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Are you struggling to activate your muscles during your workout?
This "Muscle Activation" Series is meant to explain the science behind mind-muscle connection and provide you tips to build a balanced strong, beautiful body.
Just as the glutes, the upper and lower back are areas that are harder to activate.
Especially men tend to workout solely their Chest muscles. As many people sit a lot nowadays, building and activating the Chest muscles is no issue. When you are sitting and bending over your desk to write or read something, your chest muscles contract and pull the shoulder blades forward.
Over time, this leads to bad posture, as well as back and neck pain, not to forget shoulder injuries.
Let us focus on the Upper Back muscles today. As I have scoliosis, training the Back muscles has been my biggest obstacle but also the most effective at decreasing pain.
The Upper Back: Rhomboids, Latissimis dorsi, Trapezius muscles
These muscles all work together to keep your shoulder blades in place and pull them back.
Try to draw your shoulder blades closer to each other: Feel that contraction? Those are mainly the Rhomboid muscles.
Now put your arms overhead and try to push your shoulder blades down, without moving your arms. You should feel a contraction right at your armpit. That is the latissimus dorsi muscle.
The trapezius muscle also keeps the shoulder blades in place and mainly works when you shrug your shoulders upwards. As we do that a lot in our everyday life, I will not address them specifically in this post.
Complete Beginner exercise
The best exercise to build a mind-muscle connection with the Rhomboids and Lats is done with a Broomstick.
My PT showed me this exercise when I first visited her with extreme pain (I could barely walk). I had literally no back muscles at all back then.
- Take a broomstick and hold it overhead. You can also do this with a Resistance Band, but I find the broomstick much more effective. You can also take a light barbell.
- Now, try to push the broomstick/barbell apart with your hands. Really put some force into this, as the broomstick/barbell will not give in and break. At the same time, push your shoulders down as much as you can. Hold this contraction for 5-10 seconds and then relax. Do this 30-50 times.
- You should keep your whole body stable with this exercise. Contract your Abs and Glutes, slight bend in the knees to engage the Quadriceps and don't shrug your shoulders upward.
- If you do this right, your whole Upper Back should be on fire, and you should be trembling while holding the contraction. The Back muscles are one of the biggest muscle groups in our body (after the Lower Body), so this exercise uses a lot of energy and needs focus.
The Rhomboid Muscles
Exercises to target this area: All kinds of Rows
Before you initiate the movement, push your shoulder blades down and rotate the shoulders outward. Keep your arms very close to your sides, as if you had a purse under your armpit. Contract the Abs and Glutes at all times. Only row the weight with your Back muscles, not your arms!
Bent over Rows:
Only bent over as much as you can hold the contraction in your Glutes and Abs. It does make the exercise harder the more you bent over, but it is not worth it to risk injuring your spine!
Dumbbell bentover Rows:
Keep the weights close to your sides. This is very important to prevent spine injuries.
Barbell bentover Rows:
Like with the broomstick, push the barbell apart with your hands while rowing. This will further engage the Lats and your whole Upper Back.
One arm Rows:
Again, hold your arms close to your sides. Contract your abs very hard with this one, as your body will naturally tend to turn to the opposite side. Keep your body parallel to the ground at all times and only row the weight with your back muscles. Try to raise your elbows above your torso to fully engage the Rhomboids. Start with light weight!
Renegade Rows:
This is a tricky exercise, but works your whole upper back, core and glutes. Make sure to resist the urge of turning your body to the side that rows the weight. Keep your body parallel to the ground and only use your upper back muscles.
Back Bows/ Reverse Hyperextensions:
Excellent for the entire back (upper and lower), as well as the Glutes and Hamstrings. Try to push your shoulder blades together and tilt your pelvis posteriorly to engage the Glutes and Abs.
With all these exercises, try to use as much weight as you can feel the muscle working. That can be 1kg or 20kg, it all depends on your strength. The only person your are competing with is yourself, so try your best to become a better version!
Also, utilize burnouts and pulses.
As you are using lighter weight, these burnout techniques will really help to build the muscle. For example, do 20 repetitions of an exercise, then 20 Pulses at the top of the motion. Your back will be on fire after that.
Latissimus dorsi
Exercises to target this area: Pulling movements
Pull over:
Here is how I set up for this exercise:
- Lie down on the floor or on a bench and keep the weight above your head.
- Now press your lower back against the ground and contract your abdominal and pelvic muscles.
- Slowly drop the weight overhead until you feel a stretch in your Lats (armpits).
- Now, using force with your upper back and Lats, bring the weight back until it is above your head again.
Underhand Grip Row:
The different hand position really activates the Latissimus dorsi. Try to push the barbell apart with your hands and keep the Glutes and Abs contracted at all times.
Lats Pulldown:
This is the Lats Pulldown that is done at a machine in the gym. It can be done with Bands as well and is just as effective. Make sure to contract your Core and Glutes first, push down your shoulder blades, then row the bands towards your body only using your back muscles.
Pull up:
The king of all Back exercises. This is extremely difficult and I can only do 1 TRX Pull up. Build your strength by doing Rows and Band Pulldowns at first.
Sample Upper Back Workout
Warm up
2 sets of:
- Bodyweight Reverse Fly -25x
- Bird Dog -10x on each side
- Scarecrows – 25x
The Workout
Complete 3-4 sets of each exercise:
- Lats Pulldown (Machine or Bands) – 15x -12x -10x (start light and use heavier weight/bands for the next sets)
- Bent over Rows – Underhand-grip 10x super set One arm Rows – 15x -12x- 10x
- Back Bows – 15x super set with Pull overs -10x
- Seated Band Rows -15x super set with Bent over Rear Raises – 10x with 10 Pulses
⇒ Burnout: Reverse Fly weighted – 15x, then 15 Pulses
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I hope you liked these tips to activate your back muscles. Make sure to check out the other parts of this series:
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Why Did The French Revolution Occur
Why did the revolution occur in France? Was it based on the inequalities between the Clergy, Nobility, and Commoners?
