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Exactly a year to the date of last year's coldest arctic outbreak in the Charlotte region, another burst of polar air is spilling into the Carolinas on Wednesday.
An arctic cold front is expected to cross the immediate Charlotte area sometime around midday, and temperatures will tumble from around 40 degrees late Wednesday morning to 10 degrees by daybreak Thursday. And forecasters said there will be even colder readings in some places not far from Charlotte.
The good news, according to meteorologists, is that long-range guidance indicates the Carolinas might escape a messy ice storm early next week.
It was a year ago today when the temperature dropped to 6 degrees in Charlotte. It's not expected to get quite that cold Thursday morning, but readings at daybreak probably won't be too far from the record of 8 degrees for the date.
A wind chill advisory is in effect for Wednesday evening and early Thursday. Winds will gust up to 30 mph from late afternoon until around midnight, causing wind chills of 5 to 15 degrees. Forecasters said the winds will abate overnight, but they'll still be blowing at up to 10 mph, causing wind chills slightly below zero in Charlotte.
In the mountains, wind chill readings could tumble to 10 or 15 degrees below zero.
There are two threats from this cold -- the wind chills, which will be a problem from about 6 p.m. Wednesday until midday Thursday; and the prolonged cold, which will be a problem for water pipes and heating systems.
The polar outbreak will send temperatures below freezing in the Charlotte area from about midnight until shortly before noon Friday. Some areas above 3,500 feet might not get above freezing until Saturday.
Thursday's highs in Charlotte will only reach the upper 20s. Highs will be in the lower 40s Friday.
When temperatures are in the teens for many hours, as will be the case Thursday, frozen water pipes are the typical result. Be sure to keep water dripping from a faucet tonight. Plumbers say it's best to use the faucet farthest from where water enters the house.
Heating systems obviously will be seriously taxed. Assuming it's too late to get a system checkup on
Wednesday, you might want to consider putting towels around window sills that leak cold air. And make sure electrical outlets are covered.
Another tip ... on Thursday, when the sun is shining, be sure to keep your blinds open on sunny sides of the house. Even though the temperature is in the 20s, the solar heat will help warm the inside of your residence.
Looking ahead to next week ...
Moisture is expected to arrive Sunday and intensify Monday, but the computer guidance can't agree on whether that will pose a threat of wintry precipitation for the Charlotte region.
The moisture is coming, the computer models agree. But they can't agree on the timing, and that's important. One strong high pressure system over New England will be moving out to sea Sunday, to be follow by another late Monday or Tuesday.
Two of the three most heavily used computer models predict the precipitation will arrive in the "gap" between the two cold high pressure systems. That means cold rain for the Charlotte region. The Global weather model predicts the precipitation will arrive with enough cold air still around for freezing rain Sunday.
The National Weather Service is leaning toward the cold rain scenario.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
First the cold; then a narrow escape Monday?
Exactly a year to the date of last year's coldest arctic outbreak in the Charlotte region, another burst of polar air is spilling into the Carolinas on Wednesday.
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Brutal cold could set stage for weekend headaches
The late Woody Hayes, longtime Ohio State University football coach, used to say that three things can happen when you throw the football, and two of them are bad.
That's sort of what it's like when an arctic air mass moves into the Carolinas. As long as the cold is here, or even nearby, we're at risk of trouble.
The cold air -- our coldest of the season -- will arrive Wednesday afternoon. The wind will pick up, and temperatures will fall late Wednesday afternoon and evening from about 40 degrees into the teens. By Thursday morning, many spots in the Charlotte region will be sitting at 10 degrees.
It won't get above 30 degrees in most areas Thursday afternoon, and it'll drop into the teens again Friday morning.
A second arctic air mass will arrive late Friday or Saturday, and although the temperatures with the second system won't be quite as cold, they'll be cold enough to leave us at risk of trouble Sunday.
That's when a low pressure system off the Mexican coast could push eastward and begin affecting the Southeast.
One heavily used weather computer model, the Global, is predicting that the storm system, while weak, will spread precipitation into the Carolinas on Sunday morning. At that point, temperatures will be cold enough for freezing rain. I realize that some people enjoy wintry precipitation, but I don't think very many people want freezing rain. Power outages with temperatures in the 30s are not fun.
The other major weather computer model, the European, is predicting that the energy will remain over Baja California a bit longer and not reach the Carolinas until Sunday evening. By that time, the cold dome of high pressure over New England is expected to have moved offshore, and temperatures will climb enough so any precipitation falls as rain.
This is what we'll be watching over the next few days.
By the way, some of the longer-range computer guidance indicates the cold air will be reinforced early next week, and a fairly strong storm system will form off the Southeast coast. But that's more than a week away, and forecasts that far out are not terribly trustworthy.
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Arctic blast is heading this way
Charlotte-area weather will go through some weird twists and turns over the next 36 hours, but the big story is coming near the end of the week.
An arctic blast, featuring temperatures that are easily the coldest of the season, is poised to envelop the eastern United States and sink far into the South.
The cold air will arrive late Wednesday, as it now appears, and it will be a dry arrival -- no rain, no snow for the Piedmont.
The day of real change will be Thursday. Computer guidance on polar outbreaks is sometimes not extremely reliable, but if you believe what the computer models are forecasting, we might have a tough time climbing above freezing Thursday in Charlotte.
It will be windy, with wind chill temperatures probably at 10 degrees or lower for much of the day in the Charlotte region. That, of course, means we're looking at morning lows Thursday and Friday in the low to mid teens.
