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Spectral Line Shapes in Plasmas and GasesView this Special Issue
Pressure Broadening of Some He I Lines
Quantum statistical approach is adopted for calculating the spectral line shapes of neutral helium in dense plasmas. Stark broadening of isolated He I lines 5048 Å (), 3889 Å (), and 3188Å () is presented. Based on thermodynamic Green's function, the electronic contribution to the shift and width is considered. The participation of ions to the line broadening is treated in a quasistatic approximation, by taking both quadratic Stark effect and quadrupole interaction into account. The calculated shifts and widths are compared with existing data.
1. Introduction
Plasma spectroscopy deals with the characteristics of radiation emitted from a plasma. In dense plasmas, damping of the emitted radiation occurs by means of several mechanisms; the most effective one is pressure broadening (Stark broadening). The interaction between a radiating atom and surrounding perturbing particles leads to Stark broadening. High-speed electrons perturb the emitter by collisions, causing the interruption of the spontaneous emission and altering the emitter energy levels [1–4].
Line profile calculation is an interesting tool for both laboratory and astrophysical plasma diagnostics, for example, to determine the internal parameters, to understand the microscopic processes within the plasma, and to check the quality of the predicted experimental and theoretical parameters [1, 2].
The emission spectra of helium and He-like ions with their simple atomic structures are interesting for plasma diagnostics such as in shock wave tube or pulsed arc plasmas [5, 6] and in the astrophysical context, for example, stellar atmospheres of hot stars and white dwarfs [7–9]. Helium is used as a carrier gas in many laboratories and is weekly interacting with materials and less harmful for plasma facing components than hydrogen and its isotopes [5]. The He-like ions may exist even at extremely high temperatures and densities. Even ITER is started with helium discharge, also He can be observed in discharge of JET. Spectroscopic measurements of tokamak plasmas are not free from helium [10].
Various approaches have been investigated to calculate spectral line shapes in plasmas [9, 11–24]. In a semiclassical approach helium lines were calculated by Griem et al. [22, 23], using an impact approximation for electrons with a cutoff procedure, while almost stationary heavy ions are treated in a quasistatic ion approximation due to the static microfield. Also, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been performed by Calisti et al. [25] and Gigosos et al. [26] to include the influence of time-dependent microfield by introducing two kinds of simulations for calculating He I Stark line profiles.
Thermodynamic Green's function approach is a powerful tool to describe the Stark broadening [27–30]. In the last two decades, a quantum statistical approach has been developed, taking into account the medium effects by using Green's function [31–36]. In principle, this approach is able to describe dynamical screening and strong collisions by electrons, as well as the dynamic ion microfield, in a systematic way. This quantum statistical approach has been successfully applied to calculate the spectral line shapes of hydrogen, helium, H-, and He-like ions in dense plasmas [37–42].
In this paper thermodynamic Green's function approach is considered to calculate the pressure broadening of some selected neutral helium lines. In Section 2 the definitions and spectral properties of Green's function approach to spectral line shapes of nonideal plasmas are presented. A review of the basic formalism is introduced and extended to helium lines. Section 3 provides the calculated shifts and full widths at half maximum (FWHM) for nonoverlapping, isolated (non-degenerate) He I lines Å (), Å (), and Å () in dense plasmas. Finally, conclusions are given in Section 4.
2. Theoretical Calculations
Microscopic formation of the spectral line shapes in dense plasmas arises from perturbation of the radiative atom by collective and many-body effects [1, 4]. Thus, the interaction with the surrounding particles must be taken into account. For example, screening is considered as an important collective effect in plasmas. The influence of electrons and ions may be treated separately due to the difference in mass and mobility. Green's function methods provide a perturbative approach to correlation functions and quantum effects of many-body systems. Two-particle Green's function is used to calculate the line shape and electron broadening from the self-energy and the vertex function. From statistical properties of the system, the current-current correlations determine the absorption spectrum, which is utilized by Ross [27]. Recently, further improvements of this approach have been made by Röpke et al. [32], Hitzschke et al. [33], Günter et al. [34], and Omar et al. [41].
Optical properties of many-particle systems are specified by the dielectric function based on Green's function theory, which is the response of the medium to an external electromagnetic field. The longitudinal dielectric function is related to the polarization function where is the Fourier transformed Coulomb potential. In terms of the absorption coefficient and the index of refraction , the transverse dielectric function in the long wavelength limit reads In the visible region where the wavelength is large compared with the atomic dimension , the transverse and the longitudinal part of dielectric function coincide. The absorption coefficient is proportional to the imaginary part of the dielectric function where denotes . In thermal equilibrium, the absorption coefficient is related to the emission coefficient by Kirchoff's law [43]. In optically thin plasma, the emission coefficient is proportional to the line emission. As mentioned above, the dielectric function is related to the polarization function . Then the medium modifications of spectral line shapes can be addressed to the bound-bound two-particle polarization function, which concerns to dipole-dipole autocorrelation function [36].
The perturber-radiator interaction leads to pressure broadening, which contains electronic and ionic contributions. Describing the ionic contribution in the quasistatic approximation by averaging over the ionic microfield at radiating atom [31, 36, 44], we get Here, the ionic microfield distribution function is taken according to the Hooper field distribution, and is the normalized field strength [45]. So is the unperturbed transition energy between the initial and the final states; and are the corresponding intermediate states where is identified as a dipole matrix-element for the transition between and states. The line profile itself is determined by the vertex correction for the overlapping lines and by the self-energy corrections of the initial and final states Both electronic and ionic contributions occur in the self-energy , which is assumed to be diagonal in the atomic state ;
The electronic self-energy is obtained by performing a Born approximation with respect to the perturber-radiator interaction [36]
Here, the sum over runs from to discrete bound states for virtual transitions, and the level splitting due to the ion microfield has been neglected [35]. So is the Bose distribution function, and are the transition matrix-elements, given below. The inverse dielectric function contains many particle effects which account for the dynamical screening of the interaction in the plasma: The random phase approximation (RPA) for the dielectric function is used: where is the kinetic energy of electrons, and is the Fermi distribution function of the electrons, approximated to the Boltzmann distribution function in the degenerate limit The full expression of the inverse dielectric function has to be used if the transition frequency becomes comparable to the electron plasma frequency . However, in the high-frequency limit , the inverse dielectric function can be approximated by This binary collision approximation leads to a linear behavior of the electronic shift contribution with respect to the electron density, whereas a nonlinear dependence of the electronic shift with increasing electron density is expected if the full expression of the inverse dielectric function is used [33, 35].
