 to make what turned out to be a successful effort to replace the 1130. The first thing we did was to hire a staff (Karen Harris as machine operator and Jim Gamble as programmer/analyst), so that, by the time the 1130's replacement arrived in June of 1980, we were able to handle the enormous conversion problem of moving 500,000 cards worth of programs and data from the IBM 1130 to the Perkin-Elmer 3240. By mid 1981, we were essentially off the 1130 but it was not officially retired from service until December. The only thing it was used for after 1981 was running SNOBOL3 programs for Computer Science and to occasionally warm up the lab on a cold day.
We tried unsuccessfully to find the 1130 a good home during most of 1982 and finally resorted to selling it for its scrap value ($200) during the summer of 1983 just over fifteen years after it first arrived on campus.NB: The above history first appeared in the 1984 Kaleidscope on pages 64 & 65.


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Re: Introducing the Wolfram Mathematica Tutorial
On 5/12/09 at 3:08 AM, btreat1 at austin.rr.com (DrMajorBob) wrote:
>In addition, the Mac OS/X Spotlight will search _all_ text PDFs on
>the disk for a word or phrase, almost instantly. Every PDF that
>includes the word BinCounts, say, appears at once. Each promising
>document has to be opened separately for a local search, but it's
>not hard to ignore your own notebooks if you want to, or FOCUS on
>your own code examples, if you prefer.
>This would also work for Doc center notebooks if they were (a) on
>the disk and (b) NOT in system directories ignored by Spotlight. (So
>it DOESN'T work for Doc center notebooks.)
But Spotlight isn't the only tool available on a Mac for doing
searches on a Mac. There are the Unix tools find and grep which
allow searches for any text in any file regardless of whether it
is part of an application package or not. Additionally, this can
be done from Mathematica itself using FindList with FileNames.
And all of this works just fine with notebooks. In fact, since
notebooks are ASCII files, these tools work better with
notebooks than PDF files.


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