Why did the revolution not happen earlier?
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The basic reason for French Revolution can be attributed to inequalities existing between different classes of people, and to the growing interest of the people in new ideas about governments. However, the direct event which led to start of revolution can be attributed to the financial problems faced by the government.
The French people were legally grouped in three classes or estates. The clergy and nobility were members of the first and second estate, the two higher class people. These were prosperous and enjoyed high status. They enjoyed many privileges, but paid very few taxes. All other people, formed the third estate. These are the people who may be described as the commoners. The third estate consisted of peasants, workers, merchants, lawyers and government officials. The peasants and workers who constituted majority of third estate were very poor. Others, who may be described as middle class people were prosperous, but like other groups in third estate enjoyed low status. Thus there was great inequality. Particularly middle class people had strong desire and motivation to seize more power in the society.
Also people in France had become acquainted with new ideas about more egalitarian and just governments under the influence of writers in France and other countries. For example, Jean Jacques Roseau, stated that "right to govern is derived from people." Ideas like these fired the imagination of people and gave them moral strength to fight against oppression. They clamoured for improving their condition by having a system of government in which they have greater say.
The fuse of revolution was finally ignited by the financial crises in the government. The Seven Year War (1756-1763) and French support to American Revolution (1775-1783) had put a heavy strain on the government finances and the government was bankrupt. When the government was looking over means to tide over this crisis, and organized a meeting of representatives of all the three estates, the first two estates tried to suppress the views of the representatives, who than revolted. This is the way French Revolution Started in 1789 and ended in 1799, when Napoleon Bonaparte seized control of the government.


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If I spring a leak she mends me
I don't have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
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You would say it cause you think I'm changing
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ain't that heaven-sent?
You know those lights were bright on Broadway
But that was so many years ago
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There are not many who remember
They say a handful still survive
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That's the night the lights went out in Georgia
That's the night that they hung an innocent man
Don't trust your soul to no backwoods southern lawyer
Cause the judge in the town's got bloodstains on his hand
When the lights go down in the city,
and the sun shines on the bay,
do i want to be there,
in my city,
ohoh ohohoh ohoh
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When I see my inner city child, I'll be walkin' on a cloud.
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Willett throws down gauntlet to Rory
Masters champion Danny Willett fired a 'catch me if you can' warning to Rory McIlroy as the box office stars of the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open paraded their talents at the K Club yesterday.
Willett's return to the European Tour for the first time since his stunning success at Augusta last month revealed a steely determination to justify his new status as a Major champion.
McIlroy entered the fray with confidence in his game, and shrugged off the weight of pressure which has regularly stunted his performance level in this tournament.
The outcome was some fine golf played on a tough course in strong winds which kept the 12,834 spectators royally entertained.
Willett shot 65, McIlroy carded 67, equalling his previous best opening round in the Irish Open, putting him right on course to make the cut for the first time in four stagings of this tournament.
Visibly relaxed, the tournament host remained cautiously optimistic for today's second round.
"It's only one day, and I still have to make the cut tomorrow," he said.
"Until I get into contention and win this event, I don't think any weight will be lifted off my shoulders, so I'm going to have to try as hard as I possibly can, and focus as hard as I possibly can, to get the job done this week."
Willett, bidding to become the fifth Englishman to win the tournament in eight years, bounced back very well from his missed cut at the Players Championship in Sawgrass last week.
"It was a good day. Played some really good golf. Got off to a pretty scrappy start and chipped a few birdies in and got a bit hot with the putter," he said.
" You can't really go out there expecting to shoot any kind of number, and 65 was far beyond my expectations for today, especially after waking up with it a bit raining," he said.
"A bit raining" was an understatement for the torrential downpour which lashed down on the early starters.
The afternoon groups, which included Willett, McIlroy, Darren Clarke, and Graeme McDowell, got the best of the weather.
Shane Lowry and Paul McGinley were among the early birds who bore the brunt of the downpours, but the wind, the length of the course and the premium on driving accuracy helped check the overall scoring.
Just 30 of the 156 starters beat par. Callum Shinkwin of England and Jaco Van Zyl (South Africa) were hot on McIlroy's heels with four-under 68.
Martin Kaymer, twice a Major winner, and former Irish Open champion Ross Fisher set the early clubhouse lead at three-under par, and showed in their opening 69 they can make a decent challenge.
Today, the biggest galleries will follow the leaders, Willett, and McIlroy.
They start off the 10th tee, Willett at 8.35, and McIlroy ten minutes earlier.
McIlroy was pleased that the Masters winner is now in his sights.
"Hopefully it entices people to come out and watch the golf over the next three days," he said.
"Having Danny here is obviously a huge help and playing as he did today, it would be great if we could have a battle over the weekend and get the crowds to flock in. It will be one I'm looking forward to."
McIlroy's only blemish on the card was a three-putt bogey on the 14th.
"I think there was more out there. I thought it was a very comfortable 67, getting to minus-five after 14 with a couple of par-fives to come, and then had a bit of a blip on 14 with the three putt, but apart from that I felt like I played pretty well," said McIlroy.
Paul Dunne, who had spent most of the last week recovering from a bout of colitis, shot a creditable 70 in his first Irish Open.
"I played well, for the whole day, really," said the Greystones man.
"I played the first poorly, and managed to get a nice par, and from there, I just played really well.
"I made two sloppy bogeys on 16 and 17, really from nowhere, and it was nice to get a birdie on the last."