The vertex function for the coupling between the upper and the lower state is given by
The transition matrix-elements describe the coupling between free charges and bound states. In lowest order, they are determined by the atomic eigenfunctions of the radiating electron and depend on the momentum transfer [34, 46] assuming that the ion with charge is much heavier than the electron : Expanding the plane wave into spherical harmonics where is the Bessel function, a multipole expansion can be derived; for example, gives the monopole, dipole, and quadrupole contribution of the radiator-electron interaction, respectively. The radial part of helium wave function is calculated based on Coulomb approximation method of Bates and Damgaard [47–49]. For more detail see [41].
By using the Born approximation, the electronic self-energy is overestimated. To avoid this we apply a cutoff procedure and add the strong collision term in contrast to partial summation of the three-particle T-matrix, which is quite suitable for treating short-range interactions between particles [50], where the result might be slightly modified. According to Griem, the cutoff parameter for the -integration is the inverse of the minimum limiting impact parameter [22, 36, 49, 51].
To determine the ionic self-energy, we approximate the time-dependent microfield fluctuation by its static value. In general, dynamic ionic microfield is important for overlapping lines and at low electron density in the line center [52, 53]. Due to the slow movement of heavy ions, the ion microfield is assumed to be constant during the time of interest for the radiation process. The static ionic contribution to the ionic self-energy is treated by means of the microfield concept including both quadratic Stark effect and quadrupole effects. The first-order perturbation term vanishes for nonhydrogenic like atoms because of nondegeneracy with respect to the orbital quantum number . According to second-order perturbation theory, the quadratic Stark effect is proportional to the square of the microfield [54] where is the microfield strength; , , and are the well-known principal, orbital, and magnetic atomic quantum numbers, respectively. The quadrupole Stark effect is due to the inhomogeneity of the ionic microfield. We use the expression derived by Halenka [55]: Here, is the mean field gradient at a given field strength, and the screening parameter is taken as the ratio between the mean particles distance and the Debye radius .
3. Results and Discussions
The Stark broadening parameters for the transition Å are given in Table 1. Our width and shift results are compared to calculated values of Bassalo et al. (BCW) [66], measurements of Kelleher [56], and measurements of Diatta [67]. Our calculations agree better with the measured value by Kelleher [56] in contrast to the results given by Bassalo et al. [66]. The measured shift by Diatta [67] is obviously smaller than the calculated shifts given in Table 1.
The Stark width and shift of the line Å are measured by Pérez et al. [6]. The measured values were in the plasma density range of and temperature interval of K with a mean value of K. The error bar in the case of was , and the uncertainty in the temperature evaluation was about . Recently, the FWHM of this line is measured by Gao et al. [61] for a helium arc for density range . Figures 1 and 2 include other available experimental [56–60, 63] and theoretical results [22, 62]. The MD simulation results of Gigosos et al. [62] have been performed for independent as well as interacting particles in nonquenching approximation. Our calculations are also presented, the width shows a good agreement especially with the MD simulations data of Gigosos et al. [62], where no Doppler broadening is included. Nonlinearity can be seen at very high electron density. The discrepancy between the measured and calculated line broadening may be related to self absorption [61]. However, our results for the shift are overestimated, on the other hand better agreement can be seen by comparing our results in non-quenching approximation with the results of Gigosos et al. [62], which give lower values of shift at high electron density.
The Stark parameters of the line Å are measured by Peláez et al. [64]. They made a spectroscopic and interferometric analysis of a pulsed plasma. The electron temperature (from 1900 K to 2300 K) was obtained from the intensity ratio of He II lines. Electron density was determined by interferometry, ranging from to . From these experimental results an empirical calibration for the Stark parameters was obtained in a broad range of electron densities [64]. The experimental and various theoretical Stark parameters are reported by Peláez et al. [64], and our results are included in Figures 3 and 4 for Stark width and shift as a function of electron density, respectively, at the given plasma temperatures. Theoretical predictions of Bassalo et al. (BCW) [24] can also be seen in Figures 3 and 4. Further experimental results are presented, carried out by Kelleher [56], Mijatovi et al. [65], Berg et al. [58], and Soltwisch and Kusch [60]. The measured value of Berg et al. [58] was compared with Griem's theory [58] at electron density and temperature .
4. Conclusions
The quantum statistical approach has been developed to calculate spectral line shapes in dense plasmas. By using thermodynamic Green's function, a systematic perturbative treatment of the polarization function has been performed [33, 34, 46]. In contrast to the molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, consistent quantum description is applied here to calculate the Stark parameters by using the formalism presented above. The calculated Stark shift and full width at half maximum (FWHM) of He I lines Å (), Å (), and Å () have been calculated in the density range and for temperatures between K. In dense plasmas the binary (few-particle) collision approximation is not appropriate to describe the collective interactions; therefore at high densities the dynamical screening effect will be more important seen (12), which reduces the linearity of Stark parameters with increasing electron density. This affects mostly the shift than the width, and it can be seen in Figures 2 and 4. The Hooper microfield distribution function is applicable for plasmas in the regime , in which the correlations between plasma particles are considered as small perturbations. This distribution is not applicable in strongly coupling regime, where the correlation effect is important at high density, and therefore a new distribution function should be adopted. Generally, our calculated line widths show good agreement by comparing with other results, while the shift is slightly overestimated for the lines Å and Å. However, by performing nonquenching approximation better agreement can be seen.
Moreover, our quantum statistical approaches can be applied not only to investigate the line shapes of two-electron atom but also to complex atoms. Furthermore, the deformation of spectral line profiles can be investigated in a strong magnetic field for stellar diagnostic.
This project is supported by Emmy Noether-Program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, RE1141/11-1. The author would like to thank A. Wierling, G. Röpke, and M. A. Gonzalez for helpful discussions.