There is nothing to indicate at this point that the cold outbreak will be anything but dry. Humidity levels are forecast to be very low, and it would seem that we're talking about clear-blue skies and cold temperatures.
Computer guidance indicates the shot of cold air will be transient, with temperatures back in the 40s by Friday. But some bitterly cold air will be bottled over Canada, and it's not far-fetched to believe that another push of polar air will move into the Southeast early the following week.


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I saw the thread about restoring the map download functionality DICE had started but the conclusion seemed to be that they didn't really add anything to go off.
What if a map downloader were implemented separately, so that when joining a server from ingame, instead of calling bf1942.exe +restart 1 [...] it called maphelper.exe +restart 1 [...] which would handle the map check and then call bf1942.exe +restart 1 [...] itself?
The downloader itself could work like an app called Wadseeker, which hits a (master?) server list and from there searches each server for the map it needs. The brunt of the downloading would fall on a content server and not on the server hosting the game.
The interim executable concept seems to be doable if I change the executable name here:
After changing it I'm able to launch my own test executable (see a video here), the problem there is that this only gets called when the game needs to restart (for a new mod or map), so it wouldn't work on the first go on a vanilla server.
So that leaves two issues in my mind:
1) Anyone know if it would be possible to force the restarting? There was some talk of disassembled code floating around, is this available?
2) Would changing this small amount of code run afoul of Punkbuster?

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What are the legal issues related to making career services offices and employment opportunities accessible to students with disabilities?
In 1990, President George Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law. The law states: "No otherwise qualified individual with a disability shall, solely by reason of his or her disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity of a public entity." The ADA reinforces and extends the precedent set forth by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. This legislation mandates that colleges and universities provide equal access to programs and services for students with and without disabilities, and, like employers, career development programs are required to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified participants with disabilities.
Employers and career development professionals are not required to guess or initiate a discussion about appropriate accommodations. Instead, the student or employee with a disability is required to request accommodations.
The ADA defines a person with a disability as someone who
- has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, including walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working;
- has a record of such an impairment; or
- is regarded as having such an impairment.
Cerebral Palsy, specific learning disabilities, Muscular Dystrophy, AIDS, head injuries, and hearing and visual impairments are some but not all of the disabilities covered by this legislation.
A qualified applicant or employee with a disability is a person who, with or without reasonable accommodations, can perform the essential functions of the job in question. People with conditions of the same name often have very different abilities and challenges. An accommodation is necessary only when a disability impedes the performance of a specific academic or employment task. The ADA requires that an employer provide a reasonable accommodation that will allow a qualified applicant or employee to perform the essential functions of the position. Reasonable accommodations may include the provision of a sign language interpreter for job interviews, staff meetings, and training sessions; spelling-checking software; or a modification to the physical layout of the work site to make it possible for a person with a disability to perform the essential functions of the job.
Employers are not required to make an accommodation if it causes an undue hardship. An undue hardship is an action that requires significant difficulty or expense in relation to the size of the employer, the resources available, and the nature of the operation. Rarely is an accommodation so costly that undue hardship can be claimed. Accommodations often cost less than anticipated. The Job Accommodation Network (JAN), a toll-free service that advises employers and employees about job accommodations, reports that 51% of all accommodations cost less than $500.
Inquiries about disabilities and medical conditions may not be made prior to a job offer. Employers are only allowed to ask applicants questions related to their ability to perform specific job functions. For example, if a student is applying to be an intern web designer, the employer may ask about her ability to meet deadlines, use computer software, and perform specific job tasks.
Career development professionals on college campuses, like employers, are not allowed to ask students if they have disabilities. Even if students volunteer information related to their disabilities to a career counselor or work-based learning coordinator, this staff member should respect their privacy by not talking about their disabilities with employers unless the students have given written permission to do so. Since potential clients may have disabilities that they do not disclose to career services staff, it is a good idea to offer disability-related services information to all students who access these student services.
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When Tukiso Muzondo moved to Vancouver from Montreal last month, she did so with no illusions about the challenges she would face in terms of landing a professional job that matches her skills and ambitions.
"People who had been here all told me how beautiful it was, but in terms of the labour market, they were certainly discouraging," the 34-year-old recent university graduate, with a master's degree in public administration, said.
"But, I decided, if I am going to take a risk, I am going to take it now. I want to give it a shot and try."
Risky or not, it appears Muzondo timed her move well.
The latest labour force numbers from Statistics Canada show a positive trend that began in February in the number of people working in British Columbia.
The agency said Friday that 19,700 more people were employed in the province in April compared to the previous month, an increases of 0.9 per cent.
Compared with 12 months earlier, employment growth in April was 2.1 per cent, the third highest in the country behind Alberta and Saskatchewan. The most significant job gains were seen in the manufacturing and resource extraction sectors.
B.C.'s unemployment rate, meanwhile, dropped from seven per cent in March to 6.2 per cent last month — well below the national unemployment rate of 7.3 per cent.
Bryan Yu, an economist with Central 1 Credit Union, said the numbers all point to a genuine improvement in the province's labour market.
But he questioned the magnitude of that shift, noting the strong numbers don't appear to match what's happening in the broader economy, notably a slowdown in the housing resale and retail markets.
"The overall economy tends to suggest relatively slower growth in the employment numbers," he said.
Yu said he also expects to see a retrenchment in the unemployment rate next month once more data rolls in.
"The last time we saw a decline in the unemployment rate similar to this month, of 0.8 per cent, was going back to about 2002. We don't see these types of movements very often in the data," he said.