Lowry with 71, one-under par, was the next best Irish player.
He enjoyed plenty of home support and felt the confidence flowing in his game, despite the tough conditions.
His score could have been better but for a bogey on the ninth hole, his last, where he admitted to getting a little careless with his approach after a good drive.
"I felt good. I hit the ball really well today, a lot of good iron shots, especially on my back nine, the front nine there," he said.
"If anything, my second shot on nine was almost too easy. It was 150 yards straight downwind. It was just a little wedge and I hit about an inch behind it
"It's not the end of the world. If anything I should have gone down and got it up-and-down because it was a fairly straightforward bunker shot.
"I actually had a good up-and-down for a five. I would have been really disappointed if I was sitting there at level par.
"I feel like I probably should be at least two or three better, but they don't give out trophies on Thursday, so I'm in the tournament. I'm looking forward to the next few days."
McDowell joined Lowry on 71, and was happy to bounce back from a double-bogey on the third hole.
"I kind of made five from nowhere there on the par-three third," he lamented.
"I hit a fairly innocuous looking tee shot and an okay chip, and rifled it five feet by, and missed the one back, and thought, uh-oh, but I hung in well after that."
Rookie pro Gavin Moynihan and Ryder Cup 2014 captain Paul McGinley were satisfied to start on level par 72.
Darren Clarke, Peter Lawrie and another rookie, Gary Hurley, were in a group on 73. The best performer of the three GUI amateurs in the field was Colm Campbell Junior on 75.
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This idea is excerpted from Barbara's book "Balancing Acts: More Than 250 Guilt Free, Creative Ideas to Blend Your Work and Your Life" (Dearborn Trade Publishing, 2003)
Research shows that one of the things employees want is a "feeling of being in on things." Family members want the same thing–to be a part of one another's lives outside of the home. That is why parents often annoy their children by constantly asking, "What happened at school today?" The exciting news is that there are many fun and interesting ways to involve your family in your work, and when that happens, you'll be surprised at how much more willing they are to include you in their whole lives as well.
Manny Garza, the president and founder of Manny Garza Encouragement Ministries shares the impact sharing his work with his family has had on his daughter:
The impact of constantly finding ways to include my eleven year old daughter, Jordon, in projects for the ministry we operate has affected her more than her mother and I realized. One day recently we discovered that she had formed her own ministry. She had produced her own business cards on her computer. She also made a poster describing her ministry, demonstrating a clarity of vision that could be an example to businesses everywhere! She named her ministry "One Step Closer – We help you get closer to God.." She even gave a description of how she got started, giving me the credit for something I didn't even know I had done. It just impressed on me so powerfully that sometimes the greatest influence we have in our children's lives comes not so much from our words, as from our including them in the activities of our work.
- Videotape the place where you work. Do a "walking tour" showing where you park in the morning, where you enter the building and what it looks like on the outside, the reception area if you have one, the cafeteria or breakout room where you have lunch each day, and most importantly, your office, cubicle, or work area. (Make sure you have a family picture and family mementos VISIBLE in your workspace.) Include "hello's" from some of your colleagues if you feel comfortable.
- Invite your family members, perhaps one at a time, to join you for lunch. Some parents allow their children to each have a special "Dad or Mom" (or Grandpa/Grandma, Aunt/Uncle) day when they get to take a day off from school to visit their family member's workplace. Don't forget to invite your parents, too. No matter what their age, they will be thrilled to see what you have accomplished in your work.
- Give your family members logo gifts from your organization so that they feel like they are a part of your worklife. By creating a feeling of partnership with your family, you are helping to stop feelings of jealousy that you care more about your job than you do about them. Also they will enjoy the pride that comes from advertising "their" favorite organization.
- Ask your family members to help you with a work project. It may be as simple as stuffing envelopes, or stapling papers, or filing and sorting; however, if it is done as a family, it brings closeness rather than separation. Have little children put stamps on envelopes while older children can information into the computer. Then plan some sort of celebration as a reward at the finish of the task. My family members are very involved in my work as a professional speaker and author. My daughter Erin creates all the bright-colored, laminated flip charts I post around the room or ballroom whenever I speak. My daughter Gretchen creates the wonderful slides I use in my presentations, and her husband Randy is my webmaster. My son Garrett at one time was involved in selling my books, and my husband Charlie often traveled with me and kept my financial records. It has become "our" business!
John Blumberg, a professional speaker from Naperville, Illinois, shared with me how he and his son,Ryan, found a fun and creative way to blend work and family:
My 14-year old son, Ryan, had been attending the National Speaker Association's National Convention with me since he was 10. It had become an annual tradition for the two of us and we both looked forward to it. Ryan loved attending the Youth Leadership Conference, while I attended the "adult" version of the Convention! Each night we enjoyed heading up to our hotel room to compare stories of our day's activities.
Now attending the convention for his 5th year, Ryan was becoming increasingly observant of all aspects of this annual event. We were sitting and waiting for the 7:00am NSA-style Sunday Mass to begin. It was early, and we had been up late, but Ryan was already observing. He leaned over and asked why some people had orange nametags. I shared with him that those were given to speakers who had obtained their Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, a significant designation within NSA that is earned by the speaker. I knew what Ryan's next question would be: " When are you going to get an orange nametag?"" My automatic pilot responded , "Soon.." The next logical question, " How soon? "
I then explained all the paper work and data collection that you had to do to complete the application. It isn't difficult, but it does take time. It was then that I saw the application challenge as an opportunity. And so I asked him a question, "Do you want to help me get that orange tag? " He didn't hesitate, "Sure! "
Within a week of returning from the convention, we picked a couple of nights to work on making a list of all the presentations I had done. I had fortunately kept one envelope for every speaking engagement with all the details inside the envelope. It would have been a huge chore going through this data gathering by myself, but with Ryan, it turned into an interesting project. As we listed the events, he would ask questions about many of them. It was fun to reflect on each of those audiences and experiences, and I know Ryan has a greater insight into what I do as a result of our working together. It was the perfect opportunity to blend work and family– and turn a chore into a JOY in the process!