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Chronicle Live: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, part 1.
Chronicle Live: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, part 2.
Chronicle Live: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, part 3.
Postgame News
- Keith Smart hopes Radman settles down. Warriors seeking waived players. Jeff Adrien's wristband.
Rusty Simmons: Vladimir Radmanovic knows he's staying put
Postgame Videos
Keith Smart at the podium.
David Lee in the locker room.
Stephen Curry in the locker room.
CSN highlights, recap.
Recap and highlights from nba.com's game page:
Leading the Break
Biedrins Block
Hawks vs. Warriors: Highlights, recap
Postgame Quotes and Stuff from warriors.com recap
Tim Roye
1:37 min: Tim Roye's Game Recap
Keith Smart
On tonight's game:
"We didn't have the energy, we were a flat team. For whatever reason we were a flat basketball team to start off. The first half we didn't have the kind of energy to play againstva team that was going to be energetic. For whatever reason we didn't have the energy to get to the long rebounds. This game doesn't tell me what's going to happen on the road, it just tells me we didn't have it this game. We've done it for long occasions prior to this game, but we just have to find our rhythm coming back from the break…and we need to find our rhythm on offense we have to find that again and get ourselves are going. We are not making the shots that we normally have made and we are dropping our heads. We've just got to find and rhythm, and perhaps we'll find it on the road."
Stephen Curry
On tonight's game:
"I thought we came out in the first four or five minutes with energy, they just hit a lot of shots. Our coverage failed us a little bit; we didn't have the effort to kind to execute on the defensive end. I guess against this team you have to give multiple efforts because you have to give so much help to the post. They are a long, athletic and big team. That got us out of rhythm early and they pretty much dominated the whole game from that point on."
On getting the momentum back:
"We need to just get a win and start feeling good about ourselves. We have to dig deep on this road trip. Seven games to stay in this race, we still have a huge hole to get out of after these last two games."
David Lee
On tonight's game:
"We didn't play well, top to bottom. It started with the first unit. I missed some chippys that I usually make in the first half, Monta (Ellis) didn't have his best shooting night, Steph (Curry) didn't have his best shooting night, Dorell (Wright) didn't have his best shooting night. On top of that our scouting report was to force them to shoot jumpers and contest jumpers rather than kill us in the paint. Guys like Josh Smith and Jamal Crawford had it going early and that's a bad combination."
On the upcoming road trip:
"We knew that this road trip was going to be huge for us either way. When we return home we will have a much better idea where we stand. But we just need to regroup and get on the road."
- No interesting notes to add tonight.
What's next?
- A massive roadtrip: @TWolves, @Pacers, @Wizards, @Celtics, @Sixers, @Cavaliers, @Nets. 7 games in 11 days. Including travel days, that's 12 or 13 days away from the Bay. That's a tough test for the Warriors, plus lots of afternoon start times for us fans.
On the bright side, there are some should-wins (@TWolves, @Wizards, @Cavaliers, @Nets) and a couple of could-wins (@Pacers, @Sixers), so I expect this to be a good road trip.
On the dark side, tonight's loss isn't exactly inspiring hope for this road trip.
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Guess this late 80s cartoon based on these music tracks. Try not to look at the file names. Click this sentence for the answer.
1:02 min: Track 1
1:49 min: Track 2
0:43 min: Track 3
1:52 min: Track 4
1:37 min: Track 5
1:50 min: Track 6
Warriors Weekly Radio, Feb 17, 2011
Yeah, I know it's a week late. Blame the All-Star break.
12:22 min: Gary St. Jean
4:29 min: Franklin Mieuli Tribute
13:54 min: Tim Roye's Journal With Alvin Attles
6:11 min: Steve Luhm of the Salt Lake Tribune
2:57 min: Upcoming Games
Warriors Weekly TV, Feb 23, 2011


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This page serves as a tribute to those who have gone before us and made the ultimate sacrifice. Law enforcement officers across the nation head into work each day knowing that there is a chance they may never return home. Of this possibility, they and their families are well aware. Yet they choose to put on the uniform day after day to protect and serve their communities. According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, more than 25,000 law enforcement officers from across the nation have died in the line of duty. The Kent County Area is not an exception to this figure, and neither is the Walker Police Department. Listed below are the names of every fallen officer who served within Kent County, along with their end of watch (EOW).
We salute you, fallen heroes. May we never forget.
Ofc. Trevor Slot EOW: 10/13/2011
Ofc. Lester Barden EOW: 1/17/1979
Ofc. Bruce Popering EOW: 07/17/1994
Dep. David Cook EOW: 11/1/2021
Dep. Charles Knapp EOW: 5/25/1932
Dep. Charles Forward EOW: 9/11/1921
Ofc. Robert Kozminski EOW: 7/8/2007
Ofc. Daniel Duyst EOW: 5/30/1994
Ofc. Floyd Taylor EOW: 11/17/1986
Ofc. Herman Gloe EOW: 12/12/1974
Ofc. Wayne Vonk EOW: 1/19/1969
Ofc. Stanley Tuinen EOW: 12/3/1966
Ofc. Francis Gallup EOW: 5/13/1946
Ofc. John Meiboom EOW: 10/10/1925
Det. Samuel Slater, Jr. EOW: 12/9/1921
Ofc. Gerrit Brandsma EOW: 12/7/1921
Ofc. George Geng EOW: 5/18/1921
Ofc. Charles DeYoung EOW: 6/7/1920
Ofc. Millard Davis EOW: 8/25/1916
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I love being in Ohrid. The air is crisp and nice, the lake is calm and relaxes. You can make the most of your experience in Ohrid by taking a walk or a slow run in the morning. I opted for a morning run of 10 kilometres.
|The old town of Ohrid, on a very early morning
A lot of people took the same cue and were up and about at 7am on a Saturday. Even some of the beaches were filling up.