Melanie Hardy, associate director of YWCA Employment Services, said job-seekers should be encouraged by the statistics.
"It's been a long recession," she said.
But Hardy said many British Columbians continue to find it difficult to land a job, particularly new immigrants without Canadian work experience, youth, and people with disabilities — all of whom suffer higher-than average unemployment rates.
"We are still seeing those people and we're still working with clients who have been laid off. There is always that disruption in the labour market, so we are always working with those people and our centres are always extremely busy with people looking for work," she said.
In the month since she arrived in Vancouver, Muzondo has been busy plotting out a careful strategy to secure the job she wants.
She's set up a LinkedIn account, contacted recruiters, put her name in at temp agencies and been volunteering at events where she can meet and chat with people who may be able to help her get to where she wants to go.
Bright, articulate and bilingual in both official languages, Muzondo has her heart set on a career in the public sector. But with recent government cutbacks across departments, the hiring priority is not "recent graduates with relatively little experience in the field I am trying to get into," she said.
Still, she is determined not to settle on a job that will not further her career goals until she absolutely has to.
She doesn't have a specific dream job in mind, she said. Rather, it's about the attitude of the company or workplace.
"I really want to align myself with people who are rolling up their sleeves, seeing the difficulties that administrations face and saying, 'What can we do?' And then taking action from there," she said.


text: It's hard for me to believe that I started working with the first board of directors for PASS nearly a decade ago, but it's true. PASS has grown over the years due to the support of the user community, the SQL Server expert community, and Microsoft's SQL Server team. This year's conference is just around the corner in mid-November. If you haven't thought about registering, you should! It's the best and most concentrated SQL Server learning you can get anywhere. This year there are over 130 sessions, dozens of full day pre-conference seminars, and huge contingents from Microsoft's SQL Server support, consulting, and development teams. Take a look at the event schedule at http://www.sqlpass.org. I've had some neat and funny experiences over the years. In 1999, I was awed to meet the late, great Jim Gray for the first time. When I saw him again later that year, he remembered me in detail and, every other time after that, always expressed interest and excitement in what I was up to. What an honor. Back in 2001, I fell off the stage while delivering a session on translatinge between Oracle PL/SQL code and SQL Server Transact-SQL code. That tought me to never anger the gods of Transact-SQL by speaking about other database platforms at their conference. In 2005, I experienced and blogged about the shower that tried to kill me in the conference hotel (http://www.sqlmag.com/article/articleid/47892/sql_server_blog_47892.html). And at the conclusion of the 2007 conference, I'd been working from 6:00 am until midnight or later all week. This resulted in Rick Heiges sending me a picture of me unconscious, literally stone cold asleep, on the lunch table on the conference on Friday. (Did you blog that Rick?) In 2004, I had one attendee stop me on Monday to tell me it was her worst conference ever and that she hated it. I worried about her all year, then in 2005, I saw her sitting at one of the lunch tables. "I worried about you all year!" I told her. "The conference was awesome after the first couple sessions. I really love PASS now. I was just mad because I kept getting lost," was her reply. Whew! One of the things I've most enjoyed about the conference is the awesome people I get to meet. I remember meeting Allen White a couple years ago and was impressed with how eager and intelligent he was (and a good speaker too). Low and behold within a year or two, he had joined the ranks of the Microsoft SQL Server MVPs. I've seen that pattern repeated many times now. It's always a pleasure meeting the true geniuses of the business like Kalen Delaney, Itzik Ben-Gan, Kimberly Tripp, and the late Ken Henderson. If you've ever wanted to talk to the best known authors in the business, you should consider attending the event. They're all gracious people and are happy to speak with everyone. So I thought it'd be fun to hear some other stories from other PASS events. I've tagged several friends below (in addition to Allen and Rick above). Now it's their turn to tell some good PASS stories and to tag a handful of other bloggers in turn! Joe Webb at http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/joew/ Andy Kelly at http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andrew_kelly/default.aspx Roman Rehak at http://sqlblog.com/blogs/roman_rehak/default.aspx Paul Randal at http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/ Aaron Bertrand at http://sqlblog.com/blogs/aaron_bertrand/default.aspx Check their blogs to read their stories. Enjoy! -Ke


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I'm from Oregon and sail all summer in the Columbia River Gorge, but I go to school in Boston for 9 months of the year. I went all last year without sailing but was hoping to maybe get some in this year. So I am wondering what the crash course guide to windsurfing near Boston is. I would be looking to buy some cheap stuff, or possibly shipping some of mine from home out here or just renting.
So I would just like to know where the best places are, how often and hard the blow, places to buy or rent, and things of that nature.
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If you have a car and able/willing to travel a fair amount, you can find decent winds on Cape Cod (2 hours each way). There is a reasonable number of days with winds over 20 or even 25mph there, where you'd find yourself using a 4.7. You should probably leave your 3.7 and 70L board in Oregon, though.
Fall/spring is actually pretty good here, at least by local standards. We may get 2-4 days/week of 20mph+ right in Boston. It's often quite gusty, but not bad. I get a fair number of good days on 4.7-6.0 sails.
Around Boston, Pleasure Bay (close to downtown) is a popular spot. Josh Angulo now lives in Nahant (30 minutes from Boston) and that's become a somewhat popular destination, which may have decent waves from time to time.
As far as renting, your only real options are on the Cape (Sailworld or Inland Sea). Unfortunately, they are not on the beach and you still need a car to drive the gear to the beach. You could join Community Boating in downtown Boston and sail on the river, but you'll find our river very different from the one you sail on.