- Don't forget parents or other elders. Often our parents or older relatives have no idea what we do, so finding ways to include them in your work not only can help you but can also bring them great joy. Invite them to lunch if they live close or are visiting and introduce them to your co-workers and boss. Even if they live at a distance, you can find creative ways to involve them in your work such as asking them to do a research project for you at the library or watching for articles on a subject that relates to your work.
Organic, a web-design and e-services firm in New York City held a "Bring your Parents to Work Day" to help parents learn what their web-obsessed kids actually do for a living. The first event was a talk show during which the parents did their best to explain what their children do. Then they were told what their children really do and why. After pizza, the employees checked back in with their parents who now finally understood more about their careers. What a wonderful way to promote intergenerational understanding and communication!
- Bring home articles about your work, pictures of your boss and co-workers, and samples of your marketing materials. If you help to create a product, bring home examples to show your family. Children also love the fun little "gimmicky" things we often get at trade shows or from vendors. When you bring these things home, they know that you were thinking of them.
- Bring home a video of projects that you are working on to show your family. The more they feel involved in your worklife, the more understanding they will be when you have to stay late or work on weekends.
- When you receive an award at work, make sure you share it with your family. Invite them to the ceremonies if possible. If you receive a monetary reward, find a way to do something to share it with each family member such as an outing of some kind or a gift that you have all been wanting. You might even have a family conference to make that decision and let each family member have a vote. Let them really know that you couldn't have done this without their support.
- When you are involved in a long project, give your family a calendar so that they know exactly the extent of your commitment. Each night at the dinner table they can check off a day, and you can report on your progress. This way, even if it is spread over several months, they can see an end in sight and also feel a part of the process. (This idea works especially well if you have to travel. Color code the travel days on the calendar,especially for young children, so that everyone knows what to expect and can plan around your schedule. They can also check off the days to visually "see" how long it will be until you return.) Use fun stickers to mark special points of progress or accomplishments along the way. And don't forget to celebrate THE END!
- Invite family members to help with a project at the office. Burns Smith from Nationwide Insurance told me about one of the most memorable days his sons have ever had. It occurred when he brought them to work with him on a Saturday morning. The company had decided to dispose of a large pile of old videotapes, so this person took his two sons to the conference room, gave them the tapes, and a couple of hammers, and told them to destroy the tapes in any way they'd like. He said they worked for several hours, pounding the tapes, jumping on them, and strewing tape film they had pulled out all over the room. He says they STILL talk about that day many years later! Another person shared how she brought her children into the office on the weekend after a business trip. They helped her sort her "in" box to get prepared for Monday morning.
Lorraine Harris, the Human Resource Manager for the Lake County Health Department in Waukegan, Illinois, says, "Periodically, I take my ten year old daughter to work and have her do light typing, photocopying, sorting papers, etc. We discuss different events that occur in my job and compare how it relates to things she does at school such as comparing performance appraisals I do with report cards that she gets."
Kha Thomas-Williams, the assistant City manager of Thomasville, Georgia, has her daughter help her with filing for her HR publications which accumulate all too quickly! She says, "Both my kids (8 and 11) help me set up meetings at offsite locations. They really like helping when the meetings are held at plantation locations because they get to see nature—the woods, lakes, and all the forest animals."
Karen Petris of the Hartford Insurance Company had a Power Point presentation to do, so she made a big bowl of popcorn and asked her 11 year old son Stephen to help. He surprised her by creating some wonderful slides using the image of a house and adding accessories and other additions as the presentation went on. He ended up having fun doing the whole presentation, Karen didn't waste her weekend with something she wasn't good at, and the people to whom she was presenting loved the story of the "family affair!"
Barbara Glanz Biography
A member of the prestigious Speaker Hall of Fame and one of fewer than 700 Certified Speaking Professionals worldwide, Barbara Glanz, CSP, CPAE, works with organizations to improve morale, retention and service and with people who want to rediscover the joy in their work and in their lives. She is the first speaker on record to have spoken on all 7 continents and in all 50 states. Known as "the business speaker who speaks to your heart as well as to your head," Barbara is the author of twelve books including The Simple Truths of Service Inspired by Johnny the Bagger®, CARE Packages for the Workplace, and 180 Ways to Spread Contagious Enthusiasm™. Voted "best keynote presenter you have heard or used" by Meetings & Conventions Magazine, Barbara uses her Master's degree in Adult Learning to design programs that cause behavior change. She lives and breathes her personal motto: "Spreading Contagious Enthusiasm™" and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com and www.barbaraglanz.com.