Not everything is nice in Ohrid these days. At Hotel Park I arrived at the backstage of a beach party that just ended, and it wasn't a pretty scene:
|Puddle of crap behind the backstage at Hotel Park
The road was a puddle of fecal water, probably spilled from the portable toilets placed at the edge of the backstage fence. People were packing up trucks of sound equipment, but nobody cared about the spilled crap that stank to high heaven. Definitely not the way they should leave the place, but nobody seemed to care.
|The leaking toilets near a beautiful lake
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PLAINVIEW, NY - Joe Moshé, Owner/Broker, Charles Rutenberg Realty, Inc., says that more homebuilders are expressing confidence in the economy as they construct new homes at the fastest pace in over five years. Mr. Moshé says there will be more homes available for sale, setting up for a buyers market.
The Commerce Department recently reported that construction of single-family homes and apartments rose last month to a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.09 million, a 23% increase over Octobers pace. It is the fastest pace since February 2008. Housing starts on single-family homes jumped almost 21% in November - the fastest rate since December 2007 - and construction for apartments rose 26%, according to Commerce.
This bright outlook by the homebuilders will hopefully motivate those prospective homebuyers who have been sitting on the fence make that purchase, Mr. Moshé says. The greater availability of homes will be even more inviting for the buyers. I anticipate a larger increase in home sales during the spring season. That is the time when the weather warms up and more people are ready to enter the buying season.
However, Mr. Moshé says the only thing that may impact any positive activity in the market are the new federal lending rules. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently announced that, starting January 10, 2014, the agency will require loans to feature periodic payments without risky features and limit terms that do not exceed 30 years, upfront points and fees to no more than 3% of the mortgage value and the borrowers debt-to-income ratio at 43%.
Although HUD created these rules to prevent another housing bubble, Mr. Moshé says these regulations will mean fewer qualified applicants, which means there will be fewer homes sold. Todays prospective homebuyers are already burdened with rising interest rates and having to meet other stringent requirements such as having nearly perfect credit scores and placing large down payments in order to qualify for a mortgage, he says. The new HUD rules will further place more pressure on the applicants, not just on the lenders.
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Sad Note: Thom Hofmann left the planet in late November. His penguins are happy and his poems are now being appreciated by so many angels. Godspeed, dear madman. Read Thom here: Daddy, medium-well
If mental illness was more like typical illness we'd have a lot more sympathy for the suffering. If it's a disease, then we need to stop pushing and grinding ourselves when things are broken. If I had a broken leg you wouldn't be asking me to go to the grocery store for milk. You'd be fluffing my pillows on the couch and asking me if I needed anything. But that's not how it works. And that's not how depression works anyway. However, the metaphor is helpful in understanding the overwhelming hurricane of loss and sorrow that is severe depression.
We like to talk about removing the stigma of mental illness. We like to focus on mental health rather than the seedy underbelly of the suffering and disabled. And yeah, you know those questions on the employment forms about declaring a mental illness? Do you think people with depression or bipolar illness are checking "YES, but I'm a quick learner and a dedicated worker?" Absolutely not.
In my little world, I've been fascinated by an online friend, Thom Hofman and his Daddy, medium-well. blog. Fantastic writer, poet, dad, and bipolar human. I've been reading and responding to Thom's posts for over a year. The year he lost his job at the zoo and began his time as a cashier at Whole Foods Markets. This event coincided with my own issues of depression as a result of a number of my own personal issues. When I took a job as a cashier at Central Market, a Texas-only equivalent of Whole Foods, owned by HEB. I resonated with Thom's experience and have enthusiastically encouraged and shared his writing across social networks.
And then, recently, in the last few weeks, Thom has been very clear about his "manic" onset. And sure enough his posts have been coming more frequently, as in several a day.
And his descriptions of his mania, his highs are amazingly beautiful and heartbreaking. I've been there. I've skipped along the night fantastic, imagining that I'm about to discover a way out of my depression, or a way to cure cancer, or a way to finally become the rockstar musician I was destined to become. The glittering stars that mesmerize at 3 am. The words or phrases that capture our minds for hours at a time.
Thom is doing his part to share his beautiful story, much in the same way I have done here. And what is our risk? Exposing ourselves in this way? As disabled? As mentally ill? Well, Thom's pretty sure it's not going to go down on his resume anytime soon, but he fearlessly expresses his truth about his own condition and his family and the challenges they are facing. The same challenges we're all facing in some ways. But as a depressed person, there's another tilt against us.
Somedays it's enough to get up, shower, and shave and make it to an Al-Anon meeting by 10 am. Luckily there's a noon meeting nearby as well if the coffee doesn't rouse my energy in time. And it's not laziness. It's not tiredness. It's something much more terrifying. It's my own ability to simply give up. Give EVERYTHING up. My life. My kids. My career. My ambition and dreams of having a solid romantic relationship. And heck, how about a job that I can do on good days and bad days.
And that's the rub. There's nothing to be done for me and my kindred sufferers. Sure, we can search for better drugs, but since the SSRI boom, there hasn't been nary a breakthrough in brain chemistry pharmacology. So we've got to find a way to make a living. And if the high-powered jobs we used to have, we used to be able to function at, are a bit out of reach… Well, we do what, exactly?
I'm not whining. I'm actually just now recovering from a dark holiday season. Just Friday I would never have been able to write any of this. I would've been too terrified. In a moment of depression, we don't want to be seen. Not by anyone. We want to hide. But that doesn't get you very far in this world. And I'm not asking for help. I'm finding my way. I'm seeking guidance from my higher power, and my friends, and co-workers, and people like Thom who say it like it is.
At what risk do I write this? Does my LinkedIn profile contain signs?
Here's to the courageous ones. Here's to Thom and others who are working hard to contain the good days and survive the bad days. I'll be over here, writing away about something when I'm back on top of it. And being very quiet when I'm not.
Go give Thom a bit of love. God knows he needs it. We all need it.
Always Love,
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Young Enterprise ShowCase Final 2019
Greenshaw Sixth Form students win Best Presentation award.
On Wednesday 1st May, a group of our Year 12 students competed against other London-based schools in the Young Enterprise business and enterprise competition.
The students had started up and run their own company, called Astro Bear. As part of the activity, they took responsibility for different roles within the company in order to research, develop and sell their products commercially. To reach the showcase final they had to submit a company business report and then discuss their business with the judges at their trade stand and present to a live audience and judging panel on the evening.