Expect to get a 180L board with centerboard and a corresponding sail. Of course, you can buy something local - search the usual places (ebay, iwindsurf, craigslist).
Hope to see you on the beach! Nikita.
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Post subject: Re: Looking to sail around Boston
duckwind wrote:
So I am wondering what the crash course guide to windsurfing near Boston is. I would be looking to buy some cheap stuff, or possibly shipping some of mine from home out here or just renting.
Ha ha ha ha ha! If you find some wind here this year,
please let us know!
The autumn season should bring wind pretty soon, Sept
and Oct are often fantastic. Lotsa places on the Cape (Nikita
must drive slowly, it takes me 90 minutes). And Nahant and
Revere can be fun.
Oh, I have a 2009 (or is it 2010?) JP Freestyle Wave 85,
Pro Edition, that I'm looking to sell. It won't be cheap cheap,
but it'll be waaaaay under retail. PM me if interested.
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Here's an old but detailed guide to the area. Most of the shops mentioned are sadly gone, and the "Type II" Bermuda High weather that Kalmus used to be famous for rarely amounts to much these days but the sailing sites info is still pertinent.
Add Ned's Point (Mattapoisett) to the site list (look up "local info" on iWindsurf re Ned's). Ned's is an alternative if you don't want to make the drive all the way to Cape Cod for S or SW wind. It gets a nice thermal, sometimes when most other sites are too light, but never gets as strong on the big days and there's a big slog out/in to the wind often times that gets worse in late afternoon. Swells are harder to come by there compared to other sites unless you dare to go far out (think Celilo like chop close in, if tide outgoing from high) but on windy warm days there will be a nice group there.
Corporation can offer up some nice side-on wave sailing in a NW in spring/fall. West Dennis, Kalmus, Chappy do offer some swelly bump & jump conditions in the right winds and tides. And there can be some epic wave riding on the outer Cape (if you are not afraid of the sharks that are around there until the water cools), or at Horseneck beach, when storms grace us with ground swells.
I weigh 160 and do use my Open Ocean 8-0 a fair amount in the spring and fall with a 4.7. But until October the most used sails for me are in the 6.5 - 7.8 range.
You will have to learn/re-learn staying upwind around here. And you can't milk the wind with a tiny board and small saIl like in the Gorge, that's for sure!
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OTTAWA — Senior citizens may soon outnumber children in Canada, according to a Statistics Canada projection that also says the country's overall population will top 40 million by 2036.
The projection, released Wednesday, says the Canadian population will reach more than 43.8 million in 2036 — up from 33.7 million in 2009 — if the population continues a medium-growth trend, which is based on consistent fertility, mortality and immigration trends. A high-growth scenario projected by the federal agency, which would see higher trends in all three categories, suggests Canada's population could jump to nearly 47.7 million.
With millions of baby boomers growing older, Canada's population is expected to "age rapidly until 2031," when the entire generation will be at least 65 years old, Statistics Canada said. The population will continue to age, but at a slower rate, between 2031 and 2038.
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The median age is expected to be between 42 and 45 years, up from the current median of 39.5 years.
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Seven Catholic colleges and universities were among the nation's largest schools, and five are among the fastest growing, according the the 2012-2013 Almanac published Aug. 31 by The Chronicle of Higher Education. The annual Almanac uses reports on diverse academic situations such as enrollments, faculty and staff size and salaries and tuition based on data through the end of the last academic ending in 2011.
In the top 20 private doctoral universities, DePaul University in Chicago is the country's largest Catholic campus with 25,145 students enrolled. It is followed by St. John's University in New York with 21,354 students. St. Louis University's main campus is third largest with 17,709 students, and Georgetown University is the fourth with 16,937.
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But Catholic colleges are enjoying impressive growth, even in a sluggish economy. Four Catholic were among the top 20 fastest growing research institutions in the U.S. from 2000-2010. Benedictine University in Illinois is the fastest growing campus in the nation jumping up a whopping 142.5 percent to 6,892 students. Immaculata University in Pennsylvania grew by 52.5 percent to 4,456 students. New York's St. John Fisher College grew almost as fast by 46.6 percent to 4,020 students. And Georgetown University grew by 35.7 percent to its 16,937 enrollment.
Among the top 20 private master's institutions, Saint Joseph's College in New York expanded enrollment by an amazing 336.5 percent to 5,897.