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Dave Mitchell's DigitalMicrograph™ Scripting Website
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Request from the Author
: I am entering the final year of my contract at the University of Wollongong (UoW), and am looking for a new challenge. In the last eight years I have worked in three different organisations and have fitted out and commissioned a high performance microscopy lab and rolled out five new microscope systems including the aberration-corrected JEOL ARM200F at UoW. This facility has been a great success (even if I do say so myself), being fully booked out over a month ahead, and with a wide range of internal and external clients, many of whom are now publishing very high impact work. I have managed facilities, trained/mentored/managed staff, developed maintenance, operational and practical training procedures and lecture programs for many forms of microscopy - ranging from basic biological imaging through to atomic resolution imaging and spectroscopy. My research experience spans applied and fundamental research in National Laboratories, Industry and Academia and I have published over 100 peer reviewed journal articles and dozens of commercial reports. (see the
Contact & Bio
page for more details). Holding dual nationality I have the immediate right to work in Europe and Australia. At my career stage I am much more motivated by being interested and challenged by doing worthwhile and relevant work with good people, than in climbing the career ladder. I am happy to consider working anywhere, provided nobody is shooting at me and that the work gives me cause to think. One to three year contracts are ideal, especially in organisations with a strong commercial/industrial/client focus. If you have a job position becoming available, and think I might have something to offer, please
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software front-end to their range of cameras and spectrometers for transmission electron microscopy (TEM). DigitalMicrograph™ also interfaces with non-Gatan hardware, such as the Omega filter on
JEOL's 2200FS
TEM. As such, this software is used by the majority of TEM users in the World. In its own right, DigitalMicrograph™ is a powerful image processing and manipulation program, which can be used to manipulate and process images from a range of sources, not just those derived from TEM. Perhaps the most powerful attribute of DigitalMicrograph™ is also its least well known, namely that it is fully scriptable. This allows users to develop programs (scripts) to do everything from simple image manipulation, through to sophisticated data acquisition systems for controlling microscope hardware. This allows users to fully customise their microscopy environment and to provide niche capabilities which no manufacturer could ever hope to do in a commercial program.
Scripts can be incorporated into DigitalMicrograph™ as new menu items, and thereafter the implementation is effortless and the tools can be used by users without any scripting knowledge.
Visitors to this site may simply wish to download specific tools and implement them without ever understanding the scripting involved. That is absolutely fine - users are welcome to use this software as they see fit. If this software contributes in any significant way to any published works acknowledgements are always welcome, and citations even more so. The author has written a number of
journal articles
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If users wish to modify any of this code, again they are welcome to do so. The more scripters there are out there, the better. However, if you do redistribute such modified software, please attribute the original bits to the author.
This site is not intended as a repository of software by other authors. These should be directed to the
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Please report any broken links or other problems with this site to the
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Gatan have now released a free version of DigitalMicrograph. This is available in either 32 or 64 bit versions and is compatible with Windows 7. The free version of DM can be obtained by
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GMS 3 has now been released. At present I will not be using it for any development work, since so many users (myself included) will remain on GMS 1 and 2 systems due to microscope/plugin dependencies. GMS 3 has a radically different user interface to GMS 2. However, the undelying modes of operation are largely unchanged. There is new functionality related to microscope control, but for day to day scripting - even that involving talking to cameras/spectrometers etc, nothing much will have changed. Scripts listed as being compatible with GMS 2 here should therefore be compatible with GMS 3. I do not explicitly test my scripts for compatibility though. If you discover an issue in GMS 3, please let me know. If it doesn't require a major rewrite, I'll fix the problem.
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There is so much we can learn from children, when it comes to learning foreign languages.
Wendy Vo was fluent in 11 languages when she was eight years old. A true genius, of course. But what is her language learning secret? See what she does and how she learns. SHE ASKS QUESTIONS ALL THE TIME. And she listens to people's answers and learns new words and concepts, through DIRECT EXPERIENCE…. You don't need to be a prodigy to adopt this easy, and extremely effective technique!
She is of course very lucky to have supportive parents who can afford to pay for her private tutoring and she is certainly very studious and patient. But I think her fluency and the extremely fast approach in the languages she learns has very little to do with her tutors.
The girl's approach to picking up languages comes from within her, it is consistent and genial. She uses the same techniques with her tutor and the guy in the shop, whom she literally uses to improve her vocabulary in Arabic. She doesn't waste a second of an opportunity.
Unlike us (or many of us) who believe paying for a language course/private tutor and attend a lesson once a week will do the trick. And then we wonder why is it we have been "learning" the language for over a year now and still can only barely order a glass of wine in the bar…
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Download ESCAPE GAMES -JOY 209 apk v1.0.0 free for Android smartphone
Posted by Joy arrows in Puzzle | Nov. 13, 2014 | 9 Comments
Apk file size: 2.2 MB
joyarrows- Unique Home Escape is another point and click room escape game developed by joyarrows. A person is planning to go to his friend house and reached that place, but he has been locked by the some unknown persons.Help that person to leave the house by finding the variety stickers through hidden items placed in the home .Use unique skills to escape from the house.Have a fun! Good Luck.
Joy arrows part of our Puzzle and have average installs from 10000 to 50000. Last Update Nov. 13, 2014. Google play rating is 84.4928. Current verison is v1.0.0. Actual size 2.2 MB.
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Toni Mayhew
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I put the patern of the green table in different ways and never got it :(
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JSE is firmer ahead of Donald Trump's press conference
The JSE was in positive territory on Wednesday afternoon with international bourses mixed as markets waited for US president-elect Donald Trump press conference for clues on his fiscal spending policies.
At 12.58pm, the local share market was 0.31% higher at 51,884.8 points, with resources, industrials and financials all in positive territory.
European markets were slightly higher with Paris's CAC 40 up 0.22%, UK's FTSE 0.23% and the German DAX 0.34%.
Earlier, in Asian markets, the Nikkei and the Hang Seng were up while the Shanghai Composite was lower. Dow Jones Newswires reported that these markets were broadly higher on encouraging global economic data and Trump's press conference "with investors cautiously optimistic" that he would take the opportunity to welcome foreign investment.
Among gold miners, Sibanye shed 1.26% to R26.68, AngloGold Ashanti 0.59% to R158.81 and Harmony 0.79% to R32.80.
Anglo American Platinum was 0.82% down to R290.13.
Among retailers, TFG was down 1.41% to R151.52 and Woolworths 0.76% at R65.57.
Aspen was up 0.89% to R278.96.
Barclays Africa showed up best among the big four banks, gaining 0.54% to R168.23.