Feedback for our own students was incredibly positive expressing that, "the team were a real credit to themselves and the school," and were praised for their resilience and determination to succeed.
The judges were so impressed that our students were given the award for the best presentation on the evening.
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Technology Enhanced Learning
This term replaced the former "eLearning" and expresses the use of technology in the learning process. This can be in a classroom as well as mean distance learning. The jumping point is the use of technology.
The EBI/EIE currently works on a new pedagogical approach to Distance Learning. The results will be available in the next year.
The VTT-Box project wil be part of the research work and will impact into the research results.


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Sunday 23 September 2012
Silent Sunday...
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A new challenge ?ReplyDelete
If I didn't see the weight watchers tag I would never have worked that one out! Hope it is going well for you.ReplyDelete
measuring spoons and asking the same as Fiona :) xReplyDelete
Good luck xReplyDelete
Ahh, good luck!ReplyDelete
They are very smart! Good luck with your goal! :)ReplyDelete
They look like they will be useful in the kitchen even after you lose the weight.ReplyDelete
cool shot :) *good vibes* with your weight loss journey :)ReplyDelete
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hope you get to your goal :) xReplyDelete
Great picture. Good luck.ReplyDelete
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Oooooo I loved Weight watchers before i started baking another baby. Good luck xxReplyDelete
Love the symmetry of the measuring spoons - hope the losing weight bit isn't too bad!ReplyDelete
super picture - and I hope they work!ReplyDelete
Good luck! First I thought they were ice cream scoops, but then I saw the logo! :) xReplyDelete


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... and visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads.
Friday, December 24, 2010
'Twas the Night Before Christmas ...
Posted by Mark D. Ruffner at 6:20 AM
Labels: ephemera
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I am going to rush over and get my pound of tea and get my present! So Charming! Merry Christmas Mark.ReplyDelete
I love it! Merry Christmas Mark. I hope you have a wonderful day tomorrow!ReplyDelete
Dear David and H. H., A very Merry Christmas to you both!ReplyDelete
What a romantic vision of childhood. How different children's dolls and other(electronic) toys are today. Look how the dolls and the kids have the same complexions and rosy cheeks. Strange to think if not for Clement C. Moore's poem, the "sugar plum," like so many other 19th century foods, would be gone from our language and our imagination.ReplyDelete
Joyeux Noël!
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text: Wellesley Tudor Pole 1884 – 1968 Sir George Trevelyan called Tudor Pole 'undoubtedly one of the great seers and adepts of this epoch.' WTP, as he is known, first visited Glastonbury in 1902 and felt an affinity with the Chalice Well, an ancient red spring situated at the foot of Glastonbury Tor. In 1906, aged 23, he was to find a sapphire blue bowl buried in the ground at Glastonbury that led him on a life-long quest in search of evidence for the original teachings of Jesus. WTP (Wellesley Tudor Pole) believed Glastonbury to be an important spiritual centre for Britain and worked from as early as 1903 to link Avalon (Glastonbury), Iona and 'an Irish point' as three special linking sites. It wasn't until later that he settled on Devenish Island in Northern Ireland as the third point. His work consisted of awakening these three sites (in England, Scotland and Ireland) in preparation for the new era (in the Age of Aquarius). He had concluded that Glastonbury would not have awakened without Chalice Well being brought back to life and that the restoration of Iona, linked to Glastonbury, was important for the future destiny of Britain. In the early 1960's WTP wrote to his friend, the writer Rosamond Lehmann, 'There are certain geographical spots or centres where, for reasons too complex to explain, the veil is 'thinner' than elsewhere. There may be historical, occult or even astrological reasons that have supervened over the centuries to bring about this thinning of the veils, through which Light can pass down into our human atmosphere more easily than is the case elsewhere. With the world in turmoil, the careful preservation of such dedicated centres becomes important for the welfare of the whole community.' During the First World War, while waiting to go into battle on a hill overlooking Jerusalem the idea for the future Silent Minute observance was seeded. In 1940 WTP acted on this idea working with the Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Government to instigate the Big Ben Silent Minute at 9p.m. each evening on the BBC. Within a year 10 million people were observing the minute silence worldwide. When the BBC dropped the observance in 1964 WTP worked closely with Sir George Trevelyan to launch the Lamplighter Movement. In 1959 he secured the Well, gardens and surrounding land of the Chalice Well in a Trust for perpetuity as a sanctuary and place of peace and healing. In 2015 the Chalice Well Press published 'The Light upon the Path', selected unpublished writings of WTP. In the early 1960's, among a flurry of publishing, he produced a booklet called 'God is Love' (co-sponsored by the Big Ben Silent Minute and the Chalice Well Trust) in which he wrote: 'The more love we reflect and share with one another, the greater will be the supply available to us: a supply that is infinite, boundless, never failing and eternal. When the truth of this realisation is recognised and utilised we shall be on the first lap of the road leading to the arrival of "Heaven on Earth."' Further Reading: The Silent Road (Neville Spearman 1960) A Man Seen Afar (Neville Spearman 1965) Writing On The Ground (Neville Spearman 1968) Dear Alexias – Letters to Rosamond Lehmann (Neville Spearman 1979) Private Dowding (White Crow Books 2012) The Two Worlds of Wellesley Tudor Pole by Gerry Fenge (Starseed Publications) Light Upon the Path – The Unpublished Writings of Wellesley Tudor Pole by Paul Fletcher (Chalice Well Press 2015)


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Family history: If a person's family members have varicose veins, the risk of the person having them too is higher.
Lifestyle: If someone's work profile involves standing or sitting down without a break for prolong duration, it puts unnecessary pressure on the legs and the veins, leading to poor blood circulation, which is the major cause of varicose veins.
Treatment of varicose veins
There are various ways to treat varicose veins, as in most cases, they do not require treatment via surgery. However, when it is causing too much trouble, the doctors may suggest the following procedures:
- Endoscopic vein surgery: The doctors only advise to go for this surgery in the most advanced cases after everything else fails. They insert a small camera and close the veins with the help of the video. After that, they remove the vein from the body through small incisions.