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Events Edit
Prime universe Edit
- Stardate 47007.1 – The USS Equinox, commanded by Captain Rudolph Ransom, is commissioned. (VOY: "Equinox")
- Stardate 47025.4 – A second Borg incursion into Federation space continues (having begun in 2369, around stardate 46982.1), as individualized Borg drones are led by Lore, a Soong-type android. However, their attempt to annihilate the Federation is once again foiled by Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the USS Enterprise-D. Lore is defeated, deactivated, and dismantled. (TNG: "Descent, Part II")
- Borum gives Rionoj Li Nalas' earring to smuggle out of the Hutet labor camp. Rionoj travels to Deep Space 9 and passes the earring to Quark, who later gives it to Kira Nerys. (DS9: "The Homecoming")
- By supporting a Bajoran extremist group called The Circle, the Cardassian Union tries to regain its influence on Bajor. (DS9: "The Circle")
- B'Elanna Torres joins the Maquis after Chakotay saves her life. (VOY: "Caretaker", "Dreadnought", "One")
- Verad boards Deep Space 9, while the station is being operated by a skeleton crew, to steal the Dax symbiont from Jadzia Dax. He is later stopped by Benjamin Sisko and the symbiont is returned to Jadzia. (DS9: "Invasive Procedures")
- B'Elanna Torres gets inside a Cardassian missile intended to destroy Maquis targets and reprograms it. She nicknames it Dreadnought. (VOY: "Dreadnought")
- The Enterprise-D receives a new warp core on Thanatos VII, manufactured with interphasic techniques. The core also brings along interphasic organisms which attach themselves to the crew, but a method is later devised to remove them. (TNG: "Phantasms")
- Elaysian Ensign Melora Pazlar is transferred to Deep Space 9. Julian Bashir falls in love with her and plans a risky procedure based on the research of Nathaniel Teros to help her walk in normal gravity. (DS9: "Melora")
- Standard warp drive is discovered to have detrimental effects on the fabric of subspace. A program is launched to develop a safer means of warp travel, which is first incorporated on the Intrepid-class. (TNG: "Force of Nature")
- Aboard the USS Prometheus, Gideon Seyetik makes an attempt to reignite Epsilon 119. In order to free his wife, Nidell, from their marriage, he pilots a shuttlecraft into the star, killing himself, but bringing Epsilon 119 back to life. (DS9: "Second Sight")
- Kathryn Janeway is chosen to command the USS Voyager. (VOY: "Death Wish")
- The Skrreea arrive from the Gamma Quadrant looking for the mythical planet Kentanna. (DS9: "Sanctuary")
- The El-Aurian Martus Mazur sets up Club Martus on Deep Space 9's Promenade. (DS9: "Rivals")
- The USS Pegasus is found in the Devolin system. The phasing cloak is retrieved by Admiral Erik Pressman and installed aboard the Enterprise-D to allow it to escape from within an asteroid. Illegal Starfleet involvement in the development and testing of the device is revealed. (TNG: "The Pegasus")
- William T. Riker and Deanna Troi observe the final adventure of the original Enterprise. (ENT: "These Are the Voyages...")
- Alyssa Ogawa, Sam Lavelle, and Taurik are promoted to lieutenant junior grade. (TNG: "Lower Decks")
- Ensign Sito Jaxa is believed killed during a mission to return a Cardassian officer working as a Federation spy to the Cardassian Union. (TNG: "Lower Decks")
- Deanna Troi is promoted to full commander and becomes a bridge officer upon passing the Bridge Officer's test. (TNG: "Thine Own Self")
- While searching for suitable planets to establish colonies near the wormhole, Benjamin Sisko and Miles O'Brien discover a lost Erewon-class colony ship, and the remains of the colonists who have been living under an artificially created EM field for ten years. The leaders of the colony, Alixus and her son Vinod, who set up the field, are taken back to stand trial for the deaths of the colonists that could have been saved over the years. (DS9: "Paradise")
- Alyssa Ogawa marries Andrew Powell. The couple also conceive a child. (TNG: "Genesis")
- Dr. Beverly Crusher discovers Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome when she inadvertently causes the Enterprise-D to become infected. (TNG: "Genesis")
- Wesley Crusher leaves Starfleet Academy to join the Traveler in explorations of alternate planes of reality. (TNG: "Journey's End")
- Edgar Willoughby, Jr. is born. (DS9: "Treachery, Faith and the Great River")
- Jadzia Dax is reunited with Kang, Kor, and Koloth and joins them on a mission to kill an enemy who has eluded them for almost a century – The Albino. (DS9: "Blood Oath")
- A group of Federation colony worlds declare an unofficial war on the Cardassian Union after rejecting the Federation-Cardassian Treaty. They call themselves the Maquis. (DS9: "The Maquis, Part I", "The Maquis, Part II"; TNG: "Preemptive Strike")
- An emergent lifeform uses the systems on board the USS Enterprise-D to reproduce, temporarily giving the Enterprise sentience. (TNG: "Emergence")
- After Elim Garak becomes ill after overuse of a cranial implant, Julian Bashir receives help from Enabran Tain to save his friend's life. (DS9: "The Wire")
- Ro Laren completes the Advanced Tactical Training program and is promoted to lieutenant. She returns to the Enterprise-D, but later defects to the Maquis. (TNG: "Preemptive Strike")
- Kira Nerys and Julian Bashir are transported to the mirror universe. (DS9: "Crossover")
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard successfully passes a test of Humanity's worth issued by the Q Continuum and prevents the destruction of the Human race by a temporal anomaly. (TNG: "All Good Things...")
- In order to keep Opaka's role in the Kendra Valley Massacre secret, Bareil Antos withdraws from the kai election. Winn Adami is elected unopposed. (DS9: "The Collaborator")
- Miles O'Brien is captured and put on trial by the Cardassians, who claim he is a member of the Maquis. In reality, the Cardassians hoped to discredit the Federation and allow the Central Command to send ships into the DMZ and wipe out the Maquis. (DS9: "Tribunal")
- Sisko takes Jake, Nog, and Quark to the Gamma Quadrant so that the two students can perform a planetary survey. Sisko and Quark are taken prisoner by the Jem'Hadar. (DS9: "The Jem'Hadar")
- Although the rescue of the Siskos, Nog, and Quark is successful, the Galaxy-class starship USS Odyssey is destroyed by a Jem'Hadar suicide attack. (DS9: "The Jem'Hadar")
- Lorit Akrem dies in a mine collapse on Dozaria. (DS9: "Indiscretion")
- Zim Brott begins to serve aboard Deep Space 9. (DS9: "Field of Fire")
- The Brunali homeworld is attacked by the Borg Collective. (VOY: "Child's Play")
- Nog steals a springball racket from Major Kira Nerys' quarters. (DS9: "Little Green Men")
- Zar begins his association with Dala, in which he will never have known her to perform menial labor for six years. (VOY: "Live Fast and Prosper")
Harry Kim Edit
- Stardate 47302.5 - Cadet Harry Kim receives the Cochrane Medal of Excellence. (VOY: "Non Sequitur")
- Stardate 47918 - Harry Kim graduates from Starfleet Academy. He is "commissioned to rank of ensign." (VOY: "Non Sequitur")
- Stardate 47920 - Kim applies for service aboard Voyager. His application is approved.