MTN was down 3.01% to R129.87, with rival Vodacom was marginally firmer.
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Does CFdesign integrate with UG NX7.5?
Looking for cfd software that interfaces with UG NX 7.5. Does CFdesign have a UG interface? If not, which one does?
The current version of Autodesk Simulation CFD (formerly CFdesign) does support UG NX 7.5. I believe this CAD connection was introduced in the CFdesign 2011 winter build, so anything more recent than that will fit the bill.
Does CFdesign integrate with UG NX7.5?
Are you trying NX8.
I am user of siemens PLM NX8. if you try this version you must can do.
if you try NX8.5 version this is more better for you .
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Back in LA, and down at the USC campus. Good to be back! Click below for larger view.
Well, it is the first day of the new academic year's teaching cycle. I'm here in my office at 7:30am (the power of jet-lag) and somehow have to switch my mind back firmly onto teaching and other matters. It's always tough to do this, since there are always lots of intensely interesting research issues that continue on my mind from the Summer, and I know that some of those will gradually begin to fade (if I am not careful) as my other duties take up so much of my day to day. My first class (part one of the upper level electromagnetism course) is at 10:00am, and I want to plan out the structure for the whole semester, and write a syllabus to hand out and discuss. As well as the first lecture, of course. I've not taught this part of the cycle before, and so I'll have to be writing new lecture notes.
I want to try some new things this year. In particular, I've become increasingly concerned that students are not practicing basic mathematical techniques on their own as much as they used to, and this is affecting their ability to do everything efficiently (or at all), from solving homeworks over the course of the week to performing well in classroom exams. I think this is at least in part to there being less and less time in the timetable set aside for this sort of practice, and once it becomes optional, it does not get done. So since I cannot convince my colleagues overnight to re-introduce official guided working sessions on the timetable for this sort of thing (I wish I could – it might not even be possible the way schedules are so packed these days), my plan is to have some time set aside in my classes for what I'm calling "classroom worksheets", where we'll do that sort of thing together in lieu of a lecture1. It ought to be useful not just for electromagnetism, but for every other physics class they'll do. We shall see how it works. It will take time and planning (and willingness to participate on the part of the students to get the most out of it).
I'd hoped to get the longer, twice a week (Tue+Thur) class schedule for this semester to try out this new worksheet regime, but instead I got the shorter (50 min), three times a week (Mon+Wed+Fri) instead, which is far from ideal (hard to work through a narrative arc of problems in 50 minutes). That's life, I suppose – the calendar would not allow this to work across the class scheduling for the department.
Also a drag (Even if I was not doing the class worksheets) is three short lectures a week rather than two nice long ones. You can tell the story so much better in the latter format, in my opinion. Of course, another drawback of MWF is that I have three days a week devoted to teaching, which fragments things more with regards immersion into research. Well, rather than whining about my lot I'll just have to re-organize my routine to work around this, so as to get regular quality research time each week. I've done it before, so I can do it again2.
The switching continues…on other non-research matters, I've already agreed (in my insanity) to chair a university-wide committee on certain matters to do with undergraduate teaching…. and this is in my newly declared (as of end of last year) regime of saying "no" to more such requests. Not a good start, but this one did seem really interesting and of value. Going to have to be tougher with the next such request, but I'm such a softie.
[Update:] Had the first class. They seem like a good bunch. I think we're going to have a lot of fun this semester.
- I've been sneaking these sorts of worksheets into my classes (graduate and undergraduate) for a few years now. This will be the first class where I schedule them ahead of time and properly build them into the syllabus rather than bring them up mid-course as a sort of emergency measure! The idea is that we have a class where I shut up (mostly) and the students get out pen and paper and work on a series of take-you-by-the-hand questions. Every now and again we stop and discuss what's going on, trade ideas, tips, and so forth. And it's graded, since they'll hand it all in at the end of the class. [return]
- This also makes it really hard to accept invitations to go off to do things off campus during the semester. Giving research seminars, serving on useful national or international committees, etc. I'm determined to not stop doing those however, as long as the invitations keep coming (and they do). The classes being in the morning is good, since that will allow me to do the occasional mad dash to the airport for at least some medium-distance travel. I think I also can schedule some longer-range journeys around midterms and the midterm post-mortems that I've put into the calendar. My hope is I can twist the arm of my TA (assuming I get a good one) to take the reigns in those cases. Shhh! Don't tell anyone! [return]


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Recipe from Publix Apron's Program
- Yield
- 4 servings
- 1 tablespoon fresh rosemary leaves, finely chopped
- 3 shallots, thinly sliced
- 10 small fresh figs, coarsely chopped
- 1 pork tenderloin (about 1 lb)
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 2 tablespoons canola oil, divided
- 4 oz Deli diced pancetta (or bacon)
- 1 cup fresh pre-sliced baby portabellas
- 3/4 cup Marsala wine
- 1/3 cup fat-free chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- Chop rosemary (leaves only). Slice shallots; chop figs (1/2 cup each). Season pork with rosemary, salt, pepper, and 1 tablespoon oil; let stand 5-10 minutes to marinate. Preheat grill pan (or grill). Place pork in grill pan (or on grill); grill 15-20 minutes, turning occasionally, or until 160°F (for medium). Let stand 5-10 minutes before slicing. Preheat large sauté pan on medium-high 2-3 minutes. Add remaining 1 tablespoon oil, then add pancetta, mushrooms, shallots, and figs; cook 2-3 minutes or until pancetta is golden and mushrooms are tender. Add wine; cook 2-3 minutes, stirring often, or until liquid has reduced by about one-half. Add broth; cook 2-3 more minutes. Remove pan from heat; stir in butter. Slice pork, then top with sauce. Serve. CALORIES (per 1/4 recipe) 500kcal; FAT 25g; CHOL 95mg; SODIUM 730mg; CARB 31g; FIBER 3g; PROTEIN 27g; VIT A 10%; VIT C 8%; CALC 6%; IRON 10%
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- Calories513
- Carbohydrates30 g(10%)
- Fat28 g(44%)
- Protein28 g(57%)
- Saturated Fat9 g(47%)
- Sodium521 mg(22%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat5 g
- Fiber5 g(18%)
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Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank (RISB)
Elizabeth Turnage
Clemson University
General Description
Measure of personality adjustment
Semi-structured projective method of assessment
Stem provided
Respondent writes a sentence
"The relative freedom from prolonged unhappy/dysphoric states (emotions) of the individual, the ability to cope with frustration, the ability to initiate and maintain constructive activity, and the ability to establish and maintain satisfying interpersonal relationships."