- Ambulatory Phlebectomy: The doctors remove the varicose veins in the body by making multiple tiny punctures/ slits in the skin. This procedure also reduces the scarring to a bare minimum during the surgery.
- Laser treatment: These days, doctors are frequently using the laser to treat varicose veins. This procedure doesn't need any incisions or scarring but instead destroys the vein through laser rays, which are nothing but powerful high energy^ beams of light.
- High and stripping of the vein: In this procedure, the doctors close the superficial varicose veins before they meet any other deeper vein in the body and then remove it entirely through minor incisions.
- Ligation and Stripping: Doctors make two incisions, one near the groin at the top of the vein and other in the ankle or the knee. Further, the doctor seals and ties up the top of the vein. Next, the doctor inserts a thin threaded flexible wire through the bottom of the vein and pulls it out, taking the vein along with it.
- Sclerotherapy: Doctor injects chemicals into small or medium-sized varicose vein to treat the condition. This might take more than once to treat the varicose vein completely.
- Radiofrequency Ablation: Doctor inserts a catheter into the patient's vein under local anesthesia. The doctor threads a small laser through the catheter and positions it on the top of the vein. The laser delivers short energy bursts that heat the vein and seal it (with the help of ultrasound).
- Transilluminated Powered Phlebectomy: The doctor makes an incision under the skin, under local anesthesia, to thread a special light (endoscopic transilluminator) to see which vein to take out. The doctor cuts and removes the vein through a suction device.
Remedies for varicose veins:
No one can altogether avoid varicose veins. However, one may reduce the pain and discomfort caused by the veins by practicing the following :
- Do not stand in one position for long intervals without any break
- If advised by the doctor, wear compression stockings
- Tone muscles in the leg by doing exercises and moving legs regularly
- Lose weight if overweight. Losing weight reduces the pressure on the legs and simultaneously, the impact on the veins
- Avoid wearing tight clothes or high heels that increase the pressure on the legs
- Keep legs in an elevated position as much as possible, above the heart level
Factors affecting the cost of treatment in different states in India
Varicose Veins Surgery Cost In Hyderabad: Hospitals in Hyderabad offer the best quality when it comes to infrastructure for treatment of varicose veins.
Varicose Vein Surgery Cost In Chennai: Many hospitals in Chennai also offer laser treatment for varicose veins, and the cost is different for each hospital.
Varicose Veins Surgery Cost In Bangalore: Bangalore is the city of many reputed surgeons and world-class facilities for varicose veins surgery, which has also enabled patients to opt for laser surgery.
Varicose Veins Surgery Cost In Mumbai: Some of the best research institutes and hospitals in Mumbai have made it very affordable to get the treatment of varicose veins done with top-notch facilities.
Varicose Veins Surgery Cost In Kolkata: Kolkata offers personalized packages for patients every year who travel for varicose veins surgery to India.
Varicose Veins Surgery Cost In Delhi: Over the years, Delhi has developed state-of-the-art infrastructure and housed many experienced doctors in the field. Most of the top hospitals for varicose veins surgery in India are in Delhi, and laser treatment is readily available.
I developed the case of varicose veins during pregnancy, and it became severe after two years. I was very nervous about the surgery, but thanks to Hospals, I had a good and smooth experience in India . There was no trouble or unnecessary formalities.
- Stacey Ken, Kenya
My family members have had a long history of varicose veins, and we have all got our surgery done from India. However, Hospals has made it extremely easy to look for the best hospitals and get the surgery within affordable prices.
- Mia Ozman, United Arab Emirates
In case of varicose veins, it becomes difficult for the patient even to stand and do everyday tasks. My case was no different. This is why Hospals turned out to be a perfect decision because these people take care of every small detail of the travel and make the process easy for patients.
- Adil Khan, Oman
I knew I could never afford surgery for my varicose veins in my own country, and the people at Hospals made me realize that India is my best shot. They also offered the best package that covered everything.
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Make Way for the Light-Bearers
What I have realized is that I believe in the good.
I believe in the good. In the light. In fairy tales. Magic charms. Dancing, singing, beauty, music. Passion. Love. Sparkles and glitter and ennervating spirituality. Disco lights at the roller skating rink. Ice skating sleds. Tiaras. I believe in all these things very deeply. What is more, I believe that people are innately good. I believe that darkness obscures the goodness in people and causes them to act in ways that don't become them, ways that are not part of their true nature.
I know that such a belief is thought of as old-fashioned, out-dated, out-moded or naive. But I believe that I have the right to such a belief. Aviva Miretzky died on the basketball court when she was in 8th grade. Tanielle Miller died of meningitis. Chaya Mitchell died of a brain tumor. My grandfather died just a few days before my 14th birthday. This year, my grandmother died. I watched her chest rise and heave in the hospital as I wished her goodbye and a safe journey, not just from me but from all my family members. I have personally witnessed the cruelty of children toward one another. I have seen the ways in which adults, scared and paralyzed by fear, hide behind cowardly lies and accusations. I have watched their eyes slide away because they could not meet mine, and have seen others stare me down, daring me to do something about it. I have seen administrators in a panic, unsure of how to control a wayward child. One of the people I love best in the world was abused by her husband. As for emotional pain, try to conceive of what it means to be a transsexual in an Orthodox Jewish world, and then you'll have a handle on it. I've seen families where the parents scream at one another in front of the children. I've seen other families where they put on a facade. Every kind of suffering, the backdrop to humanity, has appeared in some form to me, as it does to all of us who walk through this life. And despite all this, I believe in the good. Or perhaps, what I truly believe is that those who inflict pain on others are alienated from their true selves.
This is not them. Their true selves are themselves in pain, wracked by guilt, fear, anger or hatred. They act out of cowardice as opposed to bravery. There is something inside them that begs to be discovered. There is a light, that untouched part of them that belongs to God. I may not always see it but I believe it is there. Sometimes it has been covered over so completely that only death may atone. But it exists. It remains.