Mirror universe Edit
- Quark is executed. The primary Doctor Bashir kills Odo. (DS9: "Crossover")
- The Terran Rebellion begins. (DS9: "Crossover")
Alternate timeline Edit
- Stardate 47925 - Harry Kim's application to Voyager is denied. (VOY: "Non Sequitur")
- Stardate 47928 - Kim requests transfer to Starfleet Engineering Corps. (VOY: "Non Sequitur")
Notes Edit
- A bottle of vintage Saint-Émilion produced in this year was replicated by Kathryn Janeway to celebrate the new astrometrics lab on board Voyager in 2374. (VOY: "Year of Hell, Part II")
- In the 2370 Federation Census, the population of the Federation was counted as 985 billion. (Star Trek: Star Charts, "United Federation of Planets IV")
Apocrypha Edit
- According to his personnel file in the non-canon video game Star Trek: Starship Creator, Hawk was assigned to the USS Enterprise-D as relief conn officer this year with promotion to lieutenant junior grade.
- According to his personnel file in Star Trek: Starship Creator, Chell joined the Maquis in this year and served under Chakotay on the raider Val Jean.
See also Edit
- Episodes
- DS9: "The Homecoming"
- TNG: "Interface"
- DS9: "The Circle"
- TNG: "Gambit, Part I"
- DS9: "The Siege"
- TNG: "Gambit, Part II"
- DS9: "Invasive Procedures"
- TNG: "Phantasms"
- DS9: "Cardassians"
- TNG: "Dark Page"
- DS9: "Melora"
- TNG: "Attached"
- DS9: "Rules of Acquisition"
- TNG: "Force of Nature"
- DS9: "Necessary Evil" (in part)
- TNG: "Inheritance"
- DS9: "Second Sight"
- TNG: "Parallels"
- TNG: "The Pegasus"
- ENT: "These Are the Voyages..."
- DS9: "The Alternate"
- DS9: "Armageddon Game"
- TNG: "Lower Decks"
- DS9: "Whispers"
- TNG: "Thine Own Self"
- DS9: "Paradise"
- TNG: "Masks"
- DS9: "Shadowplay"
- TNG: "Eye of the Beholder"
- DS9: "Playing God"
- TNG: "Genesis"
- DS9: "Profit and Loss"
- TNG: "Journey's End"
- DS9: "Blood Oath"
- TNG: "Firstborn"
- DS9: "The Maquis, Part I"
- TNG: "Bloodlines"
- DS9: "The Maquis, Part II"
- TNG: "Emergence"
- DS9: "The Wire"
- TNG: "Preemptive Strike"
- DS9: "Crossover"
- TNG: "All Good Things..." (in part)
External link Edit
- 2370 at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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- travelling photographers, who often lived in and worked from caravans, and moved between counties from month to month, following country fairs or other events,
- professionals who only worked in Derbyshire for a short period, before moving on and setting up elsewhere,
- those who were well established elsewhere, and merely visited Derbyshire on a seasonal basis, or briefly operated a branch studio in the county,
- people who tried their hand at professional photography but, for whatever reasons, moved on to another profession fairly quickly,
- individuals whose primary profession or employment was in another field, either associated or completely unrelated, but who carried on portrait photography as a sideline, usually from home, often for some years,
It is a full length portrait of a young mean seated in a studio setting which is fairly standard fare for the mid- to late 1860s or early 1870s.
The reverse of the card mount has a design consisting of a coat of arms and lines of text in several different fonts, typical of the mid-to late 1860s. The photographer was, "H. Lord, St Peter's Street, Huddersfield and Spring Gardens, Buxton." Henry Lord (1815-1887) was an established Huddersfield photographer who was originally a painter, but set up a studio in St Peter's Street in the late 1850s. He continued to operate in Huddersfield at least until the 1880s, and died there in 1887. His third son Ralph Herbert Lord was an assistant in the studio as a teenager, but after his marriage in 1878, he settled in Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, where he opened his own photographic business.
Roger Vaughan has a carte de visite of an unidentified couple by Henry Lord of St Peter's Street, Huddersfield on his web site, probably taken in the early to mid-1870s. The reverse does not list the Buxton branch, so it was presumably short-lived.
Thus far, I have been unable to find any other documentary evidence of Lord's visit (or visits) to Buxton. Buxton was a tourist town, even then, and a huge industry had grown up around catering for the many summer visitors to the mineral springs. Spring Gardens is shown by a later post card and trade directories of the period as a row of four-storey buildings with many lodging houses. I suspect that Henry Lord would rent a room there during his visits to Buxton, presumably designed to look for business at the peak of the holiday season, when many of his more affluent Huddersfield clientele would presumably be out of town.