General Description
Three forms available
High School Form
College Form
Adult Form
40 items, typically completed in 20-25 minutes
Currently in its Second Edition
Two slight changes made to the sentence stems
Stems for Item 7 and Item 40 changed to "Men..." and "Most women...," respectively.
Brief History
Revised from an experimental form used in the U.S. Army by Rotter and Willerman (1947)
Two primary objectives in its initial development
1.) An objective measure that retained the unique advantages of projective methods
2.) NOT to expose the "deep layers" or "fundamental structure" of personality, but rather to save the clinician time in obtaining information of specific diagnostic value
Administration of RISB
Simply hand Response Sheet to respondent and give no further instructions other than, perhaps, to follow the sheet's instructions.
May ask if they must complete every item or if they must complete the items in order
Good responses for these instances
Can be administered on either an individual or group basis
No special training required for administration
Other Considerations in Administration
Alternative methods of administration
e.g., individual has an educational deficit or physical disability
Flynn's (1974) finding about oral versus standard written administration
*Use caution when implementing variations of the standard administration method*
Could affect various aspects of the testing situation, the responses, and/or the scores
Reliability, Validity, and Normative Data
Description of Items
Short and unstructured
Third-person stems are not used
Due to Rotter and Rafferty's (1950) finding about such items
Male and female responses scored to different criteria
Only one line provided for respondent's sentence
Standard procedure for the scoring system
Objective Scoring System
Derive an Overall Adjustment Score
A numerical index of adjustment
Designed to meet the initial purposes of the RISB
Useful for screening purposes, for tracking changes in scores over time, for making comparisons, and for many research purposes
The scoring system has been found to be quite reliable, and the interpretation based on it has been found to be valid.
Not meant to be the only or necessarily primary method of evaluation
Scoring Examples
Male and female scoring examples
Each item scored on a 7-point scale
0 (most positive) - 6 (most conflict)
Total of all 40 items = Overall Adjustment Score
Scores could be 0-240; most are between 80-205
Example scores were primarily drawn from responses of 58 male and 53 female college students whose personality assessments ranged from extremely well adjusted to extremely maladjusted.
Scoring principles given for more dissimilar completions
Scoring Principles
Omissions and incomplete responses = not scored
Length of responses: Add 1 point for those >10 words
Conflict responses (C)
Twisted answers
C1 (mild conflict) = 4 points
Minor problems
C2 (moderate conflict) = 5 points
Broader difficulties -- feeling inferior, inadequate, problems in relationships, generalized social difficulties, etc.
C3 (severe conflict) = 6 points
Suicidal thoughts/feelings, sexual conflicts, severe family problems, fear of insanity, bizarre attitudes, strong negative attitudes towards oneself/people, etc.
Positive responses (P)
P1 (mild positive) = 2 points
Positive attitudes towards school, hobbies, people, etc.
P2 (moderate positive) = 1 point
Good social adjustment, healthy family life, optimism, etc.
P3 (Strong positive) = 0 points
Good-natured humor, real optimism, warm acceptance
Neutral Responses (N) = 3 points
Exceptions to the above categories
Interscorer reliability = .72 - .99
Internal consistency --> Split-half = .84; Cronbach's alpha = .69 *moderate values expected*
Test-retest reliability = .82 for short intervals of 1-2 weeks; .38-.70 for longer intervals of 6 months to 3 years
Authors' defense for the lower reliability coefficients -- RISB is a measure of stable traits.
Validity -- "...[has] the most consistent evidence supporting the validity of its score interpretations for use in the diagnosis and assessment of adjustment" (Goldberg, 1965; Watson, 1978).
Normative Data
Original 1950 norms for College Form: based on 85 female and 214 male freshman-year students at Ohio State University.
New norms derived through use of samples collected in 1977, 1988, and 1989 --> Increase in normative scores since 1950.
No new normative sample was reported for the second edition.
Need continued research into the changes in RISB normative scores for college students.
Rotter, Lah, & Rafferty (1992)
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Lukas Podolski, Arsenal's German forward, has delighted the club's followers all around the world with his cheeky response to a question posed by a fan on his Twitter account.
The left-footed striker, who scored the second-fastest international goal in football history, has stated his opinion to retire rather than play for fierce north London rivals Tottenham Hotspur — a response that reiterates the intense passion shared by the club's players when their loyalty is called into question.
@whosuspendedme Retire.
— Lukas-Podolski.com (@Podolski10) January 15, 2014
Podolski's return from a lengthy injury layoff has not been quite as good as he would have hoped for as the player is waiting to feature in Arsene Wenger's game plans more regularly. The goodwill from a spectacular strike against West Ham United after coming on as a substitute quickly evaporated after a poor performance against Cardiff City as his wait on the sidelines continued into the match against Aston Villa.