I have learned a lot about forgiveness this year. There is a somewhat trite saying that you have to forgive in order to be happy yourself. That if you bear a grudge, it eats away at you rather than those you hate. I don't know if that is true for everyone. But I have discovered that as we are in need of forgiveness, as I am in need of forgiveness, so are others. Because people sometimes make mistakes. Sometimes they allow their goodness to be covered up by darkness for a little while. Or as our Sages put it, people do not sin except when a spirit of foolishness enters them. They regret it afterwards, but it is hard to come clean. It is a matter of losing face. Of being embarrassed. Of feeling lower than others. It is hard to do.
But oh, it's so worth it!
I know that I do not always react to others in a befitting manner. Sometimes I do things that I ought not. I say things I should not. Passion rules reason is Wizard's First Rule and it is very true by me. When I am ruled by emotion, I act in ways that I should not. So I apologize. I try to be better. And as I appreciate that I am forgiven, I learn that I can try to forgive as well. That's not an easy process. And it's not always going to work. But it is imperative to try.
Because I believe in the good. I believe people are good. I believe their wickedness is only ever a crust, a shell, a covering, behind which burns an enduring and all-consuming light. I want to find a way to discover the light, reveal it, allow it to shine through. I feel most frustrated when I fail in that task. But the fact remains that I believe. I believe in people. I believe in their goodness. I believe in hope, and that there is hope for everyone. Sometimes I do not think I am the right person to uncover that person's hidden light, but I believe that there is someone in the world who can do it.
I think it is a choice we make, whether to believe in magic or not. And I believe in magic. Despite our past, our history, and the darkness that veils many of us at one time or another, I still believe.
And I am not ashamed.
It is perceived as delusional, unrealistic, impossible, ridiculous and childish to hold to such a belief. The world does not like it. That is fine with me. Because the fact remains that I see the little flames burning in the hearts of all the people in the world, whereas those who doubt see nothing but charred coal, blackened to a crisp, and fail to notice the diamond's gleam.
14 comments:
- Dune said...
It is so interesting and incredible to me what you wrote; especially since I just (before reading this) came across somethong that exactly describes what you just wrote - here is the site - http://www.keirsey.com/handler.aspx?s=keirsey&f=fourtemps&tab=3&c=healer. If this link doesn't work then to get there, go to keirsey.com and go to the top right hnd corner; click or scroll on 'the four temperments' then click/scroll down to 'idealists' and under that category go to 'healers'. It's uncanny the similarity with what you just wrote and described in yourself. Anyways, all the best.
- April 01, 2010 12:38 AM
this is an amazing post.
"Sometimes I do not think I am the right person to uncover that person's hidden light, but I believe that there is someone in the world who can do it."
I love the realism combined with the idealism. And I agree, everyone has a soul and that soul is a piece of God, thus goodness.
Anon 1:45,
Idealists are the NF. Healers are specifically the INFP. Am I remembering this correctly?
- April 01, 2010 1:06 AM
- Dune said...
I believe this is correct. INFP was the one I was reffering to. Though, to be honest I know just as much or maybe less then you do. I just (out of curiosity) was filling out one of those online personality tests and was led to this site and thus happened to read the INFP ('healer') thing. Which is why I found it so interesting to read this post which describes the same personality type that I read about. Anyways, it is INFP (which stands for Introverted Intuitive Feeling Percieving) but my point of this story is that I'm not one to be asking questions of since I only came across this by chance.
- April 01, 2010 2:48 AM
שני כתובים המכחישים זה את זה
אלהים ברא את האדם ישר
כי יצר לב האדם רע מנעוריו
- April 01, 2010 12:40 PM
- Unknown said...
love it
sounds like its something youve been wanting to say/ write about for a long time
- April 01, 2010 12:45 PM
- Unknown said...
oh yes and it clarifies a lot for me (perhaps a healer is a good name as in anon 1:45)
so perhaps some in the world believe what you say:
"the second soul of israel is a veritable part of G-d"
"A person does not sin unless the spirit of folly enters him"
- April 01, 2010 12:47 PM
- Josh said...
Thank you Chana. This post brightened my day.
- April 01, 2010 2:17 PM
- Rabba bar bar Chana said...
I know that such a belief is thought of as old-fashioned, out-dated, out-moded or naive.
But even saying that is saying that most people are cynical or pessimistic about human nature. I think most people actually try to see the best in others. It's just hard with the barrage of media promoting cynicism. And these days, no one wants to be seen as naive and somehow, optimism about human nature is seen as naivite. But you can start a new movement, Chana, & I'll join. Maybe we can all just try smiling at one another more, like people in smaller cities do.
- April 01, 2010 3:13 PM
- Karen Zampa Katz said...
My daughter, when she was 12 years to mid teens wore cat ears, a tiara or other head gear everywhere she went....in addition there were other costume type clothing.
Family wolud comment "how could you let her do that...." teachers would comment that "there might be a problem" I would get odd looks from strangers...but what I knew about my daughter is what I know about human beings, we have our own spark... within each of us we contain all the human possibilites...why not nuture the good and positive ones...like tending a garden I aspire to water the psoitive seeds to have them grow into to their fullest potential....my daughter's self expression was just that organically her....(as far as the personality type thig...that comes from Jungian psychology the typology of personalities.....I am a INFP...lol)
thanks for your post...I am always impressed by your honesty and clearity of your writting...thanks
- April 01, 2010 4:07 PM
- Ezzie said...
Great stuff.
- April 01, 2010 4:17 PM
Great post. Very moving.
- April 02, 2010 1:58 PM
- Shades of Grey said...
Wow. This is fantastic!
- April 04, 2010 1:10 AM
Very sad post, true of course, but so sad.
"Control your emotion or it will control you"
Is that the true and correct way?
- April 04, 2010 12:38 PM
i am an infj.
that particular fact notwithstanding - it is so sweet and bright to find a frum blog that is, truly, inspirational.
and starry.eyed.
- April 07, 2010 12:23 AM


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Public filings with the Delaware court show WWE responded on February 4 to a complaint and demand for records by a plaintiff, Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System, with a motion to dismiss.
The plaintiff, a WWE shareholder, alleged conflicts of interest against WWE and Vince McMahon, previously outlined in the tweet thread linked below. In brief, they're suspicious the XFL intellectual property was sold and WWE employee services are being sold to XFL at a rate below fair value.