Although it is possible that further sightings of Henry Lord in Buxton may be discovered in due course - indeed, that is part of the reason for my writing this article on Photo-Sleuth - addresses printed on the reverse of card mounts may subsequently prove to be the only evidence of their presence in a particular location.


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Material Models
Mesoscale Research
The mesoscale, although used generically to mean many things that are "intermediate," means essentially crystal plasticity in the context of multiscale modeling of metals. Crystal plasticity essentially is a continuum theory, but has discrete quantities starting at the grain or crystal scale. Polycrystalline averaging starting from the grain scale could be compared to the polycrystalline internal state variable models that operate at the macroscale. It can reach down to the Dislocation Dynamics results to help determine the material constants for the work hardening rules. Two different crystal plasticity formulations are given here:
- Polycrystal formulations for FCC, BCC, and HCP crystals
- Visco Plasticity Self Consistent (VPSC) model: polycrystalline averaged quantities
Experiments for calibration (homogeneously applied stress and strain states) and validation (heterogeneous stress and strain states) are used to determine the material constants and particular microstructures. The microstructures of interest include the texture (grain/crystal orientation, stress-strain behavior, hardening response, and twinning response if needed). Once the material model is calibrated and validated at the mesoscale, the results for the texture, yield surface, and hardening evolutions can be used in the macroscale internal state variable model and structural scale simulations.
Model Calibration for both the CP 1.0 and VPSC 1.0 models have fitting algorithms in which the material constants can be determined:
- CPfit 1.0
- VPSCfit 1.0
The following single element finite element input decks should be used to verify the material point simulator determinations: one element compression for 500 crystals aluminum polycrystal(ABAQUS-Standard) one element tension for 500 crystals aluminum polycrystal(ABAQUS-Standard) one element simple shear for 500 crystals aluminum polycrystal (ABAQUS-Standard)
See also: ABAQUS CPFEM
Phase Field Modeling of Microstructural Evolution
A broad spectrum of moving boundary problems can be successfully handled with the diffuse-interface or phase-field models. Such models are constructed by assuming that the free energy of a non-uniform system F, depends on (among other variables) the phase-field variable , and its gradient . In the volume V:
Mathematically, the phase-field formulation gives rise to two types of problems. The non-conserved phase-field variables, such as those in solidification and melting problems, are often assumed to evolve according to the ''first-order relaxation", whereby the rate of change of the phase variable, , is proportional to the variational derivative of the free energy, mediated by the kinetic mobility B:
Such a formulation leads to a 2nd order, diffusion-type partial differential equation (PDE) for . However, if the phase- field variable is subject to a conservation law, e.g.
then the rate is proportional to the divergence of the flux, which in turn, is proportional to the gradient of a potential. This potential is equal to the variational derivative of the free energy:
= (3)
Examples include diffusion-controlled solid-state phase transformations, and interfaces between immiscible fluids . Typically, the 4th order evolution PDE (3) is coupled to a 2nd order PDEs (stress, heat, etc.). For example, in solid state phase transformations, the lattice continuity across the interfaces between mismatched phases produces elastic strains , so that the 2nd order elasticity PDEs are coupled to the phase field Eq. (3). The problems in this class have been addressed in the past, with the numerical tools tailored for specific problems. However, a general numerical method for solving the coupled equations, applicable to a variety of geometries and boundary conditions, has remained a challenging problem. The finite difference method (FDM) was used by Cahn and Kobayashi for one-dimensional modeling of the rapid coarsening and buckling in coherently self-stressed thin plates. Johnson used FDM to study the growth of the intermediate phase in a thin film diffusion couple. Leo et al.used a pseudo-spectral method for the phase-field model of coarsening in a two dimensional, elastically stressed, binary alloys. Fourier transform techniques, and related Fourier-spectral methods , have been used to investigate the microstructure evolution (mostly coarsening) resulting from solid-state phase transformations. The drawbacks of such methods are seen when the problem requires modeling of irregular domains, nonlinear and history-dependent problems. A versatile method is needed, applicable to irregular domains, a variety of boundary conditions, and various forms of geometric and material nonlinearities. The finite element method (FEM) and the related mesh-free method are such methods. [1]
Analysis of concrete at the mesoscale is beneficial as the size and distribution of constituents becomes evident. Concrete is a composite material made up of aggregates surrounded by a matrix. Large aggregates are easily visible at the macroscale, but small aggregates, unhydrated cement grains, and voids are first visible at the mesoscale.
- ↑ Mohsen Asle Zaeem, Sinisa Dj. Mesarovic, Finite element method for conserved phase fields: Stress-mediated diffusional phase transformation Original Research Article Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 229, Issue 24, 10 December 2010, Pages 9135-9149
Further Reading
[1] E.B. Marin, On the formulation of a crystal plasticity model, Sandia National Laboratories, CA, 2006, SAND2006-4170..
[2] S. Groh, E.B. Marin, M.F. Horstemeyer, et al., Multiscale modeling of the plasticity in an aluminum single crystal, International Journal of Plasticity, 25(2009), 1456-1473.
[3] E.B. Marin, P.R. Dawson, On modeling the elasto-viscoplastic response of metals using polycrystal plasticity, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 165(1998), 1-21.
[4] E.B. Marin, P.R. Dawson, J.T. Jenkins, Aggregate size effect on the predicted plastic response of hexagonal close-packed polycrystals, Modelling Simulation Materials Science Engineering, 3(1995), 845-864.
[5] F. Roters, Application of crystal plasticity FEM from single crystal to bulk polycrystal, Computational Materials Science, 32(2005), 509-517.