Much was made of the player's perceived disappointing reaction when Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain was substituted ahead of him in the dying moments at Villa Park last weekend, but Podolski responded with an amicable gesture by tweeting his happiness for his colleague, who was also returning from a prolonged injury break.
Good feeling to see Ox on the pitch again. I'm happy for you, bro! #comeback #theox #poldi #afc #aha
— Lukas-Podolski.com (@Podolski10) January 14, 2014
Podolski will no doubt play a key role in Arsenal's goal-scoring plans this season with Theo Walcott injured. The FIFA World Cup later this year should be a huge motivation for the national first-team regular, and he needs to remind Wenger to start playing him consistently up front soon. A galore of important goals should make this very easy. The onus is on Podolski himself as Arsenal fans hope to see the club continue their run at the top of the Premier League.
Chaitanya Goparaju is a Soccer writer for RantSports.com. You can follow him on Twitter @chaitanyagvc, "Like" him on Facebook or add him to your network on Google.


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Autonomia Foundation Hungary www.autonomia.hu. Main activities Grant making Local (regional and community) development Research Programs Financial Development and Education Autonomia's target group The Roma living in countryside. Autonomia's target group is the Roma.
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Main activities
Grant making
Local (regional and community) development
Research Programs
Financial Development and Education
Autonomia's target group
The Roma living in countryside
Identification of the Roma is not an easy. Who is the Roma? Self-identification / Microcensus (in 2001) / classification of the neighborhood. (Size of the Roma population is between 5 and 10%.)
Though our main target group is Roma we involve non-Roma too, (let it be other non-Roma in need or pro-Roma NGOs, workers of local governments and institutions)
Exclusively Roma projects cannot improve the cooperation between the Roma and non-Roma but maintain the segregation.
Therefore we design our projects for socially excluded people in depressed microregions and settlements. This very simple geographic definition usually is appropriate because the majority of the Roma live in these settlements. We target the local, vulnerable, socially excluded people (with small differences regarding the aim of the given program).
But understanding their situation is not so easy…
Besides of the obvious facts:
Exclusion from the labor market;
Lack of regular and legal wage (from registered job);
Lack of job opportunities;
Segregation, discrimination;
We consider that there are not any specific characteristic of the Roma in Hungary. Every problem of the Roma exists in the whole Hungarian society as well. The difference is the concentration and seriousness of the problems.
The Roma community is not uniform. There are three groups of the Roma with different culture and socio-economic background.
1. In the developed world, the greatest problem is undoing the ravages of the welfare system.
Over and over clones of Grameen Bank have run into the same problem: would be recipients quickly calculate the amount of the welfare cheques and insurance coverage they would loose by becoming self-employed and conclude that there is nothing to be gained by it.(…)
In industrialized countries, 'informal businesses' are seen as illegal 'street hustles'.
(Banker to The Poor, The Story of the Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus with Alan Jolis, Aurum Press, 2003)
2. The cost of legality: These businesses cannot make enough income to cover the tax and rates. If they turn their economical activities into legal it will have deficit.
1. In Hungary, we had a boom of loan market: Consumption loans, housing loans and loans for cars were promoted in the media. Commercial banks had generous subsidies from the state for housing loans. The majority of the Hungarian society enjoyed this situation without responsibility. The result is the overconsumption is the overdebtness.
2. Foreign currency denominated loans were very popular because of the attractive monthly installments but clients did not care about the "small letter parts". Caused by the financial crisis and significant changes in exchange rates they face to the higher installments and cannot pay the loans back.
3. Before the financial crisis, numerous financial scandals, swindles, cheats have happened in Hungary. The whole financial sector lost its credibility and clients become suspicious and cinical.
4. As a reaction, some of the debtors just not to pay the bank's money back without shame. So getting loans become difficult as banks are careful.
5. People of local communities do not trust in each other. Nobody wants to take real financial responsibility. Their strategy is very simple: Catch the money and run.
Aims and challenges for Autonomia
not only providing a new loan product because it would be another loan or oil to the fire…
designing new type programs for financial education and consolidation of households (with community development, financial education, loan products)
adopting and piloting group-lending methodology.
Our strategy
To help people to set up long term asset goals
Creating or empowering communities to make up for missing (positive) identity, self-respect and trust
To prepare reasonable financial education curriculum and methodology: Not to teach but explore the common knowledge.
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Mike Agassi reportedly banged on the fences with a hammer during Andre's matches when his son lost a point, screamed at officials and was ejected more than once.
In a passage from the book Open, Agassi details how his father made him play a match for money with football legend Jim Brown, in 1979, when Agassi was just 9 years old. Brown was at a Vegas tennis club complaining to the owner about a money match that was canceled. Agassi's father stepped in and told Brown that he could play his son and he would put up his house for the wager. Brown countered with a $10,000 bet; but after being warned by the club owner not to take the bet because he would lose and be embarrassed, Brown and Mike Agassi agreed that they'd set the amount after he and Andre played two sets. Brown lost those sets, 3–6, 3–6, declined the 10K wager, and offered to play the third for $500, which he lost 2–6.
At age 13, Andre was sent to Nick Bollettieri's Tennis Academy in Florida. He was meant to stay for only 3 months because that was all his father could afford. After thirty minutes of watching Agassi play, Bollettieri called Mike and said: "Take your check back. He's here for free", claiming that Agassi had more natural talent than anyone else he had seen. Agassi dropped out of school in the ninth grade.
Andre Agassi is now a retired American professional tennis player and former world no. 1. Generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Agassi has been called the best service returner in the history of the game. Described by the BBC upon his retirement as "perhaps the biggest worldwide star in the sport's history", Agassi's performances, along with his unorthodox apparel and attitude, have seen him cited as one of the most charismatic players in the history of the game, and credited for helping revive the popularity of tennis during the 1990s.
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