WWE contradicts the plaintiff's claims (more on that below). WWE argues the plaintiff's demand fails to comply with the requirements because the demand is under oath of plaintiff's counsel instead of the plaintiff, and therefore the demand should be dismissed.
WWE's response states in a footnote: "Since WWE announced the XFL transactions questioned in May 2018, no other stockholder has complained about or questioned the transactions."
According to WWE lawyers, "Plaintiff's counsel squarely and falsely alleged that Charlie and Duncan Ebersol offered McMahon $50 million for the XFL trademarks" based solely on a presentation slide, and no such offer was ever made.
WWE notes it sent to OK Firefighters a November 14 letter including a declaration from Charlie Ebersol, stated under penalty of perjury, that no such offer in any amount was ever made for the XFL IP.
WWE says, contrary to the plaintiff's allegations, it told OK Firefighters counsel that "WWE was represented by a special committee of independent directors, which retained independent legal counsel and an economic adviser" related to the sale of the XFL IP.
SEC filings show WWE sold the XFL IP to Alpha Entertainment LLC for $1 million and a "no risk" equity interest in Alpha. Alpha is the parent company setup by Vince McMahon to restart the XFL, with finances separate from WWE.
WWE says it formally responded to OK Firefighters' demand on December 20, but the plaintiff omitted any information from WWE's response that challenge the allegations.
The plaintiff questioned the authenticity of the Ebersol affidavit, noting it's not notarized. WWE says it subsequently provided plaintiff with a notarized affidavit.
Further, WWE says it "identified Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP as the independent legal counsel that advised the special committee of independent directors and further identified Duff & Phelps, LLC as the independent financial adviser to the special committee on the transactions."
WWE claims it "offered to produce all the records needed to evaluate the fairness of the XFL-related transactions," if the plaintiff would agree to a confidentiality agreement. Nonetheless the plaintiff filed the demand on December 26.
The exhibits contain copies of several written communications (emails and letters) between WWE and OK Firefighters.
On the plaintiffs claim that WWE may have provided Alpha with support services at a low rate, Jerry McDevitt (long-time WWE legal rep) argues the plaintiff is "naive to the start-up activities of XFL and" that they have "no basis to infer wrongdoing in any event."
McDevitt calls the interjection of the hiring of Paul Heyman and Eric Bischoff "frivolous". Plaintiff had argued that the appointment of Heyman and Bischoff as executive directors was a sign that Vince was not devoting his full working time to WWE.
McDevitt ends the September 17 letter: "In closing, we note that your client's investment in WWE has evidently been a prudent and profitable one, and we value your client as a shareholder."
It's notable, OK Firefighters bought WWE stock at around $43 per share. The day McDevitt sent this letter, shares were at 75.91. Friday they closed at 44.93.
OK Firefighters may not be as small a shareholder as previously thought. A holdings statement from November showed ownership of 107 shares. A statement from earlier, in August, shows ownership of 6,726 shares.
So it appears OK Fire sold the vast majority of its shares at a profit, sometime between August 26 and November 29, before the recent stock price fall.
The November 17 letter from McDevitt to OK Fire counsel argues the latter's allegations have no factual basis, largely centering around the presentation slide suggesting $50 million value of XFL IP.
McDevitt responds to the concern from the plaintiff that McMahon took a week off from WWE to work on XFL. McDevitt notes that belief is based on a report from "a random website called 'XFL News Hub' published by somebody identified only as 'Sanjay'."
As to reports that McMahon is not present at some WWE TV tapings: "[I]t is entirely unfair to suggest that Mr. McMahon, a man with a legendary work ethic, is somehow derelict in his duties if he in fact does not attend a given televised show of WWE."
"He routinely attends by far the vast majority of WWE televised events every week, every month, and every year, including on weekends, and has for decades."
McDevitt's December 20 letter to OK Firefighters counsel scolds him for suggesting WWE would fabricate an affidavit from Charlie Ebersol. "Do you seriously believe, or have any reason to believe, that we ginned up a declaration and forged Mr. Ebersol's signature on it?"
The letter attached the notarized affidavit.
Exhibits also show WWE and OK Fire's inability to come to terms on a confidentiality agreement.


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I'm now a couple brews in with the Grainfather and it has worked out perfect. I moved to this from a 3 tier gravity feed system with 10G coolers for the HLT and Mash Tun - this just makes the brew day much more simple and allows the focus to be on refining the process and duplicating results. No complaints. Adventures in Homebrewing shipped quickly, kept me up to date on the order, and were quick to answer a question I had along the way. Will purchase from them again.
I couldn't be happier with my purchase! I've brewed two batches and can't believe how much time and energy I saved during the brew day. I love the bluetooth connection to my phone that will give me reminders. The results were outstanding all around!!
I use to do tons of 1 Gallon BIAB batches but finally decided to take a step up to something that would allow me to do larger batches while maintaining temps. After a ton of research and watching a ton of YouTube Videos I settled on the Grainfather for the best bang for the buck. I have already brewed 10 batches in this beast. It allows for up to 6 gallons and as I am a bit of a mad scientist I brew 6 gallons and cut them into a 5 gallon batch with my primary yeast and a 1 gallon with a yeast I want to compare. This beast came in 3 large boxes and was packed so well I think a UPS or FedEx driver could have jumped on it without damaging it. I was actually shocked at how many and how large the boxes were. I must say it is easy to setup and easy to clean the majority of the equipment although somethings are a little harder to get to but the quality is the main reason I got it. So far a ladder has fallen on it (big dent which I pushed out) and another small dent (not sure how) but had I bought one of the more recent knock offs I'd probably had been up the creek without a paddle. This thing takes a little rough handling (pets and kids) and keeps rocking. The main reason I wanted a unit like this was to control my mashing temps better which at first I thought the temps were a little off but after buying a few thermometers and running some more tests I found that my lab thermometer was the issue not the GF. If you have the money and want to buy a quality single vessel brewing unit this is it! I would also buy a cheap 7 to 10 inch tablet if you don't already have one as I have to leave my current 7" tablet plugged in as the bluetooth seems to eat up the battery but it is nice to put the GF outside and get things started but manage it and get notifications sitting inside in the A/C. Extremely happy with my purchase.