[6] F. Roters, P. Eisenlohr, L. Hantcherli, et al., Overview of constitutive laws, kinematics, homogenization and multiscale methods in crystal plasticity finite-element modeling: Theory, experiments, applications, Acta Materialia, 58(2010), 1152-1211.
[7] D. Peirce, R.J. Asaro, A. Needleman, Analysis of nonuniform and localized deformation in FCC single crystals, Acta Metallurgica, 30(1982), 1087-1119.
[8] D. Peirce, R.J. Asaro, A. Needleman, Material rate dependence and localized deformation in crystalline solids, Acta Metallurgica, 31(1983), 1951-1976.
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To raise awareness about the importance of swimming as a lifelong skill, Swimming Canada and RBC Insurance announced a new multi-year partnership Tuesday. RBC Insurance will now become the presenting sponsor of Canada's Swim Team, the movement to teach every Canadian child how to swim.
With this initiative, RBC Insurance and Swimming Canada aim to reach an estimated 700,000 Canadian children and their families over the next three years.
"We know that teaching kids to swim 25 metres can help save lives. As part of our continued commitment to kids, RBC Insurance is thrilled to support Swimming Canada in this important initiative," noted Rino D'Onofrio, Head, Canadian Insurance Business, RBC Insurance. "When a child learns how to swim they become more water-safe, healthier and more confident. Learning to swim also opens up lifelong recreational opportunities for children. By supporting Canada's Swim Team, we want to ensure that all children have the opportunity and encouragement they need to participate and learn how to swim at an early age."
Canadian swimming icon and gold medallist, Mark Tewksbury, along with RBC Olympian and 2012 Olympic finalist Martha McCabe and 2012 Olympic finalist Brittany MacLean were on hand for the announcement at the University of Toronto varsity pool, where a group of local children became the first of 700,000 young Canadians to receive their official "Canada's Swim Team" membership cards.
"We are extremely grateful to RBC Insurance for their support of Canada's Swim Team, which underlines the importance of keeping Canadian kids safe in and around the water," says Ahmed El-Awadi, Chief Executive Officer for Swimming Canada. "When a child can swim 25 metres, they become an official member of Canada's Swim Team. More importantly, they are developing a valuable life skill that helps them be safer around water. " Canada's Swim Team is a partnership between RBC Insurance and Canada's leading swimming and safety bodies: Swimming Canada, the Canadian Red Cross, the Lifesaving Society and the Canadian Medical Association. The sponsorship is a part of RBC's Learn to Play Project that is committed to donating $750,000 to community-based organizations across the country to ensure children become happy, healthy and active for life. Canada's Swim Team will be offered by pools that deliver Red Cross or Lifesaving programs.
During the event, the RBC Foundation announced a $10,000 donation to the Junior Blues Adapted Aquatic Program at the University of Toronto for children with physical, mental and developmental disabilities as part of the RBC Learn to Play Project. This program will help ensure all Canadian kids have an equal opportunity to learn to swim and enjoy the water.
"The Adapted Aquatic Program at the university is designed to break down barriers to fitness, and in this case, water safety among children," says Ira Jacobs, Dean of the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto. "The university is committed to fostering broad-based physical activity across age groups and to ensuring that children are encouraged to develop skills early on to be healthy and active throughout their lives. The donation from RBC is an important step in helping us achieve that goal."
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The defending Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) champion Flying Dutch return a solid core of experienced players that is complemented by a promising group of players new to the varsity.
Coach Brian Morehouse begins his 14th season at the helm of a team that has won 20 or more games a school-record 11 straight years. The Flying Dutch posted a 28-2 record in 2008-09 and advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Division III championships for the second year in-a-row. The team was eliminated from the tournament by the eventual national champion for the second straight season. Morehouse ranks among the winningest active NCAA Division III coaches with a 316-58 (84%) record. His teams the past five seasons posted a 138-12 mark.
This year's roster includes nine returning letterwinners. There are six freshman prospects joined by two sophomores, six juniors and two seniors.
Tri-captains of the team are senior guard Philana Greene of Grandville (Grandville HS), senior guard Jenny Cowen of Dexter (Dexter HS), and junior center Carrie Snikkers of Jenison (Unity Christian HS). All three players have received All-MIAA first team honors during their career, Greene in 2007-08 and Cowen and Snikkers in 2008-09. Snikkers was also named a consensus Division III All-American a year ago.
Other returning letterwinners include junior guard Miranda DeKuiper of Ludington (Ludington HS), junior guard Abby Phillips of Wayland (Wayland HS), sophomore guard Allie Cerone of Wheaton, Ill. (Wheaton North HS), junior guard Lauren Geers of Scottville (Mason County Central HS), junior forward Erika Bruinsma of Grand Rapids (Grand Rapids Christian HS), and junior center Rachael Kutney of St. Clair Shores (Lake Shore HS). Sophomore guard Brooke Nienhuis of Zeeland (Zeeland West HS) was a member of the junior varsity a year ago.
The six freshman prospects include guard Olivia Allore of Muskegon (Muskegon Catholic Central HS), guard Liz Ellis of Grand Rapids (East Grand Rapids HS), forward Courtney Kust of Cincinnati, Ohio (Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy), center Ashley Bauman of Manistee (Manistee Catholic Central HS), forward Jillian Nichols of Brighton (Brighton HS), and center Meredith Kussmaul of Hartland (Hartland HS).
The Flying Dutch will play eight of their first nine games at home at the DeVos Fieldhouse where they carry a 49- game home court winning streak